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Easy Ways to Back Up Data
Digital photos, videos, music files, and financial records can disappear in a split second. Back up your files and preserve your data while you still can.
If there is one universal truth about using computers, it's that sooner or later something bad will happen to your data. Hard drives die without warning. Laptops get lost or stolen. File-munching viruses worm their way into your system. And then there's good old human error, as in, sometimes you just do something stupid—like accidentally delete a file (or, gasp, an entire drive) with a single absentminded mouse click.
Losing data can mean losing everything—family photos and videos, e-mail correspondence, downloaded music and movies, banking records, school reports, and more. According to a survey by disaster recovery firm Acronis, four out of five people have lost files on their computers, yet 64 percent back up their hard drives only every two to three months, some even less frequently.
The reason? Backing up computer data has been about as exciting as flossing after meals, only more complicated and time consuming. But that's changed. There are now dozens of products and services that make the process as simple as clicking a button, logging on to the Net, or plugging a device into your computer. They fall into three basic categories: software you install, online services that rely on a high-speed Internet connection, and portable drives that do the grunt work for you.
Which method is best? There's no one-size-fits-all answer—it really depends on how you use your computer, how many machines you need to back up, and how much time and energy you would be willing and able to devote to restoring files when disaster strikes. Backing up is still not exciting, but it's a lot less aggravating.
Option 1: Software
Of course, you could manually copy all your files, photos, and videos to an external drive, or burn them to a CD or DVD. But, odds are, you'll fall out of the habit or miss something important—and won't know until it's too late.
Fortunately, there's excellent software that does the job for you. If you own a Mac using Operating System 10.5 or later, you've already got Apple Time Machine, which will continually back up your software and data to an external drive. Most Windows machines also come with a basic, bare-bones backup utility. But if you want more personal control over what files you back up and when it happens, you'll want a backup program like Acronis True Image Home 2009 ($50) or Centered Systems' Second Copy (starts at $30).
The beauty of backup software is that you can generally set it and forget it. The basic drill involves picking what types of files you want to back up, where you want to store them (such as, to an external hard drive, USB thumb drive, or disc) and when you want it to happen. Software also makes it easy to restore files when you need them later.
Upside: You don't need to think about backing up again until your storage device runs out of room or you need to restore files. It's also the least expensive of the three options.
Downside: You may need to buy an external hard drive for storing backups, which can cost another $75 to $150. You'll need to actively manage multiple backup sets; that means labeling and storing them carefully, and erasing older backup sets off external drives. You'll also want to keep copies in another location, like at work or in a safe-deposit box, and rotate them on a regular basis. Otherwise you could lose everything in a fire, flood, robbery, or other catastrophe.
Best for: Telecommuters, home-based businesses, and anyone who can't survive without immediate access to complete backups.
Option 2: Online Backup
Some of the newest backup companies rely on a high-speed Internet connection to keep your files safe. Services like Backblaze, Carbonite, Memeo, Mozy, Norton Online Backup, and others work by installing a small program (or "agent") on your machine that automatically funnels copies of your data to a secure Web site. The cost: around $50 to $60 a year.
As with backup software, you can just pick the types of files you want to back up and you're good. Some services, like Norton Online, let you schedule backups; others, like Backblaze, simply back up data constantly, waiting for moments when your computer is idle.
Upside: As automatic as DIY software, and your files are already stored off-site, so they're always protected in case of trouble.
Downside: To conserve space, most online services back up only your personal data and media files. That means if your hard drive crashes, you'll have to manually reinstall your operating system and other programs, and restore all your old settings, which is a hassle. If your Internet connection goes down, you may not be able to get to your files when you need to restore them (though Backblaze will overnight your files on a disc or an external drive for an additional fee). Some online backup services, like Memeo, can also save files to local drives, giving you the best of both worlds.
Best for: High-speed Internet users comfortable with reinstalling software in case of total disaster.
Option 3: External Drives
These days external hard drives have such generous capacity and are so cheap they've become the backup medium of choice. A number of vendors have taken an extra step and loaded their software right onto the drives themselves; some of the top examples include: Clickfree Portable Backup Drive ($90 to $220, depending on capacity), HP SimpleSave ($120 to $330), SanDisk Ultra Backup USB Flash Drive ($50 to $280), Seagate's Replica ($130 to $200), and Toshiba's Canvio external hard drive ($110-$200).
Plug the drive into the USB port on your Windows PC, and it automatically installs the software and starts backing up your files. Most let you back up multiple computers to a single drive, so you can walk around the house and plug it into each machine. Aside from that, each drive offers something slightly different. For example, keep the Seagate Replica drive connected, and it will continuously back up your data as your files change. Clickfree also sells the Transformer, a USB connector that turns any external drive into a backup device ($60), as well as the Traveler, a credit card-size backup drive for laptops ($70 to $220). The SanDisk USB drive adds powerful data encryption, keeping your files safe from prying eyes if the drive is lost or stolen.
Upside: Easy to use and store; highly portable.
Downside: You have to remember to do the backups, especially if you're using it with multiple computers. Some drives only back up data, not software or your operating system. And there's no easy way to store backup sets off-site.
Best for: Families with multiple computers and the stick-to-it-iveness to actually plug in the drive regularly.
Your best solution is likely some combination of online and local storage, says Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman. That way you can rest assured your digital stuff is safe no matter what happens.
"Data gets lost fairly frequently, probably a lot more often than you'd think," says Budman. "One piece of dust making its way into a hard drive can wipe out every single photo you have stored. Families really should back up data continuously." In other words, think like Nike: Just do it.
Recovering from Data Disaster
For professional photographer Cindy Baxter, the loss could not possibly have happened at a worse time.
On December 12, 2008, all of Baxter's image files—of families, kids, the last days of aging parents—vanished overnight. The sophisticated system she'd set up to automatically preserve her files had failed, and she had no other copies.
"I was overwhelmed," says Baxter, 45, of New Martinsville, West Virginia. "I hadn't just lost my clients' photos. I'd also lost the trust they placed in me to keep their memories safe."
The lost data included $40,000 worth of yet-undelivered photos, many of them meant to be Christmas gifts. So Baxter started calling data recovery services until she found one that could unjumble her drives: DriveSavers (drivesavers.com).
Within a week she had her drives home again with the images intact, but at a steep price: nearly $10,000, deemed "well worth it" to save her business and maintain client confidence.
Data recovery firms like DriveSavers are almost always expensive. The average cost of recovering a hard drive is around $1,500, says Kelly Chessen, data crisis counselor for the California-based company. And they can't always guarantee success.
"If it's critical you recover your data, we're the right people to talk to," says Chessen, whose job it is to counsel distraught customers. "If you can live without it, you probably don't need us. But our clients aren't always businesses. I've spoken to people who lost pictures of the last day they spent with their grandmother, who's now dead. Those photos are priceless; they have to get them back."
Preserving Your Digital Memories
You probably have shoe boxes filled with photos in your attic. But if you've taken any pictures or shot any videos over the past five years, you have digital files too. What kind of electronic shoe box should you keep them in so they'll last long enough for your kids to show their kids?
Ten years ago you might have relied on a floppy or Zip disc. Finding a machine that can read either today may require a trip to a museum. Machines that can read CDs and DVDs may survive, but the discs won't, because they're fragile and easily damaged. And if you save images in the wrong format, there may not be software around in 20 years that can open them.
Online photo services like SugarSync.com, Photoshop.com and iMemories.com can safeguard your images for the long haul. iMemories can also take your print photos and analog home movies, convert them into digital format and easily let you share them with others online for prices starting at around $5 a month, says CEO Mark Rukavina.
The problem is, if an online company goes out of business, your memories may vanish with it. So you'll also need to store copies at home. Your best bet is on an external drive in a file format (like JPEG or TIFF) supported by all types of image editing software, says Michael Shafae, assistant professor of computer science at California State University, Fullerton. As the drive nears the end of its useful life (maybe around five years, though that figure could vary widely) you'll need to transfer those images to another drive, and so on over time.
Another easy option for digital photos? Print and frame them.
Smarter, Safer, Savvier Backups
1. Do an all-out data search. You probably have files squirreled away in all sorts of places, like digital cameras, MP3 players, USB thumb drives, and discs. You need to get everything onto one machine before you can move forward.
2. Create a schedule. Plan to do a full backup of all the software and data on your computer at least once a month, and daily backups of files that have changed since the last full one.
3. Test. This is the step where many backup plans fall down, says Steve Bass, author of PC Annoyances (O'Reilly Media) and the TechBite.com newsletter. "It's always a good idea to pick one or two files out of a backup and restore them to make sure they've really been copied." He also recommends choosing a backup program that gives you the option of automatic verification, a feature included with Acronis True Image.
4. Store some backups off-site. If a fire, flood, or theft takes out your house, you've still got your data.
5. Always keep a local copy. Even if you go with an online service, make sure to keep duplicates of any essential documents, photos, and other files close at hand.
Originally published in the May issue of Family Circle magazine.


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Manuel not worried about Phillies bullpen
PHILADELPHIA -- It has been an ugly beginning for a supposedly improved Phillies bullpen.
It entered Saturday's game against the Royals at Citizens Bank Park with a 10.50 ERA, the worst mark in baseball. Phillies relievers have allowed 17 hits, 14 runs, seven walks and two home runs in just 12 innings.
Phillies manager Charlie Manuel isn't worried.
"We have a chance to have a good bullpen, a real good one," he said. "At the same time, we've got to put people in the game and we've got to see them pitch. I think it might take us a little while. The experience they got last year was really great for them, but also they got that experience when we were 14 games under .500 and we were putting people out there in situations. There's a huge difference. The start of the season is completely different to them now. I'm sure they think about where they're at and what their role is and they're concerned. And maybe they're trying a little bit too hard."
Left-hander Jeremy Horst allowed three hits, three runs and one walk in one-third of an inning Friday. Right-hander Chad Durbin has allowed three hits, three runs and two walks in two appearances. Horst had a 1.15 ERA in 32 appearances last season and left-handers hit just .170 against him. Durbin is a historically slow starter. His career ERA in April is 1.75 earned runs higher than the rest of the season.
Manuel's message: Let it play out a little more.

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text: Show Hide image Politics 20 December 2012 Nassim Nicholas Taleb: A thinker with an antifragile ego "He talks in a machine-gun patter that combines Tony Soprano-style profanity with some stratospherically esoteric jargon." Sign-up When I meet him at a central London hotel, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the Lebanese-born Wall Street trader-turned-polymath and author, is uncharacteristically flustered. He's in the middle of a short visit to the UK to publicise his new book, Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand, and he's just spoken on the phone to a journalist in Singapore. Instead of asking about the book, the journalist had asked Taleb for some stock tips. "I can't tell him where the stock market is going," he says exasperatedly. It seems the hapless interviewer hadn't absorbed the lessons about the limits of prediction that Taleb tries to teach in Antifragile and its hugely successful predecessor, The Black Swan, published in 2007. "I'm so beat," he confesses. "But one coffee and I'll be fine." He orders an Americano, cajoles me into ordering a pot of tea (I'd asked for a glass of water) and settles down. Soon he's expounding his theory of antifragility (roughly, you're antifragile if volatility and randomness make you stronger rather than weaker) in a machine-gun patter that combines Tony Soprano-style profanity with some stratospherically esoteric jargon ("Anything fragile has to have a negative second-order derivative"). Taleb describes Antifragile as his "finest work". "It's the real book," he says – presumably because in it he tries to generalise arguments about randomness and risk that were applied more narrowly in The Black Swan to the financial markets and the malfunctioning predictive models that brought them to the brink of collapse with the crisis of 2007-2008. I ask if he'd felt vindicated by the Great Crash. "No. In 2007 and 2008 I felt depressed. Then you feel anger. You can't believe my outrage at the economic establishment and at Washington." Moral hazard Before The Black Swan was published, Taleb had been a prophet without honour in the United States. "I knew before the crash that the system was going to blow up. In 2003, I went to the New York Times and said, 'Fannie Mae [the Federal National Mortgage Association] is sitting on dynamite with taxpayers' money. These guys are going to blow up with my money because they don't know what the fuck they're doing risk-wise.'" But the "Gray Lady" didn't listen. "I just had smear campaign after smear campaign." Taleb is currently engaged in a feud with the Times's star columnist Thomas Friedman ("He's after me now"), whom he lambasts in the book for being a cheerleader for the Iraq war. Like the senior executives at the bailed-out banks, Friedman "paid no price for his mistakes". He seems consumed by what the political philosopher Michael Sandel calls "bailout outrage". "On some things I'm very left-wing. I want to protect the weak." However, his only venture into practical politics has brought him into the orbit of the Conservatives. He has met David Cameron and his advisers on a number of occasions in Downing Street. "They like my idea that the larger the project, the more problems it's going to have." Taleb seems uninterested in what kinds of policy Cameron's enthusiasm for his ideas might lead to. "The connection with Downing Street is only on the intellectual level. What they've done with my work is not my business. My only practical advice to the government is: do something symbolic to break the backs of the bankers." He could be waiting a while for it to accomplish something like that. In any case, he's not a natural courtier. He says he has only two friends in Washington, both of them marginal, maverick figures: the left-wing activist and former independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader (Nader's parents were from Lebanon, and he and Taleb speak to each other in a local Arabic dialect) and the libertarian congressman Ron Paul. Taleb's own marginal position seems intensely self-willed – he's a proud autodidact and a failed academic (although one reward for his recent literary success was a distinguished professorship in risk engineering at New York University). He tells me about the time he was thrown out of an economics conference in Paris. "Previously I'd said, 'You're wrong,' and nobody cared. So I said, 'Ce n'est même pas l'incompétence.' Silence. 'C'est immoral.' It's immoral to sell these economic models. They blew a fuse on me." He enjoys playing the part of the lonely speaker of truth to power, though another anecdote, about testifying before a committee of the House of Representatives, suggests that he also chafes at the impotence that goes with it. "When I went to Washington, they had this document about how the financial crisis had happened. It said every fucking thing except what I'd told them about moral hazard. And they didn't include my name, even though I'd spent a day testifying. So you realise there's something going on there." Jonathan Derbyshire is Managing Editor of Prospect. He was formerly Culture Editor of the New Statesman. Subscribe £1 per month This article first appeared in the 24 December 2012 issue of the New Statesman, Brian Cox and Robin Ince guest edit SUBSCRIBE More


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Another blogger with a similar idea is Colleen Pasquale, who posted a list of 12 puzzles from her family tree on 12 December 2012 (12/12/12) at this link:
and Randy Seaver picked up the meme at his blog at this link:
Barbara Poole posted her top Ten Brickwall Ancestors at her blog back in 2010 and she is still waiting for her big break. Keep your fingers crossed for her! Read about her list at this link:


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We've explored many of the specifics in this guide so far, but if we zoom out for a moment, what do we see? Are higher degrees really all that they're cracked up to be? Do they set students up for professional success, or simply saddle students with long term debt obligations? In this section we'll take a look at all of the data, as well as what it means in general to be a graduate student.
- The Master's as the New Bachelor's
Ever seen a master's degree listed as a requirement for a job as an academic tutor? In this fascinating NY Times article, writer Laura Pappano explores the many faces of degree inflation; that is, what happens as more candidates head to college and the bachelor's degree can no longer serve as a key differentiator in a competitive job market.
- Thesis Hatement
To those who would ask whether or not a higher degree in the Humanities is worth it, former literature PhD student, Rebecca Schuman, answers a decided "no." Her essay details the realities of what life was like for her as a Humanities graduate student, from long, low-paid hours to a thesis that broke her. The following article, Don't Be Afraid of Going to Graduate School in the Humanities, provides a nice contrast both to Schuman's article and the wealth of similar articles available online -- though that wealth should also tell you something about the state of the market.
- More Humanities PhDs
As a nice addendum to the above resources, this article explores current trends in Humanities graduate enrollments, which continue to rise despite less than stellar job prospects within academia.
- Graduate Enrollment and Degrees: 2002 to 2012
If you've ever sought a bird's eye view of the current state of the graduate studies market, this excellent and extensive report put out by the Council of Graduate Schools will provide just that. Data on and trends in enrollment rates over the course of a decade are provided. Tracked trends include the annual number of applications and first-time enrollments, and the number of degrees and certificates awarded, broken down into different types of schools, demographics, and more.
- If postdoctoral life is about playing by the rules, what are the rules?
In this Guardian article, postdoctoral fellow Daniel Nehring notes the struggles many PhD students and postdocs encounter as they struggle to determine just what they need to do to grow their careers. He explores the many core yet unwritten rules of the academic experience, and emphasizes the need for better mentorship throughout the disciplines.
- The Repurposed PhD: Finding Life After Academia -- And Not Feeling Bad About It
In this much discussed NY Times article, writer Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow explores the difficulties of the academic job market. Unlike other explorations, however, she also examines how many PhD graduates are successfully repackaging their skills for a career outside of academia and how certain programs are creating new, innovative, entrepreneurial-focused programs to help them do so. This Atlantic article, What Can You Do With a Humanities Degree, Anyway?, offers more concrete suggestions, and is a good companion to the NY Times piece.
- The Awesomest 7 Year Postdoc or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure Track Faculty Life
With all of the doom and gloom about higher academics (continued below), this article by tenure-track professor, Radhika Nagpal, is a breath of fresh air. Nagpal imparts the details of a conversation she had early on in her position with a more seasoned colleague, who reframed the tenure-track experience as a great time to do research, enjoy the ride and let go. For anyone currently on or about to begin the tenure-track who is suffering from anxiety, this article offers a healthy dose of inspiration and calm.
- We Must Prepare PhD Students for the Complicated Art of Teaching
As anyone who has completed an undergraduate degree knows, expert thought and research skills do not necessarily mean a PhD student will be an excellent teacher. Many graduate students are just as frustrated with the situation, often given little training, simply dumped into the classroom and expected to thrive. In this reflective piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the author explores the problem from multiple angles and makes suggestions for improvement.
- The PhD Now Comes With Food Stamps
Sitting back patiently while your private sector friends joke about how you'll be working at a fast food chain post-graduation is a common experience for most PhD students. But with more and more universities relying on adjunct faculty, those "jokes" have become an all-too common reality. In this Chronicle of Higher Education article, writer Stacey Patton takes a hard look at the real life stories of struggling PhDs. This opinion piece on the Death of an Adjunct, which went viral back in 2013, is also essential reading for those concerned with the welfare of post-degree workers, while this article posted on Academic Impressions suggests concrete proposals for addressing the problems.


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A lot of winning baseball teams have one guy on their team who's kind of a dick. (On the field only, I'm talking — I don't know these people.) They run hard, and play hard, and curse a lot, and get a lot of standing ovations for their "old school" manner of play. They get into fights, sometimes with their own teammates, but that's because they're "passionate." When something bad happens, they make a huge show out of destroying water coolers, because they are super-intense and everyone needs to realize that. There has never been a correctly called third strike on these men, and when the home-plate ump deigns to call that fucking pitch a strike, are you kidding me?, the gentlemen in question don't just get hot and pop off. They act as though their very honor as human beings has been called into question. ...You wanna know why I love Michael Schur?
One, there was the old blog he ran with a couple of friends, Fire Joe Morgan. (in this Yook piece, he refers to Moneyball as Billy Beane's autobiography, without further explanation). Two, his wife has forbidden him to talk about Infinite Jest in public because once he starts, he will talk about it (and only it) for hours. And three, when he mentions Paul O'Neill, who ably filled the role of the Yankees' raging, immature dick, he adds this footnote:
4 My wife, who does not care about baseball, was once introduced to Paul O'Neill at a restaurant, came home, reported that she thought he was "very handsome," and we got into one of the biggest fights of our entire relationship. I am very mature. (This was pre-2004, though, so that totally explains it.)


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WASHINGTON - Bryce Harper homered in his first two at-bats, Stephen Strasburg retired 19 batters in a row at one stretch, and the defending NL East champion Washington Nationals opened the season with a 2-0 victory over the Miami Marlins on Monday.
For Strasburg, this marked the start of what should be his first full season in the majors, with zero pitch or inning limits. The All-Star ace was dominant against a trade-depleted Marlins lineup that features Giancarlo Stanton and little else. The right-hander went seven innings, matching his career high, and allowed three hits.
Reigning NL Rookie of the Year Harper, a 20-year-old outfielder, hit solo shots over the out-of-town scoreboard in right-centre field off Ricky Nolasco in the first and fourth innings.
New closer Rafael Soriano got the save.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clayton Kershaw launched his first career home run to break a scoreless tie in the eighth inning, then finished off a four-hitter that led the Los Angeles Dodgers past the San Francisco Giants.
Kershaw became the first pitcher to throw a shutout and hit a home run in an opener since Bob Lemon for Cleveland in 1953, STATS said.
Kershaw struck out seven, walked none and retired World Series MVP Pablo Sandoval on a grounder to end it.
Matt Cain made his first career opening day start for the Giants in the loss. He allowed four hits in six scoreless innings, struck out eight and walked one.
NEW YORK (AP) — Jonathon Niese stepped nicely into his new role as No. 1 starter for the Mets, and Collin Cowgill capped a successful New York debut with a grand slam in a rout of the San Diego Padres.
Handed the opening day assignment in place of injured Johan Santana, Niese enjoyed a big afternoon with both his arm and bat. He breezed into the seventh inning against a Padres lineup missing slugger Chase Headley (broken thumb) and catcher Yasmani Grandal, suspended for the first 50 games after testing positive for testosterone.
Marlon Byrd had a pair of RBI singles and fellow Mets newcomer John Buck was in the middle of three rallies as New York improved baseball's best opening day record to 34-18 despite dropping its first eight openers.
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jeff Samardzija struck out nine in eight nearly flawless innings and the Chicago Cubs held on for a victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.
The right-hander allowed just two hits and walked one as the Chicago won on opening day for the first time since 2009. Anthony Rizzo hit a two-run homer and Wellington Castillo added an RBI double for the Cubs.
Kyuji Fujikawa got a save in his major league debut after closer Carlos Marmol struggled.
A.J. Burnett, making the first opening day start of his lengthy career, gave up three runs on six hits in 5 2-3 innings, striking out 10.
BREWERS 5, ROCKIES 4, 10 innings
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jonathan Lucroy hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning to give the Milwaukee Brewers a victory over Colorado, ruining the first game for new Rockies manager Walt Weiss.
Rickie Weeks sparked the winning rally when he stole second after he was hit by a pitch with one out. Adam Ottavino then issued an intentional walk to Ryan Braun and lost Aramis Ramirez to another walk before Lucroy ended the game with a fly ball to centre field.
A big "Luuuuuuc" thundered down from the Miller Park crowd of 45,781 as Weeks came home with the winning run and Lucroy was mobbed by his jubilant teammates.
Ramirez also had a two-run double in Milwaukee's three-run eighth inning as the Brewers won on opening day for the first time since 2008.
ATLANTA (AP) — Freddie Freeman drove in three runs with three hits, including the first of three Atlanta home runs, and the Braves beat Cole Hamels and the Philadelphia Phillies.
Dan Uggla and Justin Upton, making his Braves debut, also homered for Atlanta, which led National League teams with 49 in spring training.
Hamels (0-1) struggled in his first opening day start. He gave up five runs on seven hits, including the three homers, with five strikeouts and one walk in five innings. The three homers allowed matched his high from last season.
PHOENIX (AP) — Ian Kennedy struck out eight in seven strong innings and the Arizona Diamondbacks used 15 hits to beat the St. Louis Cardinals.
Kennedy (1-0) allowed two runs on five hits with one walk. St. Louis' Adam Wainwright (0-1) went six innings, giving up four runs, three earned, on 11 hits. He struck out six with no walks.
Arizona's Gerardo Parra matched his career best with four hits, three of them doubles. Rookie A.J. Pollock was 3 for 4, including a two-run double, and Martin Prado doubled twice with an RBI and two runs scored for the Diamondbacks.
ANGELS 3, REDS 1, 13 innings
CINCINNATI (AP) — Chris Iannetta hit a solo homer early in the game and a bases-loaded single in the 13th inning, powering the Los Angeles Angels past the Cincinnati Reds in the majors' first interleague season opener.
The Angels loaded the bases with two outs in the 13th off J.J. Hoover, who walked two and hit Hank Conger, the Angels' final position player. Iannetta worked the count full, fouled off a pair of pitches, then singled to left. Ernesto Frieri, the Angels' seventh pitcher, finished off the Reds' longest opening game since 1975, when they beat the Dodgers 2-1 in 14 innings.


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Sept Edition of Malmö English Comedy Night
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There's going to be another stand-up comedy show in English on at Scandic Triangeln. Looks like fun!
Here is the info from the producer:
Welcome on Friday, Sept 6 to Scandic Triangeln in Malmö to enjoy more stand-up comics from around the world coming to entertain you in English.
This show welcomes headline acts John Lynn (Ireland), Radu Isac (Romania), and Will Mars (UK).
+ your Host MC Joe Eagan (Canada).
The entire show is in English
When: Friday, Sept 6, showtime 20.00 sharp in 2nd floor comedy room (pre-show mingle from 19.00 onwards in lobby level), Show duration is approx 2 hrs including one break.
Where: Scandic Triangeln, Triangeln 2, 211 43 Malmö, just 1 min walk from Triangeln train station!
map: https://goo.gl/maps/cW44d1wviZB2
Buy a Single ticket or one of our new Season Passes! (see all 4 shows this season on Sept 6, Oct 11, Nov 8, and Dec 6)
Single ticket: 195 sek and INCLUDES:
-> 1 drink voucher for 1 x glass wine/beer alt. non-alc drink.
-> Entry to see the comedy show on Sept 6.
NEW! ---> Season Pass: 695 sek and INCLUDES:
-> 1 drink voucher for 1 x glass wine/beer alt. non-alc drink for EACH show date (4 drink vouchers total)
-> 1 x entry to see the comedy show all four dates - Sept 6, Oct 11, Nov 8, and Dec 6.
Buy single tickets or season passes via:
GOOD NEWS! -> Season passes are not personal, so you can give yours to a friend to use if you can't come to a show.
Buying a Season Pass or a full single 195 sek ticket is the only way to enter and see the show.
John Lynn (Ireland)
John's television credits include The Liffey Laugh (RTE), One Night Stand (BBC), Stand and Deliver (RTE), Republic of Telly (RTE), Podge and Rodge (RTE), The Apprentice: Your Fired (TV3) and The Craig Doyle Show (RTE ONE). He also co-starred with Tommy Tiernan in the Third Policeman's Ball, a tribute to Flann O'Brien.
He has performed at the prestigious invite only Montreal Just for Laughs Comedy Festival, while being a regular at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs and Iveagh Gardens Comedy Carnival. In 2012 and 2013 he was invited to join Tom Stade as a special guest on his nationwide UK tours playing to packed houses across the UK. He is a headliner for all of the major UK clubs, the Laugh Factory tours of the middle east and the Punchline tours of China, Hong Kong and Japan.
Will Mars (UK)
Brilliantly self-deprecating stand-up, Will Mars, is fast making a name for himself as a down-at-heel, yet lovable international star. Whilst living in New York for the past few years, the English Comedian of The Year Finalist, has earned notoriety from his peers and audiences alike in both live comedy clubs as well as on air where he made his TV debut on Fox's Showtime at The Apollo. In 2018 he returned to U.S. television on Season 8 of NBC Comcast's knockout television show, Trial By Laughter, winning a place in the series final! ★★★★ "A remarkable talent ... A comic tour de force" EdFringe Review (U.K.), ★★★★ "As a storyteller he is a joy to experience" Mumble Comedy (U.K.), ★★★★ " A unique and witty perspective on thoughts that many have but rarely articulate" Adelaide Advertiser (Australia), Top 50 Best One-Liners from the Edinburgh Fringe 2017 The Scotsman (U.K.)
Radu Isac (Romania)
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Make-A-Wish's Official Batkid Video Will Make You Cry All Over Again [VIDEO]
Remember Batkid?
Back in November, Make-A-Wish pulled off perhaps the most heartwarming story of the year when it turned San Francisco into Gotham City so five-year-old leukemia survivor Miles could dress up as Batkid and help take down some of the Caped Crusader's biggest rivals.
Make-A-Wish has now made a video (see above) about that inspiring day. Feel free to watch and relive the magic all over again. And when you're done, check out a news report on Batkid's amazing adventure, below.


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Tips for Choosing Credit Card Offers
The market is flooded with credit card offers and it's true that almost all of them lure you. It has been observed that people tend to keep a huge range of credit cards with them just for availing the various offers on those cards. One might be a petro-bonus card while another might be a premium card with a lounge access, et al.


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As you burrow back into your cold-weather clothes, you're probably taking stock of your sweater supply. Here's an option for the ones that are too shrunken or moth-eaten to donate: Turn them into fingerless mittens.
They're cozy, chic, and (we promise!) much easier than you think. All you need is a formerly loved sweater, scissors, a few pins, a needle and some thread.
Tools and Materials
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Fingerless Mittens How-To
1. From the hem of the sweater, cut (through both the front and back) a rectangle 12 inches high and 8 inches wide. Then cut along the side seam, so you have two pieces.
2. Fold each piece lengthwise with the insides facing out. Mark the thumbhole with pins. It should be 2 1/2 inches wide and 2 inches from the top.
3. Sew 1/2 inch from the edge, leaving the thumbhole open. Reinforce the thumbhole with a separate topstitch. Then sew a 1/2-inch hem at the bottom.


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Now is as good a time as any to get those niggling DIY jobs done. But before you get your toolbox out, find out how to successfully avoid the most common DIY mistakes.
Amateur mistakes are all too easy to make, and can be very time-consuming, so here is a list of the top ten most common, and how to avoid them. From how to paint skirting boards to using primer, we talk you through how best to avoid making a mistake.
1. Have a spirit level to hand
Putting up a shelf should be a five-minute job, but saving time by not using a spirit level could cause all manner of problems later, when ornaments fall over or books slide off. Use a spirit level to establish a level edge (when the bubble sits exactly in the middle of the window), then use a pencil to draw a guideline to work by.
2. Use primers
Watermarks can be a pain to cover up. Painting over the stain with a water-based emulsion won't help; the stain will keep showing through, however many coats you use. Apply an oil-based primer paint or spray over the stain to seal it, and then you can cover it with any paint and colour you choose.
3. Think ahead
Bespoke panelling around a bath and toilet give a bathroom
a clean finish, but bear in mind that, inevitably, there will be the
odd leak, and you will need access to the pipes to fix them. It's easy
to plan one removable panel or concealed door for this purpose, and this
will give you a place to hide the spare toilet rolls and soap as well.
4. Avoid quick fixes
After wet weather, wooden doors become swollen and stick in the frame.
Planing the wood is an instant fix, but be sure to paint over the
exposed edges with an oil-based primer as well. If the wood is not
sealed like this, it will continue to absorb moisture and swell up –
leaving you to do the job all over again.
5. Don't scrimp on essentials
There's no point in buying expensive paintbrushes for one job, but steer
clear of budget brushes. These have fewer bristles, which make an
untidy finish, and they moult more than a mid-range brush, so you will
be constantly picking bristles out of the paintwork. Synthetic brushes
are fine for the DIYer, and they keep their shape, while natural
bristles tend to splay out after use.
6. Protect surfaces
Painting a skirting board can be a painstaking job as you try to keep the paint away from the carpet.
The obvious solution is to pull back the carpet edge; this is not
always practical, but spending five minutes fixing masking tape along
the edge of the carpet will do the trick. If you are staining a wood
skirting board, remember to protect the joining wall with tape too.
7. Support your shelves
When putting up shelves and pictures on a partition wall, you must
locate the weight-bearing studwork behind the plaster for support, or
screws and nails will come out under the slightest weight. These wooden
posts, which are the backbone of the wall, may not always be where you
want your nail to go, but in this case, you can always use cavity
fixings, which anchor screws and nails into the plaster. These are
available from most DIY stores and websites.
8. Don't under-estimate materials
If you are wallpapering with a patterned design, you will need to take
this into account when buying. If the repeat is much more than 55cm, you
will need extra rolls, as there will be more waste when cutting the
paper to join up the pattern. Make sure the rolls have matching batch-
and shade-numbers, and remember that off-the-shelf wallpaper can usually be returned if unopened, but most mail-order companies do not accept returns.
9. Prepare thoroughly
Always clean walls
and skirting boards before you start painting, vacuuming rather than
sweeping, as any dust floating around will stick to wet paint and ruin
your hard work. Keep dust sheets down until you are sure all the paint
has dried, especially gloss, but be careful with sheets on wooden
floors, as they will slide around and can be dangerous.
10. Less is more
Lastly, whether it's wood, wallpaper or carpet, check and double-check
every measurement before making a cut – you can always take more off,
but if you cut too short you have wasted your time, your material and,
most importantly, your money.
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Search Company Web Sites for Job Listings
Consider searching company (also called corporate) Web sites for job listings, in addition to using vertical job search engines and job boards. Company Web sites are so numerous, of course, that you can't possibly check all of them during your job hunt.
Unlike general job boards, such as Monster.com and Career Builder, the universe of company Web sites is decentralized. Unless you're using a vertical job search engine, exploring that universe is time consuming. You can easily spend two hours reviewing just a couple of corporate career sites.
Consider the following when searching for job listings through a corporate Web site:
Fully research the company site. As you scan a company site, back up to the home page and view press releases, annual reports, and other general areas for any edge you can use to enhance your application when you move to the careers area.
Susan Joyce, the talent behind Job-Hunt.org, reminds you: "In addition to visiting the employer's Web site to see what the company does, also check the company out on Yahoo Finance, BusinessWire.com, Hoover's, and so forth to discover the latest news about the employer's industry. Don't be the last person hired before layoffs begin."
Submit a targeted resume. When you reach the careers area and begin submitting your resume in earnest, pay close attention to each requirement of the position and customize your resume to show that your qualifications are a bull's eye for those requirements.
Don't bother sending a hard copy to the company's HR department. It's unnecessary and will likely be tossed. You can, of course, send a hard copy to a hiring manager.
Pay attention to specific instructions on each company's site. And don't be surprised if you're asked to take online pre-employment tests or respond to screening questions.
Some corporate sites won't accept anonymous candidates who cloak their identity. Some candidates use anonymous resumes to maintain their privacy and stay out of trouble with their current employer. An anonymous resume is stripped of the resume subject's name and contact information. Former employers may not be identified by name but described generically. Anonymous resumes are distributed by job sites or third-party employment services but employers often consider them to be too much trouble to bother with.


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Khloé Kardashian said Monday romance and intimacy weren't the reasons why she is still married to former NBA star Lamar Odom, NBC News reported.
Kardashian cited "a multitude reasons" while at a book-signing in Hollywood.
She and Odom filed for divorce over the summer. Kardashian asked a judge to toss the paperwork after Odom was hospitalized in October. She's still dating Houston Rockets shooting guard James Harden.
Odom is in recovery in Los Angeles after suffering at least one stroke and brain damage, NBC News reported.


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Diversity Value Index
The Diversity Value Index, or DVI, is a benchmarking program designed to examine an organization as a multidimensional model wherein the diversity and inclusion function is part of all facets of the enterprise from strategy to business valuation. Designed to educate professionals about the bottom-line impact of diversity, advise with best practices and innovations from the D&I function and inspire organizations to move beyond the concept of diversity as a bio-demographic function alone, the DVI provides a deeper understanding of the significance of the diversity and inclusion function.
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Game Changers
As the best and brightest young talent in workforce management emerges, we want to recognize the profession's innovative rising stars for their positive impact on the present and future. Do you know high-potential young professionals who are making their mark in the HR profession? If so, nominate them for Workforce's annual Game Changers award. The award program is open to the next generation of workplace leaders under the age of 40.
Nominations for the 2019 Game Changers are closed. Check back in January 2020 to nominate next year's candidates!
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What do you get when you pay close attention to workforce management issues? Amazing business results for your organization. You've done it, and now it's time to celebrate your successes and share them with your peers. Optimas Awards winners gain well-deserved glory for their efforts. Winners demonstrate the important role that sophisticated workforce management plays in business today.
Nominations for the 30th annual Optimas Awards is scheduled to open April 17, 2020, and run through May 29, 2020.
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View the 2019 Workforce 100 list.
To find out which companies are the best for HR management, Workforce editors, along with researchers from the Human Capital Media Advisory Group, the magazine's research arm, created a statistical formula to sift through publicly available information to separate the best from the rest. The result of that analysis is the inaugural Workforce 100 list. While we've come up with one answer to the question of which companies are best for HR, we look forward to the conversation with you that results in furthering the discussion.
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Cutting Back Perennials
Question: After the first frost, should I cut back the flower stalks on my perennials? Or is it best to leave them as is and cut them back in the spring?
Answer: If winter temperatures in your region are regularly below 0 degrees F, don't cut back the perennials until late winter or early spring. The dead foliage helps protect the plants from cold. After the ground freezes, cover the whole bed with a loose layer of straw. Leave it until early spring and then gradually remove it as temperatures warm.
Pruning Ornamental Grasses
Question: What is the proper method of cutting back ornamental grasses for the winter?
Answer: Most gardeners wait until after the grasses have bloomed so that they can enjoy the ornamental plumes. The seedheads are also attractive in winter, so you may want to wait until spring to trim them. Then, cut the dead grasses back to about 6 inches; the new growth will quickly cover the old stubs. Some gardeners use a hedge trimmer, as this is much faster than using a hand clipper.
Composting Leaves
Question: I would like to make a 4x4x4 fenced-in area and compost fall leaves. If I fill the bin in early November, will the leaves decay by the middle of May, when I can rototill them into the soil?
Answer: Composting essentially stops when the weather turns cold, and plain fallen leaves alone can take a year or more to decompose. To speed up the process, shred the leaves with your lawn mower, then till them into the soil this fall. By spring they should be decayed enough for planting.


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Considering we constantly hear how Indian fans love their cricket the crowds have been piss poor so far in the competition with grounds barely half full, very poor show if you ask me.
Is it cost, or just bad organisation by BCCI?
Being so far away it is difficult to know but the fact is the half empty stadiums do look stupid in the games major showpiece. I presume tv money is more important than filling the grounds to India.


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It has been a long, hard road for Microsoft. And the journey has only just begun. Just several hours ago, Steve Ballmer gave the official unveiling to the long awaited update to its mobile platform, welcoming Microsoft Windows Phone 7 into the limelight. Amidst the fanfare and hype that has been built upon this new and improved mobile operating system (OS), the important question is - where forth are the changes and updates?
Announced during Mobile World Congress 2010, we were given a brief introduction and glimpse of Windows Phone 7. Nearly six months down the road, news came in pretty slow for the new Microsoft mobile OS until a previous preview session shed some light on the updates that has been implemented. And after a series of device information leaks, and some early hands-on experience with the new Windows Phone 7 devices, the stage is finally set for its debut.
If you've read our earlier reports on Windows Phone 7, you'll find its basic premise to be unchanged - built around the Hub concept and a strong emphasis on integrated social feeds, Windows Phone 7 devices will be focusing on a fully integrated and connected experience, both offline and online. If you haven't yet seen how this would look like, here's a visual advertisement from Microsoft that clearly shows the various hubs brought about in the Windows Phone 7 interface:-
What we are able to share today, is the actual user experience that we've been reserving our comments on. In one word - smooth. Compared against its Windows Mobile 6.5 or even 6.1 predecessors, Windows Phone 7 is a far cry from its earlier days. Its UI has been vastly improved, and showcases some of the finer details from Microsoft's Zune HD media player. Speed, efficiency and smooth transitions have been clearly demonstrated by Windows Phone 7, and is even more apparent as we pushed through with multiple apps during our hands-on time.
Of course, what is Windows Phone 7, without its accompanying devices? From the earlier announcement, a total of nine Windows Phone 7 devices have been announced globally, some of which will be making its appearance in Singapore. During the Windows Phone 7 launch event, we had a glimpse of the devices from Microsoft's old and new partners - HTC, LG and Samsung. We share some of our initial impressions of these Windows Phone 7 devices in the next few pages.
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Goalscorers Dimitrios Salpingidis and Vasilis Torosidis will never have to buy a drink again in Greece, as their two strikes led Greece to the country's first ever World Cup victory, a 2-1 win over Nigeria Thursday.
Trailing 1-0 after surrendering a free kick goal to Nigeria's Kalu Uche in the 16th minute, the Greeks were bolstered when Nigerian midfielder Sani Kaita was sent off for foolishly kicking out at Torosidis in the 33rd minute. The 2004 European Champions responded four minutes later with the subbing in of Celtic striker Giorgios Samaras for defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos and the tide began to turn in the Greeks favor.
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Jimmy Kimmel and Molly McNearney Welcome Baby Girlby Thomas Chau | PopCrush
Jimmy Kimmel announced this morning (July 10) on Twitter that he and his wife, Molly McNearney, welcomed a baby girl today.
"Congratulations to my beautiful and very tough wife @mollymcnearney on delivering our baby girl this morning," he wrote before joking, "Thanks for all your kind baby wishes — turns out, not ALL tweets are mean!"
Congratulations to my beautiful and very tough wife @mollymcnearney on delivering our baby girl this morning
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) July 10, 2014
The baby girl is Kimmel and McNearney's first child together. Kimmel has two children from his first marriage to Gina Maddy.
McNearney is a comedian and writer on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' They began dating in October 2009 and were married July 2013. Kimmel announced his wife's pregnancy last February on 'The Ellen Degeneres Show.'
"It's weird, at my age," Kimmel told Ellen DeGeneres (quotes via E! News). "I'm going to be one of those old dads."
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Excerpted with permission from "Rhubarb Renaissance," by Kim Ode (Minnesota Historical Society Press).
I should have known better. My cousin's seemingly casual invitation was too intent on success, the gleam in her eye a bit too bright. "Take a bite," she said, holding out the stalk of rhubarb.
She spoke as if she were postponing her own pleasure, as if her bite of the scarlet stalk could wait if it meant her own dear young cousin could be happy. The rhubarb looked tasty. The pale green stalk looked like celery, but better, with brilliant red striations that caught the sunlight. The bottom knob of the stalk, where it had been pulled from the plant with a firm tug, appeared as polished as marble.
This knob was pink, as pink as the hollyhocks against my Grandma Torkelson's house. It was a shade of pink that, yet today, makes me smile. But it was the other end, where the great leaf had been lopped off by my beguiling cousin, that revealed the stalk's pale green interior. "Take a bite," she said again.
I suspect that we were not unobserved -- that the grownups were looking out from the kitchen at the ancient drama being enacted. For surely, generation upon generation has tempted its younger members with the suggestion that biting into a stalk of rhubarb is a delight. I mean, my cousin wasn't that original. Nor was I when, in later summers, I would extend a stalk of rhubarb toward some unsuspecting cousin, friend, neighbor kid -- whoever had not experienced the stop-action surprise of a bite.
To a child's fairly untested taste buds, rhubarb is a shock. The initial crunch is quickly replaced by the sensation of every pore in your mouth constricting in the face not so much of a taste that is sour -- although your brain is screaming "Sour!" -- as in the realization that spitting out the rhubarb risks releasing even more of its barbarity and that, while ridding yourself of this morsel now is more important than anything you've ever done, the specter of tasting more rhubarb, even on its way out, is akin to realizing that someone's nails are only halfway down the blackboard.
In short, this drama is great good fun for the profferers of rhubarb and an unforgettable experience for those who, against all of their instincts, finally take a bite.
The good news is that we know now that kids' taste buds are especially sensitive to bitter or sour flavors and that maturity brings the joy of realizing that rhubarb is one of the great delights of horticulture -- although even that took several centuries to discover.
Rhubarb's first primary use was not as food but as medicine in China and Tibet, with records dating back to 2700 B.C. Its eventual appearance in European countries was due to its medicinal properties, but cooks also were intrigued enough by its tart flavor that they began growing it around 1600. Trade routes continued to shrink the globe, and by the late 1700s imported sugar became plentiful and affordable, which pretty much lit the fuse on rhubarb's becoming more commonly referred to as "pie plant."
While we tend to think of it as a fruit, rhubarb actually is a vegetable, which helps move our brains in the direction of using it in more savory dishes, such as a Yorkshire-style pudding side dish, or in a kale salad. Nor is it necessary that rhubarb desserts rely on strawberries. Trust me. It's far more interesting to pair its tart flavor with tropical mangoes, chewy figs, fresh raspberries or ripe bananas.
Or, you can follow one of the simplest recipes ever devised: Take one small bowl of sugar into the garden. Pull a stalk of rhubarb from the plant. Lop off the leaf. Dip one end of the stalk into the sugar. Take a bite. Continue dipping as desired. Serves 1.
Kim Ode is the author of the new "Rhubarb Renaissance" and "Baking With the St. Paul Bread Club" (both from Minnesota Historical Society Press).


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TRAINING: Training 3 times a day. Striking in the morning. Long slow run in the afternoon. Grappling at night.
When and why did you start training for fighting? I started training in 2003 to stop getting into trouble.
What ranks and titles have you held? Rigan Machado Black Belt in Jiu-Jitsu and have won many grappling tournaments like the Pan Ams.
Do you have any heroes? I admire anyone who fights to get what they want in life without screwing people over.
What is your favorite technique? The Superman double wrist lock
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? A dream come true
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? I went for a year but I was just there to play soccer.
What was your job before you started fighting? I worked for United Cerebral Palsy. I helped children with disabilities on their social behavior.
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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
Young People Are Not as Digitally Native as You Think
NYT Bits
"Everyone knows young people these days are born with smartphones in hand and will stay glued to the Internet from that time onward. Right?
Well, not quite. Actually, fewer than one-third of young people around the world are "digital natives," according to a report published Monday and billed as the first comprehensive global look at the phenomenon.
The study, conducted by the Georgia Institute of Technology and the International Telecommunication Union, shows that only 30 percent of people ages 15 to 24 have spent at least five years actively using the Internet, the criterion used to define digital nativism." READ MORE


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Young girl helps fight littering problem
A recent trip to a local park to play turned into a clean-up effort by a 6-year-old Wapakoneta girl.
Riley Warwick and her mother, Amanda Warwick, went to Veterans Memorial Park to swing and play on the equipment, but after they noticed a lot of trash laying around, the young girl started picking it up to make the playground clean.
"I wanted to pick it up to keep the earth healthy," Riley said. "It's called just being nice.
"It makes me feel sad because our Earth gets all dirty when people throw litter on the ground," she said.
Riley, who will be a first-grader at Wapakoneta Elementary School, said she hopes people stop throwing litter on the ground and instead start doing like her, and picking up the trash they see.
On that day alone Riley picked up a bag of food, several empty bottles and other pieces of smaller trash left in the playground area.
"We sure do enjoy this park, and she felt giving back to the community would be beneficial by cleaning up another person's trash," Riley's mother said.
Amanda Warwick said it's nothing new for her daughter though as she is always cleaning up around Wapakoneta, the boat ramp at the river, or wherever she goes.
"I'm so proud of her," Warwick said.
She said her daughter has been picking up trash she sees not where it belongs since she was just a toddler.
"It all started when she was about 2 1/2 and she dropped some trash on the ground," Warwick said. "I explained to her that littering hurts the Earth and also that animals get into the trash that people throw on the ground."
Through the years, Riley has continued to learn about littering from her mother and through her involvement in Girl Scouts, as well as school.
"It makes me so proud because she's such a young girl and is making a huge difference in her community," Warwick said. "She has an amazing heart and I'm so glad she wants to make the world a better place. She stands as an example to her younger brother and other kids or even adults that may see her picking up trash."
Riley's mom said she's hoping her daughter's example encourages others of all ages to pitch in and help, too.


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Lot (biblical person)
The Flight of Lot and His Family from Sodom (after Rubens), 1618-1620 by Jacob Jordaens
|Haran (father)
|Lot's wife
|Significant other
|His daughters
|more than 2 daughters, (he had sons-in-law)
|Milcah (sister)
Iscah (sister)
Nahor (uncle)
Abraham (uncle)
Sarah (aunt)
Terah (grandfather)
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|Ur Kaśdim
Lot (/lɒt/; Hebrew: לוֹט – Lōṭ, "veil" or "covering"[1]; Greek: Λώτ – Lṓt; Arabic: لُوط – Lūṭ) was a patriarch in the biblical Book of Genesis chapters 11–14 and 19. Notable events in his life include his journey with his uncle Abram (Abraham) and his flight from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, during which Lot's wife became a pillar of salt, and Lot got drunk and then slept with his daughters so that they could have children.[2]
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Lot's background[edit]
Lot and his father Haran were born and raised in Ur of the Chaldees (Genesis 11:28, 31) in the region of Sumeria on the River Euphrates of lower Mesopotamia.[3] Haran died in that land before his father Terah. (Genesis 11:28)
Genesis 11:26–32 gives the "generations of Terah", Lot's grandfather, who arranged for their large family to set a course for Canaan where they could reestablish a new home. Among the family members that Lot travelled with, was his uncle Abram, (later called Abraham), one of the three patriarchs of Israel.
En route to Canaan, the family stopped in the Paddan Aram region, about halfway along the Fertile Crescent between Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean,[3] they settled at the site called Haran where Lot's grandfather, Terah, lived the rest of his days. He was 205 years old when he died. (Genesis 11:32)
Genesis 12 reveals Abram's obedience to the Lord at the age of 75, in continuing his journey to the land of promise. Though Abram's father, Terah, stayed behind, his nephew Lot went with him.[v. 1–4] There is no mention of Lot's having a wife yet, they went southwestward[4] into the land of Canaan, to the place of Sichem,[v. 5–6] the present day West Bank of Nablus.[4] Later they travelled south to the hills between Bethel and Hai,[v. 8] before journeying further toward the south of Canaan.[v. 9]
After they dwelt in the land of Canaan for a little while, a famine overtook the countryside, and they journeyed many miles farther south into Egypt.[v. 10–20] After having dwelt in Egypt for some time, they acquired vast amounts of wealth and numbers of livestock and returned to the Bethel area.[Gen.13:1–5]
Lot in the plain of Jordan[edit]
Genesis 13 helps and discusses Abram and Lot's return to Canaan after the famine had passed and the lands became fertile again. They traveled back through the Negev to the hills of Bethel.[v. 1, 3] With their constant movement and the sizeable numbers of livestock each family owned requiring pasture, the herdsmen of the two groups began to bicker.[v. 6–7] These arguments became so troublesome that Abram suggested to Lot that they part ways, lest conflict continue among the "brethren".[v. 8–9]
Although Abram gave Lot the choice of going either north (the left hand) or south (the right hand), Lot instead looked beyond Jordan toward a well-irrigated plain and chose that land, for it seemed "like the garden of the LORD". Alas, ahead Lot could not foresee the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the transformation of the water into a saline sea. (Genesis 13:9–11) Abram then headed south to Hebron, staying within the land of Canaan. (Genesis 13:12, 18)
Lot camped among the cities of the green Jordan plain and initially pitched his tent facing Sodom. Eight or so years[5] before, the five kingdoms had become vassal states of an alliance of four eastern kingdoms under the leadership of Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, they served this king for twelve years, but "the thirteenth year they rebelled." (Genesis 14:1–4) The following year Chedorlaomer's four armies returned and at the Battle of the Vale of Siddim, the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fell in defeat.[v. 5–10] Chedorlaomer despoiled the cities and took captives as he departed, including Lot, who by then "dwelt" in Sodom.[v. 11–12]
When Abram heard what had happened to his "brother" Lot, he armed a rescue force of three hundred and eighteen of his trained servants and caught up to the armies of the four kings in the territory of the Tribe of Dan.[v. 13–14] Abram divided his forces, which attacked at night from multiple directions, and the four kings fled northeast. Abram's pursuit continued and the "slaughter of Chedorlaomer" and the other kings was completed at Hobah, north of Damascus. Abram brought back "his brother Lot" and all the people and their belongings. (v. 15–24)
Lot flees Sodom[edit]
Twenty four years after Abram and Lot began their sojourning, God changed Abram's name to Abraham, and gave him the covenant of circumcision.[Genesis 17] Not long afterward, "the LORD appeared" to Abraham in the form of "three men" come to visit and have a meal with him, and after two left to go to Sodom, "Abraham stood yet before the LORD."[Gen.18:1–22] Abraham boldly pleaded on behalf of the people of Sodom, where Lot dwelt, and obtained assurance the city would not be destroyed if fifty righteous people were found there, he continued inquiring, reducing the minimum number for sparing the city to forty five, forty, thirty, twenty, and finally, ten.[18:23–33]
Genesis 19:1 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground;
2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways, and they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.
3 And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.
After supper that night before bedtime, the men of the city, young and old, gathered around Lot's house demanding he bring his two guests out that they might "know" them. Lot went out and closed the door behind him and prayed that they not do such wicked things, and offered them his virgin daughters, that had not "known" man, that they might know them instead, and do with as they pleased, his response infuriated the men of Sodom who accused him of being judgmental and they threatened to do worse to him than they would have done to the men.[Gen.19:4–9]
Before they could harm Lot and break into the house, the men pulled Lot back in and struck the intruders with blindness, and revealed to Lot that they were angels sent to destroy the place; this allowed a window of opportunity for Lot to make preparations for him and his family to leave. When he went out to the men that were engaged to marry his daughters, warning them to flee, they assumed he was joking.[Gen.19:10–14]
As the day began to dawn, the angels urged him to hurry up and leave; when he lingered, the angels took hold of Lot, his wife and two daughters, and transported them beyond the city and set them down; the angel told Lot, "Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed."[Gen.19:15–17] Lot argued that if he went to the mountain some evil would cause his death, and he requested to be allowed to flee instead to the "little" city which was closer. (This city of Bela was later called Zoar because it was little.) His request was accepted, and they headed for Zoar instead.[Gen.19:18–22]
Genesis 19:23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Abraham could see the smoke billowing upward from the countryside.[v. 27–28]
Instead of both fire and brimstone, Josephus has only lightning as the cause of the fire that destroyed Sodom: "God then cast a thunderbolt upon the city, and set it on fire, with its inhabitants; and laid waste the country with the like burning, as I formerly said when I wrote The Jewish War."[6]
Lot and his daughters[edit]
The account of Lot and his daughters is in Genesis 19:30–38
Genesis 19:30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.
31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
33 And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
34 And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.
35 And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
36 Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
The older daughter conceived Moab (Hebrew מוֹאָב, lit., "from the father" [meh-Av]), father of the Moabites;[v. 37] the younger conceived Ben-Ammi (Hebrew בֶּן-עַמִּי, lit., "Son of my people"), father of the Ammonites.[v. 38]
The story, usually called Lot and his daughters, has been the subject of many paintings over the centuries, and became one of the subjects in the Power of Women group of subjects, warning men against the dangers of succumbing to the temptations of women, while also providing an opportunity for an erotic depiction. The scene generally shows Lot and his daughters eating and drinking in their mountain refuge. Often the background contains a small figure of Lot's wife, and in the distance, a burning city.[7]
Family tree[edit]
|7 sons[9]
|1st daughter
|2nd daughter
|1. Reuben
2. Simeon
3. Levi
4. Judah
9. Issachar
10. Zebulun
Dinah (daughter)
|7. Gad
8. Asher
|5. Dan
6. Naphtali
|11. Joseph
12. Benjamin
Religious views[edit]
Jewish view[edit]
In the Bereshith of the Torah, Lot is first mentioned at the end of the weekly reading portion, Parashat Noach; the weekly reading portions that follow, concerning all of the accounts of Lot's life, are read in the Parashat Lekh Lekha and Parashat Vayera. In the Midrash, a number of additional stories concerning Lot are present, not found in the Tanakh, as follows:
- Abraham took care of Lot after Haran was burned in a gigantic fire in which Nimrod, King of Babylon, tried to kill Abraham.
- While in Egypt, the midrash gives Lot much credit because, despite his desire for wealth, he did not inform Pharaoh of Sarah's secret, that she was Abraham's wife.
Christian view[edit]
In the Christian New Testament, Lot is considered sympathetically, as a man who regretted his choice to live in Sodom, where he "vexed his righteous soul from day to day" (2 Peter 2:6–9). Jesus spoke of future judgment coming suddenly as in the days of Lot, and warned solemnly, "Remember Lot's wife". (Luke 17:28–33)
Islamic view[edit]
Lut (Arabic: لُوط – Lūṭ) in the Quran is considered to be the same as Lot in the Hebrew Bible. He is considered to be a messenger of God and a prophet of God.[11]
In Islamic tradition, Lot lived in Ur and was a nephew of Ibrahim (Abraham), he migrated with Ibrahim to Canaan and was commissioned as a prophet to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.[12] His story is used as a reference by some Muslims to demonstrate Islam's disapproval of homosexuality, he was commanded by Allah to go to the land of Sodom and Gomorrah to preach monotheism and to stop them from their lustful and violent acts. Lut's messages were ignored by the inhabitants, prompting Sodom and Gomorrah's destruction. Though Lut left the city, his wife was asked to be left behind by angels hence died during the destruction;[12] the Quran defines Lot as a prophet, and holds that all prophets were examples of moral and spiritual rectitude. The Quran does not include stories of Lot's drunkenness and/or incest.
Modern views[edit]
The presumptive incest between Lot and his daughters has raised many questions, debates, and theories as to what the real motives were, who really was at fault, and the level of bias the author of Genesis Chapter 19 had. However, such biblical scholars as Jacob Milgrom,[13] Victor P. Hamilton,[14] and Calum Carmichael[15] postulate that the Levitical laws could not have been developed the way they were, without controversial issues surrounding the patriarchs of Israel, especially regarding incest. Carmichael even attributes the entire formulation of the Levitical laws to the lives of the founding fathers of the nation, including the righteous Lot (together with Abraham, Jacob, Judah, Moses, and David), who were outstanding figures in Israelite tradition.
According to the scholars mentioned above, the patriarchs of Israel are the key to understanding how the priestly laws concerning incest developed. Kinship marriages amongst the patriarchs includes Abraham's marriage to his half-sister Sarai;[Gen.20:11–12] the marriage of Abraham's brother, Nahor, to their niece Milcah;[Gen.11:27–29] Isaac's marriage to Rebekah, his first cousin once removed;[Gen.27:42–43; 29:10] Jacob's marriages with two sisters who are his first cousins;[Gen.29:10, Ch.29] and, in the instance of Moses's parents, a marriage between nephew and aunt (father's sister).[Exod.6:20] Therefore, the patriarchal marriages surely mattered to lawgivers and they suggest a narrative basis for the laws of Leviticus, chapters 18 and 20.[16]
The Levitical laws against incest were created, it has been argued, to separate the lifestyle of the Israelite from the lifestyle of the people of Canaan,[Gen.9:22–28] despite any incestual involvements the patriarchs had had in the past.[17] The Levitical laws were needed for a developing nation who needed to be seen as different from the world, cleansed and blameless: The first step starting with circumcision.[Gen.17:1, 10; Ch.17] So nothing could be held against the patriarchs for incestuous behavior because this was part of progressive development, from the ways of the world (coming out of Chaldea) to becoming blameless before their God.[Gen.17:1][17]
Some have argued that Lot's behavior in offering of his daughters to the men of Sodom in Genesis 19:8 constitutes sexual abuse of his daughters, which created a confusion of kinship roles that was ultimately played out through the incestuous acts in Genesis 19:30–38.[18]
A number of commentators describe the actions of Lot's daughters as rape. Esther Fuchs suggests that the text presents Lot's daughters as the "initiators and perpetrators of the incestuous 'rape'."[19]
See also[edit]
- ^ "H3876 לוט – Lot (lote)". Strong's Hebrew Lexicon. studybible.info.
- ^ Mirabeau, Honoré (1867). Erotika Biblion. Chevalier de Pierrugues. Chez tous les Libraries.
- ^ a b Drummond, Dorothy Weitz, 2004, Holy land, whose land?: modern dilemma, ancient roots, p. 75
- ^ a b Drummond, Dorothy Weitz, 2004, Holy land, whose land?: modern dilemma, ancient roots, p. 76
- ^ Years reckoned by comparing Bible marginal (Ussher) dates: Lot's move to Sodom area margin BC 1918. Battle of Siddim margin BC 1913, the 14th year, making 1926 the first of the fourteen and 1926-1918=8 years before Lot moved there.
- ^ Flavius Josephus, Antiquities, Book 1, Chapter 11, Section 4, Sentence 3. Also:
"It is related how, for the impiety of its inhabitants, it was burnt by lightning; in consequence of which there are still the remainders of that Divine fire" Josephus, Wars Book 4, Chapter 8, Section 4
- ^ Lowenthal, Anne W. (1988), "Lot and His daughters as Moral Dilemma", in The Age of Rembrandt: Studies in Seventeenth-century Dutch Painting, Volume 3 of Papers in Art History from the Pennsylvania State University, eds. Roland E. Fleischer, Susan Scott Munshower, 1988, Penn State Press, ISBN 0915773023, ISBN 978-0915773022, google books
- ^ Genesis 20:12: Sarah was the half–sister of Abraham.
- ^ Genesis 22:21-22: Uz, Buz, Kemuel, Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, and Jidlaph
- ^ "Artemisia Gentileschi"; Mary D Garrard; Rizzoli Art Series, 1993. ISBN 0-8478-1652-4
"The seduction of Lot became a popular topic in Baroque Art: if in general the women are portrayed as seductresses and the mood as ribald, the female artist Artemisia Gentileschi's portrait diverges sharply, showing the women fully clothed and the mood as solemn."
- ^ Quran 26:161
- ^ a b Hasan, Masudul (1987). History of Islam, Volume 1. Islamic Publications. p. 26. Retrieved 9 July 2012. Quote: Lut was a nephew of the Prophet Abraham. He migrated with Abraham from Iraq to Canaan in Palestine, he was commissioned as a prophet to the cities of Sodom and Gomarrah, situated to the east of the Dead Sea. The people of these cities were guilty of unspeakable crimes, they were addicted to homosexuality and highway robberies. Lut warned the people but they refused to listen to him, he prayed to Allah to punish the people. Lot left the city with his followers at night; as soon as he left, Allah raised a [shower of brim stones?]-end quote, text garbled.
- ^ Milgrom. Leviticus 17–22, 1515–1520
- ^ Victor P. Hamilton. The Book of Genesis Chapters 18–50
- ^ Carmichael. Legend and Incest
- ^ Johnson M. Kimuhu. Leviticus: the priestly laws and prohibitions from the perspective of ancient Near East and Africa, Studies in biblical literature: Volume 115, 2008. pp. 31–33
- ^ a b Kimuhu. Leviticus Studies, Vol. 115, 2008. p. 31
- ^ Katherine B. Low (Fall 2010). "The Sexual Abuse of Lot's Daughters: Reconceptualizing Kinship for the Sake of Our Daughters". Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. Indiana University Press. 26 (2): 37–54. doi:10.2979/fsr.2010.26.2.37.
- ^ Fuchs, Esther (2003). Sexual Politics in the Biblical Narrative: Reading the Hebrew Bible as a Woman. p. 209. ISBN 9780567042873. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
- Calmet, Augustin (1832). Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. p. 737. LCC BS440.C3. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lot (Bible).
|Look up Lot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- Our People: A History of the Jews – Abram and Lot at chabad.org
- Beach, Chandler B., ed. (1914). The New Student's Reference Work. Chicago: F. E. Compton and Co. .
- . Easton's Bible Dictionary. 1897.


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Hi Rhonda, I just wanted to let you know how thrilled I am with the work that your ladies did this morning. My floors are shining, my bathroom gleams, and my heart is full of gratitude! Please pass on my thanks. I look forward to the next time that we can treat ourselves! Thanks again.
My partner, Maureen, and I would like to say thank you for the wonderful two ladies you sent to clean our basement apartment. They did a great job and were very friendly and thorough. It was a pleasant surprise. Have a great day!
We hired MOLLY MAID to clean our office and studios about two years ago. We really couldn't be happier with the service, the team, and the stellar job they do every time they clean. The team is always friendly and smiling even though they have to clean up after radio announcers! Thank you!
MOLLY MAID Barrie is proud to have won the Barrie Advance Reader's Choice Award for 'Favourite Home Cleaning'.
MOLLY MAID Barrie won another Reader's Choice Award with the Barrie Advance newspaper for 'Favorite Cleaning Service'. Thank you to all our satisfied customers who voted for us!
MOLLY MAID Barrie won the Barrie Advance Reader's Choice Award for 'Favourite Home Cleaning'.
MOLLY MAID Barrie is excited to have been voted "Best Cleaning Service" by the Barrie Advance. Thank you to all of the Barrie residents who voted! It is an honour to win this award.
MOLLY MAID Barrie proudly supports the CNIB Barrie Vison's Dinner for the United Way.
MOLLY MAID Barrie is a proud sponsor of the 2012 Shrine Circus.
At the 2012 MOLLY MAID Convention, Rhonda Millsap, owner of MOLLY MAID Barrie, achieved the Rookie of the Year Award. As its name suggests, this award is presented to a new Franchise Owner who has made the most significant progress in their franchise since joining the MOLLY MAID team. Excellent customer service, sales performance and Franchise operation contributes to Rhonda's overall success.
MOLLY MAID is pleased to recognize Rhonda and thank her for outstanding efforts and dedication to her customers.
MOLLY MAID Barrie sponsored the Wheel for the Cure Cycling team to Conquer Cancer, benefiting the Campbell Family Institute at the Princess Margaret Hospital.