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Viruses, bugs, hard drive failures and coffee spills – there are plenty of ways you can lose the data on your computer forever. The modern computer can store thousands of cherished family photos and videos, your prized music collection, all of your accounts, important letters and much more. And these can be lost in an instant with a misplaced beverage, or a faulty hard drive.

Backing up your data is nothing new. In the past the only way was to back up your data to an external device – a hard drive, CDs, DVD’s or a thumb drive being the popular choices. The problem was that it was always an effort to do the backup. You would have to swap disks, wait for copies to be made and generally do boring things with your computer when you would rather be playing games or surfing the internet. That’s why even the most conscientious computer user would never backup their data as well as they would like.

The Philadelphia Flower Show, which hinted that it might be moving toward a kind of edginess last year, swung back to its roots with an opulent, romantic vision of Paris at the turn of the 20th century this year: “Springtime in Paris.”

The show, which runs March 6 through 13 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in downtown Philadelphia, chose as its centerpiece, of course, the Eiffel Tower.

A 37-foot tall replica of the base of the Tower provides the archway into the show, and it is surrounded by six gardens which convey a magical time in Paris history just before World War I.

The Tower is surrounded by six showcase gardens and each evokes an element of Paris during “La Belle Epogue,” including a carousel, the parlor of an aristocrat’s wife, a wedding at Notre Dame, an even the dark and gloomy catacombs beneath the city.