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LDAP and Kerberos server written in Java

ApacheDS™ is an extensible and embeddable directory server entirely written in Java, which has been certified LDAPv3 compatible by the Open Group. Besides LDAP it supports Kerberos 5 and the Change Password Protocol. It has been designed to introduce triggers, stored procedures, queues and views to the world of LDAP which has lacked these rich constructs.

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The Eclipse-based LDAP browser and directory client

Apache Directory Studio is a complete directory tooling platform intended to be used with any LDAP server however it is particularly designed for use with ApacheDS. It is an Eclipse RCP application, composed of several Eclipse (OSGi) plugins, that can be easily upgraded with additional ones. These plugins can even run within Eclipse itself.

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I love talking about dogs - my dogs, your dogs, dogs I see at the park, whatever. There is always a story to tell and a smile to be had. Telling my friends and family members about our lives with our dogs is something I really enjoy, however. I don't have human children but I have kids. They all have four legs and come with a furry birthday suit but they are my kids no less than your human children are your kids. They travel with us, sleep with us (well, sometimes), and we plan daily activities with them in mind. They bring joy into our home and our lives each and every day and I owe it to them to be the best dog mom I can be. I want them to have fun, feel loved, be healthy, and live a lot longer than I am afraid they will.
Luka is my heart dog - my soul dog. She came into my life almost 6 years ago as a fluffy little fur ball and we have been inseparable since. I didn't choose Luka - she chose me. I was considering other puppies but apparently that was a mistake. I laughed as she continued to run across the room and jump on my shoe, grabbing my laces and then racing away. And that was all it took - we brought her home that night. People tease me that Luka is the golden child, the perfect girl...and they are right. She was easy to train, quick to learn, and is the most loyal and dependable dog I have ever had.
Want to know more about LUKA?
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If Tuski were a student at my school I might describe her as "special" - our problem child. I say that with a big smile in my heart, however. Tuski has challenged everything about me - my patience, my knowledge about training, my rules about dogs on furniture...did I mention my patience? We found Tuski through our flyball group when we heard of an energetic lab that needed a new home. While I was willing to foster her until we found her a new home my partner was thinking that she had found her girl - and that was it. Almost three years later Tuski is an awesome dog! She is fearless and gives 125% to everything she does.
This little man came into our life almost 2 years ago. I came across his photo and bio on a rescue site and that was it. Keep in mind that we already had two active dogs and a cat - our house was full! But something about his story stole my heart. After a long heart to heart conversation with my other half we decided that we wanted to meet him. Well that is like saying "I only want to look at the puppies!" Impossible! About a week later we welcomed Tripp into our family and the joy has been non stop. He is my first little dog, my first male dog, and my first terrier - what was I thinking?? He is a little clown that makes us laugh every day and brings an enormous amount of fun and spunk into our home. He is an expert snuggler but is also willing to go anywhere and try anything. Being the little brother of two BIG sisters he is expected to keep up

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A Nervous Energies session with Scranton, PA's Tigers Jaw has surfaced online. The band stopped by for New Years and performed Brand New's "Moshi Moshi".
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Tim Thomas sent the right message to Bruins between periods
|05.07.11 at 4:18 am ET
The Bruins were able to break a 1-1 tie in the third period in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals thanks to a snapshot from Johnny Boychuk, Milan Lucic's second goal of the game, and a couple of empty net goals courtesy of Brad Marchand and Daniel Paille en rout to sweeping the Flyers Friday night.
The win was just the latest example of what has been a season-wide trend for the Bruins. The Bruins' 94 third-period goals in the regular season ranked second in the NHL, while they had a league-best 57 goals against in the final 20 minutes. The biggest case in the regular season was their five-goal showing to come from behind in the third against the Penguins back in November, but the most recent, and now most important, one came Friday. Tim Thomas knew the B's had it in them, so between the second and third period, he spoke up and said so.
"It was an actual comment that I made to the team, was 'third periods are ours,'" Thomas recalled after the game. "I just said that to reinforce and to remind guys that that's the way it had been all year and hopefully help their confidence."
It sure looked like it helped their confidence. After the Flyers got momentum in the second period on Kris Versteeg's goal, the Bruins were able to come out and make it a 2-1 game 2:42 into the third on Boychuk's blast.
"Well, the result was great," Thomas said. "We played a really good third period, but you did see a little bit of the fatigue set in because we weren't getting pucks deep there a few times at the far blue line. It was just a couple of mistakes that we don't normally make and stuff, but I think guys battled through it and just made sure to be even safer."
Milan Lucic breaks out of slump with two goals in Game 4 win
|05.07.11 at 2:09 am ET
Friday night's series-clinching win over the Flyers was special for everyone involved with the Bruins, but it was a little extra special for Milan Lucic. The team's leading goal scorer during the regular season entered the game without a goal in the playoffs. In fact, he hadn't scored in 20 games going back to the end of the regular season.
That drought finally came to an end when Lucic one-timed home a centering pass from Nathan Horton for a power-play goal 12:02 into the game.
'It was great,' Lucic said when asked how he felt after the goal. 'It was a great feeling once I scored that goal just to get that monkey off my back and get that lead.'
Lucic wasn't done, either. He gave the Bruins a 3-1 lead with 4:57 remaining in the game when he beat Sergei Brobovsky five-hole on a breakaway for his second goal of the night. That was the backbreaker for the Flyers, who had turned up the pressure after the Bruins made it 2-1 earlier in the third.
'That's what it was all about here. We had to weather that storm,' coach Claude Julien said. 'When you are desperate and you need to score to stay in the series, you know they are going to give it their best shot. '¦ We did a great job until we got that third goal, which was a big goal. Certainly it relieved a lot of pressure.'
Lucic admitted that he got frustrated at times during the slump, but he credited his teammates for supporting him and helping him get through it.
'My teammates, especially my linemates with [David] Krejci and Horton, we've been able to create so much chemistry here,' Lucic said. 'They had my back and they just told me, 'It's going to come. Just keep sticking with it.' I tried my hardest not to get frustrated. There was a time there when I was really frustrated. But right now, obviously it feels good to step up and help the team win a big game.'
Assistant captain Mark Recchi said that sort of team unity is one of the biggest reasons the Bruins are where they are right now.
'That's what good teams do,' Recchi said. 'When you haven't scored for a while, you tend to get tight. He's a young kid and hopefully now he's found a really good time to start getting hot. He's been a great teammate to everybody else this year. When guys are struggling or they're fighting to score goals, what good teams do is find ways to help him and take that pressure off of him.'
Claude Julien knows 'toughest games are yet to come' as Bruins seek Lord Stanley
|05.07.11 at 1:15 am ET
As much as Bruins fans will soak in the feeling of avenging last year's playoff collapse to the Flyers, Bruins coach Claude Julien made it clear that he won't let his team do the same for very long as the Tampa Bay Lightning await in the Eastern Conference finals beginning at TD Garden next week.
"Well, it's something that has been hanging over our heads for over a year," Julien said of last year's 4-3 Game 7 loss to Philadelphia after a 3-0 series lead. "Even though we tried to turn the page, we were reminded everyday in this series. And it's something that is there and will be there, what happened last year. But to come back and win that series, to me is a pretty convincing team in this series.
"I thought we played extremely well. It's nice to be able to bounce back and you need to take time to appreciate what you have done and at the same time you really have to stay focused because the toughest games and still to come. And we have to be prepared that we are a group that believes we can go far in these playoffs here and farther than we have so far. And it's up to us to keep that focus and keep moving forward."
The Bruins have won eight-of-nine since falling behind the Canadiens, 2-0, in the opening round.
Claude Julien has 'no update' on Patrice Bergeron injury in Game 4 win over Flyers
|05.07.11 at 1:04 am ET
Patrice Bergeron took a hit from Philadelphia's Claude Giroux with 17:30 remaining in the third period of Friday's Game 4 win over Philadelphia. He did not return and his status for the start of the Eastern Conference finals against Tampa Bay is unknown at this point.
While the Bruins didn't release any information on the particulars of the injury, it appeared that Giroux's shoulder made contact with Bergeron's head. Bergeron slowly skated off the ice on his own power to finish his shift but didn't return.
"I don't know. I have no update for you guys right now," Bruins coach Claude Julien said. "Basically, I can't give you anything more than that."
Bergeron leads the Bruins with 12 points in 11 playoff games. The Bruins will play Games 1 and 2 at home this week against Tampa Bay, with the series possibly starting Tuesday or Thursday at TD Garden.
Chris Kelly stepped up from his third-line duty to center the Marchand-Recchi line for the remainder of the third period Friday.
"We talked about this morning, somebody asked me about different scenarios, and Chris Kelly is a very reliable player, a lot like Bergeron," Julien said. "And a great two-way player. He as put up some decent points and he has also been extremely reliable defensively. So it's an easy fit there and even Soupy [Gregory] Campbell has been a good player for us as well.
"He competes hard and very reliable. So you are able to move guys around and know they are going to do the job. And we've talked about our fourth line being a good line for us. And they have been good enough, to move them up to spots when need be," Julien said. "Dan Paille took a shift there too on one of those lines. You have to be able to move guys around and they did a great job of stepping in and filling in those voids."
Peter Laviolette points to Game 1 dud as the real reason for his team's collapse
|05.07.11 at 12:44 am ET
In sweeping the team that spent most of the season atop the Eastern Conference, the Bruins thoroughly frustrated the Flyers from the opening faceoff through all four games, ending with Friday night's 5-1 win in Game 4 at TD Garden.
'Look at tonight's game, it's 1-1 halfway through the third," Philadelphia head coach Peter Laviolette said. "The chances are relatively close. I would've liked to have generated more, offensively. I think in all the losses, we needed to generate more, we needed to spend more in the offensive zone. Defensively, even tonight, we turned some pucks over in the neutral zone trying to get through their trap and trying to get a sustained forecheck that could generate some offense and we weren't able to do that, and in the losses, that seems to be one of the key things that factors in.
'The other thing for me, looking back on the series, you have an opportunity in Game 1. You're in your building and we don't play the way we need to. Game 2 we played hard, we did the things we wanted to do, we lost in overtime. It was a tough bounce, a tough break but that happens in the playoffs. But I really look at Game 1 as an opportunity that was lost for us to get into the series. We never seemed to get into it. We didn't get a win. We didn't get into the series. Game 1, that was a blown opportunity.'
The Bruins swept Philadelphia for the second time in playoff history, having disposed of them in four straight in 1977. The Bruins won seven of the eight meetings between the two teams this year and Tim Thomas improved to 10-0-0 lifetime against the Flyers, including regular season and the playoffs.
Lightning doesn't strike twice, but it awaits: Bruins sweep Flyers
|05.06.11 at 10:42 pm ET
By DJ Bean and Scott McLaughlin
The Bruins finished off the Flyers with a 5-1 win, sweeping the Eastern Conference semifinals in four games and advancing to the conference finals for the first time since 1992. The Bruins will next face the Lightning, who also swept their semifinals series vs. the Capitals.
Johnny Boychuk sent a blast from the point over the glove of Sergei Bobrovsky at 2:42 of the third period to break a 1-1 tie. It was Boychuk's second goal of the playoffs, both of which have come in series-clinching games this postseason.
Milan Lucic had two goals for Boston in the win. With Daniel Carcillo in the box for cross-checking, Lucic put the Bruins on the board at 12:02, scoring his first goal of the playoffs and giving Boston its first 5-on-4 goal this postseason. The Flyers would apply minimal pressure throughout the rest of the first period, but got on the board thanks to a goal from deadline acquisition Kris Versteeg. Lucic added his second of the night on a breakaway in the third period. Brad Marchand and Daniel Paille added empty netters.
Tim Thomas made 22 saves in the winning effort. It was the second straight game in which he allowed just one goal.
The Bruins will host the Lightning in Games 1 of 2 of the conference finals. The schedule of the series is currently unknown, though it may depend on when the Western Conference finals are set. San Jose and Vancouver hold 3-1 series leads over the Red Wings and Predators, respectively.
– Lucic finally broke out of what was statistically a postseason-long scoring slump by picking up his first goal since March 22. He had played much better in this series than in a pedestrian first-round vs. the Canadiens, so it was fitting that he be rewarded with a big goal on the score sheet before the second round was over. Going forward, the B's will need more like that from their 30-goal-scorer.
– The Bruins could let out the smallest of sighs of relief after their 5-on-3 goal in Game 3, but getting their first 5-on-4 goal didn't come until Lucic killed two birds with one stone. Nathan Horton hit Lucic with a pass on the doorstep to end the 5-on-4 drought and give Boston its second power play goal in the last two games (and of the playoffs).
– The Flyers turned up the pressure once the Bruins took a 2-1 lead, but the B's responded to the challenge by getting in shooting lanes and preventing Philly from getting pucks to the front of the net. The Flyers tried to get shots from the point with traffic in front, but the Boston forwards did an excellent job of getting right on top of the Philly defensemen and not giving them anything to shoot at. Chris Kelly led the effort with with three blocks.
– Another game vs. Philadelphia, another point for David Krejci. Boston's first-line center has 18 points (five goals, 13 assists) over his last 13 games vs. Philadelphia. Krejci picked up a helper on Lucic's first-period goal.
– The Bruins drew three penalties in the first by just moving their feet and attacking on offense. James van Riemsdyk went off for a hook when he couldn't catch up to Lucic, who was driving hard to the net in search of a centering pass. Then Gregory Campbell forced his way to the front of the net from below the goal line and drew a cross check on Daniel Carcillo. A few minutes later, Claude Giroux went to the box for a trip after Tomas Kaberle cut inside him on an aggressive entry into the offensive zone. The power play resulting from Carcillo's infraction ended with the Bruins' second power-play goal in as many games.
– The B's had an injury scare for just one of th least guys they could stand to lose. A hit from Claude Giroux in the third period sent Patrice Bergeron downb the tunnel for the B's, and he would not return to the game. Bergeron leads the Bruins with 12 points this postseason.
– Bad turnover by Brad Marchand in the Flyers' zone to create a 2-on-0 for the Flyers, and it cost the B's. Kris Versteeg beat Tim Thomas for his first goal of the playoffs. Versteeg was once property of the B's, but was traded for Brandon Bochenski in 2007.
-The Bruins obviously want and need Zdeno Chara to be physical, but with eight seconds left in the first, he took it a little too far. When Scott Hartnell took exception to Chara trying to clear out the front of the Boston net, Chara responded by dropping his gloves and then dropping Hartnell with one punch. Unfortunately for Chara, Hartnell never dropped his gloves and Chara got a double minor to put the Flyers on the power play. Two minutes without Hartnell in exchange for four minutes without Chara is a deal the Flyers will take 11 times out of 10.
Bruins/Flyers Game 4 Live Blog: Brad Marchand empty netter makes it 4-1
|05.06.11 at 7:05 pm ET
Join DJ Bean, Mike Petraglia and other from TD Garden for Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. The B's will have a chance to sweep the Flyers and advance to conference finals for the first time since 1992. The blog opens at 7:30.
Bruins/Flyers Game 4 Live Blog


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hi to all whos reading this thread.
I think im the newest in here so far.
I ma jump straight at my issue with the car.
I recently bought a BMW e46 320d year 2001.
When i tested i noticed it has no enough power but since the price was good i decided to take it and fix it after.
I checked it and it says this fault code 42. dde control module (Eeprom and configuration).
I cleaned the EGR the map sensor still no change.
The simptoms are: it has not enough power and the car its a lil smokey. U can smell the smoke when on idle, and when u pressing the pedal it has a lil black smoke.
I feel like when in cold days it has more power.
Can anyone give me some advice or help as i desperately need to fix. i like it and i wanna keep it.
thank you in advance.
I live in Albania.


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Although Bangkok has a tropical savannah climate, it has hot, cool, and rainy seasons. Average yearly temperatures range from 22.0 °C (71.6°F) to 35.4 °C (95.7 °F). The humidity averages between 68% and 79% year round.
The rain begins late April to mid-May with the southwest monsoon season.
From this time until October heavy storms can pummel the country side with several inches of rain per day. The southern regions of Thailand definitely get the most rain (up to 2400 millimetres or 7 feet and 10.49 inches).
April is definitely the hottest month of the year in Bangkok and should be totally avoided as far as trip planning is concerned. From July to October is the absolute heaviest rainfall time, so unless you don't mind the rain this may be a bad time to visit as well.
Perhaps the best time to visit Bangkok is between November and February. It is the cool season and at night temperatures can drop below freezing, especially in the outlying areas of higher altitudes.
March to June is the summer season and temperatures can go as high as 37.7 °C (100 °F). It is the hot and dry season of Bangkok.
When the rains begin in the city, the residents react like Americans in a hurricane or snowstorm. There is much bustling for provisions and leaving work early is a daily occurrence between July and October.
These rains come suddenly and unannounced. All of a sudden water dumps from the sky in torrential downpour. If you are trapped in your room and you can't get to food, its best to order some food by phone. The delivery guys have special ponchos for this type of delivery. Convenience can be pricey, and you will want to tip the delivery person well for his/her bravery. There are also lots of malls and theatres that can be visited while the rain is pouring down. Taking a swim is also okay as long as no thunder and lightning are happening. Accept the rain and don't let it ruin your trip. Just remember, it can happen at any time.


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It's crunch time for Europe's long-running debt crisis. Angela Merkel, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the other leaders of the eurozone will gather in Brussels on Thursday and try – once again – to agree on a new rescue package for Greece. Three plans are on the table, including a controversial proposal to tax the financial sector to fund a new bailout.
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has already tried to dampen down expectations, suggesting that the Brussels summit will not deliver a single knockout solution. But City insiders warn that the economists and analysts say the situation is now at a critical stage, with Italy and Spain battling to avoid following Greece, Ireland and Portugal into seeking help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). These are the views of some:
An open letter sent to voxeu.org signed by 13 leading European economists
"For the first time, the very survival of the euro is at stake. EU leaders gathering in Brussels on Thursday face a historical responsibility. It is essential that an agreement be reached on a plan that prevents further escalation of the crisis … The important thing is to acknowledge that leaders are out of time. Deciding to not decide could mark the end of the eurozone as we know it.
Analysts at ING
In our view, t"The eurozone debt crisis has moved into a worrisome new phase. The fact that Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that the sovereign debt crisis can't be fixed "in one spectacular step", unfortunately, isn't encouraging. Thursday's eurozone summit will not only be about Greece. An agreement on a second bailout package for Greece, likely to be in the order of €75bn-€110bn, and details about the private sector involvement have pretty much become "must-deliverables". The pure statement emphasising leaders' "determination" to ensure financial stability is unlikely to be sufficient to restore calm on financial markets."
According to the latest media reports, there are currently three broad options on the table to secure private sector involvement:
1) A Vienna-style voluntary rollover of maturing Greek debt.
2) A tax on the financial sector (combined with lower rates and longer maturities on Greek EFSF loans).
3) A Greek debt buyback.
Under this latter option, brought forward by the IIF two weeks ago, the EFSF [European Financial Stability Facility] could on behalf of Greece buy back debt on the secondary market at a discount to par (and a premium to market prices). The advantage of the latter option is that it would actually help reduce Greece's debt burden rather than simply stretching it out.
Gary Jenkins, head of fixed income research at Evolution Securities
"European peripheral debt markets rebounded on Tuesday despite comments from Angela Merkel which appeared designed to dampen hope of any grand resolution at the meeting of eurozone leaders on Thursday: "There won't be one spectacular step … It's entirely about creating a controlled, composed process of gradual steps and measures."
There currently appear to be three main proposals on the table ahead of Thursday's meeting, each with various drawbacks; the first requiring the extension of upcoming maturities, ensuring private creditor participation but which would almost certainly invoke a selective default rating from the ratings agencies. The second proposal would see the EFSF given powers to buy back Greek debt at a discount in the market, although this solution would be likely to suffer from the law of diminishing returns as bond prices recovered once purchases of Greek debt began. The third option mooted, which seems to have been gaining traction over the past few days, is that of a tax imposed on eurozone banks, which would probably be popular politically but may be difficult to implement and extremely difficult to undertake on an equitable basis."
Jeremy Cook, chief economist at World First
"The meeting between EU leaders must lead to some sort of agreement tomorrow or the immediate future of the euro is in dire jeopardy. While there has been some progress in the past week, so as far as different plans for the Greeks is concerned, I believe the markets are glad that EU politicians have had a bit of a rocket fired up them, as this situation has gone on long enough.
You could argue that we have already seen the effect on the core that the IMF warned of, with the yields on Italian debt rising close to the 6% level. For a problem that was said to be confined to the periphery it is having a dramatic effect elsewhere.
There is talk that the EU is starting to narrow options ahead of the meeting, something that should have taken place months ago, but it finally looks like the penny has dropped. It takes a lot of guts to grip the third rail, but for EU politicians, that's where all the power is."
Louise Cooper, Markets Analyst at BGC Partners
Thursday is a big day here in Europe and market players and investors are becoming impatient with the politicians and central bankers. At some stage the markets will take on Brussels, let's just hope they are prepared."
Gavan Nolan, director of credit research at Markit
"The Markit iTraxx SovX Western Europe index is rallying sharply as participants scramble to cover shorts ahead of Thursday's EU summit. The third bailout option outlined by Reuters on Tuesday – the one involving a bank levy – appears to be gaining ground. However, the banking federations from Germany and France have – unsurprisingly – dismissed the idea. Merkel played down expectations for Thursday's summit but it is possible that news could emerge from the preliminary meetings on Wednesday.


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List of Odonata species of Great Britain
There are 57 recorded species of Odonata in Britain, made up of 21 damselflies (suborder Zygoptera) and 36 dragonflies (suborder Anisoptera). Of these, 42 species (17 damselflies and 25 dragonflies) are resident breeders, and the remainder are either extinct species, or vagrants - in respect of the latter, this list follows the decisions of the Odonata Records Committee.
Some of these rare species have not been seen since the 19th Century; however, the British Odonata list is also currently undergoing a period of unprecedented change, as new species are being discovered for the first time, some going on to become breeding species.
This list is based on the following principal references:
- Merritt, R., N. W. Moore and B. C. Eversham (1996), Atlas of the dragonflies of Britain and Ireland, HMSO (ISBN 0-11-701561-X) [1]
- Parr, A. J. (1996), Dragonfly movement and migration in Britain and Ireland, Journal of the British Dragonfly Society Vol. 12 No. 2 pp. 33–50 [2]
- Parr, Adrian (2000a), An Annotated List of the Odonata of Britain and Ireland, Atropos No. 11 pp. 10–20 [3]
A number of other references were used to provide information on specific topics, including rare vagrants, post-1990 additions, predictions, species claimed but not accepted / species of uncertain provenance, non-natives, taxonomic matters and species found only in the Channel Islands.
Ireland's Odonata fauna is quite different from that of Britain, with many fewer breeding species, but one additional species not found in Britain, Irish Damselfly Coenagrion lunulatum – see List of Odonata species of Ireland for more information.
- 1 New species since 1990
- 2 Extinct species and casual breeders
- 3 Non-native introductions
- 4 The list
- 4.1 Suborder Zygoptera (Damselflies)
- 4.2 Suborder Anisoptera (Dragonflies)
- 4.3 Notes
- 5 Rejected species, species of uncertain provenance, predictions and Channel Islands species
- 6 References
- 7 External links
New species since 1990[edit]
After a period in which the British Odonata list has been relatively static, since 1990, many new species have been found and some have gone on to become regular breeding species. In chronological order of their first record, these new species are:
- Scarlet Dragonfly, first recorded at Hayle Kimbro Pool, The Lizard, Cornwall on 7 August 1995 (Jones 1996 [4]), with a small number of further records at scattered locations throughout Britain
- Banded Darter (Sympetrum pedemontanum), recorded just once to date, near Tredegar, Monmouthshire on 16 August 1995, although a darter seen on 29 July 2003 at Hickling Broad, Norfolk, which had dark bands on its wings, may have been this species
- Lesser Emperor, first recorded at Cinderford, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire on 13 June 1996 (Phillips 1997a,[5] 1997b [6]) and now occurring annually; breeding evidence was found at Hayle Kimbro Pool (Jones 2000 [7]) and also at Bake Fishing Lakes, Cornwall (Pellow 2000 [8]) in 1999, and the species appears to be resident at Dungeness, Kent
- Green Darner, first recorded at Penlee Battery, Cornwall on 9 September 1998 – the first record for Europe (Pellow 1999a,[9] 1999b [10]), with several other records in South West England that autumn, but none since to date
- Small Red-eyed Damselfly, first recorded in Essex on 17 July 1999 (Dewick and Gerussi 2000 [11]) – now a well-established breeding species across much of southern England
- Southern Emerald Damselfly, first recorded at Winterton Dunes, Norfolk on 30 July 2002 (Nobes 2003 [12]); in 2003 & 2004, the species was again seen here and at Sandwich Bay, Kent (Forrest 2005 [13]), but there have been no subsequent sightings at either location.
- Common Winter Damselfly, first recorded at Tonna, Neath in South Wales in December 2008.[14]
Many British Odonata enthusiasts expect further species to be added to the list in the near future. The list below is up to date as of the end of the 2005[update] breeding season.
Extinct species and casual breeders[edit]
While most species on the list below are either extant established breeding species or rare vagrants, some do not fall into these two categories. The following species bred in the past but are now extinct:
- Dainty Damselfly – only ever known from marshes along the Thames Estuary in Essex, first recorded in 1946, and last recorded in 1952. Rediscovered 2010.[15]
- Norfolk Damselfly – only ever known from the Norfolk Broads between 1902 and 1957
- Orange-spotted Emerald – only ever known from two areas in southern England, one around the River Stour and Moors River in east Dorset, where the species was recorded from 1820 to 1963, and the other on the River Tamar in Devon where the species was recorded in 1946 only.
The following species are sporadic or casual breeders:
- Yellow-winged Darter – this species has a pattern of establishing small breeding colonies following influxes, but none of these have become permanently established
- Red-veined Darter – following influxes in previous years, this species, like Yellow-winged Darter, has formed temporary breeding colonies. However, since the mid-1990s, the number of these colonies has increased and many have continued to be present from year-to-year, so this species is now better regarded as a successful colonist.
Non-native introductions[edit]
Records of non-native Odonata species in Britain have been confined to individuals found within heated greenhouses associated with nurseries for aquatic plants. None of these species have been recorded in wild situations or gone on to establish populations in the wild. Details of species which have occurred in such circumstances can be found in Agassiz 1981,[16] Brooks 1988 [17] and Parr 2000a.[3]
The list[edit]
The list is in taxonomic order. The English name of each species is given, followed by its scientific name, details of the range countries for each breeding species, and an overall status code for species which are not long-established extant breeding species.
The following abbreviations are used to give country-by-country distribution information for the breeding species:
- Eng to indicate that the species' breeding range includes England
- Scot to indicate that the species' breeding range includes Scotland
- Wales to indicate that the species' breeding range includes Wales
The following codes are used to give status details for those species which are not long-established extant breeding species:
- Ex to indicate a former breeding species, now extinct in Britain (with the year of the last record in brackets)
- RC to indicate that the species is a recent (i.e. post-1990) colonist (with the year of the first British record in brackets, except for Red-veined Darter which has occurred as a migrant and sporadic breeder for many decades)
- V to indicate a species only recorded as a vagrant (with the year of the first record in brackets, except for species with long histories as visitors to Britain)
Suborder Zygoptera (Damselflies)[edit]
Family Calopterygidae (Demoiselles)[edit]
|Scientific Name
|Range Countries
|Status Code
|Banded Demoiselle
|Calopteryx splendens
|Beautiful Demoiselle
|Calopteryx virgo
Family Lestidae (Emerald damselflies)[edit]
|Scientific Name
|Range Countries
|Status Code
|Willow Emerald Damselfly [A]
|Chalcolestes viridis
|Scarce Emerald Damselfly
|Lestes dryas
|Emerald Damselfly
|Lestes sponsa
|Southern Emerald Damselfly
|Lestes barbarus
|Common Winter Damselfly
|Sympecma fusca
Family Coenagrionidae (Blue, blue-tailed & red damselflies)[edit]
|Scientific Name
|Range Countries
|Status Code
|Small Red Damselfly
|Ceriagrion tenellum
|Norfolk Damselfly
|Coenagrion armatum
|Ex (1957)
|Northern Damselfly
|Coenagrion hastulatum
|Southern Damselfly
|Coenagrion mercuriale
|Azure Damselfly
|Coenagrion puella
|Variable Damselfly
|Coenagrion pulchellum
|Dainty Damselfly
|Coenagrion scitulum
|Common Blue Damselfly
|Enallagma cyathigerum
|Red-eyed Damselfly
|Erythromma najas
|Small Red-eyed Damselfly
|Erythromma viridulum
|Blue-tailed Damselfly
|Ischnura elegans
|Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly
|Ischnura pumilio
|Large Red Damselfly
|Pyrrhosoma nymphula
Family Platycnemididae (White-legged damselflies)[edit]
|Scientific Name
|Range Countries
|Status Code
|White-legged Damselfly
|Platycnemis pennipes
Suborder Anisoptera (Dragonflies)[edit]
Family Gomphidae (Club-tailed Dragonflies)[edit]
|Scientific Name
|Range Countries
|Status Code
|Common Clubtail [B]
|Gomphus vulgatissimus
|Yellow-legged Dragonfly [C]
|Gomphus flavipes
Family Aeshnidae (Hawkers and Emperors)[edit]
|Scientific Name
|Range Countries
|Status Code
|Southern Hawker
|Aeshna cyanea
|Brown Hawker
|Aeshna grandis
|Norfolk Hawker
|Aeshna isosceles
|Azure Hawker
|Aeshna caerulea
|Common Hawker
|Aeshna juncea
|Migrant Hawker
|Aeshna mixta
|Southern Migrant Hawker [D]
|Aeshna affinis
|Anax imperator
|Lesser Emperor
|Anax parthenope
|Green Darner
|Anax junius
|Hairy Dragonfly
|Brachytron pratense
|Vagrant Emperor [E]
|Hemianax ephippiger
Family Cordulegastridae (Golden-ringed Dragonflies)[edit]
|Scientific Name
|Range Countries
|Status Code
|Golden-ringed Dragonfly
|Cordulegaster boltonii
Family Corduliidae (Emerald dragonflies)[edit]
|Scientific Name
|Range Countries
|Status Code
|Downy Emerald
|Cordulia aenea
|Brilliant Emerald
|Somatochlora metallica
|Northern Emerald
|Somatochlora arctica
|Orange-spotted Emerald
|Oxygastra curtisii
|Ex (1963)
Family Libellulidae (Chasers, Skimmers and Darters)[edit]
|Scientific Name
|Range Countries
|Status Code
|Broad-bodied Chaser
|Libellula depressa
|Scarce Chaser
|Libellula fulva
|Four-spotted Chaser
|Libellula quadrimaculata
|Black-tailed Skimmer
|Orthetrum cancellatum
|Keeled Skimmer
|Orthetrum coerulescens
|Scarlet Dragonfly
|Crocothemis erythraea
|Black Darter
|Sympetrum danae
|Yellow-winged Darter [F]
|Sympetrum flaveolum
|Red-veined Darter
|Sympetrum fonscolombei
|Ruddy Darter
|Sympetrum sanguineum
|Common Darter [G]
|Sympetrum striolatum
|Highland Darter [G]
|Sympetrum nigrescens
|Vagrant Darter
|Sympetrum vulgatum
|Banded Darter
|Sympetrum pedemontanum
|White-faced Darter
|Leucorrhinia dubia
|Large White-faced Darter [H]
|Leucorrhinia pectoralis
|Wandering Glider [I] [J]
|Pantala flavescens
- A Willow Emerald Damselfly, since 2007 this species is established and spreading in south-east England, especially Suffolk and Essex. It was previously only known from a single record from Hertfordshire in 1899 (although this record is based on a specimen regarded by some as perhaps not of British origin, see Gladwin 1997 [18]) and a single exuvia collected in Kent in 1992 (Brook & Brook 2002,[19] 2004 [20]).
- B Common Clubtail was formerly known as Club-tailed Dragonfly.
- C Yellow-legged Dragonfly is known from just a single record, in Sussex in 1818.
- D Southern Migrant Hawker was known from just a single record, in Kent in 1952, although an Aeshna seen in 1992 on the outskirts of Bristol may have been this species (Holmes 1993 [21]), and the species has been recorded twice in Jersey since 1998 (Long 2000,[22] Parr 2005 [23]). However in 2006 four specimens were seen: In the Adur valley in West Sussex on 13 July website of reporter with photo; Grimstone Warren, Norfolk on 21 July; Little Wootton Inclosure New Forest (SZ 227 987) on 6 August; And at the mouth of the Beaulieu River in Hampshire on 10 August. since 2012 it has probably become established as a breeding species in the Thames Estuary area.
- E Vagrant Emperor records taken from Silsby (1993).[24]
- F Yellow-winged Darter is listed as a vagrant, but is occasionally subject to large influxes e.g. in 1995.
- G Highland Darter and Common Darter may be conspecific (see Merritt & Vick 1983 [25]).
- H Large White-faced Darter has been recorded only once, at Sheerness, Kent in 1859.
- I Wandering Glider has been recorded only three times – at Horning, Norfolk in 1823, Bolton, Lancashire in 1951 and in Kent in 1989, although the two 20th Century records may result from accidental introductions.
- J Wandering Glider was formerly known as Globe Skimmer.
- K Habitat limited to Eastern England and particularly East Anglia.
Rejected species, species of uncertain provenance, predictions and Channel Islands species[edit]
1. The following species have been claimed but not accepted by the Odonata Records Committee:
- Two-spotted Dragonfly Epitheca bimaculata was reported from Leicestershire in 2002 – see Parr (2003).[26]
2. The following species have been recorded, and their identification accepted, but the circumstances surrounding the records and/or specimens cast doubt on their natural occurrence, and they are not included in the official British list:
- Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis, which was found dead on the Sedco 706 oil rig in the North Sea off the Shetland Isles in early September 1999 (Parr 2000b [27]). It was not accepted as the species is not a strong migrant and the rig receives weekly supplies from Texas.
- Southern Darter Sympetrum meridionale, only known from old specimens with vague data (but recorded from the Channel Islands).
- Alpine Emerald Somatochlora alpestris, only known from a single specimen labelled as having been collected by K. J. Morton in Inverness in 1926; however Morton was travelling in continental Europe on the date in question.
3. The following is a list of species which have previously been predicted to occur in Britain but have not yet been recorded (see Merritt, Moore & Eversham 1996 [1] pp. 113–114 and Parr 1998,[28] 1999 [29]): Subarctic Hawker Aeshna subarctica, Northern White-faced Darter Leucorrhina rubicunda and Small Emerald Damselfly Lestes virens.
4. In addition to the species listed above, Southern Skimmer Orthetrum brunneum and Southern Darter Sympetrum meridionale have been recorded in the Channel Islands (Parr 2000a).[3]
- ^ a b Merritt, R.; N. W. Moore; B. C. Eversham (1996). Atlas of the dragonflies of Britain and Ireland. HMSO.
- ^ Parr, A. J. (1996). "Dragonfly movement and migration in Britain and Ireland". Journal of the British Dragonfly Society. 12 (2): 33–50.
- ^ a b c Parr, Adrian (2000a). "An Annotated List of the Odonata of Britain and Ireland". Atropos (11): 10–20.
- ^ Jones, Steven P. (1996). "The first British record of the Scarlet Dragonfly Crocothemis erythraea (Brullé)". Journal of the British Dragonfly Society. 12 (1): 11–12.
- ^ Phillips, John (1997a). "The Lesser Emperor Dragonfly Anax parthenope in Gloucestershire; The First British Record". Atropos (2): 40–41.
- ^ Phillips, John (1997b). "Lesser Emperor Dragonfly Anax parthenope (Sélys) in Gloucestershire; the first British record". Journal of the British Dragonfly Society. 13 (1): 22–24.
- ^ Jones, Steven P. (2000). "First proof of successful breeding by the Lesser Emperor Anax parthenope (Sélys) in Britain". Journal of the British Dragonfly Society. 16 (1): 20–23.
- ^ Pellow, Keith (2000). "Lesser Emperor Dragonfly Anax parthenope (Selys) breeding in Cornwall". Atropos (9): 28–29.
- ^ Pellow, Keith (1999a). "An influx of Green Darner Anax junius (Drury) into Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly – The First European Records". Atropos (6): 3–7.
- ^ Pellow, Keith (1999b). "Common Green Darner Anax junius (Drury) in Cornwall and Isles of Scilly – The first British and European Records". Journal of the British Dragonfly Society. 15 (1): 21–22.
- ^ Dewick, Stephen; Richard Gerussi (2000). "Small Red-eyed Damselfly Erythromma viridulum (Charpentier) Found Breeding in Essex – The First British Records". Atropos (9): 3–4.
- ^ Nobes, Geoff (2003). "Southern Emerald Damselfly Lestes barbarus (Fabr.) – The First British Record". Atropos (18): 3–6.
- ^ Forrest, P. J. (2005). "Southern Emerald Damselfly Lestes barbarus (Fabr.) at Sandwich Bay, Kent". Atropos (24): 24–25.
- ^ "Winter Damselfly Sympecma fusca". British Dragonfly Society. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
- ^ "Beautiful 'lost' insect turns up anew in UK". BBC News. 21 July 2010.
- ^ Agassiz, D (1981). "Further introduced china mark moths (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) new to Britain". Entomologist's Gazette. 32: 21–26.
- ^ Brooks, S. J. (1988). "Exotic dragonflies in north London". Journal of the British Dragonfly Society. 4 (1): 9–12.
- ^ Gladwin, T.W. (1997). "The error in treating the Green Emerald Damselfly Lestes viridis (Vander Linden) as a British species". Journal of the British Dragonfly Society. 13 (2): 50–51.
- ^ Brook, John; Gill Brook (2003). "The Willow Emerald Damselfly Chalcolestes viridis (Vander Linden) in Kent: a case of mistaken identity". Journal of the British Dragonfly Society. 19 (1&2): 51–54.
- ^ Brook, John; Gill Brook (2004). "Past breeding evidence of Willow Emerald Damselfly Chalcolestes viridis (Vander Linden) in Kent". Atropos (21): 3–5.
- ^ Holmes, J. D. (1993). "A possible sighting of Aeshna affinis in Avon". Journal of the British Dragonfly Society. 9: 17–18.
- ^ Long, Roger (2000). "Southern Migrant Hawker Aeshna affinis in Jersey, Channel Islands". Atropos (9): 81.
- ^ Parr, Adrian (2005). "Odonata Records Committee update". Atropos (26): 28.
- ^ Silsby, J. (1993). "A review of Hemianax ephippiger, the Vagrant Emperor". Journal of the British Dragonfly Society. 9 (2): 47–50.
- ^ Merritt, R.; G. S. Vick (1983). "Is Sympetrum nigrescens a good species?". Journal of the British Dragonfly Society. 1 (1): 7–8.
- ^ Parr, Adrian (2003). "Migrant Dragonflies in 2002". Atropos (18): 18–24.
- ^ Parr, Adrian (2000b). "Blue Dasher Pachydiplax longipennis (Burmeister) on an Oil Rig in the North Sea". Atropos (10): 3–5.
- ^ Parr, Adrian (1998). "Potential New Odonata for the British List 1. The Possible Occurrence of Nearctic Species in Western Europe". Atropos (4): 18–21.
- ^ Parr, Adrian (1999). "Potential New Odonata for the British List 2. The Possibility of Vagrant or Colonist Damselflies". Atropos (8): 21–25.


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Part 1--The Grasp of Winter (2)
(Yes it's long, but each section will get shorter, I promise! Please read to the end!)
The sub-zero winds raking their claws across the icy moonlit plain shot daggers at Mathew's exposed skin. Wrapped in nothing but a small coat, blanket, and boots, trying to battle his way through the fierce, unmerciful arctic wasteland known simply as the North Lands, most would think Mathew crazy if they didn't know that his city was ablaze, didn't hear the screams and shouts or see the golden-red flames lighting up the night with a devilish red glow, slowly painting the stone of the city black, and turning the wood to ash.
Holding back tears, Mathew stopped staggering through the snowy storm and silently gazed back upon the glowing, red, ever-devouring monster of unquenchable fire that had swallowed his home. The thick, solid stone walls of the city had collapsed, revealing burning dwellings of the brave Barthadites, people of the North Lands, abandoned shops and businesses collapsing, an invading army pillaging and killing any who had managed to escape their burning homes. As Mathew watched, the top tower of the fortress of King Alabaster collapsed from an explosion at its base. The invaders from Obsidia let out a great cheer, a cry of victory echoing through the night. Atop the mound of rubble that used to be the majestic tower, seen from miles around as a beacon for Barthadites and lost travelers alike, a single banner was raised: a navy blue coat of arms with the head of a snake on it. This was the symbol of Obsidia. This was the mark of the great empire of the south that had nearly conquered the entire continent in less than a decade. This was the sign of defeat.
Tears, ice-cold, were now streaming down Mathew's face as he remembered his last words with his father, King Alabaster. The two had tried to escape the throne room as it collapsing, and the king had been pinned to the ground by a mass of falling wooden logs from the ceiling.
Mathew gasped, eyes wide in terror and disbelief. "Father! No!"
He rushed over to the king, crippled by five hundred pounds of roof on his back. Mathew pulled and tugged at the wood that trapped his father, although he knew it was in vain. He strained himself more than he ever had before, but the mound of cruel wooden logs didn't budge an inch. Mathew was sobbing before he even reached his father, who struggled to speak as the air was squeezed from his lungs like the air in a deflating balloon.
"Mathew... my son," the king coughed and groaned, "They will... go after you. *wheeze* You are... my son... heir to the throne..."
"No, Father, please," Mathew had cried, "Don't go. You can't leave me. Please."
"My time has run out, Mathew, as everyone's is meant to someday. You are now... king... *cough* of this land. They will hunt you... try to destroy you... You must keep our kingdom alive, son..." King Alabaster said as his eyes began to go out of focus, his breathing a slow, painful rasp.
Mathew had tried to say something, but he was sobbing too hard. His father, taking Mathew's hand, then spoke the last words ever to be formed by his breath: "Guard our secret... find the Mountain... seek refuge there. I love you, Mathew, as did your mother. Don't ever forget..."
And with that, the king passed on. In his hand was a worn-out, faded piece of parchment, with a map of their part of the North Lands. The sea was to the west, uncharted, inhospitable land was to the north. To the southeast, there was Dorwood Forest and the great mountain at the heart of the woods.
Mathew had taken the map from his father, wondering if its contents contained the secret that he had been speaking of. He could make no more sense of the map than he could accept that his father was dead. His father, the king. As pale as snow and as cold as stone, buried beneath dead, burning wood. Entombed in his own fortress.
Sprinting through the burning fortress, his knuckles white around the map from King Alabaster, Mathew charged through the collapsing halls. He had lived there his whole life; he knew the quickest route to escape. He barely managed to slip out through a side entrance before another explosion blocked the way he had come from. After taking a half-second frantic glance at the fire consuming everything around him, Mathew honed in on his path to freedom. He narrowly managed to escape through a crumbled section of the wall around the city, and from there he ran, and he didn't stop until he was far away and he--
MRAAAAAAAA! The bone-rattling cry of a battle horn shook Mathew from his thoughts. He watched in horror as a group of soldiers on sleds came out of the gates of the burning fortress, heading straight towards him. He remembered what his father had said, that they would be hunting him too.
Mathew frantically looked over the map and decided that an escape in Dorwood Forest would be his only chance. Turning around, his tears beginning to freeze on his cheeks, he stumbled blindly to the dark line of trees to the north that was Dorwood forest, the snarls and growls of the sled dogs being used to hunt him becoming louder and louder as he went.


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If you don't want to back up to a physical server, you can use the server backup software to back up to a cloud service like AWS or Amazon Glacier. These services store your backed-up data in geo-redundant locations, which provides the best type of protection against data loss due to natural disasters. However, restoring your backed-up data through a cloud service can be slow and subject to variables that you cannot control, so it doesn't come without its caveats.
Server Backup Software: Determining Your Backup Strategy
After analyzing your data needs, the next step in server management is a thorough and effective backup strategy. If your server goes down, whether through a logical error caused by accidentally deleting files or actual physical damage to a server caused by a flood, how would you restore the data? To begin, you have two questions to ask for every scenario that you encounter: How long can you afford to have the servers down, and what type of backup and recovery process do you need in order to restore data within that time?
The answer to the first question is your recovery time objective (RTO). To find your RTO, you have to carefully analyze your business needs and determine how long the servers can be down before the incurred cost is too much. For example, if you're hosting a website on your server and the website is your revenue stream, then every minute the server is down, you lose money. As such, the backup strategy for that data on your server should plan to have the data restored within minutes. However, if the private cloud for your employees goes down, then you can likely afford to send your employees home for the day while you work on restoring the server that hosts the cloud. Another scenario is the long-term recovery of archived data, which we'll cover in a bit.
Once you've determined your RTO, then you need to figure out your recovery point objective (RPO). The RPO is far more complicated to determine, as it's different for every situation, but the principle is the same – you want to find the point in your backup log that allows you to restore your servers within the determined time frame of the RTO. For example, if you have a short RTO of only two minutes for a website, then restoring a backup from earlier in the day might take too long, because it's too much data to restore within the necessary time frame. Instead, you determine that a backup from a week ago is small enough to have the site restored within the RTO. And while that earlier backup keeps the website up and running, you can work on restoring the most recent backup from earlier in the day.
For data that changes often and doesn't have a short RTO, like a private cloud of collaborative documents, you should use an incremental backup strategy. After a full backup is completed, an incremental backup only includes files that have changed since the last incremental backup. For example, you complete a full backup on Sunday. On Monday, the incremental backup consists only of changes made since Sunday. Tuesday's backup only consists of changes made since Monday, and so on. You can think of each incremental backup like a building block – the foundation is one large block that consists of the full backup, and incremental backup is another, smaller block added to the structure.
Incremental backups are fast and don't stress the server's processor, which enables you to perform them a lot more often. This gives you the ability to have your restored points on an extremely granular level – from days to hours to minutes. The disadvantage to incremental backups is the complicated recovery process. Because the backed-up data consists of all these incremental building blocks, you have to reassemble each block, in the right order, to recover the data. Server backup software performs this puzzle automatically, but it means that the recovery time is longer. It's also riskier because of the added variables. If any of the incremental backups in the structure are corrupted or deleted, the recovered data could be ruined.
For data that you need to recover quickly, like a server hosting your website, you should consider the differential backup strategy. A differential backup includes all the files that have changed since the last full backup. For example, if you perform a full backup on Sunday, a differential backup on Monday would only include files that have changed since Sunday. On Tuesday, the differential backup includes all the changed files from Monday and Tuesday, and so on.
With a differential backup, all you need is the full backup and one differential backup to restore the data. In this way, you can implement the recovery process much quicker, and the recovery is generally more reliable than it is in an incremental backup. However, differential backups take much longer to complete. In addition, this technique makes it far more difficult to restore within a specified recovery point. For example, if on Friday, you need to restore data back to a point on Tuesday morning, the closest point you might reach is Tuesday's differential backup, which includes the full day. The files you want from that morning may have been overwritten already.
Managing your own servers is an intimidating task. If this all seems too complicated, you should consider hiring an IT consultant. Independent IT experts are a cost-effective way of receiving IT help and direction without hiring a full-time IT manager or having an IT department. They can help you design, plan and execute your whole server network and teach you how to maintain your servers. You determine your business's data needs, and the IT expert designs the server architecture and backup strategy to support your needs. To learn more, read our articles about server backup and restore software.
Server Backup Software: What We Tested, What We Found
Testing server backup software is complicated because it's designed to work within a technical ecosystem of machines with countless unique scenarios to consider. However, the best backup strategy is usually the simplest. Complicating the strategy only serves to provide more opportunity for data loss to occur. To this end, we tested the basic backup and restoring properties of each server backup software under the same environment with the same operating system and the same data sets. Our tester is experienced with servers, but not an expert. This was designed to simulate a small-business scenario where the company doesn't have a full-time IT manager.
We performed each test multiple times to account for unknown and known variables. Then we averaged and graded the data to indicate how the software performed in relation to other programs. We also evaluated how easy each program was to install and navigate with the perspective that you shouldn't need a master's degree in information technology to operate the software.
Backup Compression Rates
One of the key features of server backup software is the compression settings. These compression features are designed to save storage space. All the server backup software in our review allows you to adjust the compression of the backed-up files. File compression works by removing unnecessary or repetitive data in a file. This way, the backed-up version doesn't require the same amount of storage as the original. Many of the software developers claim that they are able to compress much higher rates than were present in our tests. Since compression rates vary according to file type, your experience may be different depending on the type of data you back up. However, in our tests, we made sure that each program was backing up the same data. This provided a comparative analysis of the products' compression abilities.
To test the compression ratio, we set each software's compression to the highest setting and backed up the same data set. Then we compared the size of the backed-up data set to the original data set. We were surprised to find that many of the products showed very little compression. The best compression in our test only decreased the size of the original data by 35 percent. This is significant with large data sets, as 35 percent of 1TB is 350GB, which means that the backed-up version of your 1TB drive is 650GB. As mentioned earlier, many of the manufacturers claimed higher compression rates, though this was not reflected in our tests.
We also tested the compression rates of the default compression setting, which was generally set either in the medium or low range. This reflects the compression you'd get if you didn't adjust any of the configuration prior to initiating a backup set. It's important to note that, while the higher compression rates are designed to save storage space, these backup sets take longer and produce a larger resource footprint on your CPU and RAM.
Resource Footprint
Server backup software often requires a significant amount of your server's processor and memory. The more resources the software requires, the more difficult it is to access data from the servers when a backup is in progress. There are two parts to this story – the server side and the client side. The server side looks at the average CPU usage on the server while running backup and recovery sets. The client side, which simulates the server you're backing up or an employee's computer that you're backing up, also requires software so that the backup server can communicate with the client. This can also put a strain on the client side of the interaction.
To evaluate the resource footprint, we looked at the average CPU usage while running multiple backup and recovery sets on both the server and client side. We tested each product with the same processor and memory so that we could make comparative grades according to the resource footprint. Some products use little resources, which allows you to run other programs while you back up and restore data. However, on the other end of the spectrum, many products required a lot of the CPU resources, which means you should only run backup sets during off hours when the server and client are not actively running other programs. Otherwise, you could crash both, which did occur multiple times in our tests.
Ease of Use
Server backup is one thing if the software performs well. It's an entirely different issue if the software is difficult to use. However, none of these products are designed for novice users with little aptitude for technical software. If you've never worked with servers, even the simplest software in our review will be challenging. So to gauge the software's ease of use, we simulated the scenario of a small business that has an employee with some technical aptitude but no full-time IT manager. As such, our tester was someone with some experience working with servers, but not an expert – somewhere between a novice user and an expert IT manager.
With the tester, we considered the installation, backup and recovery features, interface, and cloud integration. Then we graded the tester's experience at each stage. We looked at how difficult it was to install the software: Did the tester require help from the manufacturer's tech support at any stage? Was the interface convoluted with too many tabs and subtabs? How easy was it to backtrack? Does the software seamlessly work with third-party cloud services like AWS? The products with an A proved to be exceptionally easy with no learning curve for our tester. Products with a B were average. They weren't exceptionally easy or difficult, but they had a minor learning curve. However, products with a C or D were difficult to learn, confusing or required help from tech support.
Top Ten Reviews seeks, whenever possible, to evaluate all products and services in hands-on tests that simulate as closely as possible the experiences of a typical consumer. We obtained the software in our comparison with support from some manufacturers while also relying on time limited trial software from others. The companies had no input or influence over our test methodology, nor was the methodology provided to any of them in more detail than is available through reading our reviews. Results of our evaluations were not provided to the companies in advance of publication.
Server Backup Software: What Else to Look For
Fundamentally, all server backup software programs do the exact same thing. They all back up your data to a variety of local and remote locations. They all provide management consoles. And they all integrate with your systems. You can expect your backup software to manage restore points and perform disk imaging, agentless backup, data encryption, file versioning, backup verification, database journaling and bare metal restore. However, these are some features that aren't ubiquitous among the software.
Backup Features
You should consider a few backup features that aren't shared by every program in our review. The most notable feature is deduplication. This feature removes duplicate files to save storage space, which is a common situation when you have multiple backup strategies. Another feature to consider is the system state backup. This feature backs up the relationship between programs and applications on your operating system.
What sets one server backup application apart from the next is how it does what it does. While some have a large memory footprint that meets your own complex work and storage environment, others are barely noticeable. A few also failed to offer recovery in place, which is important if you need to deploy your backups right away to keep your workforce moving.
Help & Support
The best support begins with excellent documentation and ends with a representative doing what they can to help recover your system. All of these companies offer emergency service, most of which include remote recovery and restoration. This software can be a good portion of your budget. You will want to make sure the developer will be there to support you when you need it most.
Server Backup Software: Our Verdict and Recommendations
The best server backup software in our review was Acronis Backup Advanced because it combines comprehensive features with strong performance and ease of use. It also doesn't hog all of your CPU resources on either the server or the client side. NovaBACKUP Business Essentials, our Silver Award Winner, also proved to have comprehensive features, ease of use and a small resource footprint. Our Bronze Award winner, Barracuda's Yosemite Server Backup, had an exceptional compression rate, comprehensive features and a small resource footprint. It was also proved to have average ease of use through most stages except cloud integration, where it was below average.
Most server backup software is not cheap. If you're looking for an affordable server backup option, BackupAssist and EaseUS Todo Backup Server are only a few hundred dollars. Both programs outperformed many of the more expensive products in our review, and they are among the easier ones to learn and deploy.
Deploying a hassle-free, dependable server backup solution is not just good practice – it's necessary for your business to succeed. Data loss could sink your business. Server backup software and a well-developed backup strategy is critical for protecting your business from running into potential icebergs.


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Ageing is associated with a progressive reduction of skeletal muscle volume (Lexell et al. 1988) and a concomitant reduction in strength (Grimby & Saltin, 1983; Young et al. 1985; Vandervoort & McComas, 1986; Frontera et al. 1991). This influences the physical performance and thereby the daily function of the elderly. However, resistance training has been shown to counteract the atrophy and loss of strength in this age group (Frontera et al. 1988; Fiatarone et al. 1990; Charette et al. 1991; Welle et al. 1996).
Hypertrophy following resistance training requires net protein synthesis of the myofibrillar proteins, and hence, a maximal stimulation of protein synthesis is favourable for the development of muscle hypertrophy in the elderly. Mixed muscle protein synthesis rate is increased in humans after bouts of resistance training provided the stimulus is of a sufficient magnitude (Chesley et al. 1992). This transient increase in protein synthesis is marked and surpasses the increase in degradation rate, and persists for up to 48 h following an acute exercise bout (Phillips et al. 1997). Evidence exists in favour of the balance between protein synthesis and degradation in skeletal muscle being tipped in favour of protein synthesis by protein intake and hyperaminoacidaemia during rest (Bennet et al. 1989; Biolo et al. 1997; Smith et al. 1998), and net protein balance remains negative after training if individuals remain postabsorptive (Biolo et al. 1995; Phillips et al. 1997). Yet, amino acid supplementation postexercise has been shown to have a synergistic effect upon the muscle contraction-induced augmentation of muscle protein synthesis, when provided both intravenously (Biolo et al. 1997) and orally (Tipton et al. 1999). The stimulation of protein synthesis after bouts of resistance exercise probably follows a specific time course. Thus, it has been observed that protein synthesis is greater 3 h compared to 24 and 48 h postexercise (Phillips et al. 1997). As protein administration is crucial for an optimal effect on net protein synthesis, an early intake of protein after exercise is likely to be important. Recently, it was observed that young individuals had identical acute protein synthesis responses to an amino acid-carbohydrate intake during the first hour following ingestion, irrespective of the supplement being administered 1 or 3 h after resistance exercise (Rasmussen et al. 2000). However, in a resistance training study on rats the timing of a mixed meal ingestion after each training session influenced net protein synthesis over a 10 week training period, as the group that was fed immediately postexercise increased hindlimb muscle mass more than the group fed 4 h later (Suzuki et al. 1999). Yet, it is not known whether ingestion of amino acids immediately postexercise will have a greater effect on the net protein synthesis compared to a later ingestion in elderly males during a period of resistance training.
Hence, the purpose of this study was to investigate the importance of the timing of protein intake after exercise upon the development of muscle hypertrophy and strength during a period of resistance training in elderly individuals. Muscle hypertrophy was evaluated by MRI and from muscle biopsy samples, and muscle strength was determined using both dynamic and isokinetic strength measurements. The acute glucose, insulin and catecholamine responses to exercise and supplementation were also determined for 4 h after training.


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KairiStrive the Believer
Have you ever been introduced to something new and fallen entirely in love with it? Well that's the base of where KairiStrive comes from. Sort of.
One day, when I was bored out of my mind, a friend of mine told me about this game called 'Kingdom Hearts'. I'd heard the name before and knew somewhat of it's origins, but never had I played the game.
After a few days of research, I had known nearly all there was to know about 'Kingdom Hearts' and had found myself bound by it's amazing fantasy about three friends by the names of Riku, Kairi and Sora.
After I found out about Kairi, I discovered I loved everything about her. Her name then became my favorite name.
During my research of Kingdom Hearts, I had been thinking of writing a story based on a character I had been dieing to write about. Being known at the start as only 'the terribly cursed', she was then named Kairi.
After a few days of plotting out my storyline, I had chosen her last name based on her beliefs, personality and lastly, her willing to never give up. The last name then came to me as being 'Strive', as in Kairi strives for what she believes in.
Anywho, after I had written the storyline and the first few pages of the story, my character, Kairi Strive, became an inspiring character and I decided I wanted to be just like her. Even if she really is just a fictional character.
Finally, after finding out about Protagonize, I wanted my Protagonize name to be as great and angelic-like as my character, Kairi Strive.


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Scientists, industry leaders and public officials came together this week for a dialogue on innovation at The Atlantic's "From Inspiration to Innovation Summit," held at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va. Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Director Patrick Gallagher was among the invited speakers on the panel, "Advanced Manufacturing: Made in America. . . Again?"
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White Ford Bronco: DC's All 90s Band – Tickets – The Lincoln Theatre – Washington, DC – December 31st, 2016
White Ford Bronco: DC's All 90s Band
Sat 12/31/16
Doors: 9:00 pmThe Lincoln Theatre
Show starts at 10:30 PMhttp://www.930.com/event/1384217/
White Ford Bronco: DC's All 90s Band - (Set time: 10:30 PM)
Long a mere dream kicking around in the overactive imaginations of its founders, White Ford Bronco officially came into being in the Spring of 2008. Since then our five member ensemble has been sparking bouts of flannel-laden, slap-bracelet-snapping, pog-playing, big-butt-loving nostalgia across the Washington, D.C. area that we call home. If you're longing for the days when Danny Tanner could solve everything with a hug and presidential scandals only involved ruining a marriage, allow us to take you on a musical journey to that magical last decade of the 20th century. Whatever flavor -- be it Alternative, Rock, Pop, R&B, Hip Hop, or Country -- if it's 90s, we'll play it. Come check out one of our upcoming shows!
Venue Information:
The Lincoln Theatre
1215 U Street NW
Washington, DC, 20009
The Lincoln Theatre
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Even with Rishon there, I felt alone. I sat in the shower, letting the water drip down my skin. I wanted to pick up the phone and tell someone. I wanted to know that someone except us felt this way. I wanted to call Everett. I couldn't. How could I just call up some guy I barely knew and ask, "Did you feel weird just now?"Maybe I should call Grace; she did give me her number in case I needed school work. But I felt so scared. So very scared, all alone.
I heard a sudden clash from down stairs. A sudden "bang", like pieces of metal flying around. I slipped on some clothes and ran down stairs.
Rishon stood in the middle of a pile of scrap metal. The T.V had completely disappeared. My dad ran out, and stood, staring, as every piece of metal started coming apart.
"Rishon! Stop!" I yelled. This hadn't happened since he was seven years old and some large men had tried to take him away. He only lost control when he was extremely scared. And right now, both of us were extremely scared.
"I...I can't!" he replied. I had no choice. I mustered up all my strength and ran straight into him. I bit into his right arm. "AHHHH!!" He yelled. Everything went silent. Everything stopped.
A clutter of a bowl caught our attention. Our dad stood at the door, his eyes wide and terrified. His bowl of pasta had slipped from his hands. "Please...." He muttered, "I can't do this ant more. Leave," he growled, "Leave now." We stood in silence for a few moments. "GET OUT DAMN IT!!" I picked Rishon up from the floor.
"We're going." It had to happen sooner or later. He never liked us much in the first place.
"I'm sorry..." Rishon muttered in my ear. "I'm so sorry. I just felt so scared. I'm so sorry."
"Don't be." I replied, as I slammed the door shut behind me.
We officially had nowhere to go. There was only one person I could think of who we even vaguely knew, and that was Grace and Everett. I could call them. Though Rishon was more insistent on calling Lacey. This was lame, we barely knew them and we were asking them for a roof over our heads. Still, we had no option. Rishon sat on the floor outside on the pavement, and dialled the number.
"Hallo?" He asked softly. I could see he wanted to go cry on the phone. Ethan picked up.
"Yo, Rishon right. Umm....listen, I'm kind of busy..."He put Ethan on speaker phone. I could hear Everett and Grace in the back ground. Their voices sounded concerned.
"Please, Two minutes?" Rishon's voice was noticeably shaking. I noticed his entire body shaking from head to foot.
"Oy...wait!" We heard the phone being snatched from his hand.
"What?" Lacey's voice echoed into the phone.
"We got.....um kicked out of our house." He choked out. I couldn't blame him for being scared. I remember losing control of my abilities....it was not easy, to suddenly feel a complete loss of your entire body, muscles, and your mind in a whole.
"Ok...why, may I ask, are you calling me....no wait, why were you kicked out in the first place?" She seemed upset. Rishon burst into tears. Not good, that was not good.
"You....umm....ok?" Lacey sounded annoyed.
"If this makes no sense to you," he blurted out, sobbing on the phone, "forget I ever said it," I didn't bother stopping him, I couldn't find it in my heart to, "Have you ever had a strange ability, and have you ever felt so scarred that you lost all control over your...... abilities?"
"You lost control over....your abilities?" Everett and Grace went silent as she blurted it out. "You suddenly felt...a shiver of fear, and lost control?" She asked again, her voice sounding alarmed.
Rishon couldn't speak. To him, be had blown it. If only he had realized that what he had done was no mistake.