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TORONTO, July 8 (Reuters) - The Toronto Stock Exchange's main index turned positive on Tuesday morning, boosted by the heavyweight financial sector, after slumping 100 points at the open.
The S&P/TSX composite index .GSPTSE was up 2.10 points at 13,714.90. (Reporting by Jennifer Kwan; Editing by Peter Galloway)
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2006 Rome Agent???
I am not sure if I should get a second hand (good condition) 2006 Rome Agent or a new 2010 board if they are the same price. Anyone has any review on it?
What kind of comparison is that !!!!!!! The 2010 one without a doubt !!!!!!!!!
Go 2010, if they're the same price
Don't buy used boards unless you're looking for a beater board for urban rails or spring conditions. Other than that you never know what you're getting, buy new if you plan to use the deck for any real mountain riding. Not worth the hassle.
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Let's say a fond farewell to Google Reader. Yes, that's right, Google Reader is going the way of Google Wave and will be no more as of July 1.
Google Reader is a popular and widely used RSS reader that allows you to subscribe to your favorite blogs –Like All Things E– without having them emailed to you and cluttering up your inbox. The web is all a buzz with news that Reader is going away and whether this signals the death of feeds all together.
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Lady Antebellum hit wins country song of the year
By Dan Whitcomb
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Lady Antebellum won Song of the Year for their hit "Need You Now" on Sunday, as the Academy of Country Music Awards got underway on a night when country's next generation of young women were expected to dominate.
The Nashville-based trio's huge crossover hit spent five weeks at the top of the Billboard country chart.
"Thank God, thank our families, thank the fans so much," singer Hillary Scott said in accepting the award at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas during a show broadcast live on CBS and hosted for a 12th time by Reba McEntire.
She was flanked by bandmates Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood who make up the trio, which leads all artists with seven nominations.
The show kicked off with Carrie Underwood and Miranda Lambert performing a raucous version of Creedence Clearwater Revival's 1970 rocker "Travelin' Band."
Underwood, 27, and Lambert, 26, who both first gained fame on TV -- American Idol for Underwood and Nashville Star for Lambert -- were joined for a verse by former Creedence leader John Fogerty.
Underwood is nominated for the night's top prize, Entertainer of the Year, an award she won last year for the first time, and earlier in the weekend Lambert won Video of the Year for "White Liar."
Underwood is competing for the fan-voted Entertainer of the Year against a field that includes a larger number of eight nominees, including veteran Kenny Chesney, who won it four years in a row until she snapped his streak in 2009. Continued...


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Get fit, lose weight … New Year's resolutions rarely last. A week into January and most of us are already wavering in our promise to work off that Christmas turkey. What's needed is a little inspiration to keep us going. Adventure holidays can do just that by putting fun at the forefront of fitness. Why pound the treadmill when you can run in the Himalayas? Why stay static on a fitness bike when you can cycle amid splendid mountain scenery? Or lap the pool when you can swim the Caribbean? Stick to your New Year's resolutions with one of these adventure fitness trips.
Mountain bike the Yukon
Swap static gym bikes for the wide-open vistas of the Yukon Territory in a new mountain biking trip to the wild north-west of Canada. Pedal through gold rush history and the land of the grizzly bear on more than 800km of mountain trails that surround the region's capital city of Whitehorse. Stay in luxury yurts, and dine on home-cooked Yukon food and locally brewed beers.
H&I Adventures Mountain Biking Worldwide (01463 239716; mountainbikeworldwide.com) offers an eight-day Yukon mountain biking trip; the price of £1,600 per person includes guiding, accommodation and all meals; flights not included. Departs 14 July and 11 August.
Kayak the coast of Scotland
Kayaking is excellent upper-body exercise, and with dramatic coastal views, you'll hardly notice the calories burning off. This new trip on the northern section of the Scottish Sea Kayak Trail – Europe's only long-distance sea kayak route – explores the wild, unspoilt coastline of Scotland's north-west coast. Share the water with seals and dolphins by day and stay in local family-run guesthouses by night.
Wilderness Scotland (01479 420020; wildernessscotland.com) has a seven-day Scottish sea kayak trail from £895 per person. The price includes guiding, equipment, B&B accommodation and daily packed lunches. Departures between June and September.
Freedive the Red Sea
Freediving conditions the body and relaxes the mind, as you focus on holding your breath underwater rather than relying on scuba gear or a snorkel. Learn the techniques of real-life mermaids and mermen as you explore the underwater world of the Red Sea in Dahab, Egypt. Stay in a resort on the beach, become a certified freediver and be at one with the marine environment.
Active Adventures (0845 512 1600; activeadventures.co.uk) offers an eight-day freediving trip. The price of £456 per person includes B&B accommodation, a four-day certified advanced freediving course and all equipment. Flights to Egypt are not included.
Hike to Everest Base Camp
Walking is one of the best low-impact exercises, and there are increased benefits to fitness from training at altitude. Celebrate the 60th anniversary of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's first ascent of Everest with a special anniversary trip to Everest Base Camp. Spend a night in Tenzing's village and visit the school in Khumjung that Hillary founded along the way.
The Adventure Company (0845 287 1198; adventurecompany.co.uk) is offering the 18-day Everest 60th anniversary trip for £1,959 per person, including flights, B&B accommodation, guides and porters. Departs 24 May.
Rock climb in Thailand
Rock climbing is a great total body workout that requires skill, as well as physical and mental strength. From Railay, on the west coast of Thailand, scale some of the world's best climbing cliffs straight from the beach. Combine expert tuition from local guides with pampering in a world-class spa and feasting on healthy Thai cuisine.
Adventure Temples (0843 508 5005; adventuretemples.com) offers an eight-day, five-star climbing trip from £2,495 per person, including flights, B&B accommodation at the Rayavadee resort, a three-day climbing course and a spa treatment.
Snow yoga
Work mind, body and soul while hitting the slopes. Expert-led morning and evening yoga sessions – specially designed for skiers and snowboarders – bookend strenuous days on the pistes of La Rosière, France. Your stay is in a chalet complete with outdoor hot tub, in-house holistic treatments and gourmet French food.
Adventure Yogi (01273 782734; adventureyogi.com) has an eight-day snow yoga trip. The price of £650 per person includes half board, local transport, twice-daily yoga sessions and a ski guide for three days. Flights, ski passes and equipment not included. Departs 9 March.
Swim the Virgin Islands
Made up of more than 100 islands, cays and reefs, the British Virgin Islands are ideal wild swimming territory. Stay in a resort on the marina of Virgin Gorda and explore about 5km of warm open water each day – including the chance to say you've swum from Britain to America (the British Virgin Islands to American Virgin Islands, that is).
Swim Trek (01273 739713; swimtrek.com) offers the seven-day BVI swim trek trip for £1,200 per person, including half board, swim guides and the services of a safety boat. Flights not included. Departs 23 and 29 March.
Run the Himalayas
Get off the treadmill and get into the mountains. Spend a week running expedition-style, village to village, from the foothills of Helambu, near Kathmandu in Nepal, to the holy lakes of Gosainkunda. You'll cover an impressive 88km of terrain on foot (with the longest day at 17km), retreating to family-run tea-houses each night.
Wide Open Trails (01865 577147; wideopentrails.com) offers the 10-day Helambu and Gosainkunda trip from £1,595 per person, including half board, transport and running guides. Flights not included. Departs 11 October.
Snowshoe the Pyrenees
Snowshoeing is excellent cardio-vascular exercise and a great way to take in stunning mountain scenery in winter. KE Adventures (01768 773966; keadventure.com) has an eight-day central Pyrenees snowshoe trip based at the spa town of Luchon, with easy access to a wealth of superb snowshoe day walks from easy forest trails to steeper mountain slopes. The price of £695 per person includes accommodation, equipment, most meals and an expert guide. Travel to France not included. Departs 20 January and 10 February.
Kite surf Mauritius
Work your upper body and abdominal muscles while having fun on the waves. Le Morne in Mauritius is one of the best places in the world for kite surfing, and the newly opened St Regis Mauritius Resort is minutes away from the best breaks. It's also home to the world's first luxury kite surf school, featuring one-to-one lessons, "kite butlers", and specially designed kite surf massages.
Luxury Holidays Direct (020-8774 7297; luxuryholidaysdirect.com) offers an eight-day trip to the St Regis Mauritius resort. The price of £1,619 per person includes flights and half board. Private two-hour kite surf lessons cost £150 (00 230 403 9000; stregismauritius.com).Reuse content


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Denby Pottery-owner, Hilco UK, has emerged as the frontrunner to buy HMV out of administration by the end of the month, news that will boost a high street already stricken by administrations in 2013.
The music and film chain's troubles were made worse yesterday when DVD rental chain Blockbuster confirmed plans to close 129 of its 528 stores over the coming weeks.
HMV collapsed on Monday when Deloitte was appointed as the 92-year-old retailer's administrator. The move put more than 4,000 jobs at risk, although HMV's 223 stores continue to trade.
On Friday, Hilco was locked in talks with Deloitte which are expected to continue this week. The restructuring specialist has already managed a turnaround in sales at HMV's Canadian arm since it bought the business from the London-listed entertainment group in 2011.
However, Hilco faces competition from other suitors for the UK business and the structure of any deal is likely to be complex, partly because HMV has many loss-making stores that a new owner is likely to jettison.
The turnaround private equity firms, Endless and Jon Moulton's Better Capital, as well as the restructuring company Gordon Brothers are also interested in rescuing parts of HMV. Game, the video games chain, is eyeing up to 45 HMV stores, while TV presenter Jonathan Ross is rumoured to be fronting a separate bid.
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Washington, Oct 5 (ANI): A natural variation shows promise for increasing provitamin A in cassava roots using transgenic or conventional methods.
Professor Peter Beyer from Freiberg University in Germany, together with researchers at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) in Colombia studied a naturally arising variant of cassava with yellow roots in order to understand the synthesis of provitamin A carotenoids, dietary precursors of vitamin A.
The scientists compared different cassava cultivars with white, cream, or yellow roots - more yellow corresponding to more carotenoids - in order to determine the underlying causes of the higher carotenoid levels found in the rare yellow-rooted cassava cultivar.
They tracked the difference down to a single amino acid change in the enzyme phytoene synthase and showed that the analogous change in phytoene synthases from other species also results in increased carotenoid synthesis.
Furthermore, they were able to turn a white-rooted cassava cultivar into a yellow-rooted plant that accumulates beta-carotene (provitamin A) using a transgenic approach that increased the enzyme phytoene synthase in the root.
"It paves the way for using transgenic or conventional breeding methods to generate commercial cassava cultivars containing high levels of provitamin A carotenoids, by the exchange of a single amino acid already present in cassava" said Beyer.
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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 72364
nautilus rpm management enhancement.
Last modified: 2015-01-07 18:59:44 EST
Imagine right clicking an rpm package in nautilus, selecting properties, and
finding additional tabs containing the output of:
rpm -qi(p)
rpm -ql(p)
And perhaps a dependency tree from both above and below.
Obviously too late for now, but perhaps someday... :)
See http://developer.gnome.org/news/summary/2002_August12-August16.html#14.
JIT(tm) development ;-)
That would be nautilus-rpm. I'm not sure it's stable yet to include.
jrb? Do you know the status of it?
nautilus-rpm does this and more. pbrown was unhappy adding it at this point,
though, and it didn't make distcheck a couple weeks ago. Perhaps if we get it
in by PB2 we will be okay...
nautilus-rpm development seems to have stopped. If it restarts, we'll
import it. For now this is of low prio. Double-clicking on an rpm does
install it though.


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Energy and Climate Programs
IBM recognizes climate change as a serious concern that warrants meaningful action on a global basis to stabilize the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs). IBM believes all sectors of society, economy and government worldwide must participate in solutions to climate change.
View IBM's position and policy on climate change.
IBM has been a leader in addressing climate change through its energy conservation and climate protection programs for decades. The company's leadership has been defined by its:
- Longstanding global commitment
- Comprehensive and multifaceted programs—covering the company's operations, products and services
- Leading-edge innovations and client solutions
- Significant results, both early and ongoing, benefiting IBM, its clients and the world
A Five-Part Strategy
IBM has a five-part strategy to reduce GHG emissions:
- Designing, building, updating and operating facilities and manufacturing operations that optimize their use of energy and materials and minimize GHG emissions
- Purchasing electricity generated from low CO2-emitting and renewable energy-generating sources where feasible
- Minimizing the use and emissions of perfluorocompounds (PFCs—a family of GHGs) in semiconductor manufacturing
- Reducing employee commuting and business travel
- Increasing the efficiency of IBM's logistics operations
In addition, in the area of hardware and software products and services, IBM's strategy includes designing energy efficient products and providing its clients with energy efficient solutions that also help protect the climate.
The company does not have plans to use emissions offsets to become "carbon neutral" for all or part of its operations. IBM's efforts to reduce its GHG emissions are focused on delivering results in the areas where the company can make the greatest positive impact on climate protection—by devoting its available resources to actions, products and solutions that actually increase energy efficiency and reduce GHG emissions for both the company and its clients, rather than offset them.
Conserving Energy
IBM's commitment to energy conservation dates back to 1974 and has continued, unabated, over the intervening years. Energy conservation is a major component of IBM's comprehensive, multifaceted climate protection program because the release of CO2 by utility companies powering the company's facilities, or from the use of fuel for heating or cooling, represents the greatest potential climate impact associated with IBM's operations.
In 2010, IBM's energy conservation projects across the company delivered savings equal to 5.7 percent of its total energy use versus the corporate goal of 3.5 percent. These projects avoided the consumption of 272,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of electricity and 352,000 million BTUs of fuel oil and natural gas, representing the avoidance of more than 139,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions. The conservation projects also saved $29.7 million in energy expense. These strong results are due to the increased, across-the-board focus on energy demand reduction, efficiency and the implementation of standard, global energy conservation strategies for facility operating systems.
IBM's energy conservation goal recognizes only identified projects that actually reduce or avoid the consumption of energy in its operations. Reductions in energy consumption from downsizings, the sale of operations and cost avoidance actions, such as fuel switching and off-peak load shifting, are not included in the energy conservation goal. Moreover, the above results are conservative in that they include only the first year's savings from the conservation projects. Ongoing conservation savings beyond the first year are not included in the tally. Accordingly, the total energy savings and CO2 emissions avoidance from these conservation actions is actually greater than this simple summation of the annual results.
Energy Conservation
Achieve annual energy conservation savings equal to 3.5 percent of IBM's total energy use.
In 2010, IBM's energy conservation projects across the company delivered savings equal to 5.7 percent of its total energy use.
Between 1990 and 2010, IBM saved 5.4 billion kWh of electricity consumption, avoided nearly 3.6 million metric tons of CO2 emissions (equal to 52 percent of the company's 1990 global CO2 emissions) and saved $399 million through its annual energy conservation actions.
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IBM uses the greenhouse gas reporting protocol developed by the World Resources Institute and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development to gather and report its CO2 emissions.
CO2 emissions data includes the CO2 avoidance associated with IBM's purchases of renewable energy.
of electricity consumption—and nearly 3.6 million metric tons of CO2 emissions—saved by IBM through its annual energy conservation actions between 1990 and 2010, resulting in a savings of $399 million.
IBM's global energy management program leverages the expertise of more than 40 IBM energy management professionals deployed around the world. The team has created best practices checklists that set minimum expectations for building systems and operations including controls and equipment for lighting, HVAC, central utility plants (CUPs), compressed air, data center and IT systems, cafeterias and office systems. All sites using more than 2,000 MWh/year of energy must complete the checklists, perform a gap analysis and develop an energy conservation implementation plan a minimum of every three years. The program is buttressed by several enterprise-level databases that collect and store energy use data, conservation project results and completed checklists enabling monthly metrics reporting to the management team. The continuous review of energy use and conservation results has driven the strong results noted above.
IBM uses a full range of energy efficiency initiatives in achieving its results. In 2010, more than 2,100 energy conservation projects were completed at 299 IBM locations around the world. Some examples:
- 208 locations implemented projects to match building lighting and occupancy schedules or install more efficient lighting systems, reducing 17,200 MWh of electricity use and saving $1.9 million.
- 165 locations modified HVAC systems or operating schedules to reduce 40,300 MWh of electricity use and 83,000 MMBTU of fuel use, and save $4.9 million.
- 19 locations had continuous commissioning projects that delivered reductions of 11,200 MWh of electricity use and 86,800 MMBTU of fuel use, and savings of $1.6 million.
of electricity use and 83,000 MMBTU of fuel use saved by modifying HVAC systems or operating schedules at IBM locations in 2010, saving $4.9 million.
The IBM team is also implementing innovative, leading-edge technologies that enable real-time management of energy use.
- IBM is deploying its Smarter Building technologies to increase the energy efficiency of its own facilities. The company is expanding its use of data monitoring and analytics, using "plug-in" analytics to collect sensor and operating data for analyzing both individual events and system trends. This information is then used to optimize building energy use. In 2010, IBM deployed this solution at its Armonk, New York, headquarters and selected buildings at its Rochester, Minnesota, site. It is expected to yield between 5 percent and 8 percent in annualized energy cost reduction at the buildings in which it is deployed. These results are particularly impressive for the Rochester location given its energy conservation history, having already delivered energy savings through conservation actions of between 5 percent and 6 percent of the site's energy use each year over the past 10 years. IBM has plans to install Smarter Building solutions at additional locations during 2011 and 2012.
- IBM implemented an Advanced Water Management solution at its semiconductor manufacturing facility in Burlington, Vermont. It utilizes an automated data system, Statistical Process Control (SPC), to transform large amounts of data into manageable useful information. The application of Advanced Water Management techniques has resulted in an energy savings of over 5,000 MWh/year.
Data Centers
IBM takes a holistic approach to managing its data center portfolio, building new, high-efficiency data center space where it needs to expand its raised floor inventory to meet the needs of existing and new customers, and retrofitting and improving existing data center space to better utilize and derive more workload from its existing space, equipment, and energy resources. These efforts are accomplished through the following initiatives:
- Building new high-efficiency data center space. IBM's most recent data center expansions in the U.S. have achieved LEED® certification and use state-of-the-art design and system techniques to enable Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE, the ratio of the total power required at the data center divided by the power required to operate the IT equipment) measurements of 1.4 when the data center is fully populated.
- Implementing best practices and thermal monitoring programs at its existing data centers to optimize cooling delivery and minimize energy use and cost.
- Virtualizing and consolidating existing workloads for its internal operations and customer accounts. Virtualizing workloads allows a single server to support multiple applications or images, making use of the full capabilities of state-of-the-art IT equipment and executing more workload in less space with less energy.
IBM manages a diverse portfolio of data centers, consisting of both IBM and IBM-managed customer facilities all over the world. IBM also operates additional raised floor space to support its internal operations as well as design and test centers for its System and Technology Group and Software Group.
New Data Center Construction
IBM's new data centers in Boulder, Colorado, and Raleigh, North Carolina, utilize state-of-the-art technologies and are designed to operate at PUE of 1.4 when fully populated with IT equipment. The data centers are designed to accommodate high density IT equipment and utilize free cooling, variable speed fans and pumping systems. They also have the capability to install direct liquid cool systems on high-power density equipment, as well as high efficiency Uninterruptable Power Systems (UPS) and chiller systems.
Existing Data Centers
In 2010, 290 projects at 90 existing data center locations reduced energy use by over 32,000 MWh, saving more than $3.2 million.
- IBM upgraded data center equipment and implemented data center best practices, including blocking cable openings, rebalancing air flow and shutting down air conditioning units, all of which generated 16,800 MWh of savings in IBM's existing data centers. IBM's Measurement and Management Technology, a thermal monitoring management system, was installed at five data centers, with installations underway or planned over the next 18 months for the remainder of the company's owned and leased strategic data centers. This innovative technology from IBM Research produces a real-time three dimensional thermal map of the detailed heat sources and sinks within a data center, allowing for accurate identification and mitigation of data center hot spots, adjustment of cooling delivery as systems are removed and added, and increased data center operating temperatures, with attendant reductions in cooling requirements. Continuous thermal monitoring and the future use of analytics can further improve data center energy management beyond that achieved with the implementation of best practices alone.
- IBM implemented 16 water-side free cooling projects, which utilize the temperature of the outside air rather than chiller systems to cool the chilled water, saving more than 16,000 MWh of electricity use. Most of those projects were installed at locations with data center operations.
Server and Storage Virtualization and Consolidation
IBM is utilizing virtualization technologies to consolidate multiple workloads from servers and storage systems with low utilization onto single systems, reducing energy use by more than 75,000 MWh in 2010. More than 28,000 images or applications were moved from single use servers to virtualized servers, utilizing existing, high capability systems to consolidate workloads or installing new systems and virtualizing several server or storage systems of workload on the new system. These projects increase the utilization of the virtualized server and storage systems, deliver more workload with less energy consumption, and reduce the quantity of IT equipment and the data center floor space required to perform a given workload. These projects also free up data center space for business growth or new business opportunities.
Cloud Computing
Over the course of 2010, IBM continued to reap the benefits of cloud computing to its data centers. Cloud computing is an efficient model for providing IT services. It allows IBM to better balance workloads, adjust power consumption and virtualize infrastructure in data centers to better align processing needs with power consumption. The result is balanced energy demands to help avoid high peak energy use and allow consolidation of workload on the minimum number of highly utilized servers, so unneeded equipment can be put to sleep or turned off. Through the introduction of an optimized infrastructure, the number of systems and networks in the data center can be reduced and optimized, cost efficiency improved and energy efficiency enhanced. IBM has established a globally integrated cloud delivery network with centers in Singapore, Germany, Canada and the U.S., along with 13 global cloud labs.
The benefits of cloud computing are demonstrated by IBM's Technology Adoption Program (TAP), which supports the company's software development community. For example, leveraging cloud computing, TAP reduced the number of servers required in a "typical" data center environment by nearly 90 percent. That translated into annual hardware savings of $1.3 million and energy savings of more than 500 MWh per year.
Voluntary Data Center Energy Efficiency Initiatives
IBM supported efforts by the U.S. EPA and the European Commission Directorate General Joint Research Centre—Institute for Energy to encourage improvements and innovations in data center energy efficiency. IBM has provided input, recommendations and data center energy use data to support the development of both the European Union Code of Conduct on Data Centres Energy Efficiency (CoC) and the U.S. EPA ENERGY STAR® Rating for data centers. These programs set operating criteria or metrics that inform and encourage data center operators and owners to reduce energy consumption in a cost-effective manner while enabling operators to maintain the mission-critical function of data centers. IBM registered all or parts of three data center operations to the EU CoC and is working to qualify one or more U.S. data center locations to the ENERGY STAR data center rating program.
IBM Cloud Computing
IBM is helping clients excel in cloud computing, providing secure and reliable Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions.
CO2 Emissions Reduction
In 2010, IBM's procurement of renewable energy and significant energy conservation results were the primary factors for an 11.5 percent reduction in its energy-related CO2 emissions over 2009. The company's procurement of renewable energy equaled 11.2 percent of IBM's total 2010 electricity use.
As of year-end 2010, the company's energy conservation results and procurement of renewable energy resulted in a 16.7 percent reduction in IBM's energy-related CO2 emissions from the 2005 base year of this goal.
The reductions have been achieved through the following initiatives outlined below. In addition, improvements in the CO2 emissions profile of the electricity that IBM purchased also had a favorable albeit limited impact on the company's performance.
- IBM's energy conservation efforts have reduced or avoided a total of 1.1 million MWh of electricity and 2.4 million MMBTU of fuel use (based on one-year savings associated with conservation projects) from 2006 to 2010, which represents a reduction in IBM's electricity and fuel use of 3.5 percent and 22 percent, respectively, against the 2005 baseline use adjusted for acquisitions and divestitures.
- IBM purchased 561,000 MWh of electricity generated from renewable sources in 2010, resulting in an avoidance of 247,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions associated with the generation of the electricity used by IBM. IBM contracts for these purchases through programs sponsored by suppliers or the responsible utility.
- IBM has reduced its fuel use by 20 percent against the adjusted 2005 baseline. A portion of the reduction is weather-related, due to milder winters in some regions, and the remainder has resulted from projects to optimize boiler operation and reduce heating and humidification demand at facilities through room specification changes and time-of-day heating and ventilation settings.
The 16.7 percent reduction in CO2 emissions in 2010 surpasses IBM's 2012 goal of a 12 percent reduction over the 2005 base year. These results were achieved through the commitment and execution of the business units responsible for IBM's operational energy use. Because each of the factors cited as keys to this achievement will change as IBM grows its businesses, enters into new contracts for electricity and continues its focus on energy conservation, the company will continue to work to sustain its performance against its year-end 2012 goal.
CO2 Emissions Reduction
(Metric Tons x 1,000)
CO2 Emissions Reduction
Between 1990 and 2005, IBM's energy conservation actions reduced or avoided CO2 emissions by an amount equal to 40 percent of its 1990 emissions. To further extend this achievement, IBM set itself an aggressive "2nd generation" goal: to reduce the CO2 emissions associated with IBM's energy use 12 percent between 2005 and 2012 through energy conservation and the procurement of renewable energy.
As of year-end 2010, the company's energy conservation results and procurement of renewable energy resulted in a 16.7 percent reduction in IBM's energy-related CO2 emissions from the 2005 base year of this goal.
PFC Emissions Reduction
IBM releases some perfluorocompounds (PFCs) from its semiconductor manufacturing operations. Although the releases are in relatively small amounts (in CO2 equivalents, when compared to IBM's indirect CO2 emissions), IBM was the first semiconductor manufacturer to set a numeric reduction target for PFCs in 1998 and has set an absolute reduction goal through 2010.
IBM has achieved its PFC emissions reduction goal, reducing its PFC emissions by 36.5 percent against the 1995 baseline. These reductions have been achieved through IBM's long-term focus on using process chemistries which utilize PFC gases with lower global warming potentials. The Burlington, Vermont, facility has been an industry leader in developing and implementing process substitutions using PFCs with lower global warming potential such as NF3 and C4F8 for its 200mm semiconductor manufacturing processes. The East Fishkill, New York, 300mm semiconductor manufacturing facility almost exclusively uses NF3 for its chamber clean processes and abates the majority of its PFC emissions.
PFC emissions increased year-to-year, primarily due to increased manufacturing volumes in 2010 compared to 2009. Some of the increases in emissions during 2010 were mitigated by further conversion of some C2F6 based process cleans to C4F8 process cleans; C4F8 has a lower global warming potential than C2F6.
PFC Emissions Reduction
(in Carbon Dioxide Equivalent)
IBM also has begun tracking two other materials: 1) nitrous oxide (N2O), which is used in the manufacture of semiconductors; and 2) heat transfer fluids that are used in tool-specific chiller units associated with manufacturing processes.
- IBM emitted 17,400 metric tons of CO2e of nitrous oxide, which has a lower global warming potential than the PFC gases from its semiconductor operations.
- Chiller systems at the IBM semiconductor operations used 18,300 pounds of heat transfer fluids. These materials are released as fugitive emissions and had a CO2e of 32,000 metric tons.
IBM has been replacing some of the heat transfer fluid-based chiller units with solid-state chiller units as an energy conservation measure. These chillers use solid-state components and heat to alternately excite and unexcite electrons to trap and release heat energy. The new style chiller replaced an old Freon-based chiller that used more electricity. Each replacement reduces electricity use by 40 MWh/year and eliminates the fugitive loss of the heat transfer fluids.
PFC Emissions Reduction
To reduce PFC emissions from semiconductor manufacturing 25 percent by 2010 against a base year of 1995.
As of year-end 2010, IBM's emissions were 36.5 percent below the 1995 baseline amount of 381,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent.
Renewable Energy
In 2010, IBM purchased 561 million kWh of renewable energy. These purchases represented 11.2 percent of the company's global electricity usage and a CO2 emissions avoidance of 247,000 metric tons. IBM continued to contract for renewable energy purchases in Australia, Japan, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States in 2010. Purchases of electricity generated from renewable resources increased in Australia, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland.
IBM's energy conservation efforts and its procurement of renewable energy in 2010 combined to avoid the emissions of more than 390,000 metric tons of CO2.
Renewable Energy Procured
(Percentage of Total Electricity)
of CO2 emissions avoided through IBM's energy conservation efforts and procurement of renewable energy in 2010.
Research to Advance Solar Energy
In addition to procuring renewable energy for its own use, IBM is working to further the availability and affordability of renewable energy by investing in IT-related research and development. One focus area is advancing solar technology:
- New solar cell manufacturing approach:
- In February 2010, IBM announced it had built a solar cell in which the key layer that absorbs most of the light for conversion into electricity is made entirely of readily available elements and is manufactured using a combination of solution and nanoparticle-based approaches, rather than the popular, but expensive, vacuum-based technique. This solar cell set a new world record for efficiency and holds the potential for producing low-cost energy that can be used widely and commercially.
- Ultra-high concentrator photovoltaic technology:
- In April 2010, IBM announced that it is collaborating with the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Saudi Arabia's national research and development organization, on a research project aimed at creating a water desalination plant powered by solar electricity, which could significantly reduce water and energy costs. A new, energy efficient desalination plant with an expected production capacity of 30,000 cubic meters per day will be powered with the ultra-high concentrator photovoltaic (UHCPV) technology that is being jointly developed by IBM and KACST. This technology is capable of operating a CPV system at a concentration greater than 1,500 suns. Inside the plant, the desalination process will hinge on another IBM-KACST jointly developed technology, a nanomembrane that filters out salts as well as potential toxins in water while using less energy than other forms of water purification.
- Climate Modeling:
In October 2010, IBM and Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) announced an agreement to collaborate on climate modeling research that will investigate the impact of climate change on flood forecasting, crop yields, renewable energy and the health of rainforests in southeast Asia. The collaboration will help Universiti Brunei Darussalam accelerate its research capabilities in biodiversity, energy and agrotechnology. The university will acquire an IBM Blue Gene® supercomputer—the first of its kind in the region—to provide high-performance computing power for the collaborative work.
Researchers from UBD and IBM will work together to develop climate models based on regional climate data. The new hydrological models will be incorporated into the weather models to enable flood forecasting and predict climatic impact on the rainforests.
Voluntary Climate Partnerships
IBM was a charter member of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), a voluntary emissions reporting and trading system with binding commitments for GHG emissions reduction by its member companies. IBM's participation in CCX covered Scopes 1 and 2 GHG emissions from the company's operations in Canada, Mexico and the U.S.
Over its eight-year participation in CCX (2010 was the final year for the CCX program), IBM reduced its GHG emissions 19.9 percent against the 1998–2001 CCX baseline, compared to the commitment of a 6 percent reduction by 2010. CCX provided an effective means to document and verify GHG emissions reduction activities for IBM's North American operations.
IBM continued its participation in the World Wildlife Fund's Climate Savers program in 2010, working toward the committed reduction goal: Between 1990 and 2005, IBM reduced or avoided CO2 emissions by an amount equivalent to 40 percent of its 1990 emissions through its global energy conservation program. To extend this achievement, IBM intends to reduce CO2 emissions associated with its operational energy (electricity and fuel) use by 12 percent between 2005 and 2012 through energy conservation and the purchase of renewable energy.
Under Climate Savers, IBM has also committed to improving the energy efficiency and energy utilization of its internal and clients' data centers through activities and offerings for data center best practices, measurement and monitoring programs, and virtualization and consolidation programs. Activities in support of this commitment are detailed in the Data Centers section.
Though the U.S. EPA discontinued the Climate Leaders program in 2010, IBM intends to meet the second generation GHG reduction commitment it set under the Climate Leaders program: To reduce total global GHG emissions by 7 percent from 2005 to 2012. IBM achieved its initial goal by reducing total global energy-related GHG emissions by an average of 6 percent per year and PFC emissions by 58 percent from 2000 to 2005.
Transportation and Logistics Initiatives
Employee Commuting and Leased/Rental Vehicles
IBM has been active in promoting programs that reduce the commute to work for its employees. Key contributors to this effort are IBM's two flexible work programs:
- Work-at-home: Enables many employees to work from a home office
- Mobile employees: Enables many other employees to work from home a designated number of days each week
In 2010, more than 122,000 employees (29 percent) globally participated in one of these two programs, which not only helps employees balance their work and personal responsibilities, but also benefits the environment. In the U.S. alone, IBM's work-at-home program conserved approximately 6.2 million gallons of fuel and avoided more than 48,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions in 2010.
gallons of fuel conserved and 48,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions avoided by IBM's work-at-home program in the U.S. in 2010.
IBM joined the reconstituted U.S. Best Workplaces for CommutersSM (BWC) program in 2009. Currently, 22 IBM locations are registered as BWC sites which represent more than 60 percent of the company's U.S. employees. Many locations actively work with their local or regional transit commissions to integrate IBM's programs with regional programs to increase commuting options for the company's employees.
Globally, many IBM locations provide support for the use of public transit systems, including shuttles from locations to mass transit stations, and alternate transportation or "loaner" cars for business trips during the workday. Where IBM provides leased vehicles for employees, the company continues its effort to move to more fuel-efficient vehicles. Standard guidelines for smaller engine sizes and lower emissions have been established for leased vehicles globally. These guidelines are the framework for selecting car models offered under IBM car plans which reduces average car emission levels as the car fleets renew.
Business Travel
In 2010, IBM expanded the use of collaboration tools, both internally and externally, to reduce our impact on the environment. As a company, we conducted more than 790,000 online meetings and exchanged more than 10 billion instant messages. Collaborating in this fashion is fundamental to IBM and has allowed us to save on travel costs and impacts, boost productivity by connecting our global workforce 24/7, and avoid CO2 emissions. We also have increased our use of video conferencing to help reduce the need for travel and improve team interactions. In addition to more than 400 video-equipped IBM rooms globally, we completed work on an IBM Sametime® desktop video pilot to extend video capability to employees' desktops. Expansion of this capability is planned for 2011.
meetings held virtually via IBM Web conferencing tools.
Efficiency of Logistics
IBM is reducing the CO2 emissions associated with transporting its products through the efficient design of its packaging, working with suppliers on their packaging designs and optimizing logistics. In the area of logistics, IBM has been an active member of the U.S. EPA's SmartWaySM Transport Partnership since 2006.
SmartWay is a voluntary initiative to improve fuel efficiency and reduce GHG emissions associated with logistics operations.
Since 2009, 100 percent of IBM's spend for shipping goods within the U.S. and from the U.S. to Canada and Mexico went through a SmartWay logistics provider. IBM also voluntarily applies specific SmartWay requirements to its distribution operations globally.
IBM's packaging programs also help reduce transport-associated CO2 emissions by reducing the volume and weight of the company's product shipments through innovative packaging design. Accomplishments in this area are discussed in the Product Stewardship section of this report.
of IBM's shipped goods within the U.S. and to Canada and Mexico went through a SmartWay logistics provider.
Energy and Climate Protection in the Supply Chain
IBM is also focusing on the energy and climate programs of its suppliers to understand where they are with regard to having energy conservation and GHG reduction programs and to encourage their action and leadership in climate protection.
The following are two specific initiatives the company has undertaken in this area:
- IBM has been an active participant in the Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) environmental working group. This group is requesting that suppliers providing parts to EICC members disclose their operational energy use and GHG emissions to EICC through a spreadsheet tool developed by EICC, by responding to a Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Questionnaire, or through a company Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) report. Companies in the electronics industry share many suppliers and the EICC GHG emissions disclosure process is expected to provide efficiency associated with information disclosure. Where companies are not currently reporting through the CDP or GRI process, the EICC "spreadsheet reporting tool" offers a simplified, structured method for EICC members and their suppliers to inventory and disclose their energy use and GHG emissions, and their associated reduction plans. As companies gain an understanding of their energy use and GHG emissions we believe they are more likely to take actions to improve their performance. Member companies of EICC have also developed education modules to assist suppliers in developing their energy use and GHG emissions inventories.
Through the CDP's Supply Chain program, IBM and other participating companies are focused on how suppliers are addressing climate change and working to reduce GHG emissions. As a participant in the program, IBM invited 131 of its suppliers to respond to the CDP's Supplier Questionnaire in 2010. These 131 suppliers represented a cross-section of IBM's supplier expenditures with services, general and production-related suppliers, including such suppliers as third-party data centers, logistic suppliers and rental car companies, all of which have higher levels of energy use and associated GHG emissions.
Of the 131 IBM suppliers that received questionnaires, 113 responded. This 86 percent response rate exceeded the 71 percent average response rate for the companies participating in this CDP program. The following are highlights of the findings from the responding suppliers:
- 71 percent report Scope 1 GHG emissions.
- 71 percent report Scope 2 GHG emissions.
- 67 percent have a board committee or other executive body responsible for climate change.
- 45 percent have a GHG emissions reduction target in place.
IBM continues to participate in this endeavor because the company wants to work with suppliers who are responsible for the majority of IBM's spend to gain an understanding of their operational impacts and assess where they are with regard to having a GHG emissions inventory and reduction plan. Survey responses showed that about one-third of production suppliers had reduction plans, and about one-half of non-production suppliers had plans.
In 2011, IBM is focusing on working with its total supply base to assist suppliers in developing and implementing a corporate responsibility and environmental management system, whereby all of IBM's more than 27,000 suppliers are now required to assess and identify their significant environmental intersections, implement measurements and improvement targets for those areas, and provide public disclosure of the related programs and results. To complement this management system initiative, as well as enhance trend analysis on the supply base, IBM will again participate in the CDP Supply Chain Program in 2011. Approximately 107 suppliers, primarily those suppliers that responded to the 2010 questionnaire, will receive requests to participate.
IBM's Position on the Determination of Scope 3 GHG Emissions
Gross approximations of Scope 3 GHG emissions can help entities recognize where the greatest amounts of GHGs may occur during the lifecycle of a general product or service on a macro level. This can be helpful when assessing what phases of a general product's evolution, use and disposal are ripe for improved energy efficiency and innovation. However, IBM does not assert on a micro level what the Scope 3 GHG emissions are from the operations of its suppliers and external distribution partners in their work that is specific to IBM, or associated with the use of its products and services. The necessary estimating assumptions and corresponding variability simply do not allow for adequate credibility, let alone calculations that could be perceived as deterministic.
Like many manufacturers, IBM has thousands of suppliers around the world. They are in all types of businesses and very few, if any, work solely for IBM. Furthermore, the sources of energy used by these suppliers vary, and IBM does not believe it could determine a credible estimate or apportionment of the energy used by these suppliers that would be associated with the products or services provided to IBM versus that associated with products or services provided to other companies and customers. In addition, IBM's specific scope of business with any given supplier remains dynamic, as it is driven by business need.
Moreover, one company's asserted Scope 3 emissions are another company's Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. Since the ultimate goal for climate protection is for global societies to achieve demonstrable reductions in actual GHG emissions, IBM believes real results in GHG emissions reduction are directly achieved when each enterprise takes responsibility to address its own emissions and improve its energy efficiency. This is reinforced by IBM's recent announcement that all of its first-tier suppliers will be expected to develop a management system, inventory their key environmental impacts including GHG emissions and develop reduction plans for those key impacts.
In 2010, IBM collaborated with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) on a case study to investigate the uncertainty and variability associated with calculation of the GHG emissions associated with the life cycle of a rack-mount server product (also referred to as the server's "carbon footprint"). IBM provided CMU with technical details and information regarding the IBM server product evaluated by the study.
In addition to highlighting the high level of uncertainty in product carbon footprint calculations (+/- 35 percent for the product selected), the results of the study verified that GHG emissions associated with the operation of the server dominated the full life cycle carbon footprint. This "use phase" of the server accounted for an estimated 94 percent of the total GHG emissions associated with the product. It reconfirmed the importance of IBM's ongoing efforts to increase the energy efficiency of its server products and the data centers where servers are used.
Coalition for Energy and Environmental Leadership in Leased Space
IBM's leased space represents another area of its supply chain in which the company believes it can make a difference. Along with DuPont, Fluor Corporation, Pitney Bowes Inc. and the Switzer Group, IBM formed a coalition to drive an increase in the availability of competitively priced leased space that also provides energy efficiency and other environmental attributes. In 2010, Interpublic Group, Lenovo and MasterCard joined the Coalition. By joining together, the Coalition hopes to make more environmentally sustainable leased spaces increasingly the standard rather than the exception in the marketplace.
To aid in accomplishing its objective, the Coalition developed a baseline Environmental and Energy Efficiency Attributes Checklist. It addresses requirements in four areas: sustainable site management, water efficiency, energy efficiency, and materials and resources.
Members of the Coalition commit to:
- Make the Environmental and Energy Efficiency Attributes Checklist a standard part of their requests for proposal (RFPs) for new leases and lease renewals for office space in the U.S.,
- Include the providers' response as a factor in making lease decisions, and
- Develop appropriate metrics to measure progress.
Actions under this initiative are intended to complement, not replace, individual companies' activities for improving building environmental and energy efficiency such as those pursuant to the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED® green building certification program.
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Grand Ideal Premium Hotel
Marmaris, Dalaman Region
Ideal for families and couples alike, the hotel features an outdoor swimming pool, children's pool and a water slide. The hotel animation programme provides entertainment during the day and evenings.
4.5 / 5 from 13 reviews
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- Satellite/TV
- Kids Pools
- Kids Playground
- Conference Facilities
- Spa Facilities
- Foreign Exchange
- Fitness/Gym Facilities
- Safety Deposit Box Rental
- Wheelchair accessible
Hotel facilities include an outdoor swimming pool with water-slide, sun terrace with sun loungers and umbrellas and children's pool. Further facilities include children's play area and a Spa Centre with indoor pool, fitness centre, Turkish bath and sauna (access and treatments may incur a charge).
The hotel features a main buffet style restaurant, 1 A La Carte Restaurant, a pool bar and a main bar.
Daytime animation programme and evening entertainment are also on offer.
Hotel services offered include 24hr reception, currency exchange, conference facilities and wireless internet access.
Please note that the A La Carte is subject to availability, reservation and charges may apply.
Local charges may apply to some hotel facilities and others may be seasonal.
Consisting of standard and family rooms, junior and king suites with separate bedroom and living room; all rooms can accommodate up to 3 people.
All rooms feature double or twin beds, private bathroom with shower, hairdryer, mini bar, telephone, safety deposit box (local charge), satellite TV, split air conditioning and a balcony or terrace.
Local charges may apply to some hotel facilities and others may be seasonal.
All Inclusive
The All Inclusive information is a guide only and is subject to change and/or availability.
The All Inclusive programme consists of breakfast, late breakfast, lunch and dinner, served in either Diva restaurant or the Four Seasons restaurant.
Snacks are available from 12.00-16.00, coffee and cake from 17.00-18.00. Patisserie serves cakes between 16.00-18.00
Locally produced alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks are available from 10.00-00.00
Extra charges apply for massage and beauty services and shop purchases, safe deposit box, fitness centre, Turkish bath and sauna (free
between 11am and 4pm).
The All Inclusive information is a guide only and may be subject to change and/or availability.
Special Information
Please note: rates displayed are not available for Turkish Nationals.
Please Note: All visitors to Turkey will be required to purchase their entry visa via the Turkish Government website www.evisa.gov.tr prior to travel.
Map of Grand Ideal Premium Hotel
The hotel is just 70m from the beach and approx 200m from the nearest shops. The centre of Marmaris is 2.5km away and there are of bars and restaurants in the surrounding area.
Dalaman Airport is approx 90km from the resort of Marmaris.
Please note: the hotel locations shown are to be used for guide purposes only.
Grand Ideal Premium Hotel Reviews
Ms A Smart, Macduff
|8th May 2017
|Grand Ideal Premium Hotel
|Double Or Twin - Land View - Promo
|All Inclusive
The hotel was fantastic.
Mr A Gopsill, Bradford
|24th Apr 2017
|Grand Ideal Premium Hotel
|Double Or Twin - Land View
|All Inclusive
Mr A Gopsill, Bradford
|24th Apr 2017
|Grand Ideal Premium Hotel
|Double Or Twin - Land View
|All Inclusive
Staff very helpful, wanted to join in our games such as Tri Onimoes and Dominoes. Hotel clean although our room on 5th floor small but adequate and very clean and we also had a good view from our balcony overlooking the sea and mountains.
Mrs L Vale, Wisbech
|24th Apr 2017
|Grand Ideal Premium Hotel
|Double Or Twin - Land View
|All Inclusive
Good value for money. Located on main road so good for local transport. 2-3 mins walk to beach from front door. Hotel decor lovely, kept spotlessly clean, 24/7. Staff pleasant, animation good, food and drinks very good. Only downside was our first couple of nights the cafe/bar near lobby served drinks in paper cups. We did complain and they were changed to plastic. Pool good, water slide and kiddies play area, many sunbeds and seating, but towels were being put out before 7.30am. Very much family hotel and children catered for. All in all a good hotel.
Mrs S Johnson, South Shields
|7th Apr 2017
|Grand Ideal Premium Hotel
|Double Or Twin - Land View - Promo
|All Inclusive
Staff are great can't do enough to please you, food is good and drinks are good, cocktails included in AI, pool and beach towels provided, room towels changed daily. The whole hotel is spotless. Plenty sunbeds for everyone. All rooms have a safe and fridge, free of charge and the WiFi is good and free. The hotel is in a prime location and great for kids also.
Mr S Hussain, Leytonstone
|30th Aug 2016
|Grand Ideal Premium Hotel
|Double Or Twin - Land View
|All Inclusive
We checked in late at night. 3 of us in a room. The room was clean with a double and single bed. It wasn't a very big room but we didn't really care as we weren't going to spend much time in there anyway. It has a fridge which is stocked for free twice a week. A safe which is free to use. The food is great. The rooms are cleaned and new towels added when needed. Staff are helpful. To get a sun lounger you have to be up early. The location is good. Just a few minutes into the marina.
MRS J Fox, Airdrie
|21st May 2016
|Grand Ideal Premium Hotel
|Double Or Twin - Land View
|All Inclusive
This hotel is spotless, rooms were cleaned every day. The food is good even though I am a picky eater I enjoyed the variety on offer here and would go as far to say this was the best hotel food I have had in a long time. The staff were very friendly and couldn't do enough for you. The bars were well tended, no long queues of people waiting on drinks. Couldn't really fault this hotel so it gets a thumbs up from me.
Mrs I Burwin, Manchester
|22nd Oct 2015
|Grand Ideal Premium Hotel
|Double Or Twin - Land View
|All Inclusive
Staff very polite and helpful. Very clean in all areas. Food lovely, but breakfasts were not to my husbands liking, he prefers bacon with everything! and only had bacon on once for breakfast. Lunches and evening meal were lovely, lots of choice. Good location, able to walk into Marmaris central harbour area, eat out a couple of times as well. Buses are really good, colour coded so you know which bus to get to where, and very cheap for almost everything. Beach at Ideal Premium not very good. Swimming pool was freezing, children were very brave going in, coming out with blue lips, far too cold water. Overall a very nice country and I would certainly go again. The taxi was waiting at the airport for us, even though we were over an hour late in arriving, and on time for our return journey. All in all, a very good experience.
Miss T Morgan, London
|30th Sep 2015
|Grand Ideal Premium Hotel
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Our stay got off to a shaky start when we arrived after travelling for 12 hours to be told there was no food available of any kind as it was after 1am. The inside of the hotel looked nice, quite plush when you get past the reception desk. We were taken to our room via the most comically tiny lift I have ever seen in a hotel, it was a talking point among everybody on the holiday. When we reached our room the porter opened the door and we could immediately hear the roar of traffic from the road outside without even entering! This got worse when after successfully entering the room with the keycard, the porter put it into the power slot inside the room to turn everything on, nothing happened. We went back to reception to be told they were calling an electrician! We rejected that idea immediately and told them the room was the noisiest we had ever encountered so another quieter room was found. This room had the worst view, it looked onto the side of another block and over part of another hotels pool but at least it was quiet! The room was nicely finished and decorated and very clean but it was also far too narrow. There is also the issue of how hot it is in the public areas and dining rooms, they say that they put air con on in these areas between 12 and 7pm in the hotter months, it was in the 90's when we were there and not pleasant to be outside your room at all.
I said a shaky start, well it could only get better! And it did, the whole hotel is very well furnished, decorated and looked after by very hardworking staff, the food is fantastic! I really compliment the chefs here, there is so much choice of delicious tasty food of every description. The Turkish night stands out as one of the best. At breakfast there is a very 'traditional' lady who cooks the eggs while muttering away in Turkish but the eggs are fresh. We had some lovely bacon several times on our stay, a first for us in a Turkish hotel, there were lots of inventive breakfast foods as well as practically anything else any nationality on holiday there could want, the lovely bread is always a bonus too. Lunch always looked nice with plenty of choice but after we found the delicious chicken kebabs they serve at the pool bar we used it every day. They are lovely and lean, made from breast not thigh meat and served with lovely sauces and salads along with chips and breads if you can manage them. The evening meals are amazing with an such a variety of good quality tasty food to choose from that we were spoilt for choice every evening. It really feel like they have made an effort and are rightly proud of what they have achieved in the restaurants.
Something that does let this hotel down badly is the entertainment, or lack of it. A few days we were there they put on a couple of pool games; volleyball and a game of catch the ball in a cup. The pool bar staff are among the most unfriendly we have come across but they do serve lovely slush drinks on tap, alcoholic or non alcoholic, really refreshing in the heat, for the big drinkers there will not be any problems here from what we could see with tons of choice, just not very nicely served. In the evening there seemed to be nothing at all for adults just a few party songs with children clambering over the stage. It was cute to watch the toddlers trying to join in but there was no interest at all if you didn't have kids there like 95% of the patrons. There are TV's playing sports events and a pool table and football table but these were always in use by a couple of large groups staying there. The entertainment team were a nice friendly bunch but compared to other hotels we have stayed at the entertainment was dismal for adults. They have lovely rooms where they could play a film or host a quiz night or singalong, or put on a show, just something as an alternative to just sitting there, perhaps this might have meant having to put the aircon on!
The hotel is well situated for catching the dolmus into Marmaris harbour/bazaar area which is very nice, but it is on a noisy main road so if you are a light sleeper be aware. You can walk down the road along side the hotel to the beach and there is a lovely walk with lots of restaurants and bars and lovely views, especially at night. If you are lucky with your room and plan to go out or make your own entertainment most evenings I would recommend this hotel, some people we talked to did get lovely large rooms when paying for standard, so they do exist!
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This auction:Artist : Willie Hatcher A) Good things come to those who wait B) Searchin Label : Columbia (for condition refer to pic, slight scuffs and wear) A Northern Soul double sider! SUPER issue copy of this MOSTER 45. Not the more common promo.....100% OG guaranteed!! Condition : EX+ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For MORE HEAVY FUNK REGGAE and SOUL 45s check out my other items ! POSTAGE and PACKING (in reinforced mailers) - I will combine postage for a discount --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UK = £ 1.75 (1st Class standard) EUROPE = £ 3.50 (airmail) WORLD = £ 5.50 (airmail) Recorded delivery is only £1 extra and highly recommended, well worth the extra pence!! Let me know if you would liek another maling option and i will invoice at auction end Any questions? - then please ask. Sounclips may be found at www. , www. & www. GRADING SCALE (all records graded visually) M: Mint as new. Factory fresh. (practically NO records meet this!)
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1) Identify and characterize intestinal ecological niches and their impact on foodborne pathogen survival, persistence, colonization, or virulence. In a broader systematic approach, evaluate the interactions among environmental influences (e.g., management, production) and ecological niches on phenotypic and genotypic characteristics and food safety. 2) Evaluate the effects of antimicrobials on intestinal microbiomes, and on the expression and transmission of virulence, fitness, and antimicrobial resistance genes in culture and the host. 3) Develop a functional metagenomic approach to identify gene products that inhibit foodborne pathogen growth, interfere with virulence gene expressions, or reduce antimicrobial resistance (and enhance food safety). 4) Assess role of commensal intestinal bacteria in evolution, persistence, or transmission of resistance genes. Evaluate novel strategies for reducing antimicrobial resistant organisms and resistance genes. 5) Evaluate the effects of environmental influences (e.g., management, production), ecological niches and vaccine strategies on phenotypic and genotypic characteristics of Campylobacter (specifically in turkeys).
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Research to control Campylobacter in turkeys will be pursued by subfractionating, identifying and characterizing microbial species in turkey ceca which are potential Campylobacter antagonists. Cecal populations will be subfractionated in vivo by antibiotic applications and dexamethasone induced stress. Potentially useful species will initially be associated with Campylobacter reductions in vivo and confirmed in vitro by using co-cultures. Two other approaches for controlling Campylobacter will be tested: dietary additives (prebiotics and probiotics) and a prime-boost vaccination strategy using C. jejuni surface membrane protein CjaA expressed in a recombinant strain of attenuated Salmonella. The commensal anaerobe Megasphaera elsdenii will be used as an archetype intestinal bacterium to identify common antibiotic resistance genes and transfer mechanisms in the intestinal tract and to test M. elsdenii as a site for tetracycline resistance gene evolution in that ecosystem. In a probiotic type attempt, a mix of five antibiotic sensitive M. elsdenii strains will be used to block the transmission of antibiotic resistant strains from mother sow to offspring pigs. Metagenomic, culture, and PCR methods will be used to assess the effects of dietary antibiotics (ASP250, carbadox, and other antibiotics) on swine and turkey microbiomes. Specific areas of research will include the influence of subinhibitory antibiotics on the production of Salmonella bacteriophages carrying fitness or virulence genes and on phage mediated gene transfer between Salmonella strains (transduction). These studies will be carried out with Salmonella Typhimurium strains in culture and in a mouse model. Functional metagenomics assays involving recombinant E. coli and Salmonella strains containing reporter plasmids will be used to identify gene products which either affect Salmonella virulence or are inhibitory for Salmonella growth.
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A) Research on the impact of antibiotics on intestinal microbiomes revealed detectable changes in the bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria) due to in-feed antibiotics. By studying a gene that is required for phages to get into a bacterial genome (called an integrase), the results suggested that phage production was stimulated by the in-feed antibiotics carbadox and aureomycin, sulfamethazine, penicillin 250 (ASP250). Antibiotic resistance genes were detected in the phage deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), although there was no statistically significant difference in the abundance of resistance genes between the medicated and non-medicated animals. Phages are important drivers of bacterial evolution in an ecosystem because they transfer genes between bacteria. The result that in-feed antibiotics increased phage numbers is an indication that antibiotic treatment is providing an evolutionary stimulus to gut microbial communities. B) Megasphaera elsdenii (M. elsdenii) is a common, non-pathogenic bacterium that inhabits the intestinal tracts of animals and humans. It provides nutritional and health benefits to its animal hosts. The genomes (DNAs) of two M. elsdenii parent strains (strain 14-14 and strain 24-50C) and three offspring strains produced from the matings of the parent strains were extensively sequenced and analyzed. The genome sequence comparisons showed M. elsdenii strain 14-14 efficiently transferred resistance to the antibiotics tetracycline, ampicillin, and tylosin to strain 24-50C. There were, however, two different genetic mechanisms for the transfer. Understanding both bacterial reservoirs of antibiotic resistance and the genetic mechanisms for the spread and the evolution of resistance provide tools for rationally assessing the effects of agricultural antibiotic use. This research was recently cited in the Food and Drug Administration's final Guidance for Industry Number 209 entitled, "The judicious use of medically important antimicrobial drugs in food-producing animals". This citation demonstrates the importance of this research for regulatory agencies.
4. Accomplishments
1. Functional metagenomics assay for alternatives to antibiotics. ARS researchers in Ames, Iowa developed and successfully tested a high throughput, robotic-based assay to identify 'toxic' genes whose products either inhibit Escherichia coli (E. coli) growth or disrupt E. coli bacteria. This 'functional metagenomic' assay screens all deoxyribonucleic acids (DNAs) in subfractions of environmental samples in order to find genes toxic for foodborne pathogens, such as E. coli. The researchers plan to add to their collection of inhibitory genes while starting to identify the cloned toxic genes. This research and products benefit animal producers, animal health and food safety industries, commodity groups, and pharmaceutical industries seeking alternatives to existing antibiotics.
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It's part of the sprite now, along with the smiley and switchmode icon, which are also missing from your screenshot ragtek.
Looks like the sprite isn't being loaded for some reason.
I had had those missing as well, but they've magically* reappeared now, so I might just suggest waiting to see if they return.
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