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  Adamson, Ian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Ian Adamson describes himself as “Jack of all sports and master of none”, however, this modest portrayal belies a fierce determination that has spurned him on to two world endurance kayak records and inclusion on the world champion adventure racing team, Eco-Internet.
Ian is an expert in white water rafting, sea kayaking, mountain biking, horseback riding, mountaineering and climbing - all sports that are commonly required in adventure racing.
Ian has been teaching adventure sports and corporate team building since 1995 and is the course director for Corporate Adventure Training.
www.collaborativespeakers.com /speakers/adamson_ian.html   (399 words)

  
 Ian Adamson's close call 380 feet above the bottom of Bridal Veil Falls
Adamson and teammates Andrea and Keith Murray and John Jacoby were three or four hours from the finish and were solidly locked in third place, headed for a $25,000 payday.
Adamson, one of the greats of the sport with several Eco-Challenge wins to his credit, teaches climbing and all disciplines at Colorado Adventure Race Training.
Adamson tried to yell up to the riggers to come help but it was hard to communicate at first.
www.insidetri.com /news/fea/1037.0.html   (586 words)

  
 Faculty and Staff Directory - Faculty of Business, Brock University   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Ian is a Chartered Accountant and obtained his Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of Waterloo, majoring in Information Systems.
Adamson, I.L. and D.M. Dilts, "Forming an REA Model From A Relational Database" Proceedings of the 30th.
Bell, F.P., Adamson, I.L., and Schwartz, C.J. "Aortic Endothelial Permeability to Albumin: Focal and Regional Patterns of Uptake and Transmural Distribution of 131-I-Albumin in the Young Pig" Experimental and Molecular Pathology, Vol.
www.brocku.ca /business/database/faculty.php?id=1&d=Accounting   (545 words)

  
 CNN.com - Big Country star found hanged - December 18, 2001
Adamson was positively identified through fingerprints, The Associated Press reported.
Adamson's manager Ian Grant said on Monday: "I have just lost one of the finest people I have ever worked with or been lucky enough to know.
Adamson moved to the United States in the late 1990s after the hits dried up.
archives.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/18/bigcountry.adamson   (444 words)

  
 BBC News | SCOTLAND | Big Country singer missing again
Mr Adamson has had a long battle with alcoholism and after his previous disappearance he claimed he was disillusioned with the music industry.
Mr Adamson's ex-wife also confirmed he is due to appear in court in the US charged with drink-driving.
She denied reports that his disappearance was linked to his court case and that he was on the run from the police.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/scotland/1700268.stm   (530 words)

  
 m031021-s
Ian Adamson expressed appreciation to David Croome for writing this report, which he described as being well put together, objective, and supportive of the work done by Peel staff.
Ian Adamson also updated the Committee with regard to three administrator training sessions for Special Education, involving approximately 150 staff each session, and he thanked his staff members who were involved in organizing these excellent sessions.
Ian Adamson commented that, although it looks like a simple template, it is, in fact, a huge undertaking, involving a major reframing of the IEP engine, which will require extensive staff in-service.
www.peel.edu.on.ca /trustee/agenda/m031021-s.htm   (2146 words)

  
 RacingThePlanet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Adamson has also competed internationally in ocean yacht racing, sail boarding, triathlon, and marathon kayaking, cross-country skiing, orienteering, mountain biking, road cycling, ultra-running, alpine skiing, in-line skating and rock climbing.
Ian is a combination Mighty Mouse and ubermensch, the post-modern Renaissance Man who takes on all aspects of life with a twinkle in his eye and the courage of a lion.
Ian Adamson: Apart from answering reporters’ questions out on the course, being the primary navigator for the duration of the race was my greatest challenge.
www.racingtheplanet.com /articles/adamson.asp   (2483 words)

  
 Adventure Sports Magazine | Training/Technique   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Three-time Eco-Challenge champion Ian Adamson is arguably the most successful adventure racer of all time, having raced (and often won) events from three hours to ten days all over the world.
Known for both his physical prowess and tactical race strategies, Ian has undoubtedly figured out the body (training)/mind (racing) formula to be successful.
Ian Adamson has helped his teams win Eco-Challenge three times and finish on the podium four other times.
www.adventuresportsmagazine.com /train/like_ian.html   (1057 words)

  
 Foot.com Information Center
Adamson: The worst foot problems I have had are racing with a broken big toe in the 1996 Eco-Challenge in British Columbia (after a boulder rolled over it on a talus slope) and with a deep tissue infection during the 1999 Elf Authentic Adventure, an 11-day sufferfest.
Adamson: I do winter races and training in conditions down to -40 degrees, but I'm fortunate to have good circulation and have not had any frostbite on my feet.
Adamson: The single most important thing for an athlete getting into adventure racing is to become competent in all the sports.
www.dr.foot.com /info/ai_interview005.jsp   (1261 words)

  
 CNN.com - Suicide rock star died drunk - January 25, 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Adamson's body was found in his hotel room near Honolulu airport on December 16.
Adamson's estranged wife, Melanie Shelley, reported the singer missing from his Nashville, Tennessee, home on November 26.
Adamson was born in Manchester, England, and grew up near Dunfermline, Scotland.
edition.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/25/adamson   (318 words)

  
 current_wired   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The wired team known as "Team Tech" is made up of premier adventure racers Ian Adamson, Robyn Benincasa and Mike Kloser from USA and John Jacoby out of Australia.
Team leader Ian Adamson says being used as a scientific guinea pig should not be to restrictive athletically but says it will take some time to down load the information each day.
Ian Adamson won the traverse back in 96 the same year he last won the Eco.
www.southerntraverse.com /southerntraverse/headquarters/current_wired.html   (655 words)

  
 CNN.com - Big Country star found dead - December 17, 2001
Ian Grant, Adamson's manager, confirmed the body of the 43-year-old was discovered in a hotel on Sunday.
Adamson, who had been living in Nashville, Tennessee, went missing several weeks ago.
Adamson, born in Manchester, England, grew up in Crossgates near Dunfermline, Fife, and formed the punk group The Skids in the 1970s.
archives.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/17/bigcountry   (325 words)

  
 RacingThePlanet: Ian Adamson – Race Director, 4 Deserts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
At RacingThePlanet, Ian serves as the race director for the 4 Deserts.
Ian Adamson was born in Sydney (Australia) and currently resides in Colorado (United States).
Before devoting himself to athletic endeavors, Ian was president and chief executive officer of Reflex Medical Products, Inc., a cardiac training tools company, and a project engineer for Telectronics, a maker of cardiac pacemakers and other devices.
www.racingtheplanet.com /ianadamson.asp   (271 words)

  
 Ian Adamson
Ian Adamson has been a professional adventure athlete since 1997 and has been racing at top levels since 1988.
Ian is a three time Eco-Challenge champion, with an unprecedented seven podium finishes, and the only athlete in the world to also win the Primal Quest, Raid Gauloises and Southern Traverse, the 'big four' international adventure races.
The rigorous physical and mental demands of adventure racing are extremely punishing on athlete's bodies, and Ian drinks TAHITIAN NONI® Juice to aid in maintenance during training and racing.
www.tahitiannoni.com /canada/english/public/company/press/spokespeople/athletes/1233-IanAdamson.html   (371 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Runner's World Guide to Adventure Racing: How to Become a Successful Racer and Adventure Athlete   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
"Ian Adamson is the leading authority on the sport of adventure racing, taking the science of teamwork, sleep management, navigation, and endurance to an unparalleled level.
Ian's entertaining and informative book gives novice and expert racers alike the secrets to tap the depths of our own potential and find the magic to push to the next level.
Ian is truly "one" of the best adventure racers in the world along with his mates John Howard and Steve Gurney.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1579548369   (759 words)

  
 m040324-s
Ian Adamson noted that there is a need to make programs more geographically accessible.
Ian Adamson outlined the key strategies which include development of programs that maximize the use of community resources in collaboration with community and government agencies.
Ian Adamson referred to the Program Summaries, and drew attention to the Teenage Education and Motherhood High School Completion Program.
www.peel.edu.on.ca /trustee/agenda/m040324-s.htm   (1975 words)

  
 Adamson pulls team out of Raid Gauloises
Last August Ian Adamson's adventure-racing team raced its way to an expenses-aided trip to this June's Raid Gauloises in the Kyrghyz Republic in Central Asia.
Adamson cited concerns over safety in the region as the reason for the decision.
OLN TV will not broadcast the event this year as they did with last year's Raid from Vietnam, and with Adamson's agent, Aura360 Ventures, expected to announce Nike ACG as Adamson's new team sponsor, the exposure value of the Raid, sponsored by Adidas-owned Salomon footwear, may just not be worth the effort or the risk.
www.insidetri.com /news/fea/1503.0.html   (368 words)

  
 Adventure Sports Magazine | Ask The Experts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Three-time Eco-Challenge winner Ian Adamson has been multi-sport racing over three decades, and is currently captain of Team Nike ACG/Balance Bar, which won the prestigious Subaru Primal Quest in September, among a long list of wins in 2003.
Ian's background and one of his specialties is endurance kayaking, in which he holds the world record for distance covered in moving water over a 24-hour period.
Ian's other areas of expertise include navigation, paddling, ropes, strategy and overall race savvy.
www.asmagazine.com /resources/experts.html   (1009 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Team leader Ian Adamson says being used as a scientific guinea pig should not be to restrictive athletically but says it will take some time to down load the information each day.
Ian Adamson won the traverse back in 96 the same year he last won the Eco.
The 364 kms course includes 129kms of mountain trekking, 120kms of mountain biking, 106kms of kayaking and 9kms of rafting.
www.southerntraverse.com /Immediate_Release_03_11_00.doc   (230 words)

  
 atacama_byoungblood
The course was designed and directed by Ian Adamson whom is a veteran/ champion adventure racer and adventure race course designer.
It would be decided by Ian Adamson whom later in the evening felt a 15 minute penalty would suffice.
Later the next day Ian led three other competitors during the day to finish the last 10 km and was informed the drop off was at least 200 meters or 650 feet straight down.
www.nttr.org /html/atacama_byoungblood.htm   (3145 words)

  
 Billboard.BIZ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Stuart Adamson, former lead singer of Scottish rock act Big Country, was found dead yesterday (Dec. 16) in a hotel room in Hawaii.
Adamson's body, found Sunday at the Plaza Hotel in Honolulu, was positively identified through fingerprints.
Marcus Hummon, Raphaels co-founder, remembered Adamson on the Track Records site, saying "Stuart was a good man who experienced breathtaking highs and desperate lows, who loved his children, who was a great artist, a fine fisherman...
www.billboard.com /bb/biz/newsroom/printable_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1208390   (429 words)

  
 Planet Sinclair: Computers: MK 14: Articles: Scamps and Scams
Today, Ian Williamson is a highly paid executive with Leyland in Coventry, but back in the summer of 1977 he was one of the many electronics undergraduates whose talents were promoted and marketed by Cambridge Consultants.
Furthermore, like any electronics enthusiast of the day, Ian made it his business to keep abreast of developments in the States, and it was in the US hobbyist magazines that Williamson noted a market trend that so far remained unexploited in the UK.
Thus, when Ian Williamson turned up on his doorstep with the idea of marketing a cut-price computer kit, Curry immediately saw a chance to jump ahead of the competition in the world of hobbyist electronics, while at the same time sticking with a market and a technology with which the company was familiar.
www.nvg.ntnu.no /sinclair/computers/mk14/mk14_sst.htm   (5268 words)

  
 Teambuilding Inc. Services -Eco-Quest Adventure Racing
Ian Adamson, team leader for the reigning Eco-Challenge world champion team, has designed the session to replicate the essential elements of adventure racing teams within the physical limitations of non-athlete participants.
They incorporate initiatives, problems, puzzles and a variety of indoor or outdoor challenges that lead teams toward a common goal, ending with a celebration as teams unravel the mystery of their journey.
Ian is currently Chief Instructor at the world's oldest and longest running corporate adventure training school in America.
www.teambuildinginc.com /services4_eco_quest_racing.htm   (779 words)

  
 EXN.ca | Environment
This is the first team win for Colorado-based Salomon Eco-Internet, comprising Ian Adamson, 35, Robyn Benincasa, 33, Isaac Wilson, 29 and Michael Kloser, 40.
It is Ian Adamson’s second win, following British Columbia in 1996.
Ian Adamson, Robyn Benincasa, Isaac Wilson and Michael Kloser raised their paddles in victory as they slid their perahu, mast down, into the dock at the Dragon Inn.
www.exn.ca /Stories/2000/08/26/55.asp   (390 words)

  
 Salomon X-adventure on adventure.mountainzone.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Benincasa will be racing for Team Salomon Eco-Internet, along with Ian Adamson, Mike Kloser and Isaac Wilson.
Benincasa, along with the female dominated team, consisting of Adamson, Rebecca Rusch (racing last-minute in Aspen X-Adventure with Team Argentina) and Cathy Sassin, was the first US team to cross the finish line in the 1999 Argentina Eco-Challenge.
It's a 230km race, which, to the metrically-challenged, equals about 143 miles of power charged in-line skating, mountain biking, rappelling, trekking, orienteering, whitewater canoeing and horseback riding.
adventure.mountainzone.com /2000/salomon/html/preview.html   (429 words)

  
 August 18: It's not over yet | Outside Online
Ian Adamson and John Jacoby, teammate of Jane Hall on Team Pure Energy Australia, join the conversation.
Ian Adamson was the original partner of Robert Nagle.
Adamson admits that there aren't many other competitive sports events in which the level of injury and sleep deprivation is so prevalent.
outside.away.com /outside/events/eco97/aug18.html   (1947 words)

  
 Jever Steam Laundry - Past AGMs
The "Golden Share" went to Dougie Adamson in recognition of his regular attendance over the years and I have to thank Dougie and Ian Craig for providing the photographic coverage and recording all the evidence which may be used, as they say, at some later date.
Dougie Adamson, Mike Wraight, Ian Craig and others at the AGM 2000 in The Clachan, Fleet St.
Dougie Adamson, Ian Craig, Mike Wraight, Unknown AGM 2000
www.rafjever.org /agm2000.htm   (1161 words)

  
 NME.COM - News - STUART ADAMSON REMEMBERED   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
The late BIG COUNTRY frontman STUART ADAMSON is to be remembered at a memorial service in his hometown of DUNFERMLINE on Sunday (January 27).
The singer/guitarist's remaining members will join with the original line-up of his first band The Skids and friends, family and fans for the occasion in the town's Carnegie Hall.
Adamson's manager Ian Grant, who has been helping to organise the service, said that several musicians, including some prominent figures from the Scottish music industry, will also join to pay their respects.
www.nme.com /news/100536.htm   (206 words)

  
 New Page 3
By entering the 2004 ARC Urban Adventure Race - Toronto on May 1, 2004, your team will receive one draw ticket for the chance to have either Ian Adamson or Nathan Fa'ave (two of the best adventure racers in the world), race as the 'fourth member' of you three person team.
Ian's charity is the National Parkinson Foundation www.parkinson.org/reqformx.htm and Nathan's is the Nelson Ploynesian Afterschool Centre in New Zealand.
Ian is co-founder of Corporate Adventure Training in Colorado and one of the top Adventure Racers in the world.
www.adventureracingcanada.com /RacewithIanorNathan.htm   (548 words)

  
 After The Fire - Official website - Biography
After The Fire originally formed in 1971/early 1972 with Peter Banks on keyboards, John Leach on bass and Ian Adamson on drums.
In 1974 Peter and Ian decided to breathe new life into ATF and started auditions for a guitar player.
In 1977 Robin left, replaced by Nick Battle and Ian left to be replaced by a "strange" drummer, Ivor Twidell.
www.afterthefire.co.uk /original/biography.htm   (977 words)

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