2014 ITU Triathlon World Championship Series Grand Final goes to Edmonton
The International Triathlon Union (ITU) has named Edmonton, Canada, as the host city for the 26th edition of the ITU World Championships Grand Final in 2014.“Edmonton has been a staple city on the ITU calendar for many years,” ITU President and IOC Member Marisol Casado said. “Given their extensive experience organizing ITU events, we have no doubt they will host a world class event that continues to push the standards of excellence we have seen in our Grand Final events.”The event will mark the fourth time Canada has hosted the Grand Final, with Edmonton having organised the race in 2001. Edmonton was also the site of nine world cup events in the last 10 years and has welcomed PATCO Junior Triathlon Pan American races on four occasions, in addition to a stand-alone Paratriathlon race in 2012.“We are very committed to bringing sporting events to Edmonton,” said Jane Batty, the city’s Deputy Mayor. “We can provide a great atmosphere for the race, but what ITU triathlon provides to our community is ever greater.”In addition to crowning the 2014 ITU World Champions, the event will also name world champions in junior and U23 categories, as well as Paratriathlon, which will debut in the Paralympics at Rio 2016. After record-high numbers of age-group triathletes descended on Auckland in 2012, thousands of athletes from around the world are expected to travel to Edmonton.The ITU Triathlon World Championships were first held in Avignon, France in 1989. In 2009, the championships were revamped, expanding the former single-day World Championship race into an exciting multi-city global series, culminating with the ITU Triathlon World Championship Grand Final. Athletes earn points throughout the season and those who win the overall series are crowned the ITU Triathlon World Champions.The 2013 ITU World Championships Grand Final will be held in London on 11-15 September, where age-group athletes will get the opportunity to participate on much the same course as during the 2012 London Olympics in Hyde Park.The ITU confirmed this week that PruHealth, a leading health insurance and wellness provider in the UK, will be the title sponser of the 2013 ITU World Triathlon Grand Final London. Going forwards, the event will be known as the PruHealth World Triathlon Grand Final London.Official dates for the 2014 World Championships in Edmonton, Canada, will be confirmed and announced as soon as possible.wts.triathlon.orgwww.triathlon.org Related
Biamp conference room solutions are now approved by Zoom for use with both Zoom software and Zoom Rooms. Thus, Biamp now supports bidirectional mute synchronization to share mute or unmute commands with Zoom. (This means Biamp microphones display mute status — red or green — and pass mute commands to the overall system with the push of a button.)The testing was conducted by Zoom and Biamp together on Biamp’s Devio SCR and Tesira platforms, working with Zoom and Zoom Rooms. The latest Tesira and Zoom releases enable the new features.The certification covers Devio, Parlé, Tesira and the EX-UBT.
The Gophers dropped a 2-1 contest to Virginia Tech in their second close defensive battle of the weekend. Trailing 2-0 in the fifth, outfielder Brooke Vander Heide reached on a single to center. After advancing to second, Partain hit a deep fly to center. Vander Heide appeared to tag up and crossed home plate, but was called for leaving early. Still trailing 2-0, the Gophers finally got on the board in the sixth. DenHartog reached with a double, and Hansen brought her home with a single up the middle. The Gophers offense stalled the rest of the way as Virginia Tech held on to their one-run advantage. Fiser struck out 11 in six innings, allowing eight hits on the day. Gophers top Missouri SundayAfter falling to No. 19 Missouri a week earlier, the Gophers bounced back with a 10-1 win to split the weekend series 2-2. Scoreless through three innings, the Gophers exploded in the fourth. DenHartog and Hansen both reached on singles and Kemmetmueller walked to load the bases. Strelow continued her big weekend with an RBI single and designated player Josey White brought in two more runs off a double. Outfielder Kianna Jones added a sacrifice fly to bring in another as the Gophers took a 5-0 lead. It was redemption following a 7-4 loss to Missouri the last weekend.“I think we were much more prepared for Missouri this time, and we just had a totally different mindset going into this game,” Partain said. The Gophers added five more runs in the sixth and seventh innings to secure the run rule victory over Missouri. “We had some great wins. Florida State, a great comeback there and obviously putting a really good, complete game together today on championship Sunday,” head coach Jamie Trachsel said. “That was a big deal — responded really well from yesterday, and we did a lot of good things and we have some things we need to work on.” Gophers softball splits weekend series in ClearwaterMinnesota picked up a top-five win over Florida State on Friday.Photo Courtesy of Gopher Softball Nolan O’HaraFebruary 17, 2020Jump to CommentsShare on FacebookShare on TwitterShare via EmailPrintThe Gophers softball team picked up another pair of wins over the weekend in the ESPN St. Pete Clearwater Elite Invitational, a four-game series against some of the top teams in the country. Gophers fall to OSU, beat FSU FridayThe Gophers dropped their first game of the series against No. 16 Oklahoma State 2-0 in a defensive battle.After two scoreless innings, Oklahoma State hit a deep shot to left in the top of the third that was nearly snagged by outfielder Natalie DenHartog but dropped over the fence for a two-run home run. Pitcher Amber Fiser closed out the inning preventing any more damage, and she finished the game for Minnesota without allowing another run, striking out 12 along the way. However, the Gophers could not produce on the offensive end. While Minnesota matched Oklahoma State’s four hits, it couldn’t get on the scoreboard.With one last chance in the bottom of the seventh, the Gophers offensive struggles continued. Three consecutive ground outs closed the game as the Gophers fell in their first ranked contest of the season. A few hours later, Minnesota returned to the field for another ranked contest against No. 5 Florida State, this time securing a 7-6 victory.Trailing 6-5 in the bottom of the seventh, the Gophers battled to keep their hopes alive. Infielder MaKenna Partain hit a leadoff double to left-center. Shortstop Carlie Brandt brought Partain home for the game-tying run with a triple to the left. DenHartog reached for the Gophers by way of intentional walk and later advanced to second, putting runners on second and third. Infielder Emily Hansen reached on a fielder’s choice as Brandt was thrown out at home. DenHartog also got thrown out at home as infielder Katelyn Kemmetmueller reached on a fielder’s choice. With one more chance, the Gophers finally cashed in. Catcher Sydney Strelow stepped up to the plate and connected, hitting a walk-off single and bringing in the game-winning run for Minnesota. Strelow also hit a two-run home run in the second, giving the Gophers their first runs of the day. “I was trying to keep calm. I’ve been in big moments before, and I knew my team had my back behind me,” Strelow said. “I was looking for an outside pitch, and that’s what I got and I drove it.” Pitcher Autumn Pease pitched six innings over two stints in the game, allowing only three hits and striking out six. Controversial call costs Minnesota Saturday
This morning, 3 megacruisers sailed into the new port of Gaženica in Zadar – Cellebrity Constellation of 294m, Aida Bella of 252m and Seven Seas Explorer of 223m, and with them seven thousand passengers in international traffic, which is a historical result and an absolute Zadar record in maritime traffic.”We expect an absolute record in maritime traffic today. It is quite rare for something like this to happen. We have announcements for the situation that we will have two cruisers at the same time, but I do not believe that this picture with three cruisers in Gaženica will soon be repeated. ” pointed out the assistant director of the Zadar Port Authority Đoni Štambuk for HRT. However, I was disappointed that we hope that this kind of picture will be more and more common in Zadar.The statistical analysis of tourist traffic for the month of July 2016 in the city of Zadar records an increase of 15% in arrivals and 6% in overnight stays, according to the Tourist Board of the City of Zadar. In July, over 89.910 tourists were recorded in the Zadar area via the eVisitor system, who spent more than 395.213 nights, while the share of foreign tourists was 91% and domestic tourists 9%. According to the structure of guests in the statistical analysis, the largest number of overnight stays by country was realized by guests from Germany, Slovenia, Austria, Slovakia and Poland.Most overnight stays, almost 240.000 are recorded in family accommodation. This is followed by accommodation in hotels with more than 96.000 overnight stays, camps with 18.900 and hostels with 16.200 overnight stays.
A presentation of the prestigious guide to extra virgin olive oils was held in Savudrija, Flos Olei 2017, which for the second time in a row declared Istria the best olive growing region in the world.Flos Olei, a bilingual Italian-English guide to the world’s top extra virgin olive oils, is highly regarded in the world of gastronomy, and in the 2017 edition, Istria won the top of the world rankings with its oils, for the second time in a row. The gastronomic and tourist guide Flos Olei for 2017 presents 50 countries from 5 continents, and the introductory text for each of them offers a general overview of history, culture and production. Producers and their best oils, including 60 Istrian ones, are presented on 864 pages of a guide that highlights their specialties.This year, for the first time, 12 new Istrian olive growers were included in the guide, and those who were included in this catalog last year, this year have better grades than before, which testifies to a good olive year in Istria, but also to improving the technological production process. and olive processing. “In this year’s edition, over two thousand samples from all over the world, ie 5 continents, arrived for evaluation, and 500 samples were shortlisted, of which as many as 60 samples from Istria, ie 12 percent – which is a really fascinating fact for Istria. night is already the result of the dedicated work of Istrian olive growers. Extra virgin olive oil, along with truffles, is one of the most competitive products in Istria, which for the second year in a row ranks our region first in the world, ahead of the famous Italian region of Tuscany and Spanish Andalusia. ” pointed out the director of the Istria County Tourist Board Denis IvoševićOut of a possible 100, the highest number of points in this year’s guide has the Italian agricultural trade Pruneti from Greve in Chianti (Tuscany) with a grade 98, and a very high grade 97 from Istria won the family Ipša from Oprtalj te Olea BB from Rabac. Also great 96 points were won by Vodnjan OPG Matteo Belci, then Stancija Meneghetti from Bale, Vodnjan oilman Tonin te Enio Zubin from Umag, while grade 95 won franc Basiaco from Buje, Chiavalon from Vodnjan and Giancarlo Zigante from Livada.In addition to the overall excellent placement of Istrian oils, in this year’s evaluation Istria also has two champions, ie world champions: olive oil of the frantoio variety Claudia Ipshe from Livade shared the title of the best extra virgin single-variety olive oil with an intense fruit aroma, while Mate transparenza marina oil, a company Agrofin from Savudrija, declared the best extra virgin olive oil of moderate fruit aroma.One of the prominent olive growers on the Flos Olei guide list for years is the olive oil of olive grower Sandi Chiavalon from Vodnjan, one of the fifteen best olive oils in the world, and the most awarded olive oil in Croatia, which points out that this is a great recognition for Istria and excellent branding of Istria as a region of quality olive oil. „To is a great recognition for Istria as a region, as well as for us olive growers. When one region is profiled as a region of quality oil then oil becomes the motive of arrival and guests come only because of the oil. It is much better and better when an entire region is declared the best than individual olive growers’ awards. “Chiavalon pointed out.We have everything without even being aware of it, and often foreigners have to open our eyes to understand what wealth we have. However, Istria has been investing for years and strategically developing its tourism story, including rural tourism. Guests are increasingly discovering the beauty of the interior of Istria, the real estate market in the interior of Istria is expanding, there are more and more family farms and rural estates, and towns in the interior are beginning to live their new youth.
National firm Shoosmiths launched a new brand for its consumer legal services today in a bid to put its stamp on the ‘fragmented’ post-Clementi landscape.Access Legal will deliver legal services to the firm’s consumer clients in the areas of conveyancing, employment law, legal disputes, medical negligence, motoring, personal injury and wills.The new brand remains part of the Shoosmiths partnership and is not a separate legal entity.The firm has launched a new website for its consumer business, which accounts for 20% of its turnover – https://www.accesslegalsolicitors.co.uk. It will also run a helpline which its consumer clients will be able to call seven days a week, up to 8pm.The new logo for the brand and the website were created in-house by Shoosmiths.Partner and head of consumer services Judith Dorkins (pictured) said: ‘Consumers lack easy and reassuring access to legal advice and services. The consumer legal market is fragmented and without a leading legal brand, leaving it open to new entrants as a result of the Legal Services Act.’‘We recognised an opportunity in that we were ideally placed to put our stake in the ground as a professional law firm that wants to attain a share of this new market.’Marketing to consumers and commercial clients requires different approaches, she said. ‘One brand trying to tell two stories is difficult. This enables greater clarity for our clients.’Dorkins said that as lawyers had become more specialised over recent years, clients no longer saw them as being there to help with all their legal problems throughout their lives.‘Ultimately we want to provide consumers with the solutions to their complete lifetime legal needs,’ she said.
City firm Withers was ‘in contempt’ of parliament when it threatened an MP with legal action if he criticised one of its clients in the House of Commons, a parliamentary investigation found last week. But the report of the standards and privileges committee says no further action should be taken as the firm had ‘apologised unreservedly’ to the House and to John Hemming (pictured), the Liberal Democrat MP concerned. The issue arose out of a planning dispute in the MP’s Birmingham Yardley constituency. Hemming had called for a parliamentary investigation after receiving an email from Withers asking him not to repeat in the House or elsewhere allegedly defamatory comments about one of its clients made in a Liberal Democrat leaflet. The email said that unless the firm received an undertaking not to repeat the remarks, it would ‘have no alternative but to issue proceedings’. Following an emergency debate in the House of Commons, the committee received written evidence from Hemming, Withers and the Law Society. It concluded that the evidence was ‘clear’ that Withers was ‘in contempt of the House’ and said that contempt had been ‘repeated’. The committee said the firm had not taken the opportunity to withdraw the contempt: ‘We are surprised that a firm of the standing of Withers should have taken so long to understand the scope of parliamentary privilege.’ In a statement the firm said: ‘Withers is pleased that the committee for standards and privileges has accepted our full and unreserved apology to both the House and Mr Hemming with respect to this matter.’ Parliamentary privilege is a complex area that would benefit from clarification, the statement added. In a letter to the committee, Law Society president Robert Heslett called for a review, saying there was a conflict between parliamentary privilege and the rights of citizens to defend themselves against defamatory allegations.
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“K” Line staff in Houston will be joined by Per Haugaard and Russell Wolfe who previously represented SAL whilst working at Scan-Trans, Inc.The new office will strengthen ties with its existing US clients and establish new relationships with companies involved in the offshore oil and gas industry, an area in which SAL has become more active handling both transportation and installation activities.In December 2010 and March 2011, SAL will take delivery of its state-of-the-art type-183 new buildings which will be equipped with Dynamic Positioning and feature a combined lifting capacity of 2,000 tonnes enabling the line to offer even more assistance in offshore subsea installations, the erection of offshore wind power plants, as well as the transportation of heavy and unconventional cargoes.