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# David Lindstrom

David Edward Lindstrom (born 29 September 1948) is a New Zealand rower.

## Early life

Lindstrom was born in 1948 in Christchurch, New Zealand. He received his education at St Bede's College (1962–1966) and then studied obtained a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Canterbury (1967–1969). Ross Lindstrom is his cousin.

## Rowing

Lindstrom is a member of Avon Rowing Club. He represented New Zealand at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the coxed four, coming sixth in the event. He is listed as New Zealand Olympian athlete number 287 by the New Zealand Olympic Committee. He represented New Zealand at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the Coxless four in a team with Bob Murphy, Grant McAuley, and Des Lock, narrowly beaten by the team from the Soviet Union to fourth place. The 1977 World Rowing Championships saw Lindstrom win silver in the coxless four with Des Lock, Ivan Sutherland and Dave Rodger under new coach Harry Mahon. His last international success came in the 1978 World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, when he won bronze with the New Zealand eight.
In 2006, Lindstrom was appointed to the panel of junior national selectors by Rowing New Zealand (RNZ), and he later became the convenor of this panel. He was a rowing coach at his old school, St Bede's College, for many years. Travelling to the 2015 Maadi Cup, two of his rowers were involved in a security breach at Auckland Airport. St Bede's headmaster stood the rowers down from the regatta and Lindstrom had a public fallout with the headmaster over the affair. It resulted in his resignation as rowing coach at St Bede's, but he was also dumped by RNZ as a junior selector. Lindstrom was coaching the Wanganui Collegiate School rowing club, and provided results to the school within his first year of coaching. Lindstrom is now head coach of the Christchurch Girls' High School rowing club.
# David MacCalman

David Francis MacCalman MNZM (born 30 September 1958) is a Paralympian athlete from New Zealand competing mainly in category P53 pentathlon events. He lost the use of his legs after sustaining a spinal cord injury while diving into a river.
He competed in the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, Spain. There he finished fourth in the men's Shot put – THW2 event, finished fifth in the men's javelin throw – THW2 event, finished twelve in the men's discus throw – THW2-3 event, finished seventh in the men's 200 metres – TW2 event and went out in the first round of the men's 800 metres – TW2 event. He also competed at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, United States. There he won a silver medal in the men's javelin throw – F51 event and finished sixth in the men's Shot put – F51 event. He also competed at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, Australia. There he won a gold medal in the men's Pentathlon – P53 event, a gold medal in the men's javelin throw – F52 event and finished fourth in the men's Shot put – F52 event. He also competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta, United States. There he finished twelve in the men's javelin throw – F52-53 event and finished ninth in the men's Shot put – F52 event. In the 2001 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to sport.
In 2011, MacCalman was the first person in New Zealand to buy the REX Bionics exoskeleton orthosis to enable him to walk.
# David Mackay (sailor)

David James Mackay (born 25 March 1959) is a New Zealand sailor. He competed in the Flying Dutchman event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
# William (footballer, born 1996)

João William Alves de Jesus (born 11 June 1996), better known as just William, is a Brazilian professional footballer.
# Des Lock

Desmond John Lock (born 2 October 1949) is a New Zealand rower.
Lock was born in 1949 in Batu Gajah, Malaysia. He was a member of Petone Rowing Club. He represented New Zealand at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the coxless four in a team with Bob Murphy, Grant McAuley, and David Lindstrom, narrowly beaten by the team from the Soviet Union to fourth place. He is listed as New Zealand Olympian athlete number 356 by the New Zealand Olympic Committee. The 1977 World Rowing Championships saw Lock win silver in the coxless four with Ivan Sutherland, David Lindstrom and Dave Rodger under new coach Harry Mahon.
# Doug Ottley

Douglas Ottley (1923-1983) was an association football player who represented New Zealand at international level.
Ottley made his full All Whites debut in a 0–7 loss to Australia on 28 August 1948 and ended his international playing career with six A-international caps to his credit, his final cap an appearance in a 9–0 win over New Hebrides on 9 April 1951.
# Duncan Cole

Duncan Edward Cole (12 July 1958 – 21 May 2014) was a New Zealand association football player who represented New Zealand at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.
His senior career began with North Shore United before he moved to Australia to join Canberra City in the Australian National Soccer League
Cole made his full All Whites debut in a 2–0 win over Singapore on 1 October 1978. He was an integral member of the 1982 All Whites as they qualified for the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain, playing in all 15 qualifiers and all three group games in the finals tournament, where they lost to Scotland, USSR and Brazil.
Cole ended his international playing career with 58 A-international caps and 4 goals to his credit, his final cap in a 0–1 loss to Israel on 27 March 1988.

## Death

He died in Auckland on 21 May 2014 at the age of 55.
# Baptist Girls College

Baptist Girl College, often abbreviated as BGC, is a Baptist all-girls secondary school at Idi Aba neighbourhood of Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria. The school was founded about 100 years ago. BGC was among the mission schools taken over by the military government after the civil war in the 1970s. It is affiliated with the Nigerian Baptist Convention.

## Notable alumni

* Wuraola Esan
# Harry J. Tindell

Harry J. Tindell (born October 30, 1960) is a Tennessee politician and a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the 13th district, which encompasses part of Knox County.

## Biography

Tindell began his tenure as a state representative during the 97th General Assembly and was most recently re-elected as a member of the Democratic Party. He is the Chair of the House Budget Subcommittee and is a member of the House State and Local Government Committee, the House Local Government Subcommittee, the House State Government Subcommittee, the Joint Pensions and Insurance Committee, the Joint Lottery Oversight Committee, the Joint Tennessee Education Lottery Corp. Committee, and the House Finance, Ways and Means Committee. Harry Tindell graduated from Fulton High School and possesses a Bachelor of Science degree in business from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
In 2005, when the House of Representatives voted on whether or not to hold a referendum on writing into the state constitution an amendment banning gay marriage, Harry Tindell was one of only seven members of the House voting against the measure. In April 2006, when a bill passed the House Budget Subcommittee that would raise the minimum wage from $5.15 to $6.15, Tindell commented, "It's the right thing to do." He is the son of Knox County Clerk Billy Tindell.
# Frank Bruno (NZ writer)

Albert Francis St Bruno (1910—12 July 1967) was a New Zealand soldier, boxer, cartoonist, and writer.
Bruno was born in Sydney, Australia and moved to New Zealand as a child. He had an early career as a boxer, winning the Auckland amateur flyweight championship in 1930, and the bantamweight and flyweight championships in 1932. During the Great depression he travelled around Australia, working as a freelance writer and as a professional boxer. He enlisted in the New Zealand army at the outbreak of the second world war, serving as a machine-gunner in the first echelon of the 2nd New Zealand Division in both the Greece and Crete campaigns. He was wounded in action in December 1941.
On his return to New Zealand he wrote articles for the Auckland Star and published several books of cartoons and stories about his war experiences. In 1959 he published his first novel, The Hellbuster, a historical action novel set in the Bay of Islands. This was followed in 1960 by Black Noon at Ngutu, set in the Taranaki Wars, described as "a sadistic blood-and-guts yarn of the tough he-man type", and several other adventure novels. He also worked as a cartoonist, illustrating works by Hori. He died in 1967 after a long illness.

## Published works

* Desert Daze (1944)
* Maleesh George (1946)
* As a matter of fact (1950)
* The Hellbuster (1959)
* Black Noon at Ngutu (1960)
* Twenty years after (1961)
* Fury at Finnegan’s Folly (1962)
* The Black Pearl (1962)
* Cockeye Kerrigan (1963)
* Yellow Jack's Island (1963)
* Riggermortis (1966)

## Awards

* War Medal 1939–1945
* New Zealand War Service Medal
# Steve Hobbs (Missouri politician)

Steve Hobbs is a farmer and a Missouri Republican politician.

## Politics

Hobbs was first elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 2002, winning reelection in 2004.

## Personal information

He is the president of Hobbs Farms, Inc., a firm he had started with his father, in 1997. He is a member of such organizations as the Missouri Farm Bureau, for which he is former secretary/treasurer and legislative chair, the Beef Advisory Board, of which he is a former president and chair, the Mexico MFA Exchange Board, the Audrian County Cattleman's Board, of which he is a past president, a board member of Mexico MFA Oil, the Missouri Beef Industry Council, and the Soybean Association. He is currently a resident of Mexico, Missouri and is a member of Rush Hill Community Church.
# Gavin Thorley

Gavin Howard Thorley (11 June 1947 – 3 July 2022) was a New Zealand long-distance runner. He competed in the men's 5000 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Later in life he was very active as a volunteer with Special Olympics Kapiti.
# Geoff Walker (canoeist)

Geoffrey Seddon Walker (21 July 1952 – 18 October 1997) was a New Zealand canoeist who competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics. He partnered Alan Thompson in the K2 500 metres and K-2 1000 metres events, reaching the semi-finals of the former and finishing eighth in the final of the latter.
He first represented New Zealand in swimming, but narrowly missed selection for the 1970 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh. Then he became one of New Zealand's top surf lifesavers, and the New Zealand surf ski champion six times between 1974 and 1988.
He branched into kayaking, was selected for the team for the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
He was in the New Zealand surf lifesaving team in 1980, 1982 and 1988. He won the New Zealand ironman championship four times, and in 1988 won three golds at the national championships in surf ski, surf ski rescue and double surf ski.
He was born in Christchurch, and died in Christchurch, aged 45, after a long illness.
# George Cooke (rower)

George Campbell Cooke (17 March 1906 – 23 May 1941) was a New Zealand rower who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the New Zealand boat which was eliminated in the repêchage of the eight competition.
Cooke was born in Blenheim. He was killed in action during World War II at Servia, Greece. He was a Corporal in the New Zealand Army, and died of wounds during the Allied retreat in the Greek campaign of 1941.
# Gordon Rowe

Charles Gordon Rowe (30 June 1915 – 9 June 1995) was a New Zealand cricketer who played in one Test match in 1946 against Australia. He also represented New Zealand at hockey.

## Life and career
### Early life and war service

Rowe was born at Glasgow in Scotland in 1915 and died at Palmerston North in New Zealand in 1995 aged 79. He served overseas in the New Zealand Army in the Second World War. At the time he was a policeman in Auckland.

### Cricket

A middle-order batsman, Rowe made his first-class cricket debut in 1944–45, and had played six first-class matches for Wellington before being selected for the Test team, having scored 324 runs at an average of 27.00 runs per innings, with his top score of 72 made against Otago at Wellington. He had also scored 102 and 79 in a non-first-class match for Wellington against Canterbury in 1944–45.
In his Test match, also played in Wellington, he was dismissed for a pair, bowled by Bill O'Reilly each time. He is one of the ten players to be dismissed for a pair in their only Test. The only other New Zealander in that list is Len Butterfield, who played in the same match.
He played no further first-class matches for six seasons, but returned to captain Central Districts in 1952–53. He had little success with the bat, but in his last match he led the team to an innings victory against Otago, which ensured Central Districts second place in the Plunket Shield.
Rowe stood as an umpire in three matches in the 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup held in New Zealand.

### Hockey

Rowe was also a hockey player. He represented New Zealand against India in 1938. He scored four goals when Wairarapa defeated the touring Australian team 6–3 at Masterton in August 1948. He retired from representative hockey in 1958.
# Graeme McIntyre

Graeme McIntyre (born 12 October 1940) is a New Zealand former sports shooter. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the 1976 Summer Olympics.
# Graham Sligo

Graham William Sligo (born 24 December 1954 in Gisborne, New Zealand) is a former field hockey player from New Zealand, who was a member of the national team that finished seventh at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.
# Grant Loretz

Grant Loretz is a New Zealand sailor who has competed in multiple America's Cups.
Born in Tokoroa, Loretz joined New Zealand Challenge, working as a sail-maker for the 1987 Louis Vuitton Cup. At the 1992 Louis Vuitton Cup he sailed on NZL-20 as a trimmer. During the 1995 Louis Vuitton Cup he was a part of Tag Heuer Challenge, sailing on NZL-39.
He then joined Team New Zealand and was part of the 2000 America's Cup victory and unsuccessful 2003 America's Cup defence. He remained with the team and was part of the campaign for the 2007 Louis Vuitton Cup and 2007 America's Cup. He was Team New Zealand's sail co-coordinator during the 2013 America's Cup.
# Gregor Cameron

Gregor Ewen Cameron (born 11 January 1964) is a former New Zealand athlete who represented his country at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.

## Early life and family

Cameron was born in Dunedin on 11 January 1964, the son of Linda and Clive Cameron, and educated at East Otago High School. He went on to study at the University of Waikato, completing a Bachelor of Social Sciences in 1986, and Hamilton Teachers' College, where he was awarded a Diploma of Teaching in 1988.
In 1988, Cameron married Karenza de Silva.

## Athletics

Cameron won the New Zealand national men's 3000 m steeplechase title in 1986 and 1988. He represented New Zealand in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland. He finished ninth, recording a time of 8:42.08.
In 1990, Cameron was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.
# Ian Ormond

John Lambie "Ian" Ormond (5 August 1949 – 8 October 2021) was an association football player who represented New Zealand at international level.

## Biography

Ormond was born in Harthill, Scotland, on 5 August 1949, and migrated with his family to New Zealand in 1961. He became a naturalised New Zealand citizen in 1975. From 1965 to 1976 he played for Blockhouse Bay, but had a brief stint with Barnsley in the Football League, scoring a goal in his only appearance. Later in his career he played for Stop Out and North Shore United before retiring.
Ormond scored a hat-trick on his full All Whites debut in a 4–1 win over New Caledonia on 17 September 1971 and ended his international playing career with ten A-international caps and five goals to his credit, his final cap an appearance in a 1–0 loss to Australia on 2 March 1976.
Ormond was from good football pedigree: his uncle Willie Ormond represented Scotland at the 1954 FIFA World Cup as a player and the 1974 FIFA World Cup as manager, while his father Bert Ormond and brother Duncan Ormond also represented New Zealand, as did Duncan's daughter Vicki Ormond.
Ormond died in Auckland on 8 October 2021.
# Monica Iacob Ridzi

Monica Maria Iacob Ridzi (born 30 June 1977 in Petroșani) is a Romanian politician. She was the head of the youth wing of the Democratic Liberal Party, and a representative in the Chamber of Deputies of Romania since 2008. She is a former member of the Boc cabinet, and was a Member of the European Parliament during 2007–2008.
In February 2015, she received a 5-year prison sentence for abuse of office in relation to the 2009 Youth Day. On December 3, 2015, President Klaus Iohannis rejected Ridzi's pardon plea. In December 2017, she was released from prison, after spending nearly three years incarcerated.

## Political career

She became an MEP on 1 January 2007 with the accession of Romania to the European Union, and like other members of the Democratic Liberal Party she was part of the European People's Party–European Democrats.
On 22 December 2008, she was appointed the head of the newly re-founded Ministry of Youth and Sport in the Boc Cabinet. She resigned on 14 July 2009, after being investigated by a parliamentary commission regarding the possible embezzlement of money spent by the Ministry she was running on the Youth Day festivities.
# Vladimir Grigoryev

Vladimir Viktorovich Grigorev (Russian: Владимир Викторович Григорьев; born 8 August 1982) is a Russian short track speed skater. He previously competed for Ukraine. Grigorev is from Sumy in Ukraine.

## Career

Grigorev competed for Ukraine in short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics, and the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics.
He did not compete at the 2010 Olympics, and, in 2007, switched allegiance to Russia, due to a shortage of skating facilities in Ukraine.
He qualified to compete for Russia at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. On 15 February 2014, he won a silver medal in the 1000m short track speedskating event, as part of the first Russian 1-2 finish in short track, with Viktor Ahn winning gold. With his silver, at 31 years and 191 days of age, Grigorev became the oldest man to win a short track Olympic medal. On 21 February 2014, he won a gold medal in 5000m-relay as part of Team Russia.
# François Hamelin

François Hamelin (born 18 December 1986) is a Canadian former short track speed skater from Sainte-Julie, Quebec, residing in Montreal. He is the younger brother of acclaimed Canadian short tracker Charles Hamelin. His father Yves Hamelin is also the director of the Canadian short track program.

## Career

While not having nearly the same amount of success of his older brother, Hamelin has had success at the junior level in international competition. He joined the Canadian national senior team for the 2007–08 season. Hamelin has been an important part of the Canadian short track team helping them to both a silver at the 2008 World Championships, and a silver at the 2008 World Team Championships. During the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, François skated with his brother in the 1000m short track final, only to place 5th. On 26 February, he won a gold medal in the 5000 m relay along with his brother Charles, François-Louis Tremblay, Olivier Jean and Guillaume Bastille. He also took a silver in the 500 m at the 2010 Worlds, and was part of the Canadian team which won the gold in the 5000 m relay at the 2011 World Championships. He took a total of 48 medals in international competition.

### 2014 Olympics

In the Sochi 2014 Olympics, he finished 9th in the 1500m and 6th as part of the 5000m relay team.

### 2018 Olympics

In August 2017, Hamelin was named to Canada's 2018 Winter Olympics team.
In June 2018, Hamelin announced his retirement from competition, having launched his own athlete management agency, Balboa Sports.
# Benjamin Edwin Quansah

Benjamin Edwin Quansah is a Ghanaian politician and member of the first parliament of the second republic of Ghana representing the Shama Constituency under the membership of the Progress Party (PP).

## Politics

Quansah entered parliament in 1969, after winning the Shama parliamentary seat during the 1969 parliamentary election on the ticket of the Progress Party (PP). During the election, Quansah polled 5,616 votes, against Ghapson Kwesi of the National Alliance of Liberals (NAL) who polled 1,503 votes, and Kodwo Effirim Nunoo of the People's Action Party (PAP) who polled 343 votes. After being pronounced winner at the 1969 Ghanaian parliamentary election held on 26 August 1969, he was sworn into the First Parliament of the Second Republic of Ghana on 1 October 1969. He served as a member of parliament until 13 January 1972 when the Busia government was overthrown.
# ALS (disambiguation)

ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) is a chronic and fatal form of motor neuron disease; also known as Lou Gehrig's disease in the US, or Charcot's disease in the French-speaking world.
ALS or Als may also refer to:

## Places

* Als (island), Denmark

## Aviation

* Airman Leadership School, a U.S. Air Force program
* ALS – Aircraft Leasing Services, a Kenyan airline
* Approach lighting system, an airport runway lighting system
* San Luis Valley Regional Airport, IATA code ALS

## Medicine

* Advanced life support, a level of medical training
* Anterolateral system, part of the nervous system
* Antibodies from lymphocyte secretions, an immunological assay
* Angular leaf spot, a bacterial plant disease

## Science and technology

* Acetolactate synthase, an enzyme
* Advanced Light Source, a synchrotron radiation facility
* ALSN, automatic train signalling (автоматична локомотивна сигналізація), a train protection system
* Alternate line service, a mobile phone feature
* Aluminized steel, as used in engineering drawings
* Ammonium lauryl sulfate, a household chemical
* Antilag system, a system used on turbocharged engines
* Audio Lossless Coding, an audio codec
* LS TTL, advanced low-power Schottky
* Photodetector, ambient light sensor
* Alternating least squares, a matrix factorization method

## Organizations

* Als, a nickname used for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League
* ALS Association, an American nonprofit organization
* American Littoral Society, an American environmental organization
* Antar Lintas Sumatera, an Indonesian intercity bus company
* Arrowhead Library System (Wisconsin)
* Australian Linguistic Society
* Associated London Scripts, a comedy-writers collective founded by Spike Milligan

## Other uses

* A. Lange & Söhne, a German luxury watch brand
* als, since 2003 prefix for the Wikipedia (als:Wikipedia:Houptsyte) of Alemannic German dialects like Alsatian, Swabian, Swiss German
* als, since 2007 the ISO 639-3 code for the southern Albanian dialect (Tosk Albanian)
* Alternative Learning System (Philippines), a modular non-formal education program
* Associate of the Linnean Society of London
* Auld Lang Syne, a traditional Scottish folk song
* Autographed Letter Signed, a term used by autograph collectors
* Singapore Area Licensing Scheme