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# 2010–11 Stirling Albion F.C. season

During Season 2010–11 Stirling Albion competed in the Scottish First Division, Challenge Cup, League Cup and the Scottish Cup.

## Summary

Stirling Albion finished tenth in the First Division and were relegated to the Second Division. They reached the second round of the Challenge Cup, the first round of the League Cup and were eliminated in the third round of the Scottish Cup.

### Management

They started season 2010–11 under the management of John O'Neill who had been appointed in the summer. On 19 January 2011, O'Neill was sacked by the club and the following day Jocky Scott was unveiled as the club's new manager.

## Results and fixtures

Win  Draw  Loss

### Scottish Cup
## League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 6 | Dundee | 36 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 54 | 34 | +20 | 44 | |
| 7 | Greenock Morton | 36 | 11 | 10 | 15 | 39 | 43 | −4 | 43 | |
| 8 | Ross County | 36 | 9 | 14 | 13 | 30 | 34 | −4 | 41 | |
| 9 | Cowdenbeath (R) | 36 | 9 | 8 | 19 | 41 | 72 | −31 | 35 | Qualification for the First Division play-offs |
| 10 | Stirling Albion (R) | 36 | 4 | 8 | 24 | 32 | 82 | −50 | 20 | Relegation to the Second Division |
* ↑ Dundee were docked 25 points for entering administration. The deduction was temporarily lifted pending an appeal by the club, however the appeal failed and the deduction was reinstated.
# Botswana at the 1988 Summer Olympics

Botswana competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

## Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
| Athletics | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Boxing | 2 | – | 2 |
| Total | 8 | 0 | 8 |

## Athletics
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Heat | Heat | Quarterfinal | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank |
| Benny Kgarametso | 200 metres | 22.79 | 69 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Sunday Maweni | 400 metres | 47.97 | 43 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Bobby Gaseitsiwe | 800 metres | 1:48.08 | 33 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Mbiganyi Thee | 1500 metres | 3:41.97 | 21 q | — | 3:42.62 | 19 | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Bigboy Josie Matlapeng | Marathon | — | 2:20:51 | 34 |
| Joseph Ramotshabi Bobby Gaseitsiwe Benny Kgarametso Sunday Maweni | 4 × 400 metres relay | 3:13.16 | 21 | — | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |

## Boxing

| Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | Final |
| Athlete | Event | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank |
| Magare Tshekiso | Bantamweight | Breitbarth (GDR) L 0–5 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
| Shakes Kubuitsile | Lightweight | Bye | Saïd (ALG) L RSC R1 | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance | Did not advance |
# Handshape

In sign languages, handshape, or dez, refers to the distinctive configurations that the hands take as they are used to form words. In Stokoe terminology it is known as the DEZ, an abbreviation of designator. Handshape is one of five components of a sign, along with location (TAB), orientation (ORI), movement (SIG), and nonmanual features. Different sign languages make use of different handshapes.

## Constraints

Possible handshapes are constrained by a variety of mechanic and neural factors. Evolutionary forces have led to some handshapes being easier or more natural for humans to produce than others. These tendencies can be summarized as follows:
* The selected (extended) finger is either the thumb or the index finger
* Neighboring fingers are coupled
* All fingers have the same shape
A 2022 study of handshapes found that 85.6% of handshapes in 33 sign languages conform to these biological tendencies. Additionally, 35 handshapes were found to be represented in 89.2% of the 33 languages examined. Handshapes that did not conform to these tendencies were common in fingerspelling. This may be due to fingerspelling being a result of culture and explicit learning rather than arising naturally.

## In American Sign Language

American Sign Language uses 18 handshapes for ordinary signs, plus a few marginal handshapes taken from the American Manual Alphabet for fingerspelling.
Not all handshapes occur with every orientation, movement, or location: there are restrictions. For example, the 5 and F handshapes (the approximate shapes of the hand in fingerspelling 5 and F) only make contact with another part of the body through the tip of the thumb, whereas the K and 8 (a.k.a. Y) handshapes only make contact through the tip of the middle finger, and the X handshape only with the flexed joint of the index finger.
# Arthur Seymour (footballer)

Arthur Seymour was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

## Career

Born in South Shields, Seymour spent his early career with Hebburn Argyle and Barnsley. He signed for Bradford City in July 1903, making 34 league and 4 FA Cup appearances for the club, before being released in 1904. He played in Bradford City's first ever match, a 0–2 league defeat away at Grimsby Town on 1 September 1903.

## Sources

* Frost, Terry (1988). Bradford City A Complete Record 1903-1988. Breedon Books Sport. ISBN 0-907969-38-0.
# Blanchard Island

Blanchard Island is an island in the Mississippi River between the U.S. states of Illinois and Iowa at 41°21′17″N 91°03′45″W﻿ / ﻿41.35472°N 91.06250°W﻿ / 41.35472; -91.06250. Most of the island lies within Drury Township, in Rock Island County, but its southern extremity lies in Eliza Township, Mercer County. The island is one of the more popular recreation sites along the Upper Mississippi River between Petosi, Wisconsin, and Saverton, Missouri.
# Holzbauer

Holzbauer is a surname. Notable people with this surname include:
* Sigi Holzbauer is a retired West German slalom canoeist who competed in the mid-1950s. He won two gold medals at the 1955 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships.
* Ignaz Holzbauer (18 September 1711 – 7 April 1783) was a composer of symphonies, concertos, operas, and chamber music, and a member of the Mannheim school.
* Wilhelm Holzbauer (3 September 1930, Salzburg) is an Austrian architect, noted as a "pragmatic" modernist.
# 1996 Toray Pan Pacific Open – Doubles

Gigi Fernández and Natasha Zvereva were the defending champions and won in the final 7–6, 6–3 against Mariaan de Swardt and Irina Spîrlea.

## Seeds

Champion seeds are indicated in bold text while text in italics indicates the round in which those seeds were eliminated.
* Gigi Fernández / Natasha Zvereva (champions)
* Nicole Arendt / Manon Bollegraf (semifinals)
* Brenda Schultz-McCarthy / Rennae Stubbs (quarterfinals)
* Lindsay Davenport / Conchita Martínez (first round)

## Draw
### Key

* Q = Qualifier
* WC = Wild card
* LL = Lucky loser
* Alt = Alternate
* SE = Special exempt
* PR = Protected ranking
* ITF = ITF entry
* JE = Junior exempt
* w/o = Walkover
* r = Retired
* d = Defaulted
* SR = Special ranking
| First round | First round | First round | First round | First round | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Semifinals | Final | Final | Final | Final |
| 1 | G Fernández N Zvereva | 4 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | N Bradtke E Smylie | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | G Fernández N Zvereva | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | Z Garrison-Jackson K Rinaldi-Stunkel | 6 | 6 | | | Z Garrison-Jackson K Rinaldi-Stunkel | 2 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | R Hiraki S-H Park | 2 | 3 | | | | | | | 1 | G Fernández N Zvereva | 4 | 6 | 7 | | | | |
| 3 | B Schultz-McCarthy R Stubbs | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | L Raymond G Sabatini | 6 | 4 | 6 | | | | |
| | K-A Guse P Hy-Boulais | 3 | 4 | | 3 | B Schultz-McCarthy R Stubbs | 4 | 5 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | M Lindström M Strandlund | 4 | 3 | | | L Raymond G Sabatini | 6 | 7 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | L Raymond G Sabatini | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | Gigi Fernández Natasha Zvereva | 7 | 6 |
| Q | N Kijimuta A Sugiyama | 3 | 3 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mariaan de Swardt Irina Spîrlea | 6 | 3 |
| | M de Swardt I Spîrlea | 6 | 6 | | | M de Swardt I Spîrlea | 6 | 3 | 7 | | | | | | | | | |
| | M Hingis I Majoli | 6 | 6 | | | M Hingis I Majoli | 3 | 7 | 3 | | | | | | | | | |
| 4 | L Davenport C Martínez | 4 | 4 | | | | | | | | M de Swardt I Spîrlea | 7 | 5 | 6 | | | | |
| | L Golarsa L McNeil | 6 | 6 | 6 | | | | | | 2 | N Arendt M Bollegraf | 6 | 7 | 2 | | | | |
| | J Hetherington K Radford | 3 | 7 | 3 | | L Golarsa L McNeil | 4 | 4 | | | | | | | | | | |
| | M Saeki Y Yoshida | 4 | 0 | | 2 | N Arendt M Bollegraf | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | |
| 2 | N Arendt M Bollegraf | 6 | 6 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
# Alternative Service Program

In the United States, the Alternative Service Program is a form of alternative service for conscientious objectors within its Selective Service System.
The Alternative Service Program is intended to encourage those called under Selective Service the option of working to improve national well-being as an alternative to bearing arms. Typical period of service is meant to mirror the duration of conscription, usually 24 months.
# Biblis Tholus

Biblis Tholus is an extinct Martian volcano located at 2°33′N 235°37′E﻿ / ﻿2.55°N 235.62°E﻿ / 2.55; 235.62, one of two volcanoes near the center of the Tharsis volcanism. Along with Ulysses Tholus, it is almost midway between Olympus Mons and the Tharsis Montes. Biblis Tholus lies in the Tharsis quadrangle. It is approximately 170 kilometers (110 mi) long and 100 kilometers (62 mi) wide, rising about 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) from its surroundings.
In the middle of the volcano is a caldera, named Biblis Patera, believed to have formed as the result of collapse of the magma chamber during eruptions of the volcano. The caldera is 53 kilometers (33 mi) in diameter and four kilometers (2.5 miles) in depth.
* Topography and location in Tharsis using MOLA data set.
* Close-up of Biblis Patera taken with Mars Odyssey. Rim of crater shows multiple episodes of collapse.
* Nearby Ulysses Tholus, showing its location in relation to other volcanoes (photo by THEMIS).
* Biblis Patera pedestal crater, as seen by HiRISE.
* Pedestal craters form when the ejecta from impacts protect the underlying material from erosion. As a result of this process, craters appear perched above their surroundings.
# Handshoe, Kentucky

Handshoe is an unincorporated community within Knott County, Kentucky, United States. Its post office is closed.
# Arthur E. Powell

Arthur Edward Powell (September 27, 1882 – March 20, 1969) was a Welsh Theosophist whose books were published beginning in the early 1900s. He studied the major esoteric works of Helena Blavatsky, Charles Webster Leadbeater and Annie Besant.

## Biography

Arthur E. Powell was born at 'Plas-y-Bryn', a house located in Llanllwchiairn (near Newtown), Montgomeryshire, Wales. He later emigrated to the United States, where he died in Los Angeles, California in 1969. Arthur's parents were Edward Powell (1850-1918) and Mary Eleanor Pughe Pryce-Jones (1859-1944), who married on June 3, 1880. Arthur's father Edward Powell was a solicitor, and Chairman of the Board and Managing Director of the Humber-Hillman Company (an automobile manufacturer). Arthur married twice, his first wife being Hilda (surname not known), and his second wife being Winifred May Fenwick.
Powell joined the Royal Engineers. He served in India as a lieutenant.

## Vegetarianism

Powell was a vegetarian. He authored Food And Health in 1909. Powell promoted abstinence from alcohol, coffee, meat, tea and tobacco. His book Food And Health was negatively reviewed in the British Medical Journal as biased and supporting food faddism. The review noted that Powell 'uses quotations from standard medical authors when they can be made to serve his purpose, although they repudiate the conclusions he arrives'. A review in The Lancet journal suggested that 'Lieutenant Powell spoils his own cause, a cause with which we have no quarrel, by attempting to support it by disquisitions on the ethics of killing animals'.

## Selected publications

* Food and Health (1909)
* The Etheric Double (1925)
* The Astral Body and Other Astral Phenomena (1927)
* The Mental Body (1927)
* The Causal Body And The Ego (1928)
* The Solar System (1930)
* Human Astral Entities
* The Mastery of Emotion
* Astral Death
* Clairvoyance in Space and Time
* Kundalini
* The Fourth Dimension
* Rebirth
* Discipleship
* Chakras
* The Development of Astral Powers
* Sleep-life
* Dreams
* Invisible Helpers
* The Astral Plane
* Non-human Astral Entities
* Thought Forms
* The Magic of Freemasonry
* Spiritualism
* The Work of a Lodge of the Theosophical Society
# Blanchard House

Blanchard House may refer to:
    Alphabetical by state, then town
* Blanchard House Museum, Punta Gorda, Florida, an African-American history museum
* Lamar-Blanchard House, Lincolnton, Georgia, listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Lincoln County
* Blanchard House (Boyce, Louisiana), NRHP-listed
* Ora Blanchard House, Stratton, Maine, NRHP-listed
* Captain S. C. Blanchard House, Yarmouth, Maine, NRHP-listed
* Blanchard-Upton House, Andover, Massachusetts, NRHP-listed
* John C. Blanchard House, Ionia, Michigan, NRHP-listed
* Serna-Blanchard House, Las Vegas, New Mexico, NRHP-listed in San Miguel County
* Blanchard House (Syracuse, New York), NRHP-listed
* Joshua James Blanchard House, Warsaw, North Carolina, NRHP-listed
# Brestak

Brestak (in Bulgarian: Брестак) is a village in northern Bulgaria, Valchi Dol Municipality, Varna Province. Before 1934, its name was Karaagach (in Bulgarian: Караагач). In 1961, its population was 2,476, and in 1989 - 1,844.
# 1 Lupi

1 Lupi is a solitary giant star in the southern constellation of Lupus. It has the Bayer designation i Lupi; 1 Lupi is the Flamsteed designation. The apparent visual magnitude is 4.90, which indicates it is faintly visible to the naked eye. Based on parallax measurements, this star is approximately 1,800 light-years from the Sun. It is moving closer to the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of −23 km/s.
Houk (1978) assigned the spectral classification of this star as F1III, which suggests it is an F-type (yellow-white) star that has evolved away from the main sequence and expanded into a giant. However, Gray et al. (2001) found a class of F0 Ib-II, matching a supergiant/bright giant star. It has a mass around seven times that of the Sun and has expanded to 41 times the Sun's radius. The star is radiating 2,900 times the luminosity of the Sun from its enlarged photosphere at an effective temperature of 6,867 K. The estimated age of the star is around 47 million years.
# 2007–08 State League Twenty20

The 2007–08 State League Twenty20 was the inaugural season of the women's Twenty20 cricket competition played in New Zealand. It ran from December 2007 to February 2008, with 6 provincial teams taking part. Canterbury Magicians won the tournament, topping the group with four wins and one abandoned match.
The tournament ran alongside the 2007–08 State League.

## Competition format

Teams played in a round-robin in a group of six, playing 5 matches overall. Matches were played using a Twenty20 format. The winners of the group were crowned the Champions.
The group worked on a points system with positions being based on the total points. Points were awarded as follows:
Win: 4 points Tie: 2 points Loss: 0 points. Abandoned/No Result: 2 points.

## Points table

| Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
| Canterbury Magicians (C) | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 1.764 |
| Central Hinds | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0.433 |
| Northern Spirit | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 12 | –0.257 |
| Wellington Blaze | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8 | –0.904 |
| Otago Sparks | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | –0.597 |
| Auckland Hearts | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | –0.194 |
    Source: ESPN Cricinfo

## Statistics
### Most runs

| Player | Team | Matches | Innings | Runs | Average | HS | 100s | 50s |
| Sara McGlashan | Central Hinds | 5 | 5 | 231 | 115.50 | 91* | 0 | 2 |
| Aimee Watkins | Central Hinds | 5 | 5 | 207 | 51.75 | 66 | 0 | 1 |
| Ingrid Cronin-Knight | Auckland Hearts | 5 | 5 | 171 | 57.00 | 61* | 0 | 2 |
| Megan Wakefield | Wellington Blaze | 5 | 5 | 159 | 31.80 | 54 | 0 | 1 |
| Haidee Tiffen | Canterbury Magicians | 3 | 3 | 129 | 129.00 | 76* | 0 | 1 |
Source: ESPN Cricinfo

### Most wickets

| Player | Team | Overs | Wickets | Average | BBI | 5w |
| Paula Gruber | Auckland Hearts | 20.0 | 8 | 12.12 | 2/12 | 0 |
| Amanda Cooper | Wellington Blaze | 18.0 | 8 | 14.87 | 4/21 | 0 |
| Aimee Watkins | Central Hinds | 18.0 | 7 | 14.57 | 2/9 | 0 |
| Rhiana Vincent | Northern Spirit | 15.0 | 6 | 19.50 | 2/15 | 0 |
| Natalie Dodd | Northern Spirit | 6.0 | 5 | 5.40 | 3/16 | 0 |
Source: ESPN Cricinfo
# Bajaj Priya

The Bajaj Priya is a three-speed, 150cc scooter that was manufactured in Pune, India for Maharashtra Scooters from 1975 until April 1992 under a license agreement with Bajaj Auto Limited. The design was very similar to that of the earlier "Bajaj 150" model, which was in turn based upon a Vespa 150 (VBA type) with a slightly modified body.

## Differences from other models
### Headset

Unlike the earlier Vespa and Bajaj 150 models, which used fully enclosed headsets, the Priya shared a headset with the more common Vespa Super, but was fitted with a round "volcano" style speedometer found on other Bajaj Scooters. The headset, which featured a non-enclosed bottom for easy access to cables, also had an integrated switch section, unlike the earlier Bajaj and Vespa 150, where it was joined separately and made of polished aluminum.

### Horncast

Unlike the earlier Vespa and Bajaj 150 models, which usually sported the original Italian-style horncast with the older rectangular Piaggio monogram, the Priya used an angular horncast with a hexagonal Bajaj monogram similar to Vespa models produced in the early to mid 1970s.

### Tail lamp

Unlike the earliest Indian-built Vespa 150s, which used the same aluminium tail lamps as the Italian-built Vespa VBA/GS150 design, the Priya came with a chromed-plastic Vespa Sprint type taillight.
# Almon W. and Dr. Mary E. Spaulding Ranch

The Almon W. and Dr. Mary E. Spaulding Ranch is a 20 acres (8.1 ha) farmstead, originally an 80 acres (32 ha) homestead, in Boise, Idaho. The site is named for the Spauldings, who moved from Los Angeles to Boise in 1890 and applied for a homestead in 1893. The Spauldings occupied the site in 1896, constructing the main house in 1905 and the barn in 1910. After Dr. Spaulding's death in 1919, Almon Spaulding continued to reside on the property until 1924.
The site was acquired by the City of Boise in 2016, and it is managed by Boise Parks and Recreation.
The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

## Inventory

* House (1905), remodeled in 1910, 1940s, 1950s
* Tenant house, remodeled in 1940s, 1950s
* Barn (1910), altered in 1950s
* Silo (1910)
* Granary (pre 1940)
* Chicken coop (pre 1940)
* Outdoor toilet (pre 1940)
* Sheds (pre 1940)
* Front fence (pre 1920)
# Hexaprenyl diphosphate synthase (geranylgeranyl-diphosphate specific)

Hexaprenyl diphosphate synthase (geranylgeranyl-diphosphate specific) (EC 2.5.1.82, HexPS, (all-E) hexaprenyl diphosphate synthase, (all-trans) hexaprenyl diphosphate synthase, hexaprenyl pyrophosphate synthase, HexPPs, hexaprenyl diphosphate synthase) is an enzyme with systematic name geranylgeranyl-diphosphate:isopentenyl-diphosphate transferase (adding 2 isopentenyl units). This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction
    geranylgeranyl diphosphate + 2 isopentenyl diphosphate $\rightleftharpoons$ 2 diphosphate + all-trans-hexaprenyl diphosphate
The enzyme prefers geranylgeranyl diphosphate to farnesyl diphosphate as an allylic substrate.
# Betrayal (Tilton novel)

Betrayal is a science fiction novel by American writer Lois Tilton, part of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine saga.

## Plot

Ambassadors from all over the Federation have assembled on Deep Space Nine for a conference that will determine the future of the planet Bajor. Keeping dozens of alien ambassadors happy is hard enough, but when hidden terrorists start blowing up the station, Commander Benjamin Sisko must track a hidden enemy who strikes at will. Then things get even worse: a new Cardassian commander arrives, demanding the return of Deep Space Nine to the Cardassian Empire. With Deep Space Nine now a dangerous minefield, Sisko must defuse a situation that threatens the very existence of the planet Bajor.

## Sales

Betrayal spent 4 weeks in the USA Today best sellers list, reaching a peak position of 29.
# Blanot, Côte-d'Or

Blanot (French pronunciation:) is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France.
# Brian Hillery

Brian James Hillery (22 November 1937 – 19 January 2021) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and finance executive who served as a Senator from 1977 to 1982, 1983 to 1989 and 1992 to 1997 and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dún Laoghaire constituency from 1989 to 1992.

## Academic and political career

Hillery studied at University College Dublin (UCD) and the University of Georgia and worked in banking before joining the UCD faculty in 1967. He became the inaugural ESSO Professor of Industrial Relations in 1974.
Hillery's uncle, Patrick Hillery, was a Fianna Fáil TD and minister until 1973, and President of Ireland from 1976 to 1990. In 1977, Brian Hillery was elected to the 14th Seanad as a Fianna Fáil Senator for the Administrative Panel. In 1978, minister Gene Fitzgerald's suggestion that he chair the Commission on Industrial Relations was rejected by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions as party-political. After unsuccessfully contesting the 1981 general election in Dún Laoghaire, he was returned to the 15th Seanad, serving from 1981 to 1982. He did not sit in the brief 16th Seanad, but was re-elected to the 17th Seanad in 1983, where he served until he was elected a TD for Dún Laoghaire at the 1989 general election. At the 1992 general election, he lost his Dáil seat, which Barry Desmond attributed to a lack of constituency work. He was then nominated to the 20th Seanad by Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. He resigned as Senator in May 1994 when he was appointed to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

## Public and private sector board member

From 1994 to 1997, Hillery was an executive director at the EBRD in London representing Ireland and Denmark. He then became a director and, from 1999, chairman, of UniCredit's Irish operations at the Dublin International Financial Services Centre. Public sector advisory bodies on which Hillery served include the Government Review Body on Higher Remuneration in the Public Sector (1999–2007), the National Pensions Reserve Fund Commission (2004–2014), and the Irish commission of the Fulbright Program (2002–2004). He was a director of the Central Bank of Ireland and Financial Regulator from April 2008 until the bodies were reformed in October 2010. The Oireachtas joint committee of inquiry into the post-2008 banking crisis initially intended to ask him to make a statement but did not proceed with this.
Hillery was founding chairman from 1997 to 2015 of Providence Resources, a hydrocarbon company established by Tony O'Reilly. In 2003, he was appointed to the board of Independent News & Media, succeeding Tony O'Reilly as chairman in 2009 while O'Reilly remained chief executive. Hillery resigned in 2011 in the face of pressure from Denis O'Brien.
He died in January 2021.