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Wellington
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Wellington is the capital and second most populous urban area of New Zealand, with 405,000 residents. It is at the tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range. Wellington is the population centre of the southern North Island and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region. It is the worlds windiest city, with a wind speed of over 26 km/h. Situated near the centre of the country, Wellington was well placed for trade. In 1839 it was chosen as the first major planned settlement for British immigrants coming to New Zealand, the settlement was named in honour of the Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington and victor of the Battle of Waterloo. As the nations capital since 1865, the New Zealand Government and Parliament, Supreme Court, despite being much smaller than Auckland, Wellington is also referred to as New Zealands cultural capital. The city is home to the National Archives, the National Library, architectural sights include the Government Building—one of the largest wooden buildings in the world—as well as the iconic Beehive. Wellington plays host to artistic and cultural organisations, including the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. It has an urban culture, with many cafés, restaurants. One of the worlds most liveable cities, the 2014 Mercer Quality of Living Survey ranked Wellington 12th in the world, Wellingtons economy is primarily service-based, with an emphasis on finance, business services, and government. It is the centre of New Zealands film and special effects industries, Wellington ranks as one of New Zealands chief seaports and serves both domestic and international shipping. The city is served by Wellington International Airport, the third busiest airport in the country, Wellingtons transport network includes train and bus lines which reach as far as the Kapiti Coast and Wairarapa, and ferries connect the city to the South Island. Wellington takes its name from Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington and victor of the Battle of Waterloo, his title comes from the town of Wellington in the English county of Somerset. One of the founders of the settlement, Edward Jerningham Wakefield, reported that the settlers took up the views of the directors with great cordiality, in Māori, Wellington has three names. In New Zealand Sign Language, the name is signed by raising the index, middle and ring fingers of one hand, palm forward, to form a W, and shaking it slightly from side to side twice. The citys location close to the mouth of the narrow Cook Strait leads to its vulnerability to strong gales, legends recount that Kupe discovered and explored the district in about the 10th century. The earliest date with hard evidence for Maori living in New Zealand is about 1280, European settlement began with the arrival of an advance party of the New Zealand Company on the ship Tory on 20 September 1839, followed by 150 settlers on the Aurora on 22 January 1840
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St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace
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St Josephs College, Gregory Terrace is a Greater Public Schools private, Catholic, day school for boys only, located in Spring Hill, an inner suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Founded on 5 July 1875 by three Irish Christian Brothers, the College follows the Edmund Rice tradition, and currently caters for about 1436 students from Years 5 to 12, an Old Boy, Hugh Lunn, wrote books about his life at St Josephs College, Gregory Terrace. Terrace was founded in 1875 as both a day school and a boarding school, the original colours for the school were Navy Blue and White, adopted from the Congregational Crest of the Christian Brothers. In 1891 the boarding school was moved to Nudgee and in time became what is now Nudgee College, the original Gregory Terrace Navy and White rugby jersey was adopted by the Brothers Old Boys Rugby Club upon formation in 1905 and is still worn by them today. At the time the Christian Brothers were changing their Motto and Crest and Brother Reidy decided to change the Terrace colours to Black, the rivalry between the original school and the offshoot is legendary and no more so than at the annual GPS rugby match. The game attracts large crowds and is contested between the two schools. The Battle of the Colours adds to old school tie passion that surrounds the traditional rivalry, during the January floods, St Josephs College, Gregory Terrace had their playing fields at Tennyson, inundated with toxic waste and water from the nearby Rocklea Fruit Market. No sports were able to be played at Tennyson during the 2011 school year and a refurbishment and rebuild involved the canteen and Boatshed. Soil and turf were removed and completely relaid due to nature of the debris. During 2011 Terrace played only one game, at Brisbane Grammar Sports ground. Tennyson reopened in 2012 and in 2014 is building a new grandstand, there are nine houses at Terrace, Barrett, Buckley, Kearney, Magee, Mahoney, Reidy, Treacy, Windsor and Xavier. Originally six,3 new houses were introduced at the beginning of the 2009 school year, Barrett House - after Br James Barrett, the founding headmaster of the College, who arrived in Australia in 1871. Kearney House - after Br James Kearney who came to Australia in 1911 and he was the author of the School Song. Mahoney House - after the Mahoney Family, including several Rhodes Scholars, Reidy House - after Br Mark Reidy, who spent 23 years at Terrace, for 16 of which he was headmaster. Treacy House - after Br Patrick Ambrose Treacy, who in charge of the three Brothers who restarted the mission of the Christian Brothers in Australia in Melbourne in 1868, Windsor House - after the Windsor Family. Dr Henry Windsor he became an eminent benefactor of Terrace when he arrived in Australia, Buckley House – after Br Barry Buckley, Headmaster at Terrace from 1973–1981 and a past student 1951-1952. Br Buckley is highly respected by the community for the significant contribution he made during his time as Headmaster, Br Buckley was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2008 Australia Day Honours List for his contribution to education and the church. Magee House – after Br Ted Magee, Headmaster at Terrace from 1990-1992, Xavier House – to acknowledge the long history of the St Francis Xavier Province
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St John's Regional College
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St Johns Regional College is a Catholic co-educational secondary school situated in Dandenong in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne. There had been a number of students who were continuing their education beyond primary school. St Marys Primary School staffed by the Presentation Sisters had educated both girls and boys through Prep to Grade 6 and for many into Form I and Form II. In 1957 after an approach to the De La Salle Brothers to staff a new school. Initially the first classes taught on February 4,1958, Grade 6, Form I, br Amedy had charge of Form 1 and Form II in one room with 38 and 13 students respectively and Mr J F Maher took over the Grade 6 with 69 students. It was not long until the new school moved across the road into their own building and it was just a tin shed on the site for the new building, with 120 boys, and students were called to class by a bell hanging in a gum tree. In the ensuing years St Johns Boys School continued to grow, the ground floor of new brick building in New Street was completed in 1959, with the second floor completed in 1960. In 1965 it was recognised that St Johns Boys School needed a new location and was serving a wider area. The Grade 5 and Grade 6 boys who had part of St Johns Boys School now returned to be part of St Marys School. The secondary girls at St Marys became St Marys Girls Secondary College,1968 saw the sharing of resources/teachers between St Angelas and St Johns, particularly for Matriculation classes. The Junior and Middle Secondary Girls classes remained at St Angelas on their McCrae Street site until the last year of St Angelas 1973, in 1974 the whole College was on one campus and was known as St Johns Regional College. Senior, Form V and VI, classes were co-ed and Form I – IV were separate boys and girls classes, during 1976 much discussion was held regarding full co-education and in 1977 the first Catholic co-educational regional college in the nation was born. This development coincided with significant enrolment increases, further needs for Catholic Secondary education in the region saw the establishment of St Francis Xavier College Beaconsfield in 1978 and Nazareth College Noble Park North in 1985. With the establishment of these Colleges the regional parishes to whom St Johns served was also changed, some of this change was also due to the establishment of new parishes in the region. A range of upgraded and new passive and active outdoor recreation spaces have also been included, to be completed in early 2017, the learning spaces being created will also feature a new Community Garden with outdoor classrooms. The outdoor classrooms and Eagle Community Garden will also provide further curriculum opportunities across a range of learning areas from Years 7 through 12, throughout 2017, the College will undertake an extensive consultation with families, parishes, students and the community on a new masterplan. In 2008 St Johns established a vertical House System which operates from Year 7 to Year 12, each House consists of eight Homeroom Groups, which consist of approximately 5 students from each of the 7 –12 year levels. Each House has coordinator who is responsible for the development of each individuals sense of belonging, loyalty and spirit in his/her House
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Ole Avei
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Ole Avei is a Samoan International Rugby Union player, currently playing hooker with the Union Bordeaux Bègles in the French Top 14. Avei began his career in 2005 with the Queensland Reds, making his first Super 14 debut in 2006. Avei made his International debut for Samoa in the 2011 Pacific Nations Cup and he was then selected in the 30 man squad to represent Samoa in the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. Avei married his girlfriend of over 8 years, Angelina. They welcomed their baby girl Siena Eva Avei on 13 April 2014 and he will take part in his second world cup, haven been selected for the 2015 Rugby World Cup. 2005–08, Queensland Reds 2008–10, Waikato, Chiefs 2010-Current, Union Bordeaux Begles UBB Official Website Ole Avei et la première ligne de lUBB au charbon Lincroyable prolongation dAvei à Bordeaux
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Rugby union positions
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In the game of rugby union, there are 15 players on each team, comprising eight forwards and seven backs. In addition, there may be up to eight replacement players on the bench, players are not restricted to any single position on the field, although they generally specialise in just one or two that suit their skills and body types. Players that specialise in three positions are called utility players. The scrum, however, must consist of eight players, the front row, the row. The players outside the scrum are called the backs, scrum-half, fly-half, the backs play behind the forwards and are usually more lightly built and faster. Successful backs are skilful at passing and kicking, full-backs need to be good defenders and kickers, and have the ability to catch a kicked ball. The wingers are usually among the fastest players in a team, the centres key attacking roles are to try and break through the defensive line and link successfully with wingers. The fly-half can be a kicker and generally directs the backline. The scrum-half retrieves the ball from the forwards and needs a quick, forwards compete for the ball in scrums and line-outs and are generally bigger and stronger than the backs. Props push in the scrums, while the hooker tries to hook the ball, locks are tall and jump for the ball at the line-out after the hooker has thrown it in. The flankers and number eight should be the first forwards to a tackle, there are a maximum of 15 players from each team on a rugby field at one time. The players position at the start of the game is indicated by the number on the back of their shirts,1 to 15, the positions are divided into two main categories, forwards and backs. In international matches, there are eight substitutes that can replace a team member. The substitutes, numbered 16 to 23, can take up the position of the player they replace or the on-field players can be shuffled to make room for this player in another position. Typically, the replacement players will have a number that corresponds with their intended replacement position with the numbers from 16 to 20 being forwards and 21 to 23 being backs. There are no personal squad numbers and a players position. Players can also change positions with players on the field during the match, common examples are the fly-half playing the full-backs position in defence or a prop taking the hookers position at line-outs. Different positions on the field suit certain skill sets and body types, each position has certain roles to play on the field, although most have been established through convention rather than law
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Melbourne Rising
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The Melbourne Rising is an Australian rugby union team based in Melbourne that competes in the National Rugby Championship. The NRC was launched in 2014, reinstating the national competition after an absence of six years, the previous competition was the Australian Rugby Championship, which was discontinued in 2007 after only one season. The team representing Victoria in the ARC was the Melbourne Rebels and that Rebels team was the predecessor of the Melbourne Rebels team in Super Rugby and the Melbourne Rising team in the NRC. The teams current logo is adapted from that of the parent franchise. In 2004, a consortium led by the Victorian Rugby Union entered the process for a licence in the Super 14 competition to get a team in Melbourne for the 2006 season. The then Super 12 competition was expanding to 14 teams, with one new licence being allocated to an Australian team, Victoria and Western Australia were the leading bidders for the Australian team and the licence was eventually allocated to Western Australia, creating the Western Force. For the Australian Rugby Championship in 2007, however, both Victoria and Western Australia were allocated teams and it was reported that New South Wales gave up a fourth team to enable Victoria to participate in the new national competition. The Melbourne Rebels team was formed to participate in the Australian Rugby Championship that started in August 2007 and it was the only team in the ARC that was not directly linked to a Super Rugby franchise as Victoria did not have one at the time. The Rebels jersey had traditional navy blue and white hoops, the colours of the Victorian Axemen side that represented Victoria in the Australian Rugby Shield, the Rebels name was chosen in consultation with the local rugby community. VRU officials decided on the name in reference to Victorias first Wallaby and these qualities are what you want in a Rebel and characterize the way Victoria is successfully tackling this historic year. The Rebels head coach for the ARC was Bill Millard, a coach of the Australian Sevens. Former Wallaby Fletcher Dyson was a coaching consultant, former Rugby World Cup-winning coach Rod Macqueen was the No.1 ticket holder and a passionate supporter of the club. The Melbourne side was allowed to sign a number of players from the four Australian Super 14 franchises and this included three players from the Brumbies and Western Force, and one each from the New South Wales Waratahs and Queensland Reds. David Croft was the 2007 captain, the Melbourne Rebels played their ARC home games at the Olympic Park Stadium located in inner Melbourne, but the teams first league game was an away win against the Canberra team in round one. The Melbourne Rebels played their first home match in front of 4,875 people at Olympic Park the following week, after finishing fourth on the league table, the Rebels defeated the minor premiers Western Sydney in their semi-final 23 to 3. The Rebels played the Central Coast Rays in the inaugural ARC Grand Final, the Melbourne team was defeated by the Central Coast 20 points to 12 in the Grand Final, finishing runners-up in the competition. In December 2013, the ARU announced that the competition was to be relaunched. Expressions of interest were open to any interested bidders, with the accepted tenders finalised in early 2014, on 24 March 2014, it was announced that the Melbourne Rising would play in the NRC competition
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Honda Heat
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Honda Heat is a Japanese rugby union team based in Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture, Japan. The owner of the club is Honda Motor and they play in the Top League, the top tier of the Japans rugby union hierarchy. In 2011–12, Honda Heat were relegated to regional events for 2012–13, winning 2 and drawing 1 of their 13 games in the regular season. Honda Motor Co. established its rugby club in 1960 at the Suzuka Factory, the team gained promotion to the Kansai A-League for the 1978 season, and then finished sixth in the seven-team competition in for that year. Honda remained a fixture in the Kansai A-League, being demoted only once before it was renamed the Top West A-League in 2003-04 with the introduction of Japans Top League. Honda did not qualify for inclusion in the Top League for inaugural season—that had to wait for another six years—but the team continued to play in the Top West A-League, after winning the league in 2008-09 under New Zealander John Sherratt, Honda Heat was promoted. The team played one Top League season in 2009–10 before being demoted and another in 2011–12 before being demoted again to Top West A, Honda won the Top West A-League in 2014–15 and was promoted to the once again for the 2015–16 season of Top League. The provisional Honda Heat squad for the 2016–17 Top League season is, Tomoaki Fujimoto John Sherratt, April 2008 – March 2010 Top League Challenge Series Honda Heat Rugby - official site
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Panasonic Wild Knights
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Panasonic Wild Knights is a Japanese rugby union team based in Ōta city, Gunma prefecture which plays in the Top League. Inspired by Tony Brown at fly half, it dominated the league in the season and was the first team to be unbeaten throughout a Top League season. The Wild Knights were founded in 1960 by alumni of the Kumagai Industrial School, initially an amateur company team, they competed in the Kantō Leagues during the 1960s, rising gradually through the ranks of the prefectures rugby pyramid. In 1968 they undertook the first tour in their history when they travelled to South Korea to face a number of University, in 1971 they won their first ever Kantō Rugby Championship, after arising from the 4th division only 9 years earlier. This success was followed the season with a successive championship title. After a few places, the club won seven back-to-back titles between 1976 and 1982, becoming the dominant rugby force in Kantō-chihō. Further titles were added in 1986 and 1987, before the Wild Knights were entered into the new East Japan Rugby Championship against other top clubs from Kantō and Tōhoku. Rugby in Japan was a sport, gradually gaining popularity and competitiveness outside of its normal strongholds in company break-rooms. Known as shamateurism, it became rampant in rugby union, as well as football and baseball, the maiden season of the new East Japan league was captured in 1988, with further crowns captured in 1990 and 1991. Further titles were nabbed during the 1990s and in May 1997 the clubs new ground at Ryumai-cho was officially unveiled, in 2003 the Japan Rugby Union launched the Top League, Japans first nationwide domestic rugby competition. Immediately prior to the launch of the Top League in 2003, in the maiden season of the Top League, the club finished in 7th but did manage to win the Fair Play Award for 2003–04. The league that year was won by the Kobe Kobelco Steelers, the Wild Knights fans were also awarded the Japan Special Award for their support and atmosphere. The clubs starting scrum-half Wataru Ikeda was also chosen for the league Best XV that year, the following season seemed to mirror the first, as the Wild Knights fans were again awarded the Special Award and the club finished in 7th. They exited the Microsoft Cup in the first round,2006 saw them finish runners-up in the league and see team-members Tony Brown and Yamauchi Tomokazu selected for the leagues Best XV. In 2008, the club were crowned Top League champions, managing to go on a 13-game unbeaten record on their way to the title, the club won their second Top League crown in 2010 only to lose out in the play-offs. However, the clubs was success was mirrored in the fact that Naoki Kawamata, Shota Horie, Seiichi Shimomura, Tomonori Kitagawa, fullback Atsushi Tatanabe was also crowned the leagues top scorer and best kicker for 2009. In 2011, despite finishing in 3rd during the league season. Akihito Yamada was named MVP for the entire season, the club were runners-up in the play-offs in 2012
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Western Force
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Western Force is a rugby union team based in Perth, Western Australia, playing in the international Super rugby competition. They first competed in the 2006 season and finished with the spoon in that year. In 2008 they finished in 8th place, just missing out on the finals again, the team is the fourth Australian team to be accepted into the competition. It was coached by former New Zealand All Blacks coach, John Mitchell for the first five seasons before former Australian sevens captain Richard Graham took charge ahead of the 2011 season. The bid for entry into an expanded Super 12 competition started in the early 2000s, when in 2002, the groups objective was to ensure that if SANZAR agreed to a fourth Australian franchise, that RugbyWA would be ready. RugbyWA were invited to bid for the fourth Australian team, and the union assembled a project team, which was given four weeks to formulate their bid. The bid was backed by the government, which loaned more than one million dollars to RugbyWA. It was announced in December 2004 that RugbyWA had beaten Rugby Union Victoria for the right to host the fourth Australian franchise, on 10 February the Western Force made their 2006 season rugby debut against the Brumbies at a near sold out Subiaco Oval in Perth, losing 25–10. Since this result, the Force have had a debut in Super 14. A one-sided loss to the Hurricanes and a loss at home to the Chiefs in Perth followed. Many fans were unimpressed, with only approximately 23,000 turning up to watch a match against the Bulls, on 31 March, in front of 24,000, the Force came closest to their first win, losing 26–25 to the Stormers at Subiaco Oval. This was after leading 10–0 early on in the match and this was the Forces first competition point ever, and is the longest it has ever taken a side to get a point in Super rugby history. On 21 April a crowd of 32,231 saw the Force nearly pull off the upset of the year, drawing 23-all with the undefeated defending champion Crusaders. Though the Force were leading 7–0 after several minutes the feeling was still that the Crusaders would win, only when the Force had blown the score out to 17–5 did anyone begin to talk of an upset. Leading 20–8 at half time the Force did not hold on for the win after the Crusaders scored two tries and a penalty within the closing half, at 23-all with seconds left the Force crashed over the line but were denied by the television match official. Two days after the draw with the Crusaders, the Force were able to sign rising star Matt Giteau from the Brumbies, on Saturday,6 May, the Force announced they had managed to sign another player, Reds winger Drew Mitchell. The Force notched up their first win by defeating the Central Cheetahs 16–14 on 6 May, on 19 April, RugbyWA unveiled the franchise team name as well as the logo, at a reception at the Burswood International Resort in Perth. Months of detailed community involvement went into selecting the name for the team, Western Force was chosen as the name, which best reflected the franchises location and its values of strength, energy and community
