Russell Turner

Russell William Turner (born 12 May 1941), an Australian politician, is a councillor of the City of Orange Council, since 2012. Turner was previously a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Orange between 1996 and 2011 for the The Nationals.

Career

Turner was born in Sydney and educated at Manly Boys High School. He is married with two sons and one daughter.

The seat of Orange is a safe National Party seat and has been so for many decades. Turner was only the third person to hold the position since 1947. In the 2007 state election, he successfully defended his seat and increased his majority when challenged by independent candidate, John Davis, the then mayor of Orange. In 2010 Turner announced his decision to not contest the 2011 state election. The National Party endorsed Andrew Gee, a local lawyer and barrister, who successfully contested the seat.

In 2012 Turner was elected to Orange City Council, receiving 7.51% of the first preference formal votes, and was the first candidate to achieve the quota required to be elected to the Council. Despite speculation that he would seek election as mayor, Turner did not seek election.

Russell Turner (basketball)

Russell Devlin Turner (born October 24, 1970) is an American college basketball coach who is the current head men's basketball coach at UC Irvine, a position he has held since 2010.

As the head coach at UC Irvine, Turner led the Anteaters to the second round of the 2013 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, the program’s first postseason win since 2002. UC Irvine also reached the Big West Conference tournament final and won the third most single-season games in UC Irvine history with 21 in the 2012-13 season. The Anteaters went a perfect 9-0 in home Big West games and 13-1 overall in home contests. UCI was also ranked first in the Big West and 15th in the nation in field-goal percentage defense at .387.

Turner has most recently been considered a candidate for jobs at California, Rice, Wake Forest and Tulsa. His overall coaching record is 71-67.

He was formerly an assistant coach for the Golden State Warriors of the NBA, serving under head coach Mike Montgomery and then for head coach Don Nelson. For Golden State, Turner has worked closely with players on individual skill development. Turner has also served as a coach for the Warriors summer league entry in Las Vegas for five consecutive years. Additionally, he coached at the NBA/Haier Camp in China. Prior to that, he served as a coach at the NBA's Basketball Without Borders camp in Lithuania in 2006.

List of Shortland Street characters (2010)

The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street in 2010, by order of first appearance.

Loren Fitzpatrick

Loren Fitzpatrick was the vegetarian love interest for Daniel Potts (Ido Drent). After meeting at the cafe where Loren worked, the two started to date and Loren pressured Daniel to take up activism much to the annoyance of Daniel's mother Sarah (Amanda Billing). Loren turned out to be from a troubled home where she spent much of her time caring for her autistic brother. Daniel pressured Loren into sex and she seemed reluctant and blamed much of her social angst on her father Reuben Fitzpatrick (David Aston). The two did eventually become sexually active and Loren fell pregnant after a condom mishap. Though at first wanting to keep the baby, Loren was talked around by Sarah and ended up having an abortion before she fled the country.

Heather Sloane

Heather Sloane was the ex-girlfriend of Ben Goodall (Shaun Edwards-Brown). Heather was a patient and significantly older than Ben, thus bring great shock to Ben's ex lover – Tania Jeffries (Faye Smythe) when Heather confessed she and Ben had dated for 5 years and she had, in fact, paid his paramedic fees. Tania suspected Ben of being a gold digger and may have been after her mother, Yvonne's (Alison Quigan) money. Heather had cancer and though reassured of her safety by Ben, died on the operating table in February.