abstract: The Prince Edward Island Scotties Tournament of Hearts is the Prince Edward Island provincial women's curling tournament. The tournament is run by Curl PEI, the provincial curling association. The winning team represents Prince Edward Island at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

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# Prince Edward Island Scotties Tournament of Hearts

The **Prince Edward Island Scotties Tournament of Hearts** is the Prince Edward Island provincial women's curling tournament. The tournament is run by Curl PEI, the provincial curling association. The winning team represents Prince Edward Island at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts.

## Past winners

| Year | Skip | Curling club |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2024 | Veronica Mayne (Fourth), Jane DiCarlo (Skip), Sabrina Smith, Whitney Jenkins | Crapaud Community CC |
| 2023 | Suzanne Birt (Fourth), Marie Christianson (Skip), Michelle Shea, Meaghan Hughes | Cornwall Curling Club |
| 2022 | *Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Prince Edward Island. <br>Team Birt (Suzanne Birt, Marie Christianson, Meaghan Hughes, Michelle McQuaid) to represent province at Scotties.* | |
| 2021 | Suzanne Birt, Kathy O'Rourke, Meaghan Hughes, Michelle McQuaid | Montague Curling Club |
| 2020 | Suzanne Birt, Marie Christianson, Meaghan Hughes, Michelle McQuaid | Montague Curling Club |
| 2019 | Suzanne Birt, Marie Christianson, Meaghan Hughes, Michelle McQuaid | Charlottetown Curling Complex (Charlottetown) |
| 2018 | Robyn MacPhee, Sarah Fullerton, Meaghan Hughes, Michelle McQuaid | Charlottetown Curling Complex |
| 2017 | Robyn MacPhee, Sarah Fullerton, Meaghan Hughes, Michelle McQuaid | Charlottetown Curling Complex |
| 2016 | Suzanne Birt, Robyn Green, Meaghan Hughes, Marie Christianson | Charlottetown Curling Complex |
| 2015 | Suzanne Birt, Shelly Bradley, Michelle McQuaid, Susan McInnis | Charlottetown Curling Complex |
| 2014 | Kim Dolan, Rebecca Jean MacDonald, Sinead Dolan, Michala Robison | Charlottetown Curling Complex |
| 2013 | Suzanne Birt, Shelly Bradley, Sarah Fullerton, Leslie MacDougall | Charlottetown Curling Complex |
| 2012 | Kim Dolan, Rebecca Jean MacDonald, Sinead Dolan, Nancy Cameron, Michala Robison | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 2011 | Suzanne Birt, Shelly Bradley, Robyn MacPhee, Leslie MacDougall | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 2010 | Erin Carmody, Geri-Lynn Ramsay, Kathy O'Rourke (skip), Tricia Affleck | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 2009 | Robyn MacPhee, Rebecca Jean MacPhee, Shelley Muzika, Tammi Lowther | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 2008 | Suzanne Gaudet, Robyn MacPhee, Carol Webb, Stefanie Clark | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 2007 | Suzanne Gaudet, Robyn MacPhee, Carol Webb, Stefanie Clark | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 2006 | Suzanne Gaudet, Susan McInnis, Nancy Cameron, Tricia Affleck | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 2005 | Rebecca Jean MacPhee, Shelly Bradley, Robyn MacPhee, Stefanie Richard | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 2004 | Suzanne Gaudet, Susan McInnis, Janice MacCallum, Tricia Affleck | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 2003 | Suzanne Gaudet, Rebecca Jean MacPhee, Robyn MacPhee, Susan McInnis | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 2002 | Kathy O'Rourke, Julie Scales, Lori Robinson, Bea Graham | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 2001 | Shelly Bradley, Janice MacCallum, Leslie Allan, Tricia MacGregor | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 2000 | Shelly Bradley, Janice MacCallum, Leslie Allan, Tricia MacGregor | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1999 | Rebecca Jean MacPhee, Kim Dolan, Kathy O'Rourke, Lou Ann Henry | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1998 | Tammi Lowther, Susan McInnis, Shelley Muzika, Julie Scales | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1997 | Rebecca Jean MacPhee, Kim Dolan, Marion MacAulay, Lou Ann Henry | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1996 | Susan McInnis, Kathy O'Rourke, Tricia MacGregor, Leslie Allan | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1995 | Rebecca Jean MacPhee, Kim Dolan, Marion MacAulay, Lou Ann Henry | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1994 | Shelly Danks, Nancy Reid, Janice MacCallum, Shelley Muzika | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1993 | Angela Roberts, Sara Gatchell, Janice MacCallum, Nancy Reid | Silver Fox Curling Club (Summerside) |
| 1992 | Kim Dolan, Susan McInnis, Julie Scales, Marion MacAulay | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1991 | Angela Roberts, Kathy O'Rourke, Susan McCurdy, Beatrice Graham-MacDonald | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1990 | Kim Dolan, Karen Jones, Shelley Muzika, Janice MacCallum | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1989 | Kathie Gallant, Susan McInnis, Beatrice Graham-MacDonald, Kathy O'Rourke | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1988 | Jennifer Ramsay, Terry Nicholson, June Moyaert, Frances McGowan | Montague R.A. Complex (Montague) |
| 1987 | Kim Dolan, Karen Jones, Shelley Muzika, Nancy Reid | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1986 | Barbara Currie, Beverley Millar, Ann Currie, Marlene Noye | Silver Fox Curling Club |
| 1985 | Kim Dolan, Cathy Dillon, Kathie Gallant, Karen MacDonald | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1984 | Barbara Currie, Beverley Millar, Ann Currie, Marlene Noye | Silver Fox Curling Club |
| 1983 | Kim McLeod, Cathy Dillon, Karen MacDonald, Kathie Burke | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1982 | Gloria Large, Wanda Aulenback, Diane Bradley, Irene MacDonald | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1981 | Beverly Millar, Elizabeth Miles, Norma Worth, Wanda MacLean | Silver Fox Curling Club |
| 1980 | Elayne Thomson, Ruth Cutcliffe, Louise Thompson, Julia Robinson | Crapaud Community Curling Club (Crapaud) |
| 1979 | Elayne Thomson, Ruth Cutcliffe, Louise Thompson, Julia Robinson | Crapaud Community Curling Club |
| 1978 | Gloria Basha, Marilyn Sutherland, Wilma McLure, Marion Basha | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1977 | Phyllis Drysdale, Esther Cox, Shirley Veinot, Ethel Hovey | Belvedere Golf & Winter Club (Charlottetown) |
| 1976 | Diane Blanchard, Barbara McCurdy, Deborah Richard, Sharon MacEwen | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1975 | Diane Blanchard, Barbara McCurdy, Jean Court, Sharon MacEwen | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1974 | Marie Toole, Cathy Dillon, Jennie Boomhower, Pauline Johnston | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1973 | Elayne Thomson, Ruth Cutcliffe, Louise Thompson, Frances Roberts | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1972 | Marie Toole, Jennie Boomhower, Cathy Dillon, Pauline Johnston | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1971 | Marie Toole, Jennie Boomhower, Cathy Dillon, Pauline Johnston | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1970 | Marie Toole, Jennie Boomhower, Cathy Dillon, Pauline Johnston | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1969 | Marie Toole, Jennie Boomhower, Mary Acorn, Pauline Johnston | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1968 | Gladys Carruthers, Anita Cudmore, Wanda Robinson, Audrey MacKinnon | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1967 | Elizabeth MacDonald, Marie Toole, Barbara Squarebriggs, Peggy Dalziel | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1966 | Kay Hoare, Lila Tucker, Diane Stark, Muriel Thomas | RCAF Summerside Curling Club |
| 1965 | Sybil MacMillan, Marjorie Stewart, Jennie Boomhower, Janet Douglas | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1964 | Mary Nicholson, Edith Clay, Connie Ings, Evelyn Cudmore | Montague Curling Club |
| 1963 | Fern Seel, Bernice Cook, Kay Hoare, Elsie Farquhar | RCAF Summerside Curling Club |
| 1962 | Elizabeth MacDonald, Sally Rodd, Evelyn Goss, Nora McDonald | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1961 | Elizabeth MacDonald, Sally Rodd, Evelyn Goss, Nora McDonald | Charlottetown Curling Club |
| 1960 | Pauline Burden, Gladys Carruthers, Frances Whitlock, Shirley Carr |  |
| 1959 | Mary MacLennan, Louise Bell, Marion MacDonald, Bea Humphrey |  |
| 1958 | Sybil MacMillan, Marion Dockendorff, Jennie Boomhower, Iris MacLennan |  |
| 1957 | Mary Nicholson, Hal Inman, Edith Clay, Anna Pettitt |  |
| 1956 | Sybil MacMillan, Marion Dockendorff, Iris MacLellan, Mary Tait |  |
| 1955 | Kay Johnson, Pauline Burden, Rosemary Hill, Nora MacDonald |  |
| 1954 | Betty Linkletter, Irene Silliphant, Sally Basler, Frances Henthorn |  |
| 1953 | Betty Linkletter, Irene Silliphant, Sally Basler, Frances Henthorn |  |
| 1952 | Betty Linkletter, Irene Silliphant, Sally Basler, Frances Henthorn |  |
| 1951 | Anna Hayes, Marion Smallman, Verda Holman, Shirley Simpson |  |

## InfoBox

| Prince Edward Island Scotties Tournament of Hearts | |
| --- | --- |
| Established | 1951 |
| 2024 host city | Summerside, Prince Edward Island |
| 2024 arena | Summerside Curling Club |
| 2024 champion | Jane DiCarlo |
| Current edition | |
| *2024 Prince Edward Island Scotties Tournament of Hearts* | |


title: Wesley Church, Albany

abstract: Wesley Church is a Uniting church located on Duke Street, overlooking Princess Royal Harbour, in Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.

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# Wesley Church, Albany

**Wesley Church** is a Uniting church located on Duke Street, overlooking Princess Royal Harbour, in Albany in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.

## History

Founded by the Methodist Church as the **Wesley Methodist Church**, it was built in a late Victorian style in 1890 at a cost of 2,695. The church has walls of brick and local granite with elaborate brick window surrounds. It also features gothic elements such as pointed arched entrances, a tall spire and pointed arched windows. The manse was built on the eastern side of the church in 1903 at a cost of £1,250 in a matching architectural style. Both buildings were funded by the Robinson family who held large commercial, land and legal interests in both Albany and Perth.

The complex, consisting of the church, hall and manse are heritage listed. The hall was built first in 1863 and then replaced in 1891, now known as Albert Hall. The church was opened the same year after replacing an earlier building, parts of which were incorporated into the hall.

The church is set close to the road with a symmetrical façade, a tower and spire. It has a steeply pitched roof, parapeted gable and wall buttresses. The stone masonry is finished with brick trim. The hall sits next to the church also has a symmetrical facade and a steeply pitched roof that includes a row of vents. It has a central arched doorway and five centred flat-topped windows above the door. The manse has a symmetrical façade, stone construction with painted brick quoining around windows and doors. There is a central portico with arched entrance, a verandah with decorative timber posts and frieze. The main roof is hipped and topped with four distinctive chimneys.

In 1977 the Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church of Australia, and the Congregational Union of Australia merged to form the Uniting Church.

Media related to Wesley Church, Albany at Wikimedia Commons

## InfoBox

| Wesley Church | |
| --- | --- |
| Wesley Church, Albany | |
|  | |
| 35°01′34″S 117°52′51″E / 35.02615°S 117.88086°E / -35.02615; 117.88086 (Wesley Church) | |
| Address | Duke Street, Albany, Great Southern region of Western Australia |
| Country | Australia |
| Denomination | Uniting (since 1977) |
| Previous denomination | Methodist (1890  1977) |
| Website | arc.ucwa.au |
| History | |
| Former name(s) | Wesley Methodist Church |
| Status | Church |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | Active |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Victorian |
| Completed | 1890 |
| Construction cost | 2,695 |
| Specifications | |
| Materials | Brick; granite |
| Administration | |
| Synod | Western Australia |
| Parish | Albany Region Congregations |
|  | |
| Western Australia Heritage Register | |
| Type | State Registered Place |
| Designated | 11 December 2018 |
| Reference no. | 21 |
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title: Gisela Tschofenig

abstract: Gisela Tschofenig was an (illegal) Austrian Communist political activist who after 1938 became an anti-government resistance activist. In 1945 fellow detainees at the Schörgenhub labour camp, who had heard overnight shots on 27/28 April, after seeing Tschofenig called outside with two other women, had their fears confirmed the following morning when one of the camp guards was seen to be wearing their friend's "mountain boots".

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# Gisela Tschofenig

**Gisela Tschofenig** (born **Gisela Taurer**:21 May 1917 - 27 April 1945) was an (illegal) Austrian Communist political activist who after 1938 became an anti-government resistance activist. In 1945 fellow detainees at the Schörgenhub labour camp, who had heard overnight shots on 27/28 April, after seeing Tschofenig called outside with two other women, had their fears confirmed the following morning when one of the camp guards was seen to be wearing their friend's "mountain boots".

## Life and death

**Gisela Taurer** was born into a railway family in Carinthia. She had two elder brothers and, after 1919, one younger sister. Gisela grew up with her family, initially, at Landskron, a little town just outside Villach. In 1925 the family relocated to Villach. In 1935 they had to relocate again, this time in connection with her father's work. Locomotive Driver Karl Taurer was transferred to the locomotive depot at Linz, having been assessed as "politically unreliable" in Villach. His daughter was also politically aware, even as a young child, participating actively in Social Democratic youth organisations such as Österreichische Kinderfreunde and die Rote Falken. The early 1930s were a period of intensifying polarisation across western and central Europe: in 1932 she switched her political allegiance to the Young Communists. It was during her three years with the Young Communists that Gisela Taurer first met Josef "Pepe" Tschofenig, whom she later married. In 1933 she was just 16, still living with her parents in Villach, when she had her first significant unfriendly encounter with the police, when she was found handing out political leaflets in behalf of the Young Communists. (Chancellor Dollfuss had choreographed the "Self-elimination of the Austrian Parliament", clearing the way for five years of what came to be known as "Austrofascism" a few weeks earlier.)

Gisela Taurer received a solid school level and higher education, the final three years of which involved three years at the "Höhere Lehranstalt für wirtschaftliche Frauenberufe" (*loosely, "Higher education College for Women in Business"*) in Villach. In April 1937 she quit her office job with the BBÖ (Austrian Railways operator) in Linz, and set off for Spain with her friend Margarethe Gröblinger, intending to participate on the government side in the Spanish Civil War. As matters turned out the girls never got beyond the south of France, however. They stopped off in Lyon where Taurer and her friend both took jobs as governesses, "au pairs" or nanny. (All three terms are used in sources.) The remained in Lyon for a year, at the end of which Gisela Taurer had mastered the French language. The Spanish war was going badly, however, from the perspective of the Spanish government: the "nationalists" were winning, and in April 1938 she returned home to Linz, where she resumed her employment with the railways, now working as a cashier at the main station (Hbf).

She also resumed her "party work", authoring and publishing political leaflets and organising courier operations. She became well known among fellow-members of the movement. Left-wing political parties had been effectively outlawed in Austria since as far back as 1934, but the imposition and enforcement of one-party dictatorship had been enforced by the government with greatly intensified rigour and deadliness since the integration of Austria into a newly enlarged version of Germany in 1938. Underground political movements could be and were penetrated by security service spies, which encouraged a cellular organisational structure. That in turn increased the need for "couriers" to coordinate the political and resistance work of the different communist cells. That Gisela Taurer's political activism was known about among comrades placed her in significant danger.

The friendship with Josef Tschofenig, by this time described as a "party official in the illegal Communist Party", had grown warmer. Tschofenig was a proud self-proclaimed antifascist, however, whose record of political activism stretched at least as far back as 1933, when he experienced the first of several terms of imprisonment in connection with his political activism. Soon after the "Anschluss" (identified by some as the German invasion) in March 1938 he escaped to Czechoslovakia where during the Autumn/Fall of 1938 he was again imprisoned. Details concerning his movements during the next nine months are sketchy, but by the summer of 1939 he had found refuge in Belgium, where he was joined by Gisela, his political soulmate and childhood sweetheart, in July 1939. According to one source Tschofenig received his military conscription notification in the Autumn/Fall of 1939, but he evidently ignored it. According to various sources Gisela Taurer and Josef Tschofenig lived together in a form or political exile in Berchem, an outer district on the south side of Antwerp, for approximately ten months. During May 1940 the German army undertook and completed a rapid invasion of Belgium, so could no longer be ignored, however. Josef Tschofenig was promptly arrested and transferred to the vast internment camp at Saint-Cyprien in southern France. In or before December 1940 he was transferred again, this time to the Dachau concentration camp.

Gisela, now alone and pregnant, found a legal way to return home to Linz where her parents were still living. On reaching home she made contact with the resistance group around Josef Teufl, who was viewed as the regional head of the (still illegal) party. Her "political activities" are thought to have included, as they had before her ten months in Belgium, acting as a point of contact between relatively isolated activist cells, arranging courier services for them, and authoring political leaflets. She was also able to use the language skills acquired during her time as an au pair in France to establish and sustain contact with the French forced labourers at the "Reichswerke AG für Erzbergbau und Eisenhütten „Hermann Göring“" (iron works) in Linz, which during the erarly 1940s became a beacon for the National Socialist military-industrial complex. Intense secrecy was vital. Although Giesla Taurer and her friend Theresia Reindl were in close contact during this period, neither was made aware of the other's "underground activities".

Hermann Tschofenig, Gisela's son by her partnership with Josef Tschofenig, was born on 21 December 1940. Sources are for the most part silent about her activities during the ensuing three years, beyond noting that she tried, without success, to secure the release of Josef Tschofenig from the Dachau concentration camp to which he had been transferred at arouhnd the same time as the child was born. There are indications that after Gisela left Linz in 1944, the child stayed behind with family members - most likely Gisela's parents and/or her younger sister.

On 3 June 1944 Gisela Taurer finally married Josef Tschofenig at the Standesamt (*loosely, "registry office"*) which had been set up at the Dachau concentration camp. Three days later, on 6 June 1944, the district court in Linz retrospectively conferred "legal legitimacy" on the infant Hermann Tschofenig. Gisela's repeated efforts to secure her husband's release were still without success, however. In July 1944 Gisela Tschofenig, hoping to improve her husband's chances of release, let it be known that she had abandoned her political activism in Linz and fled, now with her four-year-old son, back to Carinthia. Several sources explain the move with the explanation that Linz had become "too hot" for her. She took a room in the home of the Tatschl family near Villach. (According to at least one source she had a negative premonition about moving in with the Tatschls, but she nevertheless made the move.)

Tschofenig was arrested on suspicion of "subversive political activity" (*"... staatsfeindlicher politischer Betätigung "*) by the security services at the Tatschls' home on 25 September 1944 and taken back to Linz. The arrest came in the context of a wider sweep by the security services, targeting the "Communist Resistance". According to one source, before reaching Linz she stopped off at the Mauthausen concentration camp where she underwent a routine "interrogation" during the course of which she was informed that she would never see her son again.

At Linz she was delivered to the women's prison in Linz-Kaplanhof, where she was held, apparently without any trial, for slightly more than six months. During the night of 30/31 March 1945 the prison suffered a serious bomb attack in which eight women were killed and four more badly injured. Tschofenig survived, however, and was among those who were able to make their way out from under the burning rubble. The survivors were recaptured, however, and in the evening driven across town to the labour camp at Schörgenhub. Despite its designated purpose, it seems that by this time Schörgenhub was being used primarily as a place of detention for political detainees. The accommodation block in which the Kaplanhof were accommodated is described as "half-finished". Tschofenig evidently did not expect to get out alive. She tried to arrange for her mother and child to visit her, and did indeed get to see them both one more time, but only through the camp's perimeter fence. During the night of 27 April 1945 Gisela Tschofenig, Risa Höllermann from Wels and a third woman whose name remains unknown were ordered outside with their blankets. All three were shot dead, apparently beside a pit. There were also three men shot dead at the same time. Just six days later, on 3 May 1945, the camp was liberated by American troops.

The camp guards and administrators had fled ahead of the advancing forces. If Gisela Tschofenig's name had ever been included in any "death list", the list had been destroyed. Nevertheless, one of her friend Theresia Reindl (for whom a pit had already been dug, but who was nevertheless still alive a few days later when the camp was liberated) was able to indicate the location of the pit in which Tschofenig's body had been placed, along with those of the other five killed at the same time. Ten days after the camp was liberated, Karl Taurer undertook the grisly task of exhuming the six bodies in the pit. According to sources he was helped by "some railway worker Nazis". Newspaper reports of the time identify the three men whose bodies were exhumed from the pit containing Tschofenig's earthly remains as "a farmer called Franz Popp, from Molln", "a man called Stadler from Gmunden" and "an unknown Jew". (Other burial pits had already, by this point, been opened up and cleared of their grim contents.)

On 15 May 1945 Gisela Tschofenig's body was reburied nearby at the Kleinmünchen Cemetery, on the southern edge of the city. A shocking report of the affair from his maternal grandmother was retained by Hermann Tschofenig, although as late as 1953 Gisela Tschofenig's death still had not been officially registered, due to the absence of the correct documentation.

## Celebration

The "Tschofenigweg", a little street in Linz-Ebelsberg was named after Gisela Tschofenig in 2006.

## InfoBox

| Gisela Tschofenig | |
| --- | --- |
| Born | Gisela Taurer
21 May 1917
Landskron (Villach), Carinthia (Cisleithania), Austria |
| Died | 27 April 1945(1945-04-27) (aged 27)
Schörgenhub labour camp, Linz, Reichsgau Oberdonau, Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Railway clerk/cashier
Underground political activist
Resistance activist |
| Political party | KPÖ |
| Spouse | Josef "Pepe" Tschofenig |
| Children | Hermann Tschofenig |
| Parent | Karl & Helene Taurer |


title: Psenulus

abstract: Psenulus is a genus of wasps in the family Psenidae. The 173 species are found worldwide, but are best represented in the Indomalayan realm with 68. The Palearctic has 26, the Nearctic 4, and the Australasian realm 3. Psenulus is largely absent from South America and entirely absent from Melanesia and Polynesia. A recent phylogenetic analysis provided strong evidence that this genus is the closest living relative to bees.

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# Psenulus

***Psenulus*** is a genus of wasps in the family Psenidae. The 173 species are found worldwide, but are best represented in the Indomalayan realm with 68. The Palearctic has 26, the Nearctic 4, and the Australasian realm 3. *Psenulus* is largely absent from South America (1 species) and entirely absent from Melanesia and Polynesia. A recent phylogenetic analysis provided strong evidence that this genus is the closest living relative to bees.

## Species of Europe

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| *Psenulus* | |
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| *Psenulus fuscipennis* | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Superfamily: | Apoidea |
| Family: | Psenidae |
| Genus: | *Psenulus*
Kohl, 1897 |
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| Type species | |
| *Psenulus fuscipennis*
(Dahlbohm, 1843) | |


title: Neena Haridas

abstract: Neena Haridas is an Indian journalist and writer. She is the founder-director of Last Leaf Ideas that works towards sustainability and fair practice in the lifestyle and luxury community. She specialises in fashion, beauty, art, lifestyle design and is also known for being a commentator on television. She was until recently Editorial Director of the Indian edition of the French haute couture magazine L'Officiel. She worked as the Editor of the Indian edition of the international beauty and fashion magazine Marie Claire from 2010 to 2013. Before joining TCG Media Limited in 2016 she worked as Editorial Director at Blouin Artinfo in New York. She was also advisor to Marie Claire International. Before that, she worked at Business Standard, The Pioneer, The Telegraph and HT City, and she also worked as a features editor at News X Channel. Her views about fashion have been quoted in the media. For example, she believes that fashion should be ethical and sustainable and not just for elites but for the masses, that the general public should take fashion more seriously, and that the fashion industry should be more active towards influencing future styles rather than merely reporting what people have been wearing. In 2011, she criticised a decision by Vogue magazine to employ fashion models younger than eighteen years old. She interviewed Paris Hilton and described her as "down-to-earth" and noted that Hilton loves Indian fashion designers. In 2017, Haridas was quoted in the bestseller book by Myra Macdonald, Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War published by Hurst Publishers for her reportage on the infamous hijack of IC 814 flight from Nepal to New Delhi.

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# Neena Haridas

**Neena Haridas** is an Indian journalist and writer. She is the founder-director of *Last Leaf Ideas* that works towards sustainability and fair practice in the lifestyle and luxury community. She specialises in fashion, beauty, art, lifestyle design and is also known for being a commentator on television. She was until recently Editorial Director of the Indian edition of the French haute couture magazine L'Officiel. She worked as the Editor of the Indian edition of the international beauty and fashion magazine *Marie Claire* from 2010 to 2013. Before joining TCG Media Limited in 2016 she worked as Editorial Director at Blouin Artinfo in New York. She was also advisor to Marie Claire International.

Before that, she worked at *Business Standard*, *The Pioneer*, *The Telegraph* and *HT City*, and she also worked as a features editor at *News X Channel*. Her views about fashion have been quoted in the media. For example, she believes that fashion should be ethical and sustainable and not just for elites but for the masses, that the general public should take fashion more seriously, and that the fashion industry should be more active towards influencing future styles rather than merely reporting what people have been wearing.

In 2011, she criticised a decision by *Vogue magazine* to employ fashion models younger than eighteen years old. She interviewed Paris Hilton and described her as "down-to-earth" and noted that Hilton loves Indian fashion designers. In 2017, Haridas was quoted in the bestseller book by Myra Macdonald, *Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War* published by Hurst Publishers for her reportage on the infamous hijack of IC 814 flight from Nepal to New Delhi.

## Personal life

Haridas is married and lives in Gurgaon.

## InfoBox

| Neena Haridas | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Born | (1973-07-16) 16 July 1973 |
| Occupation | Journalist and Writer |
| Language | English |
| Citizenship | India |
| Subject | fashion, design and art |
| Years active | 23 |


title: Psalodon

abstract: Psalodon is an extinct genus of North American mammal that lived during the Upper Jurassic period. It's a member of the family Allodontidae within the order Multituberculata.

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# Psalodon

***Psalodon*** is an extinct genus of North American mammal that lived during the Upper Jurassic period. It's a member of the family Allodontidae within the order Multituberculata.

## Biostratigraphy

Present in stratigraphic zones 2 and 5.

## Species

*Psalodon fortis* was named by Othniel Charles Marsh in 1887 and G. G. Simpson in 1927. It is also known as *Allodon fortis* (Marsh 1887). Remains have been found in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming (United States). The holotype is at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.

*Psalodon marshi* was named by Simpson G.G. in 1929. All of the remains came from the Morrison Formation of Wyoming.

*Psalodon potens* was named by Marsh O.C. in 1887 and Simpson G.G. in 1927. It is also known as *Ctenacodon potens* (Marsh 1887). The remains assigned to this species were also found in the Morrison Formation of Wyoming and the holotype is also at Yale.

* Simpson (1927), Mesozoic Mammalia. VII. "Taxonomy of Morrison multituberculates". *Am. J. Sci.* **(5) xiv**: 36–38.
* Marsh (1887), "American Jurassic mammals". *Am. J. Sci.* **(3) xxxiii**: p. 326-348.
* Kielan-Jaworowska Z & Hurum JH (2001), "Phylogeny and Systematics of multituberculate mammals". *Paleontology* **44**, p. 389-429.

## InfoBox

| *Psalodon*
Temporal range: Late Jurassic | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Multituberculata |
| Family: | Allodontidae |
| Genus: | *Psalodon*
Simpson, 1926 |
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| Species | |
| * *P. fortis* (Marsh, 1887) * *P. marshi* Simpson, 1929 * *P. potens* (Marsh, 1887) | |


title: Patrizia Webley

abstract: Patrizia Webley is an Italian actress. She acted mainly in horror films and erotic films.

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# Patrizia Webley

**Patrizia Webley** (born and sometimes credited as **Patrizia De Rossi**, 1 December 1950) is an Italian actress. She acted mainly in horror films and erotic films.

## Career

She began her career as an actress in Italian erotic comedies in 1975 with the film *Gli angeli dalle mani bendate* with Rossano Brazzi, later she participated in films such as *The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance*, *Movie rush - La febbre del cinema* (it), *Ragazza alla pari*, and *Classe mista*, among others. She also makes an appearance in *Salon Kitty*. Since the early eighties she retired from acting, her last appearance dates from 1981 with the miniseries *Seagull Island* (it).

## Filmography

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1975 | *Giro, giro, tondo... con il sesso è bello il mondo* |  |  |
| 1975 | *Gli angeli dalle mani bendate* |  |  |
| 1975 | *The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance* | Evelyn |  |
| 1976 | *Salon Kitty* | New Kitty Girl |  |
| 1976 | *Il letto in piazza* | Nicole - wife of Lattanzi |  |
| 1976 | *Ragazza alla pari* | Magdalena |  |
| 1976 | *Classe mista* | Prof. De Santis |  |
| 1976 | *Movie rush - La febbre del cinema* (it) | Wife of Guzzini |  |
| 1977 | *The Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn* | Raffaele's Wife |  |
| 1977 | *Gola profonda nera* | Angelica |  |
| 1977 | *Le calde notti di Caligola* (it) | Blonde Lesbian |  |
| 1977 | *La sorprendente eredità del tonto di mammà* |  |  |
| 1979 | *Malabimba – The Malicious Whore'* | Nais / Adolfo's wife |  |
| 1979 | *Tre sotto il lenzuolo* (it) | Lover of the porter | (segment "No, non è per gelosia") |
| 1977 | *Un'ombra nell'ombra* | Prostitute |  |
| 1979 | *Play Motel* | Valeria Marzotti |  |
| 1980 | *Il lupo e l'agnello* |  |  |

## InfoBox

| Patrizia Webley | |
| --- | --- |
| Born | Patrizia De Rossi
(1950-12-01) 1 December 1950
Rome, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Other names | Patrizia De Rossi |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1975–1981 |


title: Iobates

abstract: In Greek mythology, Iobates or Jobates was a Lycian king, the father of Antea and Philonoe. He was sometimes named Amphianax.

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# Iobates

In Greek mythology, **Iobates** /ˈɒbətz/ or **Jobates** /ˈɒbətz/ (Ancient Greek: Ἰοβάτης) was a Lycian king, the father of Antea and Philonoe. He was sometimes named Amphianax.

## Mythology

Bellerophon was sent into exile to the land of King Iobates. Proetus (king of Argos and Tiryns) wanted Iobates to kill Bellerophon, but Iobates feared the wrath of the gods if he murdered a guest. So he sent Bellerophon on a mission that he deemed impossible: to kill a fire-breathing monster, the Chimera.

An alternate version of the beginning of the quest is that Bellerophon encountered Proetus, who grew intensely jealous of him. Proetus was the son-in-law of Iobates, and sent Bellerophon to him with a sealed message that asked him to kill Bellerophon. Lycia at the time was in the middle of a horrific plague and Iobates didn't want to strain the population with a war, which would surely result if he murdered Bellerophon. Instead, he sent him to kill the Chimera.

The goddess Athena, realizing Bellerophon would surely die if he undertook this task alone, sent him aid in the form of the winged horse, Pegasus. Alternatively, Bellerophon sought out the wisest man in Lycia, Polyidus, who told him about the horse. To obtain the services of the winged horse, Polyidus told Bellerophon to sleep in the temple of Athena. While Bellerophon slept, he dreamed of Athena setting a golden bridle down beside him; it was there when he awoke. Bellerophon had to sneak up on Pegasus while it drank from a well (Polyidus told him which well).

Bellerophon mounted his steed and flew off to where the Chimera was said to dwell. When he arrived, the Chimera was truly ferocious, and he could not harm the monster even while riding on Pegasus. He felt the heat of the Chimera's breath and was struck with an idea. He got a large block of lead and mounted it on his spear. He then flew head-on towards the Chimera, holding out the spear as far as he could. Before he broke off his attack, he managed to lodge the lead in the creature's throat. The beast's fire-breath melted the lead, and blocked its air passage. The Chimera suffocated, and Bellerophon returned to King Iobates victorious. Iobates was unable to believe that this valiant hero deserved death, and so he allowed Bellerophon to marry his daughter. Alternatively, Iobates' daughter, Antea, loved Bellerophon. He scorned her and she committed suicide. Iobates' other daughter, Philonoe, had an affair with Bellerophon.

## Note

* Grimal, Pierre, *The Dictionary of Classical Mythology*, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996. ISBN 978-0-631-20102-1

## InfoBox

| Iobates | |
| --- | --- |
| King of Lycia | |
| Member of the Lycian Royal Family | |
| Other names | ?Amphianax |
| Successor | Bellerophon |
| Abode | Lycia |
| Genealogy | |
| Parents | - |
| Siblings | - |
| Offspring | Stheneboea (Anteia) and Philonoe |


title: Mauser Model 1914

abstract: The Mauser Model 1914 is a semi-automatic pistol made by Mauser. A derivative of the 6.35mm Model 1910 designed by Josef Nickl, it uses 7.65mm ammunition. In 1934, the Model 1914 was superseded by the simpler Model 1934. Mauser 1914 pistols were used by the German police and military during both World Wars.

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# Mauser Model 1914

The **Mauser Model 1914** is a semi-automatic pistol made by Mauser. A derivative of the 6.35mm (.25 caliber) **Model 1910** designed by Josef Nickl, it uses 7.65mm (32 ACP) ammunition.

In 1934, the Model 1914 was superseded by the simpler **Model 1934**. Mauser 1914 pistols were used by the German police and military during both World Wars.

## Variants

The first variant of the Model 1910 was the “Side Latch”, which featured a rotating side-latch just above the trigger which enabled the cover over the side of the lockwork to be removed for cleaning. The second variant was the “New Model” typically referred to as the “Model 1910/14” because it first appeared in 1914. The original side-latch model created some potential problems when field stripped as the trigger could be removed, but would be difficult to replace because of the spring pressure on it. The New Model eliminated this issue and provided some other changes to the lockwork including improvements to the interrupter mechanism, and the magazine and slide stop mechanisms. The New Model's change to the striker mechanism also made it easier to determine if the pistol was cocked.

## Operation

The pistol was single action, and striker-fired, with the trigger connected to a bell crank lever which rotated around its center to disengage from the striker sear, allowing it to fly forward under spring pressure and discharge the cartridge.

The slide of the pistol locks open both on an empty magazine and when no magazine is inserted. If an empty magazine is removed the slide will remain locked open: however, if an empty magazine is inserted and fully seated, the slide will close. If a magazine is loaded with cartridges and then inserted into the pistol and fully seated while the slide is already locked open, the slide will move forward, automatically chambering a round. This feature ensures quick reload as there is no need to operate the slide to put the pistol into action, since once a loaded magazine was inserted, the slide would automatically close and the pistol would be ready to fire. If the slide is already forward when a loaded magazine is inserted, it can simply be pulled back to load a round just as with typical slide pistols.

The action of the “Model 1914” was largely the same as that of the “New Model” 6.35mm pistols and featured the same improvements to the trigger and interrupter mechanisms, and the magazine mechanisms that blocked the slide open when the magazine was empty, and prevented the pistol from being fired if the magazine was removed.

## InfoBox

| Mauser 1914 | |
| --- | --- |
| Model 1914 | |
| Type | Semi-automatic pistol |
| Place of origin | German Empire |
| Service history | |
| In service | 1914–1945 |
| Used by | German Empire
Nazi Germany
Finland |
| Wars | World War I
Finnish Civil War
World War II |
| Production history | |
| Designed | 1914 |
| Manufacturer | Mauser |
| No. built | Approx. 1 million |
| Variants | Model 1934 |
| Specifications | |
| Mass | 20 oz (1.3 lb; 0.6 kg) |
| Length | 6.1 in (155 mm) |
| --- | |
| Cartridge | 7.65mm (.32 ACP) 7.63mm Mauser (Chinese copies) |
| Action | blowback operation |
| Feed system | 8 round standard detachable box magazine |


title: Prince Edward Island Soccer Association

abstract: The Prince Edward Island Soccer Association is the governing body for soccer in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. It is a member association of the Canadian Soccer Association.

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# Prince Edward Island Soccer Association

The **Prince Edward Island Soccer Association** is the governing body for soccer in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. It is a member association of the Canadian Soccer Association.

## InfoBox

Prince Edward Island Soccer Association
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|  |
| Location |  |
| President | Lori Lund |
| Executive Director | Peter Wolters |
| Parent organization | Canadian Soccer Association |
| Website | https://peisoccer.com/ |


title: Minamoto no Tomonaga

abstract: Minamoto no Tomonaga (1144–1160) was a Minamoto clan samurai of the late Heian period. His father was Minamoto no Yoshitomo and his mother was sister of Hatano Yoshimichi. Tomonaga accompanied his father and two brothers, Minamoto no Yoshihira and Minamoto no Yoritomo, fleeing Kyoto following their defeat in the Heiji Rebellion in 1160. Tomonaga had been wounded on Mount Hiei. The four made their way through snowstorms to the east in an attempt to levy troops. Yoshihira and Yoritomo went on ahead, while Tomonaga lagged behind. Tomonaga asked his father to kill him so he would not fall into the hands of the enemy. Yoshitomo obliged his son. Shortly afterwards, Yoshitomo was also killed. Tomonaga's grave was defiled some time later, by Taira no Munekiyo, who brought his head to Kyoto as a trophy.

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# Minamoto no Tomonaga

**Minamoto no Tomonaga** (源 朝長) (1144–1160) was a Minamoto clan samurai of the late Heian period. His father was Minamoto no Yoshitomo and his mother was sister of Hatano Yoshimichi.

Tomonaga accompanied his father and two brothers, Minamoto no Yoshihira and Minamoto no Yoritomo, fleeing Kyoto following their defeat in the Heiji Rebellion in 1160. Tomonaga had been wounded on Mount Hiei. The four made their way through snowstorms to the east in an attempt to levy troops. Yoshihira and Yoritomo went on ahead, while Tomonaga lagged behind. Tomonaga asked his father to kill him so he would not fall into the hands of the enemy. Yoshitomo obliged his son. Shortly afterwards, Yoshitomo was also killed.

Tomonaga's grave was defiled some time later, by Taira no Munekiyo, who brought his head to Kyoto as a trophy.

* Papinot, Edmond (1910). *Historical and geographical dictionary of Japan.* Tokyo: Librarie Sansaisha.


title: Pygospina spinata

abstract: Pygospina spinata is a species of delphacid planthopper in the family Delphacidae. It is found in the Caribbean and North America.

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# Pygospina spinata

***Pygospina spinata*** is a species of delphacid planthopper in the family Delphacidae. It is found in the Caribbean and North America.

## Further reading

## InfoBox

| *Pygospina spinata* | |
| --- | --- |
|
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Auchenorrhyncha |
| Infraorder: | Fulgoromorpha |
| Family: | Delphacidae |
| Genus: | *Pygospina* |
| Species: | ***P. spinata*** |
| Binomial name | |
| ***Pygospina spinata***<br>Caldwell in Caldwell & Martorell, 1951 | |
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title: Prunus gracilis

abstract: Prunus gracilis, called the Oklahoma plum, sour plum, and sand plum, is a species of Prunus native to the south-central United States.

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# Prunus gracilis

***Prunus gracilis***, called the **Oklahoma plum**, **sour plum**, and **sand plum**, is a species of *Prunus* native to the south-central United States.

## Description

*Prunus gracilis* grows up to 1.8 metres (6 feet) tall, has five-petaled leaves, and fruits ripen June–August. It grows in clusters and thickets. It is hermaphroditic and pollinated by insects.

## Taxonomy

The specific epithet *Gracilis* refers to 'slender branches'.

## Distribution and habitat

It is natively found in various states of the United States, including Alabama, southwestern Arkansas, southeastern Colorado, Kansas, northwestern Louisiana, eastern New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.

It is found growing in fence rows, open woodlands, woodlands edge, forest openings, hillsides, slopes, sandy roadsides, upland thickets and waste places. It is normally found at 100–1,300 m (330–4,270 ft) above sea level.

## Uses

Its red fruits are considered poor for eating, but Native Americans dried them for consumption during winter.

## InfoBox

| *Prunus gracilis* | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| 1913 illustration | |
| Conservation status | |
|
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| *Clade*: | Tracheophytes |
| *Clade*: | Angiosperms |
| *Clade*: | Eudicots |
| *Clade*: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Genus: | *Prunus* |
| Subgenus: | *Prunus subg. Prunus* |
| Section: | *Prunus sect. Prunocerasus* |
| Species: | ***P. gracilis*** |
| Binomial name | |
| ***Prunus gracilis***
Engelm. & A.Gray | |
|
| Synonyms | |
| *Prunus normalis* Small | |


title: Prunus amplifolia

abstract: Prunus amplifolia is a species of Prunus native to South America, including Bolivia, Peru and Venezuela. It goes by a number of common names, including jihuí and xoco in the Chakobo language.

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# Prunus amplifolia

***Prunus amplifolia*** is a species of *Prunus* native to South America, including Bolivia, Peru and Venezuela. It goes by a number of common names, including **jihuí** and **xoco** in the Chakobo language.

## InfoBox

| *Prunus amplifolia* | |
| --- | --- |
|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| *Clade*: | Tracheophytes |
| *Clade*: | Angiosperms |
| *Clade*: | Eudicots |
| *Clade*: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Genus: | *Prunus* |
| Species: | ***P. amplifolia*** |
| Binomial name | |
| ***Prunus amplifolia***<br>Pilg. | |
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title: Passaic Valley Regional High School

abstract: Passaic Valley Regional High School is the name of both a public school district and regional high school for students in ninth through twelfth grades from a district comprised of Little Falls, Totowa and Woodland Park, three communities in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The high school is the only facility in the Passaic Valley Regional High School District. As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,039 students and 83.2 classroom teachers, for a student–teacher ratio of 12.5:1. There were 278 students eligible for free lunch and 42 eligible for reduced-cost lunch. The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J. The Passaic Valley board of education consists of nine members, with three members elected from each municipality. The board generally meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month during the school year and once a month during the summer.

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# Passaic Valley Regional High School

| Passaic Valley Regional High School | |
| --- | --- |
| Location | |
|  | |
| Information | |
| Type | Public high school |
| Motto | "It's a great day to be a hornet." |
| Established | 1940 |
| NCES School ID | 341257004858 |
| Principal | Krista Voorhis |
| Faculty | 83.2 FTEs |
| Grades | -12 |
| Enrollment | 1,039 (as of 2022–23) |
| Student to teacher ratio | 12.5:1 |
| Color(s) | Green and
white |
| Athletics conference | Big North Conference (general)
North Jersey Super Football Conference (football) |
| Team name | Hornets |

**Passaic Valley Regional High School** is the name of both a public school district and regional high school for students in ninth through twelfth grades from a district comprised of Little Falls, Totowa and Woodland Park, three communities in Passaic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The high school is the only facility in the Passaic Valley Regional High School District.

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,039 students and 83.2 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.5:1. There were 278 students (26.8% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 42 (4.0% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "FG", the fourth highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.

The Passaic Valley board of education consists of nine members, with three members elected from each municipality. The board generally meets on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month during the school year and once a month during the summer.

## History

Overcrowding at Paterson Central High School led the three constituent municipalities to begin discussions for the formation of a regional school district that would serve an estimated 600 students at a cost that would be comparable to the amounts paid in tuition for the sending/receiving relationships with the Paterson Public Schools and more cost effective than building high schools in each community.

Constructed at a cost of $500,000 (equivalent to $10.9 million in 2023), nearly half of which was covered by a grant from the Public Works Administration, the school was designed to handle an enrollment of 650 to as many as 800, and opened to students in September 1940. The school mascot, the Hornet, was derived by vote of the first class from the *Green Hornet* radio series popular in the 1940s, as were the school colors of green and white.

## Awards, recognition and rankings

As of 2019, the school is ranked 233rd out of 415 New Jersey public high schools. The school was the 225th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in *New Jersey Monthly* magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 202nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 144th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 170th in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 166th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.

Schooldigger.com ranked the school 192nd out of 381 public high schools statewide in its 2011 rankings (a decrease of 4 positions from the 2010 ranking) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the two components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA), mathematics (79.1%) and language arts literacy (92.3%).

## Academics

Passaic Valley Regional High School offers the following advanced placement courses: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Calculus AB, English Literature & Composition, English Language & Composition, United States History, Spanish, United States Government & Politics, and Environmental Science. The school also offers the following courses as honors: Anatomy and Physiology, English, United States History, World History, Algebra I, Algebra II, Pre-Calculus, Geometry, Italian, French, Spanish, Business Practice Firm, Biology and Chemistry.

The school also is part of the Fairleigh Dickinson University Middle College Program where students may choose to obtain college credits for selected courses including Anatomy & Physiology Honors and Holocaust & Genocide.

## Extracurricular activities

Passaic Valley participates in "24 Hours Around the World" in which students teleconference with other nations for 24 hours.

Passaic Valley's Drama Department is a part of the North Jersey Metro Cappies, a student critic program that introduces students to the world of theater journalism. They run a summer program where students in grades 9-12 all around the NJ/NY area can work together on a performance.

On March 1, 2019, Passaic Valley celebrated its 74th annual Girl's Show where girls within the school, separated into two teams, compete in the following categories: Exercise, Cheer, Dance, Relays and Novelties, and Posters.

## Athletics

The Passaic Valley Regional High School Hornets compete in the Independence Division of the Big North Conference, which is comprised of public and private high schools in Bergen and Passaic counties, and was established following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association. In the 2009-10 school year, the school competed in the North Jersey Tri-County Conference, which was established on an interim basis to facilitate the realignment. Prior to the realignment, the school had participated in the Skyline Division of the Northern Hills Conference, which included schools in Essex, Morris and Passaic counties. With 930 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group III for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 761 to 1,058 students in that grade range. The football team competes in the Patriot Blue division of the North Jersey Super Football Conference, which includes 112 schools competing in 20 divisions, making it the nation's biggest football-only high school sports league. The school was classified by the NJSIAA as Group III North for football for 2024–2026, which included schools with 700 to 884 students. Passaic Valley's school colors are green and white.

The school participates as the host school / lead agency in a joint ice hockey team with Cedar Grove High School. The co-op program operates under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year.

The boys cross country running team won the Group III state championship in 1961 and the Group IV title in 1962.

The boys' bowling team won the overall state championship in 1973.

The football team won the North I Group IV state championships in 1975, 1979, 1980 and 1986. The 1975 team finished with an 11-0 record after winning the North I Group IV state sectional title with a 23-7 victory against North Bergen High School in the playoff finals. In 1979, the team finished 11-0 after defeating Clifton High School by a score of 15-0 to win the North I Group IV state sectional championship game at Giants Stadium. The team repeated as North I Group IV state champion with a 20-0 win against Fair Lawn High School in the finals at Giant Stadium to finish the season at 10-1. The 1986 team won the North I Group IV state sectional title with a come-from-behind 14-10 win against North Bergen in the championship game played at Roosevelt Stadium, to finish the season 9-2. In 2006, the football team beat Wayne Valley High School during the regular season and again in the playoffs, making it to the semi-finals before losing to defending North I Group III champions, Wayne Hills High School. Under first year coach Al Capello, the Hornets made it to the North II Group III state championship at Giants Stadium on December 4, 2009, losing to West Morris Mendham High School by a score of 28-19.

The field hockey team won the North I Group IV state sectional championship in 1976, 1977, 1981, 1984, 1986 and 1987. In 2005 and 2006, the girls' field hockey team won back-to-back county championships led by Coach Cheryl Grande, before repeating as county champion in 2009, defeating Wayne Hills High School in the final game in all three championship seasons.

The softball team won the Group IV championship in 1977 (defeating runner-up Sayreville War Memorial High School in the finals) and the Group III title in 2000 (vs. Middletown High School South). The 1977 team won the Group IV state title with an 11-1 victory in the playoff finals against Sayreville to run their season record to 29-2. The 2000 softball team finished the season with a record of 28-3 after defeating Middletown South by a score of 6-0 in the tournament final to win the Group III state championship. The team won all five playoff games by shutout and set a state record by giving up eight runs the entire season.

The wrestling team won the North I Group IV sectional title in 1981, the North II Group II title in 2005 and the North II Group III title in 2010 and 2016

In 2007-2010, the girls' varsity gymnastics team won the county championships, led by Coach Jenai Agosta. No other team in the 24 years of county championships has won the championship in four consecutive seasons.

Alexis (Missy) Arena continues to hold the gymnastics all-time state record for All Around (AA) scoring with a 37.95 set in 2009. Arena's score breaks the previous mark of 37.325 by Passaic Valley's own Jackie Friscia in 2006. The meet dates to 1986. Arena also holds the 2010 New Jersey State beam Champion title with a 9.475, she placed third on vault with a 9.575 and fifth in the all-around with a 37.25.

In 2007, the boys' basketball team won the North I, Group III state championship, defeating Wayne Valley High School by 60-48, in a game played at Passaic County Technical Institute. The win was their first ever sectional championship in school history and came in Head Coach Rob Carcich's third season. The Hornets advanced to the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association state championship game held at the RAC at Rutgers University. The boys' basketball team returned to the sectional final in 2011, this time losing to Teaneck High School on March 8, 2011. They returned to the Sectional final again in 2008 losing once again to Teaneck who was ranked #3 in the state at the time. The team had a record of 150-85 in the previous nine seasons.

In 2007, the varsity baseball team, led by Head Coach John Mazzo, won the Passaic County Championship with a 4-2 victory over Passaic County Technical Institute, the team's third title and their first since repeating in 1998 and 1999. In 2010, they advanced to the Passaic County final, losing to Wayne Valley High School by a score of 5-4.

In 2007, George Abyad won the Penn Relays discus championship at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

In 2008, the boys' ice hockey team coached by Gary Steele captured their first Nardello Cup, 3-2 against River Dell High School.

In the 2009 spring season, senior Gerardo Valenzuela of the boys' tennis team won the County Championship at 2nd Singles.

In Fall 2009, the Marching Band won 2nd Place against six other bands in the Group 2A division at the Yamaha Cup competition that was held in Giants Stadium. In Fall 2011, the Marching Band won 1st place against four other bands in the Group 3A division at Verona High School. In Fall 2016, The Passaic Valley Marching Band placed 4th at the USBands state championship for group 2A.

In the 2009-2010 season the Hornets Wrestling Team captured the state sectional championship by beating Roxbury in the finals. Then they captured the District 13 Tournament championship. In 2012 again they were able to get the District 13 Tournament championship.

## Administration

Core members of the district's / school's administration are:

* Bracken Healy, superintendent
* Colin Monahan, business administrator and board secretary
* Krista Voorhis, principal

## Board of education

The district's board of education, comprised of nine members, sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election. The board appoints a superintendent to oversee the district's day-to-day operations and a business administrator to supervise the business functions of the district. Seats on the board of education are allocated based on population, with Little Falls, Totowa and Woodland Park each allocated three seats.

## Notable alumni

## InfoBox

| Passaic Valley Regional High School District | |
| --- | --- |
| Address | |
| 100 East Main Street Little Falls, Passaic County, New Jersey, 07424
United States | |
| Coordinates | 40°52′42″N 74°13′12″W / 40.878468°N 74.220007°W / 40.878468; -74.220007 |
| District information | |
| Grades | -12 |
| Superintendent | Bracken Healy |
| Business administrator | Colin Monahan |
| Schools | 1 |
| Students and staff | |
| Enrollment | 1,039 (as of 2022–23) |
| Faculty | 83.2 FTEs |
| Student–teacher ratio | 12.5:1 |
| Other information | |
| District Factor Group | FG |
| Website | www.pvrhs.org |
| Ind. Per pupil District
spending Rank
(\*) 9-12
average  %± vs.
average  **1A** **Total Spending** $19,115 12 $18,891 1.2%   **1** **Budgetary Cost** 13,807 10 15,592 −11.4%   **2** **Classroom Instruction** 8,014 14 8,807 −9.0%   **6** **Support Services** 1,388 1 2,294 −39.5%   **8** **Administrative Cost** 1,488 16 1,592 −6.5%   **10** **Operations & Maintenance** 2,134 31 1,954 9.2%   **13** **Extracurricular Activities** 770 17 873 −11.8%   **16** **Median Teacher Salary** 68,575 26 71,726  Data from NJDoE 2014 Taxpayers' Guide to Education Spending.
\*Of 9-12 districts with any number of students. Lowest spending=1; Highest=47 | |


abstract: The November 2005 San Francisco general elections were held on November 8, 2005, in San Francisco, California. The elections included eight California ballot propositions as part of a special election, those for San Francisco assessor-recorder, city attorney, and treasurer, and nine San Francisco ballot measures.

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# November 2005 San Francisco general election

The **November 2005 San Francisco general elections** were held on November 8, 2005, in San Francisco, California. The elections included eight California ballot propositions as part of a special election, those for San Francisco assessor-recorder, city attorney, and treasurer, and nine San Francisco ballot measures.

## Assessor-recorder

Incumbent Phil Ting, appointed in July 2005 by mayor Gavin Newsom, won reelection against supervisor Gerardo Sandoval and former chief deputy assessor-recorder Ronald Chun.

San Francisco assessor-recorder election, 2005
| Candidate | | Votes | % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Phil Ting (incumbent) | | 92,729 | 47.43 |
| Gerardo Sandoval | | 70,686 | 36.16 |
| Ronald Chun | | 32,068 | 16.40 |
| Anthony Faber (write-in) | | 18 | 0.01 |
| Valid votes | | 195,501 | 85.11% |
| Invalid or blank votes | | 34,213 | 14.89% |
| Total votes | | **229,714** | **100.00** |
| Voter turnout | | 53.61% | |
| Ranked choice voting — Pass 1 | | | |
| Phil Ting (incumbent) | | 94,062 | 47.21 |
| Gerardo Sandoval | | 71,850 | 36.06 |
| Ronald Chun (eliminated) | | 33,294 | 16.71 |
| Anthony Faber (write-in, eliminated) | | 18 | 0.01 |
| Eligible votes | | 199,244 | 88.41% |
| Exhausted votes | | 26,146 | 11.59% |
| Total votes | | **225,370** | **100.00** |
| Ranked choice voting — Pass 2 | | | |
| Phil Ting (incumbent) | | 110,053 | 58.13 |
| Gerardo Sandoval | | 79,261 | 41.87 |
| Eligible votes | | 189,314 | 84.00% |
| Exhausted votes | | 36,056 | 16.00% |
| Total votes | | **225,370** | **100.00** |

## City attorney

One-term incumbent Dennis Herrera won reelection unopposed.

San Francisco city attorney election, 2005
| Candidate | | Votes | % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Dennis Herrera (incumbent) | | 182,034 | 98.07 |
| Write-in | | 3,573 | 1.93 |
| Valid votes | | 185,607 | 80.80% |
| Invalid or blank votes | | 44,107 | 19.20% |
| Total votes | | **229,714** | **100.00** |
| Voter turnout | | 53.61% | |

## Treasurer

Incumbent José Cisneros, appointed by mayor Gavin Newsom in September 2004, won reelection.

San Francisco treasurer election, 2005
| Candidate | | Votes | % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| José Cisneros (incumbent) | | 107,632 | 61.32 |
| Calvin Louie | | 43,020 | 24.53 |
| Isaac Wang | | 16,054 | 9.15 |
| Manuel B. Valle | | 8,692 | 4.96 |
| Valid votes | | 175,398 | 76.35% |
| Invalid or blank votes | | 54,316 | 23.65% |
| Total votes | | **229,714** | **100.00** |
| Voter turnout | | 53.61% | |

## Propositions

*Note: "City" refers to the San Francisco municipal government.*

### Proposition A

Proposition A would allow City College of San Francisco to issue $246.3 million in bonds to finance expansion, improvements, and maintenance. This proposition required a majority of 55% to pass.

Proposition A
| Choice | Votes | % |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Yes** | **134,999** | **63.88** |
| No | 76,320 | 36.12 |
| Required majority | **55.00** | |
| Valid votes | 211,319 | 91.99 |
| Invalid or blank votes | 18,395 | 8.01 |
| **Total votes** | **229,714** | **100.00** |
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### Proposition B

Proposition B would allow the City to issue $208 million in bonds to finance street and sidewalk improvements. This proposition required a two-thirds majority to pass.

Proposition B
| Choice | Votes | % |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **No** | **91,952** | **43.57** |
| Yes | 119,095 | 56.43 |
| Required majority | **66.67** | |
| Valid votes | 211,047 | 91.87 |
| Invalid or blank votes | 18,667 | 8.13 |
| **Total votes** | **229,714** | **100.00** |
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### Proposition C

Proposition C would change the budget process for the Ethics Commission and allow it to hire outside counsel if the City Attorney is the subject of an investigation or audit.

Proposition C
| Choice | Votes | % |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **No** | **120,968** | **59.70** |
| Yes | 81,672 | 40.30 |
| Valid votes | 202,640 | 88.21 |
| Invalid or blank votes | 27,074 | 11.79 |
| **Total votes** | **229,714** | **100.00** |
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### Proposition D

Proposition D would change the composition of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board by allowing the Mayor to appoint four members and the President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to appoint three.

Proposition D
| Choice | Votes | % |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **No** | **129,801** | **64.45** |
| Yes | 71,585 | 35.55 |
| Valid votes | 201,386 | 87.67 |
| Invalid or blank votes | 28,328 | 12.33 |
| **Total votes** | **229,714** | **100.00** |
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### Proposition E

Proposition E would change the election of the Assessor-Recorder and Public Defender from the statewide primary in June to the following November general election.

Proposition E
| Choice | Votes | % |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Yes** | **138,765** | **70.17** |
| No | 58,998 | 29.83 |
| Valid votes | 197,793 | 86.09 |
| Invalid or blank votes | 31,951 | 13.91 |
| **Total votes** | **229,714** | **100.00** |
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### Proposition F

Proposition F would maintain and operate all 42 firehouses and certain emergency vehicles and equipment at levels used on January 1, 2004.

Proposition F
| Choice | Votes | % |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Yes** | **119,581** | **57.59** |
| No | 88,062 | 42.41 |
| Valid votes | 207,643 | 90.39 |
| Invalid or blank votes | 22,071 | 9.61 |
| **Total votes** | **229,714** | **100.00** |
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### Proposition G

Proposition G would allow the underground parking garage at Golden Gate Park to have an entrance-exit inside the park and limit the number of automobile traffic lanes inside the park.

Proposition G
| Choice | Votes | % |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Yes** | **138,069** | **67.70** |
| No | 65,862 | 32.30 |
| Valid votes | 203,931 | 88.78 |
| Invalid or blank votes | 25,783 | 11.22 |
| **Total votes** | **229,714** | **100.00** |
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### Proposition H

Proposition H would ban the manufacture, distribution, sale, and transfer of firearms and ammunition in the City, and the possession of handguns by City residents in the City.

Proposition H
| Choice | Votes | % |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Yes** | **123,033** | **57.79** |
| No | 89,856 | 42.21 |
| Valid votes | 212,889 | 92.68 |
| Invalid or blank votes | 16,825 | 7.32 |
| **Total votes** | **229,714** | **100.00** |
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### Proposition I

Proposition I would make it City policy to oppose military recruiting in schools and to consider scholarships supporting alternatives to military service.

Proposition I
| Choice | Votes | % |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Yes** | **125,581** | **59.15** |
| No | 86,723 | 40.85 |
| Valid votes | 212,304 | 92.42 |
| Invalid or blank votes | 17,410 | 7.58 |
| **Total votes** | **229,714** | **100.00** |
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abstract: International Society for Invertebrate Morphology (ISIM) was founded during the 1st International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology, in Copenhagen, August 2008. The objectives of the society are to promote international collaboration and provide educational opportunities and training on invertebrate morphology, and to organize and promote the international congresses of invertebrate morphology, international meetings and other forms of scientific exchange.

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# International Society for Invertebrate Morphology

**International Society for Invertebrate Morphology (ISIM)** was founded during the 1st International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology, in Copenhagen, August 2008. The objectives of the society are to promote international collaboration and provide educational opportunities and training on invertebrate morphology, and to organize and promote the international congresses of invertebrate morphology, international meetings and other forms of scientific exchange.

## Meetings

* ICIM 1 (2008) University of Copenhagen, Denmark
* ICIM 2 (2011) Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts, USA
* ICIM 3 (2014) Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
* ICIM 4 (2017) Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia ()
* ICIM 5 (2022), Vienna, Austria * ICIM 6 (2025), Chile


title: McCarthy (band)

abstract: McCarthy were a British indie pop band, formed in Barking, Greater London, England in 1984 by schoolmates Malcolm Eden and Tim Gane with John Williamson and Gary Baker (drums). Lætitia Sadier later joined the band on vocals for their final studio album. They mixed a melodic style, dominated by Gane's 12-string guitar playing, with Eden's overtly political lyrics, often satirical in tone, which reflected the band's far-left leanings.

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# McCarthy (band)

**McCarthy** were a British indie pop band, formed in Barking, Greater London, England in 1984 by schoolmates Malcolm Eden (voice and guitar) and Tim Gane (lead guitar) with John Williamson (bass guitar) and Gary Baker (drums). Lætitia Sadier later joined the band on vocals for their final studio album.

They mixed a melodic style, dominated by Gane's 12-string guitar playing, with Eden's overtly political lyrics, often satirical in tone, which reflected the band's far-left leanings.

## History

Malcolm Eden, Tim Gane and John Williamson met at Barking Abbey Comprehensive School. Gane was originally a drummer, but was initially taught to play guitar by Eden, who also taught Williamson to play bass. Eden and Gane were fans of punk groups such as the Sex Pistols, The Clash, and Buzzcocks, and they covered their songs in small gigs as teenagers. Baker joined in 1984, and with the new line-up deciding on the name McCarthy (a reference to American politician Joe McCarthy), they released a self-financed first single, "In Purgatory", in 1985. The band were signed by the Pink Label, releasing two further singles, "Red Sleeping Beauty" and "Frans Hals". The band had a track included on the *NME C86* album ("Celestial City").

Their debut album, *I Am a Wallet*, was released in 1987. DJ John Peel featured the album in a BBC Radio 1 session. Because of Eden's Marxist political views, the band were frequently brought up with other left-wing acts like Billy Bragg and The Redskins. *I Am a Wallet* has since been described by Nicky Wire as "the most perfect record, a Communist manifesto with tunes", and was rated by James Dean Bradfield as his top British album of all time.

Two further singles were issued in early 1988, followed by the album *The Enraged Will Inherit the Earth*.

A year later, they released a third album, *Banking, Violence and the Inner Life Today*, with Lætitia Sadier (Gane's partner at the time) on vocals. Eden stated that there was no need to continue with the band, believing that their creativity peaked with the album. The band's final show was at the London School of Economics in 1990.

The band had two songs in John Peel's Festive Fifty: "Frans Hals" in 1987 (#35), and "Should the Bible Be Banned" in 1988 (#38).

After their disbandment, Gane and Sadier immediately formed Stereolab, while Eden formed the short-lived Herzfeld. Baker went on to a career in radiography, before going on to work for The Guardian. Williamson went on to work for music publisher BMG and Domino Records.

## Influence

McCarthy were a major early influence on Manic Street Preachers, who covered three of their songs: "We Are All Bourgeois Now" appeared as a hidden track on their *Know Your Enemy* album; "Charles Windsor" appeared as a b-side on their *Life Becoming a Landslide EP*; and "Red Sleeping Beauty" appeared on their single "Autumnsong".

Nicky Wire has commented on the band and specifically the album *I Am a Wallet*: "McCarthy - the great lost band of the '80s they redesigned my idea of politics and pop, it could be intelligent, it could be beautiful. They were frail, tragic, romantic idealists. The songs soothed your body but exercised your brain. They were my education, my information and they are partly to blame for the realisation of the Manic Street Preachers. I still fall in love with this album every six months, it makes me feel guilty because it's so good".

## Discography

Chart placings shown are from the UK Indie Chart.

### Studio albums

### Singles/EPs

* "In Purgatory" \[b/w "The Comrade Era", "Something Wrong Somewhere"\] (Wall of Salmon; 1985)
* "Red Sleeping Beauty" \[b/w "From the Damned", "The Comrade Era", "For the Fat Lady"\] (Pink Label; October 1986)
* "Frans Hals" \[b/w "The Fall (remix)", "Kill Kill Kill Kill", "Frans Hals (version)"\] (Pink Label; March 1987) (#4)
* "The Well of Loneliness" \[b/w "Unfortunately", "Bad Dreams", "Someone Worse Off","Antiamericancretin"\] (September Records; September 1987) (#10)
* "This Nelson Rockefeller" \[b/w "The Fall" (new version),"The Funeral" (new version),"The Enemy Is At Home" \[new version of "For the Fat Lady"\],"The Way of the World" (new version)\] (September Records; February 1988) (#9)
* "Should the Bible Be Banned" \[b/w "Saint Francis Amongst the Mortals", "We Are All Bourgeois Now"\] (September Records; April 1988) (#9)
* "Keep an Open Mind or Else" \[b/w "The New Left Review #1","Two Criminal Points of View"\] (Midnight Music; February 1989) (#10)
* *At War* EP \["Boy Meets Girl So What" (version),"All Your Questions Answered", "New Left Review #2","The Lion Will Lie Down with the Lamb"\] (Midnight Music; May 1989) (#16)
* "Get a Knife Between Your Teeth" \[b/w "Nobody Could Care Less About Your Private Lives", "With One Eye on Getting Their Pay", "Can the Haves Use Their Brains"\] (Midnight Music; March 1990)

### Compilations

## Radio sessions

1. "A Child Soon in Chains"
2. "Frans Hals"
3. "An MP Speaks"
4. "Antinature"

1. "The Wicked Palace Revolution"
2. "The Vision of Peregrine Worsthorne"
3. "The Well of Loneliness"
4. "Monetaries"

1. "Charles Windsor"
2. "The Funeral"
3. "Should the Bible Be Banned"
4. "This Nelson Rockefeller"

1. "The Myth of the North–South Divide"
2. "I'm Not a Patriot But..."
3. "Keep an Open Mind or Else"
4. "The Lion Will Lie Down with the Lamb"

## InfoBox

| McCarthy | |
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|  | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Barking, Greater London, England |
| Genres | Indie pop |
| Years active | 19851990 |
| Labels | Wall of Salmon, Pink Label, Midnight Music, September, Cherry Red |
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| Past members | Tim Gane
Malcolm Eden
John Williamson
Gary Baker
Lætitia Sadier |


title: Gerard d'Erlanger

abstract: Baron Sir Gerard John Regis Leo d'Erlanger, CBE (1906–1962) was a merchant banker in London and aviation enthusiast. Baron d'Erlanger was the second son of Emile Beaumont Baron d’Erlanger (1866–1939), banker and musician, and his wife Catherine, Baroness d'Erlanger, née Catherine Robert d'Aqueria de Rochegude. (See: Erlanger family tree). His daughter, Mary Caroline d'Erlanger, married Winston Churchill, the grandson of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. He helped form British Airways and became the chairman of the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). At the outset of the Second World War, he successfully lobbied for creation of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) which he then commanded. In the 1943 New Year Honours, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to the ATA.

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# Gerard d'Erlanger

**Baron Sir Gerard John Regis Leo d'Erlanger**, CBE (1906–1962) was a merchant banker in London (partner of *Erlanger Ltd.* and *Myers & Co*) and aviation enthusiast.

Baron d'Erlanger was the second son of Emile Beaumont Baron d’Erlanger (1866–1939), banker and musician, and his wife Catherine, Baroness d'Erlanger, née Catherine Robert d'Aqueria de Rochegude. *(See: Erlanger family tree).* His daughter, Mary Caroline d'Erlanger, married Winston Churchill, the grandson of Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.

He helped form British Airways and became the chairman of the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). At the outset of the Second World War, he successfully lobbied for creation of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) which he then commanded. In the 1943 New Year Honours, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to the ATA.


title: Werner van den Steen de Jehay

abstract: Werner van den Steen de Jehay was a Belgian diplomat. He was of noble birth, and had missions in Belgrade and Rome. He was ambassador of Belgium to Italy from 1919 to 1924.

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# Werner van den Steen de Jehay

**Werner van den Steen de Jehay** (11 July 1854, Ghent – 1 October 1934, Rome) was a Belgian diplomat. He was of noble birth, and had missions in Belgrade and Rome. He was ambassador of Belgium to Italy from 1919 to 1924.

## Family

Werner van de Steen is the son of Louis van den Steen de Jehay (1812-1864) and Alix Mélanie Célestine (v. 1828–1859), countess of Gourcy Serainchamps.

He married Marguerite Julien (1868-1951), and together they had two children.

* **Herbert** (1896-1958). Married *Jeanne Gabrielle Bertha Hoepfner* (1900-1978) 30 April 1931 in Paris, 19th arrondissement\[1\].
    + **Serge** (born 1923). x1 *Claude Ruffin* (born 1931) 23 April 1957 ; x2 *Annie Bonivert* ; x3 (7 November 1964) *Josette Weerts* (born 1928)
    + **Béatrice** (born 1930). Married *Frédéric Sépulchre* (Jupille-sur-Meuse, 10 August 1929 - Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, 29 February 2016\[2\]) 12 June 1952. Produced six children\[3\].
    + **Jérôme Herman Ernest Gaëtan** vdS (born in Paris, 10th arrondissement, 15 August 1933 - 2014). x1 (30 November 1957 in Méan ; religious marriage in Bruxelles on 20 December 1957) *Marie-Antoinette Louise Jeanne Ghislaine Josèphe du Bois de Bounam de Ryckholt* (born 31 January 1937, Etterbeek) ; x2 *Marie-Jeanne Lemonde-Vanden Bruel*.
* **Guy** vdS de Jehay (1906-1999).

## Works

* *Rapport sur la production et le commerce des lins dans la Grande Bretagne et en Irlande*, Impr. des travaux publics, 1893.
* *Rapport sur les conditions de l'agriculture dans le Royaume-Uni*, Impr. des travaux publics, 1893.

## Honours


title: Pygospila yuennanensis

abstract: Pygospila yuennanensis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Aristide Caradja in 1937. It is found in Yunnan, China.

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# Pygospila yuennanensis

***Pygospila yuennanensis*** is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Aristide Caradja in 1937. It is found in Yunnan, China.

## InfoBox

| *Pygospila yuennanensis* | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | *Pygospila* |
| Species: | ***P. yuennanensis*** |
| Binomial name | |
| ***Pygospila yuennanensis***<br>Caradja in Caradja & Meyrick, 1937 | |
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title: Prunus grayana

abstract: Prunus grayana is a species of bird cherry native to Japan and China, occurring at medium altitudes of 1,000–3,800 m in the temperate zone. It prefers sunshine and moist soil. It is a small deciduous tree reaching a height of 8–20 m. The trunk is slender with smooth grey to purple-grey bark marked with horizontal brown lenticels, with a strong smell when cut. The leaves are elliptical to ovoid, 4–10 cm long and 1.8–4.5 cm broad, with a serrated margin with aristate tips to the serrations. The lowest teeth of a leaf feature two glands. The flowers are produced on 5–8 cm long racemes, each flower 7–10 mm diameter, with five white petals; they are hermaphroditic, and appear in mid-spring after the leaves. The fruit is a small drupe, about 8 mm in diameter, green at first, then red and finally ripening black in mid summer. It is very closely related to Prunus padus, differing in the aristate tips to the leaf serration, and the longer style in the flower.

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# Prunus grayana

***Prunus grayana*** (syn. *Padus grayana* (Maxim.) C.K.Schneid., *Prunus padus* var. *japonica* Miq.; **Japanese bird cherry** or **Gray's bird cherry**; Japanese ウワミズザクラ *Uwa-mizu-zakura*; Chinese 灰叶稠李 *hui ye chou li*) is a species of bird cherry native to Japan and China, occurring at medium altitudes of 1,000–3,800 m in the temperate zone. It prefers sunshine and moist (but drained) soil.

It is a small deciduous tree reaching a height of 8–20 m. The trunk is slender with smooth grey to purple-grey bark marked with horizontal brown lenticels, with a strong smell when cut. The leaves are elliptical to ovoid, 4–10 cm long and 1.8–4.5 cm broad, with a serrated margin with aristate tips to the serrations. The lowest teeth of a leaf feature two glands. The flowers are produced on 5–8 cm long racemes, each flower 7–10 mm diameter, with five white petals; they are hermaphroditic, and appear in mid-spring after the leaves. The fruit is a small drupe, about 8 mm in diameter, green at first, then red and finally ripening black in mid summer.

It is very closely related to *Prunus padus* (Bird cherry), differing in the aristate tips to the leaf serration (blunt-pointed in *P. padus*), and the longer style in the flower.

## Uses

The flowers, fruit and seed are all edible and are prepared and eaten in Japan. The fruit can be preserved with salt to make a dish called Anningo. The bark and roots are the source of a green dye. The wood is very hard and splits easily. It is used in various cabinet-making and various other ornamental applications.

## Classification

The taxon was described in 1864 by Miquel as *Prunus padus* var. *japonica*, on the basis of specimens collected by Siebold. After a review of the previous literature, Maximowicz in St. Petersburg decided in 1883 the tree was a distinct species, and named it *Prunus grayana* after Asa Gray.

1. "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species". Retrieved January 27, 2014.
2. Flora of China: *Padus grayana*
3. Japanese Tree Encyclopedia: Uwamizuzakura *Prunus grayana* Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine
4. "*Prunus grayana*". *Germplasm Resources Information Network*. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
5. Botanic Japan: *Prunus grayana* (in Japanese; google translation.
6. Huxley, A., ed. (1992). *New RHS Dictionary of Gardening*. Macmillan ISBN 0-333-47494-5.
7. "Prunus grayana Japanese Bird Cherry, Japanese Bird Cherry PFAF Plant Database".
8. Flora of China: *Padus*
9. Plants for a Future: *Prunus grayana*
10. Ohba, H., Akiyama, S., & Thijsse, G. (2003). Miquel's new taxa of the vascular plants described from Japan in *Prolusio Florae Japonicae* and some other works. Page 3
11. Maximovicz, J.C. (1883). "Diagnoses plantarum asiaticarum". *Bulletin de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences*. **XXIX** (27): 51–228. For the details of the publication including the dates of the volumes and the reprint of the article in *Mélange ...* see Pagès, Léon; Wenckstern, Friedrich von; Palmgren, Valfrid (1895). *A Bibliography of the Japanese Empire*. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 223.

## InfoBox

| *Prunus grayana* | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| *Clade*: | Tracheophytes |
| *Clade*: | Angiosperms |
| *Clade*: | Eudicots |
| *Clade*: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Genus: | *Prunus* |
| Subgenus: | *Prunus subg. Padus* |
| Species: | ***P. grayana*** |
| Binomial name | |
| ***Prunus grayana***<br>Maxim. | |
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| Synonyms | |
| * *Padus acrophylla* C.K.Schneid. * *Padus grayana* (Maxim.) C.K.Schneid. | |


abstract: École internationale du papier, de la communication imprimée et des biomatériaux (Pagora) a French engineering College created in 1907. The school trains future executives in sectors related to paper, printing, packaging and the environment. Located in Grenoble, Pagora is a public higher education institution. The school is a member of the Grenoble Institute of Technology.

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# École internationale du papier, de la communication imprimée et des biomatériaux

**École internationale du papier, de la communication imprimée et des biomatériaux** (**Pagora**) a French engineering College created in 1907.

The school trains future executives in sectors related to paper, printing, packaging and the environment.

Located in Grenoble, Pagora is a public higher education institution. The school is a member of the Grenoble Institute of Technology.

45°11′46″N 5°46′33″E / 45.196008°N 5.77577°E / 45.196008; 5.77577

## InfoBox

École internationale du papier, de la communication imprimée et des biomatériaux
|  | |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Public |
| Established | 1907 |
| Location | Grenoble, France |
| Affiliations | Conférence des Grandes Écoles |
| Website | pagora.grenoble-inp.fr |


title: Protect the Coven

abstract: "Protect the Coven" is the eleventh episode of the third season of the anthology television series American Horror Story, which premiered on January 15, 2014, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Jennifer Salt and directed by Bradley Buecker. In this episode, Fiona and Marie Laveau face off with The corporation while Cordelia makes a desperate sacrifice to protect the coven. Angela Bassett, Gabourey Sidibe, and Danny Huston guest star as Marie Laveau, Queenie and the Axeman, respectively. This episode is rated TV-MA (LV).

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# Protect the Coven

"**Protect the Coven**" is the eleventh episode of the third season of the anthology television series *American Horror Story*, which premiered on January 15, 2014, on the cable network FX. The episode was written by Jennifer Salt and directed by Bradley Buecker.

In this episode, Fiona (Jessica Lange) and Marie Laveau (Angela Bassett) face off with The corporation while Cordelia (Sarah Paulson) makes a desperate sacrifice to protect the coven. Angela Bassett, Gabourey Sidibe, and Danny Huston guest star as Marie Laveau, Queenie and the Axeman, respectively. This episode is rated TV-MA (LV).

## Plot

A bleeding black gardener reminds Delphine about what used to feed her soul, and she tortures him while he is bound and gagged. Spalding's ghost appears to Delphine as she wraps the dead body of the gardener. He suggests that she can regain her sense of purpose by killing Marie and offers to help. He gives her a package of Benadryl, telling her to dissolve a few tablets in Marie's drink.

The Axeman plays as Fiona dresses in his apartment. He suggests they go live at his family's farm after killing the new Supreme. She agrees but asks him to do her one small favor.

In the greenhouse, Cordelia pierces each eye with a pair of gardening shears. Myrtle tells Fiona that Cordelia sacrificed her eyes to regain the Sight and protect the Coven. She dares Fiona to have Cordelia read and expose her secrets.

The Delphi Trust men agree to make reparations to Marie and a 100-year truce in exchange for an end to the magical siege. Fiona counters with a demand for the dissolution of the witch hunters, a house, and a private jet. They refuse. The waiter reveals himself to be the Axeman and, in retaliation for their refusal, kills all the men except Harrison. Fiona hacks Harrison's throat with the Axeman's axe.

Delphine tries and fails to kill Marie with a Benadryl-laced French 75. Spalding steps out and hits Marie in the head with his doll, knocking her down the stairs. He tells Delphine she was the only one he could trick into helping him and suggests that she bury Marie in a way that she cannot ever escape, as Marie is immortal and cannot be killed. He goes back to play with Marie's stolen baby.

Zoe and Kyle escape the coven and catch a bus to Orlando, Florida.

## Reception

Rotten Tomatoes reports a 79% approval rating, based on 14 reviews. The critical consensus reads, ""Protect the Coven" satisfyingly sets the table for the season finale with a suitably gross installment whose extra plot point makes its hard-to-follow storyline even more confusing." Dennis Perkins of *The A.V. Club* rated the episode a B+, stating, "Broadcast television could stand to be a good measure weirder and more outrageous, especially when affording some of the country's greatest actresses (actresses 'of a certain age' no less) a chance to really go for it in prime time." Matt Fowler from IGN gave the episode a rating of 7.2/10, stating, ""Protect the Coven" already had its fair share of take-backs and fizzle-outs as it was, what with Delia re-blinding herself (which, I believe, is the first reversal of a reversal) and the disappointing end to the witch hunter story."

The episode received a 1.9 18–49 ratings share and was watched by 3.46 million viewers in its original American broadcast, a decrease from the previous episode.

## InfoBox

| "**Protect the Coven**" | |
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| *American Horror Story* episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 3<br>Episode 11 |
| Directed by | Bradley Buecker |
| Written by | Jennifer Salt |
| Production code | 3ATS11 |
| Original air date | January 15, 2014 (2014-01-15) |
| Running time | 47 minutes |
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title: Patrick Sims-Williams

abstract: Patrick Sims-Williams is Emeritus Professor of Celtic Studies at Aberystwyth University and founding editor of the journal Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies.

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# Patrick Sims-Williams

**Patrick Sims-Williams** (born 11 April 1949) is Emeritus Professor of Celtic Studies at Aberystwyth University and founding editor of the journal *Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies*.

## Education

Sims-Williams was educated at Borden Grammar School in Sittingbourne, Kent. He took a B.A. at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, achieving upper-second-class honours in the Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic tripos in 1972, followed by a PhD at the University of Birmingham. His twin brother Nicholas Sims-Williams is a scholar of Central Asia.

## Career

Following the early retirement of the Celticist Rachel Bromwich from Cambridge's Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the end of 1976, Sims-Williams was appointed to a University Assistant Lectureship in the Department from the beginning of 1977. He was promoted to a University Lectureship in 1980 and his position made permanent in 1982. In the assessment of Michael Lapidge, "it was characteristic of" the head of department at the time, Peter Clemoes, "to have appointed a younger scholar with interdisciplinary range over the Celtic languages and literatures as well as Anglo-Saxon history, rather than a dedicated specialist \[...\] in Old Irish or Medieval Welsh".

Sims-Williams was promoted to Reader in Celtic and Anglo-Saxon in 1993. During the same period, he was a Fellow of St John's College. As 1993 closed, he left Cambridge, taking up the position of Professor of Celtic Studies at Aberystwyth University at the beginning of 1994. In 1981, while at Cambridge, he founded the journal *Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies*, renaming it *Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies* in 1993 upon his move to Wales.

Sims-Williams was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1996, and is a member of the Medieval Studies and Linguistics and Philology sections. From 1998 to 2008 he acted for the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales as a commissioner and in 2011 became president of the International Congress of Celtic Studies. He was made an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2021.

Sims-Williams has won a number of prizes, including the British Academy's Sir Israel Gollancz Prize in 1992 (for his book *Religion and Literature in Western England, 600–800*), the *Antiquity* Prize of 1999 for 1998's 'Best Paper' (for his article 'Genetics, Linguistics and Prehistory: Thinking Big and Thinking Straight', the Cambrian Archaeological Association's G. T. Clark Award in 1992 (for his book *The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain: Phonology and Chronology, c. 400–1200*), the Vernam Hull Prize in 2011 (for his book *Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature*), and Jesus College, Oxford's Francis Jones Prize (for his book *The Book of Llandaf as a Historical Source*).

## Publications

A list of Sims-Williams's publications, complete up to 2022, can be found here. Subsequent publications include:

* Sims-Williams, Patrick (ed. and trans.), *The Medieval Welsh ‘Englynion y Beddau’.* Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2023. ISBN 9781843847069.


title: Sheffield Scimitars (2020)

abstract: The Sheffield Scimitars are an ice hockey team that plays their home games at the iceSheffield in Sheffield. They play in the NIHL 1 Laidler Conference and are affiliated with the Sheffield Steeldogs of the National League. In 2020, Sheffield Academy announced their senior team would once again be known as the Sheffield Scimitars.

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# Sheffield Scimitars (2020)

The **Sheffield Scimitars** are an ice hockey team that plays their home games at the iceSheffield in Sheffield. They play in the NIHL 1 Laidler Conference and are affiliated with the Sheffield Steeldogs of the National League. In 2020, Sheffield Academy announced their senior team would once again be known as the Sheffield Scimitars.

## Season-by-season record

| **Season** | **League** | **GP** |  | **T** | **L** | **OT** | **OTL** | **GF** | **GA** | **Pts.** | Rank | Post Season |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2010-2011 | ENL 2 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 23 | - | - | 74 | 200 | 2 | 7 | No playoffs held |
| 2011-2012 | ENL 2 | 28 | 10 | 2 | 16 | - | - | 116 | 154 | 22 | 5 | No playoffs held |
| 2012-2013 | NIHL 2 | 24 | 14 | 2 | 8 | - | - | 123 | 76 | 30 | 4 | No playoffs held |
| 2013-2014 | NIHL 2 | 28 | 10 | 2 | 16 | - | - | 86 | 117 | 22 | 7 | Did not make playoffs |
| 2014-2015 | NIHL 2 | 36 | 27 | 0 | 9 | - | - | 204 | 125 | 54 | 3 | Semifinal loss |
| 2015-2016 | NIHL 1 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 31 | - | - | 58 | 250 | 0 | 9 | Relegated |
| 2016-2017 | NIHL 2 | 28 | 14 | 6 | 8 | - | - | 133 | 95 | 34 | 4 | Final loss |
| 2017-2018 | NIHL 2 | 36 | 19 | - | 13 | 2 | 1 | 222 | 134 | 44 | 6 | Did not make playoffs |
| 2018-2019 | NIHL 2 | 31 | 15 | - | 11 | 2 | 3 | 173 | 126 | 37 | 5 | Did not make playoffs |
| 2019-2020 | NIHL 2 | 26 | 10 | - | 10 | 4 | 2 | 133 | 112 | 21 | 5 | Playoffs Cancelled |

## Club roster 2022-23

(*****) Denotes a Non-British Trained player (Import)

| Netminders | | | | | | | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| No. | Nat. | Player | Catches | Date of birth | Place of birth | Acquired | **Contract** |
| **29** |  | Brandon Stones | L | 7 February 1993 | Nottingham, England | 2022 from MK Lightning | 22/23 |
| **31** |  | Thomas Hovell | R | 20 September 1995 | Nottingham, England | 2021 from Nottingham Lions | 22/23 |

| Defencemen | | | | | | | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| No. | Nat. | Player | Shoots | Date of birth | Place of birth | Acquired | **Contract** |
| **11** |  | William Harper |  | 2002 (age 20) | England | 2018 from Sheffield U20 | 22/23 |
| **12** |  | Jake Howis |  | 1999 (age 23) | England | 2021 | 22/23 |
| **19** |  | Shaun Wild | L | 12 September 1993 | Sheffield, England | 2014 from Invicta Dynamos | 22/23 |
| **24** |  | Euan Williams | L | 7 May 2006 | England | 2022 from Sheffield U18 | 22/23 |
| **28** |  | Sam Colton |  | 2002 (age 20) | England | 2019 from Ontario Hockey Academy U18 AA | 22/23 |
| **33** |  | Oliver Turner |  | 19 January 2006 | England | 2021 from Sheffield U18 | 22/23 |
| **52** |  | Luke Reid | R | 25 February 2004 | Swindon, England | 2022 from Swindon Wildcats 2 | 22/23 |

| Forwards | | | | | | | | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| No. | Nat. | Player | Shoots | Date of birth | Place of birth | Acquired | **Contract** |
| **2** |  | William Szollosy |  | 2003 (age 19) | England | 2022 from Sheffield Titans | 22/23 |
| **9** |  | Cameron Pywell |  | 28 September 1998 | England | 2021 from Nottingham Lions | 22/23 |
| **14** |  | Scott Morris | R | 9 March 1988 | Sheffield, England | 2021 from Sutton Sting | 22/23 |
| **15** |  | Harry Hopkins | R | 1999 (age 23) | England | 2021 from Nottingham Lions | 22/23 |
| **20** |  | Michael Danečko | L | 23 June 2004 | Havirov, Czechia | 2021 from Sheffield U18 | 22/23 |
| **21** |  | Ben Roebuck |  | 2005 (age 17) | England | 2021 from Sheffield U18 | 22/23 |
| **23** |  | Sam Rodgers |  | 2000 (age 22) | England | 2019 from Sheffield U20 | 22/23 |
| **34** |  | Samuel Keeling |  | 30 March 2006 | England | 2021 from Sheffield U18 | 22/23 |
| **51** |  | William Newcombe |  | 2002 (age 20) | England | 2017 from Sheffield U20 | 22/23 |
| **81** |  | Benjamin Cutts | R | 4 February 2006 | Nottingham, England | 2022 from Sheffield U18 | 22/23 |
| **82** |  | Isaac Tse |  | 2004 (age 18) | England | 2022 from Ontario Hockey Academy U18 AA | 22/23 |

| Team Staff | | | | | | | | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| No. | Nat. | Name | Acquired | Role | Place of birth | Joined From |

## 2021/22 Outgoing

| Outgoing | | | | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| No. | Nat. | Player | Shoots | Date of birth | Place of birth | Leaving For |
| **3** |  | Ruskin Hughes | R | 16 June 1997 | London, England | Invicta Dynamos, NIHL 1 |
| **32** |  | Warren Tait | R | 17 April 1981 | Nottingham, England | Sheffield Steeldogs, NIHL National |
| **91** |  | Cam Brownley | R | 3 February 1997 | Sheffield, England | Hull Seahawks, NIHL National |

## InfoBox

| Sheffield Scimitars | |
| --- | --- |
| City | Sheffield, England |
| League | NIHL North Division 1 |
| Founded | 2010 |
| Home arena | iceSheffield |
| Colors | White, Blue & Black <br> |
| Affiliates | Sheffield Steeldogs, NIHL National Sheffield Titans, NIHL 2 |
| Website | Sheffield Scimitars |
| Franchise history | |
| 2010-2020 | Sheffield Senators |
| 2020- | Sheffield Scimitars |