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Sports league

A sports league is a group of individual athletes, sports teams or clubs who form a league to compete against each other and gain points in a specific sport. At its simplest, it may be a local group of amateur athletes who form teams among themselves and compete periodically, at its most complex, it can be an international professional league making large amounts of money and involving dozens of teams and thousands of players.

Misuse of term
Many uses of the term league in sports and for sports organizations are misnomers as the term league relates specifically to the form of organization, requiring persons or bodies to be in league together. A sport competition owned and controlled other than by its participant players, teams or clubs is not a league.

Synonyms
In many cases, organizations that function as leagues are described using a different term, such as association, conference, division, leaderboard, or series. This is especially common in individual sports, although the term "league" is sometimes used in amateur individual sports such as golf.

The term "league" is also sometimes applicable to competitions that would more traditionally be called tournaments, such as the UEFA Champions League, which is organized with multiple small round-robin competitions followed by a single elimination tournament to choose an overall winner.

Leagues and league systems
"League" and its synonyms may be used to encompass either a single competition or a related group of competitions.

Many groups use promotion and relegation, where the best-ranked team(s) in the lower division are promoted to the higher division for the next season, and the worst-ranked team(s) in the higher division are relegated to the lower division for the next season. Under this system, "league" may refer both to a league system, a group of leagues that are tied together in a hierarchical fashion by promotion and relegation, and to the individual leagues within the league system. For example, in English association football, the English Football League (EFL) is a league system, while the term "National League" refers both to the league immediately below the EFL in the English pyramid and to its associated league system.

An alternate system of league organization which is used primarily in Australia, Canada, and the United States is a closed model which always has the same teams playing, with occasional admission of expansion teams and relocation of existing teams. There is no team movement between the higher major league and the lower minor leagues.

In many of these closed-model leagues in Canada and the United States, they are divided into subdivisions on historical or geographical lines. These may be referred to as conferences or divisions. For example, the National Football League (NFL) is divided into the National Football Conference and American Football Conference; the latter conference was formed largely from the remnants of the American Football League after it merged with the NFL, though it now contains three original NFL teams and three expansion teams. Both the National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Hockey League (NHL) are divided into Eastern and Western Conferences. The conferences in the NFL, NBA, and NHL are further divided into subsets, all of which are called divisions. These are geographically based, and teams play their divisional opponents more than any others, and then play the other clubs in their conference more than their non-conference opponents.

Baseball has a unique nomenclature, with "Major League Baseball" (MLB) the name of the overall grouping of 30 teams in two "major leagues", the American League (AL) and the older National League (NL). They are titled leagues rather than conferences for several reasons. The National League predates the American by 25 years and was considered a "major" league in comparison to its early competitors, and in a sense it simply extended this recognition to the AL, the only league of similar financial clout. In addition, the leagues played no interlocking schedule of any kind until 1995, and then added only a small amount of interleague play, with the main AL-NL competition occurring between their champions in the World Series. Thus the two leagues played mostly separate competitions within the larger framework of MLB. Finally, until 2000, they were actually separate legal entities, unlike the conferences of other leagues. Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan has a similar history, with the Central League and Pacific League not founded together.

Due to this naming custom, it is common to use slightly different terms to discuss MLB. Where someone might refer to "the best quarterback in the league" and be understood to mean the overall NFL, a similar mention of "the best outfielder in the league" is almost always a reference to the American National League, while "in all of baseball" or similar is used to denote the larger status. Each of the major leagues also has its own set of awards to recognize the separation between the two, which means there are two MVPs, two Cy Young Award winners, etc. Since its name is constructed differently—a description of the status of two leagues rather than the title of one—it is common to hear "MLB" without "the" attached to it, as in "the most home runs in MLB this year", since one would not say "the Major League Baseball".

League organization
The common thread between all sports leagues is a structure that allows teams or individuals to compete against each other in a nonrandom order on a set schedule, usually called a season, with the results of the individual competitions being used to name an overall champion.

A league championship may be contested in a number of ways. Each team may play every other team a certain number of times in a round-robin tournament. Usually, teams play equal number of games or matches at their own stadium and at other teams', because home advantage is a major factor in many sports. When teams competing for a tournament championship do not play the same teams the same number of times, it is known as an unbalanced schedule.

In such a set-up, the team with the best record becomes champion, based on either a strict win–loss–tie system or on a points system where a certain number of points are awarded for a win, loss, or tie, while bonus points might also be added for teams meeting various criteria. Many leagues also use playoffs, where after teams compete in a regular season in a league format, the top teams (possibly determined by conference or division) advance to the playoffs. In some such leagues having the best regular season record is relatively unimportant, though top-seeded teams in some leagues, such as the NFL, can gain byes to later rounds of the playoffs, and teams finishing with the best records usually have the advantage of playing the weakest teams that have advanced to the playoffs.

Alternatives to traditional league organization
While round-robin and modified round-robin competitions are the most common form of league organization, there are a number of ways to organize a sporting competition, almost all of which may be described as a "league". Many sports organizations fall on a continuum between a total lack of organization, as in a pick-up game, and a formal league such as is common at the highest level of professional team sports.

Non-league sports
The simplest form of competition is to allow teams to play each other whenever they see fit. In some sports, such as horse racing, the main goal of the entrants is to win individual purses, and there is little or no ranking or competition outside winning certain major races. A small amount of league organization may be imposed on these non-league sports by way of a series or tournament tying several individual events together, such as the Triple Crown.

Even in team sports that normally use a traditional league format, some teams often exist outside any league; these teams are generally known as barnstorming teams and either schedule games against local professional or amateur competition or bring their own competition, such as the barnstorming Harlem Globetrotters did when they toured with the Washington Generals. As with the Globetrotters, barnstorming teams sometimes emphasize spectacle over athletic competition.

In Europe, the term "cup competition" is used to describe single elimination or knock-out tournaments, where the pairing of teams in each round is determined by a "draw" (see for example, the FA Cup in England), to distinguish it from league competition, in which every club in the league or division plays the other teams a pre-determined number of times in a season, usually on a home and away basis.

Further, in England, the term non-league football is used for historical reasons to describe association football teams that play in organized leagues, but not in the English Football League or Premier League, the two highest levels of competition in that sport in that country.

Independent baseball is used similarly in the United States to describe baseball teams that play in leagues other than those sanctioned by Major League Baseball. These teams do play in leagues and should not be confused with barnstorming teams that play truly non-league schedules.

Rankings and leaderboards
Individual sports often use an alternative type of league organization where competitors are ranked against each other. In the simplest cases, such as boxing, the rankings mean little and the major competition is to crown a champion in a title fight.

In other sports, the rankings and leaderboards gain importance when they are used in seeding tournaments.

In some sports, points are assigned to results at individual competitions, and the resulting points are used to generate a season rankings and determine the season champion. While not usually referred to as "leagues", but "tours" or "series", these season-long competitions with set events are very similar to league structures in team sports. Examples of this are motorsport, tennis, golf, skiing, beach volleyball and rugby sevens.

Conferences and informal leagues
American college sports are traditionally organized into groups of teams known as conferences. These conferences ordinarily keep league tables and crown champions within the conference, as other sports leagues do, but the individual schools also schedule a certain number of "non-conference" games that are organized independently between two schools in different conferences, or between a conference team and a non-conference team. Also, national championships in some college sports are determined by a ranking or playoff system that is independent of the individual conferences.

Round-robin sports leagues
Most major team sports play some form of round-robin schedule, where the goal is for each team to play a relatively balanced schedule with each other team in the league or in its league subdivision. Within this structure, there are a few significant differences between leagues, a few of which are set forth below.

Single-table versus unbalanced schedule
The simplest way to organize a sports league, and still one of the most common, is in a double round-robin format where each team plays each other team twice, once at home and once away. This ensures that every team plays an equally difficult schedule and that no team has undue home field advantage. This organization is still used in many team sports around the world.

One potential drawback of this simple double round-robin format is that the number of teams in the league determines the schedule. Larger leagues may not be able to play as many games as such a system would require, and smaller leagues may want more games. In addition, leagues whose teams are geographically spread out over a wide area (a common situation for leagues in North America) may face significant travel costs. One solution is to play an unbalanced schedule, with some teams playing additional games against some other teams; this is the way Major League Soccer has traditionally been scheduled, with the additional games being played against local rivals. Some leagues also break the league into subunits, often known as divisions and conferences, each of which may itself play a balanced or unbalanced schedule.

Central venue leagues
A "central venue league" (CVL) is a sports league where all the fixtures take place at the same venue, instead of rotating around the venues of the 'home' team, for each fixture. Several UK basketball leagues operate on this basis, intended to keep the costs of participation as low as possible, including:

 * Bracknell Central Venue League
 * Bucks Central Venue League
 * Community Basketball League (London)
 * Knights Central Venue League (Surrey Basketball Association)
 * Newcastle Eagles Central Venue League, established in 2002
 * Sherwood Basketball League

Cups, tournaments, and playoffs
Many sports leagues also participate in a single-elimination tournament each year. In the United States, Mexico, and some other countries, these tournaments are commonly called "playoffs" and are played at the end of the season, with the teams qualifying for the playoffs based on their performance during the season. In Europe, "cup" competitions are more common, with all teams playing in a single-elimination tournament that takes place during and parallel with the regular season.

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Stereobelt

The Stereobelt was a personal stereo player devised by Andreas Pavel, a former television executive and book editor. Pavel filed a patent of invention for his portable music player in Italy in 1977, and adopted the same protective steps in Germany, United Kingdom, United States, and Japan. He sought royalty fees and later commenced legal proceedings against Sony Corporation after the Walkman released commercially in 1979, believing the electronics manufacturer had infringed his intellectual property. Judges ruled against him, revoking the patent, stating his concept was "not significantly inventive".

Background and history
A former television executive and book editor, Pavel devised the Stereobelt to allow the wearer to play high-fidelity music through headphones while participating in daily activities. He states the initial test of prototype hardware took place in February 1972 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. After he pushed the play button to start the song Push Push by Herbie Mann and Duane Allman, he experienced a "floating" sensation as he watched the mountain snow fall, realizing that his device could provide "the means to multiply the aesthetic potential of any situation."

Following initial tests of his unit, Pavel told The New York times that he approached electronics manufacturers such as ITT, Grundig, Yamaha and Philips with his idea, but said he was met with rejection and ridicule. "They all said they didn't think people would be so crazy as to run around with headphones, that this is just a gadget, a useless gadget of a crazy nut". No less deterred and learning that it was important to protect his idea, Pavel filed a patent for the Stereobelt in Millan, Italy in 1977, followed by applications in Germany and the United Kingdom in 1978, later the United States and Japan.

Legal battle
Sony began selling their Walkman personal stereo player in 1979. The prototype Walkman was a playback only adaptation of the existing Sony Pressman, a compact cassette recorder and portable audio player for journalists released in 1978. In negotiations that began in 1980 and ended in 1986, Sony agreed to pay Pavel limited royalties for the sales of certain Walkman models sold in his home country of Germany only (about DM 150,000, almost 1% of Sony's Walkman profit in Germany).

A second round of legal battles between Pavel and Sony that began in 1990 through the England and Wales Patents County Court ended in 1996 after Judges ruled in Sony's favour, leaving Pavel to pay almost 3 million euros ($3.68 million) in court costs. Sony contended the Walkman evolved from a succession of portable mono and stereo cassette recorders spanning over a decade, starting with the TC-50 in 1968, illustrated in court with chronological charts. They never sought to file patents on the Walkman, its legal team argued, because the technology was innovative but not wholly inventive, rendering any such filing invalid. Counsel representing Sony and Toshiba, who also appeared in opposition, further argued that Pavel's idea consisted of multiple components, namely a belt-like garment that housed an amplifier and battery pack separately, and lacked a stability mechanism to counter movement. Pavel's legal representatives countered that, although the patent describes a stereo system in conjunction with a belt, "his claim covers all personal stereos" and Sony's own charts appeared to show their personal audio equipment getting larger with time, not smaller or more refined.

Pavel's legal challenge was lost in 1993 and his patent revoked. Judge Peter Ford adjudicated the patent to be invalid because the technology was "obvious and not significantly inventive". The case proceeded to the Appeals Court where Pavel lost again in 1996. The Court of Appeal reexamined a range of prior art and considered testimony from new witnesses. Various brand models were the subject of dispute, including stereophonic cassette players and radios that supported headphone use; some with small carry handles, others belt clips or shoulder straps. Pavel's team argued that "a belt in the form of a shoulder strap was not for personal wear." It was submitted that if their client's invention was obvious, as held by the original Judge, such an idea would have been patented sooner. It was the "concept" of a personal stereo player that "changed the listening habits of the world", not the overall product design, which Pavel's team described as "window dressing"; a contention borne out by the "explosive success" of the Walkman. Lord Justice John Hobhouse, Lord Justice Brian Neill, and Lord Justice William Aldous disagreed with the appellant, adducing the Walkman's form factor, minimal operating power, and ability to reproduce high-quality sound at reasonable cost as key reasons for its appeal and popularity. "Although the Walkman was a great commercial success, the attempt to rely upon that success to support invention is fallacious".

The ruling was foreshadowed by New Scientist shortly after the British patent was granted to Pavel in 1982. Claiming a "monopoly" on personal stereo equipment, the magazine cautioned that his application might prove too broad and of no practical legal value. "Sony's breakthrough with Walkman was in the players high quality reproduction, low powered consumption and the tape drives ability to run smoothly, even when the wearer runs." Details for which, the magazine noted, were absent in Pavel's patent.

Finally in 2003, with Pavel threatening to file infringement proceedings in the remaining territories where he held protective rights, Sony approached him with a view to settling the matter amicably, which led to both parties signing a contract and confidentiality agreement in 2004. The settlement was reported to be a cash payment in the "low eight figures" and ongoing royalties of the sale of certain Walkman models. After signing the agreement, Pavel told Der Spiegel he planned to approach other portable audio manufacturers such as Apple Inc. over their digital iPod media player.

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Pat Dubar

Patrick R. "Adawee" Dubar is an American singer, primarily with hardcore bands such as Unity and Uniform Choice, initially in the straight edge subgenre. Together with Pat Longrie (Uniform Choice), they ran the hardcore label Wishingwell Records.

He later went on to bands like Mind Funk, Corporate Avenger and Sitting Bull.

Dubar is a graduate of Pepperdine University.

He is the older brother of Courtney Dubar, founder of Affliction Clothing.

with Unity

 * You Are One... (1985)
 * Blood Days (1989)

with Uniform Choice

 * Uniform Choice (1984)
 * reissued in 1990
 * Screaming for Change (1986)
 * Region of Ice (1988)
 * Staring into the Sun (1988)

with Mind Funk

 * Mind Funk (1991)
 * Dropped (1993)
 * People Who Fell from the Sky (1995)

with Corporate Avenger

 * The New Testament (2000)
 * Freedom Is A State Of Mind (2001)
 * Born Again (2005)

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The Kids Will Have Their Say

The Kids Will Have Their Say is the debut album by the Boston hardcore punk band SS Decontrol. The album was released in 1982 as a split-release between Dischord and X-Claim records (catalog numbers X-Claim 1/Dischord 7½). The album was only pressed in 1,900 copies and never re-pressed, making it quite a collector's item. However, a bootleg version was made in the late 1980s, but the label names on the back of the sleeves are switched to Discord and Ex-Claim, making it easy to separate from the original pressing.

The album was reissued in late 2023.

Side A

 * 1) "Boiling Point" (0:54)
 * 2) "Fight Them" (1:07)
 * 3) "Do You Even Care" (0:29)
 * 4) "Not Normal" (0:52)
 * 5) "Wasted Youth" (0:33)
 * 6) "Jock Itch" (0:46)
 * 7) "Fun to You" (0:34)
 * 8) "V.A." (0:59)
 * 9) "How Much Art" (3:05)

Side B

 * 1) "The Kids Will Have Their Say"  (1:20)
 * 2) "Headed Straight" (1:29)
 * 3) "War Threat" (1:27)
 * 4) "Teach Me Violence" (0:36)
 * 5) "Screw" (0:21)
 * 6) "Who's to Judge" (1:26)
 * 7) "Police Beat" (1:58)
 * 8) "United" (0:46)
 * 9) "The End" (1:28)

Personnel

 * Springa - vocals
 * Al Barile - guitar
 * Jaime Sciarappa - bass
 * Chris Foley - drums
 * Larry Lessard - Engineer

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Ray Cappo

Ray Cappo, also known as Raghunath Das, is an American punk rock musician best known as the vocalist for the bands Youth of Today and Shelter and as founder of the independent record labels Revelation Records and Equal Vision Records.

Originally from Connecticut, Cappo played drums for the band Violent Children. Before moving to New York City in the 1980s, Youth of Today had already made an impact on the straight edge hardcore punk scene.

Earlier career
Cappo was occasionally a guest DJ for college radio station WXCI, in Danbury, Connecticut, on a radio show called "The Adventure Jukebox" hosted by Darryl Ohrt of the band No Milk on Tuesday. Cappo played a wide array of hardcore music on the program, largely culled from his massive collection of records, rare unsigned EPs, and demo tapes. During this time, Cappo enthusiastically supported local hardcore shows including gigs by many early hardcore bands such as No Milk on Tuesday, 76% Uncertain, Seizure, End Product, and Abusive Action, and was often mentioned in the liner notes of their records.

Youth of Today
Along with guitarist John Porcelly, also known as Porcell, Cappo started the seminal hardcore band Youth of Today in 1985, which quickly became one of the most well-known bands in the New York hardcore scene. Based on their straight edge ethics and a fast, aggressive sound, they created a subgenre known as Youth Crew, influencing a large number of bands. An important figure in the early days of Youth of Today was Kevin Seconds, singer of the Reno, Nevada, band 7 Seconds. Kevin not only influenced the band, but also released their first EP, "Can't Close My Eyes" on his Positive Force Records. Before disbanding in 1990, Youth of Today released two 7-inch EPs (one later remixed and released as a 12-inch) and two LPs, widely considered to be some of the most influential American hardcore records of their time.

Revelation Records
In 1987, along with Jordan Cooper, Cappo started Revelation Records. The label's first release was Warzone's "Lower East Side Crew". This was soon followed by a compilation entitled New York Hardcore 1987: Together, or simply the Together Compilation. This compilation included tracks by Youth of Today and Bold, (formerly Crippled Youth). This was also the first time bands like Gorilla Biscuits, Sick of It All, and Side by Side would be recorded and heard all over the world. Revelation would soon expand its roster westward, releasing records from California bands like Chain of Strength and No For an Answer. Today, Revelation remains a functioning record label operated by Cooper, who moved from New Haven, Connecticut, to Huntington Beach, California, in 1990.

1990s and Krishnacore
As Youth of Today began to wind down, Cappo found himself drawn to Krishna Consciousness, due in large part to his study of religions that embraced his vegetarian and straight edge ideals. He became a devotee and an outspoken proponent of the ideologies laid out in the Bhagavad Gita. Cappo resolved to create a final album to express his beliefs. The album was a marked departure from the style of Youth of Today, and Revelation Records decided to release it under a new band, which became known as Shelter. Cappo again found himself starting a record label to release bands with a Krishna-conscious message, the still operating Equal Vision Records. The rise of Shelter would unexpectedly create a musical subgenre called Krishnacore, with bands such as Cro-Mags as its spiritual forefathers and 108 among its main proponents.

Better Than a Thousand
Better Than a Thousand was a band founded in 1997 by drummer Ken Olden and guitarist Graham Land after their previous band Battery broke up. The duo recruited Cappo as their vocalist and signed to Revelation Records. They recorded their first album, Just One, in five days while Shelter was on break from touring, and released it in July 1997. Cappo recorded his vocals for the album in a bedroom studio in two days. They got to work immediately on their second album, with Olden saying they needed to follow up Just One with something more focused. That second album, Value Driven, was recorded in another home studio setup in 1998, and released that year. They toured for the album, then broke up after Cappo moved to California and quit his straight-edge lifestyle. In 2020, Olden remixed and remastered both albums for a reissue package released by End Hits Records. The reissues included the original albums and five rare bonus songs, and some editions included a 36-page fanzine called We Must Believe, previously unpublished photos and liner notes.

2000s
Cappo lives with his family in East Chatham, New York, and is active as a yoga teacher. He continues his association with the Hare Krishna community in the area and is an avid mixed martial arts fan and practitioner. Aside from the European Youth of Today reunion tour in 2003 and occasional American and European reunion shows, Cappo has been only intermittently involved in the hardcore music scene.

In 2006, Cappo released another Shelter record entitled Eternal on Good Life Recordings, and embarked on a European tour. He maintains a website for his yoga and raw food diet classes and an email list promoting raw foods and featuring recipes and inspirational quotations. Cappo also sponsors tours of India featuring important sites for practitioners of yoga.

In 2020, Cappo launched the podcast Wisdom of the Sages in collaboration with fellow Hare Krishna devotee Kaustubha Das. The show features musicians alongside senior devotees of the Hare Krishna movement.

Discography
with Reflex from Pain with Violent Children with Youth of Today with Shelter with Ray & Porcell with Better Than a Thousand with Story of the Year
 * Checkered Future (1983)
 * Violent Children (1983)
 * Violent Children (1984)
 * Skate Straight (1984)
 * Connecticut Fun compilation (1985)
 * Can't Close My Eyes EP (1986, Positive Force Records)
 * Break Down the Walls (1987)
 * New York City Hardcore – Together compilation (1987, Revelation Records)
 * New York City Hardcore – The Way It Is compilation (1988, Revelation Records)
 * We're Not in This Alone (1988)
 * Youth of Today (1990)
 * Perfection of Desire (1990)
 * No Compromise (1990)
 * In Defense of Reality (1991)
 * ''Attaining the Supreme (1993)
 * Mantra (1995, Roadrunner Records)
 * Beyond Planet Earth (1997, Roadrunner Records)
 * When 20 Summers Pass (2000, Victory Records)
 * The Purpose, the Passion (2001, Supersoul)
 * Eternal (2006, Good Life Recordings)
 * Ray & Porcell (1991)
 * Just One (1997, Revelation Records)
 * Value Driven (1998, Epitaph)
 * "Self Worth" single (1999, Grapes of Wrath)
 * Falling Down (2003, Page Avenue)

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Dave Smalley

Dave Smalley is an American musician, best known as the lead singer for the hardcore punk bands DYS and Dag Nasty, and skate punk band All as well as lead singer/guitarist with Down by Law. He is known for his influence on pop punk music and his early contributions to the emo genre. He also founded a side project called The Sharpshooters, whose music is influenced by mod revival bands such as The Jam. Smalley has also produced and appeared on Canadian punk band Penelope's second album, Face au silence du monde, recorded by Don Zientara at Inner Ear Studio in Arlington, Virginia.

He received a bachelor's degree from Boston College and a masters in political science from California State University Los Angeles. He resides with his family in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he works as a features editor of the Weekender section of the town's newspaper, the Free Lance-Star. He previously worked as the youth editor for it!, a teen news supplement to the Free-Lance Star, and won several awards for that section.

In 2016, Smalley released a solo album, Punk Rock Days, featuring acoustic arrangements of Dag Nasty and Down by Law material, as well as new songs and Irish folk music. The album featured contributions by guitarists from Down by Law and Dag Nasty, as well as family members of Smalley.

In 2017, he started fronting a new band called Don't Sleep. They've since released two EPs: the self-titled Don't Sleep EP on Unity Worldwide Records (2017), and the Bring The Light 7 inch on Reaper Records (2018). The band also did a tour with Shelter in 2018. Their first LP Turn The Tide is being released on Mission Two Entertainment in September 2020.

Since 2017, Dave Smalley has a new band called Dave Smalley & The Bandoleros. They released an album in 2018 called Join the Outsiders and had plans to play several shows in Europe.

DYS

 * 1983 – Brotherhood (Vocals)
 * 1984 – DYS (Vocals)
 * 1989 – Fire And Ice (prior two records on one CD) (Vocals)
 * 2005 – Wolfpack – "Brotherhood," re-released with the band's original Wolfpack radio demo
 * 2011 – More than Fashion: LIVE from the Gallery East Reunion – live tracks from the band's initial reunion show, featuring songs from both of their studio albums, Bridge 9 Records
 * 2011 – "Wild Card" – Single on Bridge 9 Records
 * 2011 – "Sound of our Town" – Single on Bridge 9 Records
 * 2012 – "Unloaded" – Single on Bridge 9 Records
 * 2012 – "(We are) The Road Crew" (Motorhead Cover) – Single on Bridge 9 Records
 * 2012 – "Brotherhood 2012" – Single on Bridge 9 Records
 * 2012 – "True Believers" – Single on Bridge 9 Records

Dag Nasty

 * 1986 – Can I Say (Vocals)
 * 1992 – Four on the Floor (Vocals)
 * 2002 – Minority of One (Vocals)

ALL

 * 1988- Allroy Sez (Vocals)
 * 1988- Allroy for Prez (Vocals)

Down By Law

 * 1991 – Down by Law (Vocals, Guitar)
 * 1992 – Blue (Vocals, Guitar)
 * 1993 – D.C. Guns (Vocals, Guitar)
 * 1994 – Yellow Rat Bastard (Vocals, Guitar)
 * 1994 – punkrockacademyfightsong (Vocals, Guitar)
 * 1996 – All Scratched Up (Vocals, Guitar)
 * 1997 – Last of the Sharpshooters (Vocals, Guitar)
 * 1999 – Fly the Flag (Vocals, Guitar)
 * 2003 – windwardtidesandwaywardsails (Vocals, Guitar)
 * 2012 – Champions At Heart (vocals, guitar)
 * 2014 – Revolution Time (vocals, guitar)
 * 2018 – All In (vocals, guitar)

Dave Smalley & the Bandoleros

 * 2018 – Join the Outsiders (vocals)
 * 2020 – Ignited (vocals)

Don't Sleep

 * 2017 – Don't Sleep (Vocals)
 * 2018 – Bring the Light (Vocals)
 * 2020 – Turn The Tide (Vocals)

Other

 * 1990 – Rule of Thumb – Don't look Down – Club Rat records (vocals)
 * 1990 – Chemical People – The Right Thing (Background Vocals)
 * 1998 – Two Man Advantage – drafted (Producer, Background Vocals)
 * 1999 – Under The Gun – Nowhere to Run (Producer, Guest Vocals on "The Mirror")
 * 2000 – The Sharpshooters – Viva Los Guerillas (Vocals, Guitar)
 * 2002 – Penelope – Face au silence du monde (Background Vocals)
 * 2009 – Pocket – Beautiful Gray (Vocals)
 * 2010 – Marc Ganancias – Painted Walls (Guest Vocals on "Rewind & Repeat")
 * 2013 – Marc Ganancias – Policy of Discontent (Guest vocals on "Yours Truly")
 * 2016 – Dave Smalley – Punk Rock Days

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Alexander Mitscherlich (psychologist)

Alexander Harbord Mitscherlich (20 September 1908 – 26 June 1982) was a German psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.

Life
Alexander Mitscherlich grew up in Munich and took up studies in history, the history of art, and philosophy at Munich University. When Mitscherlich's Jewish-born dissertation thesis supervisor Paul Joachimsen died, in 1932, his chair was passed to an antisemite, Karl Alexander von Müller, who declined to take over the dissertation projects begun by his predecessor. This is why Mitscherlich left Munich for Berlin in order to open a bookstore there, where he sold writings critical of the current developments in Germany, bringing him to the attention of the SA. He was hence jailed in Germany several times from 1933 for political reasons.

Mitscherlich emigrated to Switzerland in order to take up studies in medicine there, only to return to Germany in 1937. He received a doctor's degree from Heidelberg University in 1941 in neurology.

After World War II, he was an observer at the Nuremberg Trials against the Nazi physicians guilty of medical experiments and torture of the inmates of concentration camps. He worked at a clinic in Zürich where he met his future wife Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen. They married in 1955. It was his third marriage in all.

Alexander Mitscherlich founded the clinic for psychosomatic medicine at Heidelberg University in 1949. From 1953 he held the chair for psychosomatic medicine in Heidelberg. In 1960, together with his wife Margarete Mitscherlich he was a co-founder of the Sigmund-Freud-Institut at Frankfurt committed to psychoanalytic research. He directed the institute until 1976. From 1966 to 1973 Mitscherlich was professor for psychology at Frankfurt University.

From the 1960s, alongside the protagonists of the Frankfurt School, the Mitscherlichs played an important part in post-war Germany's intellectual debates, employing psychoanalytic thought for explaining the causes behind Nazi Germany and its aftermath in German society to the present day. The first major book they wrote together was ''Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern. Grundlagen kollektiven Verhaltens (The Inability to Mourn: Principles of Collective Behaviour''), first published in 1967, discussing why the Holocaust, the war crimes, and the sentiment of guilt on the offender's part were not dealt with adequately in post-war German society. Mitscherlich pointed specifically to the Germans' inability to mourn their beloved leader, Adolf Hitler. Another important book Alexander Mitscherlich wrote was Die Unwirtlichkeit unserer Städte: Anstiftung zum Unfrieden (The inhospitality of our cities. A deliberate provocation) first published in 1965 that deals with the societal and psychological consequences of urban planning and architecture in post-war Germany. Late in this period, in 1969, Mitscherlich was the analyst of author Erica Jong, who stated, "He was the first person that took me seriously as a writer. He helped me break through a lot of barriers in my work. He changed my life."

Mitscherlich was awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels in 1969. In 1973 he received the Kulturpreis der Stadt München and the Wilhelm-Leuschner-Medaille.

Alexander Mitscherlich died in Frankfurt am Main, aged 73. His bequest was handed over to Frankfurt University by his wife in 1982.

Writings

 * Mitscherlich, A.; Mielke, F. Das Diktat der Menschenverachtung: Eine Dokumentation (The Dictate of Contempt for Humanity: A Documentation) 1947. "Psychiatrie Im Nationalsozialismus: Erinnerung Und Verantwortung. By Frank Schneider" p. 25
 * Auf dem Weg zur vaterlosen Gesellschaft. Ideen zur Sozialpsychologie. 1963 (Society Without the Father: A Contribution to Social Psychology, ISBN 9780060974206)
 * Die Unwirtlichkeit unserer Städte. Anstiftung zum Unfrieden. 1965
 * Krankheit als Konflikt. 1966
 * With Margarete Mitscherlich: Die Unfähigkeit zu trauern. Grundlagen kollektiven Verhaltens. 1967
 * With Margarete Mitscherlich: Die Idee des Friedens und die menschliche Aggressivität. 1969
 * With Margarete Mitscherlich: Eine deutsche Art zu lieben. 1970
 * Ein Leben für die Psychoanalyse. 1980 (autobiography)
 * Ein Leben für die Psychoanalyse. 1980 (autobiography)

Literature

 * Martin Dehli: Leben als Konflikt. Zur Biographie Alexander Mitscherlichs. Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2007, 320 S. ISBN 3-8353-0063-6.
 * Tobias Freimüller (Hg.): Psychoanalyse und Protest – Alexander Mitscherlich und die "Achtundsechziger" Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2008 ISBN 978-3-8353-0354-6
 * Tobias Freimüller: Alexander Mitscherlich: Gesellschaftsdiagnosen und Psychoanalyse nach Hitler, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2007, ISBN 3-8353-0187-X
 * Timo Hoyer: Im Getümmel der Welt. Alexander Mitscherlich – ein Porträt; Göttingen 2008
 * Hans-Martin Lohmann: Alexander Mitscherlich. Reinbek bei Hamburg. 1987.

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Mike Gordon

Michael Eliot Gordon (born June 3, 1965) is an American bass guitarist and vocalist most recognized as a founding member of the band Phish. In addition to bass, Gordon is an accomplished banjo player, and is proficient at piano and guitar. He is also a filmmaker (Rising Low, Outside Out) and author (Mike's Corner). He has released six solo studio albums and three studio albums with acoustic guitar pioneer Leo Kottke.

Biography
Gordon was born in Sudbury, Massachusetts, the son of Marjorie Minkin, an abstract painter, and Robert Gordon, founder and former President and CEO of New England convenience store chain Store 24. Gordon attended the Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston and Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. Gordon holds a bachelor's degree in Arts (he was originally an Electrical Engineering major) from the University of Vermont.

Gordon met Trey Anastasio, Jon Fishman, and Jeff Holdsworth while attending college at University of Vermont, where the rock band Phish formed in 1983. He answered a posted flyer hanging in the dorms at UVM by Trey Anastasio, looking for a bass player for a new band.

Gordon played many roles in Phish. Until the band became too big for self-management, he dealt with practically all public relations and fan communication, such as answering fan mail, managing funds and booking gigs. Gordon wrote a column titled "Mike's Corner" for the band's newsletter in the 1990s.

Musically, Gordon's influence is the most obvious in Phish's many different renditions of various bluegrass, calypso, and even traditional Jewish songs (Gordon is Jewish). He also contributed by singing, as well as writing lyrics. Gordon wrote 19 original Phish songs and co-authored 27 additional Phish tracks, including "Mound", "Train Song", "Round Room", "Sugar Shack," "Yarmouth Road," "555," "Say Something," "Waking Up Dead," and the band's third most-performed song historically: "Mike's Song." Gordon also practices transcendental meditation.

Instruments and gear
Like Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio, Gordon used to play custom-made bass guitars built by Paul Languedoc. Gordon played two Languedoc bass guitars, including a "dragon" bass. These bass guitars employed custom wound pickups from Mørch guitars of Denmark.

Gordon began experimenting with a Modulus Quantum 5 bass guitar on stage with Phish as early as October 31, 1994. He made the switch to this instrument as his main bass at Phish's March 1, 1997, show at Markthalle in Hamburg, Germany to a Quantum 5 with two EMG DC pickups. He later acquired a TBX model which is the through-neck version of the same guitar. Gordon plays with a pick (Jim Dunlop 1.5mm triangular graphite picks) and Ken Smith Slickround™ (half flat) strings

Gordon's signature sound is also attributable to an array of signal processing equipment including an ADA MB-1 pre-amp, an Ibanez flanger (used at the beginning of "Down with Disease"), a Lovetone Meatball envelope filter (also used at the beginning of "Down with Disease"), an Akai Deep Impact, an EHX Bass Micro-Synth, an EBS OctaBass and a Boss SYB-3, a Boss BF-2 flanger, an Eventide 4500 Harmonizer, an Eventide Eclipse and a Lexicon LXP-15.

Gordon has used a variety of amplifier and speaker combinations including the SWR SM-900 amp/Goliath 4x10" enclosure but lately has been playing through Eden WT-800 amps, a Meyer Sound CP-10 parametric EQ, and onward toward a Meyer Sound powered speaker system (two 750P 2x18 cabs and two UPA-1Ps with 12" low frequency drivers and 3" compression drivers).

Current gear
As of December 2012, Gordon uses Source Audio Bass Envelope Filter Pro, Source Audio Bass Distortion Pro, Eventide Eclipse, Eventide Space, MXR graphic EQ, Boss graphic EQ and Electro Harmonix Super Ego, The Meatball envelope filter by Lovetone™, an Ibanez stomp box flanger, and an Eventide 4500 Harmonizer.

He currently uses Eden WT 800 amp into a Meyers CP-10 parametric EQ, and onward toward a Meyers powered speaker system: One 750P 2×18 and one 750 PL 2 x 18, two UPA-1P on top. He goes straight to the Eden WT800 driving a single Eden 4×10 cab, sometimes enhancing with more Eden 18s and more power.

In 2014, Gordon commissioned custom moiré instruments for himself and guitarist Scott Murawski to work with stage props being used on his 2014 Spring Tour. The guitar and bass (crafted specifically for this tour by Ben Lewry of Oakland, California's Visionary Instruments) are hollow, with LEDs inside that make them glow, and moiré screens stretched across the front. The LEDs in the guitars are manipulated by the lighting director, swapping colors and flashing patterns in response to the music.

He has played banjo since 1994, performing the instrument in concert with Phish and [Phil Lesh] (albeit an electric banjo) and in the studio on the 2007 Bernie Worrell album Improvisczario.

Mike Gordon (2015–present)
His current touring band (again billed as "Mike Gordon") is Scott Murawski on guitar, Robert Walter on B3 Organ & Synth, drummer John Morgan Kimock and percussionist Craig Myers. These band members have toured regularly with Gordon since 2015, with the exception of a tour in June 2023, which saw keyboardist Rachel Eckroth subbing for Robert Walter while he was on the road with Roger Waters. Gordon decided to tour as a quintet to differentiate his project's instrumentation from Phish.

In April 2017, Gordon and his bandmates recorded OGOGO, Mike's fifth studio album, as a band at Q Division in Boston. “All five of us decided not to do what we had done before, but to be fresher and try to find our own voices. That started happening in a some jams... I want things to be interesting in a way that would serve the song.” The album was produced by GRAMMY Award-winning Shawn Everett and was released on September 15, 2017.

In February 2023, Gordon announced his sixth solo record Flying Games, which was written and recorded during 2020’s lockdown, in his makeshift Megaplum home studio. The album was produced by Gordon, recorded by longtime collaborator Jared Slomoff, and mixed by six-time Grammy-winning engineer Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes, The War on Drugs). Gordon brought in contributions from bandmates, Kimock, Walter, Myers, and Murawski. It was released May 12, 2023.

Mike Gordon (2008–2014)
His past touring band (and longest running touring project) was billed as "Mike Gordon" and included Scott Murawski on guitar, drummer Todd Isler, keyboard player Tom Cleary and percussionist Craig Myers.

Gordon toured with this band from Summer 2008 through March 2014. The band made its debut late night talk-show television appearance on February 11, as musical guests on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, promoting Gordon's album Moss.

They played a small handful of dates in New England (and one date in Albany) in November and December 2011, including a show at The Egg in Albany, NY on December 11, 2011 that ended up being the focus of a live album Gordon released in 2013 simply called "The Egg". They again toured in March 2014 (and a few weekends in April) supporting Gordon's last solo album (co-written with band-mate Murawski) Overstep.

Mike Gordon and Leo Kottke
In 2002, Gordon recorded the album Clone with acoustic guitarist Leo Kottke. The duo reunited in 2005 for Sixty Six Steps, followed by a supporting tour.

In August 2019, Gordon confirmed that he and Kottke had returned to the studio to record a new album. In August 2020, Kottke and Gordon announced the release of the album, Noon, that month on Megaplum/ATO Records. It was their first collaboration since Sixty Six Steps and Kottke's first studio album since 2005. As had been previously rumored, Phish drummer Jon Fishman appeared on several tracks.

Benevento/Russo Duo and GRAB (2004–2006)
In 2004, Gordon performed with The Benevento-Russo Duo for several shows benefiting Headcount, a voter registration organization. The trio played a number of dates in late 2004 and 2005 including the Bonnaroo Music Festival in June 2005 and a New Year's Eve series of shows in Florida and the northeastern United States. Gordon has originally met Joe Russo through Ropeadope founder Andy Hurwitz from in 2003 and jammed together in a few informal settings, leading to the Headcount benefit.

In summer 2006, Gordon, along with Phish bandmate Trey Anastasio, again joined the Benevento-Russo Duo for a co-headlining tour with Phil Lesh and Friends before finishing the final leg of the tour on their own. The group performed various songs from each members' catalog, as well as a handful of brand new originals. The quartet parted ways after the tour ended in July.

Other projects
Gordon has played in several side-projects apart from Phish, including Grappa Boom with Jamie Masefield of the Jazz Mandolin Project, The Chieftains with Rosanne Cash, and Doug Perkins of Smokin' Grass. Gordon formed his own solo band featuring Josh Roseman, Scott Murawski, Julee Avallone, James Harvey, Gordon Stone, Jeannie Hill and Doug Belote in 2003.

He released his first solo album outside of Phish in 2003, entitled Inside In.

In summer 2004, Gordon produced musician Joey Arkenstat's first album, Bane. Gordon is also credited with providing vocals and shofar accompaniment. In December 2005, Gordon formed SerialPod with Anastasio and Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann. The group debuted at the 17th annual Warren Haynes Christmas Jam in Asheville, North Carolina. In early 2006, Gordon teamed up with his mother, artist Marjorie Minkin, to present Another Side of In — a visual and audio art show featuring interactive sculptures created by Minkin and set to the music of Inside In. The interactive show appeared at the Boston Children's Museum beginning in January 2010.

Later in 2006, Gordon formed a honky-tonk band called Ramble Dove, consisting of himself, Brett Hughes, Neil Cleary, Marie Claire and Scott Murawski. The band came into fruition after Gordon's long-time stint as bass guitar player in a honky-tonk band led by Brett Hughes that performed each Tuesday night at the Burlington, Vermont, club, Radio Bean. The group performs a number of classic country songs and a few Gordon originals, such as "Ramble Dove", "Loosening Up The Rules" and the rare Phish song "Weekly Time".

In August 2006, Gordon joined the Rhythm Devils – a group featuring Kreutzmann, The Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart, guitarist Steve Kimock and a host of backup players. On January 2, 2007, Gordon appeared with a group billed as The House Band containing many former members of The Grateful Dead playing at a party in honor of the new leadership of the United States House of Representatives hosted by Nancy Pelosi. The group included Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir, Bruce Hornsby and Warren Haynes.

He joined Trey Anastasio at the first annual Rothbury Music Festival in July during his solo acoustic set. Anastasio and Phish drummer Jon Fishman joined Gordon for part of his set the same day. Gordon released an album entitled The Green Sparrow on Rounder Records on August 5, 2008.

On March 6, 2009, Mike reunited with Phish at the Hampton Coliseum. The band has toured regularly since Summer 2009.

Gordon finished writing and recording his next solo album, Moss, at his home studio in Vermont in May 2010. The album was released by Rounder Records on October 19. He explained that many of the songs on the new album "began as bass and drum jams" adding that it is "kind of bass-oriented. Not in that the bass is the lead, but that the rhythms and the patterns are bass centric. The uniqueness is centered on the bass. So the bass is the key instrument. On Inside In, the pedal steel is the key instrument and if you had to say it for Green Sparrow, maybe electric guitar. But this time it's the bass."

Albums

 * Clone (with Leo Kottke) (October 8, 2002)
 * Inside In (August 19, 2003)
 * Sixty Six Steps (with Leo Kottke) (August 23, 2005)
 * Live From Bonnaroo 2005 (with the Benevento-Russo Duo) (July 18, 2006, recorded live in 2005)
 * The Green Sparrow (August 5, 2008)
 * Moss (October 19, 2010)
 * Moss Remixes 7" vinyl (April 16, 2011 for Record Store Day)
 * The Egg (April 30, 2013, recorded live in 2011)
 * Overstep (February 25, 2014)
 * The Last Step EP 10" vinyl (April 7, 2015)
 * OGOGO (September 15, 2017)
 * Noon (with Leo Kottke) (August 28, 2020)
 * Flying Games (May 12, 2023)

Live releases

 * August 29, 2008 – Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO
 * October 3, 2009 – Town Ballroom, Buffalo, NY
 * November 26, 2010 – Port City Music Hall, Portland, ME
 * November 16, 2010 – The Fine Line Music Cafe, Minneapolis, MN
 * The Egg - Recorded Live December 11, 2011 at The Egg, Albany, NY
 * Vancouver – Recorded Live March 22, 2014 at The Rio Theatre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 * June 28, 2015 – Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA
 * February 2, 2016 – Crystal Ballroom, Portland, OR
 * December 3, 2016 – Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA

Books

 * Mike's Corner (May 1997, ISBN 9780821223895)

Films

 * Tracking (Phish, 1994)
 * Outside Out (2000)
 * Rising Low (2002)
 * The Down with Disease music video for Phish

Awards

 * Sixty Six Steps won album of the year at the 2006 Jammy Awards.
 * Rising Low was the winner of the Joe Jarvis Audience Choice Award for Best Documentary at the 2002 Newport International Film Festival.
 * Outside Out received the audience award at the South by Southwest festival.

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Unity (George album)

Unity is the second and final studio album from Australian band George. It was released in February 2004 and peaked at number 5 on the ARIA Charts.

The making of the album
The band recorded the album in Byron Bay during 2003. The album was produced by David Nicholas assisted by Justin Tresidder. Melbourne composer Paul Grabowsky also assisted with orchestral and horn arrangements.

Bassist Paulie Bromley said on the band's web site that the album reflects the band's growth since their first album Polyserena "Polyserena was us learning how to make a record, Unity was making that record." Songwriter, vocalist, keyboardist and guitarist Tyrone Noonan said that the songwriting was more mature "I personally feel like I've developed a lot as a songwriter, more confident lyrics and statements being expressed through those lyrics. Overall it's a more positive approach in dealing with personal issues and socio-political issues, more positive light. As a band, this to me feels like a really mature album for us." Katie Noonan says on the band's web site that the title reflects the band's approach on the album "That family vibe brings a closeness and honesty that permeates what we do. Collectively and individually, we've been through a great period of change and growth. Knowing we can look to each other for strength brings comfort and solidarity. We have all been through the same thing and there's an incredible sense of union from that experience - that's what being in a band's about."

Track listing

 * 1) "Falling Inside" (Katie Noonan) – 3:53
 * 2) "Still Real" (Katie Noonan) – 4:25
 * 3) "One" ( Tyrone Noonan, Nick Stewart) – 4:14
 * 4) "Beauty of All Things" (Tyrone Noonan) – 4:24
 * 5) "Captive" (Katie Noonan) – 4:00
 * 6) "Today" (Tyrone Noonan) – 3:57
 * 7) "Fall" (Katie Noonan) – 4:02
 * 8) "Fortunate Smile" (Tyrone Noonan) – 6:43
 * 9) "Change" (Tyrone Noonan, Nick Stewart, Geoff Green, Paulie Bromley) – 5:13
 * 10) "Jaded" (Katie Noonan) – 4:12
 * 11) "Surrender" (Katie Noonan, Paulie Bromley, Martin Challis) – 5:37
 * 12) "Growing With Love" (Tyrone Noonan) – 6:11

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MacCabe Park

MacCabe Park is a small park located in the City of Wollongong, Australia. It is commonly misspelt McCabe Park, though the sign has since been changed to its correct name. In 1855 a land grant was made to Governor Brown, the present site of the park.

It contains a playground at the north east corner of the rectangular area covered by the park, the local youth centre is in the north west side, and a sculpture called "Nike" is found in this area amidst a garden area. The youth centre has a small skating area and sometimes ramps and kickers are brought out, with a small number of fastened ramps present. The centre's walls are covered with graffiti and murals. A small strip of native plants and trees is present on the edge of the skating area. The northeastern area features a council operated art gallery and a war memorial, featuring a planted area and a canon. The west part of the park area features shops like Dick Smith bordering a narrow walkway underneath and between climbing plants. In the gaps between shops palm trees have been planted. Paths are present in the park and most of it is lawn grass. The southern end contains a man-made hillock with a smaller peak to its northern end and a larger slightly higher one at its southern end, with a circular amphitheatre of brick. In the southeastern and northwestern parts of the park are covered paths. In the eastern area is a community hall and carpark. The hall features a mural depicting a famous scene from E.T.

The park area is surrounded by streets, the east side borders Church Street, Wollongong, the west side borders Keira Street, the north borders Burelli Street, and the southern end borders Ellen Street. The park is located in the southern part of Wollongong's central business district, only two blocks from Wollongong Central and Wollongong Mall.

Plants in the park include palms, a few native eucalypts, grass plants, small grey leafed shrubs and a small planting of casuarinas south of the amphitheatre.

Wollongong City Council has had a policy in place since 1990 to purchase the commercial properties surrounding the park as they become available. Eventually, these commercial buildings will be demolished to expand the public open space.

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Sykehouse

Sykehouse is a village and civil parish in the City of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, on the border with the East Riding of Yorkshire. It was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. It had a population of 438 in 2001, increasing to 515 at the 2011 Census.

The parish includes the hamlets of Eskholme, Pincheon Green, Topham and Wormley Hill.

Geography
Sykehouse is a largely rural area containing a handful of small hamlets. Its northern border is marked by the River Went, while the River Don marks its eastern boundary. The New Junction Canal bisects the parish. It is said to be the longest village in Yorkshire, as it stretches for nearly 8 mi along its main street. Sykehouse is the origin of the extremely rare Sykehouse Russet apple, an old English variety which was thought to have been lost, but was rediscovered growing in gardens in Oxfordshire and the Doncaster area in 1999.

Sykehouse village
The village of Sykehouse contains the parish church of the Holy Trinity. Most of this grade II listed building was built in 1869 by C. H. Fowler, using red bricks and a Gothic Revival style. The tower is older, having been built in 1721, while the font is fifteenth century, but this is presumed to have come from elsewhere. Other listed buildings include a red-brick and rubble barn, attached to Marsh Hills Farmhouse, and the farmhouse itself, which is early eighteenth century with twentieth century alterations. Sykehouse also contains the Village Hall where numerous meetings are held; including: the Parish Council, Show Committee, Women's Institute, Cricket Club and the Parochial Church Council. The village is located at approximately 53° 38' 30" North, 1° 3' West, at an elevation of around 4 metres above sea level.

Eskholme
Eskholme is a hamlet on the River Went, and is located at approximately 53° 39' North, 1° 0' 30" West, at an elevation of around 4 metres above sea level.

Pincheon Green
Pincheon Green is little more than a small row of houses, and is located at approximately 53° 39' North, 1° 2' 20" West, at an elevation of around 4 metres above sea level.

Topham
Topham is a rural hamlet on the River Went, alongside a dismantled railway. Also, because of its situation on the river; it is liable to flooding. It is located at approximately 53.64444°N, -1.06111°W, at an elevation of around 5 metres above sea level. The main structure of an early nineteenth century tower mill, which is now part of a house forms part of the hamlet, and the track to Balne Lodge and Balne Hall crosses the River Went at Topham Ferry bridge, a single-arched brick structure built in the early nineteenth century and little altered, although in poor condition.

Wormley Hill
Wormley Hill is a hamlet close to the River Don, and is located at approximately 53.63889°N, -0.99167°W, at an elevation of around 4 metres above sea level. A friendly community of 8 houses, its history is embedded in agriculture with one farm still working. It is home to one of the Millennium Sykehouse signs and an original red telephone box.

The Sykehouse Show
The Sykehouse Show is a traditional agricultural show which has taken place in Sykehouse annually since 1884, now held on the first Sunday in August. It is organised and run by the Sykehouse Show Society, which consists of a committee of around 25 volunteers including the Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer. Many of the current committee are descendants of the first Committee formed in 1884. A group of a further 20 volunteers assist around Show Day. It is a traditional village Agricultural Show, with Classes for Shire horses, Beef Cattle; Commercial, Jacob and Rare Breeds Sheep; Ponies, Hunters, Show Jumping and Gymkhana. The Sheaf Tossing Competition is a unique feature and very popular. There is a very busy Arts & Crafts Section and Horticulture and Agriculture Marquee as well. With Craft Stalls and Trade Stands, including rides for children and refreshments.

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Judge (band)

Judge is a New York hardcore band formed in 1987 by Youth of Today guitarist John "Porcell" Porcelly and former Youth of Today drummer Mike "Judge" Ferraro.

History
Their first release was a 7-inch EP on Porcell's label Schism (which he ran along with Side by Side/Gorilla Biscuits guitar player Alex Brown) entitled New York Crew. The record featured five songs, one of which was a cover of "Warriors" by the British oi!/punk band Blitz. On this recording, the band was merely a two-piece, featuring Porcelly on bass and guitar, and Ferraro on vocals and drums. But with the addition of bass-player Jimmy Yu (of Mike's former band Death Before Dishonor, which eventually evolved into Supertouch) and drummer "Lukey" Luke Abbey (Warzone/Gorilla Biscuits), they got together a fully functional live line-up.

The band received much criticism due to their militant straight edge lyrics, especially from fanzines like San Francisco's Maximum Rock'N'Roll. The militant lyrics were a conscious move on the band's part, as they were sick of seeing bands like Youth of Today, who in reality had a very positive message, get slagged for being too militant. So they decided to give the nay-sayers exactly what they wanted – the most militant Straight Edge band imaginable. Mike Ferraro has later on admitted that provocation was an important aim for the band.

Judge was not just heavy in message, the music had very metal-influenced riffing, but remained close to its hardcore roots, without going all out metal, such as bands like Agnostic Front and D.R.I.

With a new line-up of Sammy Siegler (Side by Side/Youth of Today/Project X etc.) on drums and Matt Pincus on bass, the band proceeded to record their full-length LP Bringin' It Down for Revelation Records at Chung King Studios in New York City. The recording was finished, but the band were so unhappy with the result that they decided to scrap it and re-record it at Normandy Sound in Rhode Island, where the Cro-Mags had recorded their Best Wishes album. Revelation did however put out a limited pressing of the original recording, fittingly titled Chung King Can Suck It. It was given to people who had pre-ordered the record, and with only 110 copies pressed (all on white vinyl), it is one of the most sought-after hardcore records in existence, going for as much as $6,600 on online auction sites such as eBay. Eventually, Bringin' It Down was released in 1989. Judge continued touring up until 1991, and even released another 7-inch EP, There Will Be Quiet, featuring "The Storm" and "Forget This Time" (the CD-version also contains a cover version of "When the Levee Breaks", originally by Led Zeppelin).

In May 2013, Judge reunited and played two shows in New York City. In 2014 and 2015, the band continued to play shows in United States as well as in South America and Europe.

Careers after Judge
John Porcelly went on to tour and record with Hare Krishna hardcore band Shelter (featuring Ray Cappo of Youth of Today, as well as a revolving line-up of more and less well-known hardcore musicians, including Tom Capone of Bold and Quicksand, and Vic DiCara of Beyond, Inside Out, and 108). Porcelly later started the bands Never Surrender and Last of the Famous, and ran a record label called Fight Fire with Fire and the website TrueTillDeath.com, but all these projects seem to be either scrapped or inactive. He played with the reunited Bold in 2005–06, and a book chronicling all issues of his fanzine Schism was also released in late 2005.

Mike Ferraro (musician) (not to be confused with television and filmmaker Mike Judge) formed the band Mike Judge & Old Smoke with Judge roadie Todd Schwartz, a band playing Neil Young-inspired acoustic as well as guitar driven music. They released a 12-inch "Sights on Revelation Records in 1993. In his free time, Ferraro now raises chickens on a family farm in West Virginia.

Sammy Siegler played in several late 1980s/early 1990s hardcore bands, either regularly or as a replacement. In the mid-late 1990s he recorded and toured with the band CIV, featuring Anthony Civarelli and Arthur Smilios of Gorilla Biscuits. He has also appeared in Shelter, and major label rock band Rival Schools, featuring Walter Schreifels (also of Gorilla Biscuits, as well as Quicksand and several other bands) He recorded Glassjaw first full-length. In 2005 he joined Limp Bizkit as temporary replacement for drummer John Otto.

Matt Pincus is the Founder and former CEO of Songs Music Publishing which, until its sale in 2017, was the leading contemporary independent music publisher in the United States. SONGS clients included The Weeknd, Lorde, Diplo, DJ Mustard, and many other songwriters in all genres of music. In 2017, SONGS was acquired by Kobalt Music Publishing.

Jimmy Yu became a Chan/Zen Buddhist monk in 1991 under the name Guogu, and now teaches Buddhism and meditation under the direction of Chan/Zen Master Sheng Yen. Yu is currently an Assistant Professor of Religion at Florida State University. Yu received his Ph.D. from Princeton University's Department of Religion in 2008. Yu teaches courses in East Asian religious traditions, specializing in Chinese and Japanese Buddhism and late imperial Chinese cultural history. His research interests include the cultural history of the body, Buddhist monasticism, Chan/Zen Buddhism, and popular religions within the broader context of fifteenth to seventeenth centuries China. Here is a 2008 Double Cross Hardcore fanzine interview with Jimmy Yu in which he talks about growing up in the hardcore scene.

Members

 * Current
 * Mike Ferraro – vocals (1987–1991, 2013–present), drums (1987)
 * John Porcell – guitar 1987–1991, 2013–present, bass (1987)
 * Sammy Siegler – drums (1989–1991, 2013–present)
 * Charlie Garriga – guitar (2013–present)
 * Matt Pincus – bass (1989–1991, 2013–present)

 * Former
 * Luke Abbey – drums (1988–1989)
 * Jimmy Yu – bass (1988–1989)
 * Lars Weiss – guitar (1990–1991)
 * Ryan Hoffman – guitar (1991)

Official releases

 * New York Crew 7-inch EP (Schism Records (SKIZ-2) (1988) / Revelation Records (REV 14)) (1989)
 * 3000 copies in 3 pressings on Schism.
 * Later re-pressed on Revelation, with a picture label of Sammy Siegler ripping off a "have your id's ready" sign in front of CBGB's. The 1st press was 4000 black and 1000 blue vinyl. It has later been repressed in the thousands.
 * Chung King Can Suck It LP (Revelation Records (REV −1))
 * One-time press of 110 on white vinyl.
 * Bringin' It Down LP (Revelation Records (REV 15)) (1989)
 * 1st press: 5458 black vinyl, 712 green vinyl, purple labels.
 * 2nd press: black vinyl, red labels.
 * 3rd press (and beyond): black vinyl, maroon labels.
 * Final press (2001): 333 orange vinyl.
 * There Will Be Quiet... 7-inch EP (Revelation Records (REV 20)) (1990)
 * 4000 black vinyl, 1000 gold vinyl.
 * What It Meant: The Complete Discography CD/2×LP (Revelation Records (REV 122)
 * Contains all of Judge's recorded output, including Chung King Can Suck It for the first time on an official, non-limited Revelation release.

Bootlegs

 * Revelation Can Suck It 10-inch (Revoltation Records) (1992)
 * Contains the recording that appears on the limited  'Chung King Can Suck It'  LP, but on a 10-inch format.
 * No Apologies: The Chung King Sessions LP (Lost & Found Records (LF033)) (1992)
 * Another bootleg of the Chung King... LP. Also has 4 additional bonus tracks.
 * Vivo En WNYU 7-inch
 * Contains part of the band's 1988 appearance on the 'Crucial Chaos' radio-show on New York City's WNYU radio station.
 * 500 black vinyl, 50 red vinyl, xeroxed sleeve.

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Pincheon Green

Pincheon Green is a hamlet in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England. It lies in the civil parish of Sykehouse, on the border with the East Riding of Yorkshire, and lies 4 m above sea level.

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Topham

Topham may refer to:

 * Topham, South Yorkshire, England

People

 * Topham Beauclerk (1739–1780), British entertainer
 * Arthur Topham (1869–1931), England footballer
 * Brandon Topham (born 1971), South African politician
 * Edward Topham (1751–1820), English journalist, playwright, poet, and landowner from Wold Newton, Yorkshire
 * Francis William Topham (1809–1877), English watercolorist and engraver
 * Paula Topham (born 1944), actress in the television series Angel Pavement
 * Robert Topham (footballer) (1867–1931), England footballer
 * Sara Topham (born 1976), Canadian actress
 * Thomas Topham (c. 1702–1749), English strongman
 * Tony Topham (1929–2004), British academic and writer
 * Top Topham (born 1947), original lead guitarist in The Yardbirds

Others

 * Topham Chase, a National Hunt handicap chase in England
 * Topham Guerin, a public relations company in New Zealand
 * Sir Topham Hatt, the Fat Controller from The Railway Series and Thomas and Friends

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