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Sater works as a lyricist with various composers in the pop/rock world, including Burt Bacharach, Johnny Mandel, Andreas Carlsson, Leo Z, Desmond Child, Brian Byrne, and William Joseph. |
Sater wrote two songs with Sheik for Michael Mayer's feature film A Home at the End of the World as well as the independent features "Brother's Shadow" and Mary Stuart Masterson's The Cake Eaters. |
Further recorded songs include: |
Trash (Play) |
Ragdoll (Lucy Woodward) |
Some Lovers (Rumer) |
Come In Ogni Ora (Karima, Burt Bacharach) |
Just Walk Away (Karima, Burt Bacharach) |
Something That Was Beautiful (Mario Biondi) |
The Hunger (Shirley Manson, Serj Tankian) |
Another Heaven (Yisabel Jo) |
= = = 96P/Machholz = = = |
Comet 96P/Machholz or 96P/Machholz 1 is a short-period sungrazing comet discovered on May 12, 1986, by amateur astronomer Donald Machholz on Loma Prieta peak, in central California using binoculars. On June 6, 1986, 96P/Machholz passed from the Earth. 96P/Machholz last came to perihelion on October 27, 2017, and will next come to perihelion on January 31, 2023. The comet has an estimated diameter of around . |
96P/Machholz is unusual among comets in several respects. Its highly eccentric 5.29 year orbit has the smallest perihelion distance known among numbered/regular short-period comets, bringing it considerably closer to the Sun than the orbit of Mercury. It is also the only known short-period comet with both high orbital inclination and high eccentricity. In 2007, 96P/Machholz was found to be both carbon-depleted and cyanogen-depleted, a chemical composition nearly unique among comets with known compositions. The chemical composition implies a different and possible extrasolar origin. |
The orbit of 96P/Machholz corresponds to the Arietids and the Marsden and Kracht comet groups. Its Tisserand parameter with respect to Jupiter, T, is 1.94 and comets are generally classified as Jupiter family if T > 2. Orbital integrations indicate that T was greater than 2 about 2500 years ago. 96P/Machholz is currently in a 9:4 orbital resonance with Jupiter. It will not make another close approach to the Earth until 2028, when it will pass at a distance of . It may eventually be ejected from the Solar System. |
The name of the comet was created by examining the orbital period, which was less than 5.3 years. Among finding 96P/Machholz, it was discovered that it was also traveling in a parabolic path curving around the sun. |
Machholz 1 entered the field of view of the orbiting Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) in 1996, 2002, 2007, 2012, and 2017, where it was seen by the corona-observing LASCO instrument in its C2 and C3 coronagraphs. |
During the 2001/2002 passage the comet brightened to magnitude −2, and was very impressive as seen by SOHO. |
In 2007, it appeared in SOHO's LASCO C3's field of view from April 2 to 6, peaking in brightness on April 4, 2007, around magnitude +2. In these observations, its coma was substantially smaller than the Sun in volume, but the forward scattering of light made the comet appear significantly brighter. |
Between July 12–17, 2012, 96P/Machholz was visible in the SOHO LASCO/C3 field of view and expected to brighten to about magnitude +2. Two small faint fragments of 96P/Machholz were detected in the SOHO C2 images. The fragments were five hours ahead of 96P/Machholz, and probably fragmented from the comet during the 2007 perihelion passage. |
The 2017 perihelion was on October 27, 2017. At closest approach, it passed from the sun. Coronagraphs on SOHO were monitoring the flyby for a fifth time. Its peak brightness was expected to be about 2.0, when it was closest to the Sun. |
Spectrographic analysis of the coma of 96P/Machholz was made during its 2007 apparition, as part of the Lowell Observatory comet composition long-term observing program. When compared with the measured abundances of five molecular species in the comae of the other 150 comets in their database, these measurements showed 96P/Machholz to have far fewer carbon molecules. These other comets had on average 72 times as much cyanogen as 96P/Machholz. |
The only comet previously seen with similar depletion both in carbon-chain molecules and cyanogens is , but it has a substantially different orbit. |
There are currently three hypotheses to explain the chemical composition of 96P/Machholz. One hypothesis for the difference is that 96P/Machholz was an interstellar comet from outside the Solar System and was captured by the Sun. Other possibilities are that it formed in an extremely cold region of the Solar System (such that most carbon gets trapped in other molecules). Given how close it approaches the Sun at perihelion, repeated baking by the Sun may have stripped most of its cyanogen. |
= = = Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw = = = |
Nunraw Abbey or Sancta Maria Abbey, Nunraw is a working Trappist ("Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae") monastery. It was the first Cistercian house to be founded in Scotland since the Reformation. |
Founded in 1946 by monks from Mount St. Joseph Abbey, Roscrea, Ireland, and consecrated as an Abbey in 1948, it nestles at the foot of the Lammermuir Hills on the southern edge of East Lothian. The estate of the abbey is technically called White Castle after an early hill-fort on the land. |
Originally owned by the Cistercian Nuns of Haddington, the area that they settled becoming known as Nunraw (lit. "Nun's Row"). The Nunnery of Haddington was founded by Ada de Warenne, Countess of Huntingdon and daughter of the Earl of Surrey, soon after the death of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, and the small evidence that is available suggests that Nunraw was a Grange of that convent. |
The modern monastery was built between 1952 and 1970 ( but is unfinished as the abbey church was never built) by architect Peter Rice Whiston (1912-1999). |
The modern establishment has had four Lord Abbots since its inception: |
= = = List of Martin episodes = = = |
The episode list for the Fox sitcom "Martin". The series ran from August 27, 1992 to May 1, 1997 airing 132 episodes. |
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= = = People Livin' Today = = = |
"People Livin' Today" is a single released in 1992 by The Future Sound of London under the alias 'Semi Real'. |
It was released on 12" Vinyl and on CD and was taken from the Compilation album Earthbeat. |
= = = High School Musical: Sing It! = = = |
High School Musical: Sing It! is a video game for the Wii and PlayStation 2, based on the popular 2006 television movie "High School Musical" and its 2007 sequel "High School Musical 2". |
The characters of Troy, Gabriella, Chad, Taylor, Ryan, and Sharpay are available to the player, alongside an option to create their own character. The visuals of the game are animated and based on motion capture. |
The game was followed by a prequel without the "High School Musical" characters, titled "Disney Sing It", and a sequel, "". |
*Bonus Song. This song was not in any of the High School Musical Movies. |
Reviews for the game are mostly mixed, as GameRankings gave it a score of 55.75% for the PlayStation 2 version and 59.67% for the Wii version, while Metacritic gave it a score of 56 out of 100 for the PlayStation 2 version and 64 out of 100 for the Wii version. |
The PlayStation 2 version of "Sing It!" received a "Platinum" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 300,000 copies in the United Kingdom. |
= = = Paul Vaughn = = = |
Paul Vaughn is an American actor, most notable for his recurring role as "Paul" on ten episodes of the American situation comedy "Cheers". He also made guest appearances on television series including "Fantasy Island", "Three's a Crowd" and "I Dream of Jeannie". |
= = = Khogyani District (Ghazni) = = = |
Khugyani (, ), also known as Wali Muhammadi Shahid, is a district in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. It was previously part of Jaghatu District. Its territory had been enlarged during the Taliban regime and after then the district was returned to its original borders. To the east it is surrounded by Ghazni City District, to the south by Waghaz District, to the west by Jaghatu District, to the north by the Rashidan district and to the Northeast by Khwaja Umari district. The population is more than 28,000 people. The district center is Khogyani. |
The main source of income is agriculture, which is seriously affected by the drought. Health and education need major improvement. Roads are narrow but in relatively good condition. |
= = = Mobizzo = = = |
Mobizzo is an entertainment service offering trivia games on mobile phones and smartphones, from Fox Mobile Distribution. Trivia games are played via SMS-text and mobile web. Mobizzo has sites online and on mobile web/WAP. |
Trivia questions are varied from sports, general knowledge, movies, music, pop culture and entertainment. Tickets are earned with the start of each quiz and for every correct answer. Tickets can then be redeemed for rewards or to enter sweepstakes prizes. Monthly subscribers get a new quiz each day. They can also pay (per quiz) to take more quizzes on any day. |
Mobizzo works on any phone that can send text messages and on smartphones with mobile browsers. As of 2010, these U.S. carriers are supported: AT&T, Alltel, Centennial, EKN, Cellular South, nTelos, Rural Cellular Corp., Bluegrass, ECIT, Cellcom, Cincinnati Bell, Dobson. |
Fox Mobile Distribution is a division of News Corporation's Digital Media Group. See also, w:Jamba!. |
According to Business Wire, Mobizzo used to be a different mobile service launched by News Corporation's Fox Mobile Entertainment in 2007, offering: "games, music, general entertainment and more - from across News Corp.'s worldwide divisions, as well as from other media companies." |
Mobizzo.com |
Fox Mobile Distribution |
News Corporation Digital Media Group |
= = = Orleans Firebirds = = = |
The Orleans Firebirds, formerly the Orleans Cardinals, are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Orleans, Massachusetts. The team is a member of the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL) and plays in the league's Eastern Division. The Firebirds play their home games at Eldredge Park in Orleans, which opened in 1913 and is the CCBL's oldest ballpark. The Firebirds are owned and operated by the non-profit Orleans Athletic Association. |
Orleans has won two CCBL championships in the 21st century, most recently in 2005 when they defeated the Bourne Braves two games to one to win the best of three championship series. The team was a dominant force in the CCBL during the 11-season span from 1947 to 1957 in which Orleans claimed seven league titles. The team has been led since 2005 by field manager Kelly Nicholson. |
Baseball in Orleans has been played at Eldredge Park since 1913, when the land for the park was donated to the town by baseball enthusiast Louis Winslow "Win" Eldredge, “in consideration of [his] affection for and interest in the young people of Orleans and [his] desire to provide a playground for them.” |
In 1923 the Cape Cod Baseball League was formed and included four teams: Falmouth, Chatham, Osterville, and Hyannis. This early Cape League operated through the 1939 season and disbanded in 1940, due in large part to the difficulty of securing ongoing funding during the Great Depression. Orleans' entry into the league came in 1928. Wareham had been added in 1927 to bring the number of teams to five, and Orleans and Plymouth were to be added in 1928, though the Plymouth entry never materialized. |
Orleans featured several notable figures during this era. Lynn, Massachusetts native John "Blondy" Ryan played for Orleans in 1928 and went on to play for the World Series-winning 1933 New York Giants. New Hampshire native Red Rolfe played for the team in 1930 and would be the starting third-baseman for the New York Yankees of the late 1930s. Rolfe was a four-time American League all-star, and won five World Series titles with the Bronx Bombers. While at Orleans, Rolfe played for skipper Patsy Donovan, a longtime major league player and manager who had managed the Boston Red Sox in 1910 and 1911, he piloted the Orleans team in 1929 and 1930. Al Weston and Ed Wineapple played for Orleans in 1931. Weston was a former Boston College star who had played with the major league Boston Braves in 1929, and Wineapple a 1929 Washington Senator who had played for Osterville in the CCBL for three years previously. Lawrence, Massachusetts native Johnny Broaca played for Orleans from 1930 to 1932, and later pitched for the 1936 world champion Yankees. |
Orleans withdrew from the league after the 1934 season due to funding issues, but returned in 1937. Massachusetts Governor Charles F. Hurley was on hand to throw out the ceremonial first pitch to open the 1937 season in Orleans as the team faced Harwich. Orleans fielded a team again in 1938, but then was forced to withdraw from the league again for the 1939 season, after which the league itself disbanded. |
Orleans' 1938 team featured Danvers, Massachusetts native Connie Creeden, who batted over .400 for the season to lead the league, and went on to play for the major league Boston Braves. The team's ace pitcher in 1938 was Somerville, Massachusetts native Al Blanche. Blanche was a Cape League veteran who had led Harwich's 1933 title club, then spent two seasons in the majors with the Boston Braves before returning to the Cape League in 1938 to play for Orleans. CCBL hall of famer Bill Enos played for Orleans during this period, and would go on to be a longtime scout for the Boston Red Sox, as well as the first-ever scouting liaison for the Cape League to Major League Baseball. |
The Cape League reorganized in 1946 after a hiatus during World War II, and Orleans began play in the revived league in 1947. The team was originally known as the Orleans Sparklers, but soon became known as the Orleans Red Sox. Orleans dominated the post-war period, winning a total of seven league championships between 1947 and 1957, including back to back titles in 1949 and 1950, and again in 1952 and 1953. |
The club was skippered by Herb Fuller in 1947 and 1948, and featured CCBL hall of famers Roy Bruninghaus, who was a Cape League all-star pitcher for three decades for Orleans, and had been playing with the team since the 1930s, and Allen "Buzzy" Wilcox, another three-decade player, who was an infielder for Orleans for 17 years from the 1940s to the 1960s. Orleans won the league title in its inaugural 1947 campaign, defeating the Upper Cape champion Mashpee Warriors in that year's championship series, which was played as a Labor Day home-and-home doubleheader. In Game 1 at Eldredge Park, Orleans got an 11-strikeout performance by Bruninghaus, and slugger Dave Bremner went 5-for-5 with a homer in the 12-7 win. Facing Mashpee's CCBL hall of fame ace hurler Donald Hicks in Game 2, Bremner continued his torrid pace, going 4-for-6, but Orleans trailed by two going to the final frame. In the top of the ninth, Orleans exploded for seven runs, then brought in Bruninghaus to close out the 15-10 win and clinch the club's first Cape League crown. |
In 1949, CCBL hall of famer Laurin "Pete" Peterson joined the team as catcher/manager and piloted the club for the next 14 years. Peterson's 1952 Red Sox faced perennial Upper Cape powerhouse Sagamore in that year's best-of-five Cape League championship series. The Red Sox swept the Clouters, with pitchers Bruninghaus and Bill McCrae allowing Sagamore only two runs in the series, as Orleans took Games 1 and 2 by tallies of 5-1 and 3-1, then sealed the deal with a title-clinching 3-0 Labor Day shutout at Eldredge Park. |
The 1957 Orleans club was pitted against Upper Cape champ Wareham in the league title series. The Red Sox sent Doug Higgins to the mound in Game 1 and jumped ahead early with four runs in the first and never looked back, routing the Gatemen by a final of 10-1. Orleans completed the two-game sweep before a home crowd in Game 2, getting a homer and a pair of singles from Stan Wilcox on the way to a 5-3 victory that secured the club's seventh CCBL crown in 11 years. CCBL hall of famer Art Quirk posted a remarkable 9-0 record in 1958 with a 1.12 earned run average as a pitcher for Orleans, while also leading the league with a .475 batting average. Quirk went on to play in the majors for the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Senators. |
In 1963, the CCBL was reorganized and became officially sanctioned by the NCAA. The league would no longer be characterized by "town teams" who fielded mainly Cape Cod residents, but would now be a formal collegiate league. Teams began to recruit college players and coaches from an increasingly wide geographic radius. |
The league was originally composed of ten teams, which were divided into Upper Cape and Lower Cape divisions. The Orleans team was dubbed the Orleans Cardinals, and joined Harwich, Chatham, Yarmouth and a team from Otis Air Force Base in the Lower Cape division. |
Orleans was skippered in the 1960s by Dave Gavitt, an Orleans pitcher in the late 1950s, and later the CEO of the Boston Celtics and member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Gavitt brought Orleans to the league championship series in the 1963 inaugural year of the modern era, but the team fell short against Cotuit. CCBL hall of famer Lou Lamoriello played for Orleans in 1963, as did fellow CCBL hall of famer Tom Yankus, a three-year league all-star who threw a no-hitter for Orleans on July 4, 1965. Yankus would later manage Orleans from 1974 to 1980. The 1965 season also saw CCBL hall of famer John Awdycki lead the league with a .407 batting average. |
In 1966, University of New Hampshire star Calvin Fisk played first base for Orleans. Near the end of the season, Calvin's younger brother Carlton Fisk joined him in Orleans, and proceeded to belt a homer in his first at-bat for the Cardinals. Though the younger Fisk played in only a handful of games for the Cardinals, he made a lasting impression. Carlton would be drafted in 1967 by the hometown Boston Red Sox, where he would be a perennial all-star throughout the 1970s, and in 2000 would be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. |
In 1967, the CCBL All-Star Game was held at Eldredge Park, and the Cardinals' own Chuck Seelbach emerged as the winning pitcher. Seelbach also tossed a no-hitter that season at Eldredge Park against a Chatham team that featured future major league star Thurman Munson. The 1968 Orleans team featured CCBL hall of famer Phil Corddry, who went 9-2 with 108 strikeouts in 92 innings for the Cardinals to win the league's Outstanding Pitcher award. Another future CCBL hall of famer, Jim Norris, batted .415 for the Cardinals in 1969, and claimed the league MVP award. Norris returned in 1970 to bat .333 with 19 stolen bases, but surrendered his league batting crown to teammate Mike Eden, who led all hitters with a .378 mark. CCBL hall of fame first baseman Brad Linden led the Cards in 1971 and 1972. Linden was a league all-star in 1972, batting .372 with a league-leading 10 homers. |
Orleans failed to capture a league title in the 1960s and 1970s, but reached the league championship series four times, including back to back losses in 1970 and 1971 against a powerful Falmouth team that was in the process of completing a string of four consecutive league titles. The 1974 Cardinals advanced to the title series, but were downed by Cotuit. Orleans' Chuck Dale was the league's Outstanding Pitcher in 1978. |
In 1980 and 1981 the Cardinals featured shortstop Wade Rowdon, the league's Outstanding Pro Prospect award winner in 1981, he was also the MVP of the CCBL All-Star Game at Fenway Park, a game that ended in a 4-4 tie. Rowdon tied a league record with three homers in a single game against Wareham, and led the 1981 team to the playoffs where they bounced Harwich in the semi-finals, but were downed by Cotuit in the league championship series. The 1985 season was highlighted by Cardinal hurler Bob O'Brien's no-hitter against Cotuit in which he came short of a perfect game by just two walks, and benefited from outfielder Glenn Fernandez's home run-robbing catch at the fence of a smash by Kettleers' slugger Greg Vaughn. |
The Cardinals won their first league championship of the modern era in 1986. The team featured slugger Gary Alexander, who hit .313 with 12 home runs, and ace hurlers and future major leaguers Jeff Conine and Mike Ignasiak. Led by manager John Castleberry, the Cards boasted the league's best record in the regular season, and met Chatham in the playoff semi-finals. In Game 1 at Eldredge Park, the Cardinals got a three-run clout from Bart Heffernan, and Ignasiak twirled a complete game to best the A's, 6-4. Game 2 at Veterans Field went to extra innings tied at 2-2. Chatham's ace, CCBL hall of famer Mark Petkovsek, dominated Cardinal hitters, allowing only two hits through ten frames. In the 11th, Petkovsek gave up a lead-off single to Alexander, and was left in the game to face Kevin Garner, who popped one just over the right field fence for the series-winning walk-off score. |
The 1986 championship series pitted the Cardinals against two-time defending champion Cotuit. In Game 1 at home, Orleans gave starter Conine plenty to work with. The Cards exploded for four home runs, three of them by Alexander alone, and one by Garner off the bandstand in center field, in a 9-4 win. Ignasiak spun another gem in Game 2 at Lowell Park, going the distance and holding the Kettleers to just two hits and no runs. The Cards got a homer from Alexander in the first, his fourth long ball of the title series. Todd Haney added the insurance with a two-run blast in the seventh to give Orleans the 3-0 win and title series sweep, with Alexander taking home playoff MVP honors for his brilliant power display. |
In 1988, Orleans reached the championship series again, powered by CCBL hall of fame slugger Frank Thomas, who was said to have hit the longest ball ever out of Eldredge Park, and hit three home runs in one game at Wareham. The team lost in the finals to Wareham, but Thomas went on to a stellar career with the Chicago White Sox and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014. Eldredge Park hosted the CCBL All-Star Game in three consecutive seasons from 1988 to 1990. The 1988 event featured the league's inaugural all-star home run derby, won by the Cards' mighty Frank Thomas. The host team claimed the derby crown each of the three years, with Mike Thomas matching Thomas' feat in 1989, and Mike Gropusso doing the same in 1990. |
Orleans would win another Cape League title in 1993 with a team led by skipper Rolando Casanova and starring future Boston Red Sox all-star and Cape League hall of famer Nomar Garciaparra, who hit .321 with 50 hits and 17 stolen bases for the Cards. The team also included future major leaguers Aaron Boone and Jay Payton. In the playoffs, the Cardinals met Chatham in a dramatic three-game semi-final series. In Game 1 at Veterans Field, Orleans hurler Chris Ciaccio went the distance in a pitchers duel that was knotted at 1-1 going into the ninth. Payton clubbed the game-winning homer in the final frame to give the Cards the 2-1 victory. The A's answered in Game 2, shutting out the Cards 4-0 at Eldredge Park. Orleans got the last laugh however, dominating the Game 3 finale at Chatham, taking the decisive game by a 7-1 tally. In the championship series, the Cards faced a strong Wareham team, and took Game 1 at Clem Spillane Field by a 2-1 margin on a first-inning two-run homer by Aaron Boone. In Game 2 at Eldredge Park, Ciaccio sparkled again, allowing only four hits. Catcher Steve Fishman snuck a two-run homer down the line in the sixth, and the Cards walked away with a 5-1 win to sweep the series and claim the crown, with Ciaccio taking home playoff MVP honors. |
The Cardinals' 1994 team starred league Outstanding Pro Prospect award winner Dave Shepard and future major league all-star Todd Helton, who carried on a Cards tradition by winning the all-star home run derby at Eldredge Park. |
The 1999 Orleans team featured two future CCBL hall of famers in pitcher Ben Sheets and league MVP Lance Niekro, as well as future major leaguer Mark Teixeira, who was named the league's Outstanding Pro Prospect. Sheets, who was an all-star the previous season with Wareham, posted a 1.10 ERA in 16.1 innings for Orleans in 1999. Niekro batted .360 and clobbered 13 home runs on the season. |