Arthur (season 16)

The sixteenth season of the television series Arthur began airing on PBS in the United States on October 15, 2012. The season is the first time to be distributed by 9 Story Entertainment, after Cookie Jar Entertainment went out of business, being relocated to DHX Media, before Epitome Pictures, a Canadian company founded by Linda Schuyler, was also acquired by DHX Media on April 3, 2014.

Voice casting

The voice actors for Arthur, D.W., Brain, Timmy, and Catherine have all been replaced. Drew Adkins has replaced Dallas Jokic as Arthur, Jake Beale has replaced Robert Naylor as D.W., Siam Yu has replaced Lyle O'Donohoe as Brain, Jacob Ewaniuk has replaced Dakota Goyo as Timmy, and Robyn Thaler has replaced Alexina Cowan as Catherine.

A new character, Ladonna Compson (Krystal Meadows), a rabbit with a Cajun accent, has also been added to the large cast of main characters.

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Arthur (TV presenter)

Arthur (born Jacques Essebag on 10 March 1966 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a TV presenter, producer and comedian.

After having cancelled his law studies, he began his career as a host on local radio in the Paris region in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s, he found a certain notoriety by presenting programs on Fun Radio, Europe 1 and Europe 2 (Arthur et les pirates, PlanetArthur and Radio Arthur). He became, from 1991, host of television programs, first on France 2 and TF1 (Les Enfants de la télé, La Fureur).

Meanwhile, he started a theater career with two one-man shows, Arthur en vrai (2005) and I Show (2009) and portraying Peter Brochan in Le Dîner de Cons (2007), alongside Dany Boon.

Since the mid-1990s, he has also been an entrepreneur in the audiovisual field. He was, until 2006, vice president of the French subsidiary of production company Endemol. Since 2008, he has been the owner of Ouï FM.

Early years

Jacques Essebag was born on 10 March 1966 in Casablanca. His father, Michel Essebag, was a chartered accountant and his mother a housewife. He has a brother Olivier. Like many Sephardi Jews, his parents left Morocco in 1967, during the Six-Day War and settled in the Paris region, in Massy. After high school, he began studying law at Sceaux, at the Faculty of Law Jean Monnet of the University of Paris-Sud 11. While he repeated his first year, he made his first radio appearance, on the local radio station Massy-Pal, on which he hosted the show Tonus which provided sports scores for the city.

History of RISC OS

RISC OS, the computer operating system developed by Acorn Computers for their ARM-based Acorn Archimedes range, was originally released in 1987 as Arthur 0.20, soon followed by Arthur 0.30, and Arthur 1.20. The next version, Arthur 2, became RISC OS 2 and was completed and made available in April 1989. RISC OS 3 was released with the very earliest version of the A5000 in 1991 and contained a series of new features. By 1996 RISC OS had been shipped on over 500,000 systems.

RISC OS 4 was released by RISCOS Ltd (ROL) in July 1999, based on the continued development of OS 3.8. ROL had in March 1999 licensed the rights to RISC OS from Element 14 (the renamed Acorn) and eventually from the new owner, Pace Micro Technology. According to the company, over 6,400 copies of OS 4.02 on ROM were sold up until production was ceased in mid-2005.

RISC OS Select was launched in May 2001 by ROL. This is a subscription scheme allowing users access to the latest OS updates. These upgrades are released as soft-loadable ROM images, separate to the ROM where the boot OS is stored, and are loaded at boot time. Select 1 was shipped in May 2002, with Select 2 following in November 2002 and the final release of Select 3 in June 2004. ROL released the ROM based OS 4.39 the same month, dubbed RISC OS Adjust as a play on the RISC OS GUI convention of calling the three mouse buttons 'Select', 'Menu' and 'Adjust'. ROL sold its 500th Adjust ROM in early 2006.

Cassini (surname)

Cassini is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Cassini–Huygens

Cassini–Huygens is an unmanned spacecraft sent to the planet Saturn. It is a flagship-class NASA–ESA–ASI robotic spacecraft. Cassini is the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter orbit, and its mission is ongoing as of 2016. It has studied the planet and its many natural satellites since arriving there in 2004.

Development started in the 1980s. Its design includes a Saturn orbiter, and a lander for the moon Titan. The lander, called Huygens, landed on Titan in 2005. The two-part spacecraft is named after astronomers Giovanni Cassini and Christiaan Huygens.

The spacecraft launched on October 15, 1997 aboard a Titan IVB/Centaur and entered orbit around Saturn on July 1, 2004, after an interplanetary voyage that included flybys of Earth, Venus, and Jupiter. On December 25, 2004, Huygens separated from the orbiter and reached Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005. It entered Titan's atmosphere and descended to the surface. It successfully returned data to Earth, using the orbiter as a relay. This was the first landing ever accomplished in the outer Solar System.

24101 Cassini

24101 Cassini, provisional designation 1999 VA₉, is a stony asteroid from the middle region of the asteroid belt, roughly 7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 9 November 1999, by American amateur astronomer Charles Juels at the U.S. Fountain Hills Observatory (678), Arizona.

The S-type asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 1.8–3.5 AU once every 4 years and 4 months (1,571 days). Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.31 and an inclination of 15 degrees from the plane of the ecliptic.

In 2009 a photometric light-curve analysis at the private U.S. Shed of Science Observatory (H39), Minnesota, and by Italian astronomer Silvano Casulli, rendered a well-defined rotation period of 7000398600000000000♠3.986±0.001 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.12 in magnitude (U=3/-3). According to observations carried out by the NEOWISE mission of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the asteroid measures 7.1 kilometer in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.25. However, the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link (CALL) assumes an untypically low albedo of only 0.10 and correspondingly, calculates a diameter of 11.1 kilometers, as the lower the body's reflectivity (albedo), the higher its diameter for a given absolute brightness (magnitude).