Damian Roberts (born 8 April 1982) is a Melbourne based community radio host on JOY FM 97.2.
Damian was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia by his grandmother Uma. Born with an unknown father, he managed to find a father figure in his uncle, Stuart.
Only in recent times has he managed to find the identity of his father, a Romanian militant, who rejoined the militia shortly after his conception and was killed while driving an ice-cream truck in Bucharest in 1982. At the age of eleven he started his career at the local RSL club as a lunchtime DJ.
Damian has been nominated for the "Best Innovative New Program/Segment Idea - Radio" by the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) in 2005 and quoted as the most "entertaining voice on drive time community radio".
Roberts appeared in an unsuccessful pilot for a late night talk show on Australia's Network Ten, before premiering his show "The Daisy Patrol" at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He has also appeared in television advertisements for Bunnings Warehouse and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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Damian was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia by his grandmother Uma. Born with an unknown father, he managed to find a father figure in his uncle, Stuart.
Only in recent times has he managed to find the identity of his father, a Romanian militant, who rejoined the militia shortly after his conception and was killed while driving an ice-cream truck in Bucharest in 1982. At the age of eleven he started his career at the local RSL club as a lunchtime DJ.
Damian has been nominated for the "Best Innovative New Program/Segment Idea - Radio" by the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) in 2005 and quoted as the most "entertaining voice on drive time community radio".
Roberts appeared in an unsuccessful pilot for a late night talk show on Australia's Network Ten, before premiering his show "The Daisy Patrol" at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He has also appeared in television advertisements for Bunnings Warehouse and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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TasteKid is a recommendation engine for music, movies, TV shows, books and authors. The system's main interface, the TasteKid.com website, is a discovery oriented community.
Description
TasteKid uses a collaborative filtering approach to build a knowledge base and generate recommendations, based on user preferences. Besides the website, additional interfaces built using TasteKid's publicly available API on top of other platforms include an iPhone App and a Google Gadget.
Features
The feature available to all users is providing recommendations based on preferences. Preferences are formatted as a query string consisting in comma separated band names, movie, show or book titles and author names. Based on each query, a list of mixed type recommendations is generated.
For each recommended item, additional information is provided, such as trailers for movie recommendations.
On the website, registered users have access to additional features, like rating items and keeping a taste profile that contains their liked, disliked and saved items.
Description
TasteKid uses a collaborative filtering approach to build a knowledge base and generate recommendations, based on user preferences. Besides the website, additional interfaces built using TasteKid's publicly available API on top of other platforms include an iPhone App and a Google Gadget.
Features
The feature available to all users is providing recommendations based on preferences. Preferences are formatted as a query string consisting in comma separated band names, movie, show or book titles and author names. Based on each query, a list of mixed type recommendations is generated.
For each recommended item, additional information is provided, such as trailers for movie recommendations.
On the website, registered users have access to additional features, like rating items and keeping a taste profile that contains their liked, disliked and saved items.
Joe Ann McGowan, the citizen of America from California worked in show business. In 1985 Joe Ann has got on a film festival to St. Petersburg (at that time Leningrad). There she had learnt that her translator’s child of had a congenital heart disease. In Russia treatment of the child was impossible. Joe Ann could place the girl (whose name was Masha) on free treatment in one of the best clinics of the USA. After the operation, performed on heart, the child has recovered.
There was a question why operation of this kind was impossible in Leningrad.
This question appeared so interesting that further, there was an idea to create cardio surgical medical centers in St.-Petersburg as well, which would work on treatment of congenital heart diseases, and the project was named "Mashas model".
For the realization of this idea in Russia, the charitable organization - Heart to Heart (from heart to heart) has been based in the USA. Further for Georgia - Global Healing. Later, in 1987 in Sankt - Petersburg the children's cardiological centre was opened. Irakli Metreveli met Joe Ann in 1992 year in the USA, she stated readiness to open cardio surgical centre in Georgia, in case of program expansion.
And this happened. In 1993 cardio surgeons Irakli Metreveli, Avto Tsintsadze, anaesthesiologist Merab Tevzadze, cardiologist Tamta Botsvadze went to Leningrad, for training in branch created by Joe Ann. For the exchange of experience there came American experts. Later, the creation of similar project became possible in Georgia as well.
On September, 16th, 1996 the Joe Ann medical centre opened in Georgia. In some weeks Joe Ann Mac Govan died in St.-Petersburg, in the cardio surgical centre which she had created. According to her will her organs were intended for transplantation, and the ashes divided into three parts should be buried in California, St.-Petersburg, and Tbilisi.
There was a question why operation of this kind was impossible in Leningrad.
This question appeared so interesting that further, there was an idea to create cardio surgical medical centers in St.-Petersburg as well, which would work on treatment of congenital heart diseases, and the project was named "Mashas model".
For the realization of this idea in Russia, the charitable organization - Heart to Heart (from heart to heart) has been based in the USA. Further for Georgia - Global Healing. Later, in 1987 in Sankt - Petersburg the children's cardiological centre was opened. Irakli Metreveli met Joe Ann in 1992 year in the USA, she stated readiness to open cardio surgical centre in Georgia, in case of program expansion.
And this happened. In 1993 cardio surgeons Irakli Metreveli, Avto Tsintsadze, anaesthesiologist Merab Tevzadze, cardiologist Tamta Botsvadze went to Leningrad, for training in branch created by Joe Ann. For the exchange of experience there came American experts. Later, the creation of similar project became possible in Georgia as well.
On September, 16th, 1996 the Joe Ann medical centre opened in Georgia. In some weeks Joe Ann Mac Govan died in St.-Petersburg, in the cardio surgical centre which she had created. According to her will her organs were intended for transplantation, and the ashes divided into three parts should be buried in California, St.-Petersburg, and Tbilisi.
The UIC MSA stands for the University of Illinois at Chicago Muslim Students Association. It is one of the largest MSAs in the nation and has over 100 active members.
Activities
The UIC MSA organizes such events as Friday prayer (Jummah), Ramadan iftaars, night classes every semester, and an Islamic Awareness Week every February. The MSA also fields a football team that competes against MSA football teams from Benedictine University, Loyola University Chicago, College of DuPage, and DePaul University. The UIC MSA had a (1-1-0) record in the 2007 season.
Ramadan
The UIC MSA organizes Ramadan iftaars (break-fasts) at sunset, Monday-Thursday, during Ramadan. The food is usually catered from Islamic restaurants in the Chicago area including Indo-Pak restaurants on Devon, and Arab restaurants from the South Side. These iftaars are free for all fasting Muslims on campus and usually attract about 100 people.
Islam Awareness Week
The MSA runs an Islam Awareness Week every Spring semester in February. An all-out effort by the Muslims on campus, IAW features a free hot chocolate booth for those entering the Student Center East from the cold, a Dawah booth, and many lectures and classes throughout the week to educate people about Islam.
Jummah
Jummah (Friday Prayer) is held every Friday when there is class in session. The prayer is held in Rathskeller, a room in the basement of the Atrium in the Student Center East. There are two prayers to accommodate people's class schedules. During Daylight Savings Time the prayers at are 1 and 2 pm, and during non-DST, they are at 12 and 1 pm.
Shura
The MSA is headed by a 9 person shura (council). Elections are held at the end of every Spring semester.
Activities
The UIC MSA organizes such events as Friday prayer (Jummah), Ramadan iftaars, night classes every semester, and an Islamic Awareness Week every February. The MSA also fields a football team that competes against MSA football teams from Benedictine University, Loyola University Chicago, College of DuPage, and DePaul University. The UIC MSA had a (1-1-0) record in the 2007 season.
Ramadan
The UIC MSA organizes Ramadan iftaars (break-fasts) at sunset, Monday-Thursday, during Ramadan. The food is usually catered from Islamic restaurants in the Chicago area including Indo-Pak restaurants on Devon, and Arab restaurants from the South Side. These iftaars are free for all fasting Muslims on campus and usually attract about 100 people.
Islam Awareness Week
The MSA runs an Islam Awareness Week every Spring semester in February. An all-out effort by the Muslims on campus, IAW features a free hot chocolate booth for those entering the Student Center East from the cold, a Dawah booth, and many lectures and classes throughout the week to educate people about Islam.
Jummah
Jummah (Friday Prayer) is held every Friday when there is class in session. The prayer is held in Rathskeller, a room in the basement of the Atrium in the Student Center East. There are two prayers to accommodate people's class schedules. During Daylight Savings Time the prayers at are 1 and 2 pm, and during non-DST, they are at 12 and 1 pm.
Shura
The MSA is headed by a 9 person shura (council). Elections are held at the end of every Spring semester.