Dylan Tombides born (8 March 1994 in Perth, Australia) is an Australian footballer who plays as a striker for West Ham United.
Club career
Before coming to England at the age of 15, Tombides played youth football in his home country Australia and for a brief time in Hong Kong.
West Ham United
Dylan Tombides is a quick forward who plays for West Ham United. Tombides was signed on as a full-time scholar in the summer of 2010. Since then he has impressed in the reserve and youth team levels. He was named Academy Player of the Year for the 2010/11 season by academy director Tony Carr.
He was an unused substitute in the final Premier League game of the 2010/11 season against Sunderland on 22 May 2011.
International career
Tombides has been capped by Australia at U16 and U17 levels. Dylan was named in Australia's squad for the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Mexico. During the tournament he scored one goal in the Group F match against .
Personal life
Cancer
On 27 July 2011 it was announced that Tombides was undergoing treatment for testicular cancer. Tombides' condition was diagnosed at the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup and he returned straight back to England to undergo treatment. Dylan has received chemotherapy at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. Since the announcement, floods of wishes have come from fans and players alike.
Club career
Before coming to England at the age of 15, Tombides played youth football in his home country Australia and for a brief time in Hong Kong.
West Ham United
Dylan Tombides is a quick forward who plays for West Ham United. Tombides was signed on as a full-time scholar in the summer of 2010. Since then he has impressed in the reserve and youth team levels. He was named Academy Player of the Year for the 2010/11 season by academy director Tony Carr.
He was an unused substitute in the final Premier League game of the 2010/11 season against Sunderland on 22 May 2011.
International career
Tombides has been capped by Australia at U16 and U17 levels. Dylan was named in Australia's squad for the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Mexico. During the tournament he scored one goal in the Group F match against .
Personal life
Cancer
On 27 July 2011 it was announced that Tombides was undergoing treatment for testicular cancer. Tombides' condition was diagnosed at the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup and he returned straight back to England to undergo treatment. Dylan has received chemotherapy at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London. Since the announcement, floods of wishes have come from fans and players alike.
OpenDDR is a open source project made of a Device Description Repository (DDR) always maintained up-to-date and a set of APIs to access it. The most common use of a DDR is the optimization of web content to various devices (PCs, smartphones, tablets, interactive TVs, etc.).
The project consists of two components, both based on open standards:
* A device repository fully compliant with W3C DDR, which provides specs of about 6,000 devices;
* An access library, which implements the W3C DDR Simple APIs.
Identification Process
OpenDDR considers any device as a set of three aspects: the physical device, the operating system and the web browser. In the identification process, OpenDDR can identify custom builds of the operating system and third party web browsers. When a particular version of a browser or an operating system is not recognized, OpenDDR returns information on the nearest version rather than not returning any information at all.
The identification is carried out within a certain Confidence, with the possibility to specify the threshold to achieve. So, the higher is the confidence the slower is the process and viceversa.
Datasource usage and management
OpenDDR provides a huge amount of information on devices. However a developer can specify a reduced subset of properties to be loaded in memory at startup. This way memory waste can be avoided, improving the application performance.
Moreover OpenDDR supports patching of the datasource, allowing to easily change or update the repository.
License
OpenDDR repository is released under Open Database Licence (ODbL), while the APIS are released under Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
Links
*Device Description Repository
The project consists of two components, both based on open standards:
* A device repository fully compliant with W3C DDR, which provides specs of about 6,000 devices;
* An access library, which implements the W3C DDR Simple APIs.
Identification Process
OpenDDR considers any device as a set of three aspects: the physical device, the operating system and the web browser. In the identification process, OpenDDR can identify custom builds of the operating system and third party web browsers. When a particular version of a browser or an operating system is not recognized, OpenDDR returns information on the nearest version rather than not returning any information at all.
The identification is carried out within a certain Confidence, with the possibility to specify the threshold to achieve. So, the higher is the confidence the slower is the process and viceversa.
Datasource usage and management
OpenDDR provides a huge amount of information on devices. However a developer can specify a reduced subset of properties to be loaded in memory at startup. This way memory waste can be avoided, improving the application performance.
Moreover OpenDDR supports patching of the datasource, allowing to easily change or update the repository.
License
OpenDDR repository is released under Open Database Licence (ODbL), while the APIS are released under Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
Links
*Device Description Repository
Mitchell (Mitch) Landzaat (Burlington, 17 June 1970 is an Canadian actor. He is born in Ontario but raised in Nova Scotia near Halifax. He is of Dutch origin.
At first he was working for the Bank of Nova Scotia, but after a few years he started to dislike this. In 1996 he went to Broadcasting School and landed a job as presenter at the local radiostation. While working for the radiostation he volunteered as stage manager for a local drama group. From that time he was regularly asked as stand-in en for small roles for movies and TV-programs. In 1998 he got is first big role as a policeofficer in the movie Beefcake. Since 2001 he was working full time as actor, but the major strike in 2005 was a huge setback.
Filmography
;As actor
* Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost; (2011)
* Darwin's Darkest Hour (2009); documentary in the Nova television series produced by WGBH Boston for PBS.
* Just Buried (2008)
At first he was working for the Bank of Nova Scotia, but after a few years he started to dislike this. In 1996 he went to Broadcasting School and landed a job as presenter at the local radiostation. While working for the radiostation he volunteered as stage manager for a local drama group. From that time he was regularly asked as stand-in en for small roles for movies and TV-programs. In 1998 he got is first big role as a policeofficer in the movie Beefcake. Since 2001 he was working full time as actor, but the major strike in 2005 was a huge setback.
Filmography
;As actor
* Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost; (2011)
* Darwin's Darkest Hour (2009); documentary in the Nova television series produced by WGBH Boston for PBS.
* Just Buried (2008)
Infotention is an emergent discipline and pedagogy dealing with the psychological, social, and technical skills and tools needed to navigate effectively online; a mind-machine combination of brain-powered attention skills with computer-powered information. Infotention is based on work developed by author, futurist, and educator Howard Rheingold.
Rheingold describes the core of the Infotention discipline as "...honing the mental ability to deploy the form of attention appropriate for each moment is an essential internal skill for people who want to find, direct, and manage streams of relevant information by using online media knowledgeably. Knowing how to put together intelligence dashboards, news radars, and information filters from online tools like persistent search and RSS is the external technical component of information literacy."
Rheingold describes the core of the Infotention discipline as "...honing the mental ability to deploy the form of attention appropriate for each moment is an essential internal skill for people who want to find, direct, and manage streams of relevant information by using online media knowledgeably. Knowing how to put together intelligence dashboards, news radars, and information filters from online tools like persistent search and RSS is the external technical component of information literacy."