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The 10 Best Offensive Teams in the NCAA Tournament
Brandon Gdula — @gdula13 Mar 17th, 2019
Why care about offense when the old adage is that it's defense, in fact, that brings home the championship trophy in the end?
Because the old adage isn't exactly true. Plus, offense is much more fun than defense, and if you disagree, yeah, well, you know, that's just like, uh, your opinion, man.
But what isn't opinion is that offense really does matter when it comes to winning the NCAA Tournament. For four years straight, the champ has ranked inside the top-10 in adjusted offensive rating, via Sports-Reference.com. Last year's best offense -- the Villanova Wildcats -- won it all.
Defensively, just one of those squads ranked inside the top 45 during their winning season. This means that six of the past nine tournament champions have graded out inside the top 10 of the nation offensively -- out of 351 schools, mind you. The other winners ranked 87th, 23rd, and 43rd. Obviously, a great offense is just part of a great team, but efficiency matters.
So, which tournament teams were best offensively this season?
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10. Duke Blue Devils
The Duke Blue Devils make the cut for our purposes, thanks to an offensive rating that grades out in the 95th percentile, via our metrics. Per KenPom.com, Duke's adjusted offensive efficiency ranks 6th, and via Sports-Reference, they rank 19th.
The offense flows through three players primarily. The first is Zion Williamson, who led the nation in player efficiency rating (PER) of 42.0 and effective field goal percentage of 71.7%, via Sports-Reference. Williamson posted a 28.2% usage rate this season. R.J. Barrett's usage rate of 32.4% is paired with a 23.5 PER and a 50.9% effective field goal percentage. Cam Reddish notched a 13.4 PER on a 25.9% usage rate.
Duke does rank 339th in three-point field goal percentage (30.2%) but are 7th in field goal percentage (69.0%) at the rim, via Hoop-Math.com.
Overall, the Blue Devils are the top team by our nERD metric, which measures expected scoring differential over an average team on a neutral court.
9. Virginia Tech Hokies
Virginia Tech doesn't spend a lot of shot allocation on two-point jumpers (294th in the nation in mid-range frequency) and use a slow pace (347th) plus a three-point-heavy offense (35th in three-point attempt rate) to net such an efficient offensive unit (97th percentile).
A fairly balanced offense, they have four players with a 20% usage rate or greater: Nickeil Alexander-Walker (27.0%), Kerry Blackshear Jr. (26.4%), Justin Robinson (24.9%), and Ahmed Hill (20.0%). Robinson missed 12 games due to a foot injury but will return for the tournament.
8. Purdue Boilermakers
Purdue sits 8th among tournament-bound teams in offensive rating, 5th in KenPom's metrics, and 13th via Sports-Reference. The slow-paced Boilermakers grade out 38th in three-point attempt rate and 68th in three-point field goal percentage.
They grab offensive rebounds at the 19th-highest clip in the nation and are 28th in total rebounding rate. They're 17th in turnover avoidance, making them a balanced team that can avoid disaster and earn second chances.
Carsen Edwards' 319 three-point attempts ranked him fourth in the country on the season, and his 37.0% usage rate ranked fifth.
7. Murray State Racers
The Ja Morant-led Murray State Racers posted a 97th percentile offensive rating this season. They bump down to 41st in KenPom's adjusted efficiency but were 8th in Sports-Reference's ranks.
Morant was the only player in the nation to post double-digit assists (10.0) and nobody else topped 7.7 per game. Overall, Morant (33.6% usage rate) ranks ninth in PER and first in assist rate and points produced per game.
The Racers like to get to the rim, as they're 5th in the country in shot frequency at the rim and 23rd in conversion rate on such shots. They are near the bottom in mid-range jumpers, ranking 324th. Overall, they're 30th in combined shots either at the rim or from three-point range, making them a team to love if you like analytics (you're reading this on numberFire, so you probably do).
The Racers live up to the name in transition, too, shooting the 6th-best effective field goal percentage at the 64th-fastest pace.
6. Michigan State Spartans
The Michigan State Spartans combine a 98th-percentile offense with a 90th-percentile defense to grade out top-five overall in our nERD metric. They're ninth in Sports-Reference's adjusted offensive rating and fourth, per KenPom.
Sparty leads the nation in assisted field goal rate at the rim and are 15th in overall effective field goal percentage. Despite grading out 207th in pace, they rank 11th in rate of field goal attempts in transition, via Hoop-Math.
The Spartans are a balanced squad, ranking 10th in true shooting percentage, 6th in rebounding rate, and 1st in assist rate.
The key cog is Cassius Winston, who ranks ninth in the nation in offensive win shares, second in offensive box plus/minus, and second in assist rate. Junior forward Nick Ward gets his shots up, with a 30.9% usage rate and nearly 60% of those shots coming at the rim.
5. Belmont Bruins
The Belmont Bruins face the Temple Owls in a play-in game, and they'll need to rely on a great offense to advance to face the Maryland Terrapins. Belmont's offense grades out in the 98th percentile, while their defense is in the 75th percentile, via our metrics.
The Bruins rank 18th in pace, 47th in three-point attempt rate, 5th in assist rate, and 4th in effective field goal percentage. They limit turnovers (23rd-best) but don't get to the line (276th in free-throw attempt rate).
Belmont really stands out from a shot selection standpoint, as 85.3% of their field goal attempts come at the rim or from three-point range, 10th-highest in the country.
Belmont has two seniors (Dylan Windler and Kevin McClain) and a freshman center (Nick Muszynski) with usage rates of 23.8% or higher. Windler is 10th in boards per game (10.7) and 7th in effective field goal percentage (65.7%)
4. Tennessee Volunteers
The Tennessee Volunteers have a hyper-efficient offense, and it's despite a shot profile that would make an analytics believer (heyo) cringe. The Vols are 266th in shot frequency at the rim, 325th in three-point attempt rate, 15th in mid-range jumper rate, via Hoop-Math. Yikes. Now, they're second in field goal percentage on those mid-range jumpers and 18th at the rim, so it's not all bad.
The potential issue could be grading out just 121st in three-point field goal percentage. If they fall behind, they don't profile as a catch-up team. Of their four players who have attempted at least 100 threes, just one has a percentage better than 36.8% (Admiral Schofield at 40.6%). The main producer for Tennessee is Grant Williams, a junior forward with a 26.7% usage rate. Williams ranks top-10 in win shares, win shares per 40 minutes, offensive box plus/minus, and player efficiency rating in the country.
Efficient? You betcha. Ideal? Maybe not. Regardless, the Vols grade out sixth in our nERD metric overall.
3. Virginia Cavaliers
The Virginia Cavaliers, the top seed in the South region, sure don't push the pace (they're the slowest team in the country), but that doesn't mean they aren't a good offense. Despite scoring only 71.8 points per game (166th), they grade out as the third-best offense to make the tournament. Virginia actually sits second by KenPom's metrics.
Virginia grades out 10th-best in turnover avoidance, and part of that stems from the fact that they don't push the tempo. They're 352nd in transition shot frequency (though 15th in effective field goal percentage on those attempts). The Cavaliers are middle of the pack in three-point attempt rate (172nd) but third in free-throw percentage. It's a rather punishing profile: few turnovers, a suffocating pace, and elite efficiency on top of it.
Virginia has three 40% shooters (among players with at least 75 three-point attempts): Kyle Guy (46.4% on 224 attempts), Ty Jerome (40.8% on 147 attempts), and De'Andre Hunter (48.1% on 77 attempts). They share the ball, and six qualified players had between a 17.9% and 24.2% usage rate this season.
2. Wofford Terriers
A great mascot and a great offense, the Wofford Terriers grade out as the second-best offense in the country, according to our metrics. They're also second in Sports-Reference's adjusted offensive rating and 12th in KenPom's offensive efficiency.
Wofford is very much a sharpshooting team, ranking 2nd in three-point field goal percentage and 65th in three-point attempt rate. By comparison, the Terriers rank 223rd in the nation in shot frequency at the rim. Fletcher Magee paced the nation with 151 three-point field goals made this season (nobody else topped 135), and Nathan Hoover ranked ninth in three-point field goal percentage (45.7%).
Senior forward Cameron Jackson ranks third in PER and fourth in win shares per 40 minutes and led the Terriers in usage rate at 31.0%.
One possible red flag in their profile is the infrequency with which they get to the free throw line. Wofford ranks 313th in the nation in free-throw attempt rate. But with elite three-point shooting and a slow pace (204th), they could jack up variance in a given game and pull off some upsets even in the later rounds.
1. Gonzaga Bulldogs
Could it be anyone else? The Gonzaga Bulldogs' adjusted offensive rating of 124.1 is a full 4.2 points per 100 possessions better than any other offensive unit in the nation. That's about as big a gap between they and Wofford and Wofford and Michigan State, ninth in the nation. That margin is a little closer via KenPom's metrics, with the Zags owning a 125.3 adjusted offensive rating and Virginia at 123.7.
Either way, the Bulldogs are the 100th percentile offense in the nation, via our metrics. Their 62.7% true shooting percentage is one of two marks better than 60.6% in the country, they're 13th-best in turnover rate, and they're 21st in rebounding rate. They do a lot right, and that makes them a tough team to defend.
Gonzaga ranks 252nd in percentage of shots that are two-point jumpers, instead ranking 31st in shots at the rim (and just 261st in three-point attempt rate).
The offense flows through Rui Hachimura (27.7% usage rate) and Brandon Clarke (23.4%) down low, as each attempt at least 54% of their shots at the rim. Clarke trailed only Zion Williamson in PER and effective field goal percentage this season.
Paired with a 98th-percentile defense, the Bulldogs grade out second overall in our power rankings.
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First off, I hope your not allergic to indignation if you're reading this entry.
So in the BS01 Certavus contest, they recently started the final poll and it's gotten a ton of publicity, and a ton of votes (Over 1000, in the end). Entry #1 began to pull ahead of the other entries towards the end, at a remarkable speed. Many people thought that this was cheating, and said as much. But in every poll that gets a lot of publicity from various sources, there is a gigantic amount of current winner fluctuation, because of the variety of people voting. I personally think that there was nothing wrong, rigged, or otherwise screwed up in the poll by Saber Masquerade. But, regardless, Swert decided to START A NEW POLL with the five leaders as of the topic's closing. Thus destroying Entry #1's large lead, and virtually adding at least 30 votes to the other finalling entries.
In closing I would like to ask you guys to vote for entry number four in the Final Final Poll, to lessen the 30 vote handicap placed on him.
Also I'd like to say that out of all the people arguing about whether or not SB was cheating, KonguTohunga was the most correct.
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Interesting, no? Anyway, that would be amazing if it actually happened.
Questions, comments, and such like.
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Wallace L. "Wally" Lane, 77, of Spencer, passed away peacefully at his residence on Tuesday, September 11, 2018. Wally was born on September 10, 1941, in Owen County to Henry Franklin and Julia Elizabeth (Reynolds) Lane. Wally and his brother Don owned D & W Home Builders where they built homes in Owen County for over 30 years. Wally was the cofounder of the Owen County EMS, and cofounder of Owen County Habitat for Humanity. He was baptized by close friend, Reverend Louis Crouch, and was a 45 year member of the United Methodist Church in Spencer, where he was a board member and served as a youth leader for over 30 years, and cofounded the Mark Mission Store. Wally was also a board member of the Bloomington Hospital Advisory Board(Center for Behavioral Health).
Wally is survived by his wife of over 56 years, Barbara J. (Schneider), children, Brad (Robin) Lane of Beech Grove, Georgianna (Noah) Wade of Spencer, Bryan (Angela) Lane, of Spencer, grandchildren, Mariah Stwalley, Jeremiah Stwalley, Amber DeCamp, Matthew Huffer-Lane, Caleb Wade, Ethan Wade, Noah Wade, Dominick Lane, Carlee Lane, Evan Lane, Frasier Lane, Krista Meek, Heidi Webb; great-grandchildren, Liam Bevington, Brooklyn Stwalley, Greyson Stwalley, Jace Payne, Devin Wade, Madi Meek, Gage Webb, Quynten Webb; brothers, Charles Lane, Donald (Patricia) Lane, and several nieces and nephews.
Wally was preceded in death by his parents, brothers, William Lane, Samuel Lane, Harry Lane, Robert Lane, brother-in-law, Tommy Schneider, nephews Andrew Schneider, and Paul Richard Lane.
Funeral services will be 2:00 PM, Friday, September 14, 2018 at the United Methodist Church in Spencer. Reverends Douglas Finney, Drew Baker and Dr. Diane Wells will officiate. Burial will follow in Riverside Cemetery.
Visitation will be 11:00 AM until the time of service Friday at the Church. Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.westparrishpedigo.com.
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Learn the basics of monotype printmaking, a process that can be quick or layered. We will explore techniques to make marks using an etching press as well as techniques that you can do at home without a press.
Monotypes are one-time prints that I find truly special and sometimes haunting. Whether you love to draw & paint or are a little intimidated by paper - you will make interesting designs, patterns, and images that are exciting and one-of-a-kind.
This class meets from 6 - 9 in the Painting Studio on the 3rd floor of the Center for the Arts.
During this class, students will learn techniques that emphasize the creation of forms on the potter's wheel; cups, bowls and plates by learning to throw, trim, alter, pull handles, and learn the ins and outs of high fire glaze decoration.
An introduction and refresher to drawing skills for the artist who wishes to improve this basic skill set required to become an artist. Four weeks of innovative classical drawing instruction emphasizing observation and eye-hand coordination: line, shape, space, perspective, value, and composition.
Join us on the Sidewalk on the Glenwood side of the Center for the Arts for this two-day sale of locally made ceramic ware.
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This class meets from 12 - 3 in the Painting Studio on the 3rd floor of the Center for the Arts.
Learn to use underglazes and slips, stencils and transfers, wax and glaze to enhance your ceramic surfaces. Choose from a variety of techniques to build your own unique style. Class time will be spent working on surface design, for the first class bring a few leather-hard pots or tiles for practice.
Dowd House Studios will join several local makers and artists for this one-day holiday sale! A great place to find that perfect gift, be sure to stop by the Old Wilson Schoolhouse.
Make your own unique holiday cards and learn all about the basics of monotype printmaking. This is a process that I love- it's very forgiving, you can use a press or not, you can go back and draw or paint onto your print... there are many many options!
Tired of dunking your pottery in glazes with disappointing results? Instead of giving up, refine your technique! In this class we will take your work to another level, uniquely yours. From start to finish, learn new ways to apply cone 10 glaze, achieve beauty through pattern and simplicity. This class will focus on glazing; bring bisque-ware that has been filling up your shelves. Firing and glaze included in class cost. Beyond beginner. 3 week class.
On Thursday, November 29 and Friday, November 30, the Art Association hosts the ever-popular annual Teton Mudpots Holiday Sale in the Art Association's Art Gallery and Loft. The sale features ceramics, prints, paintings and jewelry for sale by local artists. Thousands of pots will be available from all of the potters who create in our studio. Choose from cups, mugs, bowls, plates, casseroles, bottles, soap dispensers, pitchers, teapots, sculptures and strange creations.
On Thursday, join us at the sale for cocktails and nibbles from 5-7 pm. As always, there will be the ever-popular bargain tables with prices starting as low as $5. Cash, checks and credit cards are accepted. All sales are final. 30% of the proceeds benefit the Art Association Studios and art education.
Make your own unique cards! Start out making basic prints of patterns, lines, shape... then in the afternoon collage papers together using a sewing machine to make your very own cards.
Animal | Shelter is an invitational exhibition that asked artist to consider how animals shelter themselves and how they share the natural world with those around them- human, animal, and other.
This daytime class is perfect for the beginner who wants to learn to create bowls, dishes, vases, tiles and more without the potter's wheel. Sculptural forms will also be created and how they may be transformed into utilitarian objects. We will create basic but fun forms using hand building and then learn to add that personal touch using sculpting, alteration, stamps, stencils, painting, slip, stains, sgraffito, found objects and more.
A year in the making, and now a published cookbook, the original illustrations that make up Inspired Kitchen, Recipes from CWC's Culinary Arts Program are now on display in the Theater Gallery at the Center for the Arts.
Illustrators, Jocelyn Slack, Cal Brackin, and Jenny Dowd brought 40 recipes to life on paper. Each recipe was created by former and current students, as well as instructors from Central Wyoming College's Culinary Arts Program.
Drop in for one or take all six!
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Learn to enhance your pottery by practicing techniques that will make your work unique through decoration. Take one class or all, the sessions are non-sequential. The aim of this class is to make you better at decorating your pottery.
Your class fee provides one bag of clay, firing, glazing and open studio in the duration of the class.
There are so many website, blog, and online platform options available, in this session we will work to figure out what is right for you.
In this session let's put it all together by discussing how to find and apply for opportunities: show entries, residencies, grants, etc.
During this 6-week class, students will learn techniques that emphasize the creation of forms on the potter's wheel; cups, bowls and plates by learning to throw, trim, alter, pull handles, and slip decoration. Students are encouraged to take additional classes to learn the art of glazing.
YOUR CLASS FEE PROVIDES FIRING, GLAZING AND OPEN STUDIO IN THE DURATION OF THE CLASS. ADDITIONAL CLAY $10 TO $18 PER BAG.
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Each session Jenny will address specific aspects in clay usage including; using tools, advanced hand building, troubleshooting your throwing, and discussing design and form. Take one class or all, the sessions are non-sequential. The aim of this class is to make you better at working with clay.
In the second session of this class, students will build flower pots, garden gnomes, bird baths- and other garden things to welcome the return of Spring. They will learn how to manipulate clay using coils, slabs and pinch pots to create these inventive items.
This class is for 3rd - 5th graders and meets after school every Monday from 3:45 - 5:15 from April 9 - June 4.
During this class, students will learn techniques that emphasize the creation of forms on the potter's wheel; cups, mugs, bowls and plates by learning to throw, trim, alter, pull handles, and slip decoration. Students are encouraged to take additional classes to learn the art of glazing as this is primarily a throwing class. Your class fee provides one bag of clay and bisque firing.
Drop in for one, or sign up for all 4!
Dowd House Studios will join several local artists for this festive holiday sale! Come by the Old Wilson Schoolhouse in Wilson, Wyoming to find that perfect gift to give or keep!
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It's time to deepen yourself and pay attention to the inner world!
It's time to find peace in the silence and the more single-pointed focus of creativity.
With the advent of fall, there is a feeling behind the physical world of a wave coming to lift us into a new kind of self-expression, or a new level of energy.
I wonder if this is seasonal, or if our friends in the southern hemisphere experience parallel flows?
Perhaps we've been cocooning, preparing, gathering ourselves. I learned on a science program that the caterpillar, when it enters the pupa stage, actually liquefies itself before the raw material of its body reformulates as the butterfly. That's what I feel I've been doing internally—melting down.
This melting process is interesting to me because it really is a key part of transformation. Related to this, I recently participated in a conversation about the concept of "liminal space." "Liminal" relates to the idea of the threshold. In fact, it pertains to the space on either side of a threshold. That caught my attention because usually we think of what comes before a threshold is reached, and not so much about what comes immediately after before the new form solidifies.
So many of us are in liminal space right now. Perhaps we're about to cross a threshold, or have already crossed it but don't quite know it. We all interpret this experience differently, of course, but you can count on a few things: you feel "in-between," that you don't know, that the old way is boring or damaging to your body and soul, and that you are out of your comfort zone. You haven't found an answer yet, can't seem to imagine your "future," the Flow seems to have stopped, and you're losing meanings and security.
If you are a left-brain dominant person, your left brain will go nuts in this undefined state. It wants to know what to do, what to emphasize, what to plan for. It wants to figure something out. It does not tolerate anxiety and ambiguity but wants facts. The left brain may label this as a time of chaos and negativity, or it will throw you into irritability, reactionary behavior, panic, avoidance, addiction, manic activity, or depression—just to have something to do. It might prefer to fill the liminal space with drama, trauma, or an accident or illness—anything but nothingness! So many people I talk to these days are identifying with these left-brain coping mechanisms, thinking they are bad, unevolved, unworthy, or a failure. They say they feel "stuck." I think this is the left brain talking, not the soul. The soul is never stuck.
If, on the other hand, you are more practiced in perceiving from your right brain, body, heart, and intuition, you will probably feel liminal space as a sort of sabbatical or important pause. You probably trust the Flow and the evolution process, and are more comfortable being with the moment as it is, knowing there is wisdom to be had by paying close attention and feeling into your experience. Waiting doesn't cause impatience. Being quiet doesn't feel like the Void. Feeling spacious and full of potential is downright pleasurable.
In liminal space you are being directed into the nonphysical world to clear old patterns so you can receive your new set of instructions, your new imaginations, and more of your true self. You, the soul, are opening a path, a clearing, so the spiritual can flood into the physical and you can learn to be your soul and be soul-directed. In liminal space you are being asked to occupy the present moment fully, to be still and transparent. Here we must be comfortable being timeless, we must become the pause.
Liminal space acts like a magnet. Its very openness and peacefulness can catalyze the experience of compassion if you drop into it and be with it purely and innocently. It can also draw forth everything that is not in harmony with spiritual truth and unconditional love—everything that is in the way of you experiencing yourself as the soul. If a disturbance occurs in the space, you can be sure it covers a deeper issue that you are trying to see through and dissolve. If you wait and watch or feel for the tip of the issue, you may sense it as a glimmer in the space. If you give it attention it will come to you and reveal itself to you so you can understand.
I began to feel that my story, my history, was not mine, or that I didn't care to recite it anymore because it felt boring. After all, it could belong to anyone! Then life actually sent me to some of the cities I had lived in growing up, which I hadn't visited in many years. I touched in, took photos of houses I used to live in, integrated something ineffable, and let the memories go.
Lately I find myself sleeping in the guest room of my house, joking to friends that I am a guest in my own life. I like the feeling of visiting this new place, my up-and-coming life. Perhaps this is about becoming more of an observer, of shifting my identity to a higher frequency plane. I've also found that some people who I've counted as friends seem to be separating from me, or perhaps relationships are shuddering as though receiving a chiropractic adjustment from the energy field, so they can convey a bigger truth and enter a new phase.
But you know, the great thing about liminal space is that it contains the good stuff and it knows what it's doing. All we need to do is clear the clutter. Be willing to be. Welcome the surprise of the new arising, the threshold crossing, and the new babylike state of the fresh self. We are not stuck except for adherence to old left-brain habits, fixed ideas, and lack of imagination. What shape will my liquified self be magnetized to take?
The new physical world will soon appear on its rebooted, refreshed screen, and it will show you what to do. You'll know because it will feel fun and it won't exhaust you. When I think of liminal space, I think of that wonderful line from Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land: "Waiting is. . ." Waiting without wanting. Falling into waiting to see what's there. To know the magic firsthand.
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No border plan from National Cabinet as Scott Morrison defends Aged Care Minister after coronavirus criticisms
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Scott Morrison addresses the issues around state border closures.
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National Cabinet has not reached consensus on an Australia-wide agreement on how to manage internal borders, despite calls from Qantas and some within the Government's own ranks.
However, the group of state and territory leaders has agreed to come up with a national standard of what constitutes a COVID-19 hotspot, with some states agreeing to make variations to their border closures.
"When you have restrictions that are being placed on peoples' movement in the country based on what is and is not a hotspot, there needs to be a clear medical and scientific definition of what that is," Prime Minister Scott Morrison said.
"So people who are living in those areas can know when they are in one and when they are not."
Questions have been raised of the Queensland Government having declared the ACT a hotspot, despite the fact it has not recorded a COVID-19 case in more than a month.
Mr Morrison said some changes had been made at the NSW-Victoria border "particularly in relation to the movement of agricultural workers".
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Nationals Deputy Leader David Littleproud had said Friday's meeting could be a flashpoint for federal relations, pressuring states and territories to come to a more comprehensive border agreement.
Mr Morrison said when National Cabinet next meets, it will consider a code to allow agriculture workers to manage work across borders.
"[It] deals with the practical issues of how those in the agriculture workforce are managing their activities," he said.
PM rejects suggestion Aged Care Minister should be sacked
Minister for Aged Care Richard Colbeck is unable say how many aged care residents have died from COVID-19.
On Friday morning, Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck faced questions over his handling of the pandemic in the sector, which has seen over 250 deaths in aged care homes.
He was initially unable to name the death figure, leading to a question being put to Mr Morrison about whether Senator Colbeck should be booted from his portfolio.
"I do have confidence [in Senator Colbeck]," Mr Morrison said.
"This is a very demanding environment in which to be working.
"I know those issues are not far from the Minister's mind on a minute-by-minute basis.
"I'm sure the Minister regrets not being able to call those figures to mind. On occasion, I can't call every figure to mind."
Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he has confidence in the Aged Care Minister.
Mr Morrison announced the continuation of funding for several aged care initiatives, to the tune of $171 million.
It will see more funding for COVID-19 preparedness measures, the Victorian Aged Care Response Centre, and the aged care workforce retention payment, which keeps workers from circulating between multiple centres.
States urged to spend big on infrastructure
National Cabinet also received a briefing from economic officials including Treasury secretary Steven Kennedy and Reserve Bank governor Phillip Lowe.
Dr Lowe, who last week said states should not fret about their credit ratings while spending to stimulate their economies, urged more big spending on infrastructure measures.
States are being encouraged to invest big in infrastructure. (ABC News: Richard Glover)
Mr Morrison said the advice to leaders had been for states and territories to take advantage of record-low interest rates and invest an additional $40 billion in capital works and infrastructure.
"Right now, all of the announced measures of the states and territories are currently sitting in the vicinity of just shy of $48 billion," Mr Morrison said.
"The governor is saying there needs to be an additional $40 billion on top of that by the states and territories over the next two years.
"The debt that will be required to fund that is one that the Reserve Bank governor said can be absorbed by the states and territories."
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However, he foreshadowed greater support for Australians trying to get home from overseas.
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"Our consular teams are doing a great job to help them in those circumstances, and to assist them to get home within those caps."
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Is the North Caucasus Rebel Movement Spreading Beyond the North Caucasus?
August 4, 2011 06:32 PM Age: 12 years
Amir Hamzat, head of the brigade Riyadis Salihiyn
Russian mass media last week spread word of a statement by the command of the Chechen rebels that referred to Riyadus-Salikhin (Gardens of the Righteous) in connection with the killing of former Russian army colonel Yuri Budanov, who was shot to death in Moscow on June 10. This group was set up in 2001-2002 under personal supervision of Chechen rebel field commander Shamil Basaev, who was considered the group's leader until his death in 2006. This group carried out about 20 attacks from 2001 to 2011, including the capture of hostages in the Dubrovka theater in Moscow in 2002; the hostage taking at the school in Beslan, North Ossetia in 2004; the blowing up of trains and airplanes. Therefore, the news about Riyadus-Salikhin should be taken quite seriously.
Riyadus-Salikhin's statement assuming responsibility for Budanov's killing is of no less importance for Russia than the recent announcement of the end of the split among the militants, which had lasted almost a year (Reuters, July 23). Reuters cited the rebel Kavkaz Center, which published a video dated June 11. So if the date is accurate, Doku Umarov, the Chechen rebel leader who is "Emir" of the Caucasus Emirate, made this statement the day after Budanov's killing. Though, in this case, it is unclear why it took the insurgents five weeks to publish the video. The usual practice during 12 years of war was that the militants claimed responsibility for the attacks within 10 days of the event – two weeks at most. The rebels' website stated it was expecting a video confirmation of Riyadus-Salikhin's statement. If Umarov's statement is confirmed, it will become a grave warning for many of the former war criminals, who will likely interpret it as a message to everyone who was in Chechnya after 1994 and committed crimes against Chechens. Reports by Russian law enforcement agencies provide some confirmation of the militants' statements. According to the Moscow police, they had expected such attacks and the rebels were the primary suspects in Budanov's killing from the very beginning (www.echo.msk.ru, July 24). Investigators visited the North Caucasus after Budanov was killed and confirmed that the last phone calls to the former colonel came from this region and apparently contained threats (www.gazeta.ru, July 24).
Umarov's acknowledgement makes life easier for all sides. Investigators will not burden themselves with searching for an invisible criminal and will blame the rebels for the killing. The pro-Moscow Chechens in the republic will be just as glad, as it will remove possible accusations against them of being involved in this crime. Self-exoneration became even more vital for the pro-Moscow Chechen authorities after it came to light that they were actively seeking contact information on high-ranking Russian military commanders who fought in Chechnya. That news shocked many in Russian nationalist circles. Lastly, the militants themselves will be happy to have demonstrated their ability to strike in the Russian capital in broad daylight and in front of multiple witnesses.
This murder would not have caused such a shock to the public if certain circles in Russian society had not tried to present Budanov as a victim of the Russian government's policy in Chechnya. In fact, Chechen society's attitude toward Budanov was largely a reaction to the Russian nationalists' attempts to portray him as a national hero. The man who kidnapped, raped and killed a 17-year-old Chechen girl not only did not apologize, but continued to insult her relatives and memory. There were hundreds or even thousands of such Budanovs in Chechnya, but Yuri Budanov became the most vivid example of theconfrontation between Chechen society and Russian society, which were divided by the war in Chechnya. Inside Russia, Budanov was supported exclusively by the nationalistic circles of Russian society, while everybody in Chechnya, regardless of their political views, thought he was a criminal who deservedexecution. For the Chechens, Budanov became the embodiment of all the negative and criminal sides of Russian society. Every Chechen saw Budanov as their own personal foe, so that even the pro-Russian authorities in Chechnya did not hide their aversion to the ex-colonel, despite the protection and support he apparently received from very influential figures in Russia. Thus, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov voiced his negative attitude toward Budanov on multiple occasions, saying: "Budanov is a schizophrenic and a murderer, the enemy of the Chechen people. He insulted our people. Every man, woman and child reckons that while Budanov lives, disgrace has not been removed from us" (Regnum news agency, February 3, 2009).
If it is confirmed that Riyadus-Salikhin was really involved in Budanov's murder, it will add weight to Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Aleksandr Bortnikov's statement last month about having averted a terrorist attack (https://infox.ru, July 18). If Bortnikov's information is to be trusted, four people, three Caucasians and one Russian, were arrested in Moscow on suspicion of plotting a large-scale terrorist attack in the city. A police search found a bomb equal to 10 kilograms of TNT. So it follows that the North Caucasian militants appeared to be on the verge of launching another strike in Moscow – something which militant leaders had warned of in statements beforehand. Once again, this gives more reason to trust similar statements made by militant leaders. They no longer sound like propaganda statements, but rather have more of a warning, which is another break from the North Caucasian resistance's early tactics.
A trend of particular note is the increasing numbers of people of Slavic origin who have engaged in terror attacks in recent years. Viktor Dvorakovsky, who was recently arrested in the Stavropol region, and Vitaly Razdobudko, who was killed in the Dagestani village of Gubden, are the latest examples. Even among the terrorist suspects arrested in Moscow there is a Russian – Farid (or Faeel) Nevlyutov, a native of Mordovia who converted to Islam. So the North Caucasian resistance movement's membership is expanding beyond simply natives of the North Caucasus. If this trend further escalates, it will be impossible to cope with militant attacks in Russia, specifically in Moscow, because the resistance movement will no longer be only regional in character.
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Râul Runcu este un curs de apă, afluent al râului Jaleș (Sohodol).

Bibliografie

 Administrația Națională Apelor Române - Cadastrul Apelor - București
 Institutul de Meteorologie și Hidrologie - Rîurile României - București 1971

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Gospodărirea apelor
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package com.kit.cdh_spark_kerberos;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.spark.SparkConf;
import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext;
import org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame;
import org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset;
import org.apache.spark.sql.Row;
import org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext;

public class SparkHiveSql2 {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		//加载hive相关配置后 创建hive table loaddata to table
		SparkConf conf = new SparkConf().setAppName("simpledemo")
				.setMaster("local");
		JavaSparkContext sc = new JavaSparkContext(conf);
		HiveContext sqlContext = new org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext(sc);
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		sqlContext
				.sql("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS src20170216 (key INT, value STRING)");
//		sqlContext.sql(
//				"LOAD DATA LOCAL INPATH '/kv1.txt' INTO TABLE src");

//		// Queries are expressed in HiveQL.
//		Row[] results = sqlContext.sql("FROM src SELECT key, value").collect();
//		for (Row row : results) {
//			System.out.println(row.getString(0) + "," + row.getString(1) + ","
//					+ row.getString(2));
//		}

//		/**
//		 * 链接其它数据库
//		 */
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//		options.put("url", "jdbc:172.16.19.71:1521:AADC");
//		options.put("dbtable", "PS_SAFE_DUTY");
//		options.put("user", "kit_dev");
//		options.put("password", "kit_dev");
//		//加载所有数据
//		DataFrame jdbcDF = sqlContext.read().format("jdbc").options(options)
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I Got This: Country star George Canyon reflects on Type 1 diabetes, Omnipod, and chasing your dreams
Andrew Baulcomb, Postmedia Content Works	June 25, 2020
Life on the road can be challenging at the best of times.
For award-winning country music star George Canyon, the real difficulty isn't finding a bed, eating a decent meal, or getting enough exercise. It's Type 1 diabetes.
The autoimmune disease, which usually develops in children and teens, targets and destroys the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. Without insulin, sugar increases in the blood rather than being used for energy.
Receiving a diagnosis can be followed by a lifetime of carefully monitoring one's weight, diet, cholesterol, stress level, and physical activity – None of which is easy for a young person to comprehend.
Canyon, who was diagnosed at 14, has spent much of his life chasing dreams and pushing the limits of what's possible. When he was told that due to his diabetes he would never realize his goal of becoming a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot his world was turned upside down.
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"All I wanted to be was an Air Force pilot. When I got my diagnosis, I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I was pretty distraught about it," recalls Canyon, a Nova Scotia native who now calls Alberta home. "I'm the type of guy who likes to focus on a goal and then attain it."
Pivoting into music, he garnered international attention in 2004 as runner-up on the popular Nashville Star television series, going on to win Country Recording of the Year at the 2005 and 2007 JUNO Awards. For good measure, he's added seven Canadian Country Music Association Awards from more than two-dozen nominations.
These days, he's focused on mentoring the next generation of dreamers who are only just beginning to grapple with the realities of Type 1 diabetes. He remembers the feeling well.
Liaising with young fans and their families has become a key aspect of Canyon's life. In addition to meet-and-greets at concerts, he's also made invaluable strides as a spokesperson for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).
"When I was 14, no Type 1 diabetic that I knew with celebrity status spoke about it," says Canyon. "I had nobody. Nobody came and encouraged me to live my dreams. There was nothing."
In Canyon's view, it's "vital" for public figures to play a role in destigmatizing Type 1 diabetes — especially for parents who are also struggling to accept a new reality.
"Most of the kids, probably 80 per cent, they know exactly what's going on. They know their disease better than anyone else. But when I talk to the parents, it's a different story.
"I'm a parent, so I know," he continues. "You immediately worry about your child, and all these things pop up about not understanding Type 1 diabetes. We definitely advocate with the parents just as much. It's crucial."
Recently, a piece of wearable tech called Omnipod has made the rigours of touring and performing much easier for Canyon to contend with.
The technology combines a tubeless, waterproof "Pod" that provides up to 72 hours of non-stop insulin with a Personal Diabetes Manager (PDM) handheld device.
Omnipod also allows users to skip the need for multiple injections per day. Instead, every three days, users fill a Pod featuring an insulin-providing cannula with insulin and apply it anywhere they would give an injection. It inserts automatically in a fraction of a second with the press of a button on the PDM.
The aim, according to the company, is to "say goodbye to needles, pens, and pumps" while allowing users to live their best lives.
For a working musician, the convenience and reliability of Omnipod has made a world of difference when it comes to maintaining a feverish work schedule.
"The Omnipod has stepped-up the game for me in a big way," says Canyon. "Like a pro athlete would be dialing-in their training regimen, I get to do that with my diabetes controls."
Incredibly, Canyon's management of Type 1 diabetes has more than one silver lining. His childhood dream of becoming a pilot? It came true, too.
Canyon was appointed Honorary Colonel for 14 Wing Greenwood Air Force Base in Nova Scotia, and was also made the first-ever Colonel Commandant of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets.
Then, after making adjustments to his diet and lifestyle and embracing the latest in insulin pump technology, he successfully passed all medical tests required to obtain a pilot's licence. The boy who was told he couldn't fly finally took to the skies.
"Control your diabetes and live your dreams," offers Canyon. "That's the one thing I always tell these kids. You can do anything you put your mind to."
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Our approach to the process is always deliberate and thoughtful. The firm strives to be attuned to our clients lifestyle and sensibilities when creating each space. Chandos Interiors works on a diverse range of projects; from urban contemporary to high-style traditional to low-key weekend retreats. We are revered for our expertise in interior architecture, new construction, offices, and art consulting.
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Jeanette Winterson's hot-off-the-press new novel, Frankisstein: A Love Story, is a typically inventive, up-to-the-minute – though steeped in literary antecedents – work of fiction which breathes new life into Mary Shelley's classic horror narrative. Time-shifting from Lake Geneva in 1815, where the 19-year-old Mary Shelley composed a story about creating artificial human life, to post-Brexit Britain and beyond, it takes in contemporary concerns about identity, consumerism and the out of control power of technology. At its heart is a moving love story.
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The Isles' magic number is clinch a playoff berth is 26 (currently over Philadelphia). Any combination of Islander points gained and Flyer points lost will guarantee that the Isles finish ahead of Philadelphia. Magic numbers vs. other teams to clinch playoff berth: Carolina (20), New Jersey (18), Ottawa (17), Montreal (17), Columbus (13), Buffalo (10), Toronto (5*).


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Honeoye Falls est un village situé dans le comté de Monroe, dans l'État de New York aux États-Unis.

Histoire

Le village a été fondé en 1791 par Zebulon Norton quand il a acheté 1820 hectares.

Référence

Voir aussi

Localité dans le comté de Monroe (New York)
Village dans l'État de New York


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Sheriff Maciol re-elected to NYSSA Executive Committee
UB football coach Lance Leipold leaving for Kansas job
Rob Ianello was named interim head coach
by: Nick Veronica, Mary Margaret Johnson
Posted: Apr 30, 2021 / 10:20 AM EDT / Updated: Apr 30, 2021 / 04:17 PM EDT
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — UB football coach Lance Leipold has resigned from his position to take the head coaching job at Kansas.
UB earned its first two bowl victories under Leipold in 2019 and 2020. He finished his Bulls career with a 37-33 record, making him the winningest coach in UB history.
"I can't thank Lance enough for everything he has done for our football program," athletic director Mark Alnutt said. "His vision and leadership helped elevate the UB football brand. We are grateful for what Lance has done here and we wish him and his family all the best as they embark on this new journey."
UB will begin a national search immediately and would like to have a new coach hired quickly. Rob Ianello was named interim head coach — he served as associate head coach/recruiting coordinator/tight ends coach under Leipold.
UB Athletic Director Mark Alnutt says the coaching search for Lance Leipold's replacement has already started. UB is going to "cast a wide net" in this search and hopes to name the new head coach before finals ends, within the next 7-14 days pic.twitter.com/nuJ286cBqa
— Mary Margaret Johnson (@mmj5838) April 30, 2021
Kansas has been in the Big 12 cellar for more than a decade. The last time the Jayhawks won more than one conference game was 2008. Kansas went 0-9 last season and is 18-99 overall in the past ten seasons.
"Since entering the FBS ranks in 1999, the UB football program continues to rise to unprecedented heights. From bowl victories to top NFL Draft picks, UB has established itself as one of the top programs in not only the Mid-American Conference, but the entire Group of Five. With our success on the field as well as facilities rivaling some of the best in the country, we know we are an attractive coaching destination and look forward to selecting the next leader of our football program."
Leipold's buyout from his contract, per his Jan. 1, 2020 extension, is $600,000.
Leipold is the second Buffalo coach to leave for Kansas. Turner Gill became the Kansas coach in 2010, but was fired after two seasons.
The Bulls are now in the search for a new head coach for the first time since after the 2014 season.
"From this entire process, I was aware this was a definite possibility when that action occurred in Kansas about a month and a half ago, knew that he was going to be a highly sought-after candidate and I was very supportive of him wanting to explore this opportunity," UB Athletic Director Mark Alnutt said. "Even until yesterday, knowing this might be upon us but also at the same token, we might've had the chance to retain Lance at UB but this morning when he shared with me what they were offering him to be the next head coach at Kansas, you have to look at his family, whatever staff is going to go with him and their family, what a difference in terms of what that can do for somebody, and I don't fault him for that."
Alnutt's timeline for bringing in Leipold's replacement is quick, given that it's the end of April and there are many wheels that need to start turning for the next regime. With a 7-14 day timeline set, Alnutt says he wants the new coach to be brought in before finals end at UB, so that the new coach can have the chance to meet with the student-athletes face to face before they depart for summer break.
"We're all used to the Zoom format, and yes, you can communicate at a high level through any of these platforms, but for me, there's more of an impact when that person is here in person and has that opportunity to meet individually, collectively with the team, and at least give the team some direction before they go back home for three, four weeks, whatever the case may be," Alnutt said.
"That is our goal, to bring in somebody, but also at the same token, if we don't meet that timeline before they leave, it's going to be because we're doing our due diligence and make sure we make the right hire. But optimally, getting the person in front of them, it's going to be huge."
Nick Veronica is a Buffalo native who joined the News 4 team as a Digital Executive Producer in 2021. He previously worked at NBC Sports and The Buffalo News. You can follow Nick on Facebook and Twitter and find more of his work here.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - In early January, Governor Kathy Hochul said she wanted to study how many COVID patients were in the hospital because of severe symptoms versus asymptomatic patients who tested positive after going to the hospital for an unrelated reason. At that time, a strong majority of COVID patients hospitalized in Erie County were indeed there because of symptoms caused by the virus.
On January 4th, Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz said, "It's approximately 90-92% of all COVID-19 patients are in a hospital for COVID-19. There is a small portion, less than 10%, who may be going for a procedure, or were in a car accident, had a broken leg - they test then and find out they're positive."
Local bakery serves up Bills Mafia themed bagels ahead of the big game against Kansas City
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NIAGARA FALLS, NY. (WIVB) -- Last year when the Bills made the playoffs, Joe Hotchkiss's 8-year-old son Gavin suggested to his dad that he get in the spirit of the football season by adding a Buffalo Bills bagel to his restaurant's menu.
Power City Eatery can be found in Niagara Falls just off of 3rd street. While they do have a wide variety of bagels, sandwiches, coffees, teas, and lattes, perhaps their most exciting menu item is that notorious red and blue breakfast item that makes you want to shout!
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Preamble

The filtering functionality that is provided by DataTables is very useful for quickly search through the information
    in the table - however the search is global, and you (or the end user) may wish to filter only on a particular
    column of data. To met this need the DataTables fnFilter() API function allow you to specify a column to
    limit to search to. Note that this works in-combination with the global search filter. Further note that because the
    input elements are outside of the control of DataTables, with state saving enabled, stored values are not
    automatically restored - please see this
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The example below shows a table which has a text input box for each column in the footer element of the table. This
    allows the data in each column to be quickly filtered upon by the end user.

Live example

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    Gecko
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    Gecko
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    Gecko
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    Win 95+ / Mac OS 8.6-9.2
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    Gecko
    Netscape Browser 8
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    Gecko
    Netscape Navigator 9
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    Gecko
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    Gecko
    Mozilla 1.8
    Win 98+ / OSX.1+
    1.8
    A

    Gecko
    Seamonkey 1.1
    Win 98+ / OSX.2+
    1.8
    A

    Gecko
    Epiphany 2.20
    Gnome
    1.8
    A

    Webkit
    Safari 1.2
    OSX.3
    125.5
    A

    Webkit
    Safari 1.3
    OSX.3
    312.8
    A

    Webkit
    Safari 2.0
    OSX.4+
    419.3
    A

    Webkit
    Safari 3.0
    OSX.4+
    522.1
    A

    Webkit
    OmniWeb 5.5
    OSX.4+
    420
    A

    Webkit
    iPod Touch / iPhone
    iPod
    420.1
    A

    Webkit
    S60
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    413
    A

    Presto
    Opera 7.0
    Win 95+ / OSX.1+
    -
    A

    Presto
    Opera 7.5
    Win 95+ / OSX.2+
    -
    A

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    Opera 8.0
    Win 95+ / OSX.2+
    -
    A

    Presto
    Opera 8.5
    Win 95+ / OSX.2+
    -
    A

    Presto
    Opera 9.0
    Win 95+ / OSX.3+
    -
    A

    Presto
    Opera 9.2
    Win 88+ / OSX.3+
    -
    A

    Presto
    Opera 9.5
    Win 88+ / OSX.3+
    -
    A

    Presto
    Opera for Wii
    Wii
    -
    A

    Presto
    Nokia N800
    N800
    -
    A

    Presto
    Nintendo DS browser
    Nintendo DS
    8.5
    C/A1

    KHTML
    Konqureror 3.1
    KDE 3.1
    3.1
    C

    KHTML
    Konqureror 3.3
    KDE 3.3
    3.3
    A

    KHTML
    Konqureror 3.5
    KDE 3.5
    3.5
    A

    Tasman
    Internet Explorer 4.5
    Mac OS 8-9
    -
    X

    Tasman
    Internet Explorer 5.1
    Mac OS 7.6-9
    1
    C

    Tasman
    Internet Explorer 5.2
    Mac OS 8-X
    1
    C

    Misc
    NetFront 3.1
    Embedded devices
    -
    C

    Misc
    NetFront 3.4
    Embedded devices
    -
    A

    Misc
    Dillo 0.8
    Embedded devices
    -
    X

    Misc
    Links
    Text only
    -
    X

    Misc
    Lynx
    Text only
    -
    X

    Misc
    IE Mobile
    Windows Mobile 6
    -
    C

    Misc
    PSP browser
    PSP
    -
    C

    Other browsers
    All others
    -
    -
    U

    <input type="text" name="search_engine" value="Search engines" class="search_init"/>
    <input type="text" name="search_browser" value="Search browsers" class="search_init"/>
    <input type="text" name="search_platform" value="Search platforms" class="search_init"/>
    <input type="text" name="search_version" value="Search versions" class="search_init"/>
    <input type="text" name="search_grade" value="Search grades" class="search_init"/>

Initialisation code

var asInitVals = new Array();

$(document).ready(function() {
	var oTable = $('#example').dataTable( {
		"oLanguage": {
			"sSearch": "Search all columns:"
		}
	} );

	$("tfoot input").keyup( function () {
		/* Filter on the column (the index) of this element */
		oTable.fnFilter( this.value, $("tfoot input").index(this) );
	} );

	/*
	 * Support functions to provide a little bit of 'user friendlyness' to the textboxes in
	 * the footer
	 */
	$("tfoot input").each( function (i) {
		asInitVals[i] = this.value;
	} );

	$("tfoot input").focus( function () {
		if ( this.className == "search_init" )
		{
			this.className = "";
			this.value = "";
		}
	} );

	$("tfoot input").blur( function (i) {
		if ( this.value == "" )
		{
			this.className = "search_init";
			this.value = asInitVals[$("tfoot input").index(this)];
		}
	} );
} );

Note that in the above code, the support functions are provided to ensure that the end user knows what data is being
    filtered upon. fnFilter() is the function of primary import here.

Other examples

Basic initialisation

Zero configuration

Feature enablement

Sorting data

Multi-column sorting

Multiple tables

Hidden columns

Complex headers - grouping with colspan

DOM positioning

Flexible table width

State saving

Alternative pagination styles

Scrolling:

            Horizontal /
            Vertical /
            Both /
            Themed /
            Infinite

Change language information (internationalisation)

ThemeRoller themes (Smoothness)

Advanced initialisation

Events:

            Live events /
            Pre-init /
            Post-init

Column rendering

Sorting without HTML tags

Multiple table controls (sDom)

Defining length menu options

Complex headers and hidden columns

Custom toolbar (element) around table

Row highlighting with CSS

Row grouping

Row callback

Footer callback

Control sorting direction of columns

Change language information from a file
            (internationalisation)

Setting defaults

State saving with localStorage

Custom events

API

Dynamically add a new row

Individual column filtering (using "input" elements)

Individual column filtering (using "select" elements)

Highlight rows and columns

Show and hide details about a particular record

User selectable rows (multiple rows)

User selectable rows (single row) and delete rows

Editable rows (with jEditable)

Submit form with elements in table

Index column (static number column)

Show and hide columns dynamically

API function use in initialisation object (callback)

DataTables scrolling and tabs

Regular expression filtering

Data sources

DOM

Javascript array

Ajax source

Server side processing

Server-side processing

Obtain server-side data

Add extra HTTP variables

Use HTTP POST

Automatic addition of IDs and classes to rows

Reading table data from objects

Show and hide details about a particular record

User selectable rows (multiple rows)

JSONP for a cross domain data source

jEditable integration with DataTables

Deferred loading of Ajax data

Pipelining data (reduce Ajax calls for paging)

Ajax data source

Ajax sourced data (array of arrays)

Ajax sourced data (array of objects)

Deferred DOM creation for extra speed

Empty data source columns

Use a data source other than aaData (the default)

Read column data from sub-arrays

Read column data from deeply nested properties

Plug-ins

Add custom API functions

Sorting and automatic type detection

Sorting without automatic type detection

Custom pagination controls

Range filtering / custom filtering

Live DOM sorting

Automatic HTML type detection

        Please refer to the DataTables documentation for full information
        about its API properties and methods.

        Additionally, there are a wide range of extras and plug-ins which extend the capabilities of DataTables.

					DataTables designed and created by Allan Jardine ©
                    2007-2011

					DataTables is dual licensed under the GPL v2
                    license or a BSD (3-point) license.


Since the turn of the century, advertising agencies have evolved quite a bit, mostly due to the exponential growth of data and technology in marketing.
In an interview this week, Michael Tidmarsh, chief technical officer for Ogilvy Worldwide, shared his thoughts about how agencies have changed to accommodate data-driven strategies. Tidmarsh will also keynote a talk on creativity in a data-driven world at our MarTech Conference in Boston in early October.


Over the past several years, the industry of marketing has changed drastically. We've stepped out of the comfort zone of fighting for a slot for radio or television ads, overpaying for billboards, and printing mass quantities of brochures, and have moved in the direction of the internet. Marketers are taking the same budgets they've scrapped on for years and stretching it across multiple platforms and becoming vastly successful, quickly.
Consumers are glued to the web, all day, every day. In the United States, the average adult spends at least six hours a day engrossing themselves in some form of digital media, and this is just for leisure.
How do you, as a business or marketer, take this time and convert it into dollars? How can you convert your prospects, especially those spending mass quantities of time online, into converted customers? The answer is simple: you choose a Google-Certified, award-winning, online marketing company with a reputation for success, Digital Logic.
At Digital Logic, we offer a range of services, with the ability to tailor options to meet goals set for your specific company needs. We are able to construct a website, which should serve as your best sales representative, and market your brand so that your potential customers can find your site. We are passionate about developing marketing strategies to drive more qualified leads for our clients. Contact us today to see how we can help you start getting qualified leads and converting them into lifelong customers.
How can you expect to compete in the industry if you don't even know how you stack up against your competitors. In order to rank number one on the SERP (search engine results pages), you need to know what the top ranking company has, that you don't. With this, there are a number of moving parts, so it's safe to say, you can blow through a budget quickly if you don't know what you're looking for or don't know how to change your campaigns to position yourself to rank higher.
What's considered in the competitive analysis?
Evaluate your branding: how well you are presenting your brand, products, services, lead-nurturing, etc.
Assessing your online reputation and how well it is being maintained and managed.
Why do you need a competitive analysis for your business?
Visible Website– In order for your business you receive any kind of traffic, your website will need to be optimized to show up in search engines, like Google. It's one thing to build or design a website, it's another thing completely to have it optimized for SEO.
Secure Website– Ever wondered what the difference between HTTP and HTTPS was? Probably not. The "S" at the end, stands for "secure". Between data breaches and hacked customer credit cards, your prospects will be very wary of visiting a site that isn't secure. Google will give preference to secure sites, as well.
Fast-Loading Website– If your site hasn't loaded to the fold in three seconds or less, 40% of visitors will visit another site, as opposed to waiting it out. For every one second your website delays, you can expect a 1% decrease in conversions.
Optimal UX (user experience)– Your audience will form an opinion of you based off of your website experience. They need to be able to easily access information and navigate quickly through your menu options.
Mobile-Friendly Website– Google ranks mobile responsive websites higher than it ranks those who aren't. If this isn't enough to convince you, we aren't quite sure what will be.
We believe that you shouldn't have to work for your website, but instead, your website should work for you. At Digital Logic, we know what designs will drive traffic for what industry and location. We seamlessly integrate our design, content, and are able to turn out a turn-key website to suit your company's needs.
We don't believe in holding your website hostage. Once the website is built, it is yours to keep. After all, you paid for it! We are able to design a website with your specific goals in mind.
For more information, check out our blog: Web Design Best Practices for Conversions.
How do you know if your website is converting your leads as well as it should? No matter how big or small your business is, your website is bound to get at least some traffic on its own. Conversion rate optimization is the process of taking the organic traffic you're already getting, and maximizing your site's ability to convert that traffic into leads and sales. You can invest in PPC advertising or SEO all day, but if your site isn't built to convert, you are more than likely wasting time and money.
Moreover, how will you know how much money you should be investing, if you don't understand how much money you could be or should be making off of each visitor? Questions, such as, "How much should I pay per click?" or "How much is each click worth?" can all be answered once you know your conversion rate.
At Digital Logic, we believe the only way to make sure your website is working at its maximum potential is to test, track, and tweak. With analytics, we are able to see how many people are visiting your site, and what steps they are taking before they convert or leave your site. You don't necessarily have to have a huge business, a ton of traffic, or spend a lot of money in order to get plenty of conversions.
In order to get more conversions, you need to be tracking how many you're getting now. You would be surprised at how much we are able to guess at statistics, "best sellers", or what will drive more conversions, etc. for companies, when the owners don't even know the information, themselves. Having a website that can't convert is like having a sales representative that can't close a deal. All of the data is there, along with every tool needed to do so, but if you aren't good at it, or haven't been trained to know what to look for, it's going to be a struggle.
We use Google Analytics configured with tags for your website and a custom calling service, complete with a dynamic number replacement. If you have a limited advertising budget, it is extremely important that you make sure your site can convert before spending more money on ads.
Social media avenues, such as Facebook, provide the opportunity for businesses to engage with their audience while building brand awareness, all at the same time. With social media campaigns, you are able to target a specific audience, thus saving your advertising budget, long term. Facebook is one of the best platforms to collect audience data.
Just like with Digital Marketing, we set up a whole social media marketing strategy: complete a competitor analysis, set up organic campaigns designed to help your audience interact with your business more easily. Then we use analytics to help create data-driven paid campaigns. After some time, we use the data from your paid campaign, along with the data provided with your organic traffic, and tweak your campaign until it starts turning leads into conversions.
Since the acquisition of YouTube, the Google share price continues to rise. It's no surprise, then, that YouTube is the second most popular search engine, second to only Google, its owner. Websites who have videos generally tend to experience a 157% increase in organic traffic.
Want to know our favorite type of video ad? Check out our blog, What is a Pre Roll Ad, here.
Over 40% of global shoppers say that they have purchased a product they discovered on YouTube. Just like with regular online advertisements, video advertisements can be targeted by location, interests, etc. in order to help stretch your advertising budget. Especially when advertising on YouTube, you are given an almost endless list of categories and subcategories for which you can choose your audiences.
Although video ads are undoubtedly helpful across all industries, we find them extremely helpful for industries who generally have a bad connotation attached to the actual visit, such as lawyers and doctors. In Healthcare Marketing Trends, we discuss how video advertising is especially helpful for those in the medical field.
Although it's a bit of an oxymoron, video ads aren't the only way to advertise your business, via video. You can also make company introduction videos, that show your audience your staff, product or service reviews by customers, to help convert those on the fence, or even "how-to" videos, to show different ways in which your product or service may be used.
No, these won't turn and burn clients as PPC ads will, but they will definitely increase organic traffic, over time, and will help build brand trust. Google just released some of it's latest research data and it turns out, "how-to" videos are the most watched and most popular videos on the YouTube platform.
Moreover, anyone who has dabbled in internet marketing is well aware that Google likes to switch up its media, if at all possible. What this means is, even if your post about a topic wouldn't outrank another website organically, your video on the same topic, very well could. Video content is easier to rank for than written content. So if your blogs aren't getting the spotlight you feel they deserve, maybe it's time to start shooting some video.
If you aren't showing up when someone searches for you, you're losing business, plain and simple. It's time to make increasing your SEO priority, a priority. SEO isn't an overnight process, and it has its challenges, for sure, but it is a surefire way to increase traffic exponentially, over time. SEO is a broad umbrella of marketing efforts, all that work behind the scenes to build your brand awareness and send more qualified leads.
What is SEO? SEO is short for search engine optimization. It is, in the most basic form, the process of creating and formatting content and coding that ranks well on search engines, like Google, whether it be on the front or back end. In order to do this, your website must be fast, optimized, secure and also, mobile friendly. It's a little easier said than done, as there are several moving parts, and what is popular last week, organically, may not be popular this week. So this is an ever-changing task.
Even though you want your website to be aesthetically pleasing for your customers, you also want the coding to be easily crawlable for Google. We'll look at your metadata, your sitemap, your indexes, and a multitude of other factors and decide which strategy needs to be taken in order to get your website whipped into SEO shape.
For more detailed information, we have a detailed description of What Does an SEO Company Do?
Content marketing is one piece of the search engine optimization strategy mentioned above. It can be such a struggle for business owners to see how content marketing will help their overall marketing strategy, but we are firm on this piece of advice: content is king. This is something tossed around the digital marketing industry, seriously, like candy. It's so obvious to those of us to do it, how well it works, but one of those 'hard to explain' concepts, and we understand.
Think of it like this: here you are, reading our blog. What does that tell you? You probably would have never searched for Digital Logic, but you had a question and we were there to answer it for you. You trust us, as a company, a little more now, than you did before you clicked that link. Don't you? So, maybe not today or tomorrow or even next week, when you decide you want to hire a digital marketing agency because we took the time to write helpful content you could use, you will be more prone to reaching out to Digital Logic than you would have been had we never written anything.
Content marketing not only builds brand trust, but it also helps in rankings. Traditional advertising simply doesn't work the way it used to. Customers have much higher expectations than they did in the past. Companies are required to give value to their customers, in order for customers to select them as their chosen vendor.
Moreover, content marketing is arguably the cheapest form of online marketing available. Over time, it's one of the best ways to organically gain traffic and gain brand awareness. After a while, your customers will begin to market for you, by sharing your posts, blogs, and content, in general.
In relation to traditional media or advertising, PPC (pay per click) advertising is much more controllable and affordable. In most scenarios, it's a very cost-effective way to gain more traffic online. In order to maximize your budget and return, you'll need to invest in a company who's, for better lack of words, "good at it". In order to get a high return, you'll need an experienced company who makes data-driven decisions, and constantly updates and optimizes your campaign.
The first step in a PPC campaign is to look at the local competition. We use a program that can pull search results as if we were searching from your location, from any location. We see if your competition is investing in PPC ads, and if so, we analyze the search terms of their campaign and create competitive goals accordingly. From here, we research alternative keywords, and most of the time, we actually find better, more intent driven keywords that will ultimately lead to more conversions. We, then, create ad copy and creatives for your company, multiples for each campaign, giving us the ability to test them. The better performing ads take preference, and we optimize data once again. Like any other campaign, PPC is not a load and go type deal. It requires constant research, constant tweaking, and constant tracking in order to continue to thrive.
When you think of a company, more than likely, the branding is what comes to mind. You think of the logo before you ever think of the products or services. When you hear the word McDonald's, does the image of a cheeseburger come to mind first or the "golden arches"? Everyone associates the "golden arches" with McDonald's because they have done an impeccable job of branding over the years.
Regardless if you're starting from scratch or just trying to grow the business you already have, you'll want to have a strategic creative plan for your company. We'll take your background, what's important to you and your business, what sells well in your industry and provide you with a handful of creative options that align your company logo with your mission statement and general goals. A company without branding just doesn't seem legit to most of your prospects. Your brand is a way to convey your credibility, your experience, and most importantly, your value.
97% of consumers search the internet for local services. As a local business, how will you connect with those who are searching for things that you offer but don't know about your business, specifically? This is where local SEO can really help local businesses, especially small local businesses. If you search for service plus your location, and your business isn't the first to show on the SERP (search engine results page), then your company is in desperate need of local SEO services.
For more information on location targeting, check out our blog post on Geofencing.
A good local SEO company, like Digital Logic, will not only help to get your business on the "local map", but we also make sure that those who are searching for you on mobile devices will be able to find you, as well. You want your customers to be able to access your business online and be able to use Google Maps if they want to visit your physical storefront. "Near me" searches are increasing rapidly, especially with the enablement of voice search. Your customers are no longer going through the Yellow Pages before they leave the house. They're on the road, picking up their phones and saying, "Google, find a store near me." and following the directions given to them by their smartphones.
Don't you want your company to be the one that Siri, Alexa, or whatever other bots out there selects and directs your prospect to? Of course, you do, and this is the importance of local SEO.
If you're like most business owners, you wear many, many hats. You're, no doubt, pulled in many different directions: day-to-day business issues, finances, juggling inventory, and at the end of the day, there's not much time left for marketing. In order to run these campaigns effectively, you need experience and a decent amount of time for maintenance. At Digital Logic, our campaign managers have expert knowledge and are able to employ industry experience with a broad range of tools to analyze the present competitive factors, performance of your current marketing strategy, evaluate your overall website and conversion performance, and use this data to increase your traffic, leads, conversion, and most importantly, return on investment.
Contact Digital Logic for a free, no-obligation consultation today!


Courtesy of Harrison JacobsCuba is a place to just go with the flow.
Travelling to Cuba is different from vacationing in most other countries.
Many of the best and most reasonably priced lodging and activities are only available on the island because of the lack of internet.
If you don't book ahead of time and instead book things on the island, you will likely save money and make sure more of your tourism dollars go to actual Cubans.
Travel to any country on vacation and you almost always have to plan ahead. As you get closer, hotels get booked, events sell out, and prices go up. There's a huge advantage to planning everything.
On a recent trip to the island, I discovered that while you can certainly plan ahead, there are distinct advantages to arriving on the island with nothing but your return plane ticket, plenty of cash, and a vague idea what you want to see and do.
Not booking ahead of time will save you money and direct more of your tourism dollars to actual Cubans, rather than the Communist Party or American corporations.
Because of the scarcity of the internet and the island's general isolation, most lodgings, car services, and tourist activities aren't listed online. The ones that are listed likely have a very basic booking system, are run by the most privileged Cubans, and have inflated prices.
You are paying extra for the convenience of internet booking.
While some lodgings are listed on services like Airbnb, you are then paying an American company 15% of money that should go to Cubans, with little benefit to you. The official hotels, meanwhile, are generally government-run, overpriced, and not nearly as nice as pictures would suggest.
Once you get to Cuba, however, you realise the system actually works efficiently if you don't book ahead. That's because of the "casa particulare" system.
Courtesy of Harrison JacobsA 'casa particulare' I stayed at in Vinales, Cuba.
The system has been around officially since 1997, when the government allowed casa hosts to register with the government as legal businesses, though reports say Cubans rented out rooms under the table for years before.
The casa system is like a home-stay, where tourists can stay with actual Cubans (although most are on the wealthier or more privileged side, and pay heavy taxes to the government).
"Casa particulares" are everywhere, marked by this blue insignia on the front of houses.
If you are looking for a place to stay, just walk around the neighbourhood you want to stay in, find one of those signs and knock on the door. They will usually have a room open.
If they don't, they will be happy to find you a room with a friend of theirs (for a small commission), or you can just walk a little further until you find another one.
If the room they have available seems overpriced or not to your liking, either ask for them to arrange a different room or head back out to search on your own.
Your host will be knowledgeable about the best tourist activities (a guided tour, horseback riding, snorkelling, a taxi to the next city) and will be happy to arrange it for you. Again, for a commission of a couple dollars.
In addition, casa owners all will make a delicious breakfast or dinner for you for a relatively cheap price. And if you want to go out, they will have recommendations.
Or you can head into town and find a tour guide, taxi driver, or activity organiser yourself to avoid the commission.
There are no shortage of taxi drivers on the street who will travel distances both near and far, tour guides offering all different kinds of tours, and casa particulares to stay in.
Tourism is the best way to make money in Cuba, a fact underscored by the price of everything. The cost of one night in a casa particulare costs about the same as most Cubans' monthly salary.
One note: There are two crucial parts to making the non-planning work.
2. Understand that asking another Cuban to arrange something for you will add a few dollars to the price.
You are more than welcome to haggle, but unless the price strikes you as unfair, I wouldn't recommend it. You're likely arguing over a few bucks in an impoverished country. Don't be greedy.
Courtesy of Harrison JacobsThe $US15 three course lobster dinner I ate at my casa particulare in Viñales, Cuba.


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Q: React: Filtering table based on array of objects state? So im working on a pretty simple personal project to learn react. The state within my "SensorTable" component (Which is essentially just a react-bootstrap table currently that has a listing of my sensors (Which have values like id/temp/humidity/etc...).
Right now this components state is just an array of objects (That being my sensors) that I retrieve via axios/fetch from a GET request to JSON API that has all these objects. The GET request is made on componentDidMount.
Im really not fully comfortable with redux at this point, and this is simply a small toy app to get acquainted with React. But would I be correct in guessing the correct way to sort/filter this table would be to have a function that:

*

*Retrieves the latest data from the API (Maybe?)

*Updates the state either by sorting the array of objects in a specific order OR filtering them based off whatever filter type I want to use (Maybe filter by sensors that have a specific object key that is above or below or certain value). And then returns the new array to that state?

This sounds simple in theory to me...but wouldn't the componentDidMount just fire again once this function happens (resetting the data to how it was originally?). Or is there a way to make it NOT re-fire that method if I update the state in one of these filter/sorting functions?

A: componentDidMount only fires when the component is initialized and not on further renders, so your request will only fire once until you unmount and remount the component (by navigating away from and returning to the page, for example).
As for updating state, let's say you store the response data in a state variable called sensorData. If you set sensorData every time the user applies a filter, you are losing data, because you are effectively removing items from the sensorData array. This means that when the filter is removed, a refetch is required to regain the data you filtered out.
A better approach would be to store all the response data in sensorData, and apply the filter inline when rendering the table.
For example:
{sensorData.filter(d => d.someProp === "someVal").map(d => <TableRowItem />)}

This way, when removing the filter, you do not have to hit the server again and the UI is updated immediately.

A: In the simplest component case, yes, make API calls (or any number of side-effects) in the componentDidMount lifecycle function. componentDidMount is called only once when the component is mounted. componentDidUpdate however, is called upon any changes to state or props.
A sample component could look like this:
class MyComponent extends Component {
  this.state = {
    data: [];
  };

  componentDidMount() {
    getDataFromAPI().then(
      response => setState({
        data: response.data.filter(someFilterFn) // filter result array and store in state
      });
    );
  }

  render() {
    <div>
      {this.state.data.map(mapElementFn)}
    </div>
  }
}

This is just an example, you could also just store all the data in state and filter (as needed) in the render function. It's really up to you and your app's needs.

A: componentDidMount triggers only ones.
Using state, you can maintain two keys one with intialList and modifiedList after filter / sort.
Local sort is based on normal js array sort.
ref : https://moduscreate.com/blog/ext-js-to-react-load-sort-and-filter-data-with-react/
You can filter in your local or rely on remote thing
When you use remote api calls to sort, then you need to use an event handler and invoke the fetch call explicity.
Ref: https://codereviewvideos.com/course/pagination-filtering-and-sorting/video/react-sorting
Ref: Sample  https://github.com/codereviewvideos/react-symfony-3.example/blob/pagination-sort-filter/src/containers/list.js
Same applies for filter as well.

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Q: OpenCV iOS program to detect user's mouth and measure width and height I am trying to use OpenCV iOS program to detect user's mouth and measure width and height of it from live video. I was searching but couldn't find opencv samples. Is there anyone come across to get such Opencv/or any other iOS sample program to detect user's mouth and measure width and height from the video or image? Kindly share the information.
Thanks

A: NSString *mouthCascadePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"cascades/haarcascade_mcs_mouth"
                                                           ofType:@"xml"];//load the file from the app bundle
cv::Mat cvImage;
UIImageToMat(resImage, cvImage);
cvtColor(cvImage, gray, CV_BGR2GRAY); // load input img in gray scale mode
cv::CascadeClassifier mouthDetector;
mouthDetector.load([mouthCascadePath UTF8String]);
std::vector<cv::Rect> faceRects;
double scalingFactor = 1.1;
int minNeighbors = 2;
int flags = 0;
cv::Size minimumSize(30,30);
// Detect Faces
faceDetector.detectMultiScale(gray, faceRects,
                                   scalingFactor, minNeighbors, flags,
                                   cv::Size(30, 30) );

cv::Mat faceROI;

for(unsigned int i = 0; i < faceRects.size(); i++)
{
 std::vector<cv::Rect> mouthRects;
//Detect mouth in face
    mouthDetector.detectMultiScale(cvImage, mouthRects,
                                  scalingFactor, minNeighbors, flags,
                                  cv::Size(30, 30) );

        const cv:: Rect&mouth = mouthRects[0];
        int y = mouth.y - 0.15*mouth.height ;
        cv:: rectangle(cvImage, cv::Point(mouth.x ,y), cv::Point(mouth.x + mouth.width ,y + mouth.height), cvScalar(255,0,0), 1, 8, 0);
}
_imgview.image = MatToUIImage(cvImage);
}

Copy the above code for mouth detection using OpenCV IN iOS.