My husband Roby has never been great with compliments. That right there was his pick-up line for me in college.
WHAT does that even mean? I think I'd rather smell like hot biscuits.
I can't stop imagining filling one of these savory Italian biscuits with a sausage patty and an egg. They are so good on their own but I'm sure they'll complement pretty much anything you pair them with (oh oh! Pair them with my Sunday Sauce). I ate 4 of these little biscuits in one sitting (pretty much right after taking these pictures). They are perfectly seasoned and buttery with a nice crumb.
The only flour used in this recipe: coconut flour. That means they're nut-free and full of fiber.
Little hint as to what you should expect over the next few blog posts: more coconut flour recipes. That's because I accidentally bought a new bag, not realizing I already had one in my pantry. And for those who are familiar with baking with coconut flour – you know that it takes practically forever to finish a bag because most recipes call for so little.
Do you like coconut flour recipes? What other baked goods do you want me to make using coconut flour?
Add the coconut flour, baking soda, garlic powder, Italian seasoning and salt to a bowl and mix well.
Pour the melted ghee into the bowl and mix well (I use an electric hand mixer).
Next, add the eggs and continue to mix until well combined.
Use a large-sized disher/cookie scoop to measure out dough (about 3 tablespoons) and drop onto a baking greased baking sheet.
Drizzle a little melted ghee on top of each biscuit.
Bake at 350°F for 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
I'm so happy to hear that!! 🙂 Thanks so much for letting me know how they turned out for you!!
I too have a glut of coconut flour right now. I made these and they were delicious, in spite of me not paying attention very early in the morning and using 1/3 of a c. coconut flour instead of half a cup. Thanks for this easy tasty forgiving recipe!
I made these recently and cut them in half and made mini pizzas. They were delicious. So then I tried just splitting the batter into two large balls and flattening them on a cookie sheet into pizza crusts. I baked them for about 10 minutes, then added pizza toppings and popped them back into a 400 degree oven for 10 more minutes. This recipe did indeed make a delicious pizza crust! Its so nice to finally have an easy grain free pizza crust option that my teen age son enjoys.
When you baked the pizza crusts for the first 10 mins, what oven temp did you use, 350 or 400 degrees?
For the initial baking of the crusts I used the 350 degree temp in the recipe. When I added the toppings I increased the temp.
Can these be made in advance? If so, what's the best way to store them? I'd like to serve them at a small party I'm having. Thanks!
Yes, they can be made in advance but I personally think they taste best fresh. They should be fine left on the counter for a night but after that I'd probably keep them in the fridge.
Yes, I think they'd make tasty sweet biscuits too!
These were so delicious! My husband and I both loved them. I am making a second batch now. Thank you!
Husband will love these. We both like hummus and he does need a change!
Hi Ashley! I LOVE these biscuits!! 🙂 I made them with my Mom. I can't eat eggs so we used egg substitute made of chia seeds and garbanzo beans instead. They turned out a little crumbly but still delicious! It just came out of the oven and I just tried them. Thank you for this recipe!
I looked at this recipe and thought this will not work. With all that butter and only half a cup cocnut flour it will melt all over the place in the oven,but i thought give it a try anyway. Hey ! It turned out perfect. A little bit salty for my taste but was great to have a biscuit I could with my supper.
My daughter would like to try this recipe but she can't eat dairy and was wondering if she could substitute olive oil instead of butter.
Hi Larry, I think olive oil will work as a substitute for butter/ghee in this recipe but it may affect the flavor. I still think it'll be delicious! If she tries making these biscuits with olive oil, please let me know how it turns out!
Awesome, hope you love the biscuits!!
How do you think these would taste with some grated cheese (Parmesan or cheddar) added to the dough? If I were to do that, would any other substitutions be needed? For example, less ghee?
BTW – I have yet to make a recipe of yours that doesn't become one of my go-to favorites. Your recipes are absolutely amazing.
Hi Jennifer! You can definitely add some cheese to the dough! Coconut flour is very absorbent so you don't need to change anything else in the recipe – just add grated cheese 🙂 Can't wait to hear how it turns out for you!
Thanks for always responding to our inquiries.
These were so good! I made them according to your recipe and I'm sure that they will become a staple. I also made them without the garlic powder and Italian seasoning adding a small amount of Stevie and served them as strawberry shortcake- YUM!!!
I used sunflower oil instead of ghee and an egg replacement called No Egg for the eggs and they turned out excellent.
Do you by any chance know the nutrition facts on these?
Absolutely amazing! And so easy to make. I can't believe it's coconut flour, and I'm so happy I have a use for it! Has anyone tried making this with other herbs? The rating should be 5 stars, but for some reason, my iPad won't allow it.
Thanks, Konika!! I'm so happy to hear that you liked the recipe 🙂 Also thanks for letting me know about the rating issue – I changed it to 5 stars (something I only do if a reader lets me know, so thanks again!).
Teresa, that's so great to hear!! Happy you liked them so much!
Yup – it will work but it'll obviously affect the flavor.
I followed this biscuit recipe to the "T" and found them to be too dry. I was disappointed. I bake with coconut flour , also with nut flours as well, so have experience with them. Not sure what happened, but I ended up throwing half of them away after I tried to smother them with ghee and it still didn't help. The taste was great though!
Hi Ramona, coconut flour takes some getting used to – especially when you make a recipe that only calls for that one type of flour. While it is dry compared to other flours, I try to share allergy-friendly recipes for people with all types of sensitivities, including those who can't eat nuts. Maybe try one of my baked goods that calls for a combination of flours!
Oh my golly…. Another amazing recipe – thank you!!! Just fixed these for breakfast. Good gracious, they were delicious! We didn't have any Italian seasoning, but they were just fine without to go with our scrambled eggs! Can't wait to try out your chocolate chip cookie recipe next! SO THANKFUL I found you!
After enjoying your regular coconut flour biscuits, I tried making these yesterday for lunch. Yum! They are so flavorful and you'd never know they're coconut flour. Not eggy, just very buttery, moist, and delicious! They would go great with Italian dishes or anything really. Like I did with the plain biscuits, I quartered the recipe and made one perfect sized biscuit for myself. I didn't have Italian seasoning so I used half basil and half oregano for that. I will be making again for sure!


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Full title:RAY ASHCRAFT, Appellant, v. GLENN WALLINGFORD, ET AL, Respondents
Court:The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division Three
Date published: Jun 23, 1977
565 P.2d 1224 (Wash. Ct. App. 1977)
565 P.2d 1224
17 Wash. App. 853
The Court of Appeals of Washington, Division Three
No. 1242-3.
[1] Judgment — Summary Judgment — Purpose — Burden on Parties. Summary judgment procedure exists to avoid a useless trial when there is no genuine issue of any material fact. The moving party must prove that there is no such issue and may support his motion with evidence, in which event the nonmoving party must demonstrate the existence of such an issue by specific facts beyond the allegations in the pleadings.
[2] Automobiles — Passing — Failure To Observe Traffic — Negligence as Matter of Law. A vehicle operator has a duty to see what is there to be seen, and an attempt to move into an occupied passing lane is negligence as a matter of law under RCW 46.61.305(1), which prohibits movements to the right or left that cannot be made with reasonable safety.
[3] Negligence — Last Clear Chance — Application. Before the doctrine of last clear chance may be applied, the party asserting it must show that a clear chance existed. The existence of a possible chance is not sufficient to invoke the doctrine.
[4] Negligence — Comparative Negligence — Applicability — Presentation of Issue. The applicability of comparative negligence to a particular issue must be presented to the trial court by argument and proposed instructions. Alleged error in the nonapplication of comparative negligence will not be considered by an appellate court if the issue was not raised in the trial court.
Nature of Action: Action for damages arising out of an automobile collision. The plaintiff moved into the passing lane in attempting to pass a lead vehicle on a 2-lane road and struck, or was struck by, the defendant who was trying to pass both vehicles.
Superior Court: The Superior Court for Benton County, No. 26169, Albert J. Yencopal, J., entered a summary judgment in favor of the defendant on June 17, 1974.
Court of Appeals: An opinion was filed on January 17, 1977, but was nullified by order of the Court of Appeals dated June 23, 1977, and this opinion was filed in its place. The court finds that the plaintiff was contributorially negligent as a matter of law and that the applicability of comparative negligence was not preserved for consideration on appeal. The summary judgment of dismissal is affirmed.
Edward B. Critchlow and Critchlow, Williams, Ryals Schuster, for appellant.
Diehl R. Rettig and Loney, Westland, Raekes, Rettig Sonderman, for respondents.
GREEN, J.
Plaintiff brought this action against the defendants for damages arising from an automobile collision, which occurred when both parties attempted to pass a third vehicle. From a summary judgment granted in favor of defendants, plaintiff appeals.
Future reference to defendant shall mean Glenn Wallingford, as Mrs. Wallingford was not involved in the collision.
The propriety of the summary judgment presents the sole issue on appeal. Plaintiff contends (1) issues of material fact exist as to his contributory negligence, and as to defendant's last clear chance to avoid the collision; and (2) comparative negligence applies. We affirm.
[1] In considering a motion for summary judgment, the court's function is to determine whether a genuine issue of material fact exists, not to resolve the issue. A material fact is one upon which the outcome of the litigation depends, and the moving party has the burden of proving by uncontroverted facts that no genuine issue exists. All material evidence and all reasonable inferences must be construed most favorably to the nonmoving party, and if reasonable men might reach different conclusions, the motion should be denied. Where the moving party supports the motion with evidentiary matter, the nonmoving party must demonstrate the existence of an issue of material fact by a showing beyond the allegations in the pleadings. Amant v. Pacific Power Light Co., 10 Wn. App. 785, 520 P.2d 181 (1974), aff'd, 84 Wn.2d 872, 529 P.2d 829 (1975); LaPlante v. State, 85 Wn.2d 154, 531 P.2d 299 (1975); CR 56(c). With these rules in mind, we turn to the record.
The defendant, Glenn Wallingford, sets forth his version of the collision in his affidavit:
That on or about February 2, 1971, at the approximate hour of 1 p.m. this affiant pulled out onto Highway 12 heading north toward Grandview and was following a red Falcon pickup at an approximate speed of 45 to 50 miles per hour and proceeded to lawfully pass the red pickup and was nearly parallel with the red pickup when the red pickup made a sharp left turn into the passing lane then being driven by affiant and a collision between the vehicles occurred; . . .
This affidavit is accompanied by two photographs: the highway where the accident occurred, and the damaged red Falcon pickup. From these photographs it is evident that the highway is straight, 2-lane, with an unobstructed view, and that the primary damage to the pickup is to the left front door, left front fender and lesser damage along the entire left side. However, there is no damage to the direct rear of the pickup.
Plaintiff expressed his version of the accident by affidavit, stating preliminarily that he recalls few of the details of the collision. However, he does remember that while proceeding on sign Route 12 toward Grandview at approximately 50 miles per hour, he approached a white Plymouth automobile traveling in the same direction at 25 to 35 miles per hour. He pulled into the passing lane and when "approximately equal to the white Plymouth being passed, [his] automobile was struck from the rear by an automobile traveling at a very high rate of speed." Plaintiff further states that "although he has no direct recollection of so doing, it is his normal habit to turn on his directional signal lights when passing a car or changing lanes and to look into his rear-view mirror." He has no recollection of seeing any car to his immediate rear "although one may have been a sufficient distance back to form no impression whatsoever upon affiant as to the suitability of passing a car preceding him." In answers to interrogatories, plaintiff states that defendant's vehicle was traveling much faster than his vehicle.
The affidavit of Dale F. McKenzie, one of plaintiff's attorneys, states that defendant admitted immediately after the collision that he saw plaintiff's flashing signal light prior to the accident indicating a change of lane. This affidavit states the investigating officer's report revealed that "defendant's automobile skidded for 93' before striking plaintiff's automobile from the rear."
Diehl R. Rettig, attorney for defendant, in his affidavit refers to portions of plaintiff's deposition where it is stated: (1) while he does not remember whether he turned around and looked before he moved into the passing lane, he normally does not do so on a 2-lane road; (2) he is aware that cars have blind spots and also that people have blind spots in their vision; and (3) he has no recollection of looking in his rearview mirror prior to passing.
Plaintiff's deposition, in substance, states that he does not recall the collision; that subsequent observations show his pickup was struck on the left rear side; that although he does not recall looking, he habitually watches his inside and outside rearview mirrors while driving; that he did not see defendant's vehicle; that he recalls the hood on his car was about even with the rear trunk of the white Plymouth when the collision occurred; and that somebody measured 96 feet of skid marks left by defendant's vehicle.
Based on this record, the trial court granted summary judgment. Although the record does not reflect the basis for the summary judgment, plaintiff's brief indicates the central issue was whether he was contributorially negligent as a matter of law. Plaintiff contends the record creates an issue of material fact as to his negligence and, therefore, summary judgment was improper. We disagree.
[2] RCW 46.61.305(1) provides:
No person shall turn a vehicle . . . from a direct course or move right or left upon a roadway unless and until such movement can be made with reasonable safety.
Where the evidence is uncontroverted that the defendant's overtaking vehicle was in the passing lane prior to the attempted movement into that lane by the plaintiff, plaintiff's failure to observe such traffic in the passing lane immediately before initiating his movement renders him negligent as a matter of law. Niven v. MacDonald, 72 Wn.2d 93, 431 P.2d 724 (1967); Hurst v. Struthers, 1 Wn. App. 935, 465 P.2d 416 (1970). However, the issue is for the trier of fact if the evidence is conflicting as to whether defendant's overtaking vehicle was in the passing lane at the time plaintiff attempted to change lanes. Schaffner v. Saunders, 6 Wn. App. 657, 495 P.2d 702 (1972). In McGlothlin v. Cole, 3 Wn. App. 673, 677-78, 477 P.2d 47 (1970), the court stated:
The left-turning driver should be held negligent as a matter of law only when reasonable minds cannot differ on the proposition that had the left-turning driver looked for possible traffic in the passing lane immediately before starting the left turn across it, he would have seen the passing car which necessarily was in that lane before the driver started the left turn. In such situation the left turn could not be made with reasonable safety . . . . When reasonable minds can differ on this proposition, the issue of negligence is for the trier of fact.
Here, the following facts are uncontroverted: (1) the highway was straight and unobstructed; (2) defendant's vehicle left 93 feet of skid marks; (3) the damage to plaintiff's pickup was primarily to the left forward side, with minor damage to the left taillight; (4) the damage to defendant's car was on the right front grille and fender; (5) it is plaintiff's habit to use his rear and side mirrors, but he did not turn his head to look and was without recollection as to whether he in fact used the mirrors; (6) plaintiff at no time saw defendant's vehicle; and (7) defendant stated he was in the passing lane when plaintiff attempted to pass. No evidence was produced by plaintiff controverting the defendant's showing that he was in the passing lane at the time plaintiff attempted his pass.
Defendant's statement that he was in the passing lane first is corroborated by the physical facts, i.e., skid marks and damage to the two vehicles. Construing the evidence most favorably to plaintiff, and assuming that plaintiff looked in both rearview mirrors before changing lanes, a material issue of fact is still not created. Plaintiff is charged with seeing what was there to be seen. Niven v. MacDonald, supra at 99. We do not believe that under the circumstances of this case reasonable minds could differ on the proposition that had plaintiff looked immediately before attempting movement into the passing lane, he would have seen defendant's car which the evidence necessarily shows was in that lane.
[3] Second, plaintiff contends that even if he is held negligent as a matter of law, the theory of last clear chance should be submitted to a trier of fact. He contends that since his turn signal was seen by defendant, he had advance warning that plaintiff intended to move into the passing lane, and thus a material issue of fact is presented, i.e., whether defendant saw the signal in time to avoid the accident. The only evidence offered by plaintiff in support of this defense is contained in the affidavit of plaintiff's attorney, Mr. McKenzie. He states that defendant admitted seeing plaintiff's flashing signal light before the accident occurred. However, this affidavit does not disclose the point at which the defendant first saw the signal light. It is well settled that before the doctrine of last clear chance is available, plaintiff must show that the defendant had a last clear chance, rather than a possible chance, to avoid the collision. Kerlik v. Jerke, 56 Wn.2d 575, 354 P.2d 702 (1960). Here, the only inference is that the defendant applied his brakes and made a reasonable effort to avoid the collision. The record before this court fails to show that defendant had a clear chance to avoid the collision; at most, he had a possible chance which proved unsuccessful. Therefore, the doctrine is not available as any other conclusion would require speculation and conjecture.
Third, plaintiff contends that even if he is contributorially negligent as a matter of law, his action should not be barred, but should be submitted to the trier of fact and governed by comparative negligence, RCW 4.22.
In Godfrey v. State, 84 Wn.2d 959, 968, 530 P.2d 630 (1975), the court determined that the comparative negligence statute had retroactive application:
RCW 4.22.010 and .020 apply retrospectively to causes of action having arisen prior to the statute's effective date of April 1, 1974, but in which trials have begun subsequent thereto.
We hold that sections 1 and 2 were intended to operate fully; that the statute was intended to be operative on the effective date set forth therein; and, that the statute was designed to apply to all causes of action having arisen during the applicable period of limitation prior to that date [April 1, 1974] though trials may have been commenced thereafter subject of course to applicable statutes of limitations.
Defendant argues that this language on its face is susceptible of the interpretation that RCW 4.22.010-.020 apply retroactively to causes of action arising only during the appropriate statute of limitations prior to the effective date of RCW 4.22. This interpretation would lead to the conclusion that comparative negligence would not apply herein as the cause of action arose more than 3 years prior to April 1, 1974. Because of the absence of any factual statement in the Godfrey opinion, we examined the original record to ascertain the meaning of this language. In Godfrey, the cause of action arose July 25, 1970, and the action was commenced June 14, 1973. A motion for summary judgment and entry of a pretrial order as to the applicability of RCW 4.22 was filed March 14, 1974, heard March 29, 1974, when the trial court determined that the statute applied prospectively, and the order was entered June 14, 1974. Thus, in light of these facts, it is clear that Godfrey gives retroactive application to all causes of action which arose prior to April 1, 1974, unless, of course, they are barred by a statute of limitations.
(Italics ours.)
[4] Here, the accident occurred February 2, 1971, and was timely commenced within the statute of limitations. The motion for summary judgment was filed October 10, 1972, and was heard March 7, 1974. Trial was scheduled to commence on June 24, 1974. The order granting summary judgment and dismissing plaintiff's complaint due to the bar of contributory negligence was entered June 14, 1974. Therefore, the comparative negligence statute, operating retroactively by virtue of Godfrey, would have applied to the present case. However, at no time did plaintiff present to the trial court its contention that comparative negligence was applicable. A party has the obligation to assert its claims, legal positions, and arguments to the trial court to preserve the alleged error on appeal. Issues not raised in the hearing for summary judgment cannot be considered for the first time on appeal. State v. Burri, 87 Wn.2d 175, 178, 550 P.2d 507 (1976); State v. Young, 87 Wn.2d 129, 132, 550 P.2d 1 (1976); Ferrin v. Donnellefeld, 74 Wn.2d 283, 444 P.2d 701 (1968); Save-Way Drug, Inc. v. Standard Inv. Co., 5 Wn. App. 726, 490 P.2d 1342 (1971).
Neither the affidavit filed November 2, 1972, in opposition to the motion for summary judgment nor the memorandum in opposition filed March 7, 1974, asserts that comparative negligence applies. Even after April 1, 1974, the effective date of RCW 4.22, plaintiff failed to assert the application of the statute. In Godfrey v. State, supra, through a motion for summary judgment, and McCrea v. Union Pac. R.R., 15 Wn. App. 472, 550 P.2d 19 (1976), through comparative negligence instructions, the issue of whether comparative negligence applied was properly presented to the trial court and erroneously determined, thereby resulting in remand of those cases for new trial. Here, the issue was never presented to the trial court.
MUNSON, C.J., and McINTURFF, J., concur.
Petition for rehearing denied by Court of Appeals February 15, 1977.
Reconsideration ordered by Supreme Court February 6, 1978.

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Device Literally Tracks Employees As They Move Throughout The Office
A few years ago when Bank of America Corp. wanted to study whether face time mattered among its call-center teams, the big bank asked about 90 workers to wear badges for a few weeks with tiny sensors to record their movements and the tone of their conversations. Device Literally Tracks Employees As They Move Throughout The Office
The data showed that the most productive workers belonged to close-knit teams and spoke frequently with their colleagues. So, to get more employees mingling, the bank scheduled workers for group breaks, rather than solo ones.
Productivity rose by at least 10%, says former Bank of America human-resources executive Michael Arena, who helped conduct its study.
Data-Driven Office:
Some Insights Firms Got From Tracking Workers' Movements:
* At Lunch, Size Matters: Researchers found that workers at one tech company who ate at tables designed for 12 were more productive than those who used tables for four.
* Togetherness Builds Teams: After a bank call center switched to group breaks, rather than solo ones, productivity rose at least 10%.
* More, But Smaller, Spaces: Sensor data at a consumer products company found that, on average, three or four people were meeting in rooms designed to hold eight to 10, so the firm carved out smaller meeting spaces.
At Work: Diary of a Tracked Office:
My team at work isn't a particularly chatty bunch. Nor do we take many coffee breaks.
Those were among the findings we gleaned after a group of WSJ colleagues and I spent a week wearing blinking badges that tracked our movement and speech patterns.
The sensors dangling on cords around our necks measured conversational volume, motion and proximity to other badge wearers. I flew into New York from Austin, Texas, where I normally telecommute from a home office, to experience the badges in person. As I described in this story for Thursday's Wall Street Journal, companies are using sensors like these to gather information about how workers actually do their jobs, in hopes of finding small changes that could make their teams more productive and collaborative.
Twenty colleagues volunteered to wear the badges during the work day–bathroom breaks included–for about a week. A couple people dropped out, almost right away: One colleague said the sensor was too "clunky and uncomfortable to wear" and another executive said he lacked time to stop in the hallway every five seconds and explain why he was wearing a cassette-sized plastic badge.
My editor and I placed badges near coffee stations and conference rooms to track how often we congregated around these gathering spaces. (One colleague said he enjoyed the " blink of recognition you get when approaching the coffee station. ")
There were some privacy and security concerns, though. Corporate security and our legal team, unaware that the badges were being used to research an article, requested that a device placed near an executive conference room be removed.
And several of us wondered what was actually going on inside the white badges. " Is it secretly recording everything I say ?" wondered Lauren Weber, who covers the Careers beat. "I sometimes wondered if we really could trust what we were being told about this strange new technology."
We were assured that the devices didn't record actual speech. And individual data wasn't shared with managers and colleagues. Instead, the data was aggregated and shared with the group.
Because we had only a few days of data, compared to the four-week period most companies use, our data set was limited. What we found was that my colleagues in the Management group, comprised of six reporters and editors, talked more often – and at higher volume – than a larger group of story editors on the Marketplace desk, but data showed that we chatted significantly less than our colleagues at CIO Journal, another group taking part in the study.
None of the members of my team, nor the other two groups wearing badges, hung out much around the coffee station, which could mean that we're missing out important opportunities to schmooze and swap information with peers.
The individual badge data showed that I wasn't particularly talkative in office conversations, but that I walked around a lot and met with a variety of people. (Makes sense, as I was visiting from out of town.)
When asked what the information told her about the group's productivity and collaboration, our editor said the group's results seemed out of step with what she normally observed–internal meetings often have us roaming from floor to floor, and crosstalk among our desks is pretty frequent, but on busy weeks with tight deadlines, it makes sense that we'd be tethered closely to our desks.
I probably didn't need to wear a blinking badge, tracking my every move, to tell me that we're a pretty quiet, no-nonsense team. The badges might have jumped off the pages of science fiction, but the data they gleaned just confirmed our reality.
As Big Data becomes a fixture of office life, companies are turning to tracking devices to gather real-time information on how teams of employees work and interact. Sensors, worn on lanyards or placed on office furniture, record how often staffers get up from their desks, consult other teams and hold meetings.
Businesses say the data offer otherwise hard-to-glean insights about how workers do their jobs, and are using the information to make changes large and small, ranging from the timing of coffee breaks to how work groups are composed, to spur collaboration and productivity.
"Surveys measure a point in time–what's happening right now with my emotions. [Sensors] measure actual behavior in an objective way," says Mr. Arena.
But there's a fine line between Big Data and Big Brother, at least in the eyes of some employees, who might shudder at the idea of the boss tracking their every move. Sensor proponents, however, argue that smartphones and corporate ID badges already can transmit their owner's location. In many cases, workers can opt out of participating in the sensor studies.
"Gathering big data about human behaviors can be a sensitive topic," says Dave Lathrop, director of workspace futures and strategy at Steelcase Inc., which has used sensor data with its own employees.
Along with addressing privacy concerns, companies must also be ready to make sense of the data, managers say.
Last year, Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc . did a sensor study of 30 sales and marketing employees at its Lexington, Mass., offices to learn about interactions between team members and various departments, says Eric Kimble, a Cubist executive.
For four weeks, company employees wore iPhone-size badges, that collected data on their motions, whereabouts, voice levels and conversational patterns.
The information was merged with email-traffic data, along with the results of weekly surveys in which employees rated how energetic and productive they felt.
Like Bank of America, Cubist discovered a correlation between higher productivity and face-to-face interactions. It found that social activity dropped off significantly during lunch time, as many employees retreated to their desks to check emails, rather than chatting with one another.
In response, the company decided to make its once-dingy cafeteria more inviting, improving the lighting and offering better food, to encourage workers to lunch together, instead of at their desks.
Cubist also scaled back to a lone coffee station and water cooler for the sales and marketing group, forcing employees to huddle and mix. It set a 3 p.m. daily coffee break, both to prop up sagging energy levels and to boost social interactions.
In such studies, clients say, workers typically get a report on their group's overall interactions, with no names attached, though individuals get to see their own data.
The inventor says a handful of managers have wanted to see the data on an individual employee, but that clients must sign contracts and consent forms prohibiting them from doing so.
Individual data can be revealing, however: He says he can divine from a worker's patterns of movement whether that employee is likely to leave the company, or score a promotion.
Ben Lin, an analyst at Cubist, says he didn't find the badges creepy once his bosses explained how the data would be used. His own report showed he changed his tone and gestures based on his conversation partner. "Subconsciously, you mirror who you are talking to," he says.
Rather than radical changes, sensor studies often show that simple tweaks can improve operations.
The inventor says his work with one client, a tech company, revealed that the size of a lunch table matters. Workers who ate at 12-person tables were more productive and collaborative than those who dined at tables with four seats. Data collected from sensors showed the larger lunch groups had more social interactions with teams across the company.
About 90% of workers at the 50 large and medium-size organizations that have done sensor studies with his firm agree to don the badges, which are intended to be worn the entire workday. (Bathroom breaks are optional.) Those who opt out can wear a dummy badge, which appears identical but doesn't record or transmit data, he says.
Lewis Maltby, president of the National Workrights Institute, an employee advocacy group, says current sensing technologies don't seem to violate employment laws. " It's not illegal to track your own employees inside your own building ," he says, adding that the data could be helpful in improving firm and worker performance.
But he cautions that employers are likely to want data on individual workers. " Not many service providers are going to refuse to give information to an employer that's paying the bill ," says Mr. Maltby. " It would be very surprising if some provider doesn't start giving employers data about individual employees when they ask for it. That's not illegal. But do you really want your employers following around what you are doing? It's a creepy way to work. "
Sensors also can reveal how workers use office space. Kimberly-Clark Corp . employees frequently griped that the consumer-product company's Neenah, Wis., offices were short on meeting space. Kimberly-Clark placed space-usage sensors offered by furniture maker Herman Miller Inc. beneath chairs and in conference rooms. It found that groups of three to four employees were gathering in meeting rooms designed for much larger numbers, says Mike Dietzen, a facilities planner.
As a result, the company carved out more and smaller conference spaces designed for small groups. Space-availability complaints have gone down significantly since, Mr. Dietzen says.
Putting badges on workers is just the beginning of a broader trend, researchers say. As companies rethink their offices, many are looking into "smart buildings," wired with technologies that show workers' location in real time and suggest meetings with colleagues nearby.
Philip Ross, CEO of workplace consulting firm UnWork.com , says these features will encourage " engineered serendipity."
To be sure, companies lured by the promise of fine-grained data on their workforces must figure out what to do with it.
Chuck Kelly, a senior vice president at Jones Lang LaSalle , relied on space-use sensors this past fall to see how workers used the property-management firm's downtown Chicago workspace.
"We wanted to see if the perception of how they were using their space matched up to the reality of how they are using their space," he says.
The project generated a slew of graphs and spreadsheets, but about three months later, Mr. Kelly is still trying to extract relevant insights from the noise. It's been a challenge, he says, "getting your head around all that data and what it means."


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When trying to improve, in virtually anything, you always look at the same thing; past data. Statistics and footage are important in spotting those crucial little details that can make the difference between finishing second and winning the league.
FM17 follows suit. Serious attention to detail is necessary to create an effective tactic and, with FM's partnership with 'STATS,' this detail is much easier to find. You have a wealth of statistics at your fingertips and, coupled with footage and highlights of previous matches, you have all the tools to be a successful manager. You do need, however, to be patient.
Every manager has a style of play that they bring with them from club-to-club and want to implement wherever they go, but the best managers, those really worth their salt, are the ones that can learn to get the best out of what they currently have. The key is adaptability. You need to assess your existing personnel to figure out their strengths and weaknesses and, thus, what tactic will best suit your squad. Having too rigid a tactic can be disruptive.
Key things to look out for when creating a tactic:
If the overall work rate, stamina and determination of your squad is low, don't try and play with a high tempo or ask your players to close down more, as they're lacking the crucial attributes that determine the effectiveness of this tactic.
A high level of passing means that your squad may be suited to playing a possession game. Try asking your players to use shorter passing, retain possession and work the ball into the box.
Similarly, if your defenders, too, have high passing, composure and vision attributes, ask your team to play out from defence.
If you have speedy fullbacks and wingers that can beat their marker and cross accurately, perhaps ask your team to hit early crosses and look for the overlap to really take advantage of your ability in the flanks. Asking your exploit the flanks in your build-up play would also be a good choice in this respect.
If you like to play with a target man up front and you possess a strong striker that's a threat in the air, ask your team to pump the ball into the box so that he can hold the ball up and bring others into play.
The point here is that, whilst it's important to have a clear idea of your tactic in mind, you have to be able to adapt to the strengths and weaknesses of your squad, in general, and the individuals at your disposal. Asking a generally slow, unfit team that passes poorly to play a high-pressing, possession game is counter-intuitive.
Additionally, make sure to check out your assistant manager's team report. This will give you an in-depth breakdown of the strengths and weaknesses of your squad, including the source of some of your on-field problems. Supplement this with your squad depth as you'll then have a greater awareness of how well-suited each player is to the role you're asking of them, plus the strength of personnel in the position.
Now that the first step is out of the way and your tactic is set-up, the next key asset of a successful manager is fine-tuning. You have to fully understand your players to get the best out of them. To achieve this, inspect a player's individual stats with an analytical eye. Have a productive preseason and read the post-match analysis reports to have a better knowledge of how well your tactics are working so you can iron out any issues before real competition begins.
These reports will reveal the focus of your attacks, the best passing combinations, heat maps, direction of passes and so on. The point is that it's extremely in depth and will be a valuable tool in your management. Here's they key things to look out for in the post-match analysis reports:
Comparing defenders can reveal who's making the most interceptions, tackles and clearances. It can help identify how you concede goals who's responsible and, subsequently, who will need replacing in transfer windows.
Looking at heat maps reveals the focus of your play and in what positions players spend the most time. This can help in terms of team shape and width.
It can help you monitor how well your passing works. If your possession game isn't fruitful, take a look at the accuracy of your short passing. Too direct, however, and passes may be inaccurate and costly. It could show that you need players with better passing attributes or your style doesn't suit your personnel.
You'll also be able to see how clinical your strikers are in terms of goals scored compared with shots on target. It may inform your decision whether to sign a striker with better finishing.
If a player performs poorly, looking at his individual stats can help find the root of the problem. For example, is he failing to take players on, losing the ball too many times or missing too many headers? It helps you to make tactical adjustments and focus the players training more specifically.
Outside of these team reports, if you go to the squad screen, the 'general info' dropdown menu and click stats, this will give you a host of individual stats including general play and discipline.
It's important to supplement your use of data with visual sources of information, that being watching the games. Don't just set the highlights to 'commentary only' to power through a season quickly, cast a watchful eye over every match.
Whatever tactic you choose to employ at the start of the season, it's important that you have a clear blueprint in mind. Without this, you can't expect to achieve anything.
Here's a list of key aspects to keep your eye on during the game:
How your players are positioned after losing possession. For example, were they caught out of position or did they close the ball down and create a gap in the line? This could show that you should ask your players to close down less and stick to their positions.
Where and how your attacks end. Is the final ball letting you down from a wide position? Are you struggling to pick that key penetrative pass? Are your strikers failing to convert? You might need to change how you attack the final third.
If the distance between defenders, midfielders and forwards are as you want. If the answer is no, you need to adjust your players' mentalities (defend, support or attack).
How the players retain their shape. Are they too wide when you've set a 'narrow' team instruction? Are they sitting too deep even though you set a 'play slightly higher' instruction for the defensive line?
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Failing to convert crosses. Are your strikers getting in the right positions? If not, this could indicate they lack anticipation, speed and jumping reach.
Passing options when attacking. Are your fullbacks making overlapping runs on the wings? Is there someone in a deep position? Is a striker trying to break the line? Adjusting your build-up play will help eradicate these issues.
How your players react after losing the ball. Do they rally back to defend or lethargically track back? This could indicate that you need players with higher determination attributes.
After analysing these situations, the solutions become fairly obvious. For example, if you notice that there's too much distance between different units on the pitch, adjust the player mentalities, the team shape or width.
When everything's going wrong and you're in a slump, don't panic. Get back to basics. Look at why you concede and why you don't score. Ask whether you're committing too many men forwards or if you're good enough at attacking and defending set pieces. Addressing these issues first are important to have a solid foundation to build on.
Don't try to initiate a complete overhaul at once. Slow and steady wins the race. Little adjustments is the way forward as implementing too much in a short space of time will disrupt your team cohesion and the players' tactical understanding.
Remember to inspect the pre and post-match analysis reports so you can have a better understanding of the upcoming opposition and what went right or wrong in the last game you played.
Lastly, always consult your assistant manager and coaching staff for tips and advice. On FM17, they provide more information than ever before and they're put there for a vital reason.
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Pacific Symphony Presents Cafe Ludwig Brahms And The Romantics
BroadwayWorld.com Sep. 8, 2016
Pacific Symphony's popular chamber music series, Café Ludwig, returns to sweeten up Sundays with coffee, treats and music that's extra delicious. For the first concert of the series, the focus is on the towering genius of Brahms, which cast a long shadow and influenced many of his contemporaries, including Dvo?ák, a devoted friend whom he mentored. In the spotlight, led by the incomparable pianist and series host Orli Shaham, are Symphony musicians Paul Manaster, violin; Bridget Dolkas, violin; MerEdith Crawford, viola; Timothy Landauer, cello; and Steven Edelman, bass. The program opens with a Brahms-inspired work by a young Israeli-American composer, Avner Dorman, commissioned and recorded by Shaham, called "After Brahms," followed by Dvo?ák's String Quintet No. 2, Op. 77 and Brahms' Piano Quartet No. 3, Op. 60.
Enjoy coffee or tea and sample sweet treats in Café Ludwig's coffeehouse-style setting, while enjoying the aural beauty of chamber music during "Brahms & the Romantics," taking place on Sunday, Oct. 2, at 3 p.m., in the Samueli Theater at Segerstrom Center for the Arts. Tickets are $70 and $88; for more information or to purchase tickets, call (714) 755-5799 or visit www.PacificSymphony.org.
"I am overjoyed to be starting my ninth season at Cafe Ludwig!" exclaims Shaham, whose piano playing has been called "perfection" by the London Guardian. As in the past, behind every program curated by Shaham is a poetic notion: "This will be another unusual trip through the repertoire, with powerful performances of fantastic works. In this first program, we'll be exploring links between Brahms and his fellow composers. The Piano Quartet in C Minor, the anchor of the program, is a middle work of Brahms, published in 1875 when the composer was 42. At this time in Brahms' life, the ghost of Beethoven, which had haunted him throughout his career, was finally about to be vanquished. He would premiere his first symphony (in the same key as this quartet, and likewise, also including a slow movement in E major) the following year and was deep at work on it."
Brahms famously waited so long for a first symphony precisely because it was so difficult to know what to write that could follow Beethoven's Ninth in the canon. In this quintet, he incorporates a 16th-century chorale, the famous four-note, so-called "Fate" motive from Beethoven's Fifth symphony, and a direct reference to Mendelssohn's great C Minor Piano Trio.
"All these references make the quartet a perfect vehicle to illustrate how composition does not occur in a vacuum," says Shaham. "Composers are constantly dealing with choices their forefathers have made, whether overtly or even subconsciously. In Brahms' case, you can literally see how his studies of previous works in C minor, his immersion in chamber music of the past and his focus on symphonies before him, all go into forming this incredible masterwork."
The quartet itself is both dark and intense, with moments of poignant beauty and grand release. The scherzo has one of the great moments of the chamber repertoire-after an emotional ride in C minor, Brahms ends with a mood-lifting C major, using a classic move from the Renaissance (a Picardy third) to crown the movement. "A great composer truly draws on everything that came before!" says Shaham.
Dvo?ák's Second String Quintet was published the same year as Brahms' Quartet. In fact, this was also the year in which Dvo?ák received the Austrian State Prize for composition, an award for which Brahms had served on the jury. Although not a work of specific deference to Brahms, it is a piece with clear understanding of how Brahms and others put together large-scale chamber works. Typical of Dvo?ák, it also contains Slavonic influences in the melodies.
"Dvo?ák must have studied the music of Brahms as it came into his life, but he hadn't yet met the man who would so help his career," comments Shaham. "Brahms could already clearly see the potential of this younger composer at this stage, and it is particularly interesting to assess what aspects of Dvo?ák's writing were so appealing to Brahms as he struggled in his own creative journey. Already at this early stage (he was 33 when it was published), Dvo?ák could hold together large structures beautifully, allowing different keys to flow into each other with a skilled harmonic hand. His ability to extract tuneful melodies from the popular music around him was also evident. It's a sweet, special work with a sound world that is uniquely Dvo?ák's."
Living composer, Avner Dorman, wrote the three "After Brahms" Intermezzos featured in the concert a few years ago, when Shaham commissioned him to "be inspired by late Brahms" as part of an album she was creating, called "Brahms Inspired," connecting Brahms' own musical inspirations with works inspired by him. The first two pieces are paraphrases of intermezzos by Brahms (Opus 118 No. 1 and Opus 119 No. 1, respectively).
Dorman took the challenge in "unexpected and stunning directions," remarks Shaham. "For the first, he takes the right hand of Brahms' piece along with the left hand of the Brahms and interjects an insistent chromatic motive in between. Over the course of the piece, that little motive causes the Brahmsian lines to disintegrate and a forceful nuclear explosion clears the way for the next pieces!"
The second intermezzo is based in character, form and shape on that famous intermezzo of Brahms' that begins with his trademark falling thirds. (The C Minor Quartet's slow movement also begins with these). Dorman is able to capture Brahms' ability to incorporate the feeling of popular music in the concert world, while maintaining the highest compositional standards.
"He also takes the lead from Brahms, who makes the harmony ever richer through a series of falling thirds, extending that richness into what is permissible in the 21st century, from a 13th chord in Brahms' case to a 27th chord in Dorman's!" says Shaham. "Dorman's third intermezzo is the most original in material and that most evokes Brahms' writing style: sentimental, highly personal, full of nostalgia and pathos, introspective."
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Federal Appeals Court Upholds The Nationwide Injunction Blocking Trump's Travel Ban
A panel of federal appeals court judges issued an opinion on Thursday upholding a nationwide injunction that blocks enforcement of the administration's temporary ban on immigration from six majority-Muslim countries.
By Zoe Tillman
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A federal appeals court on Thursday struck another blow against the Trump administration's efforts to temporarily halt immigration from six majority-Muslim countries, upholding a nationwide injunction that blocks the travel ban in President Trump's second executive order on the issue.
A majority of a full sitting of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that although President Trump had broad power to deny entry into the United States, his executive order "stands to cause irreparable harm to individuals across the nation."
"The question for this Court, distilled to its essential form, is whether the Constitution ... remains 'a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace,'" Fourth Circuit Chief Judge Roger Gregory wrote in the majority opinion. "And if so, whether it protects Plaintiffs' right to challenge an Executive Order that in text speaks with vague words of national security, but in context drips with religious intolerance, animus, and discrimination."
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement that the Justice Department will seek review of the Fourth Circuit's decision by the US Supreme Court.
"The Department of Justice strongly disagrees with the decision of the divided court, which blocks the President's efforts to strengthen this country's national security," Sessions said. "As the dissenting judges explained, the executive order is a constitutional exercise of the President's duty to protect our communities from terrorism. The President is not required to admit people from countries that sponsor or shelter terrorism, until he determines that they can be properly vetted and do not pose a security risk to the United States."
The ruling is the first appellate court ruling on the second executive order, which was signed March 6. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit also heard arguments earlier this month over a more broad injunction against the executive order out of Hawaii, but has yet to release its decision. A Ninth Circuit ruling in February that allowed an injunction against Trump's first attempt at a travel ban to stand paved the way for the second version.
The second executive order would halt immigration from six countries — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen – for 90 days while the administration reviewed immigration policies. The Fourth Circuit held that the challengers were likely to succeed on their claims that the travel ban was in reality intended to be a Muslim ban and violated the Constitution's Establishment Clause, which prohibits the government from favoring or disfavoring a particular religion.
Gregory wrote that, despite the administration's arguments that the executive order on its face had nothing to do with religion, the plaintiffs presented enough evidence that the national security justification was a "pretext for its religious purpose."
The judges rejected the Justice Department's arguments that the court shouldn't give weight to Trump's campaign statements in favor of a Muslim ban, quoting them at length. The court also cited post-inauguration statements by Trump and his advisors about the administration's two attempts at a travel ban — the second version was signed after the first one was repeatedly struck down by courts as likely unconstitutional — including Trump's remarks that the second version was a "watered down version of the first order."
"These statements, taken together, provide direct, specific evidence of what motivated both EO-1 and EO-2: President Trump's desire to exclude Muslims from the United States," Gregory wrote. "We need not probe anyone's heart of hearts to discover the purpose of EO-2, for President Trump and his aides have explained it on numerous occasions and in no uncertain terms."
Omar Jadwat, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Immigrants' Rights Project, argued the case for the challengers.
"President Trump's Muslim ban violates the Constitution, as this decision strongly reaffirms. The Constitution's prohibition on actions disfavoring or condemning any religion is a fundamental protection for all of us, and we can all be glad that the court today rejected the government's request to set that principle aside," Jadwat said in a statement.
The Fourth Circuit, which heard arguments on May 8, upheld in large part the injunction entered by a Maryland federal district court blocking the travel ban. US District Judge Theodore Chuang in April enjoined all of the federal officials and agencies sued, including President Trump individually, from enforcing the travel ban. The Fourth Circuit found that Chuang erred in including the president in his order, but otherwise upheld the entirety of the injunction.
Ten of the thirteen judges that heard arguments in the case voted to uphold the injunction: Gregory and judges Diana Gribbon Motz, William Traxler Jr., Robert King, Barbara Milano Keenan, James Wynn Jr., Albert Diaz, Henry Floyd, Stephanie Thacker, and Pamela Harris. Wynn wrote a separate, concurring opinion that called the travel ban "invidious discrimination."
"Invidious discrimination that is shrouded in layers of legality is no less an insult to
our Constitution than naked invidious discrimination," Wynn wrote, drawing comparisons to two now widely-disavowed US Supreme Court decisions that upheld political actions that were used to justify slavery and Japanese internment during World War II: Dred Scott and Korematsu.
Traxler didn't join the entirety of Gregory's majority opinion, instead writing a one-paragraph concurring opinion that only said that he joined in the decision to uphold the nationwide injunction. This could mean that he disagreed with Gregory's analysis, or only agreed in part.
The other three judges — Judges Paul Niemeyer, Dennis Shedd, and G. Steven Agee — dissented, each writing their own opinions about their disagreements with the majority.
Niemeyer wrote that the majority was wrong to look beyond the facially neutral text of the executive order.
"In looking behind the face of the government's action for facts to show the alleged
bad faith, rather than looking for bad faith on the face of the executive action itself, the
majority grants itself the power to conduct an extratextual search for evidence suggesting
bad faith, which is exactly what three Supreme Court opinions have prohibited," he wrote.
Niemeyer also warned that it was dangerous for courts to consider campaign statements in a case like this. Anticipating that the legal fight over the travel ban would eventually make its way to the Supreme Court, he added that the justices "surely will shudder at the majority's adoption of this new rule that has no limits or bounds."
"Because of their nature, campaign statements are unbounded resources by which
to find intent of various kinds. They are often short-hand for larger ideas; they are
explained, modified, retracted, and amplified as they are repeated and as new
circumstances and arguments arise. And they are often ambiguous. A court applying the
majority's new rule could thus have free reign to select whichever expression of a
candidate's developing ideas best supports its desired conclusion," he wrote.
Shedd wrote in his dissenting opinion that the administration had presented legitimate national security concerns in adopting the executive order.
"Regrettably, at the end of the day, the real losers in this case are the millions of individual Americans whose security is threatened on a daily basis by those who seek to do us harm," he wrote.
Two judges recused from the case, J. Harvie Wilkinson III and Allyson Duncan. Wilkinson recused because his son-in-law is Acting Solicitor General Jeffrey Wall, who argued the case for the government. The reasons for Duncan's recusal are unknown.
This is a developing news story. Please check back at BuzzFeed News for the latest.
Zoe Tillman is a senior legal reporter with BuzzFeed News and is based in Washington, DC.
Contact Zoe Tillman at zoe.tillman@buzzfeed.com.


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We are one of the first who got Xiaomi Mi Note 3 for a review. The smartphone has a lot of interesting features that make it stand out from the crowd. Without further ado, let's see what the new Mi Note has to show us.
A black box the smartphone ships in is really well-made. Inside we have a power adapter, a USB Type-C charging cable, a headphone jack adapter, a silicone case and a user manual.
Mi Note 3 is a bigger Mi 6, but as stylish. Do not they look like siblings to you? Mi Note 3 has aluminum alloy frame with the back panel being made of glass. It is available in three colors: white, black and blue. We got the blue one and it looks very impressive.
The front is entirely occupied by a large 5.5-inch screen featuring a multifunctional button with fingerprint sensor under it and two touch buttons. A front camera, a speaker, and a light sensor are sitting in the upper part of the phone. At the rear of the smartphone, you will find a dual camera module and a dual-color LED flash. A SIM card slot is on the phone's left edge, while the right edge is given to the volume controls and a lock button.
At the bottom of the smartphone, there is a USB Type-C connector and a speaker with a microphone. On top, we have IR-blaster to control "smart" devices.
Journalists say that Mi Note 3 has a more compact body design than iPhone 7 Plus, although both smartphones sport the same display size. With that, Mi Note 3 makes a decent argument for itself in everyday use. But still, despite having not the smallest screen, the smartphone is lightweight just like Mi 6. You will be able to tuck the smartphone into the pocket of your jeans or trousers. The only thing to pay attention to is a glass back panel that makes the smartphone slide off smooth surfaces.
At the heart of Xiaomi Mi Note 3 lies the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 processor, which demonstrates exceptional performance along with amazing energy efficiency. There is no memory card slot as the smartphone comes with either 64GB or 128GB ROM, which Xiaomi though would be enough for a contemporary smartphone user. The blue version comes with only 128GB of ROM. The smartphone is also equipped with 6GB of RAM, which at the moment is one of the highest RAM numbers in class. Any modern game will work smoothly and won't lag. MIUI works fast, we do not have a single complaint about it.
The display of Mi Note 3 got shrunk compared to the previous generation. The last Mi Note smartphone had a 5.7-inch screen, and here we have a 5.5-inch one. Beside, OLED in Mi Note 2 changed into IPS in Mi Note 3. What did not change was a Full HD resolution. The display looks spectacular and offers advanced color gamut settings, ability to reduce brightness to 1 nit and special reading mode. In the direct sunlight, it works perfectly, the image does not look pale and is easy to read.
Xiaomi Mi Note 3 is equipped with the same camera module as Mi 6. There are two 12MP cameras, each with a different lens: one with a f/1.8 wide-angle lens and the other with a f/2.6 telephoto lens. A four-axis image stabilization system provides crisp shots even when your hands shake. The telephoto lens has a 2x optical zoom that allows you to create photos with a blurred background, which is the so-called "Bokeh effect", previously available in mirror cameras.
The front camera offers 16MP and supports Adaptable AL Beautify selfie correction. It can remove wrinkles, even out the tone of your skin tone and even change your face shape. With the help of the front camera, you can unlock the smartphone. If you are uncomfortable unlocking the device with a fingerprint scanner, for example, when your hands are wet, just look into the camera and the smartphone will be unlocked.
There is a 3500mAh battery beating inside Mi Note 3, which allows you to use the smartphone for two days without recharging. It is a very good result taking into account all of the above specs. Mi Note 3 supports Qualcomm Quick Charge 3.0 fast charging technology that lets you to fully charge the battery in an hour.
Xiaomi Mi Note 3, a bigger brother of Mi 6, is ideal for those who like massive smartphones with a solid performance. Cool cameras, stylish design, a fast processing unit, brilliant display and impressive functionality — this is what you get under one roof.


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Holly Hill's nicest fake Roman ruins are now in danger of looking like, well, ruins.
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The archway on the south side of the road now is buttressed with two tall screw jacks and a concrete barrier was brought in to protect the structure from new insults. A shame.
I often show off this local landmark to visitors. To see it, you turn at the strip mall on U.S. Highway 1, go past the railroad tracks, and there they are: What looks like late-empire Roman ruins complete with columns, vine-covered friezes depicting chariot teams and mysterious stairs leading down into a green drainage canal.
The site is kind of hidden away so few know about it. It always surprises people when I drive them over.
That the columns are near the railroad track is no coincidence. When they were built in 1923, the idea was that train passengers coming into town would look outside, see this stately structure, and know that here was no fly-by-night Florida real estate scam but a subdivision built for the ages. A project with ambitions.
The developer, Walter C. Hardesty, had the timing to arrive here from Ohio just before the Great Florida Land Boom got underway.
His wife designed the faux Roman ruins and they were said to cost almost $50,000 to build, about $690,000 today.
Sadly, the '20s land boom, like our last land boom, was fueled by some of the most creative twists of creative financing, proved unsustainable and collapsed in 1926. Bad hurricanes in 1926 and 1928 finished things off.
With runs on banks and bankruptcies, Florida didn't need to wait for the 1929 stock market collapse to experience the Great Depression.
Hardesty died in 1935 as his property was still being auctioned for back taxes and he was fighting foreclosures in court. The litigation would outlive him.
Maybe 30 houses in his project got built. Plus the Riviera Hotel nearby on U.S. 1, which is now an assisted-living facility.
So, these are ruins from an early 20th-century fallen empire, not an early third-century fallen empire. Close enough.
The county owns the columns now, and I had always hoped it might make the site into a small park. Even though cars and trucks do seem to veer into them from time to time and kids spray-paint unintelligible things on them.
They would serve as a picturesque monument to lost dreams and a warning to the future about vicissitudes of Florida real estate.


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Q: Multiple left joins and performance I have following tables:
products - 4500 records
Fields: id, sku, name, alias, price, special_price, quantity, desc, photo, manufacturer_id, model_id, hits, publishing
products_attribute_rel - 35000 records
Fields: id, product_id, attribute_id, attribute_val_id
attribute_values - 243 records
Fields: id, attr_id, value, ordering
manufacturers - 29 records
Fields: id, title,publishing
models -  946 records
Fields: id, manufacturer_id, title, publishing
So I get data from these tables by one query:
SELECT jp.*,
       jm.id AS jm_id,
       jm.title AS jm_title,
       jmo.id AS jmo_id,
       jmo.title AS jmo_title
FROM `products` AS jp
LEFT JOIN `products_attribute_rel` AS jpar ON jpar.product_id = jp.id
LEFT JOIN `attribute_values` AS jav ON jav.attr_id = jpar.attribute_val_id
LEFT JOIN `manufacturers` AS jm ON jm.id = jp.manufacturer_id
LEFT JOIN `models` AS jmo ON jmo.id = jp.model_id
GROUP BY jp.id HAVING COUNT(DISTINCT jpar.attribute_val_id) >= 0

This query is slow as hell. It takes hundreds of seconds mysql to handle it.
So how it would be possible to improve this query ? With small data chunks it works
perfectly well. But I guess everything ruins products_attribute_rel table, which
has 35000 records.
Your help would be appreciated.
EDITED
EXPLAIN results of the SELECT query:

A: The problem is that MySQL uses the join-type ALL for 3 tables. That means that MySQL performs 3 full table scans, puts every possibility together before sorting those out that don't match the ON statement. To get a much faster join-type (for instance eq_ref), you must put an index on the coloumns that are used on the ON statements.
Be aware though that putting an index on every possible coloumn is not recommended. A lot of indexes do speed up SELECT statements, however it also creates an overhead since the index must be stored and managed. This means that manipulation queries like UPDATE and DELETE are much slower. I've seen queries deleting only 1000 records in half an hour. It's a trade-off where you have to decide what happens more often and what is more important.
To get more infos on MySQL join-types, take a look at this.
More on indexes here.

A: Tables data is not so much huge that it's taking hundreds of seconds. Something is wrong with table schema. Please do proper indexing. That will surly speed up.

A: select distinct
jm.id AS jm_id,
jm.title AS jm_title,
jmo.id AS jmo_id,
jmo.title AS jmo_title
from products jp,
products_attribute_rel jpar,
attribute_values jav,
manufacturers jm
models jmo
where jpar.product_id = jp.id
and jav.attr_id = jpar.attribute_val_id
and jm.id = jp.manufacturer_id
and jmo.id = jp.model_id

you can do that if you want to select all the data. Hope it works.

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calmly waiting for their breakfast.
the misty fog enhancing the glossy black + sparkling white of their feathers.
which we saw on Friday night, in a most fabulous production by Bell Shakespeare?
Escaped from the stage and into the mist?
Nay ~ just the family popping in for a snack.
Mother to the left, father to the centre, baby to the right.
And on the breakfast menu this morning?
the larking melodic song of the magpie.
the song of a happy bird is sweet music to any ears.
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