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( Brand Connect Initiative ) Here's how 5G-powered IoT could help India realize its Digital goals better, quicker, and more affordably Updated: August 29, 2017, 18:39 IST
Even as India is in the midst of 4G rollouts, it may already be time to start planning for 5G. One big reason is internet of things (IoT), without which a truly digital landscape would remain elusive. While the current generation of LTE networks too could be used for IoT, and even for the more specific needs of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications for some time, it is not natively optimized for IoT networks.
4G networks were built primarily to make high-speed broadband happen for the troika of voice, data, and video; much like 3G was designed to cater to voice and data or 2G was architected for voice. Also, just as 2.5G techs like GPRS and EDGE were used in the interim before 3G went mainstream, the pre-5G ecosystem of complementing and supplementing technologies is already falling in place.
These 5G-complementing technologies have been designed to address two vastly different sets of IoT and M2M scenarios—one that applies to bandwidth-intensive high-performance applications; and the other that pertains to low-bit rate delay-tolerant applications. Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMMB) is the industry standard suited for the first set of use cases; while Enhanced Machine-Type Communication (eMTC) and Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) are the techs suited for the other set. All these are developed by 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), a global collaboration between groups of telecommunications associations.
Talking of use cases, VoLTE-based asset tracking and healthcare applications would be some of the obvious and ready candidates for eMMB, while example use cases for eMTC and NB-IoT could be batch transmissions of sensor data pertaining to agricultural and industrial environments.
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4G LTE has certainly accelerated the pace of broadband adoption across the country and going by an Ericsson Mobility Report, India would likely have a subscriber base of over 520 million over the next five years. This should be able to provide the initial scale, along with the associated network infrastructure, to support the early IoT and M2M connectivity requirements.
However, as the number of IoT-connected devices crosses a threshold and approaches a hyper scale, the LTE networks are bound to struggle in keeping communications seamless. Today's LTE networks, though far speedier than their 3G predecessors, are known to suffer from severe performance drops with even a routine spike in number of users or traffic.
Moreover, Digital India is not just about connecting people to the internet; it is also about generating, aggregating, and analyzing a myriad of citizen data for better delivery of e-governance services. It also goes without saying that the success of Digital India programs would be directly proportional to the engagement they are able to create with the stakeholders, including citizens, whom they would be targeted for.
5G, on account of the intelligence that it could potentially build into an IoT network, would also help create the engagement that an e-governance program typically strives to achieve. It would be able to do so by virtue of augmented capabilities such as hyper-localization and context-awareness. For example, a public distribution system (PDS) outlet may be able to communicate status of its inventories directly to the beneficiaries residing in the area and even advise them on various preferred PDS visiting slots so that they could avoid queuing up and waiting.
The 4G LTE standard, on the other hand, has not been architected to let a big-data intelligence reside on the network and be pushed to-and-fro the users' access devices. Moreover, a 4G communication is also battery-hogging and therefore not well suited for hyper-local data exchanges with multiple smart devices and sensors that would dot a citizen's landscape in an IoT era.
The 5G ecosystem development has received a significant boost from the concerted R&D investments that industry-leading players like Qualcomm have been putting in. The chipmaker showcased its 5G vision document early last year, illustrating how a multi-modal, multi-connectivity approach would be essential to a successful 5G deployment. This warranted that interconnect technologies with a range of other networks such as Wi-Fi and 4G got developed and tested before the governments could start awarding 5G spectrum licenses to the telecom service providers. The chipmaker noted it had conducted the world's first over-the-air Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) trail in association with Deutsche Telekom as early as November 2015. Technologies like LAA are considered critical spokes that would connect the end-user devices to a 5G LTE core.
Qualcomm's technologies powered the smartphone revolution and connected billions of people. It pioneered 3G and 4G, and is now leading the way to 5G and a new era of intelligent, connected devices. The company's products are revolutionizing industries, including automotive, computing, IoT, healthcare and data center, and are allowing millions of devices to connect with each other in ways never before imagined. For more information, visit Qualcomm website.
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2008 Toyota Highlander Review
A Much Improved CUV
By Steve Purdy
TheAutoChannel.com
Detroit Bureau
I'm just finishing up a bunch of Toyota reviews. Three are Camry derivatives: Avalon, Sienna and now this Highlander. The Avalon is an impressive full-size sedan with room to spare and excellent details. Sienna matches up admirably within the minivan market and this freshened Highlander is among the best in its class as well.
The Portland, Oregon-built Toyota Highlander mid-size, 7-passenger CUV was updated with a substantial redesign about a year ago after a 7-year run for the first generation, increasing size and power, subtly improving appearance and adding a hybrid version. I've not had a chance to test the hybrid but this week I'm driving a very nice, silver, well-optioned Highlander Limited, top of the three trim levels.
Highlander comes in base, Sport and Limited trim levels in the non-hybrid version, and a base and Limited in the hybrid. The base Highlander starts at $27,600 for the 2009 model year and the Highlander Hybrid starts at $34,200. The Highlander Limited (our tester) starts at $33,070 and its hybrid equivalent starts at $41,020. That's quite a premium for the hybrid drive system. Fuel mileage for the front-wheel drive hybrid is listed at 27 mpg in the city and 25 on the highway, compared to the non-hybrid's 18 mpg in the city and 24 on the highway. You'd have to run the numbers to see if it makes sense. Don't forget to figure in the green image factor, whatever that's worth to you.
This top-of-the-line Highlander shows a sticker price of $42,539 – that's from a base of $34,150. Options include: DVD rear seat entertainment system for $1,780; heated front seats costing $440; a navigation system package that includes voice activation, and a Bluetooth enabled JBL premium sound system, including satellite-ready compatibility, all for $2,505; power rear lift gate at $400; automatic rear AC with vent in second and third rows for $585; rear spoiler costing $200; power moon roof for $850; towing package at $220; mats costing $275 and XM satellite hook up for $449. Whew!
This newest generation has a much more stylish and sophisticated appearance than the earlier trucky-looking version. Character lines along the sides have a non-traditional look and accentuate the overall shape of the vehicle adding a bit of definition to what was a rather homogeneous design. Bigger, more dramatic headlight and taillight treatments give it a much more modern, up-to-date look while retaining an unmistakable resemblance to the earlier model.
The Highlander's interior is simple but nicely appointed. Leather seats have a quality look and feel, both front and rear. I'm impressed most with the wood accents that really look like wood. A medium-grained, natural finished wood that more resembles furniture than the shinny faux wood in most cars. I also like the large knobs for radio and climate control. They are so easy to manipulate I feel like a kid with a toy. Two large round gauges under a modest brow confront the driver with most of the info needed and controls are large, simple and attractive – one of the cleanest designs I've seen in this class of vehicle.
The second row seats are split 40/20/40, for extra center storage when needed. Third row, though is not split so it's all up or all down.
The Highlander is powered by the same 3.5-liter, high-content, bullet-proof V6 we find in most, if not all, of the Camry derivatives. Like the others there we have plenty of power – 270 horsepower and 248 pound-feet or torque - to move this fairly large vehicle expeditiously. The 5-speed automatic transmission with sequential shift (manual mode) is smooth, quick-shifting and efficient. Highlander is rated by the EPA at 17-mpg in the city and 23-mpg on the highway. Those are numbers we can reasonably expect to see in real world driving. We understand Toyota is planning 4-cylinder power before long.
Cargo capacity is just a tad less than competitors Mazda CX9 and GMC Acadia and its siblings. With all the seats up just about 10 cubic-feet are available. Fold the third seat and 42.5 cubic-feet open up. And with both rows folded we have 95.4 cubic-feet. The first generation Highlander had 81.6 cubic-feet max.
Safety features match the other Toyota cousins. Lots of airbags (just like in Congress), plenty of electronic chassis and handling controls (ABS, vehicle stability control, etc.) and all the other stuff we find on just about every vehicle these days. Highlander gets five stars (maximum score) in all the crash test criteria except front passenger protection and rollover, where four stars are awarded. By the way, I have yet to see a vehicle get all five stars for rollover protection.
Warranty covers the entire vehicle for 3 years or 35,000 miles and the drivetrain for 5 years or 50,000 miles.
The pricing seems to me to be on the mark for a well-equipped, well-designed, good looking CUV with the reputation for dependability that comes with a Toyota. It may not be particularly advanced in its features but is right in the meat of that market.
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Kmart falls back to form
Turnaround fizzles, adding to retail woes at Sears Holdings
Brigid Sweeney
Kmart's moment of glory is over.
The perennial laggard in discount retailing rallied during the recession as even affluent shoppers suddenly became cost-conscious. While department stores shuddered, Kmart glided to three consecutive quarters of same-store sales increases, coming from behind to beat both Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target Corp. by that metric and emerging as the golden child of its parent company, Hoffman Estates-based Sears Holdings Corp.
But Kmart's sales sagged again last quarter, dipping 1.4%, as discount retailers across the board struggled to keep customers who have grown blasé about constant price slashes.
"Everything that was 'value' or 'off-price' did well in 2009," says Paul Swinand, a retail analyst at Chicago-based Morningstar Inc. "Everyone last year went crazy about the fact that even rich people were shopping at Wal-Mart. But this year we're seeing a general decline in off-price retailers."
Kmart's stumble puts added pressure on its parent to turn around its namesake chain, Sears. Until this year's first quarter, same-store sales at Sears had fallen since hedge-fund king Edward Lampert merged Kmart and Sears in 2005. Sales resumed their decline last quarter, ended July 31, with a 2.8% drop, pushing Sears to an operating loss of $65 million in the U.S.
Company executives are pushing to get Kmart, which produced a third of Sears Holdings' overall revenue and $19 million in operating income, back on track, too. Sears' share price is down 40%, to $74.90, from a 52-week high in May.
The chore falls largely to Kmart's chief marketing officer, Mark Snyder, 52, who joined the company from InterContinental Hotels Group in 2008. Mr. Snyder acknowledges that Kmart has to "regain trust that's been lost over the years," but he says the recession provided a strong opportunity to reintroduce shoppers to the brand. As the make-or-break holiday season approaches, he's trying to persuade current clientele to spend more on such things as apparel while winning over others who still view Kmart as a distant third in the discount world, without Wal-Mart's low prices or Target's design sensibility.
It's an ambitious plan—and nothing short of necessary, according to retail analysts. "Kmart has to get creative to get customers in the door because they're not going to come naturally," says Gerald Nanninga, vice-president at Retail Ventures Inc. in Columbus, Ohio. "They've got to come up with something that sets them apart beyond simple price cuts."
One point of distinction is convenience, largely tied to the store's successful layaway program. Heavily promoted during the 2008 holiday season, the old-fashioned purchase plan did well for Kmart, which reveled in the fact that neither Wal-Mart nor Target offered anything like it. Kmart launched an online version last year and this year expanded the amount of time customers have to pay to 12 weeks from eight.
The company's updated brand also focuses on improved "soft-line" offerings, particularly apparel. "We had great labels like Route 66, but the problem is they're (in-house) labels, not well-known brands," Mr. Snyder says. "We had to bring in brands that had the ability to attract a customer who was not considering us." One such apparel line is the new Selena Gomez Dream Out Loud line, geared toward teens who didn't grow up shopping at Kmart. Mr. Snyder also pumped up the retailer's longtime brands, including the 25-year-old Jaclyn Smith line of separates, which now includes what he calls "hot pieces" like a faux-fur vest for $24.99.
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Kmart marketing chief Mark Snyder
On a larger scale, Kmart is chasing Target's well-clad heels with a new Kmart Design initiative, which gives shoppers a virtual look into the lives of the 250-plus designers who create Kmart's apparel and home goods. "These are designers who have worked for Ann Taylor and Pottery Barn," Mr. Snyder says. By plugging customers into these designers via social media, he wants to correct what he describes as the misconception that Kmart designers simply "go to Hong Kong and say, 'I'm going to take 3 billion of those and I'm only going to pay 50 cents apiece.' "
Analysts are skeptical about the project. "My eyes just start to roll when another retailer says, 'Hey, here's our new design initiative,' " Morningstar's Mr. Swinand says. "Everyone's hiring a new design team all the time, from Louis Vuitton down to Kmart."
The retailer is launching another offensive on the food front, which Sears Holdings blamed for Kmart's slump last quarter. Last month, Kmart launched a new private label, Smart Sense, with 500 products from trail mix to household cleaners to over-the-counter medications. By next year, the line will expand to more than 1,200 offerings.
Private label, when well- executed, can be extremely lucrative. It also can lend much-needed exclusivity to Kmart, according to Mr. Nanninga. "Before you can convince people you're better, you have to convince people you're different," he says. "If customers like your private label, it gives you a hot property they can't get anywhere else."
Mr. Nanninga says the retailer also could win by pushing convenience. "I don't know a single person anywhere who likes the checkout experience at Wal-Mart," he says. "Time is a very valuable commodity."
Mr. Snyder is steadfast in his belief that success in the sexier domain of clothing and design can lift storewide sales. "If I can get you to come in and sample something—buy the Jaclyn Smith faux-fur vest—you'll consider Kmart more holistically," he says. "If you feel better about apparel and home, you're more likely to come here and buy the elements of everyday life."
quote|Gerald Nanninga,vice-president, Retail Ventures Inc.
' Kmart has to get creative to get customers in the door because they're not going to come naturally.'
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The material that follows is meant to serve as a brief review of neuroanatomy relative to swallowing to renew our clinical knowledge and skills. It is not intended to serve as an exhaustive description of neuroanatomy.
During our initial consult or clinical swallowing evaluation, many of us routinely perform an oral mechanism examination before proceeding to administer test boluses. We assess and treat swallowing function; however, we also evaluate swallowing function relative to its neurological underpinnings. As we ask a child to close her lips, we are evaluating labial seal in light of anterior bolus containment and production of labial speech sounds. However, we are also cognitive of the fact that lip seal is largely innervated by the Facial Cranial Nerve (CN, V). Thus, this article serves to review basic Neuro-anatomy relative to swallowing.
Swallowing occurs reflexively at a brainstem level. We know this through animal studies that have decerebrated cats where the cats continued to swallow . However, we also know that swallowing receives cortical influences. That is, cell bodies of neurons originate in the motor strip (pre-central gyrus). Their axons course inferi- orly through the internal capsule of the brain and synapse at other cell bodies of neurons in the brainstem. These axons emerge from the brainstem and innervate the muscles utilized in speech and swallowing. The first cell body (originating in the cortex) and its axon is known as the upper motor neuron. The lower cell body (originating in the brainstem) and its axon is known as the lower motor neuron, final common pathway, or cranial nerve.
Swallowing is a motor or efferent process but equally important is the role of the sensory or afferent limb. Oral and pharyngeal mucosal receptors "feel" the bolus and signal the brain as to the size, viscosity, taste, and temperature of the bolus. All of these bolus properties have been demonstrated to change the timing of swallowing physiology. Thus, this afferent process or the sensory part of the swallow is every bit as important as the actual swallow itself.
I think it is easy to fall in the pattern of only evaluating and treating the motor part of the swallow while neglecting the sensory portion. That is, we tend to overlook how important it is that the brain receive the appropriate information as to the properties of the bolus so that it may generate an appropriate motor response. If the brain doesn't work correctly on the sensory end, it is highly unlikely it will work efficiently on the motor end.
Sensory pathways typically involve three major neurons. The first neuron (axon and its cell body) incorporates the receptor that "feels" the bolus and courses towards the central nervous system. This first neuron synapses with the second major neuron which is located in the spinal cord or brainstem. The second neuron projects its axon superiorly to the thalamus which begins processing the sensory information obtained. The third neuron projects its axon superiorly to the sensory cortex.
Both the motor and sensory pathways just described have been simplified; however, one can appreciate how a lesion to the cortex or brainstem can affect the ability to receive the appropriate sensory information and therefore execute delayed or weakened motor responses with swallowing.
At just the brainstem level, the major nuclei (compilation of neurons) involved in sensory functions is the nucleus solitarius.
That is, the nucleus solitarius is a collection of neurons that receives the sensory information of bolus size, bolus viscosity, etc. The nucleus solitarius takes this information and sends it (via axons) up to the thalamus and sensory areas of the cortex. The nucleus solitarius also projects axons to other areas of the brainstem such as the nucleus ambiguous.
The nucleus ambiguous is a major nuclei of the brainstem that is involved in sending out motor commands to initiate swallowing. Since the nucleus ambiguous is part of the motor aspect of swallowing, it receives projections of neurons that originate at the motor strip of the cortex and project downward to the brainstem. The nucleus ambiguous also receives information directly from the nucleus solitarius. The neurons in the nucleus ambiguous are part of lower motor neurons. That is, the cell body found in the nucleus ambiguous projects its axon to the muscle that needs to be contracted for swallowing.


Following recommendations from http://www.rb303.net/2010/01/terminal-server-2003-msiexec-high-cpu.html, I deleted all the HP printers, deleted all the HP drivers from the local print server properties, and then backed up and deleted the trees listed above as well as the HP Universal Print Monitor key (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Print\Monitors\HP Universal Print Monitor). I then reinstalled the necessary HP printers, one of which installed the Universal Print driver again, and checked the registry. Much cleaner.
After running a test install, it appears that removing those entries really cleaned up the registry quite a bit and is speeding up the installs. To give you an idea of the sheer size of the exported entries, in the default .reg format, the export took nearly 40MB. In plain-text (.txt) export, the size doubled. That's a lot of HP garbage.


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Las Vegas Public Viewing of B.B. King Draws Hundreds
More than 350 people were already lined up when doors opened to see B.B. King one last time.
B.B. King, 1925-2015
May 23, 2015, 1:55 AM UTC / Updated May 23, 2015, 12:06 PM UTC / Source: Associated Press
B.B. King kept drawing fans in Las Vegas, and a family feud simmered, during a public chance to say goodbye ahead of a weekend memorial service and a final King of the Blues road tour leading back home to the Mississippi Delta.
More than 1,000 people streamed past the body of the music legend during a four-hour public viewing Friday, said Matt Phillips, manager of the Palm South Jones Mortuary several miles west of the Las Vegas Strip.
Ushers ran out of 900 printed cards bearing King's dates of birth and death and lyrics to his signature song, "The Thrill is Gone."
A steady string of King's hit songs — "Everyday I Have the Blues," "Sweet Little Angel," "Why I Sing the Blues" — never stopped as ushers directed people to move past a casket framed by floral arrangements and two of his guitars, always called Lucille.
Georgia Jackson (L) of California and Jerry Wilson of Nevada play blues music as they wait for a public viewing for blues musician B.B. King at Palm South Jones Mortuary on May 22, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. King died on May 14 in Las Vegas at age 89.Ethan Miller / Getty Images
King died May 14 at home in Las Vegas. He was 89.
One of his 11 surviving children, daughter Rita Washington, greeted some of the 350 people in line when the doors opened. The day smelled like desert rain, but just stayed gray.
"Dad is just loving this," she said. "This is part of his homecoming."
Hours later, another daughter, Shirley King, said she was nothing but angry about the venue and the viewing.
"I'm very upset," she said. "I don't want to be out here disrespecting my father's rest. But something's wrong here."
Shirley King lives in Chicago, and it was her first glimpse of B.B. King since December. She said she thought there should have been seats for people to sit and talk, not just an aisle to shuffle past the body.
People who brought guitars had to leave them outside. No photos were permitted, and ushers stopped several people from trying.
But Marilyn and Tommy Burress weren't disappointed.
The couple from Milwaukee knew when they heard B.B. King had died that they had to pay their final respects. They were in Las Vegas this week for Tommy Burress' 72nd birthday.
"It's inspiring to see how many lives he touched," Tommy Burress, a retired auto worker, said afterward, "how many people loved his music and loved his attitude — friendliness, friendship and love of the people."
A Saturday memorial was set at a Palm Mortuary chapel in downtown Las Vegas.
In Las Vegas, the family feud began weeks ago, when King was hospitalized and then brought home for hospice care. Several of his adult children accused his longtime business agent, LaVerne Toney, of endangering his health and raiding his wealth.
A judge said two investigations found no evidence that King was mistreated or abused.
Daughters Karen Williams and Patty King accuse Toney of keeping them from seeing their father for a week after he died — and of preventing them from taking photos of him in his casket.
"We're his children," King said after a private family viewing of King's body on Thursday. "We're going to fight with every breath in our body."
Toney, who worked for King for 39 years, said she's doing what B.B. King said he wanted.
"They want to do what they want to do, which is take over, I guess," Toney said of the family group. "But that wasn't Mr. King's wishes."
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here countInfo is reference to a file and the method in which this piece of code is written my multiple threads. i am getting a null pointer exception at the "synchronized (countInfo)" line. i know this is because at this line it is not yet known wat countInfo is initialized to, so for this i will have to move the
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countInfo = new File(dto.findMyLocation()+"\\Properties\\countInfo"+Start.session.getId()+".txt");

line outside of the synchronous block. but if i do that , then all the threads accessing this method of mine will crate a new file. But my goal is only one of the threads (the first thread to come into this method ) has to create a file and all other threads should just read the info in the created file. How can i achieve this?? Please help.  I am new to java and Multi Threading! please enrich my knowledge!! thanks in advance!
UPDATE - an image that explains the flow.

the lines marked in YELLOW, cross session file access will never happen as i have used the session ID appended to the file name.

A: It will help you if you read a bit about threadsafe singlton or doublecheck locking mechanism.
For you scenario you can do something like this (may be for clear code seprate the logic for file creation and data writing):
    //make countinfo volatile
    public volatile File countInfo = null;
    .
    .
    public void writeIntoFile(){
            countInfo = getFile();
            synchronized (countInfo) {
                count++;
                BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(countInfo));
                writer.write(String.valueOf(count));
                writer.close();
            }
        }

        public File getFile(){
            if(countInfo==null){
                synchronized (this){
                    if(countInfo==null){
                        countInfo = new File(dto.findMyLocation()+"\\Properties\\countInfo"+Start.session.getId()+".txt");
                    }
                }
            }
            return countInfo;
        }

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Live, Die, Repeat — A Rogue Escape review in VR
By Ron Burke
You scramble into the elevator. You have no idea how you are going to escape, but you know you have to get free of this oppressive place. Bold as brass, you are going to get into that massive walking machine called a "Nauticrawl", and you are going to steal it. But for now you'll need to figure out how operate this stupid elevator…
A Rogue Escape Launch Date Trailer
A Rogue Escape is part escape room, part roguelite, and all interaction. Too many VR games lean in on the "show" angle and don't give the player their chance to jump in and interact to tell their stories. Here, you are given a simple objective — escape. How? Well, that's for you to figure out. Why are you escaping? That's a tale told along the way as well.
Once you figure out how to get the elevator to move, you'll find yourself in a Nauticrawl — a massive steampunk submarine-like monster that you have no business operating. The machine is a mystery, and the instructions aren't all that helpful either. It's time to start flipping switches, turning knobs, and muddling your way through. Here's the first 25 minutes of the game (I don't want to give away too much!) where I play through the game for the first time.
A Rogue Escape in VR on Oculus Quest 2 - First 30 minutes [Gaming Trend]
So, I failed. I ran my Nauticrawl out of fuel, and I managed to get through a door or two, but now I've been dragged back to my mysterious bastille. That's not gonna stop me from trying again — and now we have the roguelike portion of the game. Armed with the little bit of knowledge I gleaned from my last attempt, I have the beast up and running in seconds rather than 10 minutes. I now have a different problem — efficiency. I overheated last time — I won't do that again, but I still need to figure out how to stop the turrets from damaging my Nauticrawl. They didn't stop me, but running out of fuel did — I'll have to figure out how to make this thing more efficient or how to get more fuel along the way. Managing all that might get me outside the walls, but there's still the problem of being underwater in a mechanical monster that I'm unqualified to operate.
A Rogue Escape is all about experimentation. The game doesn't hold your hand, and like a submarine, you can't even see where you are going beyond the sonar system central to your controls. There are buttons, levers, wheels, switches, scopes, and knobs in every direction, and the directions you have are pictograms that are incredibly unclear, and yet somehow entirely too specific. Standing in the middle of all of these buttons, try not to panic when you realize you've not seen even half of what it takes to operate this machine properly.
As you saw in the video, the game doesn't provide much in the way of instructions beyond a simple and mysterious pictographic tablet. If that sort of gameplay causes you to run to your closest walkthrough site, then this is not the game for you. That said, if escape room logic puzzles, and figuring things out on a clock is your jam, then this is going to be right up your alley.
For a game that you'll be inspecting at very close range, you need gorgeous assets. The team at Spare Parts Oasis delivered that in spades. You'll be looking at scopes and dials, and readouts, but there are plenty of moments where you'll also encounter massive creatures, and even the odd vendor or two. It's a big expansion from the team's previous effort, Nauticrawl (Steam link) and a bit of a graphical and gameplay overhaul in the transition from flat screen to something that'll be inspected at far closer range. The year and a half between that game and A Rogue Escape has served the team very well.
The question in your head is likely "Is this a game I'm going to enjoy?", and the answer to that question lies in your enjoyment or aversion of roguelike elements. You are going to die. You'll keep dying, making the smallest amount of progress each time. If trial and error with fatal consequences isn't your thing, then this adventure is not for you. If you enjoy experimenting in VR and love the incredible feeling of discovery that blind luck, interacting, and deduction brings, then you need to grab A Rogue Escape.
A Rogue Escape
A roguelike where discovery of what to do is as important as how to do it, A Rogue Escape is an imaginative blend of escape room discovery, storytelling, and all the interactive elements you could ask for. While it is relatively short, that doesn't make the journey any less worthwhile.
—Ron Burke
A completely unique blend of story and gameplay elements
Solid presentation and sound
Thrill of discovery doesn't wear off
Interactions at every turn
Relatively short overall experience
Live, die, repeat gameplay loop is not for everyone
Ron Burke is the Editor in Chief for Gaming Trend. Currently living in Fort Worth, Texas, Ron is an old-school gamer who enjoys CRPGs, action/adventure, platformers, music games, and has recently gotten into tabletop gaming. Ron is also a fourth degree black belt, with a Master's rank in Matsumura Seito Shōrin-ryū, Moo Duk Kwan Tang Soo Do, Universal Tang Soo Do Alliance, and International Tang Soo Do Federation. He also holds ranks in several other styles in his search to be a well-rounded fighter. Ron has been married to Gaming Trend Editor, Laura Burke, for 21 years. They have three dogs - Pazuzu (Irish Terrier), Atë, and Calliope (both Australian Kelpie/Pit Bull mixes).
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Lutron + Atlassian
After growing team output by 30% in the first year with SAFe, we saw another roughly 30% incremental growth in output the following year with the adoption of Jira Align.
Over 30%
Year-over-year increase in product output
Plan, deliver, measure
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Lutron illuminates the way to intelligent lighting experiences with SAFe and Jira Align
Switching to an agile delivery method is a huge undertaking for established software development teams. But when you shift software and hardware teams – and all of their interdependencies – to a scaled agile delivery framework, the challenges go from difficult to downright daunting. Lutron Electronics felt in the dark about how to navigate the process, but Solution Partner Adaptavist and Atlassian helped light the way to a solution. By implementing the framework from Scaled Agile, Inc. (SAFe) along with Jira Align, Lutron has transformed their culture, processes, and platforms to not only deliver better products, but also better experiences for employees and customers alike.
Since 1960, Lutron Electronics has been a leader in lighting control. From residential dimmers and switches to smart commercial lighting and automated shade systems at the Empire State Building and Exxon's Houston headquarters (one of the largest commercial construction projects in the U.S.), hundreds of millions of people use their products every day – many without even knowing it.
In the early days of lighting control, products like Lutron's were reserved for businesses and wealthy individuals. Over time, the technology became more accessible to the everyday consumer. As lighting evolved from an expensive, commercial-only product to a mass-market experience, Lutron had to adapt, too.
The Lutron team was energized by this new direction in their industry, but they knew it demanded significant changes to their culture, processes, and tools – an especially daunting challenge given the complexity of their products and delivery model. Over time, Lutron's products evolved into a combination of software (made with code that's relatively fast and easy to deploy) and hardware (physical devices that take time to manufacture and ship). Their Caséta smart dimmers, for example, include a physical dimmer switch and software to control lights with an app or smart home device. Due to the long lead times associated with designing and manufacturing hardware like the Caséta switch, the teams producing these parts of the products were more averse to risks and changes. On the software side, teams are often much more comfortable with testing new ideas and moving quickly.
These cultural differences and timeline constraints made it incredibly difficult for Lutron's hardware and software teams to collaborate and manage dependencies. "If we showed you the line diagram of how all these hardware and software pieces connect together, it's like a ball of spaghetti, and it all has to be simplified for a user," says Senior Director of Systems Engineering Ben Bard. "That's one of the things that really required us to go SAFe, scale our efforts, and introduce a product like Jira Align. It just wasn't manageable before."
Now I go to Jira Align rather than walking around or calling 150 people."
Victor Volkodav
Senior Engineering Manager
Directive met: product output grows by over 30% in one year
Ben and his team had been feeling these growing pains and considering solutions for a while before an executive request gave them the motivation to act. The company's executive team , challenged Engineering to increase productivity by 30% so Lutron could keep pace with their sales team's and customers' demands. Meeting this goal would require a major change, and Ben's team thought SAFe, a proven framework for managing portfolios of complex products, could be the answer.
Lutron's software teams were enthusiastic about the idea of leaving waterfall behind, but hardware teams were skeptical. To gain buy-in, Ben and his colleagues worked with Adaptavist to pilot SAFe in one product area. They measured the outcomes, shared the results with executives and other teams, then moved on to another test project.
Throughout this pilot phase, Engineering sometimes got pushback that a framework like SAFe, which typically divides three-month iterations into shorter sprints, couldn't work in a hardware environment. When this concern came up, the team encouraged people to shift their focus from delivery to discovery. "Hardware teams would say, 'I can't deliver anything in two weeks. This piece has a 12-week lead time,'" Ben recalls. "So we would say, 'Okay, well, what is your learning goal for two weeks?' The learning outcome became a key way to think about breaking the work down and helped hardware teams realize they could get there."
Mindshift: outcomes over activity
To guide them during this evolution, Lutron invited Adaptavist's Jon Kern (a co-author of the Agile Manifesto) to mentor their software and hardware teams. Jon imbued that agile is all about reducing the gap in time between taking an action and getting feedback, and encouraged the group to focus on outcomes instead of activity so they could deliver more value. Lutron took these ideas to heart and concentrated on embedding learning into their culture and workflows – a key tenet of an agile mindset.
This shift in both mindset and methods started to pay off quickly. Within about a year, Engineering had surpassed their goal and increased output by 34%, even more (over 50%) when factoring in workforce growth. After proving the efficacy of SAFe during the pilot phase and gaining leadership buy-in, Ben began to see his team's role change from champions to consultants. "At that point, the hardware teams started asking for SAFe and pulling for it instead of us pushing back," he says.
Failing to capture strategic guidance and integrate that guidance with downstream tools is how you keep the old ways in place. But Jira Align is shining a light and allows us to share information across teams."
Ben Bard
Senior Director of Systems Engineering
"The only solution that matches our needs"
While Ben's team was encouraged by the wins and enthusiasm they were garnering with SAFe, they also uncovered new challenges with their legacy tools. As Engineering started working on their next-generation commercial product, they found their program and portfolio management tools (particularly Miro and Excel) pushed to their limits.
In one case, team members were frustrated that they had to enter the same data in multiple tools, prioritization lists kept getting jumbled, and there was no single source of information or visibility into the entire project. Ben says, "That project just broke our processes. We could not coordinate the communication that every person needed so that they could manage all of those pieces simultaneously and stay aligned. We put SAFe and Jira Align in place to help manage that level of complexity."
Adaptavist supported Lutron through selecting, implementing, and scaling a solution. Together, they chose Jira Align because it's designed to help organizations support scaled agile methods, including SAFe, and it integrated with Lutron's existing Atlassian ecosystem. "Looking at the long term, Jira Align is the only solution that matches our needs," Ben says.
The ability to work across all of these teams and see how a solution is going to come together is transformational."
Reduce dependencies and end "MBWA"
Adaptavist was clear with Ben's team that Jira Align is most powerful when it's paired with process improvements. "The tool is there to support the process," says Managing Consultant William Rojas. "There were some improvements that Lutron needed from a process perspective first: how to organize teams, how they were planning, how they were working through everything. And then the tool came in to make it that much more seamless and transparent."
A big focus during the initial implementation was reorganizing and restructuring teams to be more cross-functional so they could not only address dependencies earlier, but also remove some completely. Ben says this started a "crusade to eliminate dependencies" and leverage Jira Align as an alternative to their existing method, which he affectionately calls "MBWA."
"The technique we had to manage dependencies before was MBWA, or Management by Walking Around. You walk over to the person's desk many times a day to talk it out. But then dependencies went through the roof as the product got more complex. We saw the process breaking."
Since beginning to use Jira Align, Ben's colleague, Senior Engineering Manager Victor Volkodav, says the team has accomplished their goal and minimized MBWA by centralizing information into a single source of truth: "Now I go to Jira Align rather than walking around or calling 150 people."
Jon and the Adaptavist team are impressed by Lutron's dedication to transforming their products and processes. "I was initially concerned about Lutron taking such a big leap to this new way of working with Jira Align across software and hardware," Jon admits. "But their teams put my fears to rest and pushed through every challenge they faced."
A brighter future: aligning strategy with work for continued growth
Today, Lutron uses Jira Align and Jira Software for business planning and Program Increment (PI) planning, which they seamlessly moved to a virtual implementation when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Jira Align facilitates portfolio-level coordination by providing program owners and portfolio stakeholders with a single source of truth for PI objectives, work items, and dependencies. Then, after the team completes PI planning sessions as part of their SAFe rituals, information is automatically transferred to Jira Software so engineers can get to work. Throughout the sprint, portfolio managers can easily export data from Jira Align to share with leadership so they have visibility into the team's progress and can keep execution aligned with the high-level business strategy.
Holding all of this information in one place, from strategic priorities through dependencies, reduces the friction of working across large teams, especially when they're geographically dispersed.
Rhodes Baker, Senior Manager of Product and Technology and a portfolio leader at Lutron, says that "nothing can fully replace the value of in-person communication. But Jira Align helps us scale those precious minutes by scoping each interaction around the decisions that really matter and allowing everyone to start on the same foundation of understanding."
Having tools that support the SAFe approach has taken Lutron's initial improvements to the next level. Since implementing Jira Align, Engineering has eliminated many dependencies, improved visibility into progress, and better connected the strategy to the work – all of which has trickled down into "a real, significant change in speed to market," Ben says. Victor adds, "We continue to scale SAFe and Jira Align to more teams and functions across Lutron, and we expect that to translate to additional value for our customers in the future."
To drive the efficiency and innovation they were after, Adaptavist advised Lutron to not only shift the ways they worked and organized as teams, but also the ways they thought about work. "One of the challenges we tried to solve was moving away from a management-and-control way of thinking," Ben says. "Failing to capture strategic guidance and integrate that guidance with downstream tools is how you keep the old ways in place. But Jira Align is shining a light and allows us to share information across teams."
With a more agile, aligned process and platform, Ben says the improvements they've made are paving the way for a bright future for Lutron. "The ability to work across all of these teams and see how a solution is going to come together is transformational."
With Jira Align, this global company is delivering more innovations and better service.
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Inspired by magical tales of glowing jewelry in fairy tales this glowing purple opal is great for both young and adult wearers. Features a highly polished and smooth glow in the dark purple opal stone handmade in my studio and glows true violet in the dark after being worn in the sun. Unleash your inner goddess with this enchanting necklace!
This necklace limited, I only made 5 to list,... so once all are sold listing will display "sold out" until I make more.
Pendant measures about 1" in height and half inch wide. Comes on shiny silver plated 20" link chain.


Today, the Minister of Finance, Ivane Matchavariani met with the President of European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Sir Suma Chakrabarti, who is on a working visit to Georgia along with the bank delegation.
The president of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili and the Minister of Finance of Georgia, Ivane Matchavariani held the first working meeting at Atoneli residence.
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How to buy gold bullion the safer, cheaper & easier way.
Paul Tustain (Founder of BullionVault) and Robert Glynne (CEO of BullionVault) take you on a tour of a working gold vault and explain how BullionVault can offer you the safest, cheapest and easiest way to own physical gold, silver and platinum bullion.
Until BullionVault, most people could only invest in gold, silver and platinum in the form of coins or small bars, which come with a significant mark up. BullionVault lets users buy any amount of bullion at the lowest possible prices – previously accessible only when making large-scale purchases in the wholesale bullion markets.
You'll be amazed how quick and easy it is to buy gold and silver on BullionVault's live order board just by following our step-by-step guide.
Buy immediately at the prices shown, or set your own price and compete in the market to find a seller who will accept your price. When you're ready, you can sell back in exactly the same way. It's like a stock exchange, but for pre-vaulted investment gold, silver and platinum, not for shares.
By allowing peer-to-peer trading and cutting out the middleman, BullionVault gives you better prices and faster trading.
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You can also check the totals against third-party bar lists and bank statements as an additional means of verification. This reconciliation is open to public scrutiny and ensures than no double counting is possible.


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I realise that blogs like this only really justify their existence if they regularly make biting satirical points about the medicopolitical landscape. But, sometimes, you just want to write about patients who smell, and that's what I'm going to do. If you're looking for profundity or parody, move on - there's nothing for you to see here.
So there I am, this morning, consulting with the parent of a child with earache when it dawns on me that the otalgic one has been methodically pressing my panic button, secreted under my desk, for a good few minutes. And a good few minutes later, there is a timid knock on my door preceding the appearance of the very flimsiest of all our receptionists checking that everything is OK. And it is. Why the delay? Because we all know the false alarm is far more likely than the genuinely violent patient, even if there is metaphorical blood on the carpet over the earache/antibiotic debate.
Whereas, when, this afternoon, I send an internal message to multiple recipients that I am in urgent need of some air-freshener, the response is instantaneous and astonishing. Within seconds, there is a queue of canister wielding well-wishers outside my door, people in stink-busters uniforms abseiling through my window filling the air with the scent of vanilla and pressed linen, and the phone ringing off the hook with people checking that I'm OK.
Which, again, I am. The odour of the patient who smells like he has a dead ferret down his trousers (possibly because he has) is gone, and I'm good to go for the next patient.
So: panic alarm virtually ignored; request for air freshener sparks mayhem. This isn't just about a 'zerodour' tolerance policy. It's about people on the ground knowing what's going on and what really matters.
That's it, really. And just to clarify, this blog has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that general practice stinks to high heaven because it's in a decompositional state of neglect, and that if Jeremy Hunt really values us, as he keeps insisting is the case, he should be asking us troops in the trenches what the real problems are and where the real solutions lie rather than relying on yes-men advisers who are just toeing the Tory line and feeding the Tory obsessions. And that if he doesn't, we're all going to be running, gagging, away from primary care, desperately looking for greener pastures and fresher air.
No. It's just about patients who smell.
I'm blessed with a really, really bad sense of smell.
Thought: do UK practice's let general public strangers use their toilets?
I have to apologise to the next patient entering the room saying not you I just need to clear the stuffy air in my room. We all have our fair share of smelly patients!!
Which is the most valuable item in my medical bag?
It is a large can of Morrison's air freshener. Like the scouts, I am always prepared!
Receptionist: Hmm.. it smells really nice in your room..
Me: Thank you.. but wait a minute! That's nothing to do with me...just like all the other times when it smells like commode-emptying time at the local nursing home in here.


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require 'rubygems'
require 'pkcs11_luna'
require File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), 'config')

include PKCS11

#This example gets the mechanisms list and displays each mechanism's
#name and id

pkcs11 = Luna::Library.new

slot = Slot.new(pkcs11, SamplesConfig::SLOT)
mechanisms = slot.mechanisms

puts "Mechanisms(#{mechanisms.size}): "
mechanisms.each do |mech|
  puts "#{Luna::MECHANISMS[mech]}: #{mech}"
end

pkcs11.close

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O Hotel da Penina, igualmente conhecido como Penina Hotel & Golf Resort, é uma unidade hoteleira na freguesia de Alvor, no concelho de Portimão, em Portugal. Foi inaugurado em 5 de Novembro de 1966, sendo já nessa altura considerado como um importante estabelecimento turístico a nível nacional. Ficou conhecido culturalmente devido à sua ligação a Paul McCartney, da banda dos Beatles, que em Dezembro de 1968 escreveu a canção Penina para a banda local do hotel, os Jotta Herre.

Descrição
O complexo da Penina consiste numa unidade hoteleira de cinco estrelas, sendo principalmente conhecida pelos seus extensos campos de golfe. Em 2021, possuía três campos de golfe, seis restaurantes e bares, uma piscina exterior de grandes dimensões, um campo de futebol e cinco campos de ténis.

História
A ideia de construir um estabelecimento turístico destinado aos praticantes do golfe surgiu em 1961, quando o empresário britânico John Stillwell estava de férias na Praia da Rocha, e um amigo terá comentado que existiam poucas opções na região para os turistas, durante o Inverno. Desta forma, Stillwell e outros oito sócios adquiriram um terreno com cerca de 146 Ha na Tapada da Penina, propriedade de uma prima da sua mãe, e que na altura era utilizado na plantação de arroz. Contratou Henry Cotton, campeão de golfe e um dos maiores especialistas mundiais naquele tema, para desenhar o primeiro campo de golfe relvado na região. Um dos maiores desafios foi a transformação dos terrenos alagadiços da propriedade, situados junto à Ria de Alvor, que foi ultrapassado com a plantação de mais de trezenta mil árvores. O complexo da Penina foi inaugurado em 5 de Novembro de 1966, numa cerimónia presidida pelo chefe de estado, Américo Tomás, que durante o seu discurso classificou o hotel e o campo de golfe como um «conjunto turístico único no país». Foi o primeiro campo de golfe e a primeira unidade hoteleira de cinco estrelas na região, sendo nessa altura denominada de Hotel do Golfe da Penina. A decoração do hotel incluiu várias peças históricas, incluindo um piano que tinha sido oferecido à família Stillwell pela rainha Dona Amélia, e um armário do século XVI, que foi colocado na recepção. Henry Cotton permaneceu na Penina como jogador, tendo ficado famoso um burro que utilizava como caddie, chamado de Pacífico, devido à paciência que demonstrava no transporte do material de golfe.

Ao longo da sua história, o hotel e o seu afamado campo de golfe atraíram várias grandes figuras da música, do cinema, do desporto, da aristocracia e das altas finanças. Uma das principais personalidades que ficaram ligadas ao complexo da Penina foi Paul McCartney, da banda dos Beatles, que numa noite de Dezembro de 1968 passou pelo hotel para trocar Libras por Escudos, mas acabou por passar várias horas no bar do hotel, onde travou conhecimento com a banda residente, conhecida como Jota Herre. Nessa noite compôs uma canção, com o nome de Penina, que ofereceu à banda formada por Aníbal Cunha, Rui Pereira, Carlos Pinto, e José Carlos Flamínio. Este tema foi lançado no ano seguinte pela banda, e depois gravada pelo músico Carlos Mendes no álbum The Songs Lennon and McCartney Gave Away, e editada no Brasil pelo cantor Aggeu Marques. Também foi inserida numa compilação não oficial dos Beatles, Unheard Melodies - The Songs The Beatles Gave Away.

Em 2005, o complexo começou a ser gerido pelo grupo Starwood (en), passando a ser conhecido como Le Meridien Penina. Esta medida fez parte de um processo de aquisição da empresa Le Meridien Hotels and Resorts (en) em conjunto com a firma Lehman Brothers, no âmbito do qual foram trespassados trinta e duas unidades hoteleiras em vários locais do mundo, incluindo, além do resort da Penina, o Le Meridien Dona Filipa, no Vale do Lobo. Em Setembro de 2013, o conglomerado JJW Hotels & Resorts (en) declarou em comunicado que no dia 1 de Outubro iria assumir a exploração do resort, com o nome de Penina Golf Resort. Na altura, o grupo JJW Hotels & Resorts já era proprietário do complexo, sendo um dos vários estabelecimentos turísticos que possuía no Algarve, e que incluíam os hotéis Dona Filipa e Formosa Park Hotel e os campos de golfe San Lorenzo e Pinheiros Altos.

Em 2018, a Penina acolheu a final mundial do campeonato de golfe International Pairs, tendo a equipa vencedora sido a da Namíbia. Em Março de 2021, os empregados de várias unidades turísticas do Algarve que eram propriedade do grupo JJW Hotels & Resorts, incluindo o complexo da Penina, protestaram em frente da Entidade Regional de Turismo do Algarve, devido a atrasos no pagamento dos salários desde Novembro do ano anterior.

Ver também
Hotel Termal das Caldas de Monchique
Jupiter Albufeira Hotel

Ligações externas

Alvor
Hotéis de Portugal
Fundações em Portugal em 1966
Golfe de Portugal

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Al-Isra, w polskim tłumaczeniu Podróż nocna(arabski: الإسراء, al-isrā';) – 17. sura Koranu. Zaliczana jednomyślnie do sur mekkańskich. Według muzułmanów została ona objawiona w końcowej fazie okresu mekkańskiego, niedługo przed Hidżrą. Znana też pod inną nazwą sura Bani Israil (Synowie Izraela).

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Ta nazwa sury jest zaczerpnięta z wersetu 1.:

W tłumaczeniu Józefa Bielawskiego:

 "Chwała Temu, który przeniósł (arabski: إسراء) Swojego sługę nocą z Meczetu świętego do meczetu dalekiego, którego otoczenie pobłogosławiliśmy, aby mu pokazać niektóre Nasze znaki. Zaprawdę, On jest Słyszący, Widzący!"

W tłumaczeniu Musy Çaxarxana Czachorowskiego:

 "Chwała Temu, który przeniósł (arabski: إسراء) Swego sługę nocą ze Świętego Meczetu do Meczetu Dalekiego, którego otoczenie pobłogosławiliśmy, aby pokazać mu niektóre z Naszych znaków! Zaprawdę, On jest Słyszący, Widzący!"

Bani Israil
Ta nazwa sury jest zaczerpnięta z wersetu 4.:

W tłumaczeniu Józefa Bielawskiego:

 "I postanowiliśmy w tej Księdze względem synów Izraela: "Będziecie siać zgorszenie na ziemi dwukrotnie i wbijecie się w wielką dumę.""

W tłumaczeniu Musy Çaxarxana Czachorowskiego:

 "I postanowiliśmy w Księdze o synach Izraela: "Po dwakroć dopuścicie się zgorszenia na ziemi i wzbijecie się w pychę niezmierną""

Warto podkreślić, że (podobnie jak w przypadków nazw większości sur w Koranie), nazwa Al-Isra nie opisuje tematu całej sury. Jest swego rodzaju słowem-kluczem, którego zwyczajowo używano, aby odróżnić tę surę od innych. W przypadku tej sury w hadisach i tafsirach można spotkać dwie różne nazwy, np. w Tafsir ibn Kathir.

Główne wątki i postaci w surze Al-Isra

 Isra - cudowna podróż Mahometa z Mekki do Jerozolimy, do meczetu Al-Aqsa
 Polecenie czczenia tylko jednego Boga - Allaha
 Nakaz posłuszeństwa i dobroci wobec rodziców
 Zakaz zabijania dzieci ze strachu przed biedą
 Nakaz dawania jałmużny potrzebującym i krewnym
 Zakaz cudzołóstwa
 Zakaz bycia aroganckim
 Nakaz dbania o własność sierot
 Pokłon aniołów przed Adamem, odmowa dżina Iblisa
 Ludzie nie mogą stworzyć księgi takiej, jak Koran
 fragmenty historii Faraona, Musy (Mojżesza) i Izraelitów

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne

 Przekład Koranu według Musy Çaxarxan Czachorowskiego (źródło: Muzułmański Związek Religijny w RP, Białystok 1439/2018)

 Tłumaczenie znaczenia Świętego Koranu według Józefa Bielawskiego (źródło: PIW, Warszawa 1986)
 Tłumaczenie znaczenia Świętego Koranu według Jana Murzy Tarak Buczackiego (źródło: nakładem Aleksandra Nowoleckiego, Warszawa 1858)
 Tekst Koranu z transliteracją, tłumaczeniami na wiele języków (w tym Józefa Bielawskiego) i recytacjami
 Muzułmańska strona poświęcona egzegezie Koranu

Sury Koranu


Today John and I changed from plan A and went and climbed Ledge Route (II) on Ben Nevis. Thursday blues left us with heavy legs and the resistance from the wind and accumulations of snow made things hard going. We veered off the old tracks on Ledge Route, seeking out little tricky steps and walls to add a bit of spice to the route before John took over on the second half and led to the top. We both knew that we had to make the summit push, the views were amazing and the snow combined with strong winds made for an amazing few hours. Once on the summit we didn't want to leave, we could see out to the Isle of Skye and all the mountains looked fantastic. The cameras were snapping like a bus load of Japanese tourists. We only saw one other walker on the tourist route who will have had a fantastic solo day, Rich had his team on the summit just as we were leaving after coming up Coire Leis, they will have also had a priceless day standing on the summit in such fantastic weather. We caught up with Ken and his client who had ascended Ledge Route behind us for a nice sociable descent down from the half way lochain. A brilliant day at ...ahem...work. Snow was blowing all over the place, the upper crags were getting plastered and signs of small avalanches here and there. Not sure if any other routes got climbed today on Ben Nevis, did see one team heading up left below Comb Buttress, not sure what the were up to.


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Q: Use of fscanf with comma separated values in Matlab Over serial, I am getting values like
23,2004,5000
24,5005,5060
25,6789,8907
How do I separate these into three columns?
For one column, e.g:
25
24
26
I can just do
clc;clear all;close all;
arduino=serial('COM4','BaudRate',9600);
fopen(arduino);
tic;
i=0;
while toc<120;
    i = i+1;
    time(i)= toc;
    v(i)=fscanf(arduino,'%d');
    plot(time,v,'r');
    pause(.10);
end
fclose(arduino)

and  store all data in v. How to adapt this code for 3 columns?

A: I dont have anything connected to serial port, so I cant test this, but inside the loop try:
str = fgetl(arduino);
num = textscan(str, '%f', 'Delimiter',','); num = num{1};
%# `num` should be a 3x1 vector of numbers

First read a line of text from device using serial.fgetl, then parse the string using textscan or any other similar string function.

A: What about this:
 A = cell2mat(textscan(arduino,'%d,%d,%d'))


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Almost one week ago, the starting quarterback for the New England Patriots, Cam Newton, tested positive for the coronavirus. Because of this, he was forced to miss the Monday night showdown between the Patriots and the Chiefs and is currently not allowed to play or practice because of his diagnosis.
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The failure of the offense didn't help the Patriots win or even come close to slowing down the defending Superbowl champions. Cam Newton's presence not only gives the offense their motivation to play at an elite level but also gets the defense to play at an elite level to help the Patriots win and be a top team in the conference.
According to cbssports.com, Cam Newton is close to returning but is not 100% recovered from the virus. He is hoping to continue his comeback season as soon as possible. The Patriots hope the former MVP from 2015 can return soon to help the team get back into the win column and hopefully continue their playoff streak.
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Peoria Heights, IL: The Board of Trustees has approved an amendment to Village Code, adding an occupied and vacant property registration ordinance for residential rental homes.
ORDINANCE NO. 2018 – 1561, Chapter 8A, states owners of any occupied or vacant property must file an annual registration statement with the Housing Inspector; each year's period ends Dec. 31. If ownership or control of a rental property is transferred, the new owner must register within 30 days; any fees paid by the prior owner will transfer / remain in place for the duration of the year the property sale occurred.
An owner of an owner-occupied single-family residential unit, or a vacant single-family residential unit not intended to be rented, is exempt from the registration of that residential unit; though a sworn statement may need to be filed with the Housing Inspector to establish the given exemption. Bed and breakfast, rooming houses, nursing homes, and hotels/motels, are also exempt.
The fee for registration is $100.00 per residential rental unit; with the registration fee for multi-unit apartment buildings with more than four residential units in a single building set to $25.00 per residential unit. There is an additional $75 inspection fee due when registering, and inspection for a property is to be scheduled at the City's discretion; with a maximum of 3 years between any given inspections.
If the owner of the rental property is a partnership, corporation, limited liability company, land trust or other legal entity, the registration information provided must contain current name, street address, mailing address, and telephone numbers for each person or entity having more than a 5 percent interest, as well as current information for the manager or other person responsible for maintenance of the property.
A penalty of 10 percent of the amount due will be levied for any registration not completed and fees paid by the given due date, with 2 percent interest per month added for extended delinquency, and each day a violation will constitute a separate offense for which a separate penalty may be assessed.