A set of non-volatile storage elements is divided into subsets for soft programming in order to more fully soft-program slower soft programming elements. Each player is dealt three cards and the goal is to get as high of a hand as possible. For example, a non-driving axle includes a sleeve interconnecting first and second tube assemblies. When the flash memory device is inserted into a USB 3. The color linear image sensor device includes first, second, and third linear image sensors having different sensitivities with respect to incident light and arranged successively in sensitivity decreasing order from the outermost, and a shutter gate and a shutter drain for adjusting an amount of exposure to the linear image sensor which has the highest sensitivity to incident light.