...Case 1 “A Monroe Lock Security Systems” Ray Monroe was the owner of “A Monroe Lock Security Systems”(AMLSS)Ray’s business was established 2 years ago and offered lock-smithing services to residential and commercial customers as well as automobile owners in the greater Boston area. AMLSS was certified by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to perform alarm installation and offered a full range of alarm products as well as rekeying, lock and deadbolt installation, master key systems, emergency residential lockouts, foreign and domestic automobile lockouts and window security locks. Financial outcomes were not the best, with loses of $6500 in the first year and a profit of only $3500 in year 2. As of right now AMLSS’s target market is 3 local communities in the Boston area. Ray was the only child of parents who were both successful entrepreneurs. He had substantial inheritance that would satisfy any of his financial needs for the rest of his life. For years Ray worked with a friend who owned a security and alarm manufacturing business in the western side of the state. Ray also entered a special program to learn more about the locksmith business so that he can start his own lock and security business. He learned that utilizing his experience will help him to become successful businessman. Monroe Lock and Security Systems offered almost all locksmith services excluding alarms. He assumed that there were already many large competitors in the alarm market that would be able to...
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...Yvette Nyodog Ms. Reinhart AP Literature Rape of the Lock Literary Analysis 11 March 2015 Commodities have been a part of human culture from the start of the first civilizations. They can be crudely constructed or richly made works of art; they are still objects, however some people treasure their possessions more than anything in the world. These objects can become the driving force behind a person's life and desires. When someone's prized possession is stolen, it may seem as though a disaster has taken place. In The Rape of the Lock, Alexander Pope is commenting on the triviality of a lost possession. Pope blurs the line between people's personalities and their possessions. He creates a world in which people are their commodities and important ideals in society are also transformed into concrete objects that could be stolen from society. Pope opens the poem by invoking a muse, but rather than invoking one of the mythic Greek muses, he leaves the muse anonymous. In the first verse paragraph of Canto I, he introduces his epic subject matters: a war arising from “amorous causes” (1) and “mighty contests rise from trivial things” (2). In lines 11-12 Pope juxtaposes grand emotions with unheroic character-types, specifically “little men” and women: “In tasks so bold can little men engage, / And in soft bosoms dwells such mighty rage.” The irony of pairing epic characteristics with lowly human characters contributes to Pope’s mock-heroic style. Pope uses the mock-heroic genre to...
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...The Battle of Ombre in Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock The card game of Ombre was created in Spain in the early 17th century. There are many various names and various ways to play this card game. Ombre is a three-handed trick game and consists of four players, but only three active players. In Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, Pope uses this card game to create a sort of mock-heroic effect in a sense of a sort of battle that is happening between Belinda and the baron. The author uses the deck of cards to create a battle scene to keep the poem as mock-heroic as possible. Ombre is a card game that is very much similar to the modern game of Hearts and Spades. In Oliver Baker’s “Pope’s Ombre Enigmas in The Rape of the Lock” he states, “In order to appreciate the Ombre allusions in The Rape of the Lock a modern audience must understand how this complicated and counter intuitive card game is played.” (Baker 211). The game is played with a standard deck of cards with the 8’s, 9’s and 10’s removed. Each player is dealt 9 cards and the remaining 13 cards are placed in the talon, which is the pile of cards left after the deal. (McLeod sec. 2) The ranking of the cards depends on the type of “contract”. The rules of Ombre is that the players bid or auction on who will be able to take most of the tricks and the winning bidder becomes the declarer, or the Hombre and must play against both of the other two players. The player that wins the bid is allowed to declare which suit will...
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...Paper 1; ‘Oroonoko’ by Aphra Behn and ‘The Rape of the Lock’ by Alexander Pope The relationship between gender and power dynamics is relevant to the understanding of literature through the ages. However, the widespread problematic belief that women are simply the passive, powerless victims of male power is oversimplified and outdated. Power relations, as theorized by Foucault in ‘The History of Sexuality’ are far more complex; the dynamic is ever-changing, from moment to moment and therefore any interpretation of the exchange of power requires a much deeper analysis than what meets the eye. The idea of power determined from and by sexuality can be understood in a comparison of the novel, ‘Oroonoko’ by Aphra Behn with the satiric poem, ‘The Rape of the Lock’ by Alexander Pope. While both authors in their works characterize women as possessions defined in relation to men, in memorializing their work, they empower these female characters. The power and gender of the writers influences the tools utilized and effect achieved in doing so. ‘Oroonoko’ chronicles the story of the African prince Oroonoko and his beloved Imoinda, who are captured by the British and brought to Surinam as slaves. Aphra Behn, who was the first woman in England to make a living by writing, combines elements of travel writing and heroic romance to explore and garner sympathy for African slaves. Women are often defined in opposition to men, which puts into perspective how men are regarded as the “essential”...
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...Drug trafficking is an illegal drug trading system to which drugs are brought from other countries into the United States; to list just a few of these drugs; cocaine, heroin, hashish, marijuana, LSD, ecstasy, methamphetamines, and opiates. Terrorists are being funded by many of these drug trafficking operations in America. Another huge issue in The United States is the drug trafficking inside our country. In Florida and Texas, it is epidemic, the pill mills and grow houses are a major concern because they are supplying the entire United States with access to these drugs at a steady rate. As a result, there are many individuals and families that are being affected by addiction, illness, overdose, and death. The United States Government believes they have this under control and are helping to solve the situation, but in reality, drug trafficking in the United States is out of control. “Drug Trafficking is an activity that involves the cultivation, manufacturing, processing, importation and distribution of drugs” (Desroches, 2007). Going down the line of drug trade you have what is similar to an assembly line. You have the manufacturer or grower who grows and makes the actual drug which then is processed and packaged to be smuggled into the country. Eventually, making its way into America’s neighborhoods, by which is called the dealers. This is a process that has no end, because once one batch or shipment of drugs is distributed, there is already another on its way into America...
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...Special Report Bundle C++Ox: The Dawning of a New Standard Contents C++0x: The Dawning of a New Standard It's been 10 years since the first ISO C++ standard, and 2009 will bring us the second. In this special report, DevX delves into the new features being discussed by the standards team. Learn how these new features will revolutionize the way you code. Overview: C++ Gets an Overhaul It's been 10 years since the first ISO C++ standard, and 2009 will bring us the second. Learn about the new features being added and how they will revolutionize the language. Easier C++: An Introduction to Concepts C++0x concepts bring the full power of the Generic Programming paradigm to C++, making templates more expressive, easier to write, and easier to use. Spectacularly poor template error messages are a thing of the past! Simpler Multithreading in C++0x The new standard will support multithreading, with a new thread library. Find out how this will improve porting code, and reduce the number of APIs and syntaxes you use. The State of the Language: An Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup C++ founding father assesses the language on the eve of its new standard. Timeline: C++ in Retrospect From its nascent pre-processor in 1979 to today's incredibly sophisticated language features and libraries, we've documented each step along the way. C++0x: The Dawning of a New Standard Overview: C++ Gets an Overhaul Overview: C++ Gets an Overhaul C++Ox: The...
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...An emergency locksmith company is equipped to do more than just assist you with getting back into your residence or vehicle. Highly regarded locksmiths like Locksmith CityName will inspect the current locks and ensure the items are in correct working order. Additionally, they’ll improve security necessary to help you maintain personal valuables and restore your sense of safety. Think Ahead There are various skills and traits that a professional locksmith must have in order to be grow a business, become and much sought after locksmith and be successful. These lock pros have mechanical knowledge and lauded skills which lend themselves to be able to form lasting relationships with local customers. Safes and locks of all types interest locksmiths...
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...use multiple threads in order to take advantage of hardware parallelism. Java is one of the first languages to make multithreading available to developers. Along with advantages of concurrent systems and multithreading, there are some challenges involved. Java has inter-process communication model which means it has set of methods for exchange of data among multiple threads and processes. It is based on shared data structures and meshes well with hardware architectures in which multiple cores share memory. However Java is susceptible to deadlocks. Deadlock is a condition under which the entire program is halted as each thread in a set attempts to acquire a lock already held by another thread in a set. Java is susceptible to deadlocks because (a) threads exchanges information by sharing variables that they lock with mutex locks and (b) the locking mechanism interacts with other language features, such as aliasing. Consider a simple banking transaction example. [pic] Figure 1: Deadlock scenario in banking transaction .In this case if there are two threads attempting to run transfer(a,b) and transfer(b,a) at the same time then deadlock is going to occur because both threads try to acquire the resources in reverse order. Once a program is deadlocked the source of deadlock is difficult to determine making it difficult to resolve the deadlock....
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...Four people are selling tickets at the same time. The number of all tickets is 40. Each ticket only can be sold one time. import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock; public class ThreadTest implements Runnable { int tickets = 40; ReentrantLock lock = new ReentrantLock(); public void run() { while (true) { lock.lock(); try { if (tickets > 0) { System.out.println(Thread.currentThread().getName() + "is selling NO."+ tickets + " ticket."); --tickets; } lock.unlock(); } catch (Exception e) { lock.unlock(); } } } } public class Demo1 { public static void main(String[] args) { ThreadTest tt = new ThreadTest(); Thread t1 = new Thread(tt); Thread t2 = new Thread(tt); Thread t3 = new Thread(tt); Thread t4 = new Thread(tt); t1.start(); t2.start(); t3.start(); t4.start(); } } result: Thread-0is Thread-0is Thread-0is Thread-0is Thread-0is Thread-0is Thread-0is Thread-0is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is Thread-3is selling selling selling selling selling selling selling selling selling selling selling selling selling selling selling selling selling selling...
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...SPECIFIC SITE DUTIES Morning Guard: Commencing around 0250hrs. Rostered hours – 0300hrs to 1130hrs ½ Hour meal at approximately 0830hrs. Off duty 1130hrs after change over and briefing oncoming guard. Unlock and re-lock main gates on entry, unlock gatehouse, sign on in log book and time sheet. Ring mobile night guard let him know you are on site, ring SMC, and let them know you are on site, getting the name of the operator and logging it, disarm alarms in both Warehouse and Administration, (either set of two panels is all that is necessary). Turn all lights on as instructed, commence internal and patrol, unlock side gates and open, unlock manual lock on front sliding doors to reception. (Await Duty Manager to arrive.) When above is completed re-open main gates, (one needs to be secured open with small chain) meet and greet staff (from approximately 0400hrs on) and commence logging trucks, Toll Fast vehicles and couriers etc. Log all casual, contractor and staff, who need access cards in register, remember to issue correct card, ie: warehouse/casual card – admin/staff card/Contractors. All staff, visitor and contractor vehicles are to be searched on leaving the site ie. Boot and wheel well, glove box, consol and behind front seats. Note: This applies to all staff. Random ID checks at least once a week if possible. Bag searches when possible of outgoing staff. NOTE: DEFINATELY NO DELIVERY TRUCKS BEFORE 0700hrs ARE PERMITTED PAST SIDE GATES...
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...Residential Locksmith, Cypress Residential Locksmith, Cypress has been at the forefront of serving families in Cypress with professional locksmith services year after year, for as long as we can remember. We consider the entire community Cypress as part of our cherished customers, which is why we never fail to ensure our exceptional residential services readily available to them whenever the need arises. As always, we put the community first in everything we do, because we know they expect professionalism and devotion from us. Asides from providing highly economical, low priced and budget friendly locksmith services to the residents of Cypress, other neighboring cities such as Long Beach, Anaheim, La Palma, Stanton and many others also have...
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...of times that other threads are allowed to enter their critical sections, before the request is granted. Concurrent Software Systems 3 Problem Description In discussion of the critical section problem, we often assume that each thread is executing the following code. It is also assumed that (1) after a thread enters a critical section, it will eventually exit the critical section; (2) a thread may terminate in the non-critical section. while (true) { entry section critical section exit section non-critical section } Concurrent Software Systems 4 2 Solution 1 In this solution, lock is a global variable initialized to false. A thread sets lock to true to indicate that it is entering the critical section. boolean lock = false; T0: while (true) { while (lock) { ; } lock = true; critical section lock = false; non-critical section } T1: while (true) { while (lock) {...
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...this strange at first, it became clear later as to why he used a Gorilla in the first place. The Gorilla here represents nature's voice and is a reminder that we need to look for ways to communicate with nature, first hand. This was the first eye opening aspect from the author. The second was the author's penchant for coming up with brilliant stories to derive and communicate his point to the reader. Instead of driving in his philosophies by pure theory would have been boring and heavy, but the author uses wonderful and thought provoking stories to do the same, so effectively. The first was the simple concept of food kept under lock and key. This is a practice that comes so naturally to us, but he brings out why this is a very unnatural way of things. For early man, what grew in the world belonged to everyone in the society, and to put it under lock and key is to basically create a working class who will do tasks, useful or useless, in order to earn their bread. Ishmael's (the name of the gorilla) teachings turn toward the subject of formal education, which he argues is merely a way to keep children out of the work force and is otherwise unnecessary because humans learn on their own, naturally following their own interests and picking up information necessary to operate in their culture. In tribal cultures, this information inherently includes that which is relevant to surviving in the wild by learning to hunt and gather food, as well as easily adopting their culture's values...
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...Resource Allocation Graphs Roger Henriksson Department of Computer Science Lund University The possibility of deadlock is an undesired property (to say the least) of safety-critical real-time systems. Therefore, a method to verify that a system cannot deadlock, or to detect possible deadlock situations, is of tremendous value. One such method is resource allocation graphs. As stated in Operating System Concepts by Peterson and Silberschatz [PS85], the occurrence of deadlock requires among other things that hold-wait situations exist and a circular chain of such hold-waits must exist. A resource allocation graph attempts to graphically illustrate all the hold-wait situations in a system. In this graph it is possible to search for cases of circular hold-wait. In their book, Peterson and Silberschatz [PS85] (Section 8.2.2) introduce a method for drawing resource allocation graphs. However, in their version the resource allocation graph shows all the hold-wait-states that exist at any one given point in time. This is a good tool for illustrating a transient state in the system, but in order to use their version of the graphs for detecting any possible deadlock situation we would have to draw a graph for each and every possible combination of execution state for all threads in the system. Then, each and every one of these graphs would have to be analysed for cycles indicating circular wait. This is clearly unpractical. Instead, we modify the method of drawing resource...
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...LOOP; RETURN; END split; / TABLESPACE SIZE/DATA FILE ERRORS : ALTER TABLESPACE my_ts ADD DATAFILE 'D:\app\Administrator\oradata\vw\my_ts2.dbf' SIZE 10M AUTOEXTEND ON NEXT 200K MAXSIZE 200M; +++++ LOCKED OBJECTS -- view all currently locked objects: SELECT username U_NAME, owner OBJ_OWNER, object_name, object_type, s.osuser, DECODE(l.block, 0, 'Not Blocking', 1, 'Blocking', 2, 'Global') STATUS, DECODE(v.locked_mode, 0, 'None', 1, 'Null', 2, 'Row-S (SS)', 3, 'Row-X (SX)', 4, 'Share', 5, 'S/Row-X (SSX)', 6, 'Exclusive', TO_CHAR(lmode) ) MODE_HELD FROM gv$locked_object v, dba_objects d, gv$lock l, gv$session s WHERE v.object_id = d.object_id AND (v.object_id = l.id1) AND v.session_id = s.sid ORDER BY username, session_id; -- list current locks SELECT session_id,lock_type, mode_held, mode_requested, blocking_others, lock_id1 FROM dba_lock l WHERE lock_type NOT IN ('Media Recovery', 'Redo Thread'); -- list objects that have been -- locked for 60 seconds or more: SELECT SUBSTR(TO_CHAR(w.session_id),1,5) WSID, p1.spid WPID, SUBSTR(s1.username,1,12) "WAITING User", SUBSTR(s1.osuser,1,8) "OS User",...
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