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Vince Lamborghini and the quest for leadership

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Fundamentals win it . Football is two things , it is blocking and tackling  I don't care about formations or new defended or tricks on defense  If you block and tackle better than the team you are playing you will win 

Multi level marketing big fraud

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Why do the business schemes like Amway/GoldQuest/Herbalife etc always collapse, with the 1% forerunners/organizers absconding and rest 99% of the members crying foul? Lets analyze their business model to find out the truth behind Amway and other fraud pyramid schemes. “Dude, I am working on a part time business for additional income and would like to invite you also to the same. Are you free this weekend?” Haven’t you heard that dialogue from a friend before? It turns out to be a typical “Multi Level Marketing” in which you are supposed to pay a certain amount to become a member (and maybe get a gift which costs much lesser than the membership amount) and later refer it to your friends and convince them also to join it. In the process, when the friends pay the membership amount, you are awarded with some partial amount and when they in turn refer to their friends, they will be awarded some money, and since you are their “parent”, you will also get some money. As the process continues r...

determine effective isolation level in DB2

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Have you ever been asked which isolation level is used? Database administrators are often asked about the isolation level of a statement. But there are different levels at which you can define an isolation level, and there are different methods to retrieve the effective isolation level. Knowing these methods enables you to analyze concurrency or locking issues more efficiently. This article describes the meaning of the effective isolation level in IBM DB2® for Linux®, UNIX®, and Windows®. This article also shows you how to determine the effective isolation level for both dynamic and static SQL statements. Introduction Whenever a concurrency or locking issue occurs on a database, you might be asked which isolation level a statement effectively uses. You can identify the defined isolation level using the  -dynamic  option of the db2pd utility, which is shipped with DB2 Version 8. But what is the  effective  isolation level? For example, you cou...