Pyramid

lehman brothers
- [poon hon tong book on interviewing ma ying gou] ma was one of the clients and had a cash management account (cma, three-in-one product of cash, cheque and investment)

BNI http://www.bni.com/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNI_(organization)

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2019/11/ftc-alleges-neora-formerly-known-nerium-operates-illegal  The FTC has announced a lawsuit against Neora, LLC, formerly known as Nerium International, LLC. The FTC alleges that Neora, an international multi-level marketing (MLM) company that sells dietary supplements, skin creams, and other products, is an illegal pyramid scheme. The FTC also alleges that it deceptively promotes its Nerium EHT dietary supplement by making unproven claims that it’s a breakthrough antidote for serious brain diseases.

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3043534/moneymakers-or-fakers-rise-asia-get-rich-quick-speakers Norwegian entrepreneur Svein-Erik Nilsen began his latest business venture with a trip to Singaporefor the Masters of the Century seminar – just one stop on his calendar of self-help events worldwide.For the uninitiated, the two-day gathering in October at the Lion City’s Suntec Centre was the equivalent of a Coachella festival for celebrity motivational speakers, complete with a whooping 5,000-strong crowd fervidly taking notes. In between the tutorials, attendees networked or bought books, weaving in and out of banners displaying platitudes such as “A vision without an action plan is akin to a car without fuel”.Tickets, which sold for up to S$2,177 (US$1,600), were highly sought by professionals, entrepreneurs and corporate bigwigs across the globe, hankering after insights on “growing your business, building your wealth and making a career out of your passion”.The seminar, run by Success Resources, urged participants to “live a life more optimised”. Nilsen saw it as “accelerated learning”. His business card says he is trying to make “the next super change”.

uk

- Broadlands is an English country house, located in the civil parish of Romsey Extra, near the town of Romsey in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. The original manor and area known as Broadlands has belonged to Romsey Abbey since before the Norman Conquest.After the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Broadlands was sold to Sir Francis Fleming in 1547. His granddaughter married Edward St. Barbe, and the manor remained the property of the St. Barbe family for the next 117 years. Sir John St Barbe, 1st Baronet (c. 1655–1723) made many improvements to the manor but died without progeny having bequeathed it to his cousin Humphrey Sydenham of Combe, Dulverton. When Sydenham was ruined by the 18th-century South Sea Bubble, he proceeded to sell Broadlands to Henry Temple, 1st Viscount Palmerston, in 1736. It was the latter who began the deformalisation of the gardens between the river and the house and produced the (broad-lands) "gentle descent to the river".

In 1767, a major architectural "transformation" was begun by Capability Brown, the celebrated architect and landscape designer, and completed by architect Henry Holland, which led to making Broadlands the Palladian-style mansion seen today. Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston had requested that Brown go there and seize upon the "capabilities" of the earlier Tudor and Jacobean manor house. Between 1767 and 1780, William Kent's earlier "deformalising work" was completed, as well as further landscaping, planting, clearing and riverside work.Broadlands was the country estate of the 19th-century prime minister Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston.Queen Elizabeth II (then Princess Elizabeth) and Prince Philip spent their honeymoon at Broadlands in November 1947; the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, whose home Broadlands was at the time, was Philip's uncle.[5] In 1981, the newly-married Prince and Princess of Wales also spent the first three days of their honeymoon at Broadlands, travelling to the estate by train from London Waterloo.Broadlands is the home of the Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma.

china
- china daily 9jan2020 12 in pyramid scheme sentenced, fined.