I liked your post: Bumthang: The Heartland of Bhutan. Can we email about a proposition with your site? This is regarding a posting for a wonderful travel interest group that I want to help, http://www.facebook.com/TheWanderers . I will do my part of promoting your blog to our community (Over 20,000 members).

Looking for your reply

Regards,
Abhijit

To get 25 likes on Facebook recently I called on friends, family and staff here, the reason? To get a Facebook page ID – nothing more, but what does 200 or 1,000 get you?

Am I missing some information?

Fun idea though, I wonder if… yes it is clean… a 6’6″ 50-something year old man weighing in at about 300lbs would stand on a street corner… yes really, it is clean… in a tutu and kirtsy to passers by for 5 minutes – that’s $1 per minute, $60 per hour or $115,200 per year if you can get enough paying. No board rooms, no cleaning, no political bullshit, just standing on a street corner being polite… geez, I think I would do that for $115K per year!

Most of us don’t have time for do it yourself, so finding a good, reasonably priced source is the challenge.

TNTAnderson

My usual at Starbucks is their regular drip coffee. $2.20 for a Grande and because I have the Starbucks Gold card I get free refills. Good deal and no sugar or calories.

SMS

Your own site is looking good.

Perhaps one of the factors here was a distrust of the government educational system. But more potent, I suspect, was status and the need to show that you had the power to buy private education. Charney Hall gave no guarantee of educational standards simply because the only prerequisite for entry was money. If you could pay the fee, they took your boy as an inmate.

Also, we were being trained to suffer so that we could run the empire. No-one seemed aware that the empire was running in the other direction. Our first geography book at CH was called ‘Great and Greater Britain’ and was devoted to Britain’s civilising influence on black and brown peoples.

(Roger and David don’t mention Hirst who was the original co-partner. He may have been taken ill sometime soon after I left. I remember my mother saying something about him. I recall him as more cold-blooded but less impulsive than Duncan. Philip Fawcett was a kind man and I could never understand how he got mixed up with the other two.)

I’m not sure that this is the best forum to discuss these issues or even to indulge in wobbly reminiscences. However, I think there is a lesson for all parents to be wary of what they are letting their children in for. They should carefully examine their own motives for any course of action. A socially-conforming reflex is not enough.

My memories of Max Duncan and also his partner Ray Hirst are less affectionate than yours. Nowadays, I view them as unreconstructed fascists with dinosaurian instincts. I suspect they’d be illegal here today. In Australia we now discourage the psychological manipulation of children.

Max used to have a few drinks at dinner and then come to sing Gilbert and Sullivan to my accompaniment on the piano in the music room. He also owned a folio edition of Gould’s Birds which I greatly coveted and thought was wasted on him.

Affiliate marketing is in fact different from multi-level marketing. Of course there is something called multi-tier affiliate marketing but the notion of this is not identical to multi-level marketing. In multi-tier affiliate marketing, the second of third tier are actually promoting the real products of the advertisers. The final consumers or customers are still get the real products. The first-tier is only getting part of the sales of the second or third tier as a bonus of referring new members to the affiliate programs.

Of course you may think that finally the advertisers are making most money and they are just like the people who are at the top of the pyramid in multi-level marketing. This is true but the advertiser should not be considered the one at the upper part of the pyramid. Affiliates are selling real products to the customers and the advertisers earn the most because they are the one who provide the products or services. However, in multi-level marketing, there is virtually there is no end users and since the members are also the people who are purchasing the “products”, which are, as discussed before, not actually existing.

Newbies to multi-tier affiliate marketing may feel confusing and they may not be able to tell the difference between multi-tier affiliate and multi-level marketing. This is very true that they can be seemed very similar. However, they are totally different in nature. It has to be very clear that the latter is usually illegal while the former is an effective way of internet marketing.

There are many anecdotes I could add to Roger's. One day they will all come back to haunt us as these memories do daily.

John Cranna

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Perry