The simplest explanation of how Google ranks pages. Semi-Geek, but hang in, it’s worth while.
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Peter Mehit is co-founder and Managing Partner of Custom Business Planning and Solutions, a business consulting firm that provides problem solving, planning and process help. He has worked from private equity to the Fortune 100 at all stages.
He can be reached at pmehit@wbpllc.com or at 800-741-8444.
56 Episodes of Star Trek at Once | twilight1138
With the sound down, at full screen, it’s kind of a cool screen saver. With the sound up, it’s schizophrenia.
Enjoy.
Wal-Mart Mexico Bribe Inquiry Silenced | NYTimes.com
Wal-Mart dispatched investigators to Mexico City, and within days they unearthed evidence of widespread bribery. They found a paper trail of hundreds of suspect payments totaling more than $24 million. They also found documents showing that Wal-Mart de Mexico’s top executives not only knew about the payments, but had taken steps to conceal them from Wal-Mart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Ark. In a confidential report to his superiors, Wal-Mart’s lead investigator, a former F.B.I. special agent, summed up their initial findings this way: “There is reasonable suspicion to believe that Mexican and USA laws have been violated.”
The lead investigator recommended that Wal-Mart expand the investigation.
Are We Guiding Our Ship? | Boaz Rauchwerger
Did you see the story on Thursday about the shelling and sinking of that rust-stained fishing trawler in Alaskan waters?
The Ryou-Un Maru, about 200 feet in length, was swept away as part of a giant debris field generated by the 9.0-magnitude tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011.
The U.S. Coast Guard sank the trawler after it was determined that the unmanned vessel posed a hazard to mariners and Alaska’s marine environment.
This ship, until its sinking, was drifting aimlessly, unguided, across the Pacific. No one was onboard running the ship and guiding it by using the rudder to get it to a specific destination.
Isn’t that an interesting analogy to life? Too many of us, including me in the past, set sail for an un-specified destination. We don’t define specific goals and then we get upset when we arrive at the wrong destination.
We don’t use a mental rudder to guide our journey and to make course corrections when necessary.
The majority of people, some estimates have it at 97%, do not write down specific goals and then they get disappointed with what the future gives them. What is the difference between no written goals and that ship drifting across the Pacific?
Nothing.
And what happened to that ship? It was sunk.
That ship, during its nearly 13-month drifting journey, traveled about a mile per hour. That’s not a fast pace. However, when you add up all of the miles it traveled in 390 days, that’s a lot of miles.
Time, for all of us, goes by at one minute at a time, 60 in each hour, 1,440 in 24 hours.
May I suggest that we all take a moment today to write down some specific goals for the next five years, for the next 12 months, for the next 30 days, for this week. Make the short-term goals believable and then take action.
Let’s identify where you want your ship to go, give it some power with specific, achievable goals, and let’s keep our hand on the rudder in case we need to make course adjustments.
You are special. You are unique. You are destined for greatness! Have a powerful day!
A Goal-Setting Affirmation
This week I’m writing down specific 5-year, 12-month, 30-day goals, and goals for this week. I’m taking action on my believable short-term goals.
Boaz Power Corp., 642 Baywood Dr., Newport Beach, CA 92660, USA
Weekly Economic Update | LAEDC
THIS WEEK’S HEADLINES:
- U.S. Trade Deficit – Substantial Fall in Imports Leads to a Decline in Trade Gap
- California State Finances in March
- March Retail Sales, Inflation, and Consumer Confidence Moving in the Right Direction
- Events of Interest
- April 18: VITA Global Networking Breakfast
- April 19: L.A. NABE Monthly Meeting
- April 27: LABC Sustainability Summit
- May 16: 2012 LAEDC International Trade Outlook
Sleepy Air Canada pilot thought Venus was a plane | Reuters
A sleepy Air Canada pilot first mistook the planet Venus for an aircraft, and then sent his airliner diving toward the Atlantic to prevent an imaginary collision with another plane, an official report said on Monday.
London 2012 organisers ‘wanted dead star Keith Moon to perform at Games’ | Metro.co.uk
‘I emailed back saying Keith now resides in Golders Green crematorium, having lived up to the Who’s anthemic line ‘I hope I die before I get old’
Wine cache rescues those short of cash | Reuters
In an office above a Bank of America Corp branch in Beverly Hills, California, home to some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, the pawnshop for the prosperous regularly lends to hedge-fund managers, bankers, lawyers, doctors – and occasionally to Oscar winners.
Too Much Focus is Dangerous | Motorcycle Safety Foundation
“Steady fixation favours disappearance, blinks or gaze shifts induce reappearance. All in all reminiscent of the Troxler effect, but stronger and more resistant to residual eye movements.”
Stop conflating microfinance and entrepreneurship | The Great Debate
Moreno says that it is a mistake to believe that everyone in the developing world is interested in running a small business. “Most people just want a job.” In a country like Colombia, where there are limited educational and employment options, that is hard. Everyone is forced, out of necessity, to create his or her own livelihood.
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