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MichAndrWest

Artist, photographer, patriot, first responder. Live life on your terms. Take control of what you manifest. Stop living in fear.

The Broken Art of Company Blogging (and the Ignored Metric that Could Save Us All) The author's posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.

The Broken Art of Company Blogging (and the Ignored Metric that Could Save Us All)

The perception of success The following screenshot is from an actual blog post. Based upon what you see here, would you call it successful? I think it depends on perception. The optimist might see this: 590 LinkedIn Shares (This also might be what you put in reports to your boss) :) The Twitter and Facebook manager might see this: 70 Tweets and 21 Likes I see this: Zero comments Same blog post; three different measures of success. Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome - By Dr. William Dement. Updated February 26, 1999 Please see our updated article about delayed sleep phase syndrome on the new Stanford Sleep and Dreams website.

Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome - By Dr. William Dement

What is Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome (DSPS)? It is a disorder in which the major sleep episode is delayed by 2 or more hours of the desired bedtime. 100 Very Cool Facts About The Human Body. The Brain The human brain is the most complex and least understood part of the human anatomy.

100 Very Cool Facts About The Human Body

There may be a lot we don’t know, but here are a few interesting facts that we’ve got covered. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour. Ever wonder how you can react so fast to things around you or why that stubbed toe hurts right away? It’s due to the super-speedy movement of nerve impulses from your brain to the rest of your body and vice versa, bringing reactions at the speed of a high powered luxury sports car.The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb. Hair and Nails While they’re not a living part of your body, most people spend a good amount of time caring for their hair and nails.

Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body. Internal Organs. BPA in food packaging contributes to childhood obesity. Earthship Biotecture Green Buildings. Woman brings her pet reptile back to life after administering CPR for 30 minutes. A woman miraculously brought her pet lizard back to life in Oregon by administering CPR on the reptile for a good 30 minutes.1 Sherrie Dolezal, 62, returned to her home in Salem on Tuesday to find her beloved pet Del Sol, a bearded dragon, floating face up and unconscious in his pool.

Woman brings her pet reptile back to life after administering CPR for 30 minutes

She immediately began chest compressions and forced air into his mouth until the little creature opened his eyes and started moving again. Sherrie Dolezal, 62, of Salem, Oregon, poses with her beloved pet Del Sol, a bearded dragon, who is back in good health after almost dying last week The grandmother, who calls herself the Reptile Rescuer, keeps 22 lizards – including 3-year-old Del Sol – at her home. She was having a crazy day Tuesday, running errands and caring for her pets when she took Del Sol out to clean and feed him and then put him back in a small swimming pool. She put Del Sol in his pool on Tuesday but forgot to put rocks in so he could climb about. What You Need to Know About CPR. Every year, 400,000 people suffer a cardiac arrest outside the hospital.1 “Eighty percent of cardiac arrests happen in the home, which means the life you save is likely a family friend or loved one,” said Franklin Fry, the Syracuse American Heart Association executive director.

What You Need to Know About CPR

That’s why health experts are urging everyone to learn CPR. ICANN publishes updated new TLD Auction schedule. Delays now require all-party consent, so contention set resolution should accelerate.

ICANN publishes updated new TLD Auction schedule

ICANN has published an updated “auction of last resort” schedule for new top level domain names. It’s harder for individual applicants to postpone these auctions now that the framework for handling name collisions is finalized. Postponements are now only possible if all parties in the contention set agree to the postponement. Cleveland Cavaliers: Top 5 Things to Watch in LeBron James Return vs New York Knicks. The day Cleveland Cavaliers fans have been waiting for is finally here, as the NBA finally released the 2014-2015 schedule.

Cleveland Cavaliers: Top 5 Things to Watch in LeBron James Return vs New York Knicks

At the top of the list is the opener to the season, as all of Cleveland will pack Quicken Loans Arena on Thursday October 30th to welcome home LeBron James against the New York Knicks. The return of LeBron James to Cleveland is officially slated for October 30th. Love in Cleveland? Teams Reportedly Agree to Deal. Gizmodo: Watch how open-source ... Man Learns CPR, Rescues Drowning Woman and 2 Kids 1 Week Later. A man pulled a drowning mother and her two children out of a motel pool in Hollywood Monday and performed CPR he learned a week earlier until first responders arrived, according to authorities.

Man Learns CPR, Rescues Drowning Woman and 2 Kids 1 Week Later

The victims, including an 11-year-old boy and 12-year-old girl, remained hospitalized Tuesday morning in “grave condition.” The children were playing with two other children when they wandered into the deep end of the 7-feet-5-inch-deep pool, Los Angeles Fire Department Spokesman Peter Sanders said. Their mother, 36, went to pull them out, but neither she nor the children can swim, Sanders said.