Nothing says it’s going to be a great day like a pulse. That’s why Valleyheartglenners is sharing this two-minute video on CPR and use of an AED (automatic external defibrillator).

Rather than count the recommended 100-120 pulses per minute, we hear that you can play Stayin Alive in your head and follow the beat. Here’s a sample of the tune on Amazon. (Another One Bites the Dust and The Imperial March from Star Wars are also rumored to work for those of you with sick senses of humor.)

The older model AEDs, after analyzing the person’s heart rhythm, would say out loud, “Recommend shock,” and light up a flashing button for the person to push after shouting out, “Clear!” Newer devices (after conducting the heart rhythm analysis) simply state, “Shocking now! Clear!” They then deliver the shock automatically. ♣

Receive any infuriating IRS scam phone calls lately?

Valleyheartglenners captured and recorded a robo-call from a scammer (would that we could name the source).

We talked to Special Agent in Charge Rod P. Ammari of the Los Angeles Office of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) to get an update on the investigation and prosecution of these would-be thieves.

We spoke to a Glenner who has received the annoying calls within the last month.

Check out our podcast below.

Use this link to report IRS scam phone calls to TIGTA.

Check out the latest press release from the Department of Justice on the arrest and prosecution of scammers.

Want to live vicariously through a young genius who scams his scammer? Check out PCKiddy on YouTube as he takes over his scammer’s computer and deletes all his files. Sweeeeet!

LA2024 Community Impact Day

How much produce did volunteers sort and pack in three hours on Saturday at LA2024’s Community Impact Day at your Los Angeles Regional Food Bank?

58,916 pounds!

LA2024 Olympic Committee volunteers joined teams Disney and Edison in sorting and packing cabbage and plums provided by growers and sellers at your Los Angeles Regional Food Bank in downtown Los Angeles.

Volunteers were joined by International Olympic Committee Member and Bronze Medalist in Rowing in the 1976 Games Anita DeFrantz and double medalist in the 1996 and 2000 110 meter hurdles Mark Crear!

UDPATE: July 31, 2017 – 11:15 a.m.

Paris will host the 2024 Games and Los Angeles will host the 2028 Games. All those LA2024 t-shirts are now collectors items!

It’s coming. It’s almost here. When you see your fellow Glenners pouring out of their homes and looking up into the sky one morning this month you’ll have read this post and know … it’s The Great American Eclipse!

On August 21, 2017, in Valleyheart Glen, starting at 9:05 a.m., the Moon will block the path of the Sun’s rays to the Earth. It will be a partial eclipse, 50 percent, because Valleyheart Glen is 677 miles from the total eclipse which will first be seen in Salem, Oregon. The full eclipse transit will head south across the country through Kansas City, Missouri and ending in Charleston, South Carolina.

At 10:21 a.m. it will be at maximum eclipse for Southern California and block half the Sun.

It will be over in Los Angeles by 11:45 a.m.

Of course, you’re not going to view the Sun with the naked eye. Of course, you’re going to buy eclipse glasses well in advance.

NASA uploaded a video to YouTube to show you the eclipse’s path across the United States.