Easy! Help A Person Having a Heart Attack. Katie Couric Demonstrates Public Defibrillator.

You may have seen these public defibrillators hanging on the wall in airports, businesses, other public places. It turns out they are SUPER easy to use: push a button and an audio voice walks you through the whole process (pictures too). It could not be simpler — I was impressed. When someone collapses, the first few minutes are so so critical. Check out this video (be patient with the ad that runs first) and you will be prepared to save the day should you encounter this emergency:

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Fab Fun Flickr Meme from Frances

With a hat-tip to blogjem for the idea for the photo meme — careful, you’ll spend all afternoon on one, too!

Here’s the meme:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.

b. Using only the first page, pick an image.

c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.

With thanks to Flickr Folks: 1. Jennifer, 2. Meant to be dinner 3. garden at Armour House, 4. Aquamarine Leaf Ballet Collage, 5. Colin Firth revisited, 6. Chinotto - Mummums, 7. Nice, France, 8. Key Lime Pie, 9. journal pages2, 10. Life!, 11. inquisitive, 12. day 303: deconstructing jenga ( or learning to make stuff fall over )!.

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Even More Dance Party Friday

I can’t get enough of these. If it’s a slow day for the 5:30 a.m. traffic report, Cincinnati's Channel 12 anchors bring you . . . Dance Party Friday! In this episode, even vacation can’t keep Dancin’ Bob out of the studio. Enjoy!

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It takes 90 years to grow one box of Kleenex, which Kimberly-Clark manufactures by clear-cutting ancient Boreal Canadian forests. Greenpeace’s “Kleercut” campaign offers a variety of actions you can take to stop this practice of wiping away ancient forests. Click logo for more info:

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Yogurt: The Official Food of Women!

In the midst of cyclones and earthquakes, we definitely need a study break and some humor.

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Bloggers Unite: Happy Video

You may have noticed the Bloggers Unite badge at right. I hope you’ll post on the 15th. Why? Here’s some inspiration. (Yep, it actually starts with a voice over from Ronald Reagan — not what one would expect from me, but in this context it works.)

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Help Burma

More than 28,000 people were killed in the weekend cyclone that swept Burma (also known as Myanmar by its military dictatorship). I’m supporting Mercy Corps, which has local partners on the ground and is skilled in working in difficult political situations. Click here to learn more:

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