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Despite all of your precautions, the forces of nature may still damage your home and other property. Now, what do you do?
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• Wait until an area is declared safe before entering
• If you come to a barricade or flooded road while traveling, turn around and go another way
• Avoid weakened bridges and washed out roads
• Don't drive into flooded areas
• Stay on solid ground; moving water only 6 inches deep can take you off your feet, standing water may be electrically charged from downed power lines
• Check your utilities, especially your gas line. If you hear a hissing sound or smell gas, open a window and quickly leave the building. Turn off the gas at the outside valve and call your gas company.
• Look for electrical system damage. Sparks or broken wires signal danger.
• If you smell hot insulation, turn off the electricity at the main fuse box or circuit breaker. Call an electrician if you have to step into water to get to the fuse box.
• You may need to make emergency repairs to prevent injury or further damage to your property.
• Check sewer and water lines for damage. Do not use water from the tap if you suspect that water pipes are damaged.
• Immediately report any damage to your insurance company.
• Take photographs of the damage so that you will have records for your insurance company.
• Get your own expert to assess the damage, if you are not satisfied with your insurance company's estimate.
• When the contractor is provided by your insurer, make sure the work is guaranteed in writing. If not, hire your own contractor but beware price gouging. The Better Business Bureau can give you a reference.
• Keep a close eye on small children, who could easily get lost or hurt.
•Do not drink the tap water until you are sure it is safe.
• Keep listening to radio, TV or NOAA weather radio for storm information

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Parmigiano Reggiano Butter is an Italian butter produced by Delitia. It is made from the cream that is left over in the production of Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. A cultured butter, it weighs in at 83% butterfat. The only ingredients are cream and cultures.
This is a fabulous butter. The culture comes out in the cheesy smell, but not the taste. The flavor is subtle and creamy, with notes of straw and hay. Usually, I'll add salt to an unsalted butter, but this one stands on its own.
Delitia Parmigiano Reggiano butter seems to be fairly available at gourmet stores. I picked it up at the Cheese Store of Silverlake.
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If you listen closely enough, at around 7 p.m. tonight you'll either hear a roar of celebration coming from Coral Gables or Canes fans across the country cussing up a storm.
Tonight is the night U.S. Army All-American quarterback Jacoby Brissett will announce where he's going to college. He will choose between Florida, Miami or Wisconsin. Although he can't say it publicly, UM coach Al Golden desperately wants Brissett to be the 17th member of the Canes' 2011 signing class.
There's been a lot of speculation over the last couple days about where Brissett will be going to school. Dwyer coach Jack Daniels said he thought Miami had a great shot, especially since Brissett's mom is a huge Canes fan. Then, yesterday, we began hearing Brissett may now be favoring Florida. Brissett will announce his choice before his basketball game scheduled for a 7 p.m. start.
The Hurricanes, quite frankly, shouldn't be in this mess. After leading the country in interceptions thrown last season, finding and landing a quarterback should have taken place a long time ago. But this isn't Al Golden's fault. It's Randy Shannon's. And the clean-up of his mess continues.
Golden spoke for nearly 40 minutes on Wednesday about his first signing class. Between talking about how happy he was to land the 14 recruits he did in a matter of five weeks (15 real recruiting days) -- and the eight he was able to steal from others -- Golden made sure to apologize plenty too. Being a thief is something Golden didn't like having to be to sign players. Being the new guy on the job was difficult enough. What was even tougher was being seen as a total stranger in his own backyard.
You see Golden didn't just have to introduce himself and his new staff when he went out recruiting. In many instances, he had to introduce The U to coaches and players that hadn't seen anybody come around with that U in a long time.
Brissett? The previous staff gave him an offer when every other school in the country did. But once Miami Northwestern's Teddy Bridgewater committed to the Canes, Shannon pulled back the reigns. No need for a Plan B right? Apparently, Shannon and his staff took this approach more often than most of us realized.
Want to know how many times UM went to visit Miami Central, a school that won the Class 6A state title this year and produced 17 Division I players on Wednesday (and as Golden pointed out produced more D-I talent than the entire state of Connecticut)?
"They came out once in the spring," Rockets coach Telly Lockette said Thursday night, shortly before Golden hosted nearly 100 head coaches and assistant coaches from Miami-Dade County at UM's basketball game against Georgia Tech.
"I remember the recruiting coordinator [Aubrey Hill] and the [defensive backs] coach [Wesley] McGriff came out to see us. McGriff came one other time. I'll say they came three times total to be safe."
Lockette, one of three on the board of the Miami-Dade County Coaches Association, doesn't want to take shots at Shannon or his staff. He's known Shannon since he was a teenager, grew up playing at the same park where Shannon frequented up in Northwest Dade. But Lockette still isn't sure why the Hurricanes didn't come around to recruit his players more often or other local players many thought were good enough to play for the Canes but ended up elsewhere.
The thought process here isn't that the Canes need to get every local kid. The thought process is at least come and make your presence felt so if you have to offer a kid late in the game, you don't come in as a total stranger.
"I remember Randy coming in personally about a year ago, we sat down and talked," Lockette said. "From then on, we thought it was going to be better. I'm not trying to throw Randy Shannon or his staff under the bus. I just thought they were recruiting a different type athlete. They would say, 'Well this guy can't play at Miami.' Jeffrey Godfrey? He can't play at Miami? You look at the guys who are going off to Louisville and what they're going to do. You know and I know you've been watching football for a long time -- that's sickening.
"At the end of the day, if you look at the track record, I've been here for three years. You mean to tell me I'm sending 53 kids off to school from here, 38 are D-I and only one is going to UM? I don't know what the deal was. They have to answer that."
That player UM got from Central, cornerback Thomas Finnie, wasn't even recruited by Shannon or anybody on his staff. Golden came down and swooped him away from South Carolina -- right under Steve Spurrier and Lockett's nose. Lockette was a little bothered at first that Golden nor anybody on his staff called to let him know they were meeting with Finnie on the morning he was set to leave for South Carolina.
But that's ancient history now.
"He came in and we sat down a week ago Tuesday," Lockette said. "He wanted to apologize for the whole ordeal and how everything went down. I told him I understood. I was telling him at this point if he wants to recruit my kids I don't have any problems with him doing it. That's when they jumped on [offensive tackle] John Miller. Once coach [Art] Kehoe got in and saw John Miller, he was ecstatic, wanted the kid bad, but it was too late.
"Coach Golden is a good guy, a straight up guy. I don't blame him for coming after the kids the way he did late in the game. It's unfortunate they were caught in that situation. I just would have liked a courtesy phone call saying coach I'm going to go after your kid. But I understand they were under the gun. That's called recruiting. I didn't have a problem with that."
Golden promised Wednesday the Hurricanes won't ever be under the gun or strangers in their own backyard again as long as he's coach. His plan to change htings: put all nine of his coaches to recruit what he calls 'The Eye Of The Storm' -- Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties.
"All of Florida is vitally important ot us. We've got to get back to our roots...," Golden said. "We're going to get back to being really strong in those areas. We're talking right now about which areas we're going to allocate. Not only do we have all nine coaches within two hours of where we are right now, which is what we call the Eye of the Storm, we have all nine coaches in-state, which is really important to us. If we take care of our home state, we're going to be in great shape. We'll have all nine guys in the state and all nine guys here in the eye, which I think is a departure from what they've done before. We want to make sure we get it right here.
"There are too many kids signing late, too many kids that are the next Ed Reed or the next Ray Lewis who was the last player taken, or the next Reggie Wayne. There are too many of those kids locally to go all over the country when they're right here in our backyard. We want to make sure our central focus is here and then go out of state to get kids that want to be a part of this tradition.
"The number of kids that come out from down here and play Division I football is the reason whywe're developing our recruiting philosophy... if there's 350 or 400 kids that sign Division I scholarships in Florida, we only need 18 to 20 a year to be a great team. Not to compete, but a great team. So let's get it right at home and go from there."
Golden isn't just taking a new approach to recruiting, he's taking a new approach all around. Among other things on tap: junior days, camps, coaching clinics. In essence, he's extending his hand out and shaking hands with people who often wondered why that old football powerhouse down the street was ignoring them.
"We are the University of Miami, the University of all of South Florida," Golden said. "And we want to make sure we are giving kids an opportunity to learn, to be exposed to the University of Miami, our mission on campus. And clearly we want an opportunity to evaluate to see which ones are good enough to be Hurricanes and who wants to be Miami Hurricanes.
"Our last four years at Temple, 78 percent of the kids that we signed attended [our] camp. So obviously you have a chance to evaluate them in the camp. There's nothing like seeing a student-athlete live. There's nothing that compares to it. If you can take that, plus the academic transcript, plus the film and then the intangibles, you have a chance to mitigate risk."
UM's camp used to cost $390. Golden has slashed it down $55.
"We're going to keep that price low," Golden said. "It's $40 through President's Day weekend, then will go up to $55. It's not a money maker for us. It's about getting to know the high school coaches, giving kids an opportunity. The camp is designed so if you don't get a scholarship offer from Miami – FIU, FAU, Bethnue Cookman, MAC schools, a bunch of 1-AA schools – all those schools will be here and represented so there's a safety net in there. It's not just going to benefit you if you want to go to Miami, but it will benefit you if you want to go to one of those other institutions as well."
How does it work? "You show up at 8, you get introduced to the staff, we break you down into groups and you do a bunch of drills on offense, then you do a bunch of drills on defense, then you have a chance to go to lunch on campus - inside, for a barbecue," Golden said.
"We'll finish up with some one on ones and some competition at the end. It's really an 8 to 4 deal. We coach the heck out of them. We have it down cold. We're going to develop them. They're going to learn. Hopefully, the goal is to get them back again. We have six of those dates in June."
Of course, Golden still isn't done with 2011.
The Hurricanes, ranked as having the 36th-best recruiting class in the country by Rivals.com, could end up moving up a few more notches tonight if Jacoby Brissett decides UM (which didn't begin recruiting him until three weeks ago) is really the best place for his future.
But gain a quarterback or watch him go elsewhere tonight, we've learned at least one thing over the last six weeks: Al Golden is not going to be a stranger in his own backyard very long.


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To deal with her depression and anxiety issues, JD Bailey does not use prescription drugs. She uses the delicate-fabrics setting on the dryer.
Four years ago, Bailey was prescribed a low dose of Zoloft to offset the overwhelming sadness and irritability of the postpartum depression that followed the birth of her youngest daughter, Grace. But over time the Zoloft stopped working, and the side effects—swelling, weight gain, trouble sleeping, nonexistent libido—were brutal. So her doctor switched the script to Celexa.
Thus began a carousel of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors: Zoloft, Celexa then Zoloft again, then Viibryd, then Prozac.
Today, Bailey is not taking anything. For the past few months, her drug of choice has been five minutes in the laundry room.
"Last week I had to step away when my six-year-old, Annie, was having a full meltdown," says Bailey, who chronicles her depression on her blog, Honest Mom. Bailey's mind started to spin, and her chest tightened. "I felt like the worst parent in the world because I didn't want to make her feel better," she admits. "I just wanted to get out of there."
So that's what she did. Bailey went into the laundry room, turned on the dryer, and breathed until "I knew I could be levelheaded, hug her, and talk her through it."
Bailey's therapist says she has "situational depression." "And you know what my situation is, what triggers my anxiety and sadness?" Bailey asks. "My kids."
Bailey lives in a suburb of Boston, where children ride bikes in front of split-level colonial homes and locals make brownies for the neighborhood bake sale. It's the kind of charmed hamlet that teaches an important lesson: Depression and anxiety live everywhere. One in every ten Americans reports being depressed, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Anxiety disorders affect 40 million adults in the U.S.
But parents are arguably the most vulnerable to these issues. From pregnant women to fathers to mothers of multiples to stay-at-home moms, they experience depression at rates twice that of the general population.
"Parenting is a tough job, one that is exhausting on a good day," says Jenn Berman, a licensed psychotherapist in Beverly Hills and author of The A to Z Guide to Raising Happy, Confident Kids. "If you're also prone to depression, it can push you over the edge."
Yet to the naked eye, the line that separates these mental issues from everyday parenthood is as thin as the chalky blue strip on a pregnancy test. From our children's health to their development to their performance at school, there's always something for moms and dads to be happy—or anxious—about. The common definition of depression states that a multitude of the following symptoms be present for a two-week period: fatigue and decreased energy, feelings of pessimism, overeating or appetite loss, insomnia or early-morning wakefulness, loss of interest in hobbies and activities once found pleasurable and irritability and restlessness. That describes half the parents I know.
Our awareness of depressive and anxiety issues is at an all-time high (thank you, TV commercials), and our family physicians and ob-gyns can write scripts as easily as psychiatrists. It all adds up to our becoming Generation Medication: More than one in five American adults now take at least one type of medication to treat a psychological or behavioral disorder, a 22 percent rise since 2001. For women ages 20 to 44, the use of ADHD medication is up a staggering 264 percent over the past decade.
But very little talk surrounding depression and anxiety focuses on parents, which is hard to believe, since their mental well-being has a significant effect on our most precious cargo. "Depression…can have serious biological, psychological, behavioral and social consequences, especially on children who rely on a parent for caregiving, support and nurturance," according to Depression in Parents, Parenting and Children, published in 2009 by the National Research Council. It's associated with poorer physical health, especially in infants, difficult temperament and aggression, lower cognitive performance and higher rates of anxiety and depression. Sixteen million children are living in households with a depressed parent, so there are an enormous number of young lives at stake.
What does it mean that more kids are being raised with the help of Xanax, Cymbalta and Wellbutrin? And is there an answer beyond the chemicals that live in a small, oval, baby-blue pill?
It's 3 a.m., and Hope Chanda is awakened by another panic attack. Not again, she thinks. But sure enough, the symptoms are all there: tightening in the chest, pressure on the rib cage, shortness of breath. "Every time, I feel like I'm going to die," she says.
There have been many emotional hours—and days and weeks and years—leading up to this particular 3 a.m. For the past two years, Chanda and her husband, Joe, parents of twin 6-year-old boys in Melbourne, FL, have been trying to get pregnant: six rounds of fertility shots and three cycles of the fertility drug Clomid. "All the hormones made me crazy," she adds. But toughest of all were the two miscarriages, a kind of invisible, unspoken tragedy that moms largely grieve alone.
"After the second miscarriage, it all came out," she says. "I had this feeling that something was really wrong. But at the same time, I felt like I had to be this rock for my family." She didn't want to end up like her mother, who was hospitalized for anxiety issues when Chanda was 10.
"You know how on an airplane the flight attendant says to put on your own oxygen mask first, then your child's? That applies here," Berman says. "It's really hard for moms to put their well-being first, but they have to help themselves before they can help their children and families." Unlike a cut or a broken bone, depression is an unseen enemy that can be pushed to the margins of life. Add T-ball and stomach bugs and bake sales and carpools into the mix, and getting help falls to the end of the to-do list. For this reason, Berman believes there is a large population of undiagnosed parents, particularly moms: Women suffer depression at a rate twice that of men.
After one too many midnight panic attacks, Chanda talked to her family doctor. Now she takes half a milligram of Xanax twice a day, and 20 milligrams of Celexa at night.
"It helps me be a better mom," says Chanda. "I look forward to taking my medication. I'm more flexible, tolerant and rational. Before, when the kids were being a problem, I would get frustrated and yell immediately. Now, we work through the problem."
Allan Horwitz does not like those gauzy, dreamlike TV commercials for antidepressants and anti-anxiety medications, the ones where people ride mountain bikes as the voice-over prattles on about dry mouth, constipation, and difficulty breathing.
He may be biased. Horwitz is a professor of sociology at Rutgers University and author of The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sadness Into Depressive Disorder. This is the guy who tells me "the psychiatric community has reclassified normal human sadness as an abnormal experience." In layman's terms, we're using meds to deal with the emotional roller coaster of parenthood.
"Let's say you have a colicky baby," says Horwitz. "Colic means your baby is not sleeping, which means you're not sleeping. Now you have resulting symptoms from that—fatigue, irritability, feeling overwhelmed. And there's a good chance the colic will last well beyond two weeks, which is the standard criteria for measuring depression. By the experts' definition, you're depressed. But circumstances change. Things get better. We've become less tolerant of negative emotions. It's much easier to take a pill."
So how can we make these distinctions? With anxiety, it's the difference between worrying about paying bills and an unsubstantiated worry that causes significant distress. For depression, it's not about feeling overwhelmed on a bad day; it's persistent feelings of hopelessness. But Berman makes clear that it's not a parent's job to self-diagnose. "That's what therapists are for."
Every morning John Buffington, a father of two in Philadelphia, pops a Claritin and 20 milligrams of Celexa. "While it was different for my dad's generation, I'm taking on a more nurturing role at home. To do that, you have to be in touch with your feelings," says Buffington as he gives his 9-month-old son a bottle. "Celexa helps me do that."
What about talk therapy? "I spent a couple years in therapy, but then the insurance stopped covering it and it became too big of an expense."
This is a common scenario: Getting the medication is relatively cheap and easy, and talk therapy is expensive and hard. If the meds make you feel normal, why do anything else?
"You should not take psychiatric medication unless you are in psychotherapy," says Carole Lieberman, M.D., a psychiatrist and faculty member at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. "The medication is a Band-Aid to combat the symptoms while you work on the root of the problem."
The American Psychological Association (APA) is working to promote talk therapy, which is an uphill battle against the seemingly endless TV commercials. "Compared with medication, psychotherapy has fewer side effects and lower instances of relapse," states Katherine Nordal, Ph.D., the APA's executive director of professional practice.
"If your partner is dealing with these issues, push them to start—and stick with—talk therapy," says Berman. "Therapists give you the tools to manage your triggers."
One evening at bedtime, Bailey's daughter Annie said, "Mommy, I'm sad and I don't know why." Her heart sank. Shortly thereafter, Bailey weaned herself off the meds "under my doctor's supervision and my husband's watchful eye."
"I'm exercising, eating better and making sure my spouse and I have time together," she says. Things are going well, but she's on eggshells. Bailey is not far removed from the days when the tears came too easily, when she had to tell her daughters, "Mommy's not feeling well today." But she's been on this battlefield before, and she's ready for a fight.


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A brand new HD version of Final Fantasy III will be an OUYA launch title, the console's makers have revealed.
The news was broken this afternoon via the project's Kickstarter page.
"This morning, we are honoured to announce that OUYA is partnering with Square Enix to bring you one of the most beloved franchises in gaming - Final Fantasy," said OUYA founder Julie Uhrman. "We will kick this off with Final Fantasy III, which will be a launch title on OUYA. This will be the first time gamers outside of Japan can play FFIII on their televisions through a console.
"But that's not the end of it: We're promising to deliver Final Fantasy III like you've never seen it before - Hironobu Sakaguchi's third instalment in the role playing game franchise will be updated to exploit OUYA's high-definition resolution in glorious graphic detail."
You'll be able to try the game via a free demo, Uhrman added.
OUYA promises to be a $99 Android-based home console. Vocal supporters of the project include Brian Fargo, Mark Kern, and Robert Bowling. Bowling's new studio, Robotoki, is working on an OUYA-exclusive prequel to their debut game, Human Element.
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CORRECTEDORDER INSTITUTING ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS, MAKING FINDINGS, AND IMPOSING REMEDIAL SANCTIONS PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(b) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
The Securities and Exchange Commission ("Commission") deems it appropriate and in the public interest that public administrative proceedings be, and hereby are, instituted pursuant to Section 15(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act") against Scott Alexander Gryskiewicz ("Respondent").
In anticipation of the institution of these proceedings, Respondent has submitted an Offer of Settlement (the "Offer") which the Commission has determined to accept. Solely for the purpose of these proceedings and any other proceedings brought by or on behalf of the Commission, or to which the Commission is a party, and without admitting or denying the findings herein, except as to the Commission's jurisdiction over him and the subject matter of these proceedings, and the findings contained in Section III.2 below, which are admitted, Respondent consents to the entry of this Order Instituting Administrative Proceedings, Making Findings, and Imposing Remedial Sanctions Pursuant to Section 15(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Order"), as set forth below.
On the basis of this Order and Respondent's Offer, the Commission finds that:
1. Gryskiewicz was associated as a registered representative with various brokers that were registered with the Commission, including: a) from June 1998 through December 1998, AC Financial, Inc.; 2) from April through May 1998, Andrew, Alexander, Wise & Company Incorporated; 3) from March 1998 through April 1998, Roan Capital Partners L.P.; 4) from September through December 1997, First National Equity, Corp.; 5) from January through March 1997, Winchester Investment Securities, Inc.; 6) from October 1996 through December 1996, Smith, Benton & Hughes, Inc.; 7) from January 1996 through October 1996, Euro-Atlantic Securities, Inc.; 8) from September through December 1995, Vision Investment Group, Inc.; and 9) during August 1995, Toluca Pacific Securities Corp. Gryskiewicz, 32 years old, is a resident of Nutley, New Jersey.
2. On July 16, 2003, a partial judgment was entered by consent against Gryskiewicz, permanently enjoining him from future violations of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 ("Securities Act"), Sections 10(b), 15(a)(1) and 15(c)(1) of the Exchange Act and Rules 10b-3, 10b-5, and 15c1-2 thereunder in the civil action entitled Securities and Exchange Commission v. Scott Alexander Gryskiewicz et. ano, 98 Civ. 7688 (NG), in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Gryskiewicz executed his consent to the Partial Judgment without admitting or denying the allegations of the Commission's Complaint, filed on December 17, 1998.
3. The Commission's Complaint alleged that since approximately May 1998 through December 1998, Gryskiewicz had been unlawfully acting as an unregistered broker, directly and through an office that he operated in Lodi, New Jersey ("Lodi Office"). In the course of his unlawful activity as an unregistered broker, Gryskiewicz obtained approximately $160,000 by offering and selling to at least 71 investors unregistered securities in the form of units consisting of common stock and warrants ("Units") issued by Pan American Securities, Inc. ("Pan American").
4. The Commission's complaint further alleged that Gryskiewicz and others in the Lodi Office made telephonic "cold calls" and offered and sold the Pan American Units to investors by means of a variety of false and misleading representations, including false claims that: a) Pan American was about to make an initial public offering ("IPO"); b) the Pan American Units were freely tradable, when they were restricted; and c) the Pan American Units could be sold for a substantial profit after the purported IPO.
5. The Complaint further alleged that Gryskiewicz also embarked on another fraudulent offering. Between at least October 1998 and December 1998, Gryskiewicz attempted to solicit investments in a purported private placement of unregistered common stock and warrants issued by Freetrade.com, Inc. ("Freetrade"). In the course of offering Freetrade securities, Gryskiewicz disseminated a private placement memorandum that falsely represented that the offered Freetrade securities are "immediately tradable," when they are, in fact, restricted.
In view of the foregoing, the Commission deems it appropriate and in the public interest to impose the sanctions specified in Respondent Gryskiewicz's Offer.
Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED:
Pursuant to Section 15(b)(6) of the Exchange Act, Respondent Gryskiewicz be, and hereby is, barred from association with any broker or dealer.
For the Commission, by its Secretary, pursuant to delegated authority.
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- Adopt a Spot Program Overview
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- Cleanup & Beautification Events (including Earth Day & Creek to Bay Day)
- Litter Container Mosaics & Murals
- Adopt a Drain
- Other Volunteer Opportunities
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Adopt a Spot
Oakland's award-winning Adopt a Spot program supports individuals, neighborhood groups, civic organizations, and businesses in ongoing cleaning and greening of parks, creeks, shorelines, storm drains, streets, trails, and other public spaces. Volunteers have adopted hundreds of sites around Oakland. Public Works can provide tool loans, debris collection services, and technical assistance.
Activities can include:
- Planting/pruning/weeding (with pre-approval from Public Works staff)
- Application of artistic mosaics and murals on litter containers and utility boxes
- Litter pick-up
- Graffiti removal
- Keeping storm drains free of debris
See what it's like to be a member of the Oakland Adopt a Spot program. Check out this video of our amazing volunteers:
Click here to Apply for Adopt a Spot (Fillable PDF), Solicitud para adoptar un lugar; 認養地點(Adopt a Spot ) 網上申請表
Direct questions to email@example.com or call (510) 238-7630.
Volunteer Forms & Application
Click on the links to download forms and materials below:
- Adopt a Spot Online Application (works best with Google Chrome, do not use Explorer), alternatively you may complete these fillable PDFs in English, español (Spanish), 中文 (Chinese)
- Volunteer Opportunities Flyer, Oportunidades para ser voluntario, 義工機會宣傳單張
- Volunteer Guidelines, Reglas para voluntarios, 義工守則
- Volunteer Interest Form (online)*
- Group Waiver, Renuncia de responsabilidades de grupos, 團體免責聲明
- Individual Waiver, Renuncia de responsabilidades de individual, 個人免責聲明
- Injury Reporting Form, Formulario de reporte de lesiones, 受伤报告表
- Site Coordinator Guide - practical tips for running your volunteer event; Guía del Coordinador– consejos prácticos para llevar a cabo su evento de voluntaries; 場地協調員指南 - 推廣義工活動的實用建議
- Online Tool Request Form*
- Tool Maintenance Guide, Guía de mantenimiento de herramientas, 工具維修守則
- Photo Documentation Tips, Tips para documentar fotografias, 照片紀錄提示
- Best Practices for Acquiring Donated Refreshments for Volunteer Events, Las mejores prácticas para obtener donaciones de refrigerios para eventos de voluntariado, 爲志工活動獲贈茶點的最佳範例
- Donation Request Letter Template, Carta modelo para pedir donaciones, 要求捐贈樣板 - Template letter for requesting food or other donations for your volunteer events
- Donation "Thank You" Letter Template, Carta modela para dar la gracias, 多謝捐贈樣板 - Template "thank you" letter to send to businesses that donate to your events
*Please note: These forms work best with Google Chrome. Do not use Internet Explorer.
Reporting Volunteer Hours
To enter volunteer hours and other workday results, please go to the Track It Forward website and find for your site(s) in the first drop down menu. Contact firstname.lastname@example.com for help listing your site(s) or other support.
Your reports on activities and accomplishments help us tell the volunteer story and improve event coordination. Track It Forward also provides you with a record of your volunteering and a way to view other volunteer reports. Volunteer coordinators can track on behalf of their groups.
Free downloads for the Track It Forward mobile are available from these links for Google Play (Android) or iTunes Store (iPhone). To use the mobile app, you will also need to create a free account with a password or contact firstname.lastname@example.com for assistance.
Cleanup & Greening Events
Annual Events
Oakland Public Works coordinates two city-wide volunteer events each year involving thousands of participants. Groups and individuals of all ages and abilities are invited to join cleanup and habitat restoration projects at creeks, parks, and neighborhood sites throughout Oakland. All tools are provided.
Earth Day is typically held the third Saturday in April. Mark your calendar for Saturday, April 21, 2018! In 2017 over 2,600 volunteers pitched in more than 8,500 hours at ninety-two sites across Oakland. Volunteers removed 300 cubic yards of trash and more than 600 cubic yards of green waste. In total, over the debris removed is enough to fill over 5,000 thirty-five gallon garbage cans! Learn more and register at www.oaklandearthday.org.
Creek to Bay Day is held the third Saturday in September. Mark your calendar for Saturday, September 15, 2018! In 2016, over 1,700 volunteers removed 162 cubic yards of trash and 253 cubic yards of invasive weeds from Oakland's creeks, shoreline, and streets. Statewide, 58,452 volunteers prevented over 300,000 pounds of trash from entering inland waterways and oceans. Learn more and register at www.oaklandcreektobay.org.
Ongoing Community Cleanups
Our online Volunteer Event Calendar lists ongoing cleaning, greening, and beautifying efforts. Contact email@example.com to post your event.
One-Time Community Cleanups
We also support one-time community cleanups. If you would like to host one, please contact us at email@example.com or (510) 238-7630. We may be able to provide you with tools, post-event debris collection services, and other logistical support.
See volunteers in action from our 2015 events slideshow:
Litter Container Mosaics & Murals
Oakland volunteers add beauty and character to the streets by adopting and adorning city-owned litter containers with tile mosaics and painted murals. See http://oaklandwiki.org/Mosaic_Tile_Trash_Cans for examples of some of these projects.
If you would like to adopt a litter container or paint a mural on a utility box or other public space, please complete the Adopt a Spot form (do not use Explorer for this form, works best with Google Chrome) with a description or drawing of the art to be installed. Once your application is approved you can begin work on the project. Here is a video that shows you how it's done http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCL4I7shWx8.
Adopt a Storm Drain
Clear the Drain Before the Rain
Hundreds of volunteers across Oakland have adopted storm drains to help their neighborhoods prepare for rainstorms. It doesn't take much to keep a storm drain clear. A little volunteer effort goes a long way in helping Public Works maintain over 12,000 storm drains to reduce flooding and prevent pollution of our waterways. When you sign up to Adopt a Drain, you become eligible to borrow City tools and supplies, and you will receive the City's rain alert notifications.
Click here to watch our Adopt a Drain video.
Click here for other rain storm preparedness tips.
Sign up at http://adoptadrainoakland.com.
Outreach Resources for Adopt a Drain:
Adopt a Drain volunteer program outreach flyer, español (Spanish), 中文 (Chinese), Vietnamese
Practical information and tips for storm drain volunteers, español (Spanish), 中文 (Chinese)
Other Volunteer Opportunities
Clean Lake Initiative
Oakland's Clean Lake Initiative supports volunteer cleanup, maintenance, monitoring, and education at Lake Merritt. For information on how you can participate in these efforts, please contact the Lake Merritt Institute at email@example.com or (510) 238-2290.
Volunteer at Lakeside Park Gardens
The Friends of the Gardens at Lake Merritt host regular volunteer events.
Volunteer in the Sausal Creek Watershed
Friends of Sausal Creek has regular volunteer opportunities in the Sausal Creek Watershed, including cleanups, habitat restoration, and plant propagation events.
Citywide Volunteer Opportunities
Keep Oakland Beautiful and the Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation promote and support volunteer cleaning and greening throughout Oakland.
County, Regional, & State Property
- Alameda County Adopt-A-Creek/Adopt-A-Spot for county-owned land and flood control channels
- East Bay Regional Parks District
- Caltrans Adopt-A-Highway for highway overpasses, underpasses, on-ramps, and off-ramps
News & Events
Follow us on the Sustainable Oakland Facebook page for information on volunteer events, news on sustainability, going green and more!
Keep Oakland Beautiful (KOB)
- Join the Board: Keep Oakland Beautiful (KOB) is a non-profit partner organization that works with the City of Oakland towards a clean, green, and litter free city. KOB is recruiting board members. Visit http://keepoaklandbeautiful.org/ for more information and application materials. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and preference will be given to those received by November 6, 2017.
- Daffodil Days: Every fall, Keep Oakland Beautiful provides free daffodil bulbs to volunteers willing to plant and maintain them in visible public property locations in Oakland. Plantings should be pre-approved by the land owner. Applications are due by November 1. Daffodils and poppy seeds will be distributed to approved applicants on Saturday, November 11, between 8AM-10AM at the Arroyo Viejo Park Amphitheater, 7701 Krause Ave, Oakland, CA 94605 (at 77th and Krause). Click here for more information and to access the application.
- Small Grant Program: Small grants up to $800 are distributed by KOB to volunteers on a competitive basis for projects that clean and green Oakland parks, creeks, streets, and other projects in the public right of way. Click here for more information.
Paint the Town! Oakland's New Street Mural Program
Oakland Department of Transportation is accepting applications through November 30, 2017 for temporary street murals. Streets murals can brighten and represent a neighborhood, strengthen community spirit, and reduce speeding traffic. Visit https://www.oaklandca.gov/services/dot/paint-the-town for more information and to apply.
Oakland Adopt a Spot Program receives the Northern California APWA 2013 Sustainability Practices Award
The Adopt a Spot Program received the 2013 Sustainability Practices Award from the Northern California Chapter of the American Public Works Association. This award is given to "individuals, teams or organization that have made an outstanding contribution to promote sustainability in public works."
We thank the many individual volunteers, neighborhood groups, civic organizations and businesses who are cleaning, greening and beautifying adopted spots around Oakland. These efforts contribute to a cleaner, healthier, more beautiful, livable and sustainable City. Together, through Adopt a Spot, we're building community, raising environmental consciousness and participation, improving the quality of life in Oakland while also supporting broader regional and global environmental initiatives.
Accessibility Information
The City of Oakland Public Works offers a wide variety of volunteer opportunities. We encourage individuals with all abilities to volunteer. Some volunteer opportunities may be located in areas without a designated path of travel and may require significant physical exertion.
To obtain accessibility information or to request a sign language interpreter or any other disability-related accommodation, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com or call (510) 238-7630, or TTY (510) 238-3254 at least three business days in advance.
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August 2011 - In late July 2011 the Met Office extended its operational dust storm forecasting capability to give global coverage, and to produce longer range forecasts extending out to 5 days.
The Met Office has been producing operational dust forecasts since 2008, in support of British and NATO Forces operating in the Middle East and South Asia using a limited area model configuration of the Unified Model.
While Saharan dust occasionally reaches the UK, it rarely causes anything more noticeable than a vivid sunset or dust deposits on cars; dust is a much more significant issue in arid and semi-arid regions of the world. Dust storms vary in size and intensity from small dust devils, to very intense but localised dust storms, known as Haboobs, which are severe enough to bring almost all activity to a standstill. The largest dust events can extend over thousands of miles, and while these are not usually as severe as Haboobs, they can reduce visibility enough to significantly impair civil and military aviation over large areas. Exposure to atmospheric dust can also have impacts on human health; outbreaks of meningitis in Africa are linked to dust storms, although the exact mechanism is not well understood.
The Met Office dust forecasting capability is an application of the dust model developed for Earth System Science research using the Met Office Unified Model. Dust is emitted in the model according to a set of equations based primarily on wind tunnel observations; dust is emitted when strong winds blow over dry bare soil surfaces. This dust is then transported by the model's 3-dimensional winds and removed by gravitational settling, turbulent mixing and falling rain. In order to correctly represent the emission, transport and settling of dust it is important to represent the variability of the sizes of different dust particles; we do this by emitting and transporting up to 6 different dust tracers, each with different representative sizes.
During the initial testing of the global dust forecasting system a dust event reached the South West of England, including Met Office Headquarters in Exeter, providing an ideal case study to demonstrate the new dust forecasting capability. On the 4th April, a group of thunderstorms formed over the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, generating a small cyclonic circulation which lifted a large amount of dust. This dust was then blown over Spain and into the Atlantic, reaching the South West of England on the 7th April.
Verifying the model forecasts against satellite imagery and ground-based observations showed that the event was very well represented by the model. An animation, comparing satellite observations of dust with Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) from the model, is available using the 'Enlarge' button of the satellite image on this page.
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Shambles (also known as 'The Shambles') is a bustling centre piece of historic York. The street today is one of the UK's most visited.The way that fifteenth century buildings lean into the middle of the cobbled street means that the roofs almost touch in the middle. Mentioned in the Domesday book (making it date over 900 years), we know Shambles to be York 's oldest street, and Europe's best preserved Medieval street. It really is a very special place.
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|November 8, 2012, 09:29 AM
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OK... I'm not an idiot... really
just saw this today in another thread...
I've always thought a blueprint was a drawing of a something, or a piece of it... did it somehow become a mechanical process, or is this just some "buzz word" or is someone doing a "drawing" of the assembly, like that will make the rifle more accurate
I mean I understand the concept of "trueing up" & "bedding", but what does blue printing have anything to do with it ( I see this term with engines & other performance improvements on mechanical objects... example "that engine is balanced & blueprinted" ) so is it a process, rather than a drawing ???
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From the Wikipedia article on engine tuning at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_tuning#Blueprinting
In engine blueprinting, all the specifications are double-checked. Usually this indicates closer-than-factory tolerances, with custom specifications appropriate for a street car or a race car. The goals are either to re-manufacture the engine to the rated power for its manufacturer's design (because not all mass-production engines put out the rated power), or rebuild the engine to make more power from a given design than otherwise intended (because custom engines can often be redesigned to different specifications). Blueprinted components allow for a more exact balancing of reciprocating parts and rotating assemblies so that less power is lost through excessive engine vibrations and other mechanical inefficiencies.
Ideally, blueprinting is performed on components removed from the production line before normal balancing and finishing. If finished components are blueprinted, there is the risk that the further removal of material will weaken the component. However, lightening components is generally an advantage in itself provided balance and adequate strength are both maintained, and more precise machining will in general strengthen a part by removing stress points, so in many cases performance tuners are able to work with finished components.
For example, an engine manufacturer may list a piston ring end-gap specification of 0.003 to 0.005 inches for general use in a consumer automobile application. For an endurance racing engine which runs hot, a "blueprinted" specification of 0.0045" to 0.0050" may be desired. For a drag-racing engine which runs only in short bursts, a tighter 0.0035 to 0.0040 inch tolerance may be used instead. Thus "blueprint" can mean tighter or looser clearances, depending on the goal.
|November 8, 2012, 09:35 AM
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so this loosely translates to guns, & in reality, just means carefully & tightly assembled ???
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|November 8, 2012, 10:53 AM
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"...just means carefully & tightly assembled???"
Yeah, basically. Some machining to minimize clearances or tolerances. As example, consider the range for headspace. Blueprinting would result in a chamber with the exact minimum. Another example would be machining of the bolt-face so that it is exactly 90 degrees to the axis of the bore.
Blueprints show dimensions, with some sort of plus/minus tolerances which have been found to allow use of the item. "Blueprinting" means spending the time, effort and money to achieve minimum tolerances. It can be done in manufacturing, but that's why a Rolls Royce costs more than a Ford, or a Purdey costs more than a Remchester.
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|November 8, 2012, 11:15 AM
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"Blueprinting" is an old race engine builder's term. The goal is to make the engine as good as it can possibly be but still legally be factory stock.
Carefully degreeing a stock cam and matching the combustion chamber volumes with carefully matched stock pistons is "blueprinting".
Putting in a race cam and high compression pistons is modifying.
|November 8, 2012, 11:21 AM
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To me it has always meant squaring and truing the receiver and bolt face to the centerline of the bore. If everything lines up straight and true then you'll have an accurate rifle as long as the nut building the ammo and pulling the trigger is doing their job.
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I also at first didn't know what it meaning was. Went on line, blueprint a rifle. Found it very interesting, When I need to rebarrel my rifle I will have it Blueprinted. Hope I helped Chris
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Taarka at CEBU May 2
Friday, May 2: Taarka 9:30 p.m. – indie folk, gypsy jazz, bluegrass
Described by SF Weekly as a "collision of Django Reinhardt and David Grisman," Taarka is the new acoustic "supergroup presenting masterfully deep Americana and gypsy-jazz string band music," led by the husband-and-wife team of David Pelta-Tiller (mandolin, tenor guitar, vocals) and Enion Pelta-Tiller (five-string violin, vocals).
David, a versatile picker raised in Virginia on a steady diet of bluegrass, Celtic, classical and gypsy-jazz, and Enion Pelta-Tiller, a classically trained violinist who can switch seamlessly between Bartoìk and bebop, began their journey together in 2001. After meeting at a Brooklyn Browngrass gig, the two began a gypsy jazz busker act in the New York City subway before hitting the road as Taarka.
Saturday, May 3: Dancehall Days 9:30 p.m. – Covers from the '70s, '80s, '90s and '00s.
Dancehall Days is a six-piece variety band featuring female and male vocals, guitar, keyboards, drums, bass, trumpet and percussion. Incredible variety and authenticity is what Dancehall Days delivers. They have been wowing audiences all over the Northwest and the word is now out, Dancehall is a powerhouse.
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The Secret Salsa Society has invited dog-loving instructors Lynn and Mark (dancethat.com) to teach Cumbia at Mt. View Grange in White Salmon on Friday, May 9. The lesson starts at 7:30 p.m., but come early and meet some of the Hood River Adopt A Dogs. Donations to Adopt A Dog will be accepted or bring durable toys or yummy training treats.
All ages welcome, no partner or experience needed. Lessons are from 7:30-9 p.m. and the social dance goes until 10:30 p.m. Admission is $10.
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Columbia Center for the Arts and CAST Theatre present Eve Ensler's "The Good Body." Opening on May 8, this play showcases the world of women; Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation "The Vagina Monologues," is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a "good body." "The Good Body" directed by Judie Hanel, runs May 8, 9, 10, 16, 17 and 18 at 7:30 p.m. with a matinee on May 11 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $18 adult/$15 student, available in advance at Columbia Center for the Arts, Waucoma Bookstore and online at columbiaarts.org.
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Sound Tigers win wild one in OT
BRIDGEPORT -- A crazy week and a long layoff ended with a crazy game Tuesday that ran long at Webster Bank Arena.
John Persson, fortunately for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, was in the right place to end them all. Persson deflected in Matt Donovan's left-point shot 2:46 into overtime to beat the Springfield Falcons 4-3.
"It was huge for us," Persson said. "We haven't played in a while. ... We have great leaders on the team. They kept on going `we're going to win this.'"
Bridgeport -- 3-0-0-1 in its past four games, which covers almost two weeks -- took a 3-1 lead in the second but relinquished it in the third. The Falcons tied it with 40.7 seconds left.
The Sound Tigers still managed to beat the first-place Falcons after a 10-day layoff, with two games postponed over the weekend by blizzard cleanup.
"I thought we played a real solid 40 minutes," Bridgeport coach Scott Pellerin said. "We talked about it after the game, playing a top-level team like Springfield, they have the ability to turn it on."
And they did. Bridgeport had a 24-8 edge in shots on goal after Donovan scored to make it 3-1, 6:13 into the second period. The Falcons outshot the Sound Tigers 24-5 the rest of regulation.
Kevin Poulin made some big saves, but Nick Drazenovic got an open look from the right circle with 11:53 to go. Tomas Kubalik got the second deflection of a point shot to tie it on a play the Sound Tigers thought should have been whistled down for a penalty on themselves.
The Falcons took a lead 46 seconds into the game as Ryan Johansen beat Donovan in the neutral zone to turn a rush into a two-on-one and snapped a shot past Poulin's glove.
"I felt a little rusty. Even though we had a practice, it's never the same as a game," Poulin said.
"I thought the team was pretty good. We had a lot of shots (16) in the first period."
While Poulin settled in, Nathan McIver led Jack Combs on a breakaway to tie it at 11:27, McIver's first point of the season.
Nino Niederreiter (short-handed, finishing a two-on-one with Brock Nelson) and Donovan (power play) gave the Sound Tigers a 3-1 lead with goals 1:55 apart.
"I'm happy with the effort," Pellerin said, "but we have to sustain that for a 60-minute game."
Attendance was 3,567.
The Sound Tigers announced makeup dates for this weekend's home games, both moved to Tuesdays late in the season: Bridgeport will play Worcester on April 9, then Portland on April 16.
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1. JOHN PERSSON, BRIDGEPORT: Deflected home the game-winning goal.
2. KEVIN POULIN, BRIDGEPORT: Made some big saves throughout.
3. NICK DRAZENOVIC, SPRINGFIELD: Got himself several scoring chances, scored a third-period goal.
UNSUNG HERO: Nino Niederreiter came out with a physical edge and scored a short-handed goal.
UP NEXT: Friday at Providence, 7:05 p.m.
Springfield 1 0 2 0--3
Bridgeport 1 2 0 1--4
First Period -- 1, Springfield, Johansen 16, :46. 2, Bridgeport, Combs 4 (McIver), 11:27. Penalties -- Kubalik, Spr (hooking), 5:03; Weber, Spr, major (fighting), 10:53; Gallant, Bpt, major (fighting), 10:53; Kabanov, Bpt (high-sticking), 16:06.
Second Period -- 3, Bridgeport, Niederreiter 21 (Nelson, Donovan), 4:18 (sh). 4, Bridgeport, Donovan 7 (Kabanov, Landry), 6:13 (pp). Penalties -- Hansen, Spr, major (fighting), 2:04; Riley, Bpt, major (fighting), 2:04; Campbell, Bpt (slashing), 3:05; Springfield bench, served Audy-Marchessault (interference), 5:10; Savard, Spr (slashing), 7:40; Halmo, Bpt (holding stick), 7:40; Johansen, Spr (unsportsmanlike conduct), 15:12; Wishart, Bpt (boarding), 15:12; Watkins, Bpt (hooking), 17:55.
Third Period -- 5, Springfield, Drazenovic 16 (MacLeod), 8:07. 6, Springfield, Kubalik 13 (Craig, Johansen), 19:19 (ea). Penalties -- Johansen, Spr (roughing), 2:21; Niederreiter, Bpt (hooking), 2:41; Jackson, Bpt (high-sticking), 4:29; Backman, Bpt (delay of game), 10:36.
Overtime -- 7, Bridgeport, Persson 16 (Donovan, Wishart), 2:46. Penalties -- None.
Shots on goal -- Springfield 6-14-13-2--35. Bridgeport 16-11-2-3-32.
Power play opportunities -- Springfield 0 of 6, Bridgeport 1 of 3.
Goaltenders -- Springfield, McElhinney 20-8-2 (32 shots-28 saves). Bridgeport, Poulin 15-10-3 (35-32).
Attendance -- 3,567. Referees -- J. Hebert, Leduc. Linesmen -- Galvin, Redding.


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For a while, Dec. 15 was like any other day for Robbin Goods.
The violence-prevention educator with the nonprofit Community for New Direction was working with students at Ohio Avenue Elementary School on the city's East Side. Then her heart stopped.
"They said I was laughing, and I sort of just keeled over," Goods said recently.
She was told that a nurse grabbed the school's automatic external defibrillator — a device that delivers an electrical shock to stabilize heart rhythm — and attached it to Goods' chest.
"After it shocked me the first time, I sort of came to," she said.
Goods, 35, was taken to Grant Medical Center and was kept under observation for a week. She said doctors weren't sure why she went into cardiac arrest but told her the school's defibrillator kept her alive.
"Her incident had essentially a textbook response," said Mark Huckaby, EMS coordinator at Grant and a volunteer with the American Heart Association.
A growing number of businesses, community centers, churches, gyms and public places are buying the machines.
A few years ago, the automatic defibrillators were found only in shopping malls and airports.
That has changed nationwide. For example, Columbus schools now have two devices in each middle and high school and one in each elementary school, said Gabrielle Karpowicz, the supervisor of health, family and community for the district.
Said Huckaby: "Wherever you've got someone who knows CPR and an AED on site, the odds of survival go up."
According to the American Heart Association, about 295,000 cases of cardiac arrest are treated each year outside of hospitals in the United States. A victim's chance of surviving drops by 7 percent to 10 percent for every minute a normal heartbeat isn't restored.
Defibrillators are used when an irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia, causes the heart to stop pumping blood, resulting in cardiac arrest — a process akin to an "electrical short circuit," said Dr. Michael Sayre, an emergency physician at Ohio State University Medical Center.
After rescuers call 911, check for breathing and begin CPR, they attach defibrillator pads to the person's chest. When the device is turned on, it analyzes the heart rate to see if an electrical shock should be applied.
If so, an automated voice advises bystanders to step back. Some AEDs deliver the shock automatically. Others require pressing a button.
"The defibrillator's electricity basically reboots the heart," Sayre said, "almost like a computer."
Some communities are spearheading efforts to put the devices in more public places.
In Upper Arlington, where dozens of the devices have been placed in schools and city buildings, training is now part of monthly CPR classes.
"Most communities could probably benefit from it," said Chris Moore, the training and EMS lieutenant for the Upper Arlington Fire Department.
Sayre compares the defibrillators to fire extinguishers and said the value of the equipment is appreciated only when something bad happens.
"The number (of AEDs) is increasing, but it's still far too low," he said.