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Posted on July 20 at 8:44 a.m.
Unfortunately it is not just the select few free/sport divers that have over fished our waters off Santa Barbara. Even among the diving community there has been abuse. What about dive boat charters that take 100's of sport divers on a dive trip and pardon the language, rape the ocean. I can still recall the huge piles of abalone shells stacked mountains high off what is now called Storke road in the 60's. because of the long time abuse and misuse all of us have to pay the price.
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Posted on March 11 at 8:07 p.m.
A stroke, car accident, sports or an IED from the Iraq war, all can result in a head injury, commonly known/called a Traumatic Brain Injury aka TBI. The only thing different from a blow to the head, is that a stroke causes a dramatic loss in the blood supply to the injured part of the brain. That part of the brain then dies.
However, now we know that the brain can re-route it's neuron paths. Lets say, prior to a TBI, neuron A used to go to B then C to make one's finger move due to pain. That old route now goes from A to D and then to C as "B" is broken. That is called Placidity. A term used to define how the brain re-routes it's electrons or more precise, neuron path ways.
There are 1,000's of sad stories that can been told because of an acquired brain injury, aka TBI.
My own story, TBI, has it's good points, however few, and my recovery has gone from having to learn so many things over that we take for granted. And I am still trying to get Me all back again, though I am beginning to realize that is an on going recovery. Don't we all learn aka experience new aspects each day?
But sometimes life deals you all aces, and then you can be dealt all jokers. But we all have to play the cards we have been dealt.
Personally, I can't see myself paying $50+ to hear the lady talk. If I want to learn the effects and how one recovers from of a TBI, I can go to JODI house and talk to any one of the 50+ individuals I have met in the last 5 years who have had TBI's.
Just like we are all different, everyone's recovery is also different. I am glad that Dr Taylor is doing well and happy.
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Posted on January 18 at 6:31 p.m.
On Valentine’s Day of 2004, I received a TBI, caused by paragliding accident. So I am intimately aware of the shortcomings due to this injury. Though my recovery is greater than Nick’s, I am still light years from who I was before.
I have had my day with the police. Within 2.5 months after my Valentine’s crash, the half way house, Solutions in Goleta, allowed me to venture home for the first time. It was then the two appointed care givers, my son and a girl friend not knowing the venerability of one having had a traumatic brain injury and how one is so easily upset, began arguing with me because my son took food I was eating off my plate and when I wanted it back I over reacted. When I voiced my desire to return to Solutions, and being told I had to wait, then I proceeded to leave. Well Solutions in their “training program” told my girl friend and my son, “call the police if I became upset.”
That was exactly what my son and girl friend did, they called the police. So I was handcuffed at my home. For no other reason than I was walking to a neighbor’s house.
Now that is all I am going to say about my experiences, because the root of my writing is because I know that Nick having a brain injury, aka, TBI and the hell he has gone through is due only to the insensitivity and lack of understanding from our medical professionals.
A Brain injury, aka TBI is the signature injury of the Iraq war and there are most likely 100’s of veterans who are receiving little or no help. I have said this till I am blue in the face; the Brain is the organ that stores our entire life’s experiences. Damage that and everything in one’s is instantly altered. Walking, speech, the ability to think coherently, manage day to day chores, memories, essentially everything is instantly changed in a TBI’s life.
We have broken people who need help and understanding and love, so what happened to basic human compassion? If we loose that then we are lost souls and we are showing less compassion than we do to the animals in the animal shelter. What is wrong with our society?
Posted on March 21 at 11:13 a.m.
Sbreader, you could not be more incorrect. As a retired boater, I began crossing the channel back in the days before the internet became the source of our weather information. The marine weather was only available through the a.m. radio, aka weather band. By relying on those forecast I can personally testify that the information was very lacking. Sbreader, if all you need is to determine the local surf conditions, just walk to the beach. That is a no brainer. But these islands create a meteorological anomaly of their own that can only be known by physically being out there or by clicking on the buoy's link. What would you want to do? Scare the heck out of you and your crew by venturing out in the channel, or clicking on the buoy's link?
Posted on March 8 at 11:06 a.m.
I am probably the wrong individual to ask if the police acted correctly. When an individual is not acting rational do to extenuating reasons, is killing/shooting that individual OK? I am going to say NEVER!
This seems to be another one of those instances that shows the intense short-comings in the education of our law enforcement in how to understand a individual who is distressed.
Four years ago, having recently been discharged from the hospital due to a sever head injury; two individuals who were in charge of my home-visits, proceeded to antagonize me to the point I decided to leave my own home to return to the rehabilitation home I was staying in. So the two individuals called the police who handcuffed me and then escorted me to the rehabilitation home.
Was I a threat to myself or any other individual? No, I had only walked across my street to a neighbor's home looking for a ride. But our law enforcement's lack of understanding in how to deal with common human shortcomings used force. Even over the objections of concerned neighbors who tried to explain what was happening, to no avail.
Posted on February 18 at 9:35 a.m.
Of course our government will fight against anything they cannot tax. How many lives are destroyed by alcohol or cigerettes? But our government allows those "drugs" because they can tax them.
Posted on November 16 at 2:44 p.m.
How many people remember the UCSB chancellor, Huttenbeck who stole $1,000’s from the University to remodel his personal home, who Sneddon essentially gave a “get-out-of –jail –free” card to? There was a tremendous public out-crying over that. Between the Santa Barbara News Suppress and Sneddon it is any wonder that real justice/truth exists!
Posted on November 6 at 4:55 p.m.
How about our local pd parking their vehicle in an obtrusive, over grown alley, waiting for the next driver to make a "California" Stop at a T intersection, while the majority of the public blasts down Cliff Drive @ 60 mph, running down pedestrians just 1/2 block away? Why not hire people like Barney, or myself for pennies to "help" catch those self-centered individuals to "think" they are such good drivers that the rules of the road do not apply to them!
Posted on April 30 at 1:31 p.m.
I am posting my blog again to give it more ways to be seen on the McCaw's doings:
Not too many years ago when Mrs. McCaw came to our lovely town, she took up residence in Hope Ranch near Hope Ranch Beach. For those who have been long time Santa Barbara citizens you might remember that horse lovers originally conceived Hope Ranch. Those developers set aside easements throughout all of Hope Ranch so that one could ride their horses, as fences were not meant to be a restriction. Aside from the early SB history lesson, Mrs. McCaw as a new resident disliked that horse lovers had the “right” to cross her property. So what did she do? She hired a prestigious SB law firm hoping she could sue the Hope Ranch homeowners association to rescind this 70-year-old right. The law firm knew this would be a tremendous undertaking, and frivolous lawsuit, so to discourage Mrs. McCaw they wanted a million plus retainer.
One additional bit of unknown facts about Ms. McCaw: Adjacent to Ms. McCaw’s home is the infamous Nudie Beach aka Moore Mesa. Now days it is one of the largest undeveloped parcels of land on our coast. One of the 100’s of users of the parcel happens to be a small group of individuals, paragliders. You see when the southerly coastal breezes are just right; one can fly their paragliders just like the birds so often do by taking advantage of the air currents.
Ms. McCaw, has very recently threatened to sue the owners of the Moore Mesa property, because she wants to stop the users of this gentle, quiet sport from taking off and landing their paragliders because they have been using the adjacent land to enjoy their sport. You see, when paragliding you are sometimes a 100’+ above the ground giving one a birds-eye view of the beach. Mrs. McCaw thinks that paragliders have nothing better to do as they fly buy at 20 mph+ to look in her windows of her home.
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Posted on November 14 at 8:53 a.m.
I heard of a recent discovery, the Madoff $ eating plant. I hear it my be related to the Bernanki species.
On The Plants that Eat Animals