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The reason LifeFlight took your friend to Bakersfield is because there's no Level III trauma center on the coast, and no hospital has a helipad/heliport. The medics have to go to the closest Level III trauma center, and that's Bakersfield, not LA or SF. You are right about the limited...

Health Care on the Central Coast is limited, by urban standards. From Santa Barbara north to Salinas, there are 4 hospitals over 100 beds, and 3 licensed for less. If you are a "high risk" OB patient, your only choice is Sierra Vista Regional Med Center in San Luis, no other Neonatal ICU unit on...

See no-vas's new thread for more re: Cambria's water. It's not a waiting list, it's a lottery, and no new water connections have been offered by the water district in at least 3 years.

Regarding stepping up's comment re: water in Cambria (from north of Santa Ana Thread...) The water meter system doesn't work like a waiting list. It's actually a lottery, and any water meter number is as likely, or unlikely, to actually get a water meter as any other. The city has not...

Oh, my..... I think Ten is amusing, not insulting. And, I just don't think now is the time to start pitting the honesty of UCLA against the "criminality" of USC. I'd love to know just how the Japanese gangsters made it to the top of the liver transplant list at UCLA, and how much money really...

Could some poorly informed person have bought it for the lot? Looking at the overhead view, there seems to be multifamily housing two lots to the west, on a similar sized lot. Maybe somebody had visions/delusions of building a four plex and getting rich.

I agree that it's a pretty simple, safe, and common procedure. However, the New England Journal of Medicine, Jan 18, has a research article indicating there's no statistical difference in terms of hearing or speech development between kids who have the tubes placed, and those who don't. The...

I'm late to the parrty as well, IR. I think I'm a bit older than most of the previous posters, thus my children are a bit older. I think the worries/fears expressed here are universal to parents who are serious about parenting, it doesn't really matter where you live. There's always concern...

For nurses working 12 hour shifts.... the rules are 2 - 30 minute breaks, neither paid, and 3 - 15 minute breaks, on the clock. You get "penalty pay" if you work more than 5.5 hours without a 30 minute break. And the "12 hour" shifts are really 13 hours. However, you can agree to sign a "meal...

Thanks for the info/advice. I was thinking of the info referred to by LL, that refi only makes sense for 2 pts or more, but wasn't sure it still held in the "new market." Ipop, we are in beautiful SLO.... great schools, great climate, but you are right about jobs. The state is the major...

I've been lurking on the blog for a year or so.... great work, and great information. Obviously, if you had the credit score and ability to re-fi out of a toxic loan, you should have done so by now. But what if your current loan is ok... how do you decide if it's worth trying for a lower...