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Research has documented the serious impact that unaddressed grief among children and teenagers can have on their functioning and personality. When these young people have not gained the coping skills they need to process grief, they may fall victim to violence, drugs, or alcohol. I Have a Friend provides a productive outlet for these children and the opportunity to form a real bond with someone who has experienced the same chilling loss. Understanding the program’s significance, Kenny Slaught wrote, “Recognizing that the child’s life will never be the same, the mentor offers a positive example for how to process and deal with the pain of loss. The mentor serves as a symbol that happiness and wholeness can be achieved no matter how the child may feel in the years immediately following a major loss.”

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Renowned property and Founder of Investec Real Estate Companies, Kenny Slaught is a former member of the board of the Santa Barbara Hospice Foundation, and remains a dedicated supporter of Hospice of Santa Barbara. He recently voiced his enthusiastic approval of the organization’s ‘I Have a Friend Program’ by promoting it on his blog, available at KennySlaught.com.

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“The professionals at Hospice of Santa Barbara strive to provide the highest level of service to clients by offering effective, cutting-edge therapies,” Kenny Slaught wrote, praising the organization for their work. “Dealing with grief and loss is extremely difficult, but a new therapy has emerged to help individuals through difficult times.” Those experiencing PTSD undergo overwhelming and painful emotions whenever they remember a past trauma. People dealing with loss and grief often have similar reactions to emotional triggers. EMDR allows these negative emotions to be mitigated through the involvement of dual stimulation—eye movements along with tones or taps. Throughout the therapy, clients recall past traumas in a protected environment while focusing on an external stimulus of the tone or tap. Practitioners are able to help clients find insight about the difficult emotions and make more positive associations with current triggers.

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All upgrades to the museum will be completed in stages so that the museum can stay open to visitors throughout the entire process. The campaign itself and associated renovations will take place over the course of about six years. Kenny Slaught has discussed on his blog the four primary goals of the campaign, including Improving gallery space, increasing community space, enhancing the overall museum experience, and addressing the facility’s critical needs. He has also provided details on how to support the campaign, “People can make a cash donation directly to the campaign through the Imagine More website at campaign.sbma.net. The museum also accepts donations of stock and securities, as well as real estate and personal property, which can help sustain the campaign through the entirety of the renovation process.”

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All upgrades to the museum will be completed in stages so that the museum can stay open to visitors throughout the entire process. The campaign itself and associated renovations will take place over the course of about six years. Kenny Slaught has discussed on his blog the four primary goals of the campaign, including Improving gallery space, increasing community space, enhancing the overall museum experience, and addressing the facility’s critical needs. He has also provided details on how to support the campaign, “People can make a cash donation directly to the campaign through the Imagine More website at campaign.sbma.net. The museum also accepts donations of stock and securities, as well as real estate and personal property, which can help sustain the campaign through the entirety of the renovation process.”

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The project allows for the preservation of the historical character of physical building while also providing for state-of-the-art upgrades, notes Kenny Slaught. In addition, through enhancements like seismic upgrades, both the building and the tens of thousands of pieces of art inside will be better protected. The project also creates 25 percent more gallery space to make the museum an even more important center of the Santa Barbara community. In all, the renovation project is the most comprehensive ever undertaken by the museum.

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David Low took his bachelor’s degree in biology from UC San Diego, and went on to earn a master’s degree in microbiology from San Diego State University and a Ph.D. in cellular biochemistry from UC Irvine, notes Kenny Slaught. While in the lab of Stanley Falkow, now a professor emeritus in microbiology and immunology, Low conducted research in molecular microbiology as a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. In 1998, he joined the UCSB faculty following 13 years as a professor with the University of Utah Health Sciences Center. It should be noted that Low was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology in 2013 and received the same honor with the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003.

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As an active member and supporter of the UCSB Foundation, Kenny Slaught recently posted on his blog at KennySlaught.com offering congratulations on being awarded an impressive grant. “The University of California Santa Barbara announced on May 26, 2016 that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations grant winner.”

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A white-hot housing market has many West Coast buyers finding that they need to pay excessively high prices for older, less fashionable homes. Kenny Slaught notes that home prices have been steadily rising since 2008, with common reference, the Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller home price index, revealing that Los Angeles home prices reached their highest point during April of this year since October 2007. Having moved beyond simply recovering from the recession, Southern California’s larger metropolitan areas are approaching their former peaks. Slaught says the turnaround is due to a number of factors, including interest rates, job growth and supply and demand. As current 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages hover around 3.5% or less, these enticing numbers are nearing 3.31 percent (the record low hit in November 2012) and are encouraging many to buy. Historically low rates, coupled with strong employment numbers, such as a 2.4% gain in Los Angeles County and a 3.5% rise in Orange County, note why values have appreciated in an extraordinarily fast-paced manner. And even though home prices fluctuate considerably statewide, inflated asking prices on higher-end options are second only to Hawaii. The feverish demand for housing cannot currently be met by the slim supply available, with many first-timers forced to pursue condominium-style units: available and within a more modest price range.

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Aside from a sought after tourist destination, Santa Barbara has presently become a center for young and developing businesses, said Kenny Slaught. Dozens of promising, new companies have been founded in recent years, and many, including AppScale, LastLine, TrackR, and Salty Girl Seafood, have come directly out of the University of California Santa Barbara. With over $200 million raised for area startups from private investors in the last year, the Central Coast boasts nearly twice the investment per capita in innovation than the greater Los Angeles area, a much larger market. While some may feel the tempting pull of Silicon Valley or Hollywood, local entrepreneurs recognize the significance of building a business in an environment that promotes growth. As a result, the region is one of the best places in the country to launch and cultivate startups, spawning remarkable biotech, medical, technology, and scientific businesses like Inogen, Raytheon, Sonos, and BioIQ.

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