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Hey, I'm Officer Ronie Esquivel. Thank you very much for tuning into our vlog.

Today, we're gonna hang out with the Mounted Patrol Unit that's located at

our Capitol, but first we need to prep the horses. So let's go see if they need

some help. Let's go.

Sergeant DiMaggio? - oh good morning, how are you?

Good, how are you? - Great Ronie Esquivel. Good morning. Ronie Esquivel. - Brennan Moore

We are just about to get started on our morning chores and get our horses ready and give them their

mash.

Awesome, this feels good.

In the morning and afternoon, this is our uniform

because it's easy to wash. If you don't like to get dirty it's definitely not the job

for you.

What's your favorite part about working at MPU?

It's that relationship with the animal. Without a doubt. I worked 18 years in a patrol car out in the

field and there's nothing like getting on the back of a horse at the Capitol.

Just the reaction from the public that you get. Just the awe. People remind me every

day how cool my job is.

So for someone like me who's wearing a cowboy hat for the

very first time...let's say suddenly I strike an interest and I want to get on

the Mounted Patrol Unit. I don't have any personal experience, I've never been on a

horse, I've never been around horses... Is this attainable?

It's actually preferred because you don't have any bad habits yet.

It's a lot harder for me to train somebody out of their bad habits then it is just to start fresh.

I would ask that you take some basic lessons just so that you are familiar with the horse

you can groom them, so that you're safe around the horse.

And then the rest I like to do. I prefer to train you from the ground up.

Awesome, so there's hope!

Yeah, there's definitely hope. - Horses are ready to eat.

Sam, there you go, say "hi". That's Sampson.

So he's a solid horse. We can put anybody on him and that's the horse we're gonna surprise you with

so you get to hop on him before we head out. - There's a surprise coming (laughter)

This is so cool. Oh, stop. Whoa. Stay.

Before they go through all the trouble of grooming the horse, saddling the horse, they need to make sure the

horse is fit for duty. - Just like our pre-patrol check.

Exactly, that's a perfect analogy. It's a pre-horse patrol check.

I have them trot out, so we're watching the back end of that horse to see if they're even

and then when he turns around, very controlled, he'll come back towards us

and I'll be watching the front end make sure everything's sound and healthy there.

Pretty amazing for your first time.

And since he's yours today...it's your job. - I gotta pick it up, alright.

One of the things that is important is we check their feet.

Check inside where the shoe is because it'll get compacted with poop and dirt

and sometimes rocks and gravel and that'll make them lame.

This just helps us brush it out and gives it a little shine.

And it's just a quick..you're just brushing that last bit of dust off so we can throw the saddle on.

So remember that little surprise we talked about earlier?

Well, here it is.

I'm actually gonna get up on a horse. Again, I have never ever ridden a horse in my life.

This is the first time I've actually been around horses, so this is all brand new to me.

Wish me luck. Alright. - Grab that mane.

Here? - Yup. Good job.

This is something we do in training to help teach the riders balance. - Okay

And how important that is - I thought the horse was gonna go around the world

but we have to go around the world.

This is a competition. One, two, three!

Wow look at that! Alright, that was awesome!

Boy, there's no embarrassing you. You're definitely athletic, without a doubt.

That's probably the most graceful first time around the world I've ever seen.

There you go, clear that foot. Now drop.

No, my giraffe. He's a trained giraffe horse.

We're all done here. I'm gonna change out and we're gonna

head to the Capitol and finish off the rest of our day, so let's go!

Alright! We made it to the Capitol. Changed into my uniform. All the horses look pristine.

All the officers are in there in their uniforms. And so now you can get a real

good perspective of how massive these horses are. They're massive because

the CHP only uses one type of horse, right? - That's correct

And what type of horse does the CHP use? - Exclusively we use draft horses.

Why did the Department use draft? - Their very nature is very docile, very relaxed. They're not easily spooked

or scared. And then their large size is great, for you know, peacefully being

able to move large crowds, or for any type of civil disturbance.

At the Capitol we get thousands of school groups every day and today is no exception.

They're very quiet, they allow the kids to come up. They get an opportunity to pet them and ask questions.

- Tell me a little bit about the daily duties. We saw what we did in the

beginning of your shift and now that we're here at the Capitol,

obviously things are a lot different. - You know, what we do here at the Capitol is a little

different than anywhere else and we have a lot of

city police department type duties.

We're in charge of protecting the State Capitol and all of its assets as well as the other state

buildings in downtown Sacramento. First thing that we do when we get them off

the trailer, is do a trip around the Capitol Park and make sure everything is as it should be.

Once we've patrolled the park a couple times, then we'll go

check other state buildings nearby. Much of what you would do in a patrol car but

the horses are able to get into areas downtown that you can't with a patrol car.

- We're gonna let them get on with their beat. I got one last question.

Do you think I got what it takes? - Oh absolutely!

You're a natural! You're a natural! - Hear that? Cool. Awesome. Thank you so much! I had a pleasure.

Again, this was a first-time experience for me and I cannot thank you enough.

So remember, please like, subscribe, comment below, and we'll see you at our next Vlog.

Have a good one!

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Battling a California law, drug industry reveals it may not always have a good reason for price hike - Duration: 8:54.

Nothing brings an industry's dirty little secrets to light as effectively as litigation, especially when the industry gives up those secrets voluntarily, in the service of making more profit than it could obtain by remaining silent

 Consider the attack by the pharmaceutical industry on California's new drug-pricing law, which was enacted last year as Senate Bill 17 and will fully go into effect on Jan

1. The law was aimed at adding a bit more disclosure to one corner of the healthcare system — drug prices

Advertisement  Gov. Brown, in signing the measure last Oct. 10, called it "a step at bringing transparency, truth, exposure to a very important part of our lives, that is the cost of prescription drugs

" "The legislation . requires companies to make transparent what is already transparent

Ian Spatz, Manatt Health Share quote & link  Big Pharma struck back quickly

In a lawsuit originally filed last Dec. 8, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (Phrma), the industry's lobbying arm, made clear that the provision it's most exercised about requires drugmakers to give 60 days' notice to California health programs and insurers of any drug price hike over a certain threshold, to state whether the price increase is justified by any "change or improvement" in the drug and, if so, to identify that change

 Big Pharma doesn't care for this provision at all. The lawsuit says manufacturers would be compelled to "publicly explain whether that justification applies, even when the manufacturers disagree as to the need for any justification, let alone the appropriateness of this one

" Column Drug executive: It's a 'moral requirement' to charge patients the highest price By Michael Hiltzik Sep 11, 2018 | 2:40 PM  If you're following the dotted line, you'll see that the industry essentially says that in some cases there may not be "any justification" for a price increase, or at least that sometimes the reason for the increase may not be obvious even to the manufacturers themselves

 The industry posed several other objections to the new law, some of them transparently fatuous

It complained that the law would restrict drug prices nationwide by forcing manufacturers to comply with California's standard, which required advance notice and the disclosure for any price increase amounting to more than 16% over prices two years earlier

That would mean that California was sticking its nose into interstate commerce, which is unconstitutional

 Phrma said SB 17 "singles out" drugmakers even though other participants in the healthcare system also play a role in higher medical prices; but, of course, plenty of those other participants, including hospitals and doctors, have to make extensive disclosures to state and federal regulators in the course of their work

Moreover, as state officials pointed out in their response to the lawsuit, SB 17 doesn't mandate any particular price level for any drug

 And the drug lobbyists asserted that the law requires the companies "implicitly to endorse a message" that drug price increases "are primarily or even solely responsible for patients and payers' increased prescription drug costs

" That's because requiring an explanation of the increases makes them seem "inherently suspicious

" Column The $2.5-billion mistake: A gullible Trump bought into Big Pharma's inflated claim about drug R&D costs By Michael Hiltzik Jan 31, 2017 | 3:30 PM  Phrma also argued that the law overlooks rationalization for price increases that have little to do with changes or improvements in the products themselves, such as "raising capital for research, recognizing the value of a drug in generating cost savings for the healthcare system and compensating investors for assuming the enormous risks" in drug development

 That's fair as far as it goes, but the truth is that the role of all those factors is widely debated

The lawsuit even trots out one of the more dubious statistics advanced by the industry, which is that the average cost of developing a new drug is $2

6 billion. As we've reported in the past, the figure is based on a Tufts University survey based on internal industry figures that aren't open to public review and therefore should be regarded as suspect

 Federal Judge Morrison England Jr. of Sacramento placed some of these claims within "the realm of conjecture

" On Aug. 28, he instructed the drugmakers to amend their lawsuit to remove Gov. Brown as a named defendant and tighten up their claims of damage

Among other things, he observed that when the lawsuit was filed, no drugmakers actually had implemented price hikes that would have been affected by the law

The plaintiffs refiled on Sept. 28, this time mentioning that several companies had imposed price increases that required them to make "justification" statements "to which they object

"  The most curious aspect of Big Pharma's attack on SB 17 is its grousing about the mandated release of information that drug companies have to make public anyway, including the "wholesale acquisition price" of their drugs, which is the benchmark used in the law and is readily available from public sources

Column Pfizer doesn't deserve any credit for 'rolling back' its price increases at Trump's demand

Here's why By Michael Hiltzik Jul 11, 2018 | 2:35 PM  "The legislation is clear that no reporting is required of any information that is not already in the public domain," Ian Spatz of Manatt Health observed last October, just before Gov

Brown signed the measure. "It requires companies to make transparent what is already transparent

"  This undercuts Phrma's assertion that SB 17 infringes on drugmakers' 1st Amendment rights of free speech, though the industry's real complaint is not that it has to make price hikes public, but has to do so 60 days in advance of imposing them and expose itself to public obloquy

 It's proper to observe that there's considerable doubt that SB 17 will bring down drug prices, and some speculation that it could even lead to price increases — if industry middlemen use the 60-day advance notices to stockpile drugs during the notice period and jack up prices to retailers, or if competing manufacturers use the notices to fix prices on their own products

The industry lawsuit makes these arguments itself. Advertisement But it's probably fair to say that the drug industry wouldn't be mounting this kind of attack on a state law if it thought the law would clear the way for higher prices

Whether SB 17 actually will lead to lower prices is open to question, but the drug companies plainly fear it will, and we should take them at their word

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California has a racist past. But removing monuments sparks debate about how to reflect an ugly hist - Duration: 16:52.

For about a month every November, a yellow blindfold is placed over the eyes of the bronze Prospector Pete statue that sits prominently on the Cal State Long Beach campus

It's a political act designed to make clear that the campus is not blind to the brutality inflicted on thousands of indigenous Americans during the California gold rush

 But in the end, that wasn't enough. As part of a sweeping reappraisal of how to mark California history that is underway across the state, top administrators said they would officially retire the mascot and move the statue to a less prominent place on campus, a soon-to-be-built alumni center

Advertisement  The 1849 gold rush marked the birth of modern California, and that's how "the 49ers" became Cal State Long Beach's symbol when the university opened a century later

But since then, there has been much more focus on the ugly side of the era, including the cruel discrimination and violence against California's non-white population

 At first, there was a push to simply tell this side of history. But increasingly, some are advocating for the removal of public symbols of California's ugly past

 Some cities have even gone so far as to rename holidays. Los Angeles and Berkeley replaced today's Columbus Day on their calendars with Indigenous Peoples Day

The L.A. City Council in 2017 voted to reimagine the holiday, which is celebrated on the second Monday in October and marks the arrival of Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus in the Americas

The council sided with activists who view the explorer as a symbol of genocide for Native Americans

 The widespread changes have sparked a debate over the difference between understanding the past and celebrating it

 Stanford University last month decided to rename three campus references to Father Junipero Serra, who founded the California mission system in the 1700s and whose legacy came under fire for the missions' treatment of Native Americans

 The San Francisco Board of Appeals also recently decided to remove the longstanding "Early Days" statue outside City Hall, a move that Native American activists had been demanding for decades

Native Americans have argued that the statue symbolizes and celebrates the oppression and conquest of indigenous people

 The statue, erected in 1894, depicts a Native American lying at the feet of a missionary as a vaquero stands nearby in triumph

While the artwork represents a common view of the time period in the 19th century, many say it is no longer appropriate to enshrine the monument as an accurate portrayal of history

Cal State Long Beach mascot Prospector Pete fires up the crowd before a game at the Pyramid in 2011

(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)  Activists have cheered these and other actions, arguing that the statues are offensive symbols and don't deserve their prominent placement

 "As an institution dedicated to inclusivity, it is really important to us to have a mascot that empowers students," said Leen Almahdi, a junior at Cal State Long Beach

"Prospectors had a direct link to the murder of indigenous people. It's important for us to recognize this reality can make some communities uncomfortable

"  But USC history professor William Deverell said he's wary of the idea that commemorative statues should be hidden away to avoid being discussed

Instead, he argued, they should be a catalyst for conversation about the past, why the item was memorialized and how society interprets history today

People's views of the past are constantly in flux and change not only as additional information is discovered, but also as more diverse experiences are shared, he said

 "We're connected to the past whether we like it or not, and that strand is really fragile and fascinating," Deverell said

"It should be scrutinized and put on the scales of justice."  And it's tricky to determine when to draw the line

 After Stanford decided to remove Serra's name from its campus buildings, some questioned when the university would address its own namesake, Leland Stanford

The railroad baron and former California governor used Chinese labor to help build the transcontinental railroad but spouted virulently anti-Asian rhetoric and other racist views

Stanford infamously said of Asian populations in 1862 that the "presence of numbers among us of a degraded and distinct people must exercise a deleterious influence upon the superior race

"  California history is filled with other moments of cruelty that were accepted during the period but in retrospect have been met with shame and regret

Advertisement  The internment of thousands of Japanese Americans in isolated camps in California and several other states during World War II was widely praised by notable public figures, including then-California Atty

Gen. Earl Warren.  Warren went on to become chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and in 1954 helped secure a unanimous verdict in the case of Brown vs

Board of Education of Topeka, which ruled that racial segregation in the public school system was unconstitutional

But Japanese American internment remained as a blemish on his record, despite his work expanding civil liberties while on the bench, according to historians

 Warren even admitted his own guilt about the issue in his memoirs, published posthumously, in which he expressed deep regret about advocating for the removal order

We're connected to the past . and that strand is really fragile and fascinating

It should be scrutinized and put on the scales of justice. William Deverell, USC professor of history Share quote & link  California also has passed laws rooted in racism that have targeted non-white people

The state passed a law in 1909 authorizing the sterilization of anyone committed to a state institution

It remained on the books until 1979.  Eugenics-based sterilization programs, which took away the reproductive abilities of about 20,000 people in California, disproportionately targeted Mexican immigrants and were deeply rooted in stereotypes

Supporters of the eugenics campaign believed that people they deemed genetically "unfit" shouldn't be allowed to reproduce, according to historians

 The ugliness of some of the state's past can be difficult to wash away, some say, especially for groups that were caught in the middle of oppressive situations

 "The past has not been buried," Deverell said. "I have a professional obligation to say the past is standing right at our shoulder

It still exerts all this power."  It's a conflict that's playing out across the United States, as dozens of monuments that activists say promote a time when the oppression of women and minorities was rampant are removed from public spaces

Leaders and historians are left to ponder how the past should be preserved without adding fuel to hate groups that sometimes use the symbols as a source of power

"We're at a moment when a lot of people feel particularly under threat, given the political climate," said Michelle Brock, associate professor of history at Washington and Lee University in Virginia

"The country is being led by individuals that have an unyielding nostalgia to an idealized version of the past where white men were in power

"  A white nationalist rally that turned violent in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 brought renewed attention to many Confederate monuments depicting generals, soldiers and battles that had been erected around the country when Jim Crow laws thrived in the South

Many Southern states have recently worked to remove the statues, and the effort has reached as far as California, forcing the state to confront its own troubling history, some of which relates to the mass killing of Native Americans

Advertisement  There also has been a push to remove the names of Confederate sympathizers — many of whom migrated west after the Civil War — and markers from public spaces in California

In 2017, a longstanding monument in the Confederate section of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where at least 37 Confederate veterans and their families are buried, was removed amid public outcry and threats of vandalism

 Brock said universities and municipalities run the risk of alienating people by keeping offensive depictions of the past in prominent places in the name of history

 "No one ever learns history from a statue that is set up to memorialize something," she said

"It's about projecting visions of the present and future, and often that's whitewashed or inaccurate

Preserving history is a fundamentally different thing."  Monuments often reveal more about the era in which they were erected than they do about the time period they're depicting, Deverell said, adding that every community should decide for itself what's appropriate to commemorate

The bronze Prospector Pete statue was erected in 1967. It sits on the south side of campus, near the Psychology and Liberal Arts buildings

(Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times)  The Prospector Pete statue, formally named "The Forty-Niner Man," was unveiled at Cal State Long Beach in 1967

The bronze statue, modeled after a student, evolved from the creation of the campus in 1949 and founding President Pete Peterson's reference to having "struck the gold of education" by establishing the college

 Cal State Long Beach alumnus Garland Holt was on the student senate when the idea for a statue came before the body for approval

He said the original intent behind the piece was to honor the students at the college at the time, many of whom were first-generation college attendees and pioneers in their own right

 Holt said he's fine with retiring the mascot in favor of something new, but hiding the statue in a space dedicated to alumni is a mistake and insulting to former students

 "I do not like the new term 'The Beach' because it is a marketing tool that seems to say Long Beach State is a party school

It isn't," he said. "It is a place where students who often could not gain the gold of an education can better themselves and help the world

That is what the prospector means to us."  For current students, a population that is significantly more diverse than it was in the 1960s, the art piece no longer was serving its purpose of bringing people together

 "The past is etched on every aspect of the American landscape," Brock said. "I think it's fair to ask questions about how that past is presented and celebrated

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Where Do I Vote in California? Where Are the Closest Voting Stations? | Heavy.com - Duration: 2:03.

Where Do I Vote in California? Where Are the Closest Voting Stations? | Heavy.com

If you live in the state of California, you can use the state's polling locator to find the polling place closest to you.

Voter registration for California has a deadline of October 22, 2018, so you also need to make sure that you're registered to vote prior to that date, otherwise you'll have trouble getting your vote in on November 6.

To find your polling place, you can also text vote to 468683, or call  (800) 345-VOTE (8683).

To register to vote, you can apply online for the state of California.

What's more, California is one of the select states in the United States that allows "early voting," meaning that you can cast your ballot earlier than November 6.

How to Vote Early in California.

If you're registered to vote in California, then you might be eligible to vote early, starting October 22.

You'll have to check with your county election office to find out if early voting is an option in your area- you can find that information here. .