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Governor Gavin Newsom halts California death penalty executions
March 14, 2019 By Greg Norman 6 Comments
Child murderers, rapists and serial killers who tortured their victims with everything from ice picks to a 4-foot twig are set to have their lives spared Wednesday – until at least 2023 – as California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs an executive order to halt death penalties in the state.
The controversial decision by the Democrat – which has drawn the ire of one of his adversaries, President Trump – was influenced by his belief that California's death penalty system "has discriminated against defendants who are mentally ill, black and brown, or can't afford expensive legal representation."
Newsom, in prepared remarks he is expected to deliver Wednesday, also says the system has wasted "billions of taxpayer dollars".
The state's residents though, in 2016, narrowly struck down a ballot measure to repeal the death penalty. And Newsom's decree appears to be a flip-flop from what he told the editorial board of the Modesto Bee newspaper that year while campaigning for the failed measure – that he would "not get my personal opinions in the way of the public's right to make a determination of where they want to take us" on the issue. …
Click here to read the full article from Fox News
Filed Under: Trending News Tagged With: criminal justice, Death Penalty, Gavin Newsom
California further delays lethal injection regulations
April 25, 2017 By Don Thompson 1 Comment
As reported by the Associated Press:
California corrections officials are delaying their new lethal injection regulations by four months, officials announced Monday, pushing back this week's deadline until late August.
The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation needs more time to update the proposed rules after an initial version was rejected by state regulators in December, spokeswoman Terry Thornton said.
The move drew immediate criticism from a legal foundation that sued to force the state to switch to a single drug to carry out the death penalty.
No inmates have been executed in California since 2006. The state now has nearly 750 condemned inmates, the nation's largest death row by far.
Office of Administrative Law Director Debra Cornez granted the department's request for a delay in a letter dated Friday but disclosed on Monday. …
Filed Under: Trending News Tagged With: Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Debra Cornez, Lethal Injection
Californians Narrowly Vote to Speed Up Death Penalty Process
November 26, 2016 By Matt Fleming 6 Comments
A measure to speed up executions in California was projected to pass Tuesday night, according to the Associated Press.
Proposition 66, which aims to cap death-sentence appeals at five years, stands at 51.1 percent of the vote. While such a slim margin of victory would usually suggest the electorate is divided, a competing measure to end the death penalty altogether was rejected by 53.4 percent of voters (ballots are still being counted, so totals may change).
"California voters not only want to keep the death penalty intact but they want it to work as intended," said Anne Marie Schubert, Sacramento County district attorney, who called Prop. 66's lead "insurmountable."
Prop. 66 speeds up the appeals process by expanding the number of courts and attorneys able to hear and try death penalty appeals to meet a five-year cap on the appeals process that currently takes decades. A court order could be sought when cases drag on.
Stance stands out
In a cycle when voters chose a cornucopia of liberal policies, like implementing a $2-per-pack tax on cigarettes, extending a tax on the highest incomes, legalizing recreational marijuana, placing further restrictions on guns and ammo and upholding a ban on plastic bags, the death penalty position stands out.
In fact, voters at the same time resoundingly approved a measure that would allow (but not guarantee) early parole for thousands of "non-violent" inmates, showing that Californians' soft spot hardens when it comes to those considered the worst of the worst.
"Californians have long been a bit schizoid when it comes to the death penalty," said John J. Pitney, Jr., a Roy P. Crocker professor of politics at Claremont McKenna College.
Pitney recalled Democrat Dianne Feinstein's campaign ad from the 1990 gubernatorial race. Feinstein, who is currently a U.S. senator, but at the time had just finished a second term as mayor of San Francisco, pitched herself as pro-choice, pro-environment and "the only Democrat for governor for the death penalty."
Good policy?
While some debate the morality of the death penalty, others argue it is an ineffective policy.
According to data provided by the Legislative Analyst's Office, no one has been executed since 2006. The vast majority of Death Row inmates will die of other causes long before the state kills them (Prop. 66 will presumably speed this process up, although there's still legal complications with the lethal injection process).
And it's costly: The state spends $55 million each year on death penalty appeals, for both prosecutors and court-appointed defense attorneys.
Opponents use the inefficiency and cost of the current system as grounds for abolition of the death penalty. But that may have ultimately been their undoing, said Pitney.
"In recent years, opponents of the death penalty have argued that it is too inefficient and costly," Pitney said. "That argument may have backfired, at least in this state. Instead of abolishing it, voters backed a measure to make it more efficient."
This piece was originally published by CalWatchdog.com
Filed Under: Top Stories Tagged With: CalWatchdog, Death Penalty, Proposition 66
Prop. 66 Looks to Speed Up Executions on Death Row
November 7, 2016 By Matt Fleming 6 Comments
Tomorrow, voters will consider not one but two measures involving the death penalty — one speeds up the process while the other would stop it entirely.
If approved, Prop. 62 would repeal the death penalty and commute the condemned sentences to life without parole. On the other hand, Prop. 66 would speed up the process by expanding the number of courts and attorneys able to hear and try death penalty appeals to meet a five-year cap on the appeals process that currently takes decades. (If both measures pass, the highest vote-getter would become law.)
But failure to meet the five-year time frame would not commute the sentence or throw out the appeal, according to the proposed language. So what happens at the five-year mark?
"If the process takes more than five years, victims or their attorneys could request a court order to address the delay," said Drew Soderborg, managing principal analyst with the state's Legislative Analyst's Office. "Because it is unknown how often this would happen or how courts would rule on such a requests, it is difficult to know what the effect would be."
A court order could pump a sense of urgency into whichever party or court is holding up the process — the violation of which could be punishable in some instances.
Is the system broken?
Proponents of both measures agree that the current system is broken. The appeals process takes decades at a tremendous cost to the state ($55 million annually), which has to prosecute as well as defend in many instances.
Because of legal complications with the lethal injection process, the state hasn't executed anyone since 2006. In fact, only 15 inmates have been executed since 1978, while 100 have died while waiting, according to an LAO analysis of the measure.
Currently, there are around 750 inmates on Death Row. Some supporters of a total repeal of the death penalty argue it's a cruel and unusual punishment, while others point to exonerations, which, while not entirely common, happen frequently enough to worry critics about executing innocent people. Since 1973, 156 people have been exonerated nationwide, including three in California, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
Prop. 66 would reform the system in an entirely different way — by speeding it up. The measure would increase the pool of eligible attorneys qualified to represent condemned inmates by forcing them to do it. Many who are qualified don't like to represent death penalty appeals because of inadequate state funding and the major time commitment.
The number of courts in which cases could be heard would be increased under Prop. 66 by sending one type of appeal (habeas corpus petitions) back to the initial court to see if any error had been made. As of April, there were 360 Death Row inmates waiting for habeas corpus petitions.
Critics say Prop. 66's five-year cap is arbitrary. But proponents say it's enough time in most instances.
"Prop. 66 limits state appeals to 5 years instead of allowing convicted criminals to file appeal after appeal after appeal," said Bill Bradley, a spokesman for Prop. 66. "However, the initiative does not impose a rigid deadline that must be met in every case as extraordinary cases may take longer. With that said, five years is generally sufficient to get through state appeals, even in the most complex cases."
Filed Under: Top Stories Tagged With: Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Death Row, Proposition 66
Competing Death Penalty Measures Revive Emotional Feud
October 28, 2016 By Steven Greenhut 5 Comments
SACRAMENTO – Thirty years ago, California voters did something unprecedented (and not seen since): They bounced Chief Justice Rose Bird from the supreme court. Two other state high-court justices also failed to win reconfirmation to the court, following an intense political battle centering on the justices' opposition to the death penalty.
It was easy for many people to understand the emotional nature of the issue during mid-1980s. Crime rates had soared by 276 percent over a 20-year period. They had begun to fall again in the late 1980s, but political angst often trails the data. Justice Bird rejected the death penalty in all 64 such cases that came before her and so became a lightning rod for those upset over crime. Crime rates crept up again in the early 1990s, but have been falling precipitously since.
Now, there's been a recent spike in crime, and a debate over the role some recent incarceration policies have played in that uptick. For instance, some blame Proposition 47, the 2014 voter initiative that reduced some felonies to misdemeanors, and the governor's realignment policy, which houses some prison inmates in county jails. Others say the data doesn't back up those claims, and that crime rates ebb and flow for various reasons.
Whatever the case, crime rates remain relatively low – and the crime issue doesn't come close to generating the emotions it did during the Rose Bird controversy. Nevertheless, voters on Nov. 8 are being asked to revisit the death-penalty issue in two competing initiatives. It's a crowded ballot, with 17 initiatives overall, which explains in part why these measures have not garnered much attention. But they offer Californians two starkly different choices.
In Proposition 62, voters are being asked whether to repeal the death penalty for those found guilty of murder and replace it with life in prison without the possibility of parole. In Proposition 66, voters are asked whether to streamline the appeals process to make it easier for the state to execute convicted murderers. When initiatives are contradictory, the one that receives the highest votes prevails. An interesting showdown is in the works.
Ironically, Prop. 62 would put an end to executions that rarely happen anyway. The last execution in California took place a decade ago – all executions have been delayed because of legal challenges to the use of lethal injections. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office puts the numbers in perspective: "As of April 2016, of the 930 individuals who received a death sentence since 1978, 15 have been executed, 103 have died prior to being executed, 64 have had their sentences reduced by the courts, and 748 are in state prison with death sentences."
Those realities actually bolster the case made by the supporters of both initiatives. Backers of Prop. 62 argue that the state's death penalty is a failed system because so few people are actually executed. The cost per execution, they argue, is $384 million as they languish on costly death rows. Instead of endless delays, they propose doing away with the penalty – something supporters say will provide "real closure" for families of victims. Instead of fighting in courts, convicted murderers will have a permanent sentence and will never be allowed to go free.
Backers of Prop. 66 say the solution to the lack of executions is to speed up the appeals process. "There are nearly 2,000 murders in California annually," according to supporters' official ballot argument. "Only about 15 death penalty sentences are imposed. But when these horrible crimes occur, and a jury unanimously recommends death, the appeals should be heard within five years, and the killer executed." Both initiatives require these inmates to work.
Opponents of Prop. 66 raise concerns that speeding up the appeals process will cause innocents to potentially be executed, whereas supporters argue that their initiative will allow plenty of time to assure that innocent people aren't executed. This proposition attempts to speed up the process by requiring "that habeas corpus petitions first be heard in the trial courts," according to the LAO analysis. It also "places time limits on legal challenges to death sentences" and "changes the process for appointing attorneys to represent condemned inmates."
The San Francisco Chronicle raises concerns about the attorney appointment process in the initiative: "Condemned inmates often must wait years for representation. The measure attempts to compel attorneys to take up capital appeals by excluding them from certain other defense work. This raises two serious concerns: One is the prospect that attorneys less steeped in the fine points of capital appeals — and it is a specialized part of the law — will be representing inmates with lives on the line. The other is the possibility of attorneys enlisted against their free will in these appeals."
Contra Costa County District Attorney Mark Peterson, writing in the San Jose Mercury News, argued that "Defense attorneys refuse to represent death row inmates in order to thwart the process, so it takes an average of five years before a condemned inmate is even assigned an attorney."
Proposition 62 is more straightforward than Proposition 66. The former ends the death penalty – even for those currently on death row – and replaces it with "life without parole." The latter includes a series of complex reforms designed to "mend" the current system. For voters, however, the choice will come down less to the specific details and more to their overall outlook. If they want to end the death penalty, they'll vote yes on 62. If they want to speed up its use, they'll back 66.
A recent public-opinion poll from Sacramento State's Institute for Social Research showed Proposition 62 losing 45-37 and Proposition 66 winning 51 to 20. So while the level of contentiousness over the death penalty is far different now than it was in 1986, it seems that public attitudes about it haven't changed much in 30 years.
Steven Greenhut is Western region director for the R Street Institute. He is based in Sacramento. Write to him at [email protected].
Filed Under: Top Stories Tagged With: Death Penalty, Law Enforcement, Proposition 62, Proposition 66, Rose Bird
These Are 4 Ballot Measures That Actually Deserve a "Yes" Vote
October 9, 2016 By Jon Fleischman 4 Comments
Most of the oxygen in the room for this November's election is being sucked up by the prolific and particularly vitriolic presidential showdown between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. You may be focused on that race because of your desire to make everything great again, or just a morbid fascination with reality TV-meets-American politics.
That said, if you're from California and you look down-ticket, you'll quickly encounter "Ballot-Measure-Palooza" – 17 different measures waiting for you to do some ballot box governing.
My default on ballot measures is to vote "no," unless there is a compelling reason to vote "yes." There are, in my opinion, four measures that are no-brainer "yes" votes – and so I wanted to run through them, and why I am voting for them.
Prop. 53 – The No Blank Checks Initiative. This measure would require that when state policymakers want to issue revenue bonds for a project that exceeds $2 billion, they must first have that approved by a vote of the people. This is a brilliant idea because, frankly, there is no adult supervision in the State Capitol. Special interests own the place, and since they make big bucks from state spending, it stands to reason they love to see any new revenues. This measure ensures a reasonable case for this epic amount of borrowing must be made to We, the People. I wrote about this measure in detail here.
Prop. 54 – The California Legislature Transparency Act. The primary component of this measure sounds simple, but actually represents substantial reform. It would require that any proposed legislation in the State Capitol be made available to the public in its final form for 72 hours before it can be voted upon in each chamber. Yes, this continues the theme of applying adult supervision. I cannot tell you the number of terrible, horrible pieces of legislation that are jammed through at the end of session. Tax increases, new regulations, new programs – most that would raise a hue and cry of concern, except by the time the public finds out – it's too late. Read more about it here.
Prop. 65 – Jam The Greedy Grocers. A couple of years ago, after trying about a hundred times, the enviro-extremists in the legislature passed a law banning single-use plastic grocery bags, and imposing a ten cent tax on each paper bag. The tax was set up in a way that the grocery stores pocket the ten cents. Before you scratch your head, let me explain further. For years the California Grocers Association was part of the coalition stopping the bag ban. But on this last go-around, they switched sides, as estimates pegged the grocers' revenues from the bag taxes at hundreds of millions of dollars. Enough voters signed petitions to halt the bag ban, and it has been placed on the ballot as Prop. 67 – on which I am voting "hell no." But in case it passes, I'm voting "hell yes" on 65, which would take the revenue from the greedy grocers and instead repurpose it to state environmental programs – and leave the sell-out grocers holding the bag, so to speak. I wrote about this here.
Prop. 66 – Fix The Death Penalty, Don't End It. This would address legal and administrative hurdles that have resulted in only 13 death-row inmates being executed since 1978, in order to make the death penalty work. There is another measure on the ballot, Prop. 62, that would prohibit the use of the death penalty in California. If your value system is such that you think that no matter how despicable or evil someone is, and no matter how heinous an act of violence they commit, that being put to death by the state for your crimes is a bad idea – you'd want to vote "yes" on 62, and "no" on 66. On the other hand, if you think that the death penalty serves as both an important deterrent to some who would commit the most horrible of crimes – often cold blooded, pre-meditated murder – and also provides for justice for surviving victims, then "yes" on 66 is an important vote to cast. Read more here.
As you peruse the other thirteen ballot measures maybe you will find one or two you think are a good idea. Maybe you want more state bonds issued for school construction. Or maybe you want to be able, finally, to make those pot brownies that you've been craving since your days at UC Berkeley. I will let you sort through those decisions. But I think you will find that higher taxes and more regulations are right there on the ballot, awaiting your blessing and vote. As if California doesn't have high enough taxes, or more than enough regulations.
Originally published in Breibart News/California
Filed Under: Top Stories Tagged With: California Legislative Transparency Act, Death Penalty, Election 2016, No Blank Checks Initiative
Competing death penalty initiatives could spur confusion
July 19, 2016 By Stephen Frank 1 Comment
There will be a minimum of seventeen measures on the Statewide ballot in November. San Fran is adding another 39 for their voters—and your city and county may have some as well. You will be asked to legalize marijuana, repeal the plastic bag ban, vote to take away guns and extend a tax for twelve years, at a cost of $144 billion—transferred from your business and family to the government.
Also, on the ballot are two measures dealing with the death penalty. One would outlaw the death penalty. The other making it faster and less complex to complete the death sentence. There are over 700 people on California's death row. Last week a prisoner filed to be let at of prison, because of the cruel and unusual punishment—he had been on death row for more than 30 years (he forgot to mention that is because of all the appeals he filed). It is time to make a decision—do we support the criminals or the victims?
"One – Proposition 66 – would preserve the death penalty for the most heinous criminals by enacting critically needed reforms to the system.
The other – Proposition 62 – would scrap the death penalty, allowing criminals who kill cops or rape and murder children to live out their lives in the relative comfort of prison.
I cannot overstate the importance of supporting Prop. 66, and doing everything we can – no matter how small – to educate others about it. If Prop. 66 fails, and California scraps the death penalty, the kind of brutal criminals who ambushed and slaughtered five police officers in Dallas Thursday night would only face life in prison if they committed those crimes here."
Prop. 66 will preserve and reform the death penalty system
By Michele Hanisee, Association of Deputy District Attorneys, 7/19/16
This November, California voters will be presented with two of the most important ballot initiatives in state history.
To be sure, the problems with California's current death penalty system are by no means new, and they have literally transformed a death sentence into life without parole. Since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the state has executed only 13 inmates. A quarter of the 700-plus inmates on California's death row have been there for more than 25 years. The average death-row inmate has spent 16 years with a death sentence.
One of the primary problems is the endless inmate appeal process of their death sentences. Prop. 66 would fix this problem, and many more.
Among other things, it would require that a defendant who is sentenced to death be appointed a lawyer at the time of sentence, meaning the defendant's appeal will be heard sooner. It would also allow the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to reduce the cost of housing death-row inmates, and make it easier for the department to enact an execution protocol.
As we said in earlier posts, failure to pass this initiative is not an option; not only would Prop. 62 eliminate the death penalty going forward, but it would apply retroactively to people already sentenced to death.
You can sign up for campaign email updates, and volunteer for and donate to the campaign, by visiting the Californians for Death Penalty Reform and Savings website and clicking on the links on the right side of the home page.
Michele Hanisee is President of the Association of Los Angeles Deputy District Attorneys. The Association of Deputy District Attorneys (ADDA) is the collective bargaining agent and represents nearly 1,000 Deputy District Attorneys who work for the County of Los Angeles. To contact a Board Member, click here.
Filed Under: Stephen Frank's California Political News And Views Tagged With: Ballot Initiative, Death Penalty, Death Row, Law Enforcement, Prop. 66
17 Initiatives Qualify for November Ballot
July 2, 2016 By Matt Fleming 7 Comments
Voters have been warned for a while to be prepared for a seemingly never-ending series of ballot measures, and on Thursday the secretary of state released the final list of what initiatives qualified.
Seventeen total. And while voters will read and learn more as the campaigns unfold between now and Election Day, here is a quick reference guide to get your bearings.
Referendum to Overturn Ban on Single-Use Plastic Bags: This is as it sounds. In 2014, the Legislature passed a ban on single-use plastic bags. So a "yes" vote would uphold the ban. A "no" vote would overturn it.
To uphold the law would ban the use of single-use carryout bags, except for perishable items. It would also impose a fee of at least $.10 per paper bag or thicker plastic bag if the customer didn't provide a reusable one.
The ban actually died on the Assembly floor in 2014 three days before it passed. What changed? A deal was struck between the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and Safeway creating the $.10 fee, which will be kept by the grocer/retailer.
Plastic Bags, Part II: If the plastic bag ban is upheld by voters, this initiative would divert the $.10 fees for bags to a state fund to pay for environmental programs. This would be in lieu of the money going to the grocers.
Campaign Finance (Poll): This is basically just an elaborate poll. It's a non-binding measure that allows voters through the ballot process to log their approval or disapproval of campaign finance law in the country.
A similar measure got tied up in court in 2014, as opponents called it a ploy to drive voter turnout. But in January, the state Supreme Court ruled it was allowable, and so here it is.
Specifically at question is the 2010 Citizens United ruling where the U.S. Supreme Court allowed for corporations and labor unions to spend unlimited sums in support or opposition of a political candidate.
Guns and Ammo: This is Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom's pet project. This would ban magazines of 11 rounds or more, require background checks for ammunition and require the state to share data in the FBI's background check system, among other things.
However, a bill passed by the Legislature on Thursday but not signed yet by Gov. Jerry Brown would amend this ballot initiative (yes, it amends something that isn't yet law) to further limit who can purchase ammunition to both persons whose data matches up with the Automated Firearms System and to those who have a ammunition purchase authorization. There are some exceptions.
Naturally, this sidestep of Newsom to amend his measure ruffled his feathers, dragging him and Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, the bill's sponsor, into a public disagreement.
"This last-minute, anti-democratic, poison pill sneak attack makes you wonder if the Pro Tem cares about himself more than he cares about doing the right thing," said Newsom spokesman Dan Newman, according to The Sacramento Bee. "Is he someone who truly respects the will of the voters and wants to reduce gun violence or is he merely a self-serving cynic completely consumed with petty personal grudges?"
Death Penalty Repeal: This repeals the death penalty as the maximum punishment for murder and replaces it with life without parole, applying retroactively to those already sentenced to death.
This has a provision mandating those who've been sentenced to life without parole to work, with 60 percent of their income possibly going towards restitution to victims.
The Opposite of a Death Penalty Repeal: And for those who think the death penalty should stay as the ultimate sentence for murder, this measure would speed up the process by implementing a time limit on the lengthy appeals process, by assigning the superior court for the initial review and by limiting the number of successive petitions.
Like the competing measure, this would impose a work requirement for restitution to victims.
Drug Pricing: This would set pharmaceutical prices for any state agency to be as low as what the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs pays — the VA benefits from federally mandated cost controls.
According to KPCC, the measure would apply to "any program in which the state is the ultimate payer for a drug," which includes: Medi-Cal fee-for-service plans, CalPERS (provides health benefits to current and retired state employees), prison inmates and people receiving AIDS drugs from the government.
Condoms in Porn: This may as well be called the Condoms In Porn Act, because it would require porn actors to wear condoms during the filming of sexual intercourse.
It also requires that producers provide testing and vaccinations for STDs. And for what it's worth, producers would also have to post the condom requirements at the job site.
No Blank Checks Initiative: This would require any bond of $2 billion or more for a state project to go before the voters for approval.
As dull as that sounds, it could have a dramatic impact on Gov. Jerry Brown's legacy, in that it would likely put funding for the bullet train and the twin tunnels water project up to a vote of the people.
School Bond: This would authorize $9 billion in bonds for school construction and modernization, supported by a coalition of school districts and school developers. Pretty self-explanatory.
The measure failed to qualify in 2014, however, amid opposition from Gov. Jerry Brown, who said at the time local school construction was best left up to local control.
Earlier this year, Brown reiterated his opposition, calling the initiative a "blunderbuss effort that promotes sprawl and squanders money that would be far better spent in low-income communities," according to EdSource.
FYI: Blunderbuss is a "blundering person," according to Merriam-Webster. It's also an old fashioned, muzzle-loading gun.
Prop. 30 extension: This is a 12-year extension of Prop. 30, which was a seven-year temporary tax on earnings of more than $250,000 annually to bolster education funding, with the extension coming two years early.
Prop. 30 passed to stave of imminent sharp cuts in education. Now that the economy has recovered, proponents want to keep the money flowing and now hospitals want a cut too.
The extension would allow a quarter-cent sales tax that was part of Prop. 30 to expire, but would add up to $2 billion in funding per year for Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program.
As part of Prop. 30, the program was supposed to receive several layers of accountability, including a state-run audit of the fund that doles out the money to schools that still hasn't happened. The controller's office previously told CalWatchdog the audit would likely happen before voters have to decide.
California Legislature Transparency Act: The CLTA is a constitutional amendment requiring the Legislature to make available online the final version of a bill at least 72 hours prior to a vote on either the Assembly or Senate floor. It would also require all open legislative meetings be recorded with the videos posted online within 24 hours and would give permission to individuals to record and share their own videos of open meetings.
Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, is currently negotiating with CLTA proponents over changes proposed by the Legislature — but the negotiations are not going well.
Multilingual Education: This would repeal most of Prop. 227, which in 1998 placed heavy restrictions on bilingual educations for English learners in favor of English-immersion education.
Why would voters overturn their prior decision? Education Week framed the debate well. Proponents argue new data shows the value of bilingual education, native English speakers would be allowed access to a bilingual education (if they choose), and because we live in a different world with rapidly changing demographics.
Why would voters keep Prop. 227 on the books? Ron Unz, a former candidate for U.S. Senate and governor who pushed for Prop. 227, argued that an overall improvement over a year-period in standardized test scores shows Prop. 227 worked. And others would likely make a nativist argument: This is America, and residents should learn English.
Medi-Cal Hospital Reimbursement: This one is a little confusing. The federal government contributes to the state's health care program for low-income patients, called Medi-Cal. In order to get this money, the state has to contribute matching funds.
In 2009, the state passed a law taxing hospitals to help contribute to the state's portion of the Medi-Cal funding to get the money from the feds. However, the state was diverting some of this money into the general fund.
So, this measure amends the state Constitution requiring these funds go to where they are intended.
It would require a two-thirds vote of the Legislature to amend the fee allocation program only when the changes would "amend or add provisions that further the purposes of the Act." It would require voter approval to repeal or replace the program with a "similar statute imposing a tax, fee or assessment unless that similar statute is either."
Sentencing overhaul: Jerry Brown's baby. After surviving a legal challenge and rumored sky-high signature collecting fees, this bill made it to the ballot just before the deadline.
Brown's measure would allow for some nonviolent felons to be paroled early in certain instances, require judges to hold hearings prior to determining whether to try juveniles as an adult, and develop a good behavior, parole-and-sentence credit system for prisoners.
Marijuana Legalization: This would allow individuals, 21 and older, to transport and use up to an ounce of recreational pot. It would allow individuals to grow as many as six plants.
If approved, California would join Alaska, Colorado, Washington and Oregon in allowing recreational pot.
Tobacco Tax: If this passes, smokers would pay a $2-per-pack tax on cigarettes, with a similar increase on other tobacco products and e-cigs containing nicotine. The money will go primarily to healthcare and anti-smoking/tobacco-related health programs.
Filed Under: Top Stories Tagged With: cigarettes, Citizens United, CLTA, Death Penalty, Gavin Newsom, gun control, guns, Jerry Brown, Plastic Bags, Prop. 30
Debate Rages Over CA Death Penalty
February 7, 2016 By James Poulos 10 Comments
Obliged by a court settlement to figure out a new method of capital punishment, California officials have exacerbated the state's protracted debate over executions by settling on a different kind of lethal injection.
With a widespread shortage of execution drugs used in the now-familiar "cocktails," officials have now aimed to "let corrections officials choose from four types of powerful barbiturates to execute prisoners," according to KCRA Sacramento. "A choice would be made for each execution, depending on which drug is available. The single drug would replace the series of three drugs that were last used in 2006, when 76-year-old Clarence Ray Allen was executed for ordering a triple murder."
"The plan to use barbiturates to execute inmates sentenced to die in the most populous U.S. state drew fire from religious activists, who called capital punishment grisly and anti-democratic at a hearing in Sacramento," Reuters reported. "Law-and-order advocates urged its adoption."
"If the new protocol is adopted by corrections officials and voters do not outlaw the death penalty next November, the state could theoretically begin executing 18 prisoners who have exhausted their appeals. Legal challenges to the lethal injection drug, however, could drag on for years."
Opponents of the new plan insisted that it amounted to a trial-and-error approach. "The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California is suing to obtain at least 79,000 corrections department documents related to lethal injections," KCRA noted. "It says the regulations may lack enough safeguards to prevent the state from using backdoor ways to obtain execution drugs that manufacturers never intended for that purpose." Past cocktails have been harshly criticized for sometimes failing to execute inmates as quickly and painlessly as lethal injection was intended to do.
Languishing inmates
Much of the frustration around the issue stems from the unique backlog that has built up on the state's Death Row. "It's been 10 years since California executed its last death row inmate. Since then, the death row population has grown to 745," KQED noted. "Since 1978, 117 death row inmates have died, the vast majority from natural causes and suicide."
Although California's Death Row has ballooned to an extraordinary size over the years, other states have found themselves burdened by court requirements in similar ways. Florida, second to California in the size of its death row population, recently faced a Supreme Court ruling that has thrown the status of its condemned inmates into question. "Death penalty prosecutions are stalled, and state lawmakers are hustling to write and pass a new death penalty law before their session ends in six weeks," the New York Times reported. "Also in question is whether the 390 inmates awaiting execution in Florida will remain on death row or be resentenced to life in prison." The predicament, which has gained the attention of reformers and activists across the political spectrum, has contributed to the rise of execution reform as a hot-button issue around the country.
Divided opinion
California's own controversy has strengthened amid a sharp divide in statewide public opinion over capital punishment. Voters, a new poll found, have "now equally divided between scrapping the death penalty altogether and speeding up the path to executing inmates on the nation's largest death row," according to the San Jose Mercury News. "The poll found that 47 percent of voters favor replacing the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of parole in California, up from 40 percent in 2014. But at the same time, the poll shows that 48 percent of registered voters would support proposals to accelerate the state's notoriously slow system of resolving death penalty appeals to pick up the pace of executions." Both those proposals were likely to wind up on this election year's ballot in the form of initiatives.
Opinions have split even among Death Row inmates themselves. "Opinions vary, just like I'm sure they vary on the outside," one inmate, Charles Crawford II, told KQED. "Some of us are against it, some of us not so much. Some of us, it's like if they're going to do it, do it and not have us sittin' here for 20 or 30 years."
Originally published by CalWatchdog.com
Filed Under: Top Stories Tagged With: ACLU, Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Death Row, Law Enforcement
Conservative Death Penalty Activists Say Nebraska Is First Domino
June 1, 2015 By Casey Harper Leave a Comment
The recent repeal of the death penalty in deeply conservative Nebraska surprised the nation, and now repeal advocates are saying this is just the beginning.
Nebraska's legislature voted Wednesday to override Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts' veto of a bill that would abolish the death penalty, making the home of Big Red the first red state to abolish the death penalty since North Dakota in 1973. This has given hope to repeal advocates in other conservative states that still enforce capital punishment.
Gallup polls show that in 1994, 85 percent of Republicans favored the death penalty. That number dropped to 76 percent in 2014. This coincides with the lessening up of a wave of a tough on crime mentality that swept America in the 90′s because of high crime rates.
Nebraska, in which 36 of 49 state legislature seats are Republican, voted for Mitt Romney by a wide margin in the 2012 presidential race which is why so many were surprised by the repeal effort being not only strong enough to pass but also to override a veto.
Heather Beaudoin is the National Coordinator for Conservatives Concerned About The Death Penalty. She says CCATDP, which was formally launched at CPAC in 2013, is the only national conservative group dedicated to this issue, and that their strategy is to win over fiscal conservatives and evangelicals.
"I think that the main reason that evangelicals are paying attention is because we believe in redemption," Beaudoin told The Daily Caller News Foundation. "God has the ability to transform their lives and use them for good."
Marc Hyden, National Advocacy Coordinator for CCATDP, travels the country trying to convince Republicans that true conservatism is about being pro-life, fiscally responsible, and having limited government, things the death penalty completely contradicts. Recent surveys have found that it is actually cheaper to imprison people for life than to execute them.
"I'm just trying to raise up new voices that are against the death penalty and let others know that traditional conservatism is completely inconsistent with the death penalty," Hyden told TheDCNF. "If you boil it down to its lowest common denominator and ask any conservative if they support a program that doesn't achieve its goals, may kill innocent people, and costs millions more dollars than the alternatives, nine out of 10 will say we need to repeal a program that dangerous and that broken."
Currently, bills in Arkansas, Tennessee and Texas are being considered. Montana's repeal bill nearly passed but failed on a tied 50-50 vote.
"We're finding that a lot of people have been against the death penalty for years, they just didn't have a forum where they could express their concerns," Hyden told TheDCNF.
Another common tactic Hyden and Beaudoin use is to point out the arbitrary implementation of the death penalty. County prosecutors have great discretion on whether they seek capital punishment which leads to certain prosecutors pushing for death while others accept life in prison for more terrible crimes.
"Some victim's family members are given the death penalty for their loved ones and the others are not so that says the murder of your family member was not heinous enough," Beaudoin told TheDCNF.
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Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation
Filed Under: Top Stories Tagged With: Death Penalty, Mitt Romney, Nebraska, TheDCNF
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Capcom Stream Shows Off New Resident Evil 3 Gameplay And Mechanics
If you're like me, you're waiting patiently for more news of the Resident Evil 3 demo to drop. Resident Evil rumors and leaks of all kinds have been dropping left and right lately, making any concrete details worth their weight in gold. While we still don't have a solid date, on today's Capcom TV stream we did get to see some new gameplay. The new gameplay was hosted by the Resident Evil community manager Kat "Katastrophe," who started by stating that they hoped the stream would satisfy you until the demo is released.
The whole stream is linked above and is just over 2.5 hours long. The Resident Evil 3 bits start at around 30 minutes, with the gameplay itself starting at 42 minutes. In the gameplay, we get to see Jill fight some zombies, as well as the new dodge system that allows you to slow down time to land cinematic action shots. All in all, it's only about 13 minutes of gameplay. It's not much, but it does show off more of the new zombie models and physics.
Keep in mind, I have no idea if more substantial things were discussed during the stream. The entire thing is in Japanese. I don't speak Japanese. So maybe they revealed all kinds of secrets I'm sure will be posted about in weeks to come. Still, it's worth checking out just to see the game in action. If you do speak Japanese, let me know if anyone spoils an RE4 remake.
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Masevaux-Niederbruck  est, depuis le , une commune nouvelle française située dans l'aire d'attraction de Mulhouse et faisant partie de la collectivité européenne d'Alsace (circonscription administrative du Haut-Rhin), en région Grand Est. Elle est issue du regroupement des deux communes de Masevaux et Niederbruck. Cette fusion a été officialisée par l'arrêté du .

Géographie
Masevaux et Niederbruck sont des communes membres du parc naturel régional des Ballons des Vosges.

Le territoire communal repose sur le bassin houiller stéphanien sous-vosgien.

Urbanisme

Typologie
Masevaux-Niederbruck est une commune rurale, car elle fait partie des communes peu ou très peu denses, au sens de la grille communale de densité de l'Insee.
Elle appartient à l'unité urbaine de Masevaux-Niederbruck, une unité urbaine monocommunale de  en 2017, constituant une ville isolée.

Par ailleurs la commune fait partie de l'aire d'attraction de Mulhouse, dont elle est une commune de la couronne. Cette aire, qui regroupe , est catégorisée dans les aires de  à moins de .

Toponymie

Histoire

Politique et administration

Administration municipale

Jusqu'aux prochaines élections municipales de 2020, le conseil municipal de la nouvelle commune est constitué de l'ensemble des conseillers municipaux des anciennes communes.

Intercommunalité

Population et société

Démographie

Culture locale et patrimoine

Lieux et monuments

Masevaux
 Église Saint-Martin. On y trouvait les orgues les plus importantes d'Alsace, détruites par un incendie en 1966. Les grandes orgues Kern ont été construites en remplacement des orgues historiques Callinet détruites. La sonnerie de l'église comporte actuellement 5 cloches et est l'une des plus belles d'Alsace. Quatre cloches de 1969 coulées par Schilling (Heidelberg), un bourdon Lab2 de 5 070 kg, Do3, Mib3, Lab3 ainsi qu'une cloche plus ancienne Fa3 en provenance d'Oranie (Algérie)  ;
 Temple de protestants et son orgue d'Heinrich Koulen de 1894 ;
 Les monuments commémoratifs ;
 Bâtiment du cercle Saint-Martin (route Joffre). Haut lieu théâtral avec le spectacle du Jeu de la Passion du Christ, donné en langue allemande, tous les ans, les 5 dimanches précédent Pâques ;

 Théâtre de la Grange ;
 Bains municipaux ;
 Cours du Chapitre et abbaye ;
 Fortification d'agglomération ;
 Château du Schimmel ;
 Statue de sainte Odile ;
 Maison de Noël ;
 Moulin ;
 Halle aux blés ;
 Place Gayardon (références aux anciens seigneurs) ;
 Les fontaines :
 La Fontaine de la placette du  Anniversaire,
 La Fontaine de la place des Alliés,
 La Fontaine aux Dauphins,
 La fontaine située au croisement de la rue du Maréchal-Foch et de la rue Houppach,
 La fontaine rue de la Couronne, rue du Moulin.

Chapelle-pèlerinage Notre-Dame de Houppach
Édifiée à la fin du  par un le fils d'un médecin de Louis XIV, devenu ermite sous le nom de Frère Augustin, elle contenait une statue de Vierge noire. Ce premier édifice fut détruit à la Révolution, reconstruit provisoirement, puis sous une forme plus pérenne, et béni en 1807. En 1869, la chapelle fut abattue pour laisser place à un nouveau monument, lequel, en raison de la guerre de 1870-71, ne put être terminé qu'en 1875. La Vierge noire fut détruite en 1880 par un simple d'esprit qui la jeta au feu, puis remplacée par une nouvelle statue issue des Ateliers de Munich. La chapelle bénéficia d'une nouvelle rénovation entre 1985 et 1989. Elle est toujours un lieu de pèlerinage.

Niederbruck
 Ferme-auberge du Bruckenwald, ferme auberge de l'Entzenbach, la Vierge d'Alsace.
 Chapelle Saint-Wendelin et son orgue de 1983.
 Statue monumentale de la Vierge à l'Enfant dite Vierge d'Alsace ou à l'Offrande.

Personnalités liées à la commune

Pour approfondir

Bibliographie
 Chiffres clés publiés par l'institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE). Dossier complet Masevaux
 Inventaire national du patrimoine naturel de la commune : Masevaux
 Chiffres clés publiés par l'institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE). Dossier complet Niederbruck
 Inventaire national du patrimoine naturel de la commune : Niederbruck

Articles connexes
 Liste des communes du Haut-Rhin

Liens externes

 Site de la mairie
 Masevaux sur le site de l'Institut géographique national
 Niederbruck sur le site de l'Institut géographique national
 Le patrimoine architectural et mobilier de la commune sur le site officiel du ministère français de la Culture (Bases Mérimée, Palissy, Palissy, Mémoire, ArchiDoc), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine (archives photographiques) diffusion RMN, et service régional de l'inventaire général de la direction de la Culture et du Patrimoine de la Région Alsace
 Site de la Direction Régionale de l'Environnement, de l'Aménagement et du Logement (DREAL)

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Commune dans le Haut-Rhin
Commune nouvelle dans le Haut-Rhin
Commune du parc naturel régional des Ballons des Vosges

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DVD review: Star Wars The Last Jedi - Brave enough to be different
Adam Driver as Kylo Ren
THE best way to approach revisiting the latest Star Wars film is to 'do a Yoda'.
Clear your mind of questions, you should. Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi polarised fans mostly because it did not really gel with the previous movie in the beloved franchise.
Typical of all of his work, J.J. Abrams' The Force Awakens offered us tantalising mysteries like: Who are Rey's parents? And what is the true identity of Supreme Leader Snoke? But – when given the keys to a galaxy far. far away by Disney – Johnson decided he did not really care about those plot threads, snubbing them both out with blunt resolve.
The Last Jedi was also the film that presented us with first real scenes with Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) in almost 35 years. And some fans raged that their hero was now a disgruntled hermit as opposed to an all powerful Jedi Knight poised to take down the whole First Order 'with a laser sword'. Is this a reason to be bitter as some fans – talking about tainted childhoods – would have you believe?
Not at all because The Last Jedi is the most mature and thought-provoking entry in the saga.
The film sees the Resistance led by General Organa (Carrie Fisher in her final role) in a desperate bid for survival in a story that is brave enough to explore ethics in a way that mirrors the real world while also finding room for drama, action and humour. Forget light and dark – shades of grey are finally explored in the Jedi/Sith divide too thanks to the character development between Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver).
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The Last Jedi is also beautifully shot, particularly the scenes in Skellig Michael, Ireland, doubling for Luke's secluded home of Ahch-To. Oscar Isaac has a much more fleshed out role too as a kind of stand-in for Han Solo – a flyboy with a head and a heart to match.
Ok, the less said about the Carrie Fisher's 'Mary Poppins scene' and Ahch-To's natives the better but look past unfair childhood expectations and after The Force Awakens' pure love letter to the 70s and 80s originals this is the burst of new ideas Star Wars urgently needed.


State senators approved a so-called sanctuary cities bill Tuesday night, vaulting the measure over a major legislative hurdle that it couldn't clear during the regular session.
The immigration-related measure, deemed a priority by Gov. Rick Perry, passed 19-12. The vote fell along party lines in the Republican-controlled chamber.
Senate Democrats held off the divisive measure in the regular session, but because different procedural rules apply in the special session, they couldn't do anything to slow its momentum toward Perry's desk Tuesday night.
Senate Bill 9, by Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, would outlaw "sanctuary cities" by forbidding local governments to have policies in place to prevent police officers from enforcing immigration laws.
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Democrats and other critics say that the bill is not necessary because immigration enforcement is a federal responsibility and that Senate Bill 9 would be used to harass Latinos. Many police departments also oppose the bill, saying it would pack jails, overburden officers and hamper crimefighting by discouraging people from reporting crimes and working with police.
The bill, with Perry's blessing, includes two components of another bill that did not pass during the regular session, which ended May 30. Those provisions require that the name of every arrested person be run through federal immigration databases by using a program called Secure Communities and authorize the Department of Public Safety to make sure someone is legally in the U.S. before issuing a driver's license.
Sen. José Rodríguez, D-El Paso, said the bill's provisions are meant to keep the growing Latino population from taking its rightful place in the nation.
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During the regular session, the House passed its own version of a sanctuary cities bill by Rep. Burt Solomons, R-Carrollton .
The party-line vote came after days of contentious testimony and emotional debate that ultimately left some lawmakers in tears. Those lawmakers said they took the legislation personally because they or their families were immigrants.
But Solomons' bill died in the Senate, where Democrats took advantage of the chamber's two-thirds rule in the final days of the regular session to prevent the measure from coming up for debate. Under the rule, two-thirds of the senators present must agree to debate a bill, a threshold the Republican majority was unable to muster without some Democrats' support.
Perry, who has said he is thinking about a possible run for president, responded by adding sanctuary cities legislation to the scope of work for lawmakers in the 30-day special session.
And because the two-thirds rule doesn't apply in a special session, Democrats weren't able to block Williams' bill from being debated and ultimately passed late Tuesday.
The Senate gave preliminary approval to the bill Tuesday night and was working late to give final approval to the measure. After that, the bill will head to the House.
There, the Republican supermajority is expected to slam the measure past House Democrats, just as it did in May.
In all likelihood, the bill will end up on Perry's desk, where it could help him cement his conservative pedigree should he decide to seek the Republican nomination for president.
The sanctuary cities bill would be the last of Perry's designated legislative emergencies to pass the Legislature. His other approved emergency items include bills requiring pre-abortion sonograms, strengthening private property rights in eminent domain cases, supporting a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution, requiring voters to present a photo ID before casting a ballot and enacting a "loser pays" civil justice reform measure.


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How to install SDL varies depending on your platform.
SDL 1.2 isn't covered here. It can be installed on legacy platforms that SDL2 doesn't support, such as Mac OS 9 or OS/2, but settling for 1.2 would not be a drop-in replacement for 2.0. Most of these installation instructions happen to work with 1.2, however, on the platforms we cover.
SDL 2.0, unlike 1.2, uses the zlib license (see FAQLicensing), which means you can build a static library linked directly to your program, or just compile SDL's C code directly as part of your project. You are completely allowed to do that. However, we encourage you to not do this for various technical and moral reasons, and won't cover the details of how to in this document.
Several other platforms will be built "the Unix way," so we'll describe this platform first.
SDL supports most popular flavors of Unix: Linux, the various BSDs, Solaris, and other things like them.
First! Do you need to compile SDL yourself? It's possible your distribution's package manager already did it for you!
Debian-based systems (including Ubuntu) can simply do "sudo apt-get install libsdl2-2.0" to get the library installed system-wide, and all sorts of other useful dependencies, too. "sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev" will install everything necessary to build programs that use SDL. Please see docs/README-linux.md in SDL's source code for a more complete discussion of packages involved.
Red Hat-based systems (including Fedora) can simply do "sudo yum install SDL2" to get the library installed system-wide, or "sudo yum install SDL2-devel" to get headers and other build requirements ready for compiling your own SDL programs.
Gentoo users can "sudo emerge libsdl2" to get everything they need.
If you're compiling SDL yourself, here's what we refer to as "the Unix way" of building:
Get a copy of the source code, either from Mercurial or an official tarball or whatever.
Make a separate build directory (SDL will refuse to build in the base of the source tree).
Run the configure script to set things up.
Run "make" to compile SDL.
Run "make install" to install your new SDL build on the system.
This looks something like this:
hg clone https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL SDL
cd SDL
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
The last command says "sudo" so we can write it to /usr/local (by default). You can change this to a different location with the --prefix option to the configure script. In fact, there are a LOT of good options you can use with configure! Be sure to check out its --help option for details. SDL tries to do the right thing by default, though, so you can usually get away with no options at all.
An (experimental!) alternative to the configure script is the CMake project file. It works on similar principles to the configure script, but you might find that you enjoy it more, if this is the sort of thing you generally enjoy in the first place. Driving that is left as an exercise for the reader.
Once you have the library installed, you can use the sdl2-config program to help you compile your own code:
gcc -o myprogram myprogram.c `sdl2-config --cflags --libs`
We are obsessive about SDL2 having a backwards-compatible ABI. Whether you build your game using the Steam Runtime SDK or just about any old copy of SDL2, it should work with the one that ships with Steam.
SDL currently provides Visual Studio project files for Visual Studio 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2013 in various flavors, and the CMake files can often generate project files for other Windows compilers.
!!! WRITE ME cygwin, mingw64, cmake, buildbot pregenerated builds, etc.
You can build for Mac OS X "the Unix way" with the configure or CMake scripts, and Xcode projects are also provided. You can ship an SDL.framework, or just build the .dylib file and ship it with an appropriate install_name to ship beside your program's binary.
!!! WRITE ME cmake, buildbot pregenerated builds, etc.
Build SDL "the Unix way" with the configure or CMake scripts.
!!! WRITE ME
If your favorite system is listed here, we aren't working on it. If you send reasonable patches, we are happy to take a look, though! SDL 1.2's API and feature set is different than SDL 2 (dramatically different in some cases), but it's possible that 1.2 still supports these systems.
SDL2 does not currently support these platforms, but we'd really like to! If you work for Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo, we would like to port SDL2 to these platforms and provide support to registered developers in a separate repository. Please get in touch with us!
This probably works, or could be made to work, using the Haiku target, but there are no plans to do so. SDL 1.2 still supports BeOS.
This worked at some point using a homebrew toolkit, but we removed it due to bitrot. There's some rudimentary support in SDL 1.2.
This worked at some point using a homebrew toolkit, and while it is currently still in the source tree, no one is working on it. 1.2 did not support the PSP either.
Support was removed in SDL 2.0. SDL 1.2 still supports Mac OS Classic.
Support was removed in SDL 2.0. SDL 1.2 still supports OS/2.
Support was removed in SDL 2.0 (Windows XP and later are supported). SDL 1.2 still supports Win9x.
Support was removed in SDL 2.0. SDL 1.2 still supports QNX.
Support was removed in SDL 2.0 (and later versions of 1.2, too). There are forks of SDL 1.2 that support them, though.
Support was removed in SDL 2.0. SDL 1.2 had homebrew support for the Dreamcast.
Support was removed in SDL 2.0. SDL 1.2 still supports it.
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Posted by Patty Clarkson on April 10, 2021
Punch needle embroidery is an old form of making quilts, clothing, home furnishings and other items. It's a technique started in the early 1800s. There are two different methods for punch needle embroidery - one with thread, the other using yarn or wool strips.
In this post we'll be discussing the difference between these two forms of punch needle embroidery and how they're used in today's society as well as their history in order to give you all you need to know about them!
Punch Needle is part of a rich history of rug making in America, and to better understand today's craft, we have to take a look at where it all began.
Rug Hooking began in Maine in the early 1830's where it was looked down upon and considered a craft of poverty. Women who dreamed of owning beautiful rugs that were becoming very popular got creative and started to make their own rugs.
Women in farming communities had access to burlap sacks, and they began to use a small metal hook with a wooden handle (similar to a crochet hook) to pull strips of fabric, like old clothing and rags, through the burlap to make their own floor coverings. When these women started out, their rugs were very basic. As time went on they became much more skilled at rug-making, until they could create a beautiful home with an artistic touch to it all!
In 1886, a man named Ebenezer Ross from Toledo Ohio patented the first punch needle tool, as an alternative to the traditional rug hook. "The Griffin", allowed rug hookers to work faster, punching down from the back of the fabric rather than pulling yarn up through the front.
In the 1920's, a small selection of prominent rug hooking studios opened. Hooked rugs from certain communities were so sought after, that in 1930, a pair of rugs from Walderboro Maine sold at an auction for $1,550 which equala almost $24,000 today!
Through the 1930's and 40's, custom hand-punched and hooked rugs made in America became some of the most wanted additions for the home. The work of these artists and craftsmen covered the floors of movie stars and politicians, in wealthy New England estates, and obtained by institutions like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian.
More than just a craft, punch needle rug hooking became an American industry for years and provided income, creativity, and the ability to work from home to women and men along the eastern coast.
By the 1950's, most American rug manufacturing was sent overseas to be imitated by the tufting gun (which is having it's own revival for personal use these days!) and many of these rug studios were forced to close. There was a brief renewal of the craft in the 70's due to the popularity of Russian Punch Needle embroidery. Punch Needle Rug Hooking became a dying art, down-graded to the category of "craft" and it's great history forgotten.
Punch Needle Rug Hooking is currently having a new revival, thanks in part to social media, and creatives all over the world experimenting with the possibilities for the craft, as a hobby, as a business, or as fine art.
Punch needle embroidery is the same process as rug punching, but with a smaller needle. The punch needle makes it possible to stitch on anything from t-shirts and jeans to blankets and pillows.
I love this technique because I can make my own designs for projects that are one of a kind - not like most store bought items out there that have been mass produced in factories overseas.
So what are you waiting for? Check out some of the available designs now.
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Q: Открытие обозревателя по нажатию на надпись Как добавить в дельфи такую надпись, чтобы нажимая на неё у пользователя, открывался его браузер и в нем открывался сайт, который хочу я.
A: Если я правильно понял, то как-то так:
procedure TForm1.Label1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
// для работы этой функции, нужно подключить в раздел Uses модуль ShellAPI
  If (ShellExecute(Application.MainForm.Handle, PChar('open'),
    PChar('http://... - нужный сайт'),
    Nil, Nil, SW_ShowNormal)<32) Then
      MessageBox(0,
        PChar('Не могу открыть браузер!'),
        PChar('Ошибочка вышла!'),
        MB_OK + MB_ICONERROR + MB_APPLMODAL + MB_TOPMOST);
end;

procedure TForm1.Label1MouseEnter(Sender: TObject);
begin
  Label1.Font.Color:=clRed;
  Label1.Font.Style:=[fsUnderline];
end;

procedure TForm1.Label1MouseLeave(Sender: TObject);
begin
  Label1.Font.Color:=clBlue;
  Label1.Font.Style:=[];
end;

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Every Wednesday throughout the school year we release our young people early (at 1:45 pm) and then meet as a staff for three hours starting at 2:00 pm. Much planning went into the founding of PFFS-University prior to its opening in August 2005 (as you can imagine) and remarkably much of what was instituted at the outset, including this weekly early release/three hour staff meeting, has been 'spot on'. PFFS-Downtown follows this staff meeting model.
When we gather as a staff, the first hour to 90 minutes is spent in a structured conversation about our students. We start with the writing of 'positive notes' (each staff member writes and shares a note to a particular student which are distributed to them the next morning during the whole school meeting) and then we each complete a weekly 'student update' form (the roster is disaggregated by advisory and spaces are designated after each student's name for comments). From that initial process together particular students are identified for more directed staff consultation together resulting in action steps that we agree to implement on behalf of these students.
The middle part of the meeting is designated for working out programming logistics for the coming week. The last hour of our meeting is set aside for the discussion together of teaching and learning in general at the school and for 'looking at student and teacher work'. We use 'SRI Critical Friendship' protocols to guide these conversations about our work and to create a safe and equitable space for this type of conversation. Here is a video that was taken during a PFFS-U staff meeting on 10/16/13 where we used the 'Charrette' protocol to discuss the design of an upcoming interdisciplinary, project-based unit of instruction.


Society for Family Health (SFH) is one of the leading public health non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Nigeria, implementing programmes in Reproductive Health/Family Planning; HIV and AIDS prevention and treatment; malaria prevention and treatment; primary health care system strengthening and maternal, newborn and child health care.
SFH works in partnership with the Federal and State Governments of Nigeria, the Global Fund, United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Department for International Development (DFID), Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Merck for Mothers, Children Investment Fund Foundation among other international donors.
We offer professional opportunities for career advancement, a good working environment and competitive remuneration.
Prepare bank reconciliation of all the Projects banks.
Prepare payment and Journal vouchers.
Review field postings for accuracy and stepping down funds to the field for field activities.
Prepare burn rate and manage accounting reporting analysis.
Maintain, organise and file documents for the projects.
Ensure proper documentation of all retirements and third-party payments.
Collection and accurate management of approved transactions into the finance software (SAP).
Ensure integrity of all financial entries in the system.
Must have four (4) years post NYSC experience in a related or similar position.
Ability to analyse financial matters, resolve issues promptly and accurately.
Ability to monitor and control expenses within allotted budget.
Good communication and proper documentation skills.
Must have a continuous drive for learning and knowledge sharing.
Must have demonstrated proficiency using intermediate level software including Microsoft word, Excel, spreadsheets and database.
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online by 10th January, 2019.


I have very vague memories of my trip to Dehradun, Mussoorie in the Garhwal Himalayan ranges of Uttarakhand in India. Unfortunately back then, I had no idea of why should or rather why would anybody document their travels. For days now, I was thinking about how the hell do I share moments of my travels from one of the most beautiful places in India. After two sleepless nights in a row, an idea clicked. "Let's just browse through whatever photos, I have with me on my old computer." And then the moment came!
I finally, hit upon a beautiful image of a water fall.
Enveloped in the hilly tracks of Uttarakhand, Kempty waterfalls derive its name from 'Camp-tea', a place where the Britishers during the colonial rule used to organize and enjoy their tea parties. Now developed as a 'touristy spot', the waterfalls enjoys visitors in abundant, to the extremes that you would really call them tourists and not travelers. Situated in the mountain ranges of 4500 feet, the water gushes from at 1364 meters from above the sea level. The stream originates from a southwest of a village called Banglow ki kandi, the waterflow spilts into five streams, it appears as though they somersault on the rocks before falling in the pond created by the water.
Situated on the Mussoorie-Dehradun Highway, Kempty Falls, attracts tourists from all over the country. Natives there would tell you stories of how it's bee developed as a picnic spot over the years, post India's independence. Kempty Falls are a perennial treat and the visit to this alluring waterfall is incomplete without taking a bath under it. I too took a dip and forgot to keep a second set of clothes handy. So you can almost imagine my plight after the dip!
There is no particular time to visit the waterfalls as the water runs throughout the year. However, it is best to visit the place in the summer months of India (March-May- the months we visited.) Usually the spot is closed in the rainy seasons and some times winters too, due to the mist and marshy lands and the possibility of landslides.
An ideal place to relax, if you are a solo wanderer, the place is abuzz with shops selling touristy artifacts and souvenirs. Visit the ones, especially selling the Tibetan memoirs made by the residents of Mussoorie, also popularly nicknamed as Happy Valley.
As I winded up to hit the next spot on our bucket-list I realized that the falls also would equally enjoy the award of being one of the filthiest spots nestled in the Gahrwali Himalayan ranges. Due to the high popularity of the falls, the place can be equally sick and dirty, thanks to the careless tourists who dump plastic bags, bottles and chips packet on the way down to the spot.
The driver who had accompanied us to the falls, informed us that the place was also a popular fishing destination. Away from it just 12 kilometers ran the divine waters of Yamuna- one of the sacred rivers of India. Although it is mandatory to receive permits from the Divisional Forest officer of Mussoorie.
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David Sanford, the lawyer who's made a name suing Fortune 500 companies and law firms for discrimination (he represented 7,000 female employees in Velez v. Novartis, resulting in a $253 million verdict, the largest employment verdict in U.S. history), invited me to his office in midtown Manhattan for a little chat. We were 10 minutes into our conversation about his latest client, Kerrie Campbell, the Chadbourne & Park partner who's suing the firm for gender discrimination, when he suddenly laced into me. "What you wrote was a disservice!"
He was talking about my post, So You Want to Sue Your Firm, in which I wrote about the pitfalls of suing a law firm or company for discrimination. Based on my reporting, there's hell to pay if you sue your firm. At the end of the process, you could end up isolated with little career prospects.
Admittedly, it was a downer piece, and it didn't lift my spirits to think that victims of harassment, gender discrimination and so on could end up with so little. So if Sanford wants to challenge my conclusion, that's fine with me.
You got on my case for being too pessimistic about suing firms for discrimination. How would you have written the article?
Let's applaud people who have the courage to right wrongs and effectuate change. These are people who feel they've been wronged, want compensation for the wrong and want the system changed.
That sounds noble, but what about the personal cost of bring a law suit? What about the risk that the litigation can drag on and that you ultimately won't succeed?
There are risks in everything. You can go a dentist for a root canal and something can go wrong but that doesn't mean you don't go. Look, 80 percent of the cases we take on settle, and people are happy with the result. Very few go to trial.
So why hasn't this case settled? You'd think a big law firm would do everything to prevent airing the mess about how partners are paid and fired.
Maybe [Chadbourne] thought we wouldn't file. But if they think that about me, they didn't do their homework.
How did you decide to take this case?
I like Kerrie a lot and I'm confident that the jury will find her compelling. I only take 5 percent of the cases that come my way. We only take the ones we're prepared to take all the way to trial.
You say that Kerrie's case is a typical gender discrimination case. How does it compare with others you've seen?
It is the strongest I've seen. It is strong on numbers, strong on witnesses and strong on documents. We say there is discrimination based on gender because there's no other reason for [men and women] who are similarly situated to be paid differently. [Campbell asserts in her claim that she billed more than $5 million since she lateraled into the firm in 2014 but was paid less than men who generated far less revenue.] If you don't track compensation to revenue generated, what are you tracking it on? There are only so many objective factors to consider: hours billed, collectibles, collections and origination. I don't think these cases are complicated.
With partners, you can look at what they've generated as a measure. But what about associates whose only record is their performance reviews? Do they have a hell's chance of claiming gender discrimination?
It is tougher. Firms will say they make decisions about year end bonuses and promotions based on billables and quality of work—and quality is subjective.
Kerrie is still at the firm?
Yes. She's doing work, doing appeals. She's a hard worker. There are uncertainty and challenges. She's really strong.
It must be weird to work at a firm that you are suing. Do people speak to her?
And what do you think of that letter to you from 14 female partners at Chadbourne telling you off—that you don't speak for them in this class action lawsuit?
It is notable that the women do not contest the underlying allegations of gender discrimination. Other partners and associates have contacted us with support.
So what advice do you have for people who are thinking of suing their firms? Should they be prepare to kiss Big Law goodbye for a new life?
Most people in law are like lemmings. They go to good schools, go for the prized big firm jobs and think—in a profoundly wrong way—that it's the only context to be a lawyer.
The typical story in this situation is that a person takes a courageous stand and discovers there's another world. People write me that they're much happier out of big law firms.
The reality is that it's a big world. And you don't have to work at Chadbourne to be happy.


Compared to passenger cars, trucks are replaced at a faster rate. But many drivers are still not aware of how to drive a new truck to extend its life length. According to experts, the accuracy of modern automobile manufacturing has reached a very high level, but if you want the vehicle to get the best working conditions, the break-in period is still very necessary. At this time the relation between you and your beloved truck is just like that between a new couple, who also have to face a running-in issue. Many old drivers make suggestions too complicated for the running in and difficult in operation; they are suited for the old vintage vehicles of particular low accuracy. Today we are going to share with you the points you should pay attention to with the modern new trucks.
"New vehicle is like a newborn baby. In the break-in period, we should gently accelerate, gently fill fuel, avoiding high speed and rapid acceleration." You can drive your new truck on the highway at an even speed (preferably at 90-100 km/h) for some time, driving 100 kilometers or even hundreds of kilometers. It will be good for all engine components to get fully running. Remember do not drive at ultimate speed, it will damage the engine.
After buying a new truck it is generally recommended to run full 5000 km, which is to ensure the components to have sufficient contacts, frictions, adaptations, habitual basic mileages. There is a predetermined speed for all new vehicles at initial stage. Most of the trucks are usually specified not to exceed 75% of the nominal maximum speed in the first 1000 km to 2000 km, and are required to observe the engine tachometer and speedometer to ensure they work under mid-speed.
After starting the engine, most drivers are used to let the engine idle, then drive off the truck until the water reaches the normal temperature, especially for new trucks. In fact, long time warm-up for modern EFI engines is not only unnecessary but also harmful. Instead, shortening this time can extend the life of catalytic converters, improve the conversion rate of exhaust gas pollutants as well as save fuel. Actually we can start driving after the engine starts and returns to normal idle speed. Before the water temperature rises, we just need to control the vehicle at a proper speed.
Running a new vehicle with full loading can bring excessive burden to the suspension parts. So, during the first 2000 km, the load on a new truck should not exceed 75% of the rated load. Also, we should try to choose good quality and smooth road surface, avoiding bumps and excessive load to the vehicle body and suspensions. The new owners may be concerned about the speed but usually ignore the demand of loading during running-in time.
A severe braking not only subjects the run-in brake system to shock impact but also increases the impact load of the chassis and engine. Therefore, in the first 2000 km, don't brake urgently; try to do it in advance. Actually for the brake system alone, about 400 km can finish the run-in process, which includes the run-in between the brake pads and brake discs, brake pads and brake hub etc. Generally, travailing 400 kilometers is enough to complete the process.
In addition, experts advise not using the "clutch first, brake second" approach in the break-in of brake system. Although this way can reduce the impact on the engine when braking, it can be dangerous and can be worse if it turns into a habit. Also we should always check if the engine oil, coolant and battery electrolyte are sufficient and punctually replenish if not enough. After reaching the mileage specified by the manufacturer, timely go to the service station and conduct an inspection and maintenance on the vehicle, change oil, filter, etc., and completely check the chassis system. After completion of the first maintenance, it means your new truck has successfully gone through the break-in period and it can serve you much better in the future.


I have the printer listed above which is barely 18 months old but now has ceased to function. In the window, what it reads normally in standard print mode is 100% A4 Normal (and) Plain but this now rotates in a thee way alternating window message, which says as follows; 1. A4 NORMAL (AND) PLAIN followed by 2. CHECK PRINTER (OK) and finally 3. ###346 No pressing of the OK button stops the rotating message. Can this be rectified?
It looks as though your print head has had it, this printer will not tolerate many non genuine inks, the printhead seems to fail very quickly and so does the purge units.
Uninstall the printer and reinstall it again,sorry for the trouble it has caused.
My Ricoh SP 213w mono laser printer has lost its WiFi functionality. Followed setup details a number of times but still nothing. Any suggestions?
You may have lost the wireless communication function and need to reset the entire procedure once again. Just do what you did originally to bring the two devices together.
There are no official drivers Win 7 avaliable for your AIO hp DJ 3420, but you can use an alternate compatible drivers for your model ie. hp DJ 3600 series. Read this link from hp Installing the Printer with an Alternate Driver in Windows 7 for a USB Cable Connection. Suggestions What have you tried to get Windows Update to work? I would suggest the following: Go to the Devices and Printers folder, Add a printer, Local Printer, LPt1, etc...when the list of printers comes up select Windows Update. After several minutes the list of printers should be updated and the Deskjet 3600 should be in the updated list. (Also keep in mind to look under 'HP' section of the driver (hp 3600) list and not 'Hewlett Packard'). Cancel the install the wizard & select "hp 3600" drivers to install on your Win 7 system. Hope it helps.
Many printer cartridges may have ink but the printer believes otherwise. Often this problem can be solved by placing a small piece of black tape over a window in the cartridge that the printer looks into to identify ink level. If you cartridge has such a window, try a piece of electrical tape. You might be surprised.
Probebly 2 ELCO's are exploded or ball.