San Francisco 49ers beats the New York Jets for their first win of the season

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2020.09.20

San Francisco 49ers beats the New York Jets for their first win of the season

The team led by Jimmy Garoppolo won 31-13 on the road to equal his record in the beginning of the NFL

Pedro Nakamura / Peninsula 360 Press

After last week's 24-20 upset loss to the Arizona Cardinals in Santa Clara, California, the San Francisco 49ers made amends and, with their starters down, beat a weak New York Jets team by more than 20 points.

The game was handled calmly by the Kyle Shanahan-coached team as they partially won two of the four quarters, tying the last two quarters at three points apiece.

Red and Gold quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo threw 16 passes throughout the game, completing 14 of them and marking 131 yards that turned into two touchdown tosses to Jordan Reed, who also completed seven receptions in the game and 50 yards.

Another key man, both last season that reached the Super Bowl against the Kansas City Chiefs, as in this meeting, was Raheem Mostert: the San Francisco running back accumulated in eight carries 92 yards, averaging 11.5 yards of progress for each participation towards the front, in addition to generating a touchdown.

The second quarter was the most dominant of the game, as the 49ers were able to extend their 7-3 lead to that point with 14 more points and no turnovers.

The victory takes more relevance after reviewing the list of casualties with which the team arrived to the game in Santa Clara: the closed wing George Kittle, who suffered in last week's game a knee injury, Richard Sherman, for a leg problem, in addition to adding in the first minutes of today's game the injuries of defenders like Nick Bosa and Solomon Thomas.

In the game against the Jets also left the field for injury Mostert and starting passer Garoppolo, so he had to make his appearance Nick Mullens, a man who passed eight of 11 deliveries correctly and was intercepted once.

San Francisco's next three games will be against the New York Giants as visitors, and they will host the Philadelphia Eagles and Miami Dolphins at home.

Chris Carter: From Redwood City to champion in the Mexican Pacific League

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Chris Carter: From Redwood City to champion in the Mexican Pacific League

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The California baseball player left the majors to strengthen the relationship between Mexico and the United States.

What is strange is the passage of American baseball players to Aztec territory, even more so when they found a place in Major League Baseball (MLB). Such is the case of Chris Carter, a player born in Redwood City, California, and with a career of eight years in the local league.

In February 2019, he became the first American professional baseball player to play for the Acereros de Monclova, Coahuila, a team from northern Mexico affiliated with the LMB, after his sensational time in the MLB with teams like the Oakland Athletics, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers and the famous franchise of the New York Yankees.

Carter shocked the majors in 2016, when playing for Milwaukee he set a single-season home run mark and led the National League in homers. The first baseman got a contract worth up to $3.5 million at the peak of his career, when he signed in 2017 with the Bronx franchise.

After briefly dominating the big leagues, the Redwood City, undertook his flight to the Mexican League Baseball in 2019 to make history, as with 32 years and in top form became the best contract across the league that season.

It was not a mistake to qualify him in such a way. In his first year with the Acereros de Monclova, Vernon Christopher Carter led the Coahuila team with 49 homers and 119 runs batted in, numbers that helped the team reach the final, the King's Series, against the Leones de Yucatan, a team from southern Mexico, in a seventh and final game. In that scenario, it was the bottom of the eighth when Chris connected the ninth run that put final figures of 9-5 on the board.

This year the LMB was not played due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but the close baseball relationship between Mexico and the United States was reinforced by the sensational performance of a man who couldn't find glory at home, but did in the neighboring country.

Forest and Meadow, duck survivors of the San Mateo fires are up for adoption

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2020.09.19

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Forest and Meadow, duck survivors of the San Mateo fires are up for adoption

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Two ducks, named Forest and Meadow, survivors of the CZU Lightning Complex fires, are available for adoption at Peninsula Humane Society (PHS).

Forest and Meadow survived for 11 days during the fires that destroyed 86,509 acres in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties. The owner of this pair of ducks was evacuated and his home was consumed by the fire, so he was unable to take his pets with him.

"Forest and Meadow are true survivors of the recent wildfire destruction," said PHS communications officer Buffy Martin Tarbox.

Tarbox added that it was a miracle the birds survived because as pet ducks, they would not have been used to fending for themselves.

"For 11 days, the ducks avoided the fire and smoke, searching for water and food sources until we were able to rescue them on Aug. 31 with assistance from other agencies," Tarbox said.

Anyone interested in adopting Forest and Meadow can call: (650)340-7022

[With information from Bay City News]

San Mateo County Seeks Paid Volunteers for Voting Center

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2020.09.19

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San Mateo County Seeks Paid Volunteers for Voting Center

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San Mateo County is recruiting paid volunteers to serve from October 31 to November 3, Election Day. Volunteers will be assigned to one of the county's volleyball centers.

"Do you have what it takes to serve on the front lines of democracy? Then sign up to be a polling place volunteer!" reads one of the county's ads to attract staff.

Interested parties can register to serve as a volunteer for 1 or 4 days. Among other tasks, these volunteers will distribute election materials and voter registration forms, disinfect equipment and orient voters.

"From Saturday, October 31, through Monday, November 2, volunteers will have a schedule of polling place activities from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with a one-hour lunch break.

Volunteers will receive a payment of $195. If done any day between Saturday, October 31 and Monday, November 2, 2020, the payment will be $150 per day. In addition, an additional $85 will be paid for attending the training session.

Volunteers may be not only citizens but also permanent residents of the country.

For more information, please write to: votecenter@smcacre.org

Click here for more information or to get the application form to volunteer at the polls.

In memory of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a feminist lawyer who made history

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In memory of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a feminist lawyer who made history

Ruth Bader Ginsburg mural in Washington / Creative Commons

Xiadani Flores. Peninsula 360 Press [P360P].

On September 18, 2020, at the age of 87, Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a great liberal justice, passed away. She was the second woman to serve as a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, an icon of progressive thought and a great reference in the U.S. legal system.

Throughout her political career, Bader Ginsburg became an icon of freedom, an unattainable fighter for equality, books have been written about her, and biographical films have been made about her life.

It is possible to find her face on T-shirts, on mugs and there are even people who have tattooed a phrase from her. But who was this woman who brought such revolutionary ideas as the legalization of abortion to the Supreme Court?

Joan Ruth Bader Gingsburg was born in Brooklyn in 1933 into a middle class family of Jewish immigrant parents, she grew up in the era of the Holocaust and this would leave an important mark on her thinking. She studied at Cornell University where she met Martin Ginsburg, who would become her husband and the father of her daughter Jane.

Bader Gingsburg was one of only nine women out of 500 men to enroll in law school, and to top it off, she faced the grueling experience of raising a daughter while in school.

The experiences she faced during this stage of her life, from being discriminated against at work for being pregnant and having to hide her pregnancy, to being discriminated against by the head of Harvard Law School, made Bader Gingsburg a fierce advocate for women's rights.

Eventually she moved to Columbia University and in 1959 graduated with the highest average; however she had trouble finding work since most New York firms did not hire women. Again, she found that being a woman imposed certain obstacles that she would not have to overcome if she were a man.

Faced with such a situation and with the need to exercise his profession he entered the office of a judge as his assistant. Later she was an assistant professor at Rutgers Law School, during which time she became pregnant with her second son, James, and fearing that her contract would be cancelled because of this situation, she found herself needing to wear larger clothes.

In 1953, while working at Rutgers, Bader Gingsburg noticed that she was being paid less than her fellow teachers, which prompted her to file a lawsuit and was instrumental in raising her salary and that of her colleagues.

In her struggle for women's equality, she made achievements that marked her professional career forever, becoming the first academic with a permanent position at Columbia University.

In 1972 she founded the Women's Rights Project before the American Civil Liberties Union, with which she dedicated herself to litigating cases of gender discrimination and the unconstitutionality of these.

One of the best known cases involved a pregnant U.S. Air Force officer who was required to have an abortion in order to keep her job, Bader Gingsburg, who was empathetic to the situation, litigated on her behalf. She won five of six cases that were brought before the U.S. Supreme Court.

In 1933 President Bill Clinton nominated her as a Supreme Court justice and she was confirmed by the Senate. She suffered from cancer twice, however this did not lessen her struggle, on the contrary, she defended just causes till the end.

We remember her with two films inspired by her life: the documentary The Judge (RBG) (2018)

and The voice of equality (2018) directed by Mimi Leder and Felicity Jones as lead actress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4OKcVqBkl4

An NBA champion trained in Redwood City

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2020.09.19

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Charles Johnson surprised the Golden State Warriors when he was a standout at Sequoia High School and went on to earn two rings in the Association.

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The NBA has entered the crucial part of its 2019-2020 season with the definition of the conference finals in the Orlando Bubble, Florida, where only the Lakers, Nuggets, Heat and Celtics, the team that eliminated the defending champion Toronto Raptors, survive.

In the Finals of the 2018-2019 season, Canada became the first franchise outside the United States to win the Larry O'Brien Trophy after a six-game victory over the Golden State Warriors, who had won three of the last four championships.

But the Warriors' story wasn't always one of success. The team from "the bay" managed only two rings in its first 29 years as an NBA franchise, until the narrative changed in 1975, when point guard Charles Johnson joined the ranks.

A native of Corpus Christi, Texas, Johnson emigrated from home to attend Sequoia High School, where his basketball skills opened the door for him to represent the University of California, Berkeley, with the Golden Bears.

Paradoxically, his height was not like his high school name: at 6-foot-3, 'C.J.' impressed in the professional league by scoring more than 1,000 points in three years, as well as winning the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award, which honors the best under-average college basketball player.

In 1971 Golden State selected Charles Johnson in the sixth round of the NBA draft with whom he played five seasons and was a key player for the 1974-1975 title, averaging 12.5 points and 3.5 rebounds per game in the playoffs; in addition they not only qualified to the finals as the best seed in the West, but won the championship series 4-0 to the Washington Bullets, a team in which later (1978) also highlighted 'C.J.'.

With the Bullets, the point guard won his second Larry O'Brien after beating Seattle Supersonics 4-3, scoring 19 points in the seventh and final game and averaging 10.2 points, 2.5 rebounds and 2.3 assists that season.

Charles Johnson retired early from the NBA, as in 1979 he decided to leave the game and spend the rest of his life at his home in Oakland, California, where he died of cancer. Charlie', as his teammates called him, is remembered as one of the best players and part of those responsible for the awakening of the Bay Area on the court.

A day like today: The first female pilot goes around the world

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2020.09.19

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A day like today: The first female pilot goes around the world

Ephemeris

Xiadani Flores / Peninsula 360 Press

Richarda Morrow-Tait was first female pilot in achieving the feat of going around the world in a year and a day. On September 19, 1949, he landed in England. She is considered an inspiration to many women, as she reminds us to pursue our dreams to heaven if necessary.

Prudence Richarda Evelyn Routh was born on November 22, 1923 in England. During her years of basic education she attended a school for girls in Cambridge, however, she had a dream: to be the first woman to go around the world.

Two months after the end of the Second World War, Richarda married Norman Robert Morrow -Tati on July 21, 1945 and when the ban on aviation was lifted Richarda, or "Dikki" as he was affectionately called, joined the ranks of the Cambridge Aero Club and thus obtained his private pilot's license.

Richarda Morrow-Tait. Photo: social networks

_{She studied hard and worked hard to achieve her dream. That's how the Morrow-Taits, together with Richarda's best friend, Michael Townsend, acquired a plane on which they flew around the world.}

The plane chosen was a Percival Proctor IV with the registration G-AJMU which he called "Thursday's child" after his daughter Anna's favorite lullaby. On August 18, 1948, Richarda began the great journey.

She left behind a tumult of scandals and negative comments as she had to leave her husband Norman and daughter Anna in Cambridge to take the flight eastward and around the world, Dikki became the first "flying housewife".

His flight was a compilation of adventures including two minor accidents, a 6-week forced stay in India for plane repairs and an illegal escape from India.

The Pilot and the navigator had to make some unplanned stops and survived a crash landing near Alaska in very unfavourable weather conditions since the temperature below zero had caused the formation of ice in the carburettor. These unforeseen expenses left Richarda almost broke and, for the same reason, Townsend returned to England.

At Christmas 1948, while Richarda was in Canada, he met Jack Ellis who joined his adventure and agreed to replace Townsend. Shortly thereafter, Dikki got another aircraft that with a few arrangements was ready to continue the great journey; this one he called "Next Thursday's Child" and flew across the skies of the United States, Canada and back to England.

Once her journey was completed, Richarda became the first woman to fly a plane around the world, but her feat was little recognized as people judged her to have abandoned her "maternal duties as a housewife" to pursue her dreams.

After the adventure, Richarda stayed away from the media. However, it is known that she finally married Michael Townsend, with whom she had been in love since before she married Norman.

This emblematic pilot died on December 17, 1982 from a blood disease, however, before she died she made sure to write her memoirs. In the book Thursday's Child: The Story of the First Flight Round the World by a Woman Pilot tells us about his life and his adventures around the world.

Richarda's story inspires many women to fight for our dreams, no matter what they say, to make the impossible possible, what is denied us, what makes us happy and fills us with personal satisfaction.

Premature births and asthma, major fire hazards: Stanford

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2020.09.19

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Premature births and asthma, major fire hazards: Stanford

Pamela Cruz. Peninsula 360 Press.

Palo Alto, California. Due to the increase of smoke from wildfires in the state of California, thousands of children will be affected in their health by exposure to particulate pollutants, which can cause serious damage to their lungs and generate asthma in their adolescence.

This was stated by Kari Nadeu, physician-scientist at Stanford University, who said during the videoconference: "New evidence on the health impacts of wildfire smoke" that among the most affected are newborns, children and pregnant women.

The latter, she said, may experience discomfort during pregnancy, have complications and eventually give birth to premature babies who, in turn, may have respiratory problems.

The expert pointed out that although the N95 masks help protect against smoke from fires and prevent the acquisition of viruses such as COVID-19, the microparticles generated by the smoke are very fine and stick to the mouthpiece, so she called that this sector of the population to stay at home and, if possible, use air filters.

In adults, he said the problems range from respiratory to cardiovascular issues, such as possible heart attacks, as well as complicating chronic diseases and exacerbating the symptoms generated by COVID-19.

And is that depending on the amount of smoke that exists in the environment, the number of suspended particles and exposure time, could be equivalent to smoking between one and seven cigarettes a day, so people who smoke or use vaporizers should be aware of the consequences it will bring to your health to do so during the fire season.

On the other hand, the pediatrician explained that because of the pandemic, people have an exacerbated use of cleaning chemicals and household sprays, whose compounds can be left floating in the air and further contaminate the environment.

In that sense, he added that fires are largely a consequence of climate change, so we must seek long-term solutions, and we will have to get used to more forest fires.

In this regard, the chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford, Lynn M. Hildemann, said that given the pandemic that is experienced globally is almost impossible to get N95 masks, which are the most useful to protect against smoke from fires, as well as Covid-19, so they should be manufactured in larger quantities and with forms for all types of face, including children.

In terms of construction, he explained that not all houses have a good seal, which would help prevent smoke from fires, especially those of greater antiquity, because even with closed doors and windows the fine particles manage to enter, so often the houses are not a real protection.

He stressed that air filters and humidifiers can be purchased, since air conditioning only works to make people feel more comfortable inside a place, but they are far from being an instrument of protection against virus particles or smoke.

For Marshall Burke, of Stanford's Department of Earth System Science, Food Safety and Environmental Sciences, many people find it difficult to afford air filters and purifiers, as they can cost upwards of $300.

So these forest fires also affect the economy of the people, especially those who are most vulnerable, since they do not have access to good health services, nor can they buy filtration systems for their homes.

However, he clarified that these fires have affected mostly middle and high income people, because their homes are located near the forests where the fires have occurred, so there is greater exposure to fire and smoke.

He added that while in recent days the San Francisco Bay has experienced what many cities suffer constantly, it will have to gradually deal with the situation, as it will occur more frequently due to climate change.

Under 15 arrested in Redwood City for possession

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2020.09.18

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Under 15 arrested in Redwood City for possession

Redwood City police on Wednesday arrested a 15-year-old man who was linked to firearms and drug-related crimes.

Last Wednesday, around 9:48 p.m., detectives from the Police Department's Street Crime Suppression Team contacted a group of young people at 3200 Rollison Road.

One of the young men managed to escape from the detectives who lost sight of him and returned a few moments later.

Detectives extended the search area from where the young man had fled; at the scene, they found the trail of narcotics along with a 9mm semi-automatic firearm and a cartridge containing 15 rounds of ammunition, police said.

The minor was arrested and subsequently admitted to the San Mateo County Juvenile Services Center.

[With BNC information]

The redwoods, beautiful ancient beings in California

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2020.09.18

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The redwoods, beautiful ancient beings in California

Rober Diaz. Peninsula 360 Press.

Redwoods live at high altitudes, withstand the most dizzying changes in climate without losing size or strength.

These trees, which are estimated to have existed on Earth for between 2 000 and 3 000 years and which reach heights of over 100 m, pose many puzzles. The tallest known sequoia - Sequoia sempervirens or California Redwood - is called Hyperion and measures 115 m. It was discovered in 2006.

The longest living redwood has been estimated to be 3,200 years old; however, it is not the oldest tree on Earth, as it is known that in the Swedish province of Dalarna there is a spruce (Picea abies) that is about 9,550 years old, that is, a tree that dates back to the Ice Age.

By means of a technique called "dendrochronology" it is possible to know the age of the trees, and it consists of studying the environmental changes of their past by analyzing the annual growth rings of the trees. In the case of the redwoods, it is believed that their longevity is based on a compartmentalized vascular system, which allows that while some parts of the tree die, the others can remain healthy and alive.

Redwoods live at high altitudes, resisting the most dizzying changes in climate without losing size or strength. One of the largest redwoods is "the president"; there is a larger one, "General Sherman"; it has been proven that, despite its size, it continues to grow and it is estimated that "the president" has approximately two million leaves. They grow tall and develop wide canopies because that guarantees them more sunlight and rain than the others.

Because of their enormous size, they have imposed themselves on their environment. Tannic acids and other chemicals that coat the heartwood and bark prevent fungi from growing on their trunks and making them sick. Their thick bark is fireproof, that is, they are resistant to heat and fire. In fact, fires benefit them by killing off their competitors. Although heat can affect older specimens, due to their strength they have been able to maintain themselves for millennia and continue to grow.

At the end of the 19th century many sequoias were cut down, but their brittle wood caused the logs to break when they fell to the ground, making the enormous work between cutting them and then moving the already broken wood unprofitable.

Recent research shows that, contrary to what was thought, the older the trees, the less wood they produced. Redwoods go through a different process: the older they are, the more wood they produce in their trunk and therefore the more branches.

Researcher Steve Sillett and his team set out to climb the "president" in an unprecedented investigation. The study was part of a more ambitious project called the Redwoods and Climate Change Initiative. They measured the trunk at different heights, its branches, the knot. And with a sterile drill, they took a sample. Then, they analyzed the figures of their measurements and that led them to conclude that the "president" has 1,530 cubic meters of wood and bark. And that his age, eye, is approximately 3,200 years. In addition, he keeps a healthy oxygenation in spite of his age.

Sillet stated in an interview for National Geographic that: "After half an hour, the summit of the 'president' was reached at 60 meters. I saw the large knots, the smooth, purplish bark of the smaller branches up close. Everything around me was a living tree. I looked up, with vertigo, and appreciated the fine cracks in the dry wood and the channels of cambium that ran between the trunk and the branches like a river of life. A wonderful place, I thought. And I added: a wonderful creature.