On the blog of the social network TwitterOn Thursday, September 17th, it was mentioned that, in the coming weeks, the site implement additional security measures for some accounts that require closer scrutiny such as Executive Branch and U.S. Congressional related accounts.
Twitter will notify accounts that require an additional security step. Twitter.
The communiqué published by the Twitter security account responsible for informing users about changes in user security, specifies that the accounts related to presidential campaigns, political parties and candidates with some involvement in the U.S. House of Representatives, Senate and government.
Not everything is Twitter's initiative. Users with such accounts are strongly urged to beef up their security with customary changes like the password changeYou will need to update it after logging in the next time you want to do so.
However, it is likely that, after the password reset, Twitter will increase security for future password changes. The company mentions that this will help "to prevent unauthorized changes"and they will be required to take additional steps such as confirming their registered email address or phone number to reset their password.
In addition, the importance of beginning to use the two-factor authentication -known as 2FA, which provides an additional layer of security to protect the account from malicious logins, thus preventing account misuse.
With this, the social network aims to put a little order this 2020 in electoral matters in the U.S., in addition to efforts like those on Facebook and Google that will also serve as a guide for voters.
Work of Fernando Escártiz and Yoshinori Asai together with the creative group of Casa Círculo Cultural. Peninsula 360 Press.
Around 15 vehicles drove through downtown Redwood City this Sunday morning adorned with phosphorescent posters and pink balloons with painted eyes and blue mouthguards.
Those who drove the cars were honking their horns and waving to the passers-by on the street to attract attention.
"This is a caravan to pay tribute to the real heroes in this pandemic, and to raise awareness in the community about the need to continue using the mask."He said Verónica Escámez, Director of Casa Círculo CulturalThe organization responsible for the event, along with the We Vote Redwood City organization.
At the front of the long line was a red MINI Cooper, followed by a grey pickup truck pulling a trailer with a huge coronavirus sculpture from Mexican artist based in Redwood City Fernando Escártiz, supported by Japanese artist Yoshinori Asai and the creative group from the art class at Casa Círculo Cultural.
The green and pink coronavirus had on this five superheroes representing the ethnic diversity of the people who have dealt with the virus SARS-CoV-2 from their different professions and trades.
The red-eyed, angry coronavirus looked down on the superheroes that threaten its existence. In the center, and almost on what would be the virus' forehead, Wonder Woman dressed in blue and white to represent doctors and nurses.
BatmanOn his right side, dressed in black and blue, standing by the security sector: the sheriff's office and the police department. On the left side, Captain America dressed in gray with phosphorescent yellow to represent the uniform of fire department and paramedics.
SupermanThe logo of the post office, in the back row on the right side, but instead of a red S on the chest, the logo of the post office to honour the home delivery men that they haven't stopped.
In the same way, at the back, but on the left side, a large Hulk with the torn pants of the original character, but with sun-baked skin and, in his hand, a box of vegetables and a pesticide, to represent all the farmers and farm workerswithout whose labour the daily bread would not reach our table.
"We have to remind people that the pandemic is unfortunately not over and we have to take care of each other. We decided to use humor and art to send a strong message that could save lives: put on your mask»said Escámez.
Taking advantage of the great commotion caused by the motorcade and the huge coronavirus with the super heroes on top, Casa Círculo Cultural and We Vote Redwood City invited people to participate in the 2020 census and register to vote in the next election.
Coronavirus sculpture by Redwood City-based Mexican artist Fernando Escártiz, supported by Japanese artist Yoshinori Asai and the creative group of the art class of Casa Círculo Cultural.
«This is a caravan to pay tribute to the real heroes in this pandemic, and to raise awareness in the community about the need to continue using the mask.He said Verónica Escámez, Director of Casa Círculo CulturalThe organization responsible for the event, along with the We Vote Redwood City organization.
The red-eyed, angry coronavirus looked down on the superheroes that threaten its existence. In the center and almost on the virus' forehead, Wonder Woman dressed in blue and white to represent doctors and nurses.
The green coronavirus with pink had on it, 5 super heroes representing the ethnic diversity of the people who have faced the virus from their different professions and trades.
Cunqueiro developed a somewhat forgotten literary resource, which is to make the description of food, more than the enunciation of a recipe, a transit through which the story and its characters eating, are diluted in the same flow: literature.
Rober Diaz. Peninsula 360 Press.
Álvaro Cunqueiro (1911-1981) is an unjustly forgotten writer, but no less erudite and entertaining for that. The delight of the self-confidence with which he approaches his readings makes him leave the dungeons in which political correctness has put him, his dazzling and passionate effect where the most bizarre themes could occur and juxtapose themselves with historical themes and famous characters, related to European lineages, fratricidal wars, extravagant customs, together with a culinary knowledge with which he created his own microcosm, make this writer, more than a way of writing, a category. A state of illumination that, for those who do not know his political affiliation, causes an almost automatic admiration for his themes, and his inventive way of approaching them.
Cunqueiro, born in Mondoñedo, Galicia, Spain, did not believe in inspiration. He was a writer who, in one fell swoop, wrote what he had committed to. He said that, if after that lapse, the work was not finished, it would be difficult, in the end, to see it finished. He said that one did not know for whom one was writing and, sometimes, one did not know exactly where the characters would end up, because patience, more than a virtue, is one of the main tools that a writer has.
In addition to being a novelist, poet and playwright, Cuaqueiro developed a somewhat forgotten literary resource: making the description of food, more than the enunciation of a recipe, a passage through which the story and its characters eating are diluted in the same flow: literature. He was an expert gastronomist and made his narratives about food a true delight; we leave here a small historical chronicle about «British Strawberries and Blackberries», from his book «Western Christian Cuisine», page 45:
«Brittany strawberries, Plougastel strawberries, have a history. They are Chilean and that is why they are called fraises du Chili. They were brought back in 1712 by a naval officer called Fraize, on his return from a voyage. They are short like amorodos —strawberries—, tasty and fresh. Officer Freize brought a parrot and beautiful orchids from Brazil. He lived in Lenvoual, near Plougastel, and is considered one of the Breton Tenorios of the 18th century. Freize himself taught the Bretons to eat strawberries with cream, a dessert that he had learned in Valparaiso, in the house of a lady who was a great judge and who was kissed and hugged by the Spanish sailor “Now back!” (sic). The English buy strawberries from Plougastel for their jams, just as they buy blackberries in September for blackberry jam. The Bretons like blackberries with sugar, cinnamon and Barsac wine; The best, a sweet, orange Château-Coutet.»
Cunqueiro added fictitious indexes of names at the end of his books in order to complete the profiles of the characters and to ensure that what he had not said would remain under the shadow of historical fiction. His books on food, as well as his assessments and evaluations of the most unusual and unusual dishes, filled the pages of Spanish newspapers in the post-war period.
When asked what Galicia was, he replied that for hundreds of years it was the end of the known world: Finisterri, beyond the rocks of its cliffs –the point of the world in Galicia that the ancients thought was the end of the world–, there was nothing but the dark ocean, with abysses where giant fish swam that ate their own tails and that, when the Romans came to conquer those lands, they believed they were facing the Lethe –that river that Dante said one crosses to the afterlife– because of the astonishing landscape, but it was Decimus Junius Brutus, who led the expedition, who reminded them that they were there only to conquer and the soldiers woke up from their dream.
The Galicians –he said– are always on the defensive, they have an enormous love for their land –surely there must be inhabitants of Galicia who have still owned their small lands for two thousand years–, being that end of the world and the harassment under which they lived, surely made them react to become ironic and scoundrels capable of dizzying whoever it was with their verbosity.
A fact: In 2015, the mayor of Madrid, Manuela Camarena, tried to change the name of a street that bears his name, in compliance with the Law of Historical Memory; the president of the Galician academic institution, Xesús Alonso Montero, replied: "honour and glory of the Hispanic Letters of the 20th century, he was a friend admired by many people in the Republican ideological panorama and a good man who never, in his intimate condition, identified himself with fascist violence; before and after 1936."
The team led by Jimmy Garoppolo won 31-13 on the road to equal his record in the beginning of the NFL
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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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
