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One California surfer had something to prove to his father in the summer of 66. Author: Jeff Zevely (Reporter) Updated: 3:35 PM PDT April 28, 2021 SAN DIEGO — Whats the craziest thing youve ever done? In this Zevely Zone, I met a former San Diego State University professor and Navy veteran with a stowaway story youve got to hear. In the summer of 1966, Rick Frey, a California surfer, announced to his parents he was heading to Hawaii when his father said, "Hawai...

The Biden Administration is looking to Expand Vaccine Availability to all Americans in about 6 Weeks...

Eat These Foods to Beat Anxiety and Depression Drew Ramsey MD In my training as a psychiatrist, I’d never been taught to ask my patients what they were eating. When I did finally start, the results were startling, to say the least. People who made even a few small dietary tweaks began feeling better and sometimes were able to decrease the dosage of their medication. It may seem as if making a couple adjustments to your diet as an intervention for depression is too good to be ...

On Monday, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner shared the good news that the massive COVID-19 vaccine super site run by the Federal Emergency Management Association is still set to open this week at NRG Stadium as planned. Meanwhile, Harris County Commissioner Adrian Garcia asked Commissioners Court to start considering a Harris County exit from the Texas power grid, and another Texan politician got caught red-handed skipping town during the statewide blackouts. ...

N.Y. Reopening Amusement Parks; EU Vaccine Deal: Virus Update Bloomberg 2/17/2021 Bloomberg News © Bloomberg A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a Sharp HealthCare mass vaccination super site inside the Grossmont Center Mall in La Mesa, California, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. Governor Newsom said California is making progress in delivering coronavirus vaccines and trends are improving, even as the state is poised to surpas...

Frasier, has died. He was 85. Christopher died Tuesday in his sleep at his home in West Hollywood, his wife of more than 50 years, Dorothy, told The Hollywood Reporter. Christopher received Emmys for his design work for the Oscar shows in 1981, 1984, 1986, 1990, 1999, 2003, 2006 and 2008 — and was nominated 10 other times for the telecast — and also won trophies for NBCs The Richard Pryor Show in 1978 and for NBCs Frasier in 2004. He received a lifetime achievement award from the Art Dir...

Breaking news New South Wales has again recorded locally acquired coronavirus cases, after the virus was transmitted in hotel quarantine New Zealand bowler Neil Wagner says a desire to help his team got him through bowling with two broken toes against Pakistan Posted SatSaturday 2 JanJanuary 2021 at 5:30am New Zealand bowler Neil Wagner battled through the pain to claim the wicket of Pakistans Fawad Alam in the first Test. ( Share Print text only Cancel New Zealand quick Neil Wagner could not ...

After the Second World War, historians asked us to shift our focus from great men to the actions and experiences of ordinary people, to culture rather than institutions. This methodological shift to ‘history from below’ was political, supporting a democratic vision of political, social, intellectual and cultural agency as the Cold War stoked authoritarian impulses in the East and West. It sought to rectify historians’ paternalistic habit of writing about the people ‘as one of the proble...

Electors in Georgia turning in their official ballots on Monday.Credit...Damon Winter/The New York Times Early this week, electors in 50 states and Washington, D.C., formally chose Joe Biden as the next president of the United States. And after weeks (and weeks) of waiting, Republicans in the Senate began to acknowledge the president-elect’s victory. “We’ve now gone through the constitutional process and the electors have voted, so there’s a president-elect,” Senator Roy Blunt of Miss...

N.Y. Cases Rise Further and California Hits Record: Virus Update Bloomberg 12/12/2020 Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- California counted more than 35,000 new Covid-19 cases for the second straight day, New York’s infections quickened and New Jersey reported record cases on Saturday. U.S. vaccinations against Covid-19 are set to begin next week after the government approved a shot by Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE for emergency use. Record U.S. deaths and cases on Friday underscor...