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A businessman from Encinitas is making regular trips to deliver supplies to Ukraine.

Estonia is host to one of the world's largest annual interactive cybersecurity drills. Russia is always considered the main threat, but this year, the war in Ukraine has only added to the stakes.

If you can sort mail, sell postage stamps and count penguins, this could be the job for you.

Third Sunday Craft is a monthly gathering of creative writers that fosters support, inspiration, and community. More than craft classes, Third Sunday Craft will help you construct and sustain a writing practice with the guidance of writer Richard FarrellNew focus topics for each session will challenge writers to explore and expand their craft. Generative writing prompts will encourage you to grow and learn in exciting new ways. Sharing your work within a safe, supportive community will help you discover and strengthen your voice. Finally, with the goal of fostering supportive accountability, each session will conclude with a writer’s intentions for the month. Come check out Third Sunday Craft! Gatherngs take place on the third Sunday of every month. Register here! SDWI members: $36 (per month) Nomembers: $42 (per month) Please note that signing up for two months at a time will allow you to take advantage of the following discount: $62 for two months for members, $74 for two months for nonmembers. Drop-in with registration at the door are welcomeMonthly Focus July, Image Patterns | Image patterning is an often overlooked but vital part to good writing. Writers don’t just select images randomly; the create patterns of images through repetition and layering. We will look at examples and attempt to use the technique through exercises. August, Desire & Resistance | Robert Olen Butler says we must find our character’s ‘white hot center,’ and write from that space. Fiction writers in particular must find out what their characters want, and they should be wanting things all the time, and then put up roadblocks (physical, psychological, spiritual) to create a sense of conflict and tension in stories. We will look at examples and practice this core concept. September, Clarity as a Virtue | Steven Almond writers that the “Hippocratic Oath of Writing” is to “never confuse the reader.” Too often, writers lean on vague, abstract, or scattershot imagery. But more often, the harder work is being clear and focused, and taking the reader deeper into the story by precise, clear, specific writing. October, Building Suspense | This class will look at the difference between suspense, tension, and mystery, and explore ways the writer can create and sustain suspense in scene writing. Note: this is not a genre-specific problem for writers. We have to remember what the reader is curious about when we craft any piece of writing. November, Time | We will look at the concept of time as it relates to narrative, and look at how writers make time compress, expand, shift, and even freeze. We will practice some techniques and try some exercises designed to help writers be attentive to the importance of time in stories! December, Reflections and Resolutions | We will look on the year that was our writing work, and make plans for the year ahead!

Stream with KPBS+ though Dec. 21, 2025. Revel in dazzling musical performances from the White House in celebration of the holiday season, featuring President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., host Jennifer Garner, Andrea Bocelli, Camila Cabello, Eric Church, Jonas Brothers, Billy Porter and more.

Piñatas are a common element in parties across different countries, but especially in Mexico around Christmas time, and the story of their origin combines cultures, traditions and religions.

The U.N. has released the most comprehensive global climate science report ever. It is unequivocal: Humans must stop burning fossil fuels or suffer catastrophic impacts.

For this live online discussion, the Museum of Making Music welcomes three artists whose music is primarily founded upon the acoustic guitar. Cameron Knowler, Yasmin Williams, and Eli Winter join us for a roundtable discussion about their instrument of choice, their connection to it, and how it has influenced their lives and careers. Cameron Knowler: Cameron is multi-instrumentalist, educator, and recording artist who specializes in jazz, bluegrass and old time music forms. He has established himself as an accompanist, collaborator and solo artist, with a parallel focus on sharing his craft with others. His teaching methods are tailored to the aspirations of the student, methods which are rooted in practicality, theory, and intuition. Knowler holds a degree in jazz guitar performance from the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music, yet enjoys resisting the chokehold of normativism. He is based out of Los Angeles, California. Yasmin Williams: Yasmin is an acoustic fingerstyle guitarist with an unorthodox, modern style of playing. Her music has been commonly described as refreshing, relaxing, and unique and has been called some of the most imaginative guitar music out today. She utilizes various techniques including alternate tunings, percussive hits, and lap tapping in her music to great effect. She has won various local talent shows, was a finalist in the Rolling Stones Young Gun guitar competition, was the Grand prize winner of New York University's Ultra Violet Live talent show, and won the Gold Prize in the Instrumental category of the Mid-Atlantic Song Contest. She has been featured on several radio and television programs including New Sounds "Soundcheck" Podcast, NPR's "Weekend Edition Saturday show," "NPR Night Owl," "NPR All Songs Considered," "Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour," and WUSA9, along with high profile magazine features such as Acoustic Guitar Magazine and Vintage Guitar Magazine. Eli Winter A self-taught guitarist and native Houstonian, Winter has been praised as a "generational talent" (NYCTaper) for his masterful instrumental music, which has received praise from Pitchfork, The Guardian, the Chicago Reader, the Sydney Morning Herald and others. On the strength of his first album, "The Time To Come," The Guardian featured him as an artist to watch for 2020. Winter has performed at Constellation, Hopscotch Music Festival, the Starlight Theater and Logan Center for the Arts, among many others. Winter received the David Blair McLaughlin Prize in Nonfiction from the University of Chicago. His essays and criticism have been published in The Economist, Texas Highways, the Brooklyn Rail, Chicago, Expressionless Objects and elsewhere. He is a 2021 Luminarts Fellow in Creative Writing. Museum of Making Music is on Facebook

Ukrainian and Russian officials have held a a new round of talks as Moscow’s troops press their assault on Kyiv and other cities.

In recent years, orcas have been damaging the rudders of pleasure yachts, mostly along the coasts of Portugal and Spain. Scientists and sailors are struggling to understand the encounters.