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It's the new chorus of the computer age: "You've got spyware!" It can take the shape of a green alligator, a purple monkey, or a colorful new toolbar that suddenly appears on your Web browser. These stealth programs can fill your screen with a blizzard of pop-up ads, or disable your computer entirely. NPR's Susan Stone reports.

In the new movie The Night Listener, Robin Williams plays a radio personality who starts to believe he's being scammed. The drama revolves around a radio show that is based on a memoir; the film itself is based on Armistead Maupin's novel -- which in turn was based on a real event.

Gabriel hasn't spoken to his father since the senior writer's review proclaiming his son's first book a failure. When impending heart surgery reunites the men, generational tensions surface along with WWII-era intrigue in Juan Gabriel Vasquez's inventive and intricately plotted The Informers.

Santa Barbara Permaculture Network presents

The State of Fire; Why California Burns
Talk & Book Signing
with Award Winning Author Obi Kaufmann

Thursday, February 20, 6:30–8:30pm, 2025, FREE

Location: Fe Bland Auditorium/BC Forum
SBCC West Campus, 800 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109

Joined by a panel of Community Members &
special guest: Santa Barbara Poet Laureate, Melinda Palacio

Please join Santa Barbara Permaculture Network on Thursday, February 20, for a special evening with naturalist, illustrator, and award winning author Obi Kaufmann, sharing his timely book The State of Fire, Why California Burns.

From the creator of The California Field Atlas, Obi Kaufmann shares a book of stewardship, resilience, and hope. Fire is an essential part of California’s ecology and humans have been using it to shape the California landscape for thousands of years. But today many Californians’ relationship to fire is primarily one of fear.


The free event takes place at the Fe Bland Auditorium/BC Forum on the Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) West Campus on Thursday, February 20, 6:30–8:30 pm. For more information, www.sbpermaculture.org, margie@sbpermaculture.org, 805-962-257.

Community Panel Members include:
Ray Ford, Santa Barbara County backcountry author, photographer & journalist; Betty Seaman, Natural Builder, Spirit Pine; Cooper Lienhart, Nature’s Design & SLO Beaver Brigade;
Em Johnson Community Environmental Council (CEC) Director of Climate Programs

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Cosponsors: Community Environmental Council (CEC); Santa Barbara Beaver Brigade; SBCC Environmental Horticulture, & Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network
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Virginia Seitz, who led the influential Justice Department office that offers legal advice on surveillance, drones and other issues, resigned after 2 1/2 years on the job.

A new cookbook from food writer Marlena Spieler gives a makeover to the ultimate comfort food. With combinations like mozzarella, fig jam and prosciutto, and sage sausage with jack, Grilled Cheese: 50 Recipes to Make You Melt makes the classic sandwich even better. NPR's Jennifer Ludden joins Spieler in the kitchen.

Life, relationships, and work would go

more smoothly if we knew how to practice communicating consciously. In

this highly regarded course, we will work through the emotional blocks

that keep you on autopilot, frustrated and far from connection.

From Tara Packer:
During my 20+ years in creative industries and recruiting, I witnessed too many uncomfortable situations

for both employers and employees that could have been circumvented. A shift needed to happen, and I wanted to be of greater service to both,so I began coaching. My work utilizes a combination of tools with a somatic approach which helps people work through emotional and trauma reprocessing.

When people experience emotional regulation (aka CALM), they can access their best cognitive functioning and overall health, moving from surviving to thriving. My one-to-oneclients have experienced freedom from lifelong phobias, pain, anxiety,
trauma and burnout. They are living what they once referred to as only a possibility. It is my greatest pleasure to facilitate and be part of their process, to witness their transformation and joy. I have studied in multiple holistic disciplines including EFT, TFT, NLP, IFS

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Work, Hypnosis, Breathwork, Emotional Regulation, Narrative Therapy,

Unconscious Bias Transformation, Energy Medicine and others. I’m

currently doing advanced coursework on trauma.

Gary Vaynerchuk used social media and offbeat video commentary to turn his family's New Jersey wine shop into a major Web retailer — and turn himself into a cult figure for wine enthusiasts. His new book, The Thank You Economy, is part memoir and part handbook for success.

Meyers tackles the topic of fear in a new kid's book. Ken Tucker picks the best music of 2022. Merchant's series, The Outlaws, follows low-level offenders who've been assigned community service.

Glacier National Park boasts some of the darkest skies in the U.S., so it's a perfect spot for a stargazing party at the top of 6,000-foot-tall Logan Pass.