The Palos Verdes Library District presents, ‘A Digital Camera Seminar’ with presenter, Louis Dominguez at the Miraleste Library on Saturday, January 24 from 2pm to 4pm. Get to know your new digital camera and take pictures like a pro in just one seminar! In this two hour introduction to digital cameras, learn how to [...]
Monday, December 29, 2008
The United States Postal Service today announced its 2009 commemorative stamps release schedule. Among the issues will be 20-stamp set of early television programs, including “I Love Lucy,” “Howdy Doody,” Dragnet,” and “The Twilight Zone.” The Postal Service will also release a series of four stamps honoring Abraham Lincoln on the 200th anniversary of his [...]
Monday, December 22, 2008
Geographers at the University of South Carolina have produced a “death map” of the United States, showing mortality rates from natural hazards. Among other purposes, the map is meant to assist emergency response planners in allocating resources more effectively. The South ranks highest in death rates, due to severe weather such as tornadoes. The region [...]
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Do you want to get more organized, but don’t know where to start? The Palos Verdes Library District, co-sponsored by the PVP Welcome Basket present Nancy Miller’s ever popular “Clutterology —A Workshop on How to Eliminate the Clutter in your Life and get Organized” at Peninsula Center Library on Saturday, January 3, 2009 at 1pm. [...]
Thursday, December 18, 2008
The Palos Verdes Library District will be closed Wednesday, December 24 and Thursday, December 25 Peninsula Center Library will close at 5pm New Years Eve All libraries will be closed New Years Day
Monday, December 15, 2008
200 Turkish intellectuals today issued an apology for the World War I era massacres of Armenians. The online petition uses the term the “Great Catastrophe,” rather than the word “genocide,” in referring to the 1.5 million deaths that historians estimate Ottoman Turks were responsible for. The official Turkish view is that the deaths were a [...]
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Forty years ago this week, at a conference hall in San Francisco, a Stanford computer researcher demonstrated the first personal computer. The device had a mouse and monitor, and featured rudimentary tools which enabled moving among documents, as well as text and graphics editing ability. The scientist who headed the development team envisioned a computer [...]
Friday, December 5, 2008
Morningstar is moving it’s headquarters to a new building. They will have a technical team on hand to monitor the situation; however, their servers will be relocating so it’s possible we may experience intermittent technical issues.
Monday, December 1, 2008
Flood waters covered Venice’s lowest point, the Piazza San Marco, on Monday. Heavy rains and strong winds caused a 5.1 foot rise in sea level in the Adriatic, the highest in 22 years. Ferry and water taxi services were suspended in the canal-laced city. A study released in 2007 warned that Venice was at risk [...]
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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