Civics 103 A Journey Through the Justice System

If you live in or around Greensboro, I hope you will consider signing up for and attending the five sessions of Civics 103. The League of Women Voters and co-sponsors are providing this minicourse free of charge. We have many great guest speakers and the justice system is something everyone should know something about.

Y'all come as many people thing we say.

For more info check out this web site.

Take Action

The world is full of problems, starvation in Niger, genocide in Darfur, refugees from the Central Highlands in Cambodian camps, potential drilling in the Artic Wildlife Refuge. I urge you to write the President, your US House member and your US Senators and tell them what you think, what you know, and make a suggestion or two about what they can do. Hopefully our actions can and should be peaceful, but exert some pressure where needed. Do stay informed and let you views be known.

Writing letters is pretty easy if you are on a computer and you have to be to read this. Just go to www.house.gov or www.senate.gov or www.whitehouse.gov. Remember all of these are .gov, not something else.

Peace,
Marlene

Class Reunion Pueblo Central High School 1956

Several of us from the class of 1956 are looking for our lost classmates. Lost classmates are those for whom we do not have a current address. We are first looking in the cities or near the cities where we had an address for an individual at one time. After that we are branching out. If you happen upon this blog and know one of our classmates, please refer them to our class website. The website contains two email addresses whereby a class member may make his or her whereabouts known. The 50th reunion is September 9, 2006. Details will be mailed and also posted on the web site.

Goofing around with pictures

I needed to make a card for my grandson so I made this for the front of the card. First, I "stitched" photos together to get the background. Then I cut the Dalmatian out of a photo my granddaughter took with my camera. I put the dog in front of the buildings and then I just kept putting him there. Each dog was on a separate layer so I could move them until I liked them.

I know I should have fixed a certain aspect of this photo. It will be obvious to people who look and the rest can forget the comment.

The dogs of Prague are very well behaved. Most of them are not on leashes, they stay right beside their masters/mistresses and walk calmly. In front of the grocery store, you can spot patient poodles waiting for their owners. Pretty neat how they are so well behaved. I didn't see any contankerous Corgis though.

Harry Potter

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal ran an interesting review/interpretation of the Order of the Phoenix, the book just before the Half Blood Prince. It is worth reading for the interpretation that Jonathan Last puts on Harry Potter. His view, if accurte, would put to rest those who think the books are only about witches and wizards. Find it if you can. I didn't check yet to see if the article is available on line. Jonathast Last is on the online editor for the Weekly Standard. If you don't know what that publication is, you may want to look it up.

Here are two bridge pictures from Prague.

Praha or, as we know it, Prague

First off, I think we should start calling cities by the names everyone who lives in them or close to them call them. So rather than Prague, we should say Praha.

Second, I think travel books should list the name of the places you will see and read on street signs in the language of the country/city. So for example, in Praha, you will see Karlov (or something similar to that) Most, not Charles Bridge. It is fine to put Charles Bridge after Karlov Most, but not make Charles Bridge prominent in the book.

Karlova Most is a pedestrian bridge. Many jazz musicians and other artists occupy the sides of the bridge. Thus, in addition to the statues of religious figures/saints on the bridge, a pedestrian sees and hears some of the street artists of Praha. American music has been transported to Praha and enjoyed by Americans and I hope, by the natives of the city. That is, I hope the performances in public places are not for our benefit, but because the musicians like and enjoy performing Dixieland.

First Blog Entry

I am testing this means of posting photos and comments. I just returned from Prague and have under two thousand digital pictures and a few tiny movies. I don't see where it says you can include little movies/videos here, so I will need to learn about that.

I am also wondering if using a blog would be a good way to locate some of the Pueblo Central High School class of 1956. How many of us are out there searching, but haven't yet joined classmates.com or some other service?

I already learned that it pays to know a little HTML if you want paragraphs!