Words. They can do anything. They can call in a dog at night. They can bring comfort to an old friend. They can say happy birthday to a girl whose balloons are slowly sinking. But sometimes, words can get you into trouble. Like the human rights activist who was kidnapped for standing up to Government […] Read more

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending […] Read more

Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be; In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffering; In the faith that looks through death, […] Read more

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in […] Read more

Working in your pajamas. Skipping traffic. Oh yeah. Knowing your lunch is safe from poachers. That’s the blissful reality of working from home. But as anyone who has done it can tell you, the reality is a lot less dreamy. There are no annoying coworkers snapping gum in your ears, but then again, there are […] Read more

Working girls worked up over unjust fines! In 1886 El Paso City council always looking to drum up extra revenue, from the Brothels and Saloons, voted to raise the monthly business fee on the local Scarlet Ladies from $5.00 to $10.00. Enraged 150 ladies march, in unison, to City Hall, to demand the city reduce […] Read more

The drop-down Windows menu in the Desktop Console displays five window arrangement options, plus a list of all the windows in the currently selected project. The following figure shows a project that has the AppResponse Insight Index and Default Color Manager open Use Next Window and Previous Window to cycle through making open windows active […] Read more

Cities are increasingly becoming recognized as the locus of economic and social development. The world has reached a tipping point where half the world’s population is already living in cities. Nearly 2 billion new urban residents are expected in the next 20 years, 90% of them in developing countries […] Read more

After World War II, the Soviet Union bit off a large chunk of Eastern Poland and compensated for it by moving Poland’s border with Germany westward. When the German territories of Silesia and Pomerania thus became Polish, more than 3 million Germans fled or were expelled, but hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans remain. In […] Read more