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Devon and Cornwall Police - The police are keen to promote community relations, and these pages include a message from the Chief Constable, the force's objectives and information on the work of a beat constable.
Tyr-Gwyr-Gweryn - The title means Land-Truth-People in the old Cornish Celtic language. There is an exploration of the political issues involved in being Cornish and the history that has led to the situation today.
The Cornish Stannary Parliament - The official site of this historic body revived in recent decades under the ancient Stannary Law. Information on the constitutional position of Cornwall, news of protest activity.
Cornwall against Globalisation egroup - Features a local message board.
Neighbourhood Watch Connect - Bringing together Neighbourhood Watch branches throughout the north of the county.
Cornwall Youth Service - Provides informal education activities.
Project St Piran - The Cornish flag is named after this patron saint of tinners. Describes project to recover buried oratory and establish a trust for Cornish heritage.
Cornwall County Scout Council - Information about beavers, cub scouts, scouts and rangers. Includes links to pack and troop websites throughout the UK.
John Weller - Conservative spokesman for North Cornwall give his opinion and aims regarding local issues.
Cornwall in Focus - A cornucopia of all things Cornish including geology, sport, language and the coastal path.
Cornwall County Fire Brigade - Provides services, information and advice for the local community on fire safety and prevention. Includes recruitment, station locations, training, and related links.
SOFA West Cornwall - Collects unwanted household items and redistributes at a low cost to those who need them. List areas and collection days.
Byrth Gorseth Kernow - The Gorseth of the Bards of Cornwall - Origins, history, ceremonies, archives and competitions.
Cornish Key - A citizen card with a photograph, processor and memory that will be used to store personal information for council officials and others to access when you use a service in Cornwall.
Paul Tyler MP - The Liberal Democrat M.P. for North Cornwall gives news, views and discusses issues. Includes surgery details.
Colin Breed MP - Liberal Democrat MP for South East Cornwall. Biography, gallery, surgeries, diary and news of activities and issues.
Cornish Tarot - Demelza Travers tarot card readings by email or post. Explains how it works and offers courses on reading.
Alan's Place - Includes Cornish recipes, place name pronunciation and translation, words and phrases, jokes and the All Things Cornish web ring.
Devon and Cornwall Japan Society - Society for the study and enjoyment of Japanese language and culture. Events, newsletter and courses.
Lollipop - Environmentally sound real nappies. Includes information on the real nappy project, on line sales and an appeal for nationwide part time agents.
Cornish American Heritage Society - American society hold gatherings and workshops, maintain a library and a register of members' interests as well as researching Cornish immigrants.
Cornwall Share - Confidential youth advice service with drop in offices in Penzance, Bodmin, Camborne and St Austell.
Cornwall Mine Rescue - Specialised underground rescue organisation. Offers lectures at schools, members' area and links.
Gay Cornwall - Health advice, gay communities and events, news and listings of gay friendly pubs, hotels, beaches and businesses.
UK Independence Party, Cornwall - Details of meetings and campaigns, news from Cornish branches and a page about the MEP, Graham Booth.
Naturism in Cornwall - An introduction to the facilities available, beach reviews and about naturism in general.
Homeless in Cornwall - Information about services for homeless young people in the county.
Council for Racial Equality in Cornwall - Supports ethnic, racial, religious and linguistic diversity in Cornwall. Events, constitution and contacts.
Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change - Tenant led regeneration organisation tackling issues connected with social conditions and the local environment. Details of projects, partners and contact information.
Cornwall Children's Fund - Project involving several bodies tackling the problems of disadvantaged children. Includes documents explaining the plan plus a site for children.
Mebyon Kernow - The Party for Cornwall - Progressive political party, campaigning for greater self-government for Cornwall. Policies, news, campaigns and comment.
Senedh Kernow - Campaign for a Cornish Assembly. Articles, speeches, news and prospectus.
Cornwall Rural Community Council - Charity working for local communities and the voluntary sector. Information on carer support, transport, credit unions, village halls, housing, money and environmental issues.
Cornwall and the Cornish - Lecturer in English literature provides photographs, folk songs, stories, history and Cornish poetry.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent... -- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported in a contemporary "American Scholar" 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. -- Martin H. Fischer Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood. -- Maya Angelou Society and Culture "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. -- Robertson Davies I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein Society and Culture A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's reall Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce Society and Culture You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose -- Jim Elliott Society and Culture Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders. -- P. J. O'Rourke "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy contests, but they keep the crowd's attention. -- Anonymous Society and Culture Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin Society and Culture Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Society and Culture I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Society and Culture "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u Society and Culture The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to. -- Mark Twain The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon. -- Giraudoux Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain Society and Culture "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Society and Culture Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. -- Alexander Pope The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. -- Buddha Society and Culture I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. -- Brendan Hills Society and Culture "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Society and Culture "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) The less their ability, the more their conceit. Ahad HaAm The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Society and Culture The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. -- Woodrow Wilson Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the moment. -- Robert Benchley Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan Society and Culture As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Society and Culture Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert Society and Culture Man and wife make one fool. Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and tomorrow aint as bad as it seems. -- Billy Joel Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx Society and Culture "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness. -- Elsa Schiapirelli I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon. - Bill Hirst Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Society and Culture "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Society and Culture
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