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Alston CyberMoor - Information about the creation of this 'wired up' community project from Voluntarty Action Cumbria.
Internet Revolution for Deprived Areas - Article from Society Guardian, March 16th 2001, about a scheme aimed at preventing the emergence of a "digital underclass" by providing internet and digital access to 12,000 homes in six deprived communities across England, including Alston.
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Sacha Guitry I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. -- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston Society and Culture The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Society and Culture Flowers are words which even a baby can understand. -- Arthur C. Coxe To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Society and Culture The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life. -- "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Society and Culture When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. -- P. J. O'Rourke It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. -- Oscar Wilde I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. -- Katharine Hepburn Society and Culture No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin Society and Culture Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. --Don Galer "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then." -- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert Society and Culture "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.' -- Bierce, A I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved. -- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Society and Culture If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. -- Benjamin Franklin When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow Society and Culture "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture. -- Anatole France Society and Culture Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous Society and Culture Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. -- Typewriting exercise For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain. -- Lyster History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte Society and Culture "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig Society and Culture Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West Society and Culture I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're the boss." -- Anonymous Society and Culture I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein Society and Culture "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. -- Oscar Wilde I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb Society and Culture Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. -- David Starr Jordan Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it. -- Theodore Roosevelt Society and Culture This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Sir Winston Churchill CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Society and Culture "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Society and Culture And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. -- Joseph Addison "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Society and Culture The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. -- Niels Bohr This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell Society and Culture
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