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Artskills - Artskills is a training organisation working with young unemployed people in the Dingle and Speke/Garston areas of Liverpool. The site contains information on various training projects and also a very informative section on drugs.
Lark Lane, Aigburth - Information including photographs (current and historical) of this colourful area of South Liverpool.
Liverpool Citizens Advice Bureau - Free, independent, confidential, impartial, advice for all regardless of age, gender, race, disability or sexuality.
The Hope Street Association - Voluntary organisation which actively brings together and promotes the arts, business, community, educational and religious interests of the Hope Street Quarter.
Wavertree and Gateacre Societies - Registered charities aiming to protect the amenities, environment and architectural heritage and study the local history of Liverpool's Wavertree and Gateacre districts.
The Gateacre Society - Aims to improve amenities, protect the environment, conserve the architectural heritage and study the local history of the Gateacre district of Liverpool
South Liverpool Rotaract Club - Social and community action group for 18 to 29 year olds based in Liverpool.
Liverpool Tales From the Mersey Mouth - Writing and opinion from various local authors.
Mersey Volunteer Bureau - The official site with information, advice and guidance on all aspects of volunteering issues in the Liverpool area.
Liverpool Pictorial - Photos of the city (arranged by location) and of local events, plus articles about local history, people and customs, and a noticeboard/forum.
Wavertree Garden Suburb - Information on the co-partnership origins, history, memories of residents, pictures and present-day Conservation Area policies.
Catenian Association. City of Liverpool Circle No 74 - A social group of Roman Catholic professional men. A dining circle who meet monthly.
Merseyside Play Action Council - Provides, and assists in the provision of, recreation facilities and activities for children and young people.
The Wavertree Society - Aims to improve amenities, protect the environment, conserve the architectural heritage and study the local history of the Wavertree district of Liverpool.
Liverpool and Districts CAMRA - Local branch of the Campaign for Real Ale. Information about events, activities, pubs and breweries, plus beer-related news and links.
Sure Start Speke - Partnership of those who offer or are in receipt of services to under 4s and their families, aiming to give every individual child in Speke the best start in life. Information about nurseries, support services, projects, events, child health, and games.
Sudley Area Residents' Association - Information about regular classes, hall hire, trips and events.
Alder Hey Rocking Horse Appeal - Raising funds to build a new oncology and outpatient building for Alder Hey Children's Hospital. Details of the appeal, supporters, progress and how to help.
A Scouser Story - True story about a false accusation, written as a way to apologize.
Local Solutions - Local charity providing training and community projects to improve quality of life. Information about their activities, newsletters, annual reports, and how to get involved.
Kirkdale Community Centre - Including the Kirkdale Online Centre. Information about IT courses, activities from football training to complimentary therapies, and historical photos of the area.
Liverpool Future - E-mail discussion group for all interested in the future of the city and its environment and architectural heritage.
Young Persons Advice Service - Offers a range of counselling and advice services. Includes information about their drop-in service, and accounts of current and past projects.
The Athenaeum - Private club and library. Information about the library, catering, membership, and the club's history.
North Liverpool Citizens Advice Bureau - Provide free, confidential, impartial advice to the community. Information about their aims and services, how you can help, and their projects for asylum seekers, refugees and prisoners.
SmartGroups: Liverpool Asylum Seeker and Refugee Support Group - Discussion and information for groups of refugees and asylum seekers, and those working with them.
The People's Centre - Provides facilities and services including education, advice on employment law, a children's centre and crèche, and meeting and function rooms. Site contains information about services and organisations using the centre.
Liverpool Network for Change - A charitable company which supports local voluntary and community groups. Advises on company and charity registration, fundraising and governance, and offers administrative support and training.
The Scouse House! Forum - Chatroom and message boards for general chat, jokes, memories, rants, football, news, music, TV, films, and searches for lost friends.
Downtown Liverpool Organisation - Promoting business and residential life in the city. Includes news and information about meetings.
Interchill - Project offering a free Internet, advice and counselling drop-in centre for the young people of Speke and Garston. Includes information about their clubs and activities.
Liverpool Partnership Group - Partnership of public, private, voluntary and community-sector organisations working to improve the economic and social prosperity of the city. Includes information and news about their aims, strategies and achievements.
Dockers - LabourNet site tracing the history and growth of the Dockers Movement, from its starting point at Liverpool Docks.
Sefton Park - Liverpool's largest park. Information about the park's history, wildlife, a map, and photos.
www.LarkLane.com - Site from the St Michaels and Lark Lane Community Association (SMLLCA). Includes information about their community centre, local businesses, and historical photos and memories.
New Start Homes - Non-profit organisation providing accommodation to the vulnerable and those with social problems. Information about their aims, successes and accommodation.
Mersey River Rescue - Information about the service, press releases, photo gallery, ways to donate, and their equipment.
We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution? -- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. -- Voltaire "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Society and Culture The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. -- Anonymous "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- François de La Rouch Society and Culture Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. -- G. K. Chesterton The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken Society and Culture The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, Society and Culture A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I don't know and If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw Society and Culture Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Society and Culture "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another. -- Kenny Ausubel The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud Cliches should be avoided like the plague. -- Anon. The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -- George Benard Shaw The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Society and Culture When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncl It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. -- G. K. Chesterton What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler Society and Culture "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky Society and Culture "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. - Lewis Perelman Society and Culture "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Society and Culture Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. -- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. -- Ernest Dimnet When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken Society and Culture If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Society and Culture The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time Society and Culture Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. --Anon. "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Society and Culture "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally desparate to get out. -- Di Peatlins Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill Society and Culture The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Society and Culture Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace. -- Satya Sai Baba Society and Culture When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. -- Allen Ginsberg "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Society and Culture Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time. -- inside of a Pepsi cap ...the fog is rising. -- Emily Dickinson, dying words Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace. -- Amelia Earhart Society and Culture "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got. -- Josh Billings Society and Culture
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