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Sheffield Wildlife Action Partnership - A partnership between Sheffield City Council and the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. Includes details of current projects and how to get invlolved.
Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind - Details of the services provided by this registered charity, a list of forthcoming events and information about ways to help the organisation.
The Children's Appeal - Registered charity which supports the work of Sheffield Children's Hospital. Includes details of current fund raising campaigns, information for patients and a brief history of the hospital.
Manor and Castle Community Information Network - Community information for the people of Manor, Castle and the surrounding area, including details of local schools and training facilities.
South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service - Red Watch - Pictures and news from the firefighters based at Sheffield Central Fire Station, including details of incidents which they have attended.
Sheffield Oddfellows - A society of people who providie social, financial and practical support for each other. Includes contact details, an events diary and a history of the organisation.
Sheffield & District Family History Society - Information about the group, publications, projects, and member interests.
Sheffield Hiking Dykes - Lesbian walking group for the Peak District. Walk list with clickable grid maps, journals of recent long walks, camping trips, photographs and links.
Norton House Country Club - Private members club, available for weddings, parties, private functions and corporate hire.
Tinsley Parents and Childrens Consortium - Provides training, childcare and health initiatives for Tinsley. Details of services available and contact information.
Chinese Book & Music List - Lists all the chinese books and audio cassettes currently available from libraries in the city.
Nether Edge Neighbourhood Group - A guide to facilities and services availabe in this district, as well as information about the area's history and details of the organisation's publications.
South East Sheffield Citizens Advice Bureau - Details of the services available, which include debt counselling and benefits advice. Includes contact details and information about volunteering.
Middlewood Winners - A registered charity working to improve the environment and facilities on the Winn Gardens estate in the north of the city. Includes details about the organisation and information about current projects.
Simunye - Details of this inter-cultural project based in Sharrow, which uses arts, music, movement and other forms of expression to bring people from different backgrounds together. Includes pictures of the group's cafe, project news and a discussion forum.
SheffieldForum.co.uk - Simple and easy to use discussion forum where people talk about Sheffield life, news, sport, nostalgia . Also includes a noticeboard and a general chatter area.
Between These Shores - Poetry and writing of A. C. Geraghty paired with photography of Dr. Phil C. Sidebottom.
Yemeni Refugee Organisation - Local group set up to offer help and support to refugees from the Yemen and elsewhere who now live in Sheffield. Information about the organisation's aims and objectives, current projects, a chat room and details of the group's newsletter.
Sheffield in Yorkshire and Tasmania Genealogy - Includes burial registers for St James, St Pauls and St Peter`s church.
Let's sort it...Sheffield - Details of this campaign to reduce the amount of rubbish produced in the city. Includes a guide to recycling, with details of local facilities.
Sheffield Help Yourself Database - Searchable database of community and voluntary groups in the city.
Sheffield Defend Council Housing - News and information on this campaign to stop the privatisation and demolition of the city's council housing.
Sheffield Autistic Society - A support group for parents who have sons or daughters with an Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Information about activities and contact details.
Friends of Firth Park - Community group that is improving the facilities and environment of the park.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. - General George Patton There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry. -- George Armstrong Custer My other wife is beautiful. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Society and Culture The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God. -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Victor Borge Society and Culture "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) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford Society and Culture Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Society and Culture The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter really Where there is love there is life. -- Gandhi "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for your face. -- Anita Wise The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper Society and Culture A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) 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) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "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) Society and Culture The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe. -- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. -- Aldous Huxley "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Society and Culture Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) 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 Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Society and Culture "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. -- Mike Adams "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that th Society and Culture If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -- Chekhov "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Society and Culture Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates. -- Seen on a bumper sticker "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Society and Culture Every child is born a genius. -- R. Buckminster Fuller For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. 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 Society and Culture Love is friendship set on fire. - Jeremy Taylor 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 Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can. -- Frank W. Woolworth Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The- Box. -- Wil Shriner blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Society and Culture Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins Society and Culture Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi Society and Culture blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. -- Voltaire Society and Culture It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Live truth instead of professing it. -- Elbert Hubbard "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society and Culture Call on God, but row away from the rocks. -- Indian proverb Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John F. Kennedy "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature. -- Samuel Butler "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Good friends are good for your health. -- Irwin Sarason Society and Culture When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. -- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Society and Culture
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