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Bernard Ilsley - Psychic and clairvoyant. Offers readings and related materials.
Aston Young Firefighters Association - Youth organisation run by the West Midlands Fire Service based at Aston Fire Station.
Birmingham Irish - Irish community information including entertainment and noticeboard.
Birmingham Past and Present - Digital photographs and old postcards, with articles on history and heritage.
Birmingham Royal Navy Social Club - Welcomes ex-members of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines with associate members. Includes forthcoming events and photos of its memorabilia collection.
Birmingham Voluntary Service Council - Independent charity working to help promote and develop voluntary and community organisations in the city.
Birmingham's St Patrick's Day Parade - Large annual parade and street party. Information and guide for participants and visitors.
David Jenkins Appeal - Personal page appealing for funds to enable David to return to a Florida therapy centre for needed treatment.
Walmley Residents Association - Information on local events, news, and issues.
Race Equality West Midlands - The project arm of the Race Equality Forum, with FAQs.
Birmingham IVC - Informal organisation providing opportunities for social, cultural and recreational activities amongst young graduates, professional people and others of similar interests or like mind in the West Midlands.
Birmingham Anchor Telephone Exchange - History of the secret underground telephone exchange and tunnel complex.
Erdington Branch RNLI - Shows the work of the Erdington, Birmingham fund raising branch of the RNLI. Includes forthcoming events and Lifeboat News.
Rotary Club of Erdington St Barnabus - Provides contacts and an event diary.
Eye On Moseley - Tongue in cheek local news.
Moseley and District Churches Housing Association - An Association which only works in the south-east of Birmingham city centre providing good quality homes to rent, this gives a detailed explanation of their work and policies.
The Moseley Society - Building conservation charity, with events, current projects and newsletters.
Harborne Parish Lands Charity - Charity providing sheltered housing for the elderly, and offering grants, within Harborne and Smethwick.
Kings Heath Community Centre - Providesw information on the current events going on at the centre, the centre location, recent notices and the centre staff.
Birmingham Carers Association - Campaigns for carers rights and gives information and support to carers.
Sparkbrook Online - Web site for the local Counsellors. Includes an online advice surgery.
Stephen's Tour of the World - Personal homepage of Stephen Rogers describing some of the places he has lived in: Birmingham, currently.
Birmingham (UK) Perl Mongers - Perl programmers collective. Members, book reviews, events guide and relevant links.
Birmingham Wheels Park - A partnership between Birmingham City Council and West Midlands Probation Service which aims to develop young people's personal and social skills through the use of motor vehicles. The organisation also raises funding through other events such as races. Information about projects, events and activities such as Windsurfing on Wheels. Contact and location details.
Soroptimist International Birmingham West - Local chapter of an organisation for women in management and professions. includes information about club projects.
Brummie.org Online Community - A community resource for people living in the Birmingham area of England where local resources on jobs, housing, events and personal information can be offered and searched.
Castle Vale Housing Action Trust - Organisation established on Birmingham's largest post war housing estate to build a sustainable community living in high quality homes. Site provides details of the trust's activities and plans for the future.
Howlers Birmingham Urban Regeneration - Documenting the regeneration of Birmingham city centre through photography.
Open information 4 Birmingham - Information resource comissioned by the City Pride Board covering health, crime, employment, housing, education and community.
Birmingham Children's Fund - Government-funded project to improve children's lives. Includes news, contacts and details of projects funded.
Brum2600 - 2600 subsidiary; focuses on computer and telecoms security. Includes meetings archive, photographs, and links.
Moseley: Chantry Road and Park Hill Residents Association - Represents residents views on Planning Applications; and organises social and sporting activities. Includes historic information and security advice.
Warley Woods Community Trust - Aims to restore and maintain this urban parkland in Smethwick designed by landscape architect Humphry Repton. History, news, activities, notes for teachers, membership and committee.
Birmingham Womens Advice and Information Centre - Information, support and referral service for women. Provides details of domestic violence support services available in the area.
Sandringham Neighbourhood Watch - Includes newsletters and security advice.
The Birmingham Japan Society - Provides a meeting place for those interested in Japan, its people, culture, and language. Includes programme of meetings.
Birmingham Black History Month - Developing Black history as an educational tool for understanding and overcoming barriers to racial equality. Includes articles, news, and event schedules.
Birmingham Community Safety Partnership - Working together to reduce crime.
BRAP: Birmingham Race Action Partnership - Aims to tackle racial discrimination, disadvantage and social exclusion in the city of Birmingham.
1stA Birmingham Boys' Brigade - The North West Division of the Boys' Brigade in Birmingham.
Birmingham Youth Offending Service - A multi-agency service responsible for implementing the Government's youth justice reforms.
Responding to Conflict - Skills and Strategies for Peace - Provides advice, cross-cultural training, and longer-term support to people working for peace in societies affected or threatened by violent conflict.
Birmingham Organists' Association - A Registered Charity affiliated to the Incorporated Association of Organists. Includes calendar, special events, and featured organs.
Royal Society of St George - Promotes 'Englishness' and the English way of life. Includes aims and objectives, and details of events
Birmingham and District Local History Society - An umbrella group for the local history societies in and around the city. Includes newsletter and links to other societies.
Quinton Local History Society - A society with regular meetings and guest speakers. Includes newsletter and diary.
Kidz Like Danny - A charity in aid of autistic children. Includes details of fund-raising events.
South Birmingham Cats Protection Charity - Offering help and advice and cats for adoption. Homes wanted, fundraising, events and contact.
Balsall Heath Forum - Includes the neighbourhood development plan, as well as the web site of the Priory Estate Residents Group.
Fireside Day Centre - Drop-in centre offering friendship, hospitality and support to the homeless, unemployed or lonely. Details of services offered, opening times and volunteering opportunities.
Birmingham Friends of the Earth - Includes a newsletter and events diary.
Birmingham and Midlands Lesbian and Gay Switchboard - Local charity for the lesbian and gay community in and around the Midlands. Offers confidential advice on relationship, employment and welfare issues.
Selly Oak Liberal Democrats - Provides local election and campaign news.
Royal Society of Saint George - Birmingham Branch - Promotes 'Englishness' and the English way of life. Includes history and details of future events.
Birmingham National Trust Association - A voluntary association providing social events for National Trust members. Includes news and events calendar.
Supporting Independence From Alcohol - Offers a drop-in centre and other services to those with with alcohol related problems. Includes details of residential facilities.
Birmingham St. George's Day Association - Sponsors annual events to raise money for charities. Includes photo galleries of past events.
Birmingham Science Fiction Group - Meets monthly in the City Centre. Includes a calendar of past and future events, and contact details.
Millennium Foundation - Develops projects to strengthen or rebuild deprived neighborhoods. Includes details of projects and team members.
Barneshill Animal Home - Independent self funding branch of the RSPCA. Contains information on animals available for rehoming.
SureStart Chinnbrook Project - Provides services for children and parents in the Billesley area. Includes objectives, activity calendar, newsletter, and details of the training and facilities available. [PDF and Word document downloads]
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg. -- Abraham Lincoln 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. 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 I drink no more than a sponge. -- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Society and Culture While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Society and Culture Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. -- George Bernard Shaw It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember. -- Eugene McCarthy Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James Society and Culture The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. -- Oscar Wilde Society and Culture "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. -- Abbie M. Dale Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life. -- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Society and Culture Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue. -- Hermione Gingold Society and Culture "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares, assess randomi We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Society and Culture I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton What a difference there is between what we say and what we think. -- Racine Society and Culture "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. -- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it ha Society and Culture There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jeff Raskin Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling Society and Culture Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich! -- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana Society and Culture "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring. -- Alphonse Karr Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford Society and Culture Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein Society and Culture The gods too are fond of a joke. -- Aristotle Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Society and Culture Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. -- Sidney Goff Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. -- Anonymous There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi Society and Culture Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. -- August Strindberg Society and Culture He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches. - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon Society and Culture Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it. -- Alexandre Dumas fils Society and Culture I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. -- Linda Bowles, political columnist "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Society and Culture 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 "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Society and Culture
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