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The Scottish Executive - Scottish politics, reports, consultations and government office publications from the devolved government of Scotland, plus the civil servants code of conduct and First Minister's question time.
South of Scotland European Partnership - Consists of representatives from various local and national agencies, including the public sector, voluntary organisations, education and training agencies, tourism sector and environmental agencies. Lists group news and information.
Scottish Elections - The Scottish Parliamentry Election Website
Tagish's Essential Directory of UK Information Sources - Tagish's Essential Directory, comprehensive and up-to-date directories of UK Government Contact Information on the Web
General Registers Office for Scotland - Registrar of births, marriages and deaths for Scotland. Provides information for researchers and genealogists.
Orkney and Shetland Valuation Joint Board - Information on council tax, non-domestic rates and electoral registration.
Boundary Commission for Scotland - Non-departmental public body which reviews and advises on the parliamentary boundaries in Scotland. Brief information about the Commission, maps of its Review Areas and the text of its recommendations are available.
Scottish Executive Inquiry Reporters Unit: Planning Appeals - Responsible for processing planning, enforcement, listed building, conservation area and other environmental appeals in Scotland.
Land Registers Scotland - The Official Register of Land and Property in Scotland
The National Archives of Scotland - Holds records spanning the 12th to the 21st centuries, touching on virtually every aspect of Scottish life.
Scottish Freedom - Discussion of Scottish politics, elections and culture.
Scottish Enterprise - Scotland's main economic development agency, funded by the Scottish Executive. Provides online support and skills development assistance to local enterprises and jobseekers.
Scottish Asylum Seekers Consortium - Manages and monitors the commissioning and provision of accommodation and other services for asylum seekers in Scotland. Includes details of projects and news.
Lothian Valuation Joint Board - Electoral registration, council tax and valuation information for Edinburgh and the Lothians.
Public Tenders - Information on public sector tendering in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland. including EU procurement rules and thresholds.
Institute of Governance - The Institute of Governance at the University of Edinburgh provides a range of research, education and expertise on issues of relevance to constitutional change and policy related work.
Scottish Affairs - Scottish Affairs is the definitive forum for comment and debate on all matters concerning Scottish current affairs.
Regional Selective Assistance Scotland - Provides information on a national grant scheme, aimed at encouraging investment and job creation in the areas of Scotland designated for regional aid under European Community Law.
European Information Relay for Scotland - Information about European issues as they affect the region, with directories of further resources and news. Supported by the European Commission Representation in the UK.
Scottish Social Services Council - The regulatory body for the Scottish social services workforce. News and contact details.
Office of the Queen's Printer for Scotland - Includes Scottish Legislation and Official Gazettes, Acts of the Scottish Parliament, and other statutory instruments.
Communities Scotland - Communities Scotland works on behalf of Ministers to promote social justice and tackle exclusion through the delivery of sustainable community regeneration
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." ( Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture. -- Aldous Huxley Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job. -- Anonymous Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington Government Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Government "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -- Anatole France It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. -- Emiliano Zapata Government blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses. -- Lord Dewar Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Government Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- Steven Wright I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. -- John Cage Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne Government Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- Anonymous Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. -- Wernher von Braun There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa Government Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. -- Josh Billings The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. -- Virginia Woolf Government "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. -- Thomas Carlyle A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Government Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. -- George bernard Shaw Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb Government "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Government The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character. -- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order. -- Brian Pickrell Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it." -- Jerry Seinfeld Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. -- Linda Bowles, political columnist Government When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat. -- Henry Miller Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. -- Anthony Burgess The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. -- Mark Russell Government "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Government Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. -- James Lowell What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Government May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. -- Anonymous I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign. -- Mae West The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. -- Cicero I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Government Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end. -- Igor Stravinsky "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh Government I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. -- Robert G. Ingersoll Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) 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 Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a Government Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job will cost. -- Anon The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein Government I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers 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 Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Government Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it. -- Anon. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. -- Mark Twain Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson Government Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football. -- John Heisman One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Government Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides Government
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