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Welsh European Funding Office - An executive agency of the National Assembly for Wales to manage all aspects of European Structural Fund Programmes in Wales, the Rural Development Plan and the Local Regeneration Fund.
GJW Cymru/Wales - Information on the National Assembly for Wales: powers, membership, business.
Wales Wide Web Unitary Authorities - Basic information about all of Wales' unitary authorities and links to the official websites.
West Wales European Centre - Part of a European network of 'carrefour' centres created to provide an accessible source of information about Europe.
Welsh Consumer Council - Includes news, current work, publications, staff, the Consumer Network, consumer and council information.
Countryside Council for Wales - Describes the work of the Government's statutory adviser on sustaining natural beauty and wildlife in Wales. Includes information on the practical work of the organisation.
Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales - Responsible for reviewing local government areas and electoral arrangements in Wales. Includes information about the Commission, news, puiblications, boundary reviews, electoral reviews, and community reviews. (English/Cymraeg)
Euro Taskforce for Wales - Information on the Euro for businesses in Wales. Site includes an "experiences" section where various case histories are reviewed.
National Assembly for Wales - Official information on the Welsh Assembly, its members and functions.
Wales Euro Info Centre - Provides information for small to medium size businesses in Wales, including information on grants and public procurement.
Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales (ACCAC) - Responsible for advising the National Assembly for Wales on all aspects of the school curriculum, examinations, assessment and vocational qualifications. (In English and Welsh.)
Local Government Data Unit - Aimed at improving the quality and availability of data relating to local authorities and their communities.
Welsh Development Agency (WDA) - Includes information for companies considering investing in Wales as well information about the country, its industries and the companies that are already established.
Local Government Ombudsman in Wales - An overview of the activities of the ombudsman, contact details, a printable complaint form, past annual reports in PDF format, and summaries of investigation reports. [English/Welsh]
BBC Wales - People's Assembly - Weekly political radio debate where the audience sets the agenda and questions.
Welsh Language Board - Describes the work of the board in promoting the Welsh language.
Gibbons, Brian - Labour Assembly Member for Aberavon.
Wales European Information Network - Information about European issues as they affect the nation, with directories of further resources and news. Supported by the European Commission Representation in the UK.
South Wales Probation Service - A guide to our organisation, which includes vacancies, contact information and statistics.
Gwent Probation Area - Bilingual information about job vacancies, services, research and performance.
Alun Cairns AM - Conservative Assembly Member for South Wales West and spokesman on Economic Develpoment and Transport.
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. - Helen Rowland Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with? -- Rita Rudner "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Government Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald "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) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner Government 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 I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. - Irvin S. Cobb In the end, everything is a gag. -- Charlie Chaplin The limits of my language means the limits of my world. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Government I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. -- Douglas Adams "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers Government Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences. -- Author Unknown We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Government No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living. -- Anon. Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb Government 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- ee cummings Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. -- Colin Greene The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. -- Henry Ford When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Government "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "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 We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. -- John Stuart Mill Government A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. -- Helen Rowland Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist. -- Aaron Machado There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson Government "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home. -- Betty Bender Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. -- T.S. Eliot Government "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another. -- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. -- Woody Allen Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Government Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw "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) Government The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. - Elbert Hubbard Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. -- Oscar Wilde One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry Ford Government You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence. -- Robert Frost If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana Government The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories. -- Stanislaw J. Lem I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age. -- Henry Kissinger Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken Government "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull Government 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 I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Now comes the mystery. -- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door. -- Heywood Brown If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Government "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office. -- Robert Frost "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Government Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any 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 Government Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. -- Gore Vidal "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Government "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. -- Hoshang N. Akhtar Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Government The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -- Laurence J. Peter Government
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