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Powys Association of Voluntary Organisations - Independent agency providing help and advice to voluntary organisations and community groups enabling them to work more effectively. [English/Welsh]
Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust - Information about the reserves, events and local wildlife.
Powys Army Cadet Force - Contains a summary of the work of this unit. Also includes information on joining and summer camp details.
Epynt disaster - Action group about the burning of animal carcasses at a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
Community Action Network - CAN is a mutual learning and support network for social entrepreneurs. Social Entrepreneurs are the equivalent of true business entrepreneurs but they operate in the social, not-for-profit sector building 'something from nothing' and seeking new and innovative solutions to social problems.
Powys Telecentres - A force to counter current social and economic trends by bringing the application of information, communications, office and Internet technologies closer to individuals, voluntary and community groups and businesses in rural Powys.
Powys Web - portal site for Powys, Wales - PowysWeb is a gateway site providing information about the County of Powys in Wales (UK). It provides a comprehensive guide web sites covering business, tourism, arts and crafts, places to visit, leisure and community activities in the region.
Powys County Archives - Contains opening times a message board and researchers information.
Powys Regeneration Partnership - Made of 165 organisations withthe aim to oversee economic, community and environmental regeneration throughout the county. Includes profile, description of objectives, project enquiry, and other funding.
UK 2001 - Personal pages with holiday photos.
Powys Challenge Trust - Works with offenders, defendants and those at risk of offending to reduce crime and reintegrate people within their communities. Information about volunteers and volunteering, bail support, funding, and policies.
Powys Digital History Project - Tells the history of six communities through original documents and photographs.
Welshpool and Llanfair Railway Society - Promoting this attraction which runs between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinon. One of the Great Little Trains of Wales narrow gauge railways located throughout the principality, with information about history, travel times, tickets, and nearby attractions.
The Packet-Boat 'Duchess Countess' Project - To build a replica of this canal packet-boat to near original as modern regulations allow. A community skills-training and jog-creation programme based on the Montgomery canal.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Society and Culture I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including: * Both of your socks should always be the same color * Or they should at least both be fairly dark -- Dave Barry During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. -- Soren Kierkegaard "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Society and Culture Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET? -- Michael Meissner Society and Culture Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness. -- Sigmund Freud You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Society and Culture The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him. -- Cher "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. -- Isadora Duncan Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Society and Culture A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him. -- Elbert Hubbard "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The course of true love never did run smooth. -- William Shakespeare Society and Culture "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. - Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa Society and Culture Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Libby Gelman-Waxner You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill Society and Culture Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like what you are getting. -- Anonymous Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. -- Frank Zappa Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it. -- Anonymous Society and Culture All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words Society and Culture If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom All television is children's television. -- Richard P. Adler It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. -- Tom Robbins Society and Culture "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read. -- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. -- Calvin Society and Culture "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains fa "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Society and Culture One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Society and Culture I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to run his, either. -- Anonymous "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Society and Culture "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) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Society and Culture Never eat more than you can lift. -- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "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 I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education. -- Wilson Mizner "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Society and Culture It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Society and Culture "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain Society and Culture You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now. -- Ha "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Society and Culture Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugl "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi Society and Culture I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. -- Abraham Lincoln blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Society and Culture
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