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Contract ID: RM1502
Start Date: 16/05/2013
End Date: 15/12/2017
The ConsultancyONE framework agreement (RM1502) has been extended until 15 December 2017.
Customers should note the extension is outside of the original OJEU term for ConsultancyONE.
The extension provides customers with a continuity of service until the Management Consultancy framework agreement (RM3745) is live. Further information and updates on RM3745.
ConsultancyONE provides strategic, broad based advice across a wide range of disciplines and functions to support, guide and provide innovative solutions to public sector customers.
Services have been categorised into 15 lots and guidance on selecting the appropriate lot is available in the "Documents" tab which also contains a supplier matrix and call-off terms and conditions.
Customer support
If you feel you would benefit from a general overview of the agreement and how to use it to encourage best practice and maximise results and savings for your organisation's consultancy spend we can arrange a call with you.
During the call we will discuss with you:
- What ConsultancyONE can do for you
- Scope, lot structure and rates
- How to run an effective further competition
- How to work with your supplier
- Support available
Sessions can be arranged at dates/times to suit you. If you would like to arrange a suitable time for a call, or would like to know more, please email advisory.services[at]crowncommercial.gov[dot]uk.
- Efficiency - quick and simple to access: we have carried out a tender process compliant with the EU Public Contract Regulations, saving valuable resources and time for customers with greatly reduced procurement timescales.
- Best practice procurement: the framework has been through a rigorous procurement process, benefiting from the great wealth of knowledge and vast experience of category and sourcing experts within CCS and across the public sector to encapsulate customer requirements.
- Standard pre-agreed terms and conditions: suppliers have pre-agreed a standard set of terms and conditions for call off agreements placed under the framework.
- Quality: supplier experience, expertise and commitment to quality have been assessed during the procurement process when establishing the framework.
- Choice of suppliers: wide choice of capable suppliers from large multi-national companies to SMEs. This is the first time SMEs have access, via a framework, to multi-specialism programme delivery advice opportunities. Over 40% of suppliers are SMEs.
- Central management of framework and suppliers: framework suppliers are managed centrally by us.
- Savings: ConsultancyONE is set to deliver £40m of savings annually, compared to the prices currently paid on existing frameworks. 93% of all the ConsultancyONE maximum rates (per grade per day) are below the average published Multi-Disciplinary Consultancy rates. Further monetary savings can be achieved through changes in buying behaviours, fully utilising the diverse range of framework suppliers, including SMEs, in order to deliver best value.
To access the agreement, please first read the customer guidance notes, see the call-off terms and conditions and order form and note the High Level Evaluation Criteria for the framework.
Whilst the framework agreement is available for use by all parts of the public sector (as defined in the OJEU notice), for central government organisations - departments, arm's length bodies (ALBs) and non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) - this framework is the mandated route for the procurement of consultancy services within scope, between £100k and £2m in value. Requirements below £100k and above £2m should be procured via different procurement routes.
There are no value restrictions for wider public sector organisations.
Further competition
All call-off contracts should be awarded via a further competition process.
Central government
If you are an onboarded central government customer, the further competition process will be managed by us on your behalf.
Central government organisations will operate in line with the following roles and responsibilities:
Headline Role / Responsibility
Wider Public Sector
You should manage the further competition process in accordance with your own requirements and processes, and are encouraged to use our eSourcing tool.
To do this, you must issue an RFX to all service providers capable of meeting the requirement by inviting them to submit proposals.
The RFX should:
- Specify a fixed time limit for submission of proposals (the time limit should be of sufficient duration to allow proposals to be submitted, taking into account factors such as the complexity of the services, the requirement and the time needed to compile and submit a proposal).
- Seek proposals for fulfilling the requirement, including agreement to any special terms proposed by you.
- Contain a copy of the order form, completed as if it were the order to be placed.
- State if a reverse auction is to be held.
You should then evaluate the proposals received and notify all invited service providers of the outcome.
Place the resulting order with the service provider who has submitted the most economically advantageous tender.
The high- level evaluation criteria must match those used when tendering for the framework and be grouped under the following headings:
- Proposed approach 60% - 80%
- Whole life costs 20% - 40%
Sub-criteria can then be placed under these two headings, specific to your requirements.
Under the terms of the framework agreement the charges (maximum day rates) have beeen fixed (or in some cases reduced) for the entire framework period from the commencement date.
There are 6 suppliers who are common between the Multi Disciplinary Consultancy (MDC) framework and ConsultancyONE Lot 1- Multi Specialism Programme Delivery. Comparing the rates of these 6 suppliers only, who account for 81% of MDC spend, on a weighted basket of grades, indicates that the maximum day rates for Lot 1 are an average of 21% lower than the published framework day rates for MDC.
For 4 of these 6 suppliers, maximum rates for Lot 1 are significantly less than the actual day rates paid for MDC, by between 18% and 36%
Of the 120 comparable*rates for ConsultancyONE and MDC - 93% of the Maximum framework rates for ConsultancyONE rates are lower than average MDC framework rates .*(no "Trainee" grade on MDC)
To demonstrate the cash savings benefit associated with using the framework, we identify actual rates paid by customers for work carried out using the framework and other routes to market (ie following further competition) and compare prices paid per grade/per day to the baseline established for 2009/10 pricing.
We are leading the transformation of central government procurement through the centralisation, standardisation and aggregation of spend on common goods and services, to deliver sustainable cost reductions across central government.
The ConsultancyONE framework agreement is the procurement vehicle for this transformation for business and management consultancy and related services and is the mandatory route for projects within scope between £100k and £2m for Central Government customers.
For all customers, central government and wider public sector, the overarching objective for this procurement was to create a fully compliant "best in class" national framework providing access to a choice of credible suppliers who will provide quality services, drive innovation, aggregation and deliver maximum savings. This will create a route to market which will support the ERG agenda for aggregated spend, whilst providing better control, governance and visibility of consultancy expenditure.
The Government has successfully committed to ensuring that small organisations and businesses can compete fairly with bigger companies for its contracts, with 27% of first phase suppliers being SMEs.
In addition, SMEs have been awarded places on lots which have historically been dominated by large firms; for example in the multi-specialism delivery advice lot 25% of providers are SMEs.
The ConsultancyONE framework agreement was developed to facilitate the centralised consultancy category strategy and has been approved by both the HMG Chief Procurement Officer and the Commercial Directors in each of the 17 main Central Government Departments.
A cross government Procurement Project Team was created to ensure the procurement delivers the approved strategy for the consultancy category and is compliant, efficient and effective. It managed stakeholder engagement, approved documents and delivered all decisions in relation to actions required for a compliant procurement, project success and policy implementation.
The procurement team designed and delivered the procurement and evaluation strategy up to and including, sign off, drafting of PQQ / ITT documents, issue of the OJEU notice and award of framework agreements. The team identified and managed both the strategic and operational risks in relation to the procurement activities, escalating as required. The team ensured successful stakeholder engagement throughout the procurement project life cycle.
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|Policy Development and Advice
|Professional Services
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|Organisational Strategy
|Professional Services
|20 - click here to view suppliers
|Change Management (PPM)
|Professional Services
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|Human Resources Management
|Professional Services
|15 - click here to view suppliers
|Professional Services
|10 - click here to view suppliers
|Information & Communications Technology
|Professional Services
|15 - click here to view suppliers
|Corporate Finance and Financial Strategy
|Professional Services
|15 - click here to view suppliers
|Investment and Banking Services
|Professional Services
|8 - click here to view suppliers
|Finance Operations Support
|Professional Services
|12 - click here to view suppliers
|Economic Analysis
|Professional Services
|10 - click here to view suppliers
|Internal Audit and Advice
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|Other Assurance and Advice
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Sole possession of first place in the Eastern Conference will be up for grabs on Saturday night when the New England Revolution visits the Philadelphia Union at PPL Park.
The Revs (5-3-2, 17 pts.) enter the weekend tied for the top spot in the East with Sporting Kansas City. A win or draw against the Union (2-5-5, 11 pts.) would lift the Revs into sole possession of first place, before Sporting KC visits the Chicago Fire on Sunday afternoon.
Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Saturday night, with Comcast SportsNet and 98.5 The Sports Hub covering the action.
Current Form: Red-hot Revs hit the road in search of fourth straight win
Unbeaten in five (4-0-1) and winners of three straight, the Revs could make a claim as Major League Soccer's hottest team entering this weekend's action. They've been doing the job on both sides of the ball during their current run, outscoring opponents 12-2 in the last five matches.
WATCH: First-half outburst helps Revs roll over league-leading Sounders
"I think it's been a great effort by everyone," said goalkeeper Bobby Shuttleworth. "Everyone's taking care of their responsibilities and we've taken our chances when we've gotten them. So it's a credit to all the guys for putting in their shifts and getting their jobs done."
Philadelphia heads into Saturday night's meeting on short rest after traveling midweek to face Sporting KC. The Union received an important boost in that match, however, snapping a club-record nine-game winless run with a 2-1 victory over the defending champs.
WATCH: Maidana's late goal lifts Union to slump-busting victory in Kansas City
"We know they have great players and they [were] just going through that rough patch," said Darrius Barnes. "It can happen at any point in this league and that's something that we have to be cautious of; the tide can turn at the snap of your finger, so we have to be ready."
Past Meetings: Revs aiming to snap string of four straight losses at PPL Park
Chester, Pa., has never been the most hospitable spot for the Revs, who are winless in six all-time visits to the Union's home (0-4-2), including four straight losses spanning the past two-and-a-half seasons.
New England's most recent setback at PPL Park occurred just two months ago, when Sebastien Le Toux's first-half goal sent the Revs to a 1-0 loss in their second game of the season.
WATCH: Le Toux's goal, MacMath's shutout lift Union over Revs
"They're difficult to play at home," said Shuttleworth. "We've struggled to get results there and we're 100 percent thinking about what our responsibilities are and what we have to do to be able to go in there and get three points."
Injury Report: Rowe back in the mix; Goncalves inching closer to a return
An added bonus of last weekend's 5-0 win over Seattle Sounders FC was the return of Kelyn Rowe, who played the final 20 minutes after missing six games with a left hamstring strain.
READ: Rowe aims to gradually work his way back into the lineup
Captain and reigning MLS Defender of the Year Jose Goncalves is close to a return, as well, as he eases his way back into training having missed the past four games with a right quad strain.
"He's comfortable, he's strong," head coach Jay Heaps said of Goncalves. "It's good to have him back again this week and continuing to get into the contact drills. I think this week will be an important week for him."
It's unclear whether Goncalves will be ready to return for Saturday's visit to PPL Park, but the picture is (unfortunately) a little more certain for Kevin Alston (L hamstring strain) and Shalrie Joseph (L calf strain), both of whom are listed as "out" on the official injury report.
The Union will be short a pair of starters on Saturday as both Maurice Edu (U.S. National Team duty) and Fabinho (yellow card accumulation) will be unavailable, while little-used Corben Bone will also be suspended. Philadelphia's midfield could be further shorthanded if Brian Carroll can't recover from the left groin strain which kept him out of the midweek win over Sporting KC.
Final Thoughts: Revs take pride in their recent defensive resolve
"We definitely want to have that mentality that we don't want to give anything up," said Barnes, referencing the Revolution's recent defensive efforts. "We don't want to be one of those teams where teams kind of plan around us and say they're easy to play through. We want to have that grit and that tenacity that if you're going to get a goal, you're going to earn it."

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Betty DeGeneres, who will surely go down as one of the most supportive parents of a gay daughter in history, recently broke her back but she is recovering, according to a Tweet from her ultra-famous daughter Ellen DeGeneres.
Thanks for all the love & support for my mama! She broke her back but she's recovering at home. Send her a message here say.ly/cdm4fwB
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) September 26, 2012
Ellen also Tweeted a link for fans to send supportive notes to her mother, who's stood by her side before and since her very public coming out in 1997.
An active member of PFLAG and the first non-gay spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign's Coming Out Project, Betty has become a welcomed fixture at LGBT events throughout the years. She is also the author of two books Love, Ellen: A Mother Daughter Journey and Just a Mom. Here's wishing Betty a swift recovery. Send messages of support to Betty here.
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Nutrition and Ageing
Nutrition and Ageing
Newcastle University's research into nutrition and ageing has led to two high-profile BBC TV appearances, as well as closer relationships with New Product Development teams.
Sector: Healthcare
BBC's popular science programmes 'Bang Goes the Theory' and the 'One Show' both featured the work of a PhD student at Newcastle University. The student is researching ways that people could help protect themselves against skin ageing and damage from UV rays in sunlight – by eating foods rich in anti-oxidants.
The high-profile PhD work is part funded by Unilever, the consumer products giant, via a CASE (Collaborative Award in Science and Engineering) Studentship. These Studentships are part of Newcastle University's extensive engagement with business.
By contributing to the cost of a Studentship, a business can gain access to research expertise for new product development. The student will spend up to four years working on ideas that could potentially become successful profit-makers for the business.
The funding helps pay for on-going investment in leading-edge equipment. Further benefits for Newcastle University include increased opportunities for consultancy on development of new products.
Professor Mark Birch-Machin, who currently supervises a number of CASE Studentships, says: "There is great synergy when Newcastle University works together with industrial partners, so that the outcomes are more valuable than the sum of what each of us can do on our own."
And with an on-going stream of CASE Studentships, there's plenty of scope for Newcastle University's research to appear on many more TV programmes in the future.


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To see the world and understand its creatures
I love to travel and I can't get enough! I am a seasoned traveler. I bring a musical instrument with me everywhere I go. I love to dance, do massage, cook. I love showing people around my hometown too.
I love Burning Man, I am into Kink, I can tell a story, and a joke. I enjoy sharing experiences with people of the world. A person who is not well traveled is not well educated!
Only in this world for a short time. By his self a man is useless. Self expression is only self indulgence if one has nothing to express. Only by truely living will one be able to face death. Only one who is willing to die is ready to live. Only one who is awake has free will.
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Movies: Meetings with Remarkable Men, The horse and Carriage, Secretary, What the Bleep Do We Know, The Elegant Universe, Star Wars (first trilogy), Fight Club, the Matrix, and yes Avatar.
Music: Goth, Industrial, EBM, World Music, Irish, Hindustani, Iranian, Balkan, Norse, Finish, Metal, Folk Metal, Neo-Folk, Medieval, Medieval Fusion, Punk.
Books: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, In Search of the Miraculous, Lords of the Left Hand Path, The Agora Books, The Bhagavad Gita, The Upanishads, The Poetic Edda, The Prose Edda, The Emrald Tabled of Hermes.
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I have traveled much of the western world as a fortuneteller. I have hitched from Germany to Ireland, and Arctic Scandinavia. Roamed and Studied in India. Worked on a cruise ship in the mediteranian. Lived and worked in a youth hostel for 5 years. Plan on making some more stories to tell.
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The Gut Balance Revolution: Boost Your Metabolism, Restore Your Inner Ecology and Lose the Weight for Good!
Balance Your Gut Flora and Lose Excess Weight — Fast and Forever!
Stifle those fat-forming gut bugs and turn on the probiotic fat-fighting flora with a revolutionary new diet program designed to reboot, reseed and renew your inner ecology.
Mullin's promise of quick, sustainable weight loss through practices that also combat chronic health problems and discourage disease will have many readers lining up to devour this sensible guide.
— Publisher's Weekly
If you've been struggling to lose weight and keep it off, your imbalanced gut microbiome has been working against you. Using a three-phased, scientifically proven, step-by-step plan, you'll flip the switch that reshapes your body by transforming your digestive system into a fat-melting machine.
Integrative Gastroenterology
Recent statistics show that gastrointestinal complaints account for nearly a third of all visits to primary care doctors and that nearly one in six Americans suffer from digestive disease.
In this volume, an international panel of leading experts provides a wealth of information for health care practitioners and consumers on the rationale, methods, modalities, and efficacy of integrative solutions for gastrointestinal disorders.
Coverage includes a diverse range of treatment methods, such as meditation, massage, yoga, supplements, special diets, energy medicine, homeopathy, and acupuncture, as well as a special section devoted to mind-body medicine in digestive health and disease. In discussing unconventional treatments, the authors address many of the controversies that surround the remedies.
Integrative Weight Management: A Guide for Clinicians
This volume is structured into 4 sections: Introduction to Weight Management Disorders; Morbidity and Mortality of Obesity; Therapy of Obesity; and Integrative Medicine and Obesity.
Integrative Weight Management: A Guide for Clinicians intends to educate physicians and nutritionists about the wide ranges of approaches to weight control from non-traditional sources. The options for weight management in conventional practices are limited to a small number of medications, a confusing array of dietary approaches, and surgical procedures with their inherent risks and complications. Unfortunately, medical practitioners are not exposed to nutrition and weight control principles during training and thus are reluctant to manage their patients' weight control issues.
Integrative Weight Management: A Guide for Clinicians represents a powerful collaboration of dozens of leading experts in the fields of nutrition, weight management and integrative medicine who have managed countless numbers of patients and summarized the research from thousands of articles to create an up-to-date, state-of-the-art guide for healthcare practitioners, allied health professionals and public health authorities who manage those who are overweight/obese along with the associated metabolic consequences


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Expanding your use of local anesthetics (Proceedings)
May 01, 2011
Local anesthetics were once a mainstay of pain management in veterinary medicine, and may now be one of the most under-utilized modalities. Administered locally or regionally, they are the only modality that renders complete anesthesia to a site, i.e. no transmission of nociceptive impulses as long as the drug exerts its effect. Initially used as a means of desensitizing tissues in order to "invade" tissues with scalpels; local anesthetics are enjoying a rebirth as powerful tools to prevent or reduce perioperative pain (as well as procedural and even chronic pain) and to reduce general anesthetic and concurrent analgesic (especially systemic opioid) requirements. There is no longer a reason to hold an "either-or" position; "for surgery either I use local anesthetics or I use general anesthesia", in fact, there are many reasons to combine general and local anesthetic for surgical pain relief.
Overdose of local anesthetics can be fatal, and so observation of reported dose rates and careful calculation should allow their safe use. Recall that motor and autonomic nerves are also blocked by local anesthetics, and so motor weakness and vasodilation may occur with certain techniques. Blockade of essential nerve function, like that of phrenic nerve, or high epidural blocks, should be avoided. Motor weakness or paralysis of limbs, from spinal or major nerve trunk blockade is transient and as long as the patient is protected from injury and undue stress, should not be of consequence. A commonly held misconception is that local anesthetics impair wound healing – although they can powerfully inhibit the inflammatory component of cellular tissue influx, there is no evidence to support impaired wound healing. Both bupivacaine and ropivacaine have been implicated in myotoxicity, although it appears that this has not been listed as a complication in most human studies where these drugs were infused for 24 – 36 hours postoperatively into a wound bed. With proper technique and avoidance of needle induced trauma, local anesthetics can be used without the fear of negative effects on healing. Safe doses for dogs has been reported as 4 mg/kg and for cats, 0.5 mg/kg, though anecdotally, higher doses are in usage. The duration of activity can reportedly be doubled with small amounts of an opioid, either morphine or buprenorphine.
Locoregional applications
The locality of administration is often limited only by the clinician's ability to learn various utilities and anatomic landmarks; few are outside the scope of any clinician to master. They include, but are not limited to local line or paraincisional blocks, regional blocks such as carpal ring, dental nerve, and intercostal blocks, subcutaneous diffusion blocks, testicular blocks, intra-articular blocks, and epidurals. Facet blocks are commonly used in humans though not yet described in veterinary medicine, although recently a paravertebral block was described for dogs.


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Christian Graves is the chef at Jsix, Hotel Solamar's well-regarded restaurant. He's also a home brewer and a generous man -- and that's a recipe for trouble.
The hotel has a nightly "wine hour," from 5 to 6 p.m., when guests gather in the lobby for a free glass of red or white. A devoted beer fan, Graves thought it would be nice to add his home brew to the mix. He brought in 15 gallons of the stuff and began giving it away to guests, figuring this was hospitable and allowable.
"I thought since it's home brew and we are giving it away, it had to be legal," he said. Pause. "Apparently, it's very illegal."
That's because he was using a "public space" to hand out his beers.
Graves brought his ales home, but the spirit of this venture stayed at the hotel. Now, Thursday night at Hotel Solamar includes a craft beer hour, featuring a different commercial beer every week.
"On Thursdays, I now go out there and pour beer for an hour along with the wine," Graves said. "This is a way to connect to people, and I wanted to expose people to good beer>"
This Thursday, July 26, the beer is Lost Abbey's Devotion, a Belgian-style pale ale.
Interested guests have to show their key card -- and refrain from asking for a sample of the chef's special brew.


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This great offer from Vistaprint ends tonight! If you're working on getting your children's Valentines done this weekend, take a few minutes and create these super cute custom Valentine's from Vistaprint for less than you would pay at the grocery store.
These are so cute! Order 30 free customized Valentine's Day Cards from Vistaprint . . . you pay only shipping. These are so much cuter than the packaged ones you buy at the store, plus they'll be personalized with your child's name on them. If you have little ones too young to write a long list of names plus their own, this is a great way for them to only have to write the recipients name!
You will have to pay $4.95 in shipping, but I that's about the price you'd expect to pay at the grocery store, and these are completely customized with dozens of fun options to choose from. Head on over and take a peek at all the great options available!


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Teresa and Donald Allen celebrate 55th wedding anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Allen of Lake View celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary with a renewal of marriage vows in Blessed John Paul II Catholic Church, Lake View, followed by a family brunch in Cala's Kitchen, Derby. Mr. Allen and Teresa A. Nebrich were married Aug. 30, 1958, in St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church, Buffalo. He is a retired electrician for Ford Motor Co. They have four children, four grandchildren and a great-grandchild.


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Todd, a geriatric Corgi, got his collar hung in the willows of the creek we named Daisy Creek because no one else had taken the initiative to name it something else. Steve, local seller of fine books, jumped in like a Marine—"Semper Fi!"—and untangled the old dog very shortly before he would have drowned. A toast to Steve! Roxy is here, Tim and Carol's Australian who doesn't give eight eggs for Daisy's juvenile antics. Bluebell the cowpie-eating Poodle. Oakley, the rich-kid papered Golden Retriever puppy named after the expensive sunglasses; Daisy would periodically roll Oakley for measure, letting him know who was in charge of this camp. And Daisy's favorite, Abbey, a cow dog/Labrador puppy that could be Daisy's sister, only with her long black tail intact. She is a ski/trail running dog from the Driggs, Idaho, pound. The two of them, a brace of bat-eared hellcat, ripped through the crowd and barbecued beans, upending bottles of beer and knocking over children in a less-graceful canine impression of a Shriner's circus. As I watched this posse of New West dogs I realized that these nonworking "working dogs" (as they are called at Westminster) did not lose their sand after we stole them away from the ranches that are becoming fewer by the year; they very easily turned into "play dogs," a class not yet recognized by the kennel clubs. Perhaps I'm biased, but I'll argue that play dogs with cow dog blood in them—Heelers, Shepherds, Kelpies, Collies—play harder than the ubiquitous Huskies, Labs and lap dogs.
This lasted three beers long, when the dogs both collapsed, Abbey having to be carried to the car by her owner, Carrie, a Jackson Hole outdoor athlete and purveyor of bagels. None of the dogs harassed the Pulitzer Prize winner. Count it a good night and a job well done.
Daisy and I don't use the outhouse to whiz. I pee in the weeds. Beside me, Daisy pees in the weeds. Peeing, we look at each other in the light of the quarter moon. There is an understanding: We are lucky to be here, under the stars, at elevation, with the birds and bats and mosquitoes. I am not a baseball player. You are not sorting cattle on a working ranch. We are lucky just to be here, peeing in the weeds. Tomorrow we'll go fishing.
This story appears in Dog Is My Co-Pilot, an anthology compiled by the Editors of Bark and published by Crown. © Jon Billman.
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'Ghostbusters 3′ Set To Be Released In 2014- Dirty Laundry
'Ghostbusters 3' finally seems ready to begin filming, and even has a release date in 2014. Director Ivan Reitman explained that Sony Pictures is planning to a start of production on 'Ghostbusters 3′ coming up next summer.We've been hearing rumors about 'Ghostbusters 3' release date for some time now. But there is a ton of truth to this story.
For one, Reitman himself believed enough in the 'Ghostbusters 3′ start date that he had to pass on another movie he was developing (the NFL drama 'Draft Day' starring Kevin Costner) because he wouldn't be able to fit it in before next summer's planned shoot. That project is now in turnaround and it looks like it won't happen until after the big 'Ghostbusters 3′ project."
2014 we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the orginal Ghostbusters being released. Word has it that the Ghostbusters will hand off the proton packs to a younger group of 'Busters.
Would you like to even see this film at all?
Celebrity Of The Day
Lets honor the Ghostbusters.
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Award-winning, internationally-acclaimed American artist Mel Chin opens the 2014-2015 season at Rowan University Art Gallery with 'Disparate Acts,' an exhibition that showcases the artist's diverse work through many forms and directions. The exhibit runs September 2 - November 1, 2014. An artist's lecture will be held September 17 at 5:00 p.m. in Westby Hall Room 111, followed by a reception in the gallery until 7:30 p.m.
All moved in but tired of looking at blank walls? Keep Calm and Shop On! Come out to the Back Patio and sort through hundreds of posters, frames, and decorative pieces for your dorm or apartment. In case of inclement weather, the event will be held in the Pit.
Rowan University Art Gallery kicks off its 2014-2015 season with internationally-acclaimed activist artist Mel Chin's exhibit showcasing his efforts to raise awareness of political and social injustices and inconsistencies through numerous artistic forms.
Join us in the Student Center Ballroom to watch Godzilla on a large projected screen. The event is free and includes popcorn and a soda! There is a raffle for movie posters and best seat in the house as well.


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OverviewEither this area is the end of the western Pyrenees or the beginning of the Central Pyrenees, the end of the green valleys of Navarra or the beginning of the high mountains over two thousand meters. Or both things, why not? The final valleys in northeast Navarra (Salazar, Roncal and the smaller Belagua, Belabarce and Mintxate) give way to the province of Huesca as the huge limestone mass of Ezkaurre appears in the hikers' horizon. On the other side of the provincial limit peaks are higher, riskier and colder and the rounded green summits of the lower Salazar and Roncal disappear. The local giant is Bisaurín (2668 m), but some other summits also go over 2400 meters: Mesa de los Tres Reyes, Soum Couy, Anie...
Roncal, Belagua and the karst of Larra
Roncal is the first (and only) valley in Navarra giving access to the really high mountains, those counting more than two thousand meters above sea level. All right, there's also Orhi in the close-by Salazar, but that's an exception to this rule. Roncal offers smaller summits in its southern half, but some of them constitute wonderful viewpoints over the high ridge of the Pyrenees and always make for good hikes when the weather does not allow another goals.
The higher (north) part of the valley can be divided in three smaller valleys: Mintxate/Uztarroz, Belagua and Belabarce. Mintxate constitutes the trailhead for Lakartxela, Otsogorrigaine, Otsogorritxipi and Barazea. Belabarce is mainly used as a means to reach the neighbour valley of Ansó and the camping ground of Zuriza, but the normal routes to Ezkaurre or Punta Abizondo begin there. Belagua provides access to all the remaining high peaks and the french ski resort of Arette-La Pierre St.Martin.
Main summits: Lakartxela, Lakora, Txamantxoia, Anie, Soum Couy, Mesa de los Tres Reyes, Añelarra, Ezkaurre.
Other (lower) summits: Calbeira, Idoya, Kakueta, Txorrotxarria, Virgen de la Peña, Ollate/Borreguil, Otsogorrigaine, Otsogorritxipi, Barazea, Punta Abizondo.
Ansó and Hecho - The twin valleys
The valleys of Ansó and Hecho are placed in the northwest of the province of Huesca. They form two corridors linking the drier areas around Berdún and the Barrage of Yesa to the heights of the Pyrenees and the forests of Oza and Zuriza. Proud of their traditions, they provide great scenery for hiking and climbing but also hold festivals related to traditional local costumes and offer some historical buildings to be visited (as the monastery of Siresa). Enjoy the white traditional villages and (if you like to try local food) give a try to the "migas de pastor".
Main summits: Mesa de los Tres Reyes, Acherito, Petrechema, Chinebral de Gamueta, Anzotiello, Rincón de Alano, Peña Forca, Castillo de Acher, Punta Agüerri, Bisaurín.
Other (lower) summits: Quimboa Alto, Quimboa Bajo, Chipeta Alto, Estriviella, Mallo Cristian, Laraille, Arlet, Puntal Alto del Foratón


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I think I saw Frenchie Davis (idol Season 2) during the preview. Looks like her twitter page confirms it.
I think I saw Frenchie Davis (idol Season 2) during the preview. Looks like her twitter page confirms it.
I loved the preview. I think I'll watch. I don't watch AI, but this looks interesting.
Maggie: "While she takes care of the men with the guns, why don't you sit down and I'll make you a nice, hot cup of tea?"
Pan Am stewardesses: prepared for anything!
Thanks for posting the link to the preview video ! I really like the country singer Patrick Thomas, glad he is going to be on Blakes team .
I checked him out, and found his YouTube channel "patricksings09", here is the link: YouTube - patricksings09's Channel
His myspace music page has several songs: Patrick Thomas(music myspace) Music | Listen for Free and Download
Cool. It is based off of a show in Holland. I listened to another trailer and they are two-for-two with great voices!
I liked the preview, I'll definitely watch...
I like that Mark Burnett said they would not be having the (supposed) comic element of showing people who cannot sing. Yay! No trying to embarrass people for cheap laughs!
"Everything you do matters. Every moment, every decision you make it affects the people around you it changes the world in a million imperceptible ways. No matter what your reality, you can make it better." -- Richard Castle
I'm intrigued with the fact that the "blind auditions" (as the show will be referring to them) only consist of good singers. That's one way that this show separates itself from all of the other singing shows! Although, it also adds an extra sting when a coach doesn't turn around. Not to mention that you have the family watching closely backstage. I loved seeing Patrick's fam go crazy when the coaches turned around... but I don't know if I can bear watching a fam get disappointed when their loved one doesn't get a coach.
Also, I'm wondering about that set number of eight. Can the coaches go over that number and then choose eight from their picks? I don't know, it looks like they choose eight and only eight. That means that they have to be smart with their decisions: should they turn around for a contestant that they kind of like, or wait until a better contestant hopefully comes? What if a better contestant doesn't come? Wouldn't that give an advantage to the people who audition later in the show? Even if they weren't better than that one contestant that the coach passed up, they would still have to turn around and fill out their picks.
Okay, maybe I'm looking into it too much. I don't know if I even made sense. I should just wait for this coming Tuesday.
Survivor - Christina | The Amazing Race - Dave/Rachel | American Idol - Hollie, DeAndre | Celebrity Apprentice - Aubrey | The Voice - Chris, Juliet
I'm looking forward to this show....except for Carson Daly. Really? Ugh.


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MIT, BU, and BC, all ask that transfer applicants submit SAT or ACT scores, so I think you will have to take them before you apply (unless you left high school more than 5 years ago in some cases).Mass Bay is community college and have not requirements of SAT or ACT so how they will look on this factor if I have not SAT or ACT ?
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The state Department of Environmental Conservation has made a 180-degree turnaround on outdoor wood-burning boilers – a development that may hurt Upstate residents.
According to local Assemblyman Steve Hawley, the DEC is set to propose a strict set of rules on the outdoor boilers tomorrow. Just a few months ago, the DEC had tried to force through similar legislation, but dialed back its efforts in the face of public outcry. Now, Hawley says the DEC is overstepping its boundaries again.
"It's exactly what continues to happen in the State of New York," says Hawley. "They're attempting to do the same exact thing, opposite of the people's will - the majority's will - with regards to wood-burning (boilers), just like they did with open burning."
Hawley was referring to the DEC's 2009 ban on the open burning of trash and leaves, as well as banning any open fire larger than 3 feet high and four feet in diameter.
The outdoor wood-burning boilers create wood smoke, certain amounts of which the DEC identifies as an environmental hazard. There are new regulations regarding distance from residences and what can be burned as fuel.
Hawley says he'll fight the legislation.
"We're going to have several people attending the pre-Christmas meeting the DEC has, and we're going to attempt to scuttle it (the ban)," he says. "Hopefully we'll come up with some recommendations and convince them not to implement these overly restrictive guidelines.
"If we're unsuccessful, then we will introduce legislation to overturn over-regulatory situation."
The DEC meets tomorrow in Albany.


text: The Legacies of Mega-Sporting Events In 'Case studies' Case studies Back to 'Research' The project This is an on-going project on the legacies of sports mega-events, including the social and economic impact of the Olympics, FIFA World Cup and other major events. Five broad and dominant 'legacies' or 'benefits' have been noted and the research sets out to find evidence to support them. They are: Elite sport inspires the masses to take up sport/physical activity Sports mega-events are economically beneficial Such events generate a 'feel-good factor' among citizens They allow much needed urban regeneration Host states benefit by showcasing themselves internationally What did the research set out to achieve? The project sets out to test the reliability of the 5 'legacies' looking at previous sports mega-events. An in-depth case study of Germany's hosting of the 2006 World Cup has been completed, as this is widely recognised as the most successful use of a sports mega-event to gain international prestige and enhance a nation's image. What impact will it have on the Olympics, sports industry The wider impact of this research is likely to be to help understand the 'why' behind the increasing politicisation of sport by a wide variety of states. It is no longer just 'advanced capitalist' states that seek elite sport success and to host sports mega-events; we now have 'emerging' states (South Africa, China, Brazil) and 'small' states (Qatar) joining the bidding competition. The research team Dr Jonathan Grix is Senior Lecturer in Sport Politics and Policy at the University of Birmingham


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Dear Diceman,
Regarding your post;
One think I still can't understand, if freezing up is your big issue, why didn't anyone put a freeze stat on that unit. They are very reliable, easy to install and cheap.
Although this would stop the HVAC system from freezing up, it would also stop the compressor as well, and therefore the cooling. We are looking for a way to not control the freezing of the evaporative coil assembly, but a way to actual prevent it from freezing altogether, even when the server room is at 65 degrees F or below, well below the standard operating temperatures for normal air conditioning systems.
We have suggested the use of hot gas bypass in the form of a DBV valve system. Do you have another form to use, if not, do you think this system and valve would be appropriate?
Respectfully Submitted,
John J. Dalton
OH I do!!!! I do!!!!
Being in serverroom's locale there are a lot illegal haitan immigrants hire a few for around the clock monitoring when they see ice starting to build up they shut off the system and put a heat gun on it....U may get lucky serverroom sometimes they will be willing to work for the whole day for a case of REDSTRIPE.


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Pentax OptioWP 4 to 5 Megapixel
Product Description
Amphibious, elegant digital you'll take everywhere. This latest 5 megapixel, Pentax digital delivers both on land and in the sea with a faster .6 second start up, a quick .05 second shutter release, movie mode and a generous 2.0 inch monitor.
by Photo-John
The Pentax Optio WP is a 5-megapixel compact digital camera with a JIS Class 8 waterproof rating. It was designed for active outdoor people to take it boating, fishing, to the beach, or anywhere else a camera will be exposed to wet, muddy, or dusty conditions.
Price: $300 US
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Pentax OptioWP Review at Imaging Resource
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Submitted by bellsy a Intermediate
Date Reviewed: November 9, 2006
Strengths: Waterproof
Weaknesses: Small sensor = grain
No viewfinder
Slow autofocus
Manual exposure controls limited (too many "modes", no straightforward shutter speed/aperture setting)
Proprietary battery (though they are cheap and very small, so not entirely a bad thing)
Bottom Line:
I've had a WP for a year and a half now, which means this review is already ancient history. But if you're still reading it's probably because you're considering one of the successor models (WPi, W10, etc.), and you wonder if the waterproofness really works.
In short, yes, it does, even after 18 months of abuse. In fact, the waterproofing works so well I'm happy to overlook the camera's flaws and rank it among the best photography purchases of my life.
I have a collection of amazing photos of my daughter the fish, whose smile is apparently magnified out of all reasonable proportion by being underwater. I had no idea how happy she was when she was swimming and diving until I got this camera. I've also managed to get some truly wonderful skiing and biking pictures, ones which only happened because I was willing to throw this little indestructable camera in my pocket since I new it was impervious to rain and snow. Of course, for both kinds of photos it is the combination of waterproofing and extremely compact size that made the opportunities possible.
Now, the flaws are definitely many: no viewfinder, small and proprietary battery, grainy photos in anything less than strong light, and a slow and none-too-impressive autofocus. But most of these problems can be circumvented (shoot from the hip and crop later, carry a spare battery, force the ISO low and use the flash, use manual focus and trust the depth of field you get with the small form factor), and all of these problems are easily ignored when you get that first amazing picture from in the waves or on the side of a soaking mountain, the one that you simply wouldn't have had a chance at with any other camera because the camera would have been in your pack (or trunk, or office).
Sorry if I've skimped on the technical assessment here, but all the specs are out there, and there are plenty of sample photos to examine (hint: search Flickr to see the kind of results real users are getting in the real world). And as I said, this model has already been superceded by newer ones which probably have slightly fewer (well, different anyway) limitations. But the core feature, the ability to take, and use, the camera literally anywhere without worry of water damage, well, that feature is priceless, and I'll never have another point and shoot without it.
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Duration Product Used: 21+ years
Price Paid: $305.00
Purchased At: Cord Camera
Type of photography: Other
Submitted by Rob a Intermediate
Date Reviewed: August 26, 2006
Strengths: -small and light
-water and weatherproof (if that weather happens to involve water:-)
-easy to use
-large viewing screen
-easy to customize settings
-easy to clean
Weaknesses: -horrible AF in low light conditions
-no optical view finder
-shots can appear grainy
-proprietary battery, no AA's here
Bottom Line:
Not a bad camera, not a great camera, but it's durability, size, and water/weatherproofness made it a wise choice for a field geologist. The ratio of great shots to forgetable shots isn't as good as other cameras I've used.
A good second camera for when the going gets tough. Great for myself since I'm a field geologist and find myself in foul weather often and still like to shoot.
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Duration Product Used: 2-5 years
Price Paid: $300.00
Purchased At: Future Shop
Similar Products Used: -Sony DSC-P71
-Several different point-shoot Canons
Type of photography: Outdoor
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Title:Arctic Coastal Plain pingos in National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska
Authors:Carter, L.D., and Galloway, J.P.
Publication Date:1979
Publisher:U.S. Geological Survey
Ordering Info:USGS Publications Warehouse
Bibliographic Reference
Carter, L.D., and Galloway, J.P., 1979, Arctic Coastal Plain pingos in National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska, in Johnson, K.M., and Williams, J.R., eds., The United States Geological Survey in Alaska; accomplishments during 1978: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 804-B, p. B33-B34.
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" Brand: Hampstead Tea / Type: Tea Bags / Food quality: Organic food "
I wrote a review on 'Aveda Comforting Tea' over a month ago and I mentioned that you should purchase the Hampstead Tea London Organic Fairtrade Fennel Liquorice Tea. I hadn't tried the Hampstead Tea but I had definitely bought it as the Aveda Tea was too expensive (£8.99 for 20 Sachets) to buy on a regular basis. Now here is my review after I tried and tested this amazing tea.
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Hampstead Tea London keep the philosophy that all their teas are free from artificial additives and genetically modified organisms also all their packaging is biodegradable. The unique teabags that are individually wrapped in the box are non-chlorine bleached and are staple free.
As part of being Organic each of their farm is unique and self-sustaining, in balance with soil, plant, animal and cosmic processes. Also their farmers use a specially formulated energising compost and a lunar calendar to help them determine when to sow and harvest.
They chose infusions that have clear, true flavours and natural ingredients by chosing the most fragrant and flavoursome ingredients.
If you want more info on Hampstead Tea London then visit www.hampsteadtea.com.
=*=The Reasons and Ingredients=*=
The tea is very beneficial for you as the ingredients chosen help digest your food and help prevent fat sticking in your system. You let the tea bag infuse in a cup/mug of freshly poured boiling water for 2-3mins until it is a dark yellow than brown. It will have a sweet fragrance due to the Peppermint and Liquorice. Here are some of the reasons why this tea was great:
1. It has no caffeine, sugar or added flavours.
2. It was much cheaper than Aveda.
3. It was not bitter and had a sweet taste, however
4. It helps out with your digestive system.
5. My mouth felt fresh.
6. Recyclable box. Also the design of the box is very pure and has a lid that opens and closes.
7. All made from natural ingredients.
The ingredients are as follows:
Fairtrade Peppermint - Refreshes breath, cools and helps digestion. Helps with abdominal pain caused by IBS.
Fairtrade Liquorice Root - Natural sweet flavour and is a mild laxative, so helps with digestion.
Fairtrade Fennel - Aromatic fragrance helps with digestion and refreshes breath. Used in cooking around the world especially in Asia.
=*=Price and Where to Buy=*=
I bought mine from Ethicalsuperstore.com at £1.89 a box for 20 Sachets. However if you buy a case (which has six boxes) then you can purchase it for £10.77, which saves you 5%. Also by buying it on Ethicalsuperstore.com you can collect points, which go towards you getting money off your next or future purchases.
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Letter Hook Dream
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Dream! This word packs powerful meaning of something we should all do on a daily basis.
We're dreamers by nature, and the Letter Hook Dream is a constant reminder of hope in our homes.
You can hang your keys, coats, or hats on these ingenious hooks. Or simply stand back and reflect on the symbolism in each silver-tinged letter.
Other than evoking beautiful emotions, these hooks are also sturdy and reliable, meaning they won't simply drop-off the wall when the door is closed a little too hard.
Stylish and uplifting, stare and remember to always dream and never give up on optimism!
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My belated birthday wish list, by Martha Washington
George, my dear husband,
Now that you have assumed the duties of America's first president and commander in chief, I feel it is important to present myself as a first lady of elegance without ostentation. In fact, I have a premonition that future first ladies may follow my example—and may consider, for instance, wearing J.Crew as well as couture.
I understand that your present responsibilities may have contributed to your forgetting my birthday earlier this month, on June 2. Do not fret, as I know you carry the weight of this country on your shoulders. I have here provided a birthday gift wish list as a gentle reminder and useful guide. Although I have not yet fully familiarized myself with this fledgling capital city of Philadelphia, I have been told that there are several jewelers who specialize in the kind of styles I prefer.
1. I have a penchant for pearls, particularly pins and earrings. As you know, one of my beloved pieces is the dove-shaped seed pearl pin purchased last December from New York jeweler Mr. M. Roberts. Surely there is a Philadelphia jeweler who would offer similar adornments, perfectly suited to the white muslin habits I wear in summertime. I can envision future first ladies likewise adorning themselves in these precious, graceful orbs. I can also imagine this striking piece, in particular, one day being displayed at a fine Philadelphia institution devoted to the Constitution.
2. Favored by the Greeks and Romans, amber evokes the spirit of America's burgeoning republic and the promise of the nation's golden age. Furthermore, it flatters my skin tone. An amber necklace would make a classic and classical statement piece for many occasions.
3. To my great pleasure, the ladies of Mount Vernon often complimented my garnet earrings and necklace. As my garnet jewels remain at Mount Vernon, I invite you to browse the shops in Philadelphia for an attractive piece I could wear while in this city. I always welcome this scarlet bauble, as it is sophisticated without being gaudy.
I appreciate your love and generosity always.
MarthaKaren Gross is the Communications Writer/Editor at the National Constitution Center. She moonlights as Martha Washington and welcomes garnets.


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News that the much-hated long-gun registry bill of death might be delivered in the Commons this week has people who have historically supported the boondoggle once again sounding the alarm. But why? In its 15 years of life has the registry proved a useful tool in law enforcement? Has it apprehended criminals and prevented domestic abuse?
Of course not. Certainly, the police say it's useful to have. They say when they visit a house it enables them to check what registered firearms are in the house. Which is kind a valuable piece of information, I suppose. One can never be too sure one doesn't run into an 1856 civil war musket while doing a routine domestic disturbance call.
But what about all the other unregistered weapons that could be used during said domestic disturbance call? Where's the large butcher ginzu knife registry? Where's the strangulation cord registry? Where's the blunt instrument to the back of the head registry?
A long-gun registry is just as impractical. Nobody who registers a long gun does so with the intention of using it to kill someone, in self defence or otherwise. Which is what makes the registry so impractical. It's one thing to be aware of automatic weapons and handguns designed to shoot and kill people, and a completely different thing to go to the trouble of documenting the prairie dog peashooter in Gull Lake, Saskatchewan, as the registry does.
Of course police are going to say it's an effective law enforcement tool. If you offered them a blueprint of your house and a closed circuit television of your living room they'd probably say that's effective as well. They also argue that tasers are an effective tool, but look at where that's gotten us.
The idea that a registry lowers rates of domestic violence is also specious. If a killer is going to murder his spouse with a 20-20 Dick Cheney special, he's certainly not going to hesitate to find other useful instruments of death. Failing guns, ropes or candlesticks, there's always eight fingers and opposable thumbs. Hard to register those.
Let the registry die, Liberals. I know you spent a couple of billion dollars on it, but it's not as if throwing billions of dollars away on stupid ideas was unprecedented in politics.
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New Release 2.38 (13 April 2014)
The dot program now supports packing of connected components the same way of the other layout tools.
(7 March 2014)
The edgepaint filter has been added to Graphviz. Given a graph that has been laid out, edgepaint colors the edges in a manner to make it easier for the viewer to distinguish edges that intersect in an almost parallel fashion.
New Release 2.36 (11 January 2014)
Public webdot server now available (20 August 2013)
A public webdot server is available for use at http://api.graphviz.org/webdot/ . You will find information regarding webdot download, requirements, demos and usage.
New Release 2.34 (6 September 2013)
This release includes a new (1.5) version of the xdot format supporting inline text characteristics such as <b> and version-specific output based on xdotversion. In addition, we introduce mingle, a filter for edge bundling.
New Release 2.32 (1 August 2013)
This release includes the features noted below, plus there is a new (1.3) version of the xdot format that encodes linear and radial gradient as color values. In addition, if the poppler library is available, Graphviz can now use PDF files as images.
New features (July 2013)
Graphviz now supports the star node shape and a variation of linear gradient fill with no gradient (thus, two solid colors) where the user can specify the proportion using a colorList type for fillcolor.
New Release 2.30 (January-February 2013)
The 2.30 Release marks the switch over from the original Graphviz graph library to the new cgraph library. If this works as planned, the user should see no differences. The advantage of the library is that it is much more flexible for the programmer, with a cleaner API and support for dynamic data structures. This latter, in addition to allowing easier mixing of algorithms, has the potential to greatly reduce memory use in Graphviz.
One side-effect of the new library is a new level ranking algorithm for dot. This algorithm has fewer constraints, so it is now possible for a node to be in a cluster and be involved in a rank=same constraint.
New features (November 2012)
We have provided Graphviz with some additional graphics, which can be used to provide more semantic information in a graph or enhance its aesthetics. These include gradient fill for nodes and graphs; striped and wedged fills, so the amount of each color can be used to represent some percentage; new node shapes pertinent to the synthetic biology community (Thanks to Jenny Cheng); and curved edge routing.
New features (September 2011)
We added lightweight edge labels (xlabel) and tapered edges (as a style). There was a recent paper by Holten et al about a study of the readability of various edge styles. We're working on some examples and documentation. Here are some examples. (We need a better example for xlabels, because they can float, and aren't stuck to the upper left of the node.)
New Release 2.28 (Summer 2011)
The 2.28 release of Graphviz incorporates GvMap (formerly GMap, or "graphs as maps"), an invention by Emden Gansner, Yifan Hu, and Stephen Kobourov. Try the cool interactive demos showing maps of music, TV, books, and more.
For people (like us) that care about such matters, we worked pretty hard to tweak the font rendering code, to
John Ellson finished porting Graphviz to Solaris OpenCSW.
We changed our license to the EPL (Eclipse Public License). (A wikipedia article attempts to explain the differences, which we believe to be fairly limited but the change may help some commercial licensees.)
Graphviz in Google Charts
See here.
Upgraded Bug-Tracking System
The Graphviz bug tracking system was moved to Trac. We are also moving the source code database to Git, which seems more developer-friendly.
Edge Bundling to be presented at Pacific Vis 2011
Edge bundling is one of the most effective techniques available for reducing clutter in large graph layouts,
Graph Drawing 2010
On Maximum Differential Graph Coloring was presented at GD2010 in Konstanz, Germany, Sept 21-24. This work is related to GMap.
GMap presented at Pacific Vis 2010
GMap: Visualizing graphs and clusters as maps was presented at Pacific Visualization in Tapei, Taiwan, China, in February. A revised version of this work appeared in the Nov-Dec issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications.
Graphs at CHI 2009
An interesting session on Understanding Graphs was chaired by Martin Watternberg at CHI 2009 in Boston. One of the talks, Topology-Aware Navigation in Large Networks presented novel techniques that were implemented and are available in the excellent ZGRViewer zooming graph viewer Java program for Graphviz. (See their video on youtube.) And how can anyone not admire the cool version.
Graphviz iPad and iPhone App
``Sketch a rough shape with your finger and Instaviz transforms what you drew in a split second. Sketch a link between two shapes and Instaviz quickly redraws the graph with the best layout. No pesky user interface getting in the way of your brainstorm!'' (Well, maybe.) Read more.
Graph Visualization Is Our Brand
Software Visualization of the Graphviz Project
Curated Example Graphs (2008)
Donate your interesting example graphs! Please contact Yifan Hu
Graphviz for Windows (2007)
The 2.16 release occurred on 9 November. In general, in addition to various bug fixes, the release provides three new node shapes, "tab", "box3d" and "component", provided by Diomidis Spinellis, and we've added support for the "image" and "imagescale" attributes to simplify the use of images in nodes.
More importantly for Windows users, the release provides many system features which were previously only available on Unix systems. These include:
Tools built on Graphviz
You can find great tools and demos in our Resources section. Here's a sample:
John Currier's SchemaSpy is runner up as O'Reilly's most useful Java-Oracle tool.
According to the reviewer, Paul Brown, the winner is Oracle's own Project Raptor, so this award is quite an accomplishment for a one-person, open source project. SchemaSpy relies on Graphviz for visualization. Its description on SourceForge explains:
SchemaSpy analyzes schema metadata, letting you click through the hierarchy of your tables' parent/child relationships either graphically or through HTML tables. It works with just about any RDBMS given an appropriate JDBC driver. SchemaSpy also identifies several common schema anomalies.
New scalable algorithm for directed graphs (Oct. 2005)
Graphviz now incorporates DiG-COLA (directed graph constrained layout) algorithm for which Yehuda Koren and Tim Dwyer (Monash University) won the IEEE Infovis 2005 Best Paper Award. (Try: neato -Gmode=hier). Neato already incorporates the stress majorization algorithm presented at Graph Drawing 2004, that supports an alternative model for graphs with nodes of high degree. (Try: neato -Gmodel=subset)
New plug-in architecture for layout, scripting languages and renderers (Oct. 2005)
Graphviz now has a more modular architecture that supports multiple layout engines, scripting languages, and renderers. About a dozen scripting languages, including perl, python, tcl and ruby are supported. An optional backend with high-quality antialiased graphics is written in cairo, and it also provides portable interactive graph canvas objects in GTK+. This work was done by John Ellson.
Release under Certified Open Source License (Feb. 2011) As of February 2011, Graphviz is licensed by AT&T under the Eclipse Public License (EPL). This license is approved by the Open Source Initiative. A benefit of OSI certification to our community of users is that it conveys a high level of trust that the software may be freely used in other open source projects and included in standard distributions. Graphviz is already in Axel Thimm's well known ATrpms, Dag Wieer's APT/YUM repository and others.
Pixelglow's outstanding adaption of Graphviz 1.12 won two 2004 Apple Design Awards: Best Mac OS X Open Source Product and runner up, Best Product New to Mac OS X. The awards were presented at the 2004 Apple World Wide Developers Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on June 29. Congratulations to Glen Low and the Graphviz core team. (Also, see inside the trophy!)
Lefty Koutsofios, Emden Gansner, Stephen North, John Ellson (Glen Low missing)
R-Graphviz (Aug. 2004)
R-Graphviz is a graph layout and display module from the Bio-Conductor project for the R statistics language. Thanks to Robert Gentleman and Jeff Gentry (Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard) for leading this work. (In Sept. 2004, an article on applying R-Graphviz to displaying metabolic pathways was published in the R newsletter.)
HTML-like labels (Feb. 2004)
This new label formatter supports many helpful options for text formatting, coloring and URL linking, similar to HTML tables. (Special thanks to Emden Gansner and Serban Jora.)
Circo - circular layout tool (Feb. 2004)
Mac OSX port (Feb. 2004)
A quite elegant-looking port of graphviz to Mac OSX includes a new document-based GUI, export to PDF and many bitmap formats, full alpha transparency, native font support and anti-aliasing. (Special thanks to Glen Low.)
gvpr (aka gpr)
The generic graph processor (written by Emden Gansner) has some new features. It has string and substring matching and substitution using POSIX shell pattern syntax. It also has a lock primitive to save graphs in the input stream, making it easier to write scripts that operate on multiple graphs. It now provides access to common math functions and a random number generator. There are additional graph traversals available.
The tool packs multiple layouts using a 2D tiling algorithm based on polyominos. It's a standalone tool using the same algorithm that is shown below for neato -Gpack.
Zoomable 2-1/2D graph viewer (in Java) by Emmanuel Pietriga at the W3C.
Agraph library tutorial
WinGraphviz update
Added CMAP support. The download includes support for the most common output formats for dot and neato, and sample ASP code. Thanks to ood Tsen!
Neato -Gpack
This feature (due to Emden Gansner) places connected components by a new tiling algorithm that improves both compaction and running time.
Beta code is included in the source release, but it is not compiled by default. Also see the mpeg and Quicktime demo movies.
Graphviz 1.8.+
See the download page for packages including perl and Python APIs.
Graphviz and Visual Basic (Contributed)
GraphVizio and Visual Basic Examples.
Graphviz 1.5
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Wow, even the front of Wendy's *house* is dowdy!
Wendy is up, so I might be zoning out as I don't like her much.
OMG, Tim is having to give Wendy advice about her collection, even now! How sad, how sad.
Wendy came off as being nice :rolleyes
Kara Saun is up and being a little too analytical for me.
I snuck away from my out-of-town company to watch the finale tonight!
Jay was hilarious, he constantly surprises me. His small town "tour" had me laughing out loud! And my God, I love his concept for his collection, so fresh and brilliant. Love the headphones.
Wendy is such a kissass, working the mommy angle again. I see she's pimping her kid out to emotionally extort the judges. She's changing her whole line because of what Tim said? This is exactly why she doesn't have what it takes to be a designer, she follows only what other people tell her--she doesn't have her own unique vision, she's a hack. This is what Jay & Kara have that she does not.
Kara really lives up to the moniker Bravo gave her, she is a total pro. Do you remember how Tim walked in and the second he glimpsed her pieces said, "I'm already inspired." Now that's talent.
ETA: I might be hallucinating, but I could've sworn when they panned over Wendy's inspiration board a picture of her daughter that looked awfully similar to the controversial "quintessential" pic she supposedly had no copy of.
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After seeing Jay and Wendy together, so much for Wendy looking nice.
Jay just told Wendy that if the competition was just about talent, she shouldn't be there.
OMG, Kara Saun chose to sleep on the couch instead of sharing a room with Wendy!!! Think maybe she still doesn't like her?!?!?
Sorry people my computer is being slow.
Wendy and Jay had it out
Kara Saun is back and pissed that she has to stay with Wendy.
I know it's not going to happen, but I want both Kara and Jay to win.
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VICTORIA'S hospital system was going backwards well before the federal government announced $107 million in funding cuts, the state opposition says.
Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews says leaked hospital funding agreements show the waiting list for elective surgery across Victoria will reach more than 50,000 by the end of June.
"That is the biggest waiting list this state has ever seen. It's the most significant deterioration in the performance of our health system that anyone can recall," Mr Andrews told reporters in Melbourne.
The agreements were signed last September, two months before the federal government said it would pull $107 million from Victoria's hospitals, a decision it reversed last week.
Mr Andrews said Premier Ted Baillieu and Health Minister David Davis had tried to keep the documents secret so they could blame the federal government for growing waiting lists.
"Ted Baillieu and David Davis want to keep the true state of our health system secret. They want to play politics instead of deliver patient care," he said.
Mr Davis said the state had faced a very serious challenge as a result of more than $50 million in elective surgery money being cut by the federal government and a drop in GST funding.
He said it was not clear what the state's waiting list would be for June 30.
Mr Davis pointed the finger at the commonwealth, saying the agreements were being signed as the state government was being advised of funding cuts.
"Julia Gillard is determined to hurt Victorian hospitals and patients," he told AAP.
Originally published as Vic patients dudded by state govt: oppn


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Will the rise in advanced imaging modalities such as CT, MRI, and nuclear medicine continue? While the common feeling for the less resourced countries is that it will, as many more patients need access to such imaging than currently available, the recent study from USA has different trends to show.
RSNA 2011 had a poster paper from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia by Dr. Richard Sharpe. He indicated that the recent emphasis on unnecessary radiation exposure and more importantly for USA, the high healthcare costs have captured the attention of policy makers and the press. This is resulting in reduction in growth rate.
The increase rate in CT which was 10% during 2000 to 2006 has now come to 3.4% during 2007 to 2009. Although not related with ionizing radiation, the rate for MRI during the above period falls from +11.7% to -0.7%. The rate for nuclear medicine comes down from +8% to -1.8%.The overutilization of imaging in USA has been an accepted fact for the past few years.