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Scottish Executive - Best Value circulars and reports.
best-value-uk-local-government discussion list - A forum for the UK local government (including police and fire) best value initiative. It will allow researchers and practitioners working with both pilot and non-pilot authorities to discuss how best value - economic, efficient and effective delivery of services - can be achieved.
IAG (UK) - Founded in 1992, the Inter Authorities Group is an independent, non-political, non profit making association of local authorities and other public bodies dedicated to sharing best practice and the benchmarking of public services.
PublicNet: UK Public Sector Management and Governance - WWW community created for everybody interested in the public sector and its management.
Planning Officer's Society - Best Value Good Practice Guide for Planning Officers. Hosted by Barnlsey MBC
Aston University, Best Value Pages - Conferences, papers and research contacts.
IPF Best Value Theme - Institute of Public Finance, Best Value home page. News and discussion forums.
KableNET - International e-government and information age public service news from Kable, the publisher of Government Computing. Information, research and conferences on the business and technology of central, local, defence, health, justice, education.
SOCITM CCT/Best Value - Society of Information Technology Management, promotes the effective and efficient use of Information Technology in Local Government and the Public Sector.
Institute of Public Finance: Best Value & Quality - Commercial arm of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, providing news and guidance on Best Value issues.
Institute of Value Management - Professional organisation dedicated to Value Management. Site contains documents and articles and a forum.
The Application of Best Value to Town and Parish Councils - Consultation paper on the Government's plan to apply best value to town and parish councils with an annual budgeted income of £500,000.
University of Birmingham - Local Government Studies
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Am I indecisive? -- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte Best Value I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. -- Flannery O'Connor When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. 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(John Cage) Best Value One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to- resurrection" coverage. He later a Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. -- Karl Wallenda Best Value Journalism is merely history's first draft. -- Geoffrey C. Ward I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. -- Rodney Dangerfield A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe Best Value "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. -- Francis Crawford "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Best Value It is better to be looked over than overlooked. -- Mae West Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle Best Value What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity. -- Octavio Paz "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped. -- Marcel Achard Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think. -- Niels Bohr Best Value "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. -- Anonymous Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger Best Value When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid. -- Richard Braunstein Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. -- Mark Twain As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. -- Proverbs 23:7 A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally stopping before it gets there. -- Agnes Repplier Best Value Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting. -- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Best Value Life is the flower for which love is the honey. -- Victor Hugo "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. -- Peter DeVries I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. -- D. H. Lawrence 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 Best Value Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary. -- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence Darrow Best Value I have a great diet. 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