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Leonardo DiCaprio's lists Malibu house for 14.4m pounds
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The pad on half an acre overlooking the Pacific, also boasts an office, a gym, a media room and a spa. Apart from this property the actor also has another house nearby, as well as two in Los Angeles.
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After reading Jessie Frazelle's Docker Containers on the Desktop post I was quite interested in making some Fedora image based docker containers for some apps I want to use.
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Good morning. I had a smashing day yesterday with relatives in Nottingham. A time to catch up with the news. Thanks Auntie and cousins.
Just time to put on these pics from the Arts Centre before I go to Crafty Club. There is my picture, Three Trees, hanging proudly with the rest of them.
A free standing sculpture. A mosaic made of fused paper and painted, supported by lots of fine wires with beads threaded onto them.
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Dating A Christian: 5 Things You Need To Know!
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For an unbeliever who finds his|her self-dating a Christian, it could be testing. Imagine yourself struggling to do things that would ordinarily make your partner happy or at least spice up your relationship for example - a lap dance, but unfortunately, they rebuke you saying as a Christian it is something they can't do.
As Christians, we hold on to certain principles like purity and modesty thus we are not so much into what the unbeliever will practice I'm the name of love. There are certain virtues people want to see in their partners, for the Christian they expect more.
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1. Christians are looking for confident people:
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3. Christians want partners that are self-controlled:
4. Christians are not impressed by vanity:Though this cannot be said about every Christian, a true single Christian youth is not impressed by vanity instead they are motivated by the spiritual. strange right? but it's true a true Christian is more concerned about Heaven than a Ferrari. yes, we have Christians out there that are very wealthy but I tell you a true Christian is not impressed by material things. so if you as an unbeliever find yourself in a relationship with one, then you'll have to watch the way you show interest in the material.
5. Christian men do not want to be a woman Saviour:
single Christians are very wonderful people, lovable people, and people you can have a very interesting relationship with.
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Somehow, I've still managed to read one book per week in July, and I will share with you what I have read this past month.
Requiem for a Nun – William Faulkner
Reading this book renewed my love for Faulkner, and it brought back some of the magic I experienced upon discovering that a Southern gentleman (?) born in 1897 could have so much in common with me, a female with Northern roots born almost a century later. Requiem for a Nun reads partly like a history book and partly like a play. The style is unique, and at times hard to read, but it adds clarification to some of the events that happened in Sanctuary.
Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead – Frank Meeink
A brutal firsthand account of what it's like to be on the inside of the white supremacy movement. The book reveals a lot about what it's like to live on the streets, the danger of having a neo-Nazi mentality, the power of drug addiction, the lessons learned in prison, and how a person's childhood and parents can really influence who they become. The book is honest and raw (curse words abound!), and I would expect nothing less from a story of this kind of life.
My Name is Memory – Ann Brashares
I wrote an entire blog about this book. It's here.
Cold Kiss – Amy Garvey
A nice YA paranormal book, good for light reading (I think I started and finished it over a weekend). A teenage girl with strange powers is able to bring her dead boyfriend back to life, but the consequences get her into a lot of trouble. As usual with YA books, nothing about the book absolutely blew my mind, but I enjoyed the author's writing style, and of course, the premise.
Angela's Ashes – Frank McCourt
The main reason I read this book was because it seemed as though everyone else had read it and absolutely raved about how great it was. It was actually quite good; I enjoyed the stream-of-consciousness style and the funny parts interwoven with the tale of drudging through poverty. What amazes me about memoirs and autobiographies is how the authors manage to remember all these things… or if they're making things up and embellishing things they don't really remember all that well. I know that if I tried to write about my own childhood, I'd have to make up quite a bit. But there are always exceptions (McCourt's memory must be amazing), and, true or not, Angela's Ashes painted a brilliantly clear picture.
Oh, and I re-read Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Always an amazing children's/YA book, and one I will definitely read to my future kids over and over again — until they get heartily sick of it.


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|Sarah McIntyre (left) with the 'Fleece Station' creative crew - Lauren O'Farrell and Gary Northfield - at MCM London 2010. Photo: Jeremy Briggs
(This interview is also being cross-posted on the Forbidden International blog)
downthetubes: Are you a formally trained or self-taught artist?
Sarah McIntyre: A bit of both, really. A very kind art teacher give me after-school oil painting classes, starting when I was five. I spent the next six years mostly painting kittens, puppies and rather tedious landscapes, but it made me love mucking in with paint. My high school art teacher was also great in that she didn't make me follow the class assignments, just let me set my own projects and get on with them, even if I had to stay through lunch break or after school.
|Sarah and a 'slightly dotty' Hungarian
I didn't think I could earn any money doing fine art, so I studied Russian at university. But in the United States, we have this great option of completing a 'minor degree', which is half a regular degree, so I did my minor in History of Art. And the professors there let me fudge the requirements a bit so a lot of that time was spent drawing life models in the art studio instead of memorising slides.
Before my last year of university, I spent two years in Moscow, running around its galleries and museums, teaching myself a lot about Russian painting and its arts and crafts movement at the end of the 18th, beginning of the 19th century. Until I realized I couldn't live on the pay of three dollars an hour, I worked in the Moscow branch of Shakespeare & Co bookshop, and we hosted these marvellous arts evenings where I got to meet loads of fascinating painters, sculptors, writers and poets, and occasionally I'd get to see their studios.
I spent several years working as an illustrator, just taking a few evening classes here and there. My favourite short course leader was Elizabeth Harbour, who set loads of brilliant little book projects, similar to the kinds of things you see at small press fairs now. She's the one who got me set on the path to making full books, not just drawings.
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What I didn't learn on that course, I was able to pick up from the Association of Illustrators Business Start-up classes and seminars led by the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators. And Ellen Lindner, who was on my course [and who now edits the anthology, Whores of Mensa], started me off learning about comics, pointing me to the kind of comics I actually liked, not the kind I'd seen when I walked into mainstream comic book shops.
I think it wouldn't have been too difficult to slide through the course without doing much; I tried to come up with at least one piece of artwork every day and I think that decision made all the difference. I only felt I'd made my first real breakthrough about a week before the final show. Jan and the Graphic Design leader actually let me set up a second, separate show in the hallway because my work had changed so dramatically between the stuff I'd carefully printed up for the exhibition and the artwork and comics I'd been doing in the meantime.
downthetubes: So when did you actually start making comics?
Sarah: When I was about eight years old, I used to make a magazine called Family Favorite and leave it on my neighbours' doorstep, ring the bell and run away. I think the first comics I ever made were for that magazine, and they were copied, possibly even traced, from Archie comics. But all the comics I ever read in the Seattle Times or Archie seemed to have funny punch lines, and I didn't think I would ever be able to do that. And I read a few of my mother's stashed-away story comics (Jack London's White Fang, a couple fairy tales) but they were so old and brittle that I didn't think people still made them. I didn't even connect them as a storytelling medium with the funnies in the newspaper. In fact, the linework and colours looked so polished to me that I never even thought about real, live people making them at all. Maybe I thought they grew on trees or something.
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My first comic I made at art college was a double-page spread about some yobs throwing a beer can into the Thames and then the river bursting its banks to take revenge on everyone. Ellen gave me some good tips on it and it made me start thinking more seriously about making comics.
I read a book called On Sight and Insight by John Hull about the experience of blindness and thought I'd write a graphic novel with a character in a soundscape environment, simulating blindness, but in a visual way, using typographical artwork. That subject was way too big for me at the time and I had to shelve it. I also made a couple travel minis and took part in an online comics jam with some people on LiveJournal.
Then the opportunity came up and I cheekily promised David Fickling I could do a page a week of comics for The DFC. I practically had my fingers crossed behind my back when he asked me if I could do it; I had absolutely no idea if I could, and I sweated bullets. But I approached Vern and Lettuce like a children's book, just drawn within panels instead of pages, and the editor didn't ask me to stop, so I figured it must be okay. I was overwhelmed when people started telling me they liked it.
|Vern and Lettuce by Sarah McIntyre
Sarah: I was already used to deadlines and discipline from making picture books, although I still had a lot to learn about the business side of things. When I started with David, I was approached by one of the best agents in the business and she's made my work phenomenally less stressful.
-- and the final page
For Vern and Lettuce, I tried to think of the layers in Photoshop as the layers in a screen print, one layer per colour. I hate the overly slick, airbrushed effects and gradients so many people rely on in Photoshop; it often it makes beautiful linework look like cheap pizza flyers, or makes everything look muddy. But I love the imperfect, slightly textured look of hand painted signs, and I saw some gorgeous revolutionary posters in Moscow in places like the Mayakovsky Museum. They owe a lot of their visual power to the fact that the painters didn't have many colours of paint, they just made do with two or three tins. With Photoshop, I can access millions of colours, but if I just stick to a few, my work looks so much better.
There's a lot of experimentation in Vern and Lettuce with this; I was very strict with myself in the first few pages, then I started to introduce more and more colours until about episode twelve, when I got frustrated and reined in my colour palette again.
Writing was also difficult, the relentless pace of the weekly deadline. In the beginning I had a few weeks to play with, but then I took a holiday and after that, I was finishing bang on the day the strip was due for print. There's this tricky thing, just like in picture books, where there's supposed to be a sort of 'flip' at the end of the story. It can be a joke, but it doesn't even have to be funny, just something to give the strip closure and make the reader look at things a bit differently.
A lot of the other DFC people I talked to started their stories with this end point in mind, but I never did. My way of working was just to put Vern and Lettuce into a situation and see where they went. They're so real to me that I can hear exactly what they'd say to each other. And sometimes they defied tight little endings, they still weren't very domesticated animals.
A few times they got me into a real panic and I'd ring up my DFC colleague Woodrow Phoenix, who lives nearby. He would patiently look at where my strip had gone and then walk me through to the end of it. It's been the same working in a studio with Gary Northfield; it's shown me that endings aren't magic, that much of the job just requires focusing and taking things to their logical conclusion, and then one step beyond. I think it's the 'one step beyond' that looks like magic to the rest of us. (I think DFC artists James Turner and Jamie Smart live in the land of one step beyond.)
Doing comics jams with David O'Connell also helped me get my writing out of terrible ruts. In a comics jam, I can't get pig headed about where a strip is going; when I hand the next page over to Dave, he always takes it in a direction I would never have dreamed up. When I get his page and start on the next one, it's almost like a completely fresh story.
That really helped show me that there's never one solution to telling a tale, the permutations are infinite, and when I'm stuck, instead of blundering on with something dull, I can step back and send the story flying in a completely different direction. And writing with friends makes things more fun.
Vern and Lettuce were great to me that way, in introducing me to so many amazing comics friends who know how to combine hard work with being a bit silly.
downthetubes: Can you give me a couple of examples of 'flips' from your own work?
Sarah: Well, things such as the raisins in Vern's cake ingredients, which turn out to be something much less palatable. Or the little stowaway moles that parade out of the airship, just as Vern thinks he's going to get some peace in his park keeper job.
|Comics jam work with David O'Connell
Sarah: This is a huge subject, I can do long workshops on the answer to this, and it needs me to show lots of visual examples. But I was amazed with The DFC, at how smoothly I could transition from picture books to comics. In the old days, a lot of picture books had very simple formats: a picture, possibly in a box, with text underneath. But there's more of a move to vary formats in picture books now, and make the text intertwine and work with the pictures. I've always liked doing this, and never wanted to leave it solely to the book's designer.
Often in picture books, you'll see several small images on a page, which picture book editors would call 'vignettes', and comics people would call 'panels'. Many picture book people (Russell Ayto, Mo Willems, Posy Simmonds, Raymond Briggs, Satoshi Kitamura, loads of others) have been using comics formats for years, even if they wouldn't have called it that, or wanted you to call it that. I remember the surprise of learning that Maurice Sendak's 1970 book, In the Night Kitchen, was a direct tribute to Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland. I always knew it as a picture book, but of course, it's a comic, too, and a love letter to comics.
I think this merging needs two things to happen: Editors need to overcome their prejudices against books looking too much like comics, or 'cartoony' (a damning adjective in an editor's office). And I think this is happening, as they realise there's a market, and librarians go nuts trying to get their hands on these books that 'reluctant readers' will pick up. (You can see this happening with picture book publishers such as David Fickling with his DFC Library, Walker Books, a bit with Templar; and even more so in the USA with Toon Books, Scholastic Inc and others.) Some editors are starting to warm up to speech bubbles, as a clear and vibrant way of showing who's talking on a page.
Children's magazines such as Okido and Anorak are just getting on with it and making lovely non-traditional, kid-friendly comics. And some publishers are tentatively starting to experiment with publishing adult picture books, such as those by Audrey Niffenegger (although she had to prove herself first with a text-only novel).
It's essential that comic fans do their best to let people know about the new books they love, so we'll get a chance to see more of them. Write reviews, blog about them, make as much noise as you can.
The second thing is that comic creators need to go visit the children's book sections in shops, see what's happening right now in publishing, and accept that some stories can be told without having to rely on sexual clichés, excessive violence or bad language, and that it doesn't make them a wimp for writing these kinds of stories.
(I keep hearing comics people saying 'I've got this amazing character, who fights this character, it'll be awesome!' And that's their whole story.)
I think sometimes people switch into a different mode when they're writing for children, they get very patronising, clichéd, or even boring (because their adult comics rely on sex or cheap shock tactics and they suddenly can't use them). Or they over-egg the pages with so many high-impact graphics that there's no resting time for the eyes and it's hard to read. There's nothing wrong with a comic that has a single panel on a page.
I think simpler formats with less panels may be a way forward for making comics for children. Astrid Desbordes Reflections of a Solitary Hamster does this well: sometimes a single panel, sometimes two, three or four panels, but the large pages have plenty of breathing space.
Kids like clear stories with solid plot lines and well-developed characters they can relate to. I believe, if you can write an excellent story for children, adults will like it just as much as the children. I think it was Philip Pullman who said something about the difference between kids books and adult books: that adults remember what it was like to be kids and can relate to the experience, but kids have no idea what it's like to be adult yet, even though they wish they could. So you need to keep that in mind if you're writing about adult characters or including adult conversations in a children's book, don't talk over their heads. You can have more than one story going on a page at the same time, but the simplest story always needs to be the best one, don't neglect it for subtext.
downthetubes: What next for Sarah McIntyre?
Sarah: A week after Vern and Lettuce comes out, I'm launching another picture book with the writer Anne Cottringer, called When Titus Took the Train. (You might recognise one of Anne's other books, Eliot Jones, Midnight Superhero). The editor and designer said they really wanted me to illustrate it because of my 'comic sensibilities'.
I originally thought they wanted it in comics format, but it's more of a straightforward picture book. But there are bits of comics creeping in from all sides. Woodrow lent me some of his Western comics, such as Bat Lash, Buffalo Bill and Johnny Thunder so I could get into the wild frontier swing of things.
The story's about a kid named Titus who goes by himself on a big train journey, which gets more and more fantastical, so it's not entirely clear what's really happening and what he's imagining. Bandits, white water canoeing, a T-Rex… actually, Gary helped me with the dinosaur because mine wasn't looking nuts enough. I thrust a post-it note across the studio at him and begged, 'Gary, please please will you draw me a T-Rex?' He scribbled something in two seconds that was just perfect. So you might notice that my dinosaur looks an awful lot like Gary's Derek the Sheep. (I call him Derek the Dinosaur. It's one of my favourite spreads.)
downthetubes: Who would you like to big up, comics-wise, on both the small press and the pro' scene?
Sarah: I'm constantly amazed by the pictures Warwick Johnson Cadwell keeps making. Such amazing line work and colouring, and he looks every part the boat captain that he is. (I'm a bit smitten with him, can't you tell?) He contributed to the first Birdsong anthology, and I'm also keenly watching the work of another contributor (and one of its editors), Will Kirkby. He also has gorgeous line work, and I'm hoping he takes his more epic, Japanese influenced tales and turns them back to his hometown in Sheffield to tell more personal stories. (But that's just me, we'll have to see where he goes.)
Darryl Cunningham is on a roll after launching his hard-hitting novel Psychiatric Tales. Viviane Schwarz is working on a marvellous sheep comic with Walker Books and she's posting its progress on her blog.
My three studio mates at the Fleece Station, Gary Northfield, Ellen Lindner and Lauren O'Farrell all have amazing projects up their sleeves at the moment and we all joined together because get so excited about each other's stuff. We all work in slightly different areas, and I think some great thing are going to happen in the places where our creations cross over. And the DFC Library crew are making magic, I'm so excited by the books they're putting out.
I think Nikki Gamble, who heads the Write Away website and huge picture book review database, is very hot on comics for children and teenagers, and sharing them across the country with teachers and librarians. So I'm hoping we'll get a lot more comics in front of kids with the help of people like her, Paul Gravett and others, and the industry in Britain will make even more business sense to publishers and booksellers and really take flight.
• Sarah McIntyre also has more details of the book on her website and her blog.
• Our review of Vern and Lettuce will be published on 30th September, just as it goes officially on sale


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Once we have found a suitable child carer, we will send you an email confirming your booking with the name of the child carer, as well as the date and time of the booking. You will be sent a link so that you can view the child carer's profile and find out some more information about them, their experience and their references. You can also view all of your bookings, both pending and confirmed on the app.
Will I be charged a booking fee even if you can't find me someone?
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How much notice do you need if I want to book a child carer or babysitter?
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How do I pay the child carer? and what if a booking ends before or after the nearest hour.
You pay by cash or cheque at the end of the booking. We kindly request you round up the fee to the nearest half hour.
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This is not necessary for bookings ending before midnight, but we kindly ask that you offer to pay for, or contribute towards, a taxi for bookings ending after midnight. Please note that we always try to book someone as local to you as possible to keep any taxi costs to a minimum on late bookings.
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If you need to cancel the child carer within two hours of the booking start time we kindly ask that you pay them 1.5 hours of work as per the hourly rate (50% of our minimum time). If the child carer arrives at your home we kindly ask that you pay them the minimum amount of three hours. We do not refund the standard agency booking fees. For temporary and holiday nanny bookings we will refund 50% of the agency fee if the booking is cancelled before the start date.
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Sometimes in this world there is a necessity to defrost your freezer. Usually you realise this at a point when you have very little time to do anything about it. This is the exact situation I've found myself in of late. The ice build up at the base is ridiculous (it required a kick to open the bottom drawer the other day), yet do I have the time to deal with it? I wish.
There are a couple of big pluses to this situation though – firstly it makes you actually take stock of what's in the freezer that you've bought and forgotten about or are keeping for some mystery special occasion; then you get to eat very well for a couple of weeks, without the headache shopping bill that comes with it; finally it gets those creative juices flowing, as you need to find new and creative ways to use your freezer treasure trove. It's like Ready Steady Cook: what do you do with salmon fillets, mince, prawns, frozen veg and some leftover cooking wine? (apart from make multiple dinners).
Regardless of barely having time to breath at the moment (OK, perhaps a little dramatic, but almost accurate), I've somehow managed to come up with quite a few interesting dishes of late. Thai-spiced salmon was a treat (if so horrible looking I couldn't get the camera out for fear of cracking the lens), my venison and pheasant casserole went down an absolute treat and I've finally got round to making the raspberry curd that I bought the fruit for months ago.
I'm almost tempted to say that the raspberry curd is the best of the bunch (although that stew was rather tasty), even if I did muck it up. Back in the summer I made lemon curd (recipe here) for the first time and vowed that it was the first of many; raspberry has always been high on the list of flavours to make and it certainly didn't disappoint.
I was lazy though, which is pretty much the main reason for my slight muck up. For speed I decided not to strain the seeds out of the berries, and go for a more… erm… textured curd, as opposed to the traditional smooth sort. I also forgot to drain my raspberries, which having been frozen definitely needed it. The end result is that my curd did not set quite as much as it should have. It tastes fantastic, but requires the use of a spoon. We can't be perfect all the time, can we? And I've learnt my lesson – if it needs draining, it needs it for a reason.
Raspberry Curd
This recipe is based on the one I used for the lemon curd I made in the summer, it comes from the first Great British Bake Off book. It makes approximately three standard jam jars and it can apparently last for up to two weeks in the fridge. Mine is in no danger of lasting that long. If you want your curd smooth, mush the raspberries through a sieve before using them.
100g butter
3 eggs
165g caster sugar
200g raspberries
Defrost and drain the raspberries and put them in a large pyrex bowl, in to this bowl also add the sugar. Cube the butter and add it in too.
Put the bowl over a pan of water which is on a rolling boil – the water should not touch the bottom of the bowl. Allow the butter and sugar to melt, at this point your raspberries should be falling apart as well, making a bright pink, smooth liquid (well, smooth apart from the seeds). You should not be able to feel any grains of sugar as you stir.
Once it is smooth, take the bowl off the pan and crack the eggs into it one by one. Whisk them in thoroughly then return to a slightly lower heat. Stir the mixture continuously – ensuring it doesn't boil, or you'll end up with raspberry scrambled eggs – until it starts to turn opaque and thicken.
To tell when it is ready you should take the wooden spoon out of the bowl and run your finger through the mixture on the back. If the two sides stay apart, leaving a corridor where your finger ran, it is ready and should be taken off the heat; if the two sides rejoin, continue stirring.
Once ready, remove from the heat and decant the liquid into (pre-sterilised) jars. Do it quickly or it will start to set. Set the jars on a cooling rack and allow them to cool completely before putting the lids on and moving to the fridge.
Store in the fridge, it'll last for a fortnight. Unless you eat it straight from the jar with a spoon.


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I HAVE the pleasure of speaking at Staff Conference today where we'll be looking at the progress made in the past year – and looking ahead to the future.
Part of that will inevitably be about the Town Centre Masterplan which was approved by Cabinet last week.
But equally important is some of the work that we've been doing internally to look at our Co-operative Council model and test that it remains fit for purpose.
We are now six years into our journey so it was an appropriate time to take stock, step back from the day-to-day work and challenge ourselves to look at what is working, and what is not. It has proved a useful exercise.
The Co-operative Council model remains entirely valid for us and there's no question of that being abandoned.
When people elsewhere ask me what makes Oldham different, I tell them that it is great people – and the way we do things together.
I explain that our approach starts with us all recognising our shared problems or ambitions. Then we all sit down together to look at what each of us needs to do in order to get a better result that benefits the borough.
We have many examples of where this has produced some fantastic results but – looking at the model – we also came to realise that for some people the language doesn't work or 'land' as easily as it needs to.
It is not obvious, for example, to a newcomer to the borough what we mean by being a Co-operative Council in practice.
That's why we're going to be explaining co-operative working in a different way from now: one that we think is simpler, self-explanatory and works across all kinds of audiences and platforms.
Whatever we are doing – from delivering everyday services to improving people's lives or helping the private sector to grow our local economy – there's a simple formula that explains how we do it, and what is required of each participant.
It is #ourbit #yourbit #result
To explain:
#ourbit is what Oldham Council is doing or contributing to help improve something
#yourbit is how local people, businesses and partners are helping to make change happen
And the #result is how we are all benefiting from working together.
Here's a simple high-level example of that in action – Get Oldham Working.
#ourbit was to come up with a plan in 2013 to try and create new employment-related opportunities for local residents; attempting to link them better and smarter to businesses.
#yourbit was the local firms who have come forward with hundreds of offers of new jobs, apprenticeships and work placements – and the residents who stepped up seeking advice and assistance.
The #result is that by the end of last month a fantastic total of 6,264 new opportunities have now been created for local people. Business and people have been matched together by our free recruitment service that also removes both the stress and costs of recruitment for all sides.
That also means many families' bottom lines and their prospects have been improved – and that means new money and spend injected into our local economy; increasing the confidence of residents and business alike. Everyone is benefiting.
At the end of the day, being a Co-operative Council is about an informal contract which needs lots of different people and partners across the borough to muck in. This new way of explaining how it works – and what is in the terms and conditions – works in a much simpler way.
We're also using this new approach with all our staff to get them to look honestly at the service they are providing and be able to ask the right questions about it, and test whether it is truly co-operative, or if something is wrong.
You will see plenty of examples of this new approach in the latest edition of Borough Life (pictured, right) which starts hitting doorsteps next week.
The simple aim is to make it easier for people to understand how they can play their part in making things better – and that has to be a good thing for everyone.


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Time for review
By Duru
August 7, 2003
Thinking back on my last missive, I realized that my return to the old, familiar bearish negativity was a sharp departure from my almost cavalier "ride the wave" attitude that I have promoted throughout the past bear rally. Given this break, I suspect a deep breath and a slow review is warranted...
1. The rally in place since the March lows is over and a correction has already begun.
2. This correction may be punctuated with one last rally attempt before a more serious correction in the Fall. Given the extent of the stimulus pumped into the economy, this correction should not be as deep as I had previously suspected, but it also means that the final deep correction of this bear market will still be ahead of us, NOT behind.
3. The recovery from the pop of the bubble is not over. This process will be very slow and drawn out. Until it is over, the market in my eyes is mired in a bear market or at best some kind of trading range.
4. Given that the economy looks like it can "hang in" there while this healing process plays out, there will always be opportunities under the covers of whatever is going on in the general market. Holding firm in a mutual fund or funds (or even some basket of stocks) over this time period will not be a very effective way to grow wealth over this time period.
5. Given the above, the best returns will be from trading around the cycles. That is, buying when panic and fear is rampant and selling into the rallies. If you want to buy and hold for the intermediate to long-term in a diversified portfolio, you will be OK, but you are likely to find that you have made very little progress after all is said and done. This means it will be hard for most people to make much money at all from this stock market no matter what strategy is used. Timing will be everything, but timing is so much harder than just holding.
To me, these points describe the fundamentals to the dynamics that are in place. As we suffer through this together, you will find me vacillate from hardcore bearish to conciliatory bearish. I will try to moderate my words when the passions start getting thick because I think most of you are not too concerned with the day-to-day madness of the markets and are not seeking to profit from them. So, you are little served by short-term thinking punctuated with the drama of the day or week.
Finally, in the spirit of tempering bearish growls with some kind words, today's strong retail numbers were very encouraging to me. It says that the consumer is STILL alive and willing to foot the bill to keep the economy afloat. It also lends weight to my thinking that the next correction or two should not be extremely deep. However, businesses have yet to really step up to the plate. And at some point, consumers will have to pay those bills and businesses will have to do something besides cut costs. If businesses are still not hiring and investing and raising wages when consumers are forced to pay the piper, we will be in for serious trouble. So far, it seems we have been able to dodge this bullet over and over again. As always though, be wary!
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Near his family's camp in Canada, Sam Beaver discovers a pair of trumpeter swans. One of the hatched cygnets, Louis, cannot make any sounds so he goes to school with Sam and learns to read and write. Louis teaches himself to play a stolen trumpet to earn money and to attract the attention of Serena, a beautiful young swan. Serena and Louis fall in love and with Sam's help, they leave the zoo, settle the debt for the trumpet, and return to freedom in the wilderness.
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SCHULER, ANTHONY J. (1869–1944). Anthony J. Schuler, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso, was born to Joseph and Albertina (Algaeir) Schuler on September 20, 1869, at St. Mary's, Pennsylvania. From there the family moved to Georgetown, Colorado, in 1876. After his father's death from a mining-accident injury in 1883, young Schuler became increasingly attached to the local priest, Rev. Nicholas C. Matz, who later became bishop of Denver. In 1885 Schuler followed Matz to Denver upon the latter's reassignment, both to assist the cleric and to further his own education. In Denver, Schuler came into contact with priests of the Society of Jesus, commonly known as Jesuits, and he subsequently decided to join their order. He entered the Jesuit novitiate at Florissant, Missouri, on December 7, 1886. His lengthy training included studies in Florissant, St. Louis, Missouri, and Woodstock, Maryland, as well as work at Sacred Heart (later Regis) College in Denver. Sebastian Cardinal Martinelli, Vatican apostolic delegate to the United States, ordained Schuler a priest at Woodstock on June 27, 1903. Thereafter Schuler returned to Denver and Sacred Heart College, where he served as prefect and, later, superior. In 1908 he was sent to El Paso to work as associate pastor at the Church of the Immaculate Conception and chaplain of both the Hotel Dieu Hospital and Holy Family chapel. In 1912 he returned to Denver, where he worked in various assignments for several years.
Meanwhile, El Paso and West Texas continued to grow. In 1880 El Paso had no Catholic church; worshippers had to cross the Rio Grande to attend services. But by the beginning of World War I the city had 10,000 Catholics and six churches. This growth had largely been overseen by Jesuits under the supervision of Carlos M. Pinto, S.J. The Vatican established the Diocese of El Paso on March 3, 1914. The new diocese covered more than 60,000 square miles and included fourteen counties in West Texas and five more, plus part of another, in southern New Mexico. It included some 54,000 Catholics served by thirty-one priests in twenty parishes, fifty-eight missions, and a number of hospitals and schools. Although Schuler is commonly spoken of as the first bishop of the new diocese, that distinction in fact belongs to a fellow Jesuit, the Rev. John J. Brown, rector of Sacred Heart College in Denver. Brown was appointed in January of 1915 but resigned due to poor health in June of that year, before his consecration as bishop. Schuler was subsequently appointed bishop on June 17, 1915, and consecrated on October 28 in Denver by Archbishop John Pitaval of Santa Fe. Schuler served as bishop for twenty-seven years. Early in his tenure he built a number of churches in El Paso, including Holy Family (1914), St. Joseph's (1916), St. Patrick's Cathedral (1917), and Sacred Heart (1917). He also oversaw the foundation of Loretto Academy (1923) and a diocesan high school for boys (1924) that was operated by the Brothers of the Christian Schools.
Schuler was instrumental in bringing other religious orders to serve West Texas. The First Order of Franciscans (see FRANCISCANS) arrived in 1929, followed by the Claretian Fathers in 1932. In 1925 Mexican Jesuits, exiled from their native land since 1917, moved their novitiate to El Paso. Many regard Schuler's most significant work to be the support he gave those fleeing religious persecution in Mexico. By the time of Schuler's retirement on November 29, 1942, the diocese had grown to include over 120,000 Catholics served by 115 priests in forty-six parishes. Thirteen parochial schools taught nearly 2,500 students. Bishop Schuler retired to Regis College in Denver. He died there on June 3, 1944, and was buried in Concordia Cemetery, El Paso. In 1983 his remains were moved to a vault in Mount Carmel Cemetery in that city. His marker bears the representation of the Franklin Mountains and the Texas Lone Star of his episcopal coat of arms.
Carlos E. Castañeda, Our Catholic Heritage in Texas (7 vols., Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1936–58; rpt., New York: Arno, 1976). Catholic Archives of Texas, Files, Austin. Files, Historical Archives and Museum, Catholic Diocese of El Paso. Sister M. Lilliana Owens, S.L., Most Rev. Anthony J. Schuler (El Paso: Revista Católica Press, 1953).
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There's the Tesco Healthy Living Red Thai Curry Popcorn with 85 calories a pack and Tesco Healthy Living Sour Cream & Back Pepper Popcorn with 88 calories. If you're following Weight Watchers, a whole bag has 2 ProPoints.
I love popcorn, especially the ones covered in that thick crunchy caramel stuff. But these days I don't eat that kind of thing, far too many calories and way too much sugar. I usually make my own which I've written about here. It's very easy to do AND cheap!
So what are Tesco's healthy eating popcorn snacks like? Here's my verdict.
Sour Cream & Black Peppercorn: The first bite is an assault on the tastebuds. I thought it must be that I'm used to the plainer taste of my own popcorn. However, others agreed with me that the seasoning is strong.
|Tesco Healthy Eating Popcorn - Sour Cream & Black Pepper
Red Thai Curry: This flavour is gorgeous. I love Thai food, and although this is far from what you'd find in Thailand, the seasoning has grasped that unmistakably Thai tang of lemongrass and lime leaves. These are fantastic.
|Tesco Healthy Eating Popcorn - Red Thai Curry
|Inside the Red Thai Curry Bag
Both popcorn flavours are suitable for vegetarians.
Available in Tesco stores.
Nutrition Information per bag (20g) Red Thai: 85 calories, 2.1g protein, 10.7g carbs, 0.8g sugars, 3.2g fat, 0.3g saturates, 2.7g fibre, 0.3g salt.
Nutrition Information per bag (20g) Sour Cream: 88 calories, 2.3g protein, 11.1g carbs, 1.0g sugars, 3.2g fat, 0.3g saturates, 2.6g fibre, 0.3g salt.
Red Thai: Popped Maize, Red Thai Curry Seasoning, Rapeseed Oil, Popped Maize contains: Maize, Red Thai Curry Seasoning contains: Sugar,Whey Powder (Milk), Salt, Rice Flour, Coconut Powder, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder,Yeast Extract Powder, Flavouring, Coriander Powder, Cayenne Pepper, Cumin Powder, Cardamom, Bay, Parsley, Citric Acid ,Colours (Paprika Extract, Turmeric Extract), Coconut Powder contains: Coconut Milk, Maltodextrin, Milk Proteins.
Sour Cream & Black Pepper: Popped Maize, Sour Cream And Black Pepper Seasoning, Rapeseed Oil, Popped Maize contains: Maize, Sour Cream And Black Pepper Seasoning contains: Sugar ,Buttermilk Powder (Milk),Yogurt Powder (Milk), Salt, Black Pepper, Citric Acid, Flavouring,Whey Powder (Milk).
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Roku is launching a $49 entry-level model of its streaming media player that will be sold online as well as in retail stores. A set-top box for half the price of an Apple (s AAPL) TV may sound like a sure loss leader, but Roku CEO Anthony Wood insisted during a phone conversation Monday that this isn't the case. "We are making money on every box we sell," said Wood.
The new Roku LT will be able to display video with 720p and have access to most of the Roku channel store, with the exception of the casual games the company recently launched. That's because it doesn't come with Bluetooth support, which is necessary to use any of Roku's new gaming remote controls. The device also doesn't offer any SD card slot or Ethernet port, but comes with Wifi built in.
Roku also announced the launch of an HBO Go (s twx) channel on Tuesday. It's the second TV Everywhere offering on the box after Epix; viewers of both services have to authenticate themselves as pay TV subscribers first before they have access to the respective content. The channel will be available on all Roku devices, including the legacy boxes.
Wood had previously told me that a significant number of the company's customers have cut the cord. On Monday, he reiterated that point, only to turn it into a sales pitch for TV Everywhere: "20 percent have canceled their cable, but 80 percent still have cable," he told me, adding that Epix has proven to be extremely popular on Roku — something that even caught Wood by surprise. "This is a big deal," he said. "Lots of people want this content."
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These meetings will endorse the New Chinese economy based on Socialism with Chinese characteristics. China is currently laying the foundations of a new economic structure that will transform China again over the next 7 years, and its relationship with the world.
As in 1978, most commentators do not understand the politics, or the history and focus on testing China's statements against Western models.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics and the Chinese Dream are nothing like any Western model, and come from a deep sense of Chinese history, a deep need for economic development to enable 1.4 billion people to thrive, and a deep sense of how socialism or social justice should look in the context of Chinese values and ways.
I do not think that it is worthwhile trying to evaluate a communiqué and the output of the next significant meeting – the Central Economic Work Conference in December in a rush.
I am comfortable that President Xi reflects a Party that has spent 10 years preparing and experimenting for this New China which was originally contemplated back in 1964, given real impetus in 1978, and for which the preconditions of a modern manufacturing and financial basis have been developed over the last 30 years.
What they are about to create over the next 7 years and flesh out and develop nationally over the next 35 years is a vast project which a short article could not do justice to.
It is about a market economy with powerful regulators and politically reliable strategic shareholders, with 80 per cent of the population, or thereabouts, urbanised and agriculture transformed to large scale and food focused. The leading role of the Party will not change and I doubt the Government will change greatly.
The battle against corruption, and the battle for the good soul of China, will have to be at the core of their work, or China will become too greedy and selfish.
This requires not a political change but a complete change of approach including reducing provincial power to focus on delivery of services, and the powers of planning and authorisations to be subject to proper transparent procedures that have the confidence of the people.
Rule of law in the day to day running of China will develop as the base for that develops, and accountability of officials will be widened beyond Party discipline to a more normal law based process.
China will develop into a major Asian nation, more so than now, based on being a good and supportive neighbour to its 14 neighbours, seeking Asia to be mainly about the Asians, but supporting Western involvement in the Asian economy, but not controlling Asia, which should be for the Asians.
Openness to the West is part of a two way process that will lead to greater market access in both directions in major but gradual ways.
China will be a major opportunity for global business as a market and as a partner for Asian and global business. The West and China must work to find compatible models of multi-national companies and behaviour.
Western political and business leaders who have deep experience and understanding of China will be those who benefit from China most. They will get China and know how to prosper with China.
China is not going to adopt our Western ways and trying to force social development on China will just not work. They do not think our societies look so brilliant, but, more importantly; they are following traditional Chinese paths to their destiny, and want us to accept that. They think our companies are too focused on the short term and not linked adequately to overall social development and justice.
They do value our experience and we have a lot to share and that will lead to a more common set of global values, but there is no chance they will base their future on our Western values.
There is no contradiction inherent in that. It is just like accepting that men and women are different but equal.
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About Susan
Susan, a native of Dublin, Ireland, has made Washington her home for over thirty years. Susan resides in Cleveland Park however she also has lived and still owns property in American University Park.
Licensed in Washington, DC and Maryland since 2003, Susan attributes her success as a consistent top producer to truly advocating for her clients and striving to make the transaction as smooth as possible for her buyers and sellers.
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We support leaders, teachers and parents and help save them time with our 1700+ free programme ideas and resources. We design collectible embroidered badges which we retail through our website and raise funds for The Pawprint Trust. The Pawprint Trust provides grants of up to £250.00 to young members of The Scout Association and Girlguiding because, as leaders ourselves, we want to give something back.
Established in 2016 by Charlotte (Ranger Leader) and Jamie (Explorer Leader) to support Scouting and Guiding across the UK, Pawprint Badges brings you fun challenge badges for all occasions and takes the strain off programme planning. Funds raised from the sale of each badge go towards helping young people in our organisations experience life changing adventures, so thank you for your support.
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Once upon a time, well back in 2013 to be precise, a group of Guides from Cheshire Forest were fundraising for a trip to an International Jamboree due to take place in Austria. Whilst happily going about their fundraising and preparing for a teddy tombola one of the Guides, Beth, found a bear wearing lederhosen longing to be saved and wearing quite the appropriate attire for the trip.
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Snarklings Duel with the Snarkometer, Round 40
He was tall, massive really. From his shoulder-length blond hair and mirrored sunglasses to the heavy boots on his enormous feet, he looked dangerous. Black leather clothes fit like a second skin that emphasized every muscle. And there he stood, in the children's section of the Eden Park Public Library, as out of place as Gulliver in the land of Lilliput.
You don't need the Lilliput comparison. We get the joke just by what you've written. In fact, the Lilliput phrase undercuts the humor of what you've written.
Daisy Richards narrowed her eyes as the man pulled a battered copy of Where the Wild Things Are off a shelf. He rested an elbow on the top of the bookcase and thumbed through the pages. His expression softened. Even so, he still looked like he belonged in jail instead of perusing picture books in her library.
Same with "even so"
From the other side of the shelves came the sound of a scuffle, and then children's giggles. But the big man paid the disturbance no mind.
Daisy sighed. How irresponsible for parents to bring their offspring to the library and ignore them. He needed to control his children.
Instead, he threw his arms out wide. Puffing out his chest and tossing his head from side to side, he made a fearsome growl. His blond hair waved in a mane, and his muscles rippled as he lurched to the far side of the bookcase.
The kids shrieked with delight.
Daisy raised a hand to her pounding heart. She couldn't allow this disturbance to go on any longer. She glanced at the circulation desk, but James and Sally were nowhere to be seen.
"Why me?" she sighed. "Why is it always me?"
Mane, and rippling muscles are such cliches that it's impossible to read them without inserting a sardonic sneer. Perhaps you meant us to do that?
Daisy needs to get off her feet and swill a pail of gin. What a stick!
Of course I'd read on. Miss Snark is as fond of leather clad musclebound men as the next fair flower. Of course, I'd have to stick my stiletto heel in Daisy's corset to loosen her up a bit, but I bet that's what you've got in store for us don't you?
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I liked this one. I'd read on. The guy intrigues me.
- 8/31/2005
I liked this one. Great intro scene, and I agree about the cuts Miss Snark suggested.
I'd love to see where this goes, too.
- 8/31/2005
- Bernita said...
The library I go to allows children to giggle, has a children's corner to boot, and adults actually talk out loud.
- 8/31/2005
I think the issue was she was afraid of this huge guy--possibly doing community service or something?--acting so wild and wasn't sure if he was going to read to the kids or slaughter them.
- 8/31/2005
I like the Gulliver thing. Very "librarian" comparison to make.
- 8/31/2005
I loved the Gulliver/Lilliput comparison. I thought it was very in character for Daisy. I liked this, and I'd certainly read more :)
- 8/31/2005
- Gina Black said...
A big thanks to Miss Snark and fellow Snarklings for the comments. Daisy does have a lot of loosening up coming her way. And the big guy? He's a professional wrestler (WWE style) who needs to learn how to read. Absolutely made for each other. :)
- 8/31/2005
LOL, Gina, I recognized this right away! You got thumbs up from Miss Snark. Good going!
- 9/01/2005
Didn't I crit this once upon a time? I liked it then!
- 9/02/2005


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Victory! Factory Farm Protection Act Dropped from Farm Bill!
Thanks to the work of hundreds of organizations and hundreds of thousands of activists, the Factory Farm Protection Act, also known as the King Amendment—an attempt by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) to wipe out hundreds of state laws designed to protect food and agriculture standards—has been dethroned. The amendment did not survive the final version of the Farm Bill, which passed the House last week and is expected to pass the Senate and be signed by the President this week.
It's a huge victory. For animal welfare. For states' rights. For every group and individual who fought for its defeat.


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Total control of oak profile
thanks to the Oakscan® selection
- Properties
- Oakscan® selection: high tannin content.
- Intense contribution of aromas, roasted, dark chocolate, slightly smoked and mineral notes on white wines.
- Structure on the palate but without excess thanks to a higher thermic treatment, volume and sweetness, persistency.
OBJECTIVE: Typical, intense oak profile, and excellent blending tool.
- Technical characteristicsFrench oak
+/- 200 g (0.44 lbs)
0.105 m2 (1.12 sq ft)
Carton box of 100 staves, pallet of 25 boxes
- Guidelines for use
– White wines:
From the start of primary fermentation for a well-integrated oak profile and respect of the fruit.
– Red wines:
Before malolactic fermentation for a more complex aromatic profile and optimal integration of the tannic structure, or at the beginning of aging.
15°C (60°F) minimum with strict monitoring of microbiological conditions.
It is recommended that the staves be attached halfway up the tank, using food-grade binding straps, or to stack them on stainless steel rods.
Minimum 4 months, to be monitored by tasting.
- Recommended dose rates
- Practical examples of use
On fresh white grape varieties with a varietal profile such as Sauvignon Blanc, aiming for a very discreet oak profile, respect of the fruit, complexity and minerality: 1 stave/hl (0.04 sq ft/gal), 80% Extrême Délicat, 20% Extrême Intense at the start of primary fermentation.
On mature and exotic white grape varietals such as Sauvignon Blanc, Sauvignon Gris, Verdejo, for a generous and complex oak profile, with volume and persistency on the palate: 1.5 stave/hl (0.06 sq ft/gal), 2/3 Extrême Délicat, 1/3 Extrême Complexe at the start of primary fermentation.
On Merlot with a fresh fruit profile, soft and fruity, aiming for additional sweetness and complexity: 2 staves/hl (0.08 sq ft/gal), 2/3 Extrême Délicat, 1/3 Extrême Complexe at start of malolactic fermentation or at beginning of aging.
On powerful and concentrated Cabernet Sauvignon, aiming for oak profile which will optimize the varietal aromatic profile and bring sweetness and power on the palate: 3 staves/hl (0.12 sq ft/gal), 1/3 Extrême Délicat, 2/3 Extrême Intense at start of malolactic fermentation or at beginning of aging.
On brandy, aiming for complexity and aromatic strength, chocolate and roasted notes, power and volume on the palate: 3 staves/hl (0.12 sq ft/gal), 50% Extrême Complexe, 50% Extrême Intense during aging.
- Test resultsProductNektar Extreme IntenseDose3.2 stv/hlVarietalMerlot - Cabernet Sauvignon blend


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Earlier this month, when Red Hat was busy delivering a flurry of OpenStack-related announcements, news also came from the company that it is collaborating to drive Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and telecommunications technology into OpenStack. Red Hat is forming alliances aimed at delivering a carrier-grade telecommunications offering based on Linux, Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), and OpenStack.
And now, huge telecom player Telefonica has announced that it will work with Red Hat and Intel to create a virtual infrastructure management (VIM) platform based on open source software running on Intel-based servers. Telefonica's Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Reference Lab will be targeted to help partners and developers build telecom-grade infrastructure and Red Hat will protect the open source focus of the effort.


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Indiana Man With Down Syndrome Gets Billboard After Raising Thousands
September 10, 2019
A man in Avon, Indiana, has his picture on a billboard and the story behind it is quite wholesome.
Ricky Hull has become a local celebrity in Avon. The 59-year-old has Down Syndrome and raises money every year for the annual Down Syndrome Indiana Buddy Walk.
The Avon Police Department formed a special bond with Hull and decided to help him out this year. With their help, Ricky raised more than 10 times his goal for the annual event and is now in first place.
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Asynchronous commands
Commands in MVVM are a very precious good. Actually, MVVM can't exist without them because they allow a developer to bind to a method (that's actually all an ICommand implementation is). However, sometimes it is required to create asynchronous commands. Starting with Catel 3.1, the AsynchronousCommand is introduced.
With the
AsynchronousCommand, it is possible to create a command that executes a method in the background without blocking the UI thread. It is possible to report progress to the UI thread.
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Creating the command
AsynchronousCommand can be used the same as the the regular
Command class. The command must be constructed like this:
CancelableAsyncCommand = new AsynchronousCommand(OnCancelableAsyncCommand, () => !CancelableAsyncCommand.IsExecuting);
The second parameter is the
CanExecute delegate, and this example does not allow multiple executions of the same command at the same time.
Running the command
Running the command is the same as the regular
Command class. The view can simply bind to the command like the code below:
<Button Command="{Binding CancelableAsyncCommand}" Content="Execute Command" />
Canceling the command
Last but not least, the cool thing about the
AsynchronousCommand is that it can complete in two ways. It either completes the method by itself, or it is canceled from the outside. To cancel a running command, two steps must be accomplished:
1. Bind to the CancelCommand property of the
<Button Command="{Binding CancelableAsyncCommand.CancelCommand}" Content="Cancel Command" />
2. Make sure the execute action checks the
ShouldCancel property like in the example below:
private void OnCancelableAsyncCommand()
for (var i = 1; i <= 100; i++)
if (CancelableAsyncCommand.ShouldCancel)
// If we should cancel, break out of the loop
Note that this example looks stupid and you should not use
Thread.Sleep, but this is just for the sake of simplicity and the example
Reporting progress
During the execution of a command, it is possible to report progress back to the main thread. This can done by using the ReportProgress method. All code inside the ReportProgress will be executed in the UI thread:
private void OnCancelableAsyncCommand()
for (var i = 1; i <= 100; i++)
if (CancelableAsyncCommand.ShouldCancel)
// If we should cancel, break out of the loop
var i1 = i;
CancelableAsyncCommand.ReportProgress(() => Messages.Add(i1.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)));
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