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Nick Knight, Alexander Fury, Anna Trevelyan and Lily Allen
Sep 8 2013
For the A/W 2013 'Power Women' issue of The Independent Magazine, Nick Knight photographs a new all–female army of Social Media-Moguls – Lily Allen, Ig...
Matthew Williams and Jake Davis
Apr 3 2012
'#ScreenTests' is a film short, inspired by Andy Warhol's screen-tests and featuring New York based electric rapper A$AP Rocky. Created by filmmaker Ja...
John Galliano, Kate Moss, Nick Knight, Peter Saville, Liberty Ross, Hussein Chalayan, Viktor & Rolf, David Bailey, Simon Foxton, Alice Hawkins, Alice Rawsthorn, Bless, David Chipperfield, Glen Luchford, Heston Blumenthal, Jason Evans, Julie Verhoeven, Lily Cole, Sarah Morris, Bay Garnett, Aimee Mullins, Dita Von Teese, Rita Ackermann and Weebl and Bob
Dec 24 2004
Twenty-four SHOWstudio contributors - including David Bailey, John Galliano, Kate Moss, Dita Von Teese and Viktor & Rolf - made the countdown to Christ...
Alice Hawkins
Alice's Adventures
Feb 1 2013
Explore Alice Hawkins' magical world with these exclusive scans. Taken from the photographer and filmmaker's personal creative diaries, the pages featu...
Nick Knight, Peter Saville, Simon Foxton, Value and Service, Shona Heath, Scott King, Peter Davies, Maria Chen Pascual, Julie Verhoeven, Judy Blame, Jens Laugesen, Frauke Stegmann, Frank Leder, Fergus Purcell, Bay Garnett and Liz Neal
And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
Feb 15 2005
The fashionable likes of Peter Saville, Julie Verhoeven, Bay Garnett, Judy Blame and Nick Knight created a selection of T-shirt graphics exclusively fo...
Björk, Alexander McQueen, Nick Knight, Daniel Brown, Charlotte Cotton and Susannah Frankel
Nov 21 2001
Spellbinding sound and image project generated from Nick Knight and Alexander McQueen's installation for La Beauté en Avignon, with an exclusive Björk ...
Nick Knight and Antony Hegarty
Nov 25 2005
In November 2005, SHOWstudio offered its international audience the unique opportunity to have their own photographic work featured in a Nick Knight ph...
Antony Price and Alexander Fury
Antony Price: For Your Pleasure
Feb 17 2009
Rock's favourite couturier, an unparalleled master of modern made-to-measure occassionwear or the most criminally overlooked designer in British fashio...
Nick Knight, Tom Wandrag, Kev Stenning and Brian Dowling
Behind the Screens
Aug 12 2013
In line with SHOWstudio's commitment to opening up the process of fashion image-making, we're giving viewers a peek into Nick Knight's post production ...
Kate Moss, Jo-Ann Furniss and Inez & Vinoodh
Billie Jean
Jul 14 2004
Icon meets icon - Kate Moss re-enacts Michael Jackson's classic 'Billie Jean' dance routine, shot by legendary photographic duo Inez van Lamsweerde and...
Nick Knight and Kanye West
Jul 22 2013
Kanye West collaborated with Nick Knight on the music video for 'BLKKK SKKKN HEAD'. The film was created using pioneering 3D scanning and motion captur...
Nick Knight, Lady Gaga, Loic Maes, David Moquay and Jeppe
Born This Way
Feb 28 2011
Award-winning recording artist and fully-fledged pop phenomenon Lady Gaga collaborated with Nick Knight to create Born This Way, the video for the firs...
Nick Knight and Lady Gaga
Born This Way - Remix
May 13 2011
Following the release of Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way', SHOWstudio offered a unique mosaic 'remix' of the original cover art photographed by Nick Knight....
Nick Knight, Lady Gaga and David Moquay
Born This Way: Unseen Footage
Jun 8 2012
As a thank-you to Lady Gaga's little monsters for their continued support of SHOWstudio, Nick Knight is unveiling exclusive unseen shots from the 'Born...
Nick Knight, Nicola Formichetti, Val Garland, Sam McKnight, Tal Brener, Sarah Richardson, NOKI, Nancy Rohde, Katy England, Katie Grand, Jamie Surman, Jacob K, Francesca Burns, Ann-Sofie Back, Alister Mackie, Erin O'Connor and Marian Newman
Bring & Buy
Jul 7 2005
Patti Smith, Yoko Ono, Tilda Swinton and Björk - these were just some of the names that donated clothes to SHOWstudio's 'Bring & Buy' in July 2005. All...
Patrick Wolf, Mother of Pearl, King Charles, Sunday Girl and Oh Land
Café Concert
Oct 20 2011
Inspired by the tradition of the Café Chantant that enlivened the cultural sphere of belle époque Paris and London, 'Café Concert' streams a series of ...
Nick Knight, Stephen Jones, Carrie Scott, Pete Burns, Simone Rocha, Peter Jensen, Julie Verhoeven, Rupert Sanderson, Carlo Brandelli, Roland Mouret, Mary Katrantzou, Alexia Wight, Henry Krokatsis and Keith Tyson
Café Conversations
Sep 22 2011
As part of the SHOWstudio Shop exhibition 'The Café', over Autumn 2011 'Café Conversations' invites a selection of the most intriguing, exciting and in...
Mike Figgis
Cannes 2006
Jun 12 2006
Viewing film festivals as 'highly suspect at the best of times,' Mike Figgis constructed an elaborate ruse to survive Cannes 2006. In this gallery, fil...
Nick Knight and John Galliano
Christian Dior J'adore
Nov 19 2004
In November 2004, SHOWstudio offered an exclusive preview of the 45-second cinema cut of Nick Knight's Christian Dior J'Adore campaign starring Charliz...
Félix Larher
Claudia's Dream
Apr 15 2003
Filmmaker Larher revealed a Claudia Schiffer you've never seen, who daydreams of flirting with her pals King Kong and The Pink Panther.
Nick Knight, Lady Gaga, Gareth Pugh, Ruth Hogben, Raquel Zimmermann, Val Garland, Sam McKnight and Marian Newman
Cutting Edge: Gareth Pugh
Jan 22 2010
Fashion designer Gareth Pugh creates a dress in the Live Studio. Edited from three days of live footage, this film documents the entire painstaking pro...
Katy England and Sam Taylor-Wood
Dead Can Dance
Oct 31 2003
Trick or treat? The spooks and creeps came out in force for artist Sam Taylor-Wood's Halloween Party. Stylist Katy England caught the macabre proceedin...
Karen Elson and Craig McDean
Devil's Plaything
Mar 7 2002
Watch supermodel Karen Elson and former Smashing Pumpkins and Hole bassist, Melissa Auf der Maur, performing SHOWstudio's new 'singing cover' in Craig ...
Kate Moss and Bobby Gillespie
Diamond Blues
Sep 5 2001
Intimate Super-8 footage of Kate Moss, Bobby Gillespie and friends recording an impromptu version of the track 'Diamond Blues' one playful, summer's af...
Nick Knight, Kate Moss, Sarah Morris and Emily Dinsdale
Dec 20 2000
Follow Nick Knight's lens as it snoops from one Madison Avenue skyscraper to another, documenting supermodel Kate Moss in voyeuristic action in this un...
Nick Knight, Asia Argento and Emma Forrest
Don't Bother To Knock
Apr 19 2012
Actress and director Asia Argento created this mesmerising series of film shorts exclusively for SHOWstudio over the course of October 2006. The vignet...
Nick Knight, Peter Saville, Liberty Ross, Richard Kern, Philippe Garner, Jonathan Kaye, Jonathan De Villiers, Ann-Sofie Back and Andrea Dworkin
Dress Me Up, Dress Me Down
Jun 28 2005
Exploring the idea of control in fashion image-making, 'Dress Me Up, Dress Me Down' offered SHOWstudio viewers the chance to dress Liberty Ross in a li...
Daphne Guinness and Joseph Lally
Earth Magic
Oct 31 2011
'There was no script. I simply told people I wanted to film my subconscious.' That is director Joseph Lally's summary of his latest film Earth Magic, a...
Nick Knight and Linda Evangelista
May 20 2002
Linda Evangelista stars in Nick Knight's fashion film 'Eclipse', playing accordion and reinventing herself as a sultry chanteuse in chiarascuro light....
Kate Moss, Nick Knight, Sam McKnight, Val Garland, Jamie Harley, Edward Enninful, Younji Ku, Jeppe and Holly Woodlawn
Editing Kate
Jan 19 2011
Kate Moss is undoubtedly one of the world's most photographed women - in this fashion film series, we invite a selection of contemporary video editors ...
Daphne Guinness and David LaChapelle
Evening in Space
Aug 13 2014
Daphne Guinness consolidates her move into music with a mesmerising new music video directed by David LaChapelle. 'Evening in Space' was produced by To...
Nick Knight, Naomi Campbell, Peter Saville, Ruth Hogben, Gareth Pugh, Stephen Jones, Simon Foxton, Sam McKnight, Todd Lynn, Tim Blanks, Stella McCartney, Richard Mortimer, Pam Hogg, Paloma Faith, Mike Figgis, Michael Clark, Matt Irwin, Katy England, Jefferson Hack, Jason Evans, Francesca Burns, Florence Welch, Boy George, Boudicca, Bella Freud, Antony Price, Alice Hawkins, Alasdair McLellan and Clive Booth
Fashion DJs
Apr 7 2009
To celebrate the inextricable link between musical performance and fashion exhibitionism, SHOWstudio and Swarovski partnered on Fashion DJs, an ambitio...
Liberty Ross, Ruth Hogben, Daphne Guinness, Marie Schuller, Lily Donaldson, Marti Domination, Rei Nadal, Poppy de Villeneuve, Ellie Grace Cumming, Betony Vernon, Asia Argento, Anna Trevelyan, Amanda Harlech, Polly Borland, Dasha Zhukova, Lou Stoppard, Susannah Frankel, Stephanie LaCava, Erica Schreiner, Emma Forrest, Valerie Steele, Caryn Franklin, Aimee Mullins, Harriet Walker, Luci Schroder, Becky Conekin, Emer O'Toole, Roberta McGrath, Erika Eiffel, Alice Hawkins, Alison Bancroft, Katharine K. Zarrella, Victoria Turk and Tom Guinness
Fashion Fetish
Mar 22 2012
Alongside the 2012 SHOWstudio Shop exhibition 'Selling Sex', SHOWstudio launches 'Fashion Fetish,' a series of fashion films, performances, multi-media...
Nick Knight, Naomi Campbell, Liberty Ross, Gareth Pugh, Kanye West, Ruth Hogben, Nicola Formichetti, Daphne Guinness, Stephen Jones, Raquel Zimmermann, Henry Holland, Val Garland, Simon Foxton, Sam McKnight, Lily Donaldson, Marie Schuller, Maarten van der Horst, Ming Xi, Tim Blanks, Terence Koh, Simon Costin, Sibling, Shun Watanabe, Rei Nadal, Ryan McGinley, Nasir Mazhar, Matthew Williams, Lily Cole, Kim Jones, Karlie Kloss, Jun Takahashi, Jen Brill, Jay Massacret, Jac, Hayward, Hahn-Bin, Gary Card, Freja Beha Erichsen, Erin O'Connor, Erdem, Edward Enninful, Craig McDean, Cathy Horyn, Carine Roitfeld, Boudicca, Anna Trevelyan, Alice Rawsthorn, Alexander Fury, Alasdair McLellan, Void of Course, Alice Hawkins, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Louise Gray, Craig Lawrence, Peter Jensen, Katie Grand, Poppy de Villeneuve, Giles Deacon, Jonathan Kaye, Atsuko Kudo, Katy England, Christopher Kane, Christopher Shannon, Roksanda Ilincic, Iris van Herpen, Phoebe English, Lou Dalton, David Koma, Eugene Souleiman, Piers Atkinson, Mary Katrantzou, Michael van der Ham, Patti Wilson, Lindsey Wixson, Umit Benan, Lulu Kennedy, Rick Owens, Katie Eary, Bouchra Jarrar, Carri Munden, Fred Butler, Rupert Sanderson, David Gandy, Cara Delevingne, Camilla Morton, Judy Blame, Philip Treacy, Laura Bailey, Brix Smith-Start, MACHINE-A, Kali Uchis, Sebastiaan Pieter and Marian Newman
Fashion Mix
Nov 4 2011
SHOWstudio continues to celebrate the inextricable link between music and fashion by inviting fashion's great and good to compile their own 'greatest h...
Susanne Tide-Frater, John Gosling, Sam Gainsbury, Lulu Kennedy and Maria Chen Pascual
Fashion Week Diaries - Autumn/Winter 2004
Mar 5 2004
Providing worldwide fashion week coverage, four creatives took the SHOWstudio picture phone to fashion's four capital cities for the Autumn/Winter 2004...
Nick Knight, Daphne Guinness, Marie Schuller and Raquel Couceiro
Fatal Flaw
Jun 7 2013
SHOWstudio is proud to exclusively release the video for 'Fatal Flaw', Daphne Guinness' first single. Shot both in our old Bruton Place studios and our...
Fergus Purcell and Paul Hetherington
Dec 20 2000
Experience cult 'Silas' illustrator Fergus Purcell's sketchbook drawings as animation. A bejewelled declaration that 'I want to believe' signposts the ...
Nick Knight, Daphne Guinness, Noritaka Tatehana, Niamh White, Julia Hutt, Valerie Steele and Raquel Couceiro
Floating World
Sep 3 2014
To coincide with Noritaka Tatehana's SHOWcabinet exhibition, the shoe designer took up residence in SHOWstudio to create a pair of his vertiginous heel...
Kate Moss, Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben, Roddy Lumsden and Jonathan Kaye
Flowers For Kate
Nov 15 2007
Say it with flowers: In December 2007 Nick Knight photographed a story for the March/April 2008 issue of V magazine, featuring the one and only Kate Mo...
Nick Knight and Brad Pitt
Freedom Of Love
Jun 10 2004
Nick Knight used André Breton's poem 'Freedom of Love' as the guiding text for this short film of Brad Pitt, created while shooting the actor for Vanit...
Nick Knight, Lara Stone, Carine Roitfeld and Jonathan Bullock
Get Back, Stay Back
Mar 1 2012
'Get Back, Stay Back' is a fashion story with a difference, combining self-defence how-to with high fashion starring model Lara Stone. Trained in Krav ...
Nick Knight, Leigh Bowery and Donald Urquhart
Oct 11 2004
Celebrating the extraordinary legacy of the equally extraordinary Leigh Bowery, 'Guiser' brings together previously unseen footage of Bowery during a s...
Nick Knight, Liberty Ross and Katie Grand
Hart To Heart - When Tony Hart Met John Galliano
Jul 30 2009
Who better to capture and celebrate the innocent, unbridled joy of John Galliano's Autumn/Winter 2000 collection than the late Tony Hart? Recorded on s...
Ruth Hogben, Stephen Jones, Michael Howells, Oriole Cullen, Clive Booth and Antonio Silva
Hats Off
Feb 23 2009
Coinciding with the opening of the exhibition 'Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones' at London's Victoria and Albert museum in February 2009, SHOWstudio...
Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben, Philip Treacy and Katy England
Nov 28 2012
In September 2012 Philip Treacy made an explosive return to London Fashion Week with a star-studded Swarovski-sponsored show featuring black models cla...
Marie Schuller, Hood By Air, Shayne Oliver, Matthew Williams and Jack Heller
Hood by Air: Trans
Feb 7 2014
Continuing our commitment to championing the brightest, most innovative new stars of fashion, SHOWstudio brings you the inside view of Shayne Oliver's ...
Hudson Jeans Fall 2009
Oct 22 2009
Hudson Jeans Fall 2009 by Mario Sorrenti, featuring Georgia May Jagger
Nick Knight, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, Björk, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Peter Saville, Tracey Emin, David Bailey, Juergen Teller, Wolfgang Tillmans and Travis Scott
In Camera
Feb 12 2003
Launched in 2003, 'In Camera' introduced a completely new premise to the interview format. Allowing a global online audience - as well as the interview...
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call is a helper object for making simpler assertions, for comparing with call_args, call_args_list, mock_calls and:attr: ~Mock.method_calls. call can also be used with assert_has_calls().
>>> m = MagicMock(return_value=None)
>>> m(1, 2, a='foo', b='bar')
>>> m()
>>> m.call_args_list == [call(1, 2, a='foo', b='bar'), call()]
For a call object that represents multiple calls, call_list returns a list of all the intermediate calls as well as the final call.
call_list is particularly useful for making assertions on "chained calls". A chained call is multiple calls on a single line of code. This results in multiple entries in mock_calls on a mock. Manually constructing the sequence of calls can be tedious.
call_list() can construct the sequence of calls from the same chained call:
>>> m = MagicMock()
>>> m(1).method(arg='foo').other('bar')(2.0)
<MagicMock name='mock().method().other()()' id='...'>
>>> kall = call(1).method(arg='foo').other('bar')(2.0)
>>> kall.call_list()
>>> m.mock_calls == kall.call_list()
A call object is either a tuple of (positional args, keyword args) or (name, positional args, keyword args) depending on how it was constructed. When you construct them yourself this isn't particularly interesting, but the call objects that are in the Mock.call_args, Mock.call_args_list and Mock.mock_calls attributes can be introspected to get at the individual arguments they contain.
The call objects in Mock.call_args and Mock.call_args_list are two-tuples of (positional args, keyword args) whereas the call objects in Mock.mock_calls, along with ones you construct yourself, are three-tuples of (name, positional args, keyword args).
You can use their "tupleness" to pull out the individual arguments for more complex introspection and assertions. The positional arguments are a tuple (an empty tuple if there are no positional arguments) and the keyword arguments are a dictionary:
>>> m = MagicMock(return_value=None)
>>> m(1, 2, 3, arg='one', arg2='two')
>>> kall = m.call_args
>>> args, kwargs = kall
>>> args
(1, 2, 3)
>>> kwargs
{'arg2': 'two', 'arg': 'one'}
>>> args is kall[0]
>>> kwargs is kall[1]
>>> m = MagicMock()
>>> m.foo(4, 5, 6, arg='two', arg2='three')
<MagicMock name='mock.foo()' id='...'>
>>> kall = m.mock_calls[0]
>>> name, args, kwargs = kall
>>> name
>>> args
(4, 5, 6)
>>> kwargs
{'arg2': 'three', 'arg': 'two'}
>>> name is m.mock_calls[0][0]
Create a mock object using another object as a spec. Attributes on the mock will use the corresponding attribute on the spec object as their spec.
Functions or methods being mocked will have their arguments checked in a similar way to mocksignature() to check that they are called with the correct signature.
If spec_set is True then attempting to set attributes that don't exist on the spec object will raise an AttributeError.
If a class is used as a spec then the return value of the mock (the instance of the class) will have the same spec. You can use a class as the spec for an instance object by passing instance=True. The returned mock will only be callable if instances of the mock are callable.
create_autospec also takes arbitrary keyword arguments that are passed to the constructor of the created mock.
See Autospeccing for examples of how to use auto-speccing with create_autospec and the autospec argument to patch().
Sometimes you may need to make assertions about some of the arguments in a call to mock, but either not care about some of the arguments or want to pull them individually out of call_args and make more complex assertions on them.
To ignore certain arguments you can pass in objects that compare equal to everything. Calls to assert_called_with() and assert_called_once_with() will then succeed no matter what was passed in.
>>> mock = Mock(return_value=None)
>>> mock('foo', bar=object())
>>> mock.assert_called_once_with('foo', bar=ANY)
ANY can also be used in comparisons with call lists like mock_calls:
>>> m = MagicMock(return_value=None)
>>> m(1)
>>> m(1, 2)
>>> m(object())
>>> m.mock_calls == [call(1), call(1, 2), ANY]
FILTER_DIR is a module level variable that controls the way mock objects respond to dir (only for Python 2.6 or more recent). The default is True, which uses the filtering described below, to only show useful members. If you dislike this filtering, or need to switch it off for diagnostic purposes, then set mock.FILTER_DIR = False.
With filtering on, dir(some_mock) shows only useful attributes and will include any dynamically created attributes that wouldn't normally be shown. If the mock was created with a spec (or autospec of course) then all the attributes from the original are shown, even if they haven't been accessed yet:
>>> dir(Mock())
>>> import urllib2
>>> dir(Mock(spec=urllib2))
Many of the not-very-useful (private to Mock rather than the thing being mocked) underscore and double underscore prefixed attributes have been filtered from the result of calling dir on a Mock. If you dislike this behaviour you can switch it off by setting the module level switch FILTER_DIR:
>>> import mock
>>> mock.FILTER_DIR = False
>>> dir(mock.Mock())
Alternatively you can just use vars(my_mock) (instance members) and dir(type(my_mock)) (type members) to bypass the filtering irrespective of mock.FILTER_DIR.
Autospeccing is based on the existing spec feature of mock. It limits the api of mocks to the api of an original object (the spec), but it is recursive (implemented lazily) so that attributes of mocks only have the same api as the attributes of the spec. In addition mocked functions / methods have the same call signature as the original so they raise a TypeError if they are called incorrectly. This feature is a better version of both the spec and mocksignature features in the current mock.
Before I explain how auto-speccing works, here's why it is needed.
Mock is a very powerful and flexible object, but it suffers from two flaws when used to mock out objects from a system under test. One of these flaws is specific to the Mock api and the other is a more general problem with using mock objects.
First the problem specific to Mock. Mock has two assert methods that are extremely handy: assert_called_with() and assert_called_once_with().
>>> mock = Mock(name='Thing', return_value=None)
>>> mock(1, 2, 3)
>>> mock.assert_called_once_with(1, 2, 3)
>>> mock(1, 2, 3)
>>> mock.assert_called_once_with(1, 2, 3)
Traceback (most recent call last):
AssertionError: Expected to be called once. Called 2 times.
Because mocks auto-create attributes on demand, and allow you to call them with arbitrary arguments, if you misspell one of these assert methods then your assertion is gone:
>>> mock = Mock(name='Thing', return_value=None)
>>> mock(1, 2, 3)
>>> mock.assret_called_once_with(4, 5, 6)
Your tests can pass silently and incorrectly because of the typo.
The second issue is more general to mocking. If you refactor some of your code, rename members and so on, any tests for code that is still using the old api but uses mocks instead of the real objects will still pass. This means your tests can all pass even though your code is broken.
Note that this is another reason why you need integration tests as well as unit tests. Testing everything in isolation is all fine and dandy, but if you don't test how your units are "wired together" there is still lots of room for bugs that tests might have caught.
mock already provides a feature to help with this, called speccing. If you use a class or instance as the spec for a mock then you can only access attributes on the mock that exist on the real class:
>>> import urllib2
>>> mock = Mock(spec=urllib2.Request)
>>> mock.assret_called_with
Traceback (most recent call last):
AttributeError: Mock object has no attribute 'assret_called_with'
The spec only applies to the mock itself, so we still have the same issue with any methods on the mock:
>>> mock.has_data()
<mock.Mock object at 0x...>
>>> mock.has_data.assret_called_with()
Auto-speccing solves this problem, and combines the features of mocksignature. You can either pass autospec=True to patch / patch.object or use the create_autospec function to create a mock with a spec. If you use the autospec=True argument to patch then the object that is being replaced will be used as the spec object. Because the speccing is done "lazily" (the spec is created as attributes on the mock are accessed) you can use it with very complex or deeply nested objects (like modules that import modules that import modules) without a big performance hit.
Here's an example of it in use:
>>> import urllib2
>>> patcher = patch('__main__.urllib2', autospec=True)
>>> mock_urllib2 = patcher.start()
>>> urllib2 is mock_urllib2
>>> urllib2.Request
<MagicMock name='urllib2.Request' spec='Request' id='...'>
You can see that urllib2.Request has a spec. urllib2.Request takes two arguments in the constructor (one of which is self). Here's what happens if we try to call it incorrectly:
>>> req = urllib2.Request()
Traceback (most recent call last):
TypeError: <lambda>() takes at least 2 arguments (1 given)
The spec also applies to instantiated classes (i.e. the return value of specced mocks):
>>> req = urllib2.Request('foo')
>>> req
<NonCallableMagicMock name='urllib2.Request()' spec='Request' id='...'>
Request objects are not callable, so the return value of instantiating our mocked out urllib2.Request is a non-callable mock. With the spec in place any typos in our asserts will raise the correct error:
>>> req.add_header('spam', 'eggs')
<MagicMock name='urllib2.Request().add_header()' id='...'>
>>> req.add_header.assret_called_with
Traceback (most recent call last):
AttributeError: Mock object has no attribute 'assret_called_with'
>>> req.add_header.assert_called_with('spam', 'eggs')
In many cases you will just be able to add autospec=True to your existing patch calls and then be protected against bugs due to typos and api changes.
As well as using autospec through patch there is a create_autospec() for creating autospecced mocks directly:
>>> import urllib2
>>> mock_urllib2 = create_autospec(urllib2)
>>> mock_urllib2.Request('foo', 'bar')
<NonCallableMagicMock name='mock.Request()' spec='Request' id='...'>
This isn't without caveats and limitations however, which is why it is not the default behaviour. In order to know what attributes are available on the spec object, autospec has to introspect (access attributes) the spec. As you traverse attributes on the mock a corresponding traversal of the original object is happening under the hood. If any of your specced objects have properties or descriptors that can trigger code execution then you may not be able to use autospec. On the other hand it is much better to design your objects so that introspection is safe [1].
A more serious problem is that it is common for instance attributes to be created in the __init__ method and not to exist on the class at all. autospec can't know about any dynamically created attributes and restricts the api to visible attributes.
>>> class Something(object):
... def __init__(self):
... self.a = 33
>>> with patch('__main__.Something', autospec=True):
... thing = Something()
... thing.a
Traceback (most recent call last):
AttributeError: Mock object has no attribute 'a'
There are a few different ways of resolving this problem. The easiest, but not necessarily the least annoying, way is to simply set the required attributes on the mock after creation. Just because autospec doesn't allow you to fetch attributes that don't exist on the spec it doesn't prevent you setting them:
>>> with patch('__main__.Something', autospec=True):
... thing = Something()
... thing.a = 33
There is a more aggressive version of both spec and autospec that does prevent you setting non-existent attributes. This is useful if you want to ensure your code only sets valid attributes too, but obviously it prevents this particular scenario:
>>> with patch('__main__.Something', autospec=True, spec_set=True):
... thing = Something()
... thing.a = 33
Traceback (most recent call last):
AttributeError: Mock object has no attribute 'a'
Probably the best way of solving the problem is to add class attributes as default values for instance members initialised in __init__. Note that if you are only setting default attributes in __init__ then providing them via class attributes (shared between instances of course) is faster too. e.g.
class Something(object):
a = 33
This brings up another issue. It is relatively common to provide a default value of None for members that will later be an object of a different type. None would be useless as a spec because it wouldn't let you access any attributes or methods on it. As None is never going to be useful as a spec, and probably indicates a member that will normally of some other type, autospec doesn't use a spec for members that are set to None. These will just be ordinary mocks (well - MagicMocks):
>>> class Something(object):
... member = None
>>> mock = create_autospec(Something)
>>> mock.member.foo.bar.baz()
<MagicMock name='mock.member.foo.bar.baz()' id='...'>
If modifying your production classes to add defaults isn't to your liking then there are more options. One of these is simply to use an instance as the spec rather than the class. The other is to create a subclass of the production class and add the defaults to the subclass without affecting the production class. Both of these require you to use an alternative object as the spec. Thankfully patch supports this - you can simply pass the alternative object as the autospec argument:
>>> class Something(object):
... def __init__(self):
... self.a = 33
>>> class SomethingForTest(Something):
... a = 33
>>> p = patch('__main__.Something', autospec=SomethingForTest)
>>> mock = p.start()
>>> mock.a
<NonCallableMagicMock name='Something.a' spec='int' id='...'>
An additional limitation (currently) with autospec is that unbound methods on mocked classes don't take an "explicit self" as the first argument - so this usage will fail with autospec.
>>> class Foo(object):
... def foo(self):
... pass
>>> Foo.foo(Foo())
>>> MockFoo = create_autospec(Foo)
>>> MockFoo.foo(MockFoo())
Traceback (most recent call last):
TypeError: <lambda>() takes exactly 1 argument (2 given)
The reason is that its very hard to tell the difference between functions, unbound methods and staticmethods across Python 2 & 3 and the alternative implementations. This restriction may be fixed in future versions.
|This only applies to classes or already instantiated objects. Calling a mocked class to create a mock instance does not create a real instance. It is only attribute lookups - along with calls to dir - that are done. A way round this problem would have been to use getattr_static, which can fetch attributes without triggering code execution. Descriptors like classmethod and staticmethod need to be fetched correctly though, so that their signatures can be mocked correctly.

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A stem-off of the magic the gathering storyline in a way none have attempted to my knowledge. A conspiracy involving Nicol Bolas and Phyrexia is brewing as the multiverse slowly moves towards chaos after the Theros crysis. An unlikiely band of planeswalkers attempt to intervine, but soon realize that they were too late before they'd even began. (This book I s one of three and is not nearly as good or captivating as the other two which are nearly finished. I warn you the beginning is shotty and the book is hard to put up with until the last few chapters. Afterward the end, and the next book is much better so please bear through it.)
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South Africans have come to know the true meaning of the saying "When it rains, it pours". During spring and summer, many parts of the country are hit hard by storms that can be catastrophic. Once the flood waters have receded, picking up the pieces can be a daunting task. How do you recover after your home has been flooded? Here are some pointers to make your home liveable again:
1. Have your waterproof gear ready
You should always assume that flood water is contaminated so when trying to remove it and clean up, it is best to have some items that can prevent you from coming into contact with the water. Keep a bag in a an area of your house unaffected by the flooding and make sure it contains the following items:
- Waterproof boots
- Waterproof pants and raincoat
- Waterproof gloves
- Cloths and sponges to help you clean
2. Keep your cleaning products handy
Make sure that you have stored your cleaning products in a safe place and keep the following handy:
- A mop
- A broom
- Buckets
- Disinfectant and detergent
- Soap and other cleaning products
3. Invest in a shop-vac cleaner
There are lots of water vacuum products on the market and these can come in handy especially if your home is prone to flooding. These products will be able to suck in all the water at different points around your house and you'll be able to drain the water faster. If there are large bodies of water you might have to use the old school method of draining the water with buckets first before using a vacuum.
4. Maintain your drainage environment
Although it takes a while before drainage starts working again after a flood, it is important to check your homes' drainage environment and ensure that you clean out any debris that may have blocked the drain. Once the drain works, it will make it easier for you to get rid of excess water.
5. Remove any trapped mud or water
Once you have managed to get rid of most of the water, it is time to check the hidden corners of your house for any trapped moisture, mud and water. Clean anything that has enough space in it for moisture to get trapped. If these dry without cleaning, it will usually leave smelly mould and decay.
Once you have cleaned your home and removed all water residue, it is important to asses how much damage the water has done and if there are parts of your home you will have to fix to prevent further problems.


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Cavitt House 30 53 51 N / -96 23 41 W, [1/2 mile west of Wheelock on FM 391], Map The ante-bellum Cavitt house was built by Ann Cavitt and her family on 300 acres of the Sterling Robertson Grant near the town of Wheelock. The house was designed by a Mr. Charleton, a New England architect, who was traveling through the area. Construction began in 1845 and was completed in 1854. The three-story mansion contained eleven rooms. Woodwork, cornices, balustrades, and mantelpieces were hand-carved of Cypress and Pine. Door latches, hinges, and square nails as well as the glass for the windows were made on site. The six fireplaces were fashioned of pink brick and ironstone. The house served as a staging point on the Old Spanish Road, linking San Antonio with Nacogdoches. Among the visitors were Sam Houston, a longtime friend of the Cavitt family. Texas Historic Marker reads: "Old Cavitt House. Republic of Texas homestead established when log cabin was built 1836. Main house of hand finished lumber, begun in 1842, completed in present form 1854. Sam Houston, friend and frequent guest here, who gave a desk to Volney Cavitt." The Cavitt House is one of 12 buildings or groups of buildings in Robertson County that is preserved in the U.S. Library of Congress American Memory Collection. Architectural drawings and floor plans of this historic building from this collection are featured to the left and below. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txrober2/HistoricWheelockTour.htm
Ann Cavitt was born 1801 in Knoxville, TN and died 1882 in Wheelock, TX. She married Andrew Cavitt. He was born in Virginia in 1796 and died in Millican, TX in 1836, they were married 8 April 1821 in Madison, AL. They were distant cousin's. She first married Anthony Cavitt Armstrong who may have also been a relation.
The children of Ann and Andrew were Richard Whitley Cavitt, Volney E Cavitt, Josephus Cavitt, Sheridan Cavitt, Andrew franklin Cavitt, James Alexander Cavitt, William Moses Norris Cavitt. She had a son with Anthony Cavitt Armstrong, Thomas Elias Armstrong.


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An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, "Understanding Faith," in FIRST SIGHT: The Experience of Faith (London: Continuum, 2011), pp. 9-10.
Instead of fingers pointing to the moon, doctrine or dogma bend backwards pointing to themselves. Anything that questions belief is then perceived as threatening and what is threatening can exude a kind of strangeness or threat which incites fear.
I am what I believe is as dangerous a principle as I am because I think. What I want or try to believe then constitutes my identity, myself, and so because I believe in these doctrines I am a Christian. Others who don't believe these particular statements are "non-believers." Belief may indeed be strong and true. We can be loyal to our beliefs and die to defend the system they form part of. But belief of this kind---the kind we might die for---should arise from the experience of faith not the fear of a threatened and insecure identity. Why die or attack others over verbal formulas alone? As long as we think of faith as constituted by belief, we lack the full dimension of the mind of Christ.
This means the "catholic" mind that inherently seeks to include and integrate rather than to exclude and condemn when it meets with different expressions of belief that bring the natural uncertainty in our own system to the surface. We see that there are different ways of belief and that others may hold theirs as sincerely as we hold ours. Without faith we will feel painfully threatened by this. Reacting from our insecurity, Christians often describe devout followers of other religious traditions as "non-believers" simply because they have different beliefs.
Differences, like opposites, are only ultimately resolved in God who is infinitely simple enough to contain it all. Only in God can we meet others and it is at the level of faith, not belief, that this meeting occurs.
After Meditation, "The Indian Tree," by Rumi in THE SOUL OF RUMI (New York: HarperCollins, 2002, pp. 47-48.
A learned man once said, for the sake of saying something,
"There is a tree
in India. If you eat the fruit of that tree, you'll never grow
old and never die."
Stories about "the tree" were passed around, and finally
a king sent his envoy
to India to look for it. People laughed at the man. They
slapped him on the back
and called out, "Sir, I know where your tree is, but it's far
in the jungle and you'll need
a ladder!" He kept traveling, following such directions and
feeling foolish, for years.
He was about to return to the king when he met a wise man.
"Great teacher, show me
some kindness in this search for the tree." "My son, this is
not an actual tree,
though it's been called that. Sometimes it's called a sun,
sometimes an ocean, or
a cloud. These words point to the wisdom that comes through
a true human being, which
may have many effects, the least of which is eternal life!
In the same way one
person can be a father to you and a son to someone else,
uncle to another and nephew
to yet another, so what you are looking for has many names,
and one existence. Don't
search for one of the names. Move beyond any attachment
to names." Every war
and every conflict between human beings has happened because
of some disagreement about
names. It's such an unnecessary foolishness, because just
beyond the arguing there's a long
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Parish officials discussed the possible expansion of land-use rules to some of Terrebonne's growing northern areas as part of a master plan that aims to guide local government decision making through 2030.
Parish officials discussed the possible expansion of land-use rules to some of Terrebonne's growing northern areas as part of a master plan that aims to guide local government decision making through 2030.
The Vision 2030 Comprehensive Master Plan, a 300-page public document, gives residents, developers, designers and lawmakers a roadmap of where the parish is headed. The plan does not hold the weight of law, but it's in its final stages after numerous public-input meetings.
Terrebonne Planning Director Pat Gordon gave an overview of the plan Wednesday night to the Parish Council.
Projects such as extending Bayou Gardens Boulevard from Coteau Road to Bayou Blue Road are in the works, Gordon said, and will provide room for more retail businesses while smoothing traffic.
"We'd like to see expanded zoning areas further north," Gordon told the council. "And make sure the parish is well served by attractive commercial districts in appropriate locations that meet the day-to-day needs of its residents and visitors."
Zoning laws, or land-use restrictions, have been hotly debated over the years in Terrebonne. Proponents say such rules are necessary to encourage orderly commercial and residential development. Opponents have decried it as an intrusive government telling landowners what they can and can't do with their property.
One of the highlights Gordon addressed was the parish's need to do something with the vacant lots where condemned homes were demolished after hurricanes.
Gordon proposed supporting efforts to "creatively and attractively" use vacant lots and parcels in developed areas "to meet community-housing needs."
"We'd like to see infill developments to try and deter suburban sprawl and increase development," Gordon said. "Over the last couple years, we've torn down well over 800 structures, and we'd like to see some of those vacant lots redeveloped and find ways to assist nonprofit organizations to fix some of these infill problems."
Parish President Michel Claudet said a project is already under way to help nonprofits find money to build new facilities on vacant lots.
Alex Ostheimer, a member of the Houma-Terrebonne Regional Planning Commission, said overall he is happy with the plan but concerned that the Morganza-to-the-Gulf levee system may take up too much land that would otherwise be used for homes, businesses or other development.
"I urge you to find out exactly how many acres of land they need to build this system," Ostheimer told the council, referring to the Army Corps of Engineers' levee system. "The system is currently counted in the 8 percent of land that we think is developable and consequently may be lost if we don't revisit the alignment and construction of that design so that our great grandchildren will be able to stay here and have a place to live."
The next public meeting on the master plan is scheduled for 6 p.m. Feb. 27 at the Government Tower, 8026 Main St., Houma. The council is expected to decide whether to approve it during the same meeting.
The public may address the council about any agenda items. All public meeting agendas, along with the master plan, can be viewed on the parish's website, www.tpcg.org.


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Cute Kids Get a Little Too Excited About the Ice Cream Van
A mom filming her two boys eating breakfast inadvertently created the perfect YouTube video. The rising action! The delayed punchline! The beans on toast!
Look for "Ice Cream Van" to dominate the short film category on the festival circuit this year. Critics agree it's the greatest comedy short since Hans Moleman's "Man Getting Hit By Football."
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Being a critic should mean never having to feel guilty. It's in the critics' rulebook. Page 13, I think.
But when the news broke a little while back about Petra Bagust leaving TV One's Breakfast show and then it was announced, more recently, that Good Morning was being slashed from three ad-filled hours to only one, I felt a twinge.
It's just that I'd recently tickled the toes of both shows. Nothing savage. I think I called Petra a banana muffin, comparing her co-host grumpy Rawdon Christie, who I cast as the bran muffin of the show.
Being called a fruit muffin might have been enough to tip her, I thought. And then, critically speaking, I was a bit iffy about Good Morning, which follows Breakfast five fun-filled mornings a week on One. I'm sure the sudden changes on both shows were going to happen anyway. I'd hate to think I had too much in common with the people who make the big decisions at TVNZ.
Though occasionally those people seem to want to commission something local that's halfway decent. Something not even involving contests and elimination rounds. A show, good grief, that seems even to reach out to help - albeit in a tiny, once-over-fairly-lightly televisual sort of way.
Such a show might be Is Modern Medicine Killing You? (Wednesdays, 8.30pm, TV One) as it turns a quizzical eye on modern medicine and looks for a more holistic alternative.
All of which might be slightly sleep- inducing were it not for the fierce presence of the show's presenter, Dr Frances Pitsilis, as she sets out to help ordinary New Zealanders who are enduring chronic pain.
Last week, clear-eyed Dr Frances met Nicky and Daniel, two Kiwis in their mid-30s diagnosed by mainstream medicine as having chronic fatigue syndrome.
Desperate Nicky and depressed Daniel told their stories of how conventional medicine had failed them. It's pretty basic say-and-see TV. When Nicky says her hair's falling out, there's a cut to a clump hitting the shower floor. When Daniel says, at the end, how much better he's feeling after his super doses of vitamins, a cut to shots of him larking about in a park, looking like he is, indeed, feeling much better. But it is TV that seems loosely informed by an urge to help - albeit through a doctor at a desk with a product-placed computer in the middle of it.
The gluten-free diet for the chubby, baking-mad Nicky seemed to do the trick. Last seen, she was a shadow of her former self, out on a marathon walk with her family.
Tomorrow night, the good doctor will be offering holistic answers to a triathlete with back pain and a mother suffering with endometriosis.
Alarmist title aside, Is Modern Medicine Killing You? is old-fashioned TV done slick and given a shot of star power by the bossy doctor who really does seem to know best.
The other nice touch about the show is the introduction of a question mark into a title. A tired old show could be redefined by the simple addition of a question mark.
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Wheaton, Ill. - The Wheaton College football team used a strong second half and a pair of fourth-quarter Mark Hiben touchdown receptions to rally for a 38-33 victory against Illinois Wesleyan under the lights at Wheaton's McCully Stadium on Saturday night. Wheaton improves to 5-2 on the year and 3-1 in College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) play. Illinois Wesleyan, ranked 12th in this week's D3Football.com Top-25 poll, takes its first loss to fall to 6-1 overall and 3-1 in the CCIW.
Thunder sophomore receiver Mark Hiben caught three touchdown passes, with eight receptions for 132 yards. Hiben caught two touchdown passes in the final five minutes of regulation to help Wheaton rally from an 11-point deficit. Morgan Cook caught eight passes for 115 yards on the night. Quarterback Jordan Roberts completed 25 of his 39 passing attempts for 360 yards with four TD tosses. Charlie Velling ran for 58 yards on 16 carries with one touchdown run.
Defensive backs Jackson Edwards and Garrett Cook each recorded a team-high seven solo tackles for the Thunder. Cook also made a key interception and broke up two passes in the game. Junior linebacker Brett Anderson also made seven tackles (five solo), including 1-1/2 tackles for lost yardage of 11 yards.
Titan quarterback Rob Gallik passed for 337 yards, with 25 completions on 36 attempts and three TD passes. Alex Garvey caught eight passes for 153 yards, with one touchdown catch. Running back Devonte Jones ran for 109 yards on 21 carries. Kyle Pfister led the Titans' defense with a game-high nine tackles, an interception and a forced fumble.
Wheaton racked up 463 yards of offense and the Titans amassed 452 in the evenly fought battle. The Thunder owned a 255-151 edge in yardage in the second half. Wheaton threw for 393 yards, with 70 rushing yards. Illinois Wesleyan recorded 337 passing yards, with 115 rushing yards.
The Thunder scored first when placekicker Sam Cote booted a 36-yard field goal with 7:19 left in the first quarter to give the Thunder a 3-0 lead. The Titans took the lead when Gallik threw a seven-yard touchdown pass to Tate Musselman with 3:16 left in the first quarter to give the guests a 7-3 lead.
Gallik extended the IWU lead to 14-3 on a one-yard touchdown run with 14:53 remaining in the first half. Wheaton connected with a quick strike on the first play of a drive midway into the second quarter when Roberts hit tight end Ben Leong on a 35-yard touchdown pass that cut the Titans' lead to 14-10 with 7:18 remaining in the first half. Gallik threw a 60-yard touchdown pass to Alex Garvey three plays later to increase the Titans' lead to 21-10. Wheaton responded on the very next drive when Roberts threw a 23-yard touchdown pass to Hiben with 3:18 left in the second quarter. Hiben's touchdown was setup one play earlier when Wheaton was at the IWU 48-yard line and Roberts threw a 25-yard pass to Morgan Cook that put the hosts at the IWU 23-yard line and on the very next play Hiben was in the end zone. Illinois Wesleyan marched down the field on the ensuing nine-play, 72-yard drive that culminated with Gallik scoring on a two-yard run that gave IWU a 27-17 lead with 13-seconds remaining in the first half to allow the Titans to hold that lead at halftime.
Wheaton's first drive of the second half was a 14-play march down the field for 80 yards, lasting 5:32. The drive culminated with a four-yard touchdown run by Velling that cut the Illinois Wesleyan lead to 27-24 with 7:11 left in the third quarter. The Titans responded on their next drive of the game when Gallik threw a 27-yard touchdown pass to Musselman to give IWU a 33-24 lead with 3:26 left in the third quarter.
Thunder defensive back Matt McReynolds intercepted an IWU pass at the Titans' 28-yard line with 4:53 remaining in the fourth quarter to give Wheaton strong field position. The Thunder made the most of McReynolds' interception two plays later when Roberts threaded a pass through the Titans' defense to Hiben for a 23-yard touchdown catch that cut the guests' lead to 33-31 with 4:21 remaining in regulation. The Wheaton defense stymied the IWU offense on the Titans' next drive as the Thunder forced a three-and-out for the guests.
The three-and-out forced the Titans to punt from their own 35 yard-line and Wheaton punt returner Luke Davis returned the kick 13 yards to the Thunder 40-yard line. On third down, with six yards needed for a first down, Roberts connected with David Washko for a 17-yard pass that put the hosts into Titan territory at the IWU 39-yard line. Later in the drive Wheaton again converted on third down to extend the critical drive. Two plays later, Hiben made a leaping grab in the corner of the end zone on a 21-yard touchdown pass from Roberts to give Wheaton its first lead since the first quarter. The eight-play drive of 60 yards gave Wheaton a 38-33 lead with 1:17 remaining in regulation. Illinois Wesleyan started the ensuing drive at its own 24-yard line and the Titans moved the ball to the Thunder 48–yard line until Wheaton defensive back Garrett Cook intercepted a pass at the Wheaton 13-yard line with 13-seconds remaining in the game to secure the victory for the hosts.


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January 14, 1943 - December 28, 2012
Middletown, NY
Robert S. Ferrara, a longtime area resident, died unexpectedly on Friday, December 28, 2012 at home. He was 69.
The son of the late Louis and Carmella Guzzi Ferrara, he was born on January 14, 1943 in New York City. Robert was a member of St. Joseph's R.C. Church in Middletown and worked for 43 years for Guardian Life Insurance.
He was a wonderful husband, father and grandfather who always took care of his family. He treasured family gatherings at his home. He loved cars and enjoyed going to car shows. He had a big knife collection and guns from his father. His grandchildren were his life and no matter what his family needed, he provided for them.
Robert is survived by his loving wife, Marie at home; one son, Robert and his fiance, Heather of Middletown; two daughters: Lisa Pfleger and her husband, Ernie of Georgia and Anna of Middletown; a sister, Gay Ann Allegue of Red Hook, NY; and his beloved grandchildren: Jamie, Liz, Christian, Anthony and Joseph. Robert was predeceased by one son, Joseph Ferrara.
Visitation hours are from 4 to 7 p.m. on Sunday, December 30, 2012 at Applebee-McPhillips Funeral Home, Inc, 130 Highland Avenue, Middletown, NY 10940. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, December 31, 2012 at St. Joseph's R.C. Church, 149 Cottage Street, Middletown, NY 10940. Interment will be at a later date in the family plot in St. Joseph's Cemetery.
Memorial contributions in Robert's name may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Memphis, TN 38105 or www.stjude.org
Arrangements under the direction of Applebee-McPhillips Funeral Home, Inc. www.applebee-mcphillips.com


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Kyle's Stubbornness The Only Safe Bet
Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos rolled all over the Washington Redskins in the second half with 38 unanswered points, en route to a 45-21 destruction at Mile High Stadium. Last week the Redskins offense showed signs of coming around against the Chicago Bears, but on Sunday against the Broncos, they appeared to have hibernated. Or maybe they were just stymied from the top down.
Enter offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan. Why, oh why, do people try to put square pegs in round holes? This isn't the first time that Redskin fans have been left scratching their heads as to what in the aqua blue hell was going on in Das Wunderkind's brain – but it's the first time for a while, that one might scratch hard enough to draw blood. I did anyway, and I may just have to remove the Redskins from my NFL football betting list if their offense continues to be completely paralyzed by their coordinator's need to treat it like a toy. It's a costly betting oversight most weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
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Sandy battered the U.S. East Coast on Monday with fierce winds and driving rain, as the monster storm shut down transportation, shuttered businesses and sent thousands scrambling for higher ground.
Forecasters say Sandy is "moving quickly" and should make landfall by around 8pm ET Monday in southern New Jersey or Delaware.
In its 7pm ET update, the National Hurricane Center downgraded the storm to a post-tropical cyclone and said it's losing strength but the storm still has sustained winds of 85 mph.
The eye has almost made landfall and is headed for New Jersey and Delaware.
Sandy was set to collide with a wintry storm from the west and cold air streaming down from the Arctic. The combination superstorm could menace some 50 million people in the most heavily populated corridor in the nation, from the East Coast to the Great Lakes.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told residents Monday evening to "stay put" and that the time for evacuation and relocation was over. Con Edison, the power company, has also shut down power in parts of lower Manhattan to lessen damage from flooding sea waters.
New Jersey's famously blunt Gov. Chris Christie also issued a warning to those who didn't evacuate as ordered. "For those who are on the barrier islands who decided it was a better idea to wait this out than to evacuate, for those elected officials who decided to ignore my admonition, this is now your responsibility," he said Monday evening.
"If you're still able to hear me, we need you to hunker down and get to the highest point possible in the dwelling that you are in. We will not be able to come help you until daylight tomorrow."
More than a million customers already were without power by early evening Monday and millions more could lose electricity. One disaster forecasting company predicted economic losses could ultimately reach $20 billion, only half of it insured.
All U.S. stock markets were closed on Monday and will remain closed on Tuesday, according to a NYSE Euronext statement. This marks the first weather-related closure for the markets in 27 years.
The company plans to re-open the markets on Wednesday "conditions permitting" and will provide further updates on Tuesday.
The hurricane-force winds blew over a construction crane on top of a luxury high-rise building in Manhattan, leaving the crane dangling off the edge of the building. The incident, at a building called One57 on West 57th Street, prompted a huge emergency response. New York City officials ordered people in neighboring buildings to move to lower floors.
The building is known as one of the priciest ever in New York. A six-bedroom penthouse at the building is under contract for a reported $90 million. The building recently made headlines for tax breaks from a program aimed at low-income housing. (Read more: Billionaires Get 'Low-Income' Tax Breaks in Condo Tower)
The superstorm could endanger 50 million people in the most heavily populated corridor in the nation, with forecasters warning that the New York area could get the worst of it — an 11-foot wall of water.
State governors warned of the acute danger from the winds and torrential rains.
"There will undoubtedly be some deaths that are caused by the intensity of this storm, by the floods, by the tidal surge, by the waves. The more responsibly citizens act, the fewer people will die," Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley told reporters.
He added that the storm's impact on the state will be much more severe than previously thought just 24 hours ago.
President Barack Obama declared emergencies in several states including Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, authorizing federal relief work to begin well ahead of time. He promised the government would "respond big and respond fast" to states and cities after the storm hits.
"My message to the governors as well as to the mayors is anything they need, we will be there, and we will cut through red tape," Obama said. "We are not going to get bogged down with a lot of rules."
Forecasting services indicated early Monday the center of the storm would strike the New Jersey shore near Atlantic City on Monday night. While Sandy does not pack the punch of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, it could become more potent as it approaches the U.S. coast.
"The time for preparing and talking is about over," Federal Emergency Management Administrator Craig Fugate said as Hurricane Sandy made its way up the Atlantic on a collision course with two other weather systems that could turn it into one of the most fearsome storms on record in the U.S. "People need to be acting now."
Airlines canceled more than 7,200 flights and Amtrak began suspending train service across the Northeast. New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and Baltimore moved to shut down their subways, buses and trains, and said schools would be closed on Monday. Boston also called off school. And all non-essential government offices closed in the nation's capital.
The second-largest oil refinery on the East Coast, Phillips 66's 238,000 barrel per day Bayway plant in Linden, N.J., was shutting down and three other plants cut output as the storm affected operations at two-thirds of the region's plants.
Oil prices slipped on Monday, with Brent crude near $109 a barrel. "With refineries cutting runs, we're likely to see a build-up in crude stocks which could be driving bearish prices at the moment," said Michael Creed, an economist at National Australia Bank in Melbourne.
As rain from the leading edges of the monster hurricane began to fall over the Northeast, hundreds of thousands of people from Maryland to Connecticut were ordered to evacuate low-lying coastal areas, including 375,000 in lower Manhattan and other parts of New York City, 50,000 in Delaware and 30,000 in Atlantic City, N.J., where the city's 12 casinos were forced to shut down for only the fourth time ever.
"We were told to get the heck out. I was going to stay, but it's better to be safe than sorry," said Hugh Phillips, who was one of the first in line when a Red Cross shelter in Lewes, Del., opened at noon.
"I think this one's going to do us in," said Mark Palazzolo, who boarded up his bait-and-tackle shop in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., with the same wood he used in past storms, crossing out the names of Hurricanes Isaac and Irene and spray-painting "Sandy" next to them. "I got a call from a friend of mine from Florida last night who said, 'Mark, get out! If it's not the storm, it'll be the aftermath. People are going to be fighting in the streets over gasoline and food.'"
Authorities warned that the nation's biggest city could get hit with a surge of seawater that could swamp parts of lower Manhattan, flood subway tunnels, and cripple the network of electrical and communications lines that are vital to the nation's financial center.
On Monday, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said New York City's Brooklyn Battery and Holland Tunnels would close at 2 p.m., while the Verrazano Bridge and George Washington Bridge would close close at 7 p.m.
Sandy, a Category 1 hurricane, was blamed for 69 deaths in the Caribbean before it began traveling northward, parallel to the Eastern Seaboard. As of 11 a.m., it was moving at 18 mph, with hurricane-force winds extending an extraordinary 175 miles from its center.
It was expected to hook inland during the day Monday, colliding with a wintry storm moving in from the west and cold air streaming down from the Arctic.
Forecasters said Sandy was a rare, hybrid "super storm" created by an Arctic jet stream wrapping itself around a tropical storm, possibly causing up to 12 inches of rain in some areas, as well as up to 3 feet of snowfall in the Appalachian Mountains from West Virginia to Kentucky, and widespread power outages that last for days.
Louis Uccellini of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration told The Associated Press that given Sandy's east-to-west track into New Jersey, the worst of the storm surge could be just to the north, in New York City, on Long Island, N.Y., and in northern New Jersey.
"This is the worst-case scenario," Uccellini said.
Forecasters said that because of giant waves and high tides made worse by a full moon, the metropolitan area of about 20 million people could get hit with an 11-foot wall of water.
New York called off school Monday for the city's 1.1 million students and announced it would suspend all train, bus and subway service Sunday night. More than 5 million riders a day depend on the transit system.
Officials also postponed Monday's reopening of the Statue of Liberty, which had been closed for a year for $30 million in renovations.
President Obama also pleaded for neighborliness: "In times like this, one of the things that Americans do is we pull together and we help out one another And so, there may be elderly populations in your area. Check on your neighbor, check on your friend. Make sure that they are prepared. If we do, then we're going to get through this storm just fine."
The storm forced Obama and Republican Mitt Romney to call off their campaign events at the very height of the presidential race, with just over a week to go before Election Day. And early voting was canceled Monday in Maryland and Washington, D.C.
Despite the dire warnings, some souls were refusing to budge.
Jonas Clark of Manchester Township, N.J. — right in the area where Sandy was projected to come ashore — stood outside a convenience store, calmly sipping a coffee and wondering why people were working themselves "into a tizzy."
"I've seen a lot of major storms in my time, and there's nothing you can do but take reasonable precautions and ride out things the best you can," said Clark, 73. "Nature's going to what it's going to do. It's great that there's so much information out there about what you can do to protect yourself and your home, but it all boils down basically to 'use your common sense."'
In New Jersey, Denise Faulkner and her boyfriend showed up at the Atlantic City Convention Center with her 7-month-old daughter and two sons, ages 3 and 12, thinking there was a shelter there. She was dismayed to learn that it was just a gathering point for buses to somewhere else. Last year, they were out of their home for two days because of Hurricane Irene.
"I'm real overwhelmed," she said as baby Zahiriah, wrapped in a pink blanket with embroidered elephants, slept in a car seat. "We're at it again. Last year we had to do it. This year we have to do it. And you have to be around all sorts of people — strangers. It's a bit much."
Before leaving their home in Atlantic City, John and Robshima Williams of packed their kids' Halloween costumes so they could go bunk-to-bunk trick-or-treating at a shelter. Her 8-year-old twins are going as the Grim Reaper and a zombie, while her 6-year-old plans to dress as a witch.
"We're just trying to make a bad situation good," the mother said. "We're going to make it fun no matter where we are."


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I have a confession to make and I'm not sure how to say it. I've been trying to figure out how to go through with this confession for some time now. So here goes….I've become a hooker. You heard me. I'm a hooker.
You see, sometimes a need arises and a girl has to do what a girl has to do. I had a friend in need, and this was my only option. She and I have been friends since we were 12. I couldn't let her down. So that's the way it is. You want to see a picture of me in action? Here goes…
Hee hee…had you going there didn't I? Well, get your minds out of the gutter…do you really think I'd become THAT kind of hooker?
Well, I've been a knitter for going on 9 years now, and so putting down the needles and picking up a hook and learning to crochet did feel like a bit of a betrayal to the craft that has kept me sane for nearly a decade now. And I was being honest, I did learn in order to make a sweet girlfriend a hat for her baby girl (which I was in such a hurry to send to her I didn't even take a picture!). But never in a million years did I think it would become my new obsession! I've gone CROCHET CRAZY! As in I might have to change the name of this blog to Crochet Addictions (which does not have the same ring). You want to see how obsessed I've become? You should see all the projects I've completed since I learned to crochet in November!! Ok, I'll show you:
I fell in love with this blanket from this sweet blog, Attic 24, and that was what really started things rolling. I immediately got out my stash of easy care yarn and got to stash busting.
I've mostly knitted sweaters in the last few years. I have knitted maybe a handful of blankets in my tenure, and had a really difficult time tolerating the monotony of them. Knitted blankets take SO long! Even baby blankets.
But this puppy worked up so fast, in less than a month I was able to completely finish it and have it packed up and mailed to my sister for Christmas. I was literally hooked! And because I was so used to knitting sweaters, which I often made in neutral or earth tones so they would fit nicely in any wardrobe, I just loved working with all the colors in this blanket. This was a major stash buster. I used various shades of Red Heart and TLC yarn which I had collected back in my early days of learning to knit and at various times when I thought I *might* knit blankets again, but never did. Some of the colors in this blanket I had in my stash for at least 8 years! But they worked up beautifully together.
And I didn't stop there, oh no.
The baby who brought me into the world of crochet would need a blanket as well!
Aren't those colors beautiful?! The ripple pattern again came from Attic 24, here. I have to admit, I struggled with it at first since, hey, I knew how to make exactly one crochet stitch at this point! But with my handy dandy "learn to crochet" pamphlet, I mastered it eventually and I'm so glad I stuck with it, because I LOVED the end result.
L loved it too and was sad to see it go, so I've started another one for him.
This one (and the one I've started for him as well) was made from Vanna's Choice and Vanna's Baby yarns. So lovely! I haven't bought acrylic yarns for ages since I am a snob and would NEVER use them for a sweater, but for blankets, I'm all about softness and machine washability (is that a word? well it is now!). This yarn is luscious! The colors are beautiful and there is a sheen to the yarn that is so lovely. And SOFT! So soo soft. I love it! The blanket turned out about 44″x48″ and used every last scrap of all 8 balls of yarn with 4 stripes of each color except red with had 5 stripes. I think that it will hold up nicely and I hope it will be used for years to come. The icing on the cake??? Guess how long it took me to make this…guess…2 WEEKS! It would have taken me months to knit the same blanket and I probably would have enjoyed it less. Pretty awesome!
And while I was on a rippley roll…and since I'd given away all my crocheted items to date, I had to make one to keep:
I am so in love with this blanket it's not even funny.
This was another stash buster…more of those icky Red Heart/TLC yarns, which felt like using shredded plastic bags after that loverly Vanna's yarn, but I still LOVE the colors.
Stealthy eyes will notice that there are a couple of rogue stripes in there. I had to sneak some replacement colors in when I ran out of a few skeins. The problem with using yarn that's been in your stash for years is that colors get discontinued in that time! But that's ok. I love it, even with it's mis-matched rows and imperfections. And that's what true love is all about, no?
This is my favorite part of the blanket, where the color sequence was just like I wanted it…but alas, my favorite colors were, of course, the ones I ran out of.
This puppy is BIG too! 48″x64″ before it was washed. As you can see, if you were looking, in my very first picture of this post, it covers nearly the length of the back of my couch…and my couch is 84″ long! So I'd say this baby stretched to a good 72″ after washing. Joy
Whew…had enough of my hooking for one day? I have lots more to show you, but it'll have to wait til next time.


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NEW YORK The stock market headed slightly lower Friday, keeping on track for its first weekly loss in a month.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index was down three points, at 1,647, a slip of 0.2 percent, as of 1:30 p.m. Eastern time.
The Dow Jones industrial average was down three points at 15,291. Procter & Gamble Co. (PG) supported the Dow, rising 4 percent.
Both indexes are headed for their first weekly losses since the week ending April 19. Anxiety over the Federal Reserve's bond-buying program was the main culprit. Some investors are concerned that the Fed will scale back its effort to support the economy sooner than they expected.
The S&P 500, widely used by mutual funds as a proxy for the stock market, is down 1.2 percent for the week. It's still up 15 percent so far this year.
Marty Leclerc, the managing partner of Barrack Yard Advisors, an investment firm in Bryn Mawr, Pa., said the weekly drop wasn't cause for concern. Even market rallies have to take the occasional break.
"It's up like a rocket blast this year,'' he said of the stock market. "For there to be a little bit of a pullback is perfectly understandable.''
Sears (SHLD) plunged 14 percent after the department-store chain reported a steep quarterly loss and slumping sales after the market closed Thursday. Sears lost $7.91 to $50.26.
Procter & Gamble announced late Thursday that it's bringing back its former CEO, A.G. Lafley, to run the company. The world's largest consumer-products maker, whose brands include Tide and Crest, is trying to increase sales in the face of tough competition. P&G rose $3.22 to $81.92.
The Nasdaq composite sank six points, or 0.2 percent, to 3,453. Nine of the 10 industry groups in the S&P 500 dropped.
The stock market slipped Friday despite an encouraging report on U.S. manufacturing. The government said orders for long-lasting manufactured goods rebounded in April, helped by demand for aircraft and stronger business investment. The report suggests economic growth may hold steady this spring.
In the market for U.S. government bonds, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note dipped to 2.01 percent from 2.02 percent late Thursday.
The price of crude oil fell 43 cents to $93.83 a barrel. Gold dropped $5.20 to $1,386.60 an ounce.
Trading was light ahead of the long weekend. U.S. financial markets will be closed Monday for Memorial Day.
Among other stocks in the news Friday:
Intuitive Surgical gained 5 percent after a jury decided in favor of the maker of robotic medical equipment in the first of many lawsuits filed against the company. The plaintiffs argued that Intuitive was negligent in training doctors to use its equipment. Intuitive's stock rose $25.13 to $503.58.
Titan Machinery plunged 9 percent. The company, which deals in agricultural and construction equipment, said late Thursday that weaker revenue will lead it to a wider quarterly loss than it had expected. Titan's stock lost $2.07 to $20.43.


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STUDIA SOCJOLOGICZNE is a Polish sociological quarterly, published since 1961. Its publishers are the Polish Academy of Sciences (represented by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology and the Committee on Sociology), as well as the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Warsaw (from 2013).
STUDIA SOCJOLOGICZNE welcomes articles in Polish and English from all sociological fields and neighbouring disciplines (as long as the authors apply a broadly defined sociological approach). Preference is given to texts that contribute to the advancement of social theory and are empirically grounded and innovative in their conceptual and methodological outlook. More at www.studiasocjologiczne.pl .
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"Teen Mom" and "Teen Mom 2" star Farrah Abraham has sold her sex tape for a sum reportedly in the high six figures — or somewhere in the neighborhood of $14,000 a minute for the 70 minutes of naked nasty goodness.
Or badness, depending on your point of view.
"I'm happy to confirm that we have purchased it," Vivid Entertainment honcho Steve Hirsch said in a statement Monday. "We went after this movie as vigorously as any sex tape we've ever pursued. We felt it was definitely worth it, not only because of Farrah's popularity, but because the footage itself is amazing. ...
"Farrah's looks remind me of a young Kim Kardashian," he said, "and we all know how her story turned out."
Of course, Kardashian didn't have the reality show before the sex tape. And she didn't select an actual porn star, James Deen, as her costar in the Kimmy-and-Ray J. adventure.
The price-tag estimate comes courtesy of TMZ, which has a chatty relationship with Hirsch.
The less-than-demure title? "Farrah Superstar: Backdoor Teen Mom," something Abraham, now nearly 22, seems somewhat uncomfortable with in the (fully clothed, absolutely not erotic) video above.
Interestingly enough, Abraham's message to the Season 2 cast of "16 and Pregnant," taped when she was a newly minted "Teen Mom," contains telling nuggets of advice: "Make sure you have a plan for the future," and "For the cameras, act like they're not there and be yourself." Check it out in the video clip below.
And in other Abraham news, TMZ reports that her attorney entered "not guilty" pleas on her behalf Monday to three drunk-driving-related charges in Nebraska: aggravated DUI, refusal to take a field test and disorderly conduct. Her trial is set for May 31.
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Jobs will not be sacrificed even if the federal government has to make spending cuts to ensure a lean, tight budget, Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury says.
It's a pledge that has fallen on deaf ears with the coalition accusing Labor of being addicted to spending and blowing out the budget through wasteful programs.
With the looming fiscal cliff crisis engulfing the United States, Mr Bradbury said it was more important than ever for Australia's economy to be managed responsibly.
But there was no denying the flow-on effects of the global financial crisis had dealt a blow to the government's revenue base and thwarted its chances of returning the 2012/2013 budget to surplus.
"This is not a case of the government loosening the purse strings," Mr Bradbury told reporters in Sydney on Monday.
"We are determined to manage our budget in a responsible way and that means there will, on occasion, be need for cuts."
Striving for a tight and disciplined budget would be even more important in the face of growing global uncertainty, but Australian jobs would always be put first.
Coalition frontbencher Jamie Briggs said it was not an economic strategy for Labor to blame other countries for their "budget woes".
The US fiscal cliff saga presented its problems, but it wasn't to blame for the government's lack of revenue and failure to deliver a surplus.
"There is not a revenue problem in Australia, there is a spending problem," Mr Briggs told reporters in Adelaide.
"The Australian budget problem is Labor's spending, Labor's waste and mismanagement."
Former Liberal treasurer Peter Costello managed to deliver budgeted surpluses in 1998 and 2001 despite the Asian economic meltdown and the September 11 terrorist attacks, Mr Briggs said.
"There is no excuse for (Treasurer) Wayne Swan not to deliver a surplus."