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Q: Describe what's in The Danger Box.
BB: The Danger Box is a mystery set in a very small, very quiet town in Michigan, one that could be almost anywhere in the United States. A worn, red notebook appears, one that might or might not have belonged to one of the most famous and controversial thinkers ever, a person who has been dead for over a hundred years—and whose name is known around the world. Dangerous sparks are struck…and soon a boy, a girl and a way of life are surrounded by flames.
Q: You're widely known for writing books about famous artists and visionaries – Johannes Vermeer in Chasing Vermeer, Frank Lloyd Wright in The Wright 3, Alexander Calder in The Calder Game, what made you decide to write a new mystery focusing on a world-renowned scientist?
BB: Science is filled with as much controversy and as many questions as art—especially the scientific ideas of this particular thinker. But the ideas that made this man's name a household word also hid who he was as a person. My hope in writing this book was to give kids more access to this inspiring, humble and often-misunderstood guy.
Q: You have said The Danger Box is a book you HAD to write. Can you explain that?
BB: When I stumbled on the fact that this one priceless notebook was missing, I was so excited—and the story practically told itself. Wouldn't it be amazing if this object were actually found one day by one of the kids who read my book? Stranger things have happened, and sometimes fact follows fiction...
Q: How did you choose the setting for The Danger Box?
BB: I knew I wanted a small community, and one within easy driving distance of Chicago, where I live. When I first saw Three Oaks, I fell in love with it—there's one main street with just a handful of local businesses, a train that runs through the middle of town but hasn't stopped there in fifty years, and endless fields of corn and soybeans. It almost feels like a small island buried in green.
Q: Can you talk about your research process for this book? Did you discover anything about this famous man that surprised you?
BB: I read lots about this man's life, which is often overshadowed by his ideas. I felt he could be an accessible and inspiring friend to all kinds of kids. He started out with lots of weaknesses and difficulties—anxiety, lack of success at school, compulsive collecting and list-making, to name a few—and yet somehow those qualities that tripped him up at first might not have been all bad, and perhaps they even became strengths that contributed to his work and fame.
Q: Do you still write in your laundry room? Describe your writing process.
BB: I do; I started out working in there when our kids were teenagers, as it's out of the way but still in the middle of the house. When I get stuck writing on my laptop I go to a legal pad. I carry a pocket-sized notebook everywhere, and write down ideas whenever they occur. Sometimes, if I'm puzzling over a piece of the plot, it becomes clear just as I'm falling asleep or when I first wake up.
Q: You have said that the characters from your previous novels were loosely based on some of the kids you taught when you were a teacher at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. Are Zoomy and Lorrol based on real kids?
BB: All of my characters are inspired by kids I taught and people I've known, but Zoomy's special way of seeing is a quality I've only observed from a distance. Before beginning the book, I visited an optometrist who fitted me with lenses that made it possible to temporarily glimpse the range of Zoomy's vision, and this doctor also allowed me to see what Zoomy's glasses might look like from the outside. While I was writing, I was always trying to imagine myself inside Zoomy, looking out.
Q: Zoomy's grandparents are very supportive of him and treat him like any other kid, despite his physical challenges. Did you have similar grandparents?
BB: When quite young, I spent lots of time with grandparents during the summers, and think there's a special kind of bond that can pull the old and the young together. My sister and brother and I did help out a bit by sweeping, doing dishes, weeding or watering, and keeping my grandfather company while he ate lunch, which sometimes took a long time. Zoomy has lots of chores, and everyone in his household pulls together to get washing, gardening and cooking done. It's not a bad thing to be needed.
Q: Are there any particular character(s) in the book that you identify with the most and why?
BB: Like Zoomy, I was closely connected to the grownups around me, but didn't feel I could always see what was going on too clearly. Also, I had 'aha' moments, times when I suddenly glimpsed meaning or pattern, and felt I had understood something valuable—but didn't know how to say it. That's what I'm trying to do now!
Q: Talk about the 'Gas Gazette' entries… How did that come about and why did you decide to incorporate that in The Danger Box?
BB: The more I learned about this scientist's personality and life, the more I wanted to share with kids. At first, I planted lots of the quotes and facts that are now in the Gas Gazette within the text itself, but that began to feel heavy. I wanted the man himself to become a necessary piece of the puzzle, and that's when I turned him over to Zoomy and Lorrol, and he came alive as 'Gas', which was his teenage nickname. As soon as 'Gas' began to speak for himself, the Gas Gazettes just poured out…I could barely keep up with all that Gas wanted to say. It was an odd feeling, as if he'd stepped off the page.
Q: There seems to be a lot of interest in Charles Darwin recently. What is it about him that you think fascinates people to this day?
BB: Okay, so this mysterious scientist is Charles Darwin, yes! Well, on the occasion of his 200th birthday, in 2009, there were lots of exhibits and many wonderful books came out. I do think he's fascinating in part because he's such a hot-button figure, especially in the United States, where his theory of evolution still creates a huge amount of controversy.
Q: What do you hope readers will take away from The Danger Box?
BB: My hope is that kids from all kinds of backgrounds can be inspired by Darwin as a person, regardless of whether they or the people around them agree with his ideas about biology. Darwin was an amazing seeker of patterns, a huge dreamer and thinker—and yet he had so many qualities that most adults today would consider problems. The idea that so-called weaknesses can become strengths—that intrigues me. Are there also times when a physical disability can allow a person to accomplish things that others might not? I think this is an exciting question.
Q: What's next for you?
BB: Hmm, I'm still at the stage of gathering ingredients and stirring them around. I'm not quite ready to talk about what I'm up to, but my research is taking me to unfamiliar and not-easy places. And, as always, I'm learning like mad. That is one of the great pleasures—I guess I like the 'yikes, uh-oh' feeling of this kind of exploration.
You could say I'm a danger box kind of girl
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The Calder Game
Blue Balliett
Illustrated by Brett Helquist
In this third installment of Blue Balliet's art mysteries, everything is hanging by a thread. Focusing on the artwork of Alexander Calder, particularly on his mobiles and stabiles, the mystery deals with the disappearance of two Calders—the protagonist Calder Pillay, and an Alexander Calder sculpture. Calder Pillay, a twelve-year-old from Chicago, is on a business trip with his father in a small town near Oxford. When he goes missing, his good friends Petra and Tommy fly to England to search for clues. But while Petra and Tommy are both friends of Calder's, their relationship with one another is prickly. Certain that their expertise with words and symbols will aid them in finding their friend, it isn't until they join forces that they start to make real progress, cementing their own friendship in the process. Like a Calder mobile, the pieces and players in Balliet's story are in constant motion. Petra and Tommy become desperate to understand the message of the British graffiti artist Banksy, the motives of certain town residents, and the twists and turns in an old hedge maze. Also embedded in a story certain to inspire thinking and conversation about art—what it is, how it is or is not valued—are clever clue-containing illustrations by Brett Helquist. CCBC Category: Fiction for Children. 2008, Scholastic Press, 379 pages, $17.99. Ages 8-12. Reviewer: CCBC (Cooperative Children's Book Center Choices 2009).
Awards, Honors, Prizes:
Cybils, 2008 Nominee Middle Grade Novels United States
Chasing Vermeer
Blue Balliett
Illustrated by Brett Helquist
When Vermeer's priceless painting, "A Lady Writing," disappears in transit to an exhibit in Chicago, two of Ms. Hussey's sixth-grade students are ready to do whatever they can to recover "the lady." Calder Pillay and Petra Andalee have discovered, in a used bookstore in their neighborhood near the University of Chicago, a book that documents strange occurrences and unexplained coincidences. And isn't it a strange occurrence that Petra has been having vivid dreams about that very picture--before she even knew it existed? And isn't it an unexplained coincidence that Ms. Hussey has given the class an assignment to explore the significance of letters--just as the art thief has delivered secret, cryptic letters to three unidentified individuals? Balliett's engrossing and engaging debut novel sets two bright, quirky, imaginative children on the path to a series of discoveries about the transformative power of great art, and the mysterious, mystical connections that link all of reality. It's no objection to her story that everything in it turns on coincidence heaped upon coincidence, for that is its point: that nothing is coincidence, that all events are part of some yet unexplained pattern. Helquist's haunting illustrations spin further mystery by containing coded messages for the reader to decipher. This is an unusual story that should appeal to all the Calders and Petras who know--or hope--that there is more to the universe than what can be rationally explained. 2004, Scholastic, $16.95. Ages 8 to 12. Reviewer: Claudia Mills, Ph.D. (Children's Literature).
Awards, Honors, Prizes:
Agatha Awards, 2005 Winner Best Children's/Young Adult Novel United States
Book Sense Book of the Year Award, 2005 Winner Children's Literature United States
Borders Original Voices Award, 2004 Winner Intermediate/Young Adult United States
Chicago Tribune Prize for Young Adult Literature, 2004 Winner United States
Edgar Allan Poe Awards, 2005 Winner Best Juvenile Novel United States
Great Lakes Great Books Award, 2004 Winner Children's Chapter Book Michigan
Maine Student Book Award, 2006 4th Place Maine
Parents' Choice Award, 2004 Silver Fiction United States
Voice of Youth Award, 2005-2006 Third Place United States
The Danger Box
Blue Balliett
You can always count on Balliett to offer a story filled with intrigue, insight, and offbeat memorable characters. Zoomy Chamberlain, Pathologically Myopic, has lived with his grandparents in the small town of Three Oaks, Michigan since the day his deadbeat dad left him on the doorstep in a cat crate. With thick glasses the legally blind boy has no friends and lives a solitary life. He has a fetish about keeping lists in purple ink and he loves the Search Box of the Internet because it lets you become a spy. The day his alcoholic father, Buckeye, comes back into his life driving a stolen truck and leaving a special box with his grandfather Zoomy's life become one fast track adventure. In the box Zoomy discovers a journal with tiny writing, lots of crossed out words, and lists. Through research on the Internet and with the help of a newfound friend Lorrel, almost as much a misfit as himself, Zoomy believes he is possession of one of Darwin's journals from his journey on the Beagle. Things become complicated and dangerous when the owner of the stolen book arrives in town intent on getting the book back at all costs. The whole town gets in on the mystery when the two kids leave tantalizing clues in issues of the Gas Gazette hinting at the identity of Darwin. From the opening chapter with the its cryptic twelve word message the reader is pulled in and lead into a exquisite plot with twits and turns leading to a satisfying denouement. Baillett blends history, natural science, philosophy, and an intricate mystery into a powerful cohesive whole. In addition we meet and extraordinary gentle boy, a deep thinker and one wise beyond his years. Zoomy's lesson that " a discovery isn't always and happy thing and a happy thing isn't always a discovery" is a valuable one for us all. As the cover warns, "open with care" and be prepared to be wowed. 2010, Scholastic, Ages 10 to 12, $16.99. Reviewer: Beverley Fahey (Children's Literature).
The Wright 3
Blue Balliett
Illustrated by Brett Helquist
Readers will be happy to see the return of Blue Balliet's memorable characters from her debut novel, Chasing Vermeer. Calder and Petra find architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House the source of their next great mystery and adventure. With the help of Tommy, an old classmate of Calder's who moves back to Hyde Park, the threesome team sort through clues, coincidences, and conspiracies as they struggle to save the Robie House from demolition. Their struggle involves triangles, invisible men, codes from Frank Lloyd Wright himself, and ghost voices. As in Blue Balliet's last book, this book will keep you reading caught up in the many strange and frightening circumstances facing the characters. Hard feelings between Petra and Tommy add to the tension of the story. The history of the Robie House, a masterpiece built for children with art, glass windows, and treasures to be found, is woven beautifully throughout the book. The Robie House's past is haunting, full of tragedy and secrets, but Petra, Calder, and Tommy bring the Robie House into a new light. This second book with Petra and Calder, and the effort to save another important piece of artwork, will not disappoint readers. 2006, Scholastic Press, $16.99. Ages 8 to 12. Reviewer: Erin Pelletier (Children's Literature).
Awards, Honors, Prizes:
Great Lakes Great Books Award, 2006 Finalist United States
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My Mother's Gift
By Rahul Mehta
While I wait, I remember that day 15 years ago at the jazz festival. I remember how terrified I was that my mother would get up from the picnic bench, turn her back, and walk away. Having her read my book is like coming out to her all over again.
I remember another incident from 2007, during the same trip when my uncle in Mumbai fed Robert sweets. We had gone to Ahmedabad for a few weeks. Robert was studying at the Darpana Dance Academy, and I was tagging along, since I have relatives there. These are my most conservative relatives, the ones I most feared would abandon me were they to find out I'm gay.
The hotel we stayed in was one block from Darpana and just a few blocks from my cousin's house. She had insisted several times that we stay with her, but we said it would be easier if we stayed at the hotel. Still, we saw her almost every day. She sewed buttons on my shirt. When I fell ill, she brought me khichdi in my hotel room, sat with me while I ate it, washed the containers in the bathroom sink. If she noticed that the two twin beds were pushed together to form a single, double-sized bed, she didn't say so.
When it was time for us to leave Ahmedebad, Robert and I went to my cousin's house to say goodbye. She cried and hugged me and pressed a money envelope into my palm -- a gesture I recognized as a tradition, since I was her younger cousin-brother. Then, still crying, she hugged Robert goodbye. I saw her press into his palm an identical money envelope. He was her younger brother, too.
While writing this essay I realize something I wasn't quite aware of before. My mother was the one who told all my relatives in America that I'm gay, not me. It was a gift. If anyone had a reaction that was hesitant or negative, my mother hid it, then fixed it. In India, my aunt and my cousin-sister were doing the same thing.
About a week after my mom received my manuscript, she finally calls.
'I've read the book.'
'When I first started reading, I was really surprised. I thought, 'He's writing abou that?' I was shocked.'
I interrupt my mom, trying to explain. 'Let me finish,' she says. 'I absolutely love it. You are a wonderful writer. The observations, the insights'.. you see things. I'm so proud of you.'
When she says this, I start to cry. I am worried a colleague or a student may come by my office and see me. I am also worried that my mother, on the other end of the line, might hear.
'I've given it to your father to read,' she says.
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That's not just conventional wisdom, it's recycled conventional wisdom; after all, last year everybody believed she couldn't have made a better pick than a Holocaust memoir by Elie Wiesel—even though she made that choice before her relationship with Frey had completely deteriorated. Here, for example, is Alexander Cockburn in last April's CounterPunch: "One can easily see why Oprah Winfrey and her advisers saw an Auschwitz excursion in the company of Wiesel as a sure-fire antidote to salve the wounds sustained by Oprah's Book Club when it turned out that James Frey had faked significant slabs of his own supposedly autobiographical saga of moral regeneration."
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I'm going to throw my two cents in: If Oprah really wants people to forget James Frey, she should take the opposite tack and get an author who might do something so outrageous he or she will stick in viewers' minds forever, the way you'll always remember that time Crispin Glover nearly kicked David Letterman in the head. I like our friend Jessica Cutler for the gig, but maybe you've got other candidates…?


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There is no difference to the above three apply methods. Because for phone and in-person apply, representative still has to type in your information to the computer and let the computer to decide. They do not have decision authority over application. Now days everything is done by computer.
If you think you have a solid chance of approval apply online, if not, call. My reasoning is that you can ask for a recon while still on the phone if you're denied. They can perform their "further review" while you hold and/or answer any questions they might have.
I would choose on-line. Last time I did an app in-person, the csr typed all my info into her computer, then applied and approved me for the wrong card!
I don't know that it makes a difference, but I prefer online. Nothing more embarrassing than a big fat denial while others standby and watch..lol
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Online. The only time I applied for a credit card in person was for my Freedom card because I wanted to make sure it was linked to my checking accoun for 10&10/Chase Excusives, but I could have done that over the phone anyway.
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Macy's you SHOULD do in store only (You apply online and they ONLY consider you for store, not Amex also... and Macy's is really crazy about the credit card making purchases online...
in store you can end up with store, and amex. instantly.
I prefer to apply online b/c I can see what I'm getting...I've only applied for credit in store twice b/c I absolutely had to...lol.
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I prefer to apply online b/c I can see what I'm getting...I've only applied for credit in store twice b/c I absolutely had to...lol.
I agree in the sense that I rather apply at home when it comes to banks or cards that I know I can call seconds after whatever message I get (approved, let you know, or declined) and try to get it recon, upped, or what not... I have in past done stuff in Sams store but if busy that is a pain to be on a phone at the service desk talking to underwriting!! In some cases I want them to know I got approved after they had to tell me declined!
but otherwise i rather be at home to do the phone stuff.
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By Simon Beins is Associate Director, Strategy, Heartbeat Ideas & Heartbeat West. Earlier this year, FDA promised three sets of guidelines to clarify using social media for pharma marketing. Last week it delivered two of them The first, Internet/Social Media Platforms with Character Space Limitation—Presenting Risk and Benefit Information for Prescription Drugs and Medical Devices, […]
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...I'll ever make the balcony a pigeon-free or droppings-free zone. But I have made progress.
One trick is to not let them lay their eggs in the flower pots and the flower bed.
By observing them I have seen that they make a nest by collecting twigs and leaves. They can collect a significant quantity in just a day, so I need to be vigilant and whenever I see them flying to and from the balcony I start looking: chances are there'll be the beginnings of a nest somewhere. So I put on my disposable latex gloves and throw away the twigs. Then I rearrange the flower pots to make the spot inaccessible for a day or so. They forget all about the old nest, and take their business elsewhere.
It was by spritzing them with the water hose for a couple of days that I re-instated their natural fear in people. I felt like such a bitch to do this, but they got the message and now when they see me outside they fly away by themselves, and this is a relief! They were getting so cheeky, you could almost touch them and they wouldn't fly away!
By watering the flowers in the evening, I have made the balcony less appealing to them. When they get splashed they fly away, and they're so sleepy they'll fall asleep somewhere else.
Pigeons can be very persistent when they operate on autopilot, but also have a short attention span. If you can somehow distract them and make them change their patterns of behavior, they adhere quite well to the new situation.
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Boy, time passes by quickly. I started writing Sinon.JS while writing my book on TDD with JavaScript, and in just a month, Sinon.JS has celebrates its first birthday (0.5.0 was released June 9th 2010). Today I am happy to announce Sinon.JS 1.1.0, the first significant update since 1.0.0, released last December. In this post I'll take you through what's new and exciting in 1.1.0.
As always, Sinon.JS honors semantic versioning, meaning that if your code works with 1.0.x, 1.1.0 is a drop-in replacement. Eager? get your copy right away.
Bug fixes
Sinon.JS is just another project to show that properly testing your code pays off. Very few bugs have been filed, even with quite widespread use. I personally use Sinon.JS almost daily, and have stumbled upon very few problems. Still, a few minor issues have been sorted out, and Sinon.JS is now more bullet proof than ever.
Spies have gained one important new method:
withArgs. This little gem allows you to create a spy that will only record calls for a specific set of arguments. This is mildly useful for spies, but as you will see, when stubs inherit this method it gets really interesting.
Here is how you would use it with spies:
"test should call method once with each argument": function () {
var object = { method: function () {} };
var spy = sinon.spy(object, "method");
If you call
withArgs on the same spy with the same arguments multiple times, you always get the same spy, which allows for the expressive syntax seen in the example above.
withArgs also returns a new spy that supports the
full spy API.
Because stubs inherit the full spy API, they also gained the new
withArgs method. This adds a sorely missed feature in Sinon.JS: the ability to cause a stub to behave differently in response to different input.
"test should stub method differently based on arguments": function () {
var callback = sinon.stub();
callback(); // No return value, no exception
callback(42); // Returns 1
callback(1); // Throws TypeError
The arguments can be any value of course, not just numbers.
yields and yieldsTo
Callbacks are not exactly uncommon in JavaScript. Stubs have supported the
callsArg and
callsArgWith methods almost since the beginning to help with automatically invoking callbacks passed to stubs. With 1.1.0, there are two new methods that make this slightly prettier, and slightly less implementation specific.
yields([arg1, arg2, ...]) method will invoke the first callback passed to the stub with the given arguments (if any). This means you no longer have to specify the argument index at which the callback can be found. It's a little bit of magic, but it is based on the fact that most callback based APIs accept a single callback somewhere among the arguments.
Here's an example of using the new method:
var todoList = {
getItem: function (id, callback) {
// ...
"test should do something when the callback is called": function () {
sinon.stub(todoList, "getItem").yields({ id: 1, text: "Something", isDone: false });
todoList.getItem(1, function (item) {
assertEquals(item, { id: 1, text: "Something", isDone: false });
Obviously, testing that a stub behaves as configured is just silly, but you get the point.
A related method is
yieldsTo. It works like
yields, only it calls a callback received as a property on an object argument. You provide the property name, and Sinon.JS finds the right object:
"test should fake successful ajax request": function () {
sinon.stub(jQuery, "ajax").yieldsTo("success", [1, 2, 3]);
success: function (data) {
assertEquals([1, 2, 3], data);
Sandboxed stubs
When using the
stub method through a sandbox (typically looks like
this.stub(...)), you can now stub any kind of property, not just functions. This is useful if you want to override some value inside a single test and have it automatically restored afterwards.
Mocks have received quite an overhaul. Previously, Sinon.JS would only consider mock expectations in the strict order they were defined. This has never been the exact intention, and was considered a bug. This fact was confirmed by people reporting to me that this behavior was unexpected. In any case, you can now define mock expectations as you wish, and when the mock is called, Sinon will figure out which expectation to consume next.
Additionally, mocks have significantly improved their error reporting. For instance, consider the following example from the docs:
"test mock failure messages": function () {
var myAPI = { method: function () {} };
var mock = sinon.mock(myAPI);
With Sinon.JS 1.0.2 and below, this test would fail with "method received no arguments, expected 42". In 1.1.0, you'll get this:
Expected method(42[, ...]) once (never called)
Expected method([...]) twice (called once)
In other words, Sinon will print a full report of expected and received calls. This should entirely remove the need to whip out some logging statement or additional asserts to figure out why your tests are failing.
Related to the mock improvements are the new and improved failure messages from assertions. As you know, testing is all about getting as much valuable feedback as possible, and Sinon has stepped it up one notch.
"test assertion failure messages": function () {
var myAPI = { method: function () {} };
sinon.stub(myAPI, "method").returns(true);
myAPI.method("Hey", "There", "Fella");
Sinon.JS 1.0.2 and below will fail this test with "expected method to be called once but was called thrice". In 1.1.0 you get:
expected method to be called once but was called thrice
method() => true
method(42) => true
method(Hey, There, Fella) => true
Sinon now also exposes the
sinon.format(object) method which you can override if you want more intelligent formatting of arguments. The default implementation simply coerces objects to strings, but you could do fancy stuff like quote strings and so on. Sinon 1.2.0 will ship with awesome formatting.
The fake server
Auto responding - mockup development with Sinon.JS
Some work has been done on the fake server to make it suitable for mockup development. By calling
server.autoRespond(10);, the server will automatically respond to requests after 10ms. This means you can drop in Sinon.JS and a server.js file on an HTML page to work with a fake server, defined in JavaScript.
Response functions
respondWith method accepts a wide variety of arguments, as it has done. What's new in 1.1.0 is that it will now accept three types of responses: a string, which defines the body of the response (old), an array:
[200, { "Headers": "here" }, "Body"] (old) and a function.
When using a function to respond to the request, it will receive the
XMLHttpRequest object. You can also specify URL and so on, but the function has the final word. The function is only called when method and URL (if any) match, and then it can decide to respond or not (by calling
respond on the
xhr object):
server.respondWith("GET", "/todo-items", function (xhr) {
xhr.respond(200, { "Content-Type": "application/json" }, '[]');
Additionally, you can add capture groups to URL regular expressions, and the function will receive whatever is caught:
server.respondWith(/\/todo-items\/(\d+)/, function (xhr, id) {
xhr.respond(200, { "Content-Type": "application/json" }, '[{ "id": ' + id + ' }]');
The website
The website also got a small facelift. I once again changed the docs, now they're back on one really long page. I'm kinda struggling to find the proper format for the documentation, so please don't hesitate to get in touch if you have problems understanding Sinon.JS, or you have ideas on how to improve the docs.
Finally, thanks a lot to everyone who uses Sinon.JS, everyone who contributed patches, reported bugs and generally showed interest. Keep 'em coming.
Now, get Sinon.JS 1.1.0 and let me know what you think!


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SHAW, William Napier (1854—). An English physicist, born in Birmingham and educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and at the University of Berlin. In the Cavendish laboratory he was demonstrator of physics in 1880-87, and assistant director in 1898-99, and from 1890 to 1899 was senior tutor of Emmanuel. He contributed articles on electrolysis and the pyrometer to the Encyclopædia Britannica, and wrote, with Glazebrook, A Text-Book of Practical Physics (1884).