This project aims to build an R package that elegantly performs data pre-processing in a fast and easy manner. With four separate functions that will come along with the rb4model package, users will have greater flexibility in handling many different types of datasets in the wild or those collected by them. With the rb4model package, users will be able to smoothly pre-process their data and have it ready for the machine learning model of their choice.
missing_val
feature_splitter
fit_and_report
ForwardSelection
This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common machine learning problem.
Let’s work with the iris dataset.
## Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
## 1 NA 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa
## 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa
## 3 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa
## 4 4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa
## 5 5.0 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa
## 6 5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa
Use the missing_val
function to fill in any missing values in your dataframe.
## Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species
## 1 5.848322 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa
## 2 4.900000 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa
## 3 4.700000 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa
## 4 4.600000 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa
## 5 5.000000 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa
## 6 5.400000 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa
Use the feature_splitter
function to split your data into categorical and numerical features.
## [[1]]
## [1] "Species"
##
## [[2]]
## [1] "Sepal.Length" "Sepal.Width" "Petal.Length" "Petal.Width"
Use the fit_and_report
function to fit a machine learning model of choice and report its training and validation score.
x1<- iris[1:2][1:100,]
x2<-iris[1:2][100:150,]
y1<- iris$Petal.Length[1:100]
y2<-iris$Petal.Length[100:150]
fit_and_report(x1,y1,x2,y2,'glm','regression')
## Loading required package: lattice
## Loading required package: ggplot2
## RMSE
## 0.42830939 0.08478573
Use the ForwardSelection
function to perform forward feature selection on your data. Then subset your original dataframe with the selected features.
| Package | Version |
|---|---|
| mice | 3.7.0 |
| stats | 4.0.0 |
| testthat | 2.1.0 |
| caret | 6.0-85 |
| datasets | 4.0.0 |
| mlbench | 2.1-1 |
| randomForest | 4.6-14 |
| e1071 | 1.7-3 |
caret
is probably the most widely used package for supervised learning problems in R. Although the library provides various model fitting and preprocessing features, programmers end up with writing the same line of code over and over again. Our rb4model
library provides a simple solution to this pain point: wrapper functions of caret
and other primary libraries used for supervised learning to reduce lines of code and promote efficiency.
The vignette is hosted here.


Gaetz Slams Dems’ Call for Impeachment Hearing Recess to Talk to Press
by Kristina WongRep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) slammed Democrats’ call for a recess in the middle of the House Judiciary Committee’s second impeachment inquiry hearing on Monday, asserting it was so that they could hold a press conference.
As Democrat counsel Daniel Goldman was finishing his testimony, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) made a motion for a hearing recess.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) declared it a “privileged motion” that was not debatable.
Democrats voted to go to recess, while all Republicans voted to continue the hearing and go to the Republican counsel.
Gaetz, a member of the Judiciary Committee, shouted, “No, because this is so that they can have a press conference before Mr. Castor gets the chance to offer rebuttal. Nobody asked for this break Mr. Chairman.”
Nadler gaveled Gaetz down, ordering him to suspend.
Nadler would not respond to a Republican question on how long the recess would last.
“It’s until they’re done with their press conference,” Gaetz offered.
Follow Breitbart News’s @Kristina_Wong.


News story
Free school capital funding confirmed for 7 schools
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The Department for Education has today published details of the capital funding for 7 free schools, opened in September 2011, where the cost of building works has been finalised and contracts signed.
Current estimates are that the total capital costs for the first 24 Free Schools that opened in September 2011 will range from £110 million to £130 million. At the upper estimate of £130 million, this equates to 2.6 per cent of the Department’s capital budget for 2011-12, which is £5,058 million.
Many of the 2011 schools have opened in temporary accommodation or require additional building work. This will take place over the coming months and years. This means that the final capital costs for the remainder of schools are not yet finalised and contracts have not yet been signed.
It would not be sensible to release capital cost estimations for these projects until a price has been agreed and contracts have been signed. To do this would effectively ‘show our hand’ on what we expect to spend on a project. This could jeopardise value for money for the taxpayer.


Simple Shell
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
This code represents a simple shell. The shell is the program that allows you to run commands on the command line (i.e. the thing you type 'cd' and 'gcc blah blah blah' into). The most famous shell is called bash - that's probably the one you're using right now. Just like preferred text editors, unix people tend to have a preferred shell (alternatives include zsh, csh).
Right now all this shell does is run commands that you type in. We're going to ask you to add some features.
2 What to do
2.1 Step 1 (10 points)
We want to be able to run programs in the background (i.e. start up one program while another keeps running). Using fork, modify the code so if you prefix a command with ``BG'' it runs that command in the background. That is, if you type:
BGemacs
it will open an emacs window and return to the prompt before emacs finishes running. You should be able to run as many background commands as you like.
2.2 Step 2 (10 points)
Modify the BG feature so that when a background command finishes running, the shell prints out ``Background command finished''. To do this you'll have to add an additional fork - a fork for a parent process that uses wait and a fork for its child that runs the actual command.
2.3 Step 3 (10 points)
Run your simpleshell, start a program in the background, and run ``ps -a''. How many instances of the program are running? Next, exit the background program, but do not exit \textrm{simpleshell}, and run ``ps -a'' again. You should see something like ``simpleshell <defunct>''. Defunct processes are zombie processes as described in class and on page 121 of your textbook. How-to Geek has a nice article explaining what zombie processes are. and how to deal with them.
To fix this, we need to wait on all our processes that are finishing. BUT if we wait too much, we'll end up stalled, waiting on a process that hasn't finished yet. Solution? The SIGCHILD signal. This signal is sent when a child process finishes.
Add a signal handler for the SIGCHILD signal that increments a count of the running zombies. Then, when the user enters the command "kill zombies" wait an appropriate number of times to kill all the currently existing zombies.
BTW, as you kill zombies, be sure to mask the SIGCHLD signal to ensure you don't end up with a concurrency bug where the count changes as you kill. ALTHOUGH, this doesn't resolve the problem quite 100%…see if you can figure out the obscure case where a zombie or two might slip through the net. That's strictly for fun though…to solve that problem we'd have to use waitpid instead of wait and let's not open that can of worms.
2.4 Follow Specs (15 points)
In order to receive full credit for this assignment, your code must correctly implement the specs given in steps 1 to 3, above. When this is graded, we will not only look for functionality, but will also look through the code. Some of things we will look for are highlighted in the grading rubric that accompanies the initial code.
3 Common problems
3.1 My simpleshell processes are not appearing defunct. Why?
It's usually the same issue - your child that prints "Background process finished" is not actually exiting. Instead, it's going back into the command processing while(1) loop that it inherited when it was forked from its parent. It won't actually process any commands of course because it's not the parent, but it also won't end which means it can't be a zombie (you must die first to become a zombie right?).
To fix this be sure your child exits after printing background process finished.
3.2 My zombie count is getting messed up when I use system to start a non background process
So it shouldn't amaze you to know that system actually forks a child when you call it, then waits. But this still triggers a SIGCHLD, which increments your zombie count (inappropriately, because you have already done the wait).
You might be inclined to mask the signal, but that causes more harm than good because when you unmask SIGCHLD will come though.
Instead, just decrement your zombie count to compensate (now I would mask SIGCHLD while you update that count variable).


Left
Left is a clean, whitespace-happy layout for Jekyll.
This is designed to be an easy layout to modify for your own blog. It was extracted from zachholman.com, which means it was battle-hardened from years of posting serious blog posts about emoji and swear words.
You’re actually reading an example post right now. See how cool it is? Oh, be quiet, you’re making me blush.
You’ll want to get the code and read the README to learn how to install and set up Left for your own purposes.
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- *Sakaue, S., *Kanai, M. et al., medRxiv (2020)
- Kanai, M. et al., Nat. Genet. (2018)
- Kanai, M. et al., J. Hum. Genet. (2016)
- R packages
*Sakaue, S., *Kanai, M. et al., medRxiv (2020)
*Sakaue, S., *Kanai, M., Tanigawa, Y., Karjalainen, J., Kurki, M., Koshiba, S. et al. A global atlas of genetic associations of 220 deep phenotypes. medRxiv (2020). doi:10.1101/2<IP_ADDRESS>13652
- BioBank Japan PheWeb browser is available at PheWeb.jp.
- GWAS summary statistics of 220 complex diseases and traits are available at the NBDC Human Database.
Kanai, M. et al., Nat. Genet. (2018)
Kanai, M., Akiyama, M., Takahashi, A., Matoba, N., Momozawa, Y., Ikeda, M. et al. Genetic analysis of quantitative traits in the Japanese population links cell types to complex human diseases. Nature Genetics 50, 390–400 (2018). PubMed PR RIKEN Research Highlight
- GWAS summary statistics of 58 quantitative traits are available at the NBDC Human Database.
Analyzed traits
| Category | Trait | (Abbr.) | #samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metabolic | Total cholesterol | TC | 128,305 |
| Metabolic | High density lipoprotein cholesterol | HDL-C | 70,657 |
| Metabolic | Low density lipoprotein cholesterol | LDL-C | 72,866 |
| Metabolic | Triglyceride | TG | 105,597 |
| Metabolic | Blood sugar | BS | 93,146 |
| Metabolic | Hemoglobin A1c | HbA1c | 42,790 |
| Protein | Total protein | TP | 113,509 |
| Protein | Albumin | Alb | 102,223 |
| Protein | Non-albumin protein | NAP | 98,538 |
| Protein | Albumin/globulin ratio | A/G | 98,626 |
| Kidney-related | Blood urea nitrogen | BUN | 139,818 |
| Kidney-related | Serum creatinine | sCr | 142,097 |
| Kidney-related | Estimated glomerular filtration rate | eGFR | 143,658 |
| Kidney-related | Uric acid | UA | 109,029 |
| Electrolyte | Sodium | Na | 127,304 |
| Electrolyte | Potassium | K | 132,938 |
| Electrolyte | Chlorine | Cl | 126,402 |
| Electrolyte | Calcium | Ca | 71,701 |
| Electrolyte | Phosphorus | P | 42,793 |
| Liver-related | Total bilirubin | TBil | 110,207 |
| Liver-related | Zinc sulfate turbidity test | ZTT | 12,303 |
| Liver-related | Aspartate aminotransferase | AST | 134,154 |
| Liver-related | Alanine aminotransferase | ALT | 134,182 |
| Liver-related | Alkaline phosphatase | ALP | 105,030 |
| Liver-related | Gamma-glutamyl transferase | GGT | 118,309 |
| Other biochemical | Activated partial thromboplastin time | APTT | 37,767 |
| Other biochemical | Prothrombin time | PT | 58,110 |
| Other biochemical | Fibrinogen | Fbg | 18,348 |
| Other biochemical | Creatine kinase | CK | 106,080 |
| Other biochemical | Lactate dehydrogenase | LDH | 126,319 |
| Other biochemical | C-reactive protein | CRP | 75,391 |
| Hematological | White blood cell count | WBC | 107,964 |
| Hematological | Neutrophil count | Neutro | 62,076 |
| Hematological | Eosinophil count | Eosino | 62,076 |
| Hematological | Basophil count | Baso | 62,076 |
| Hematological | Monocyte count | Mono | 62,076 |
| Hematological | Lymphocyte count | Lym | 62,076 |
| Hematological | Red blood cell count | RBC | 108,794 |
| Hematological | Hemoglobin | Hb | 108,769 |
| Hematological | Hematocrit | Ht | 108,757 |
| Hematological | Mean corpuscular volume | MCV | 108,256 |
| Hematological | Mean corpuscular hemoglobin | MCH | 108,054 |
| Hematological | Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration | MCHC | 108,728 |
| Hematological | Platelet count | Plt | 108,208 |
| Blood pressure | Systolic blood pressure | SBP | 136,597 |
| Blood pressure | Diastolic blood pressure | DBP | 136,615 |
| Blood pressure | Mean arterial pressure | MAP | 136,482 |
| Blood pressure | Pulse pressure | PP | 136,249 |
| Echocardiographic | Interventricular septum thickness | IVS | 19,318 |
| Echocardiographic | Posterior wall thickness | PW | 19,373 |
| Echocardiographic | Left ventricular internal dimension in diastole | LVDd | 19,676 |
| Echocardiographic | Left ventricular internal dimension in systole | LVDs | 19,586 |
| Echocardiographic | Left ventricular mass | LVM | 19,076 |
| Echocardiographic | Left ventricular mass index | LVMI | 17,837 |
| Echocardiographic | Relative wall thickness | RWT | 19,311 |
| Echocardiographic | Fractional shortening | FS | 19,580 |
| Echocardiographic | Ejection fraction | EF | 19,516 |
| Echocardiographic | E/A ratio | E/A | 8,600 |
| * Detailed chracteristics of these traits were available in Supplementary Table 1 of the paper. |
Fuji plot (Figure 1) GitHub
Fuji plot is a circos representation of multiple GWAS reseluts, which was designed to efficiently summarize significant SNPs across dozens of traits. We provide a wrapper script for Circos, generating input data and configuration files from GWAS data.
Genetic correlation corrplot (Figure 2) GitHub
We modified corrplot to visualize pairwise genetic correlations estimated via bivariate LD score regression.
Genetic correlation network (Figure 3) GitHub
Genetic correlation network was designed to visualize cross-phenotype relationships (pairwise genetic correlation matrix) across dozens of traits estimated via bivariate LD score regression.
Cell-type specificity network (Figure 6) GitHub
Cell-type specificity network was designed to summarize cell-type specific enrichments estimated via stratified LD score regression.
Links
- the NBDC Human Database
- The Biobank Japan Project
- PLINK 1.9
- ldsc
- LD score (Price Lab website)
- Additional LD score for East Asians (our Lab website)
- Fuji plot
- ldsc-corrplot-rg
- ldsc-network-plot
- circos
- corrplot
- 1000 Genomes Project
Kanai, M. et al., J. Hum. Genet. (2016)
Kanai, M., Tanaka, T. & Okada, Y. Empirical estimation of genome-wide significance thresholds based on the 1000 Genomes Project data set. Journal of Human Genetics 61, 861–866 (2016). PubMed
- The authors’ scripts used for calculations: GitHub
- WRShd
- PLINK 1.9
- EIGENSOFT 6.0.1
- 1000 Genomes Project
R packages
Installation
You can install any of my packages via the following code in R:
if (!require("devtools")) {
install.packages("devtools")
}
devtools::install_github("mkanai/{package_name}")
Grimon (Kanai, M. et al., Bioinformatics, 2018)
Kanai, M., Maeda, Y. & Okada, Y. Grimon: graphical interface to visualize multi-omics networks. Bioinformatics 34, 3934–3936 (2018). PubMed
Grimon (Graphical interface to visualize multi-omics networks) visualizes high-dimensional multi-layered data sets in three-dimensional parallel coordinates. It enables users to intuitively and interactively explore their data, helping their understanding of multiple inter-layer connections embedded in high-dimensional complex data.
Schematic overview
Example 1: Metagenome data 1
Example 2: the Geuvadis Project 2
References
- Maeda, Y., Kurakawa, T., Umemoto, E., Motooka, D., Ito, Y., Gotoh, K. et al. Dysbiosis Contributes to Arthritis Development via Activation of Autoreactive T Cells in the Intestine. Arthritis & Rheumatology 68, 2646–2661 (2016).
- Lappalainen, T., Sammeth, M., Friedländer, M. R., ‘t Hoen, P. A. C., Monlong, J., Rivas, M. A. et al. Transcriptome and genome sequencing uncovers functional variation in humans. Nature 501, 506–511 (2013).
deFinetti
A package for plotting a de Finetti diagram and distributions of F-statistics of genotypes.
ccmatch
A package for optimal matching of cases to controls using network flow theory.
Reference
- Rosenbaum, P. R. Optimal matching for observational studies. Journal of the American Statistical Association 84, 1024–1032 (1989).
WRShd
This package provides C++ sub-routines for the Harrell-Davis estimate functions from R. R. Wilcox’ robust statistics package WRS
, which substantially speed up the original implementation in R.


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Cyclist, 51, brings festive cheer to the streets of London by riding a 79-mile reindeer-shaped route on his Strava fitness tracker
by Lara Keay For Mailonline- Anthony Hoyte from Cheltenham planned intricate route in shape of reindeer
- Used Strava fitness app to cycle around London from Hammersmith to Euston
- Took him nine hours and was a big change from his usual rural surroundings
A cyclist has brought festive cheer to the streets of London by riding a 79-mile route around the capital in the shape of a reindeer.
Anthony Hoyte, 51, cycles long distances along intricate routes so that they appear in the shape of animals on his Strava fitness tracker.
His latest work is his third annual Christmas image, which he believes is his greatest yet.
Mr Hoyte, of Cheltenham, cycled 79 miles from Hammersmith, west London, zigzagging across the city and finishing in Euston, to make a reindeer shape on his app.
It took him nine hours, going as far north as Edgware, before heading south again and east through Hampstead Heath and Wood Green.
Finally he returned south through Kilburn and Maida Vale before finishing along the Euston Road.
He said: 'I'm pretty happy with it. You plan them all out but until you get back and upload it, you're not quite sure whether it's going to work or not.
'I live in the countryside and it's very different to coming into London,' he said. 'Particularly around Neasden and Wembley, it's not the most pleasant cycling.
'That's about my maximum distance - I wouldn't want to go too much above that. It's a long day in the saddle.'
Mr Hoyte, a heritage consultant, has produced around a dozen pieces of art on his bike, and believes his training as a product designer helps in the creative process of planning the routes.
He added: 'I just spend a lot of time looking at maps and it's waiting for things to jump out at you.
'Normally I look at maps until I see something - 'That looks a bit like a nose' - so I think 'Where can I find eyes near that? It's like looking at patterns in clouds and seeing pictures.
'With these ones it's a bit more tricky because I'm trying to do something festive so it's harder, but it's the same process really.'
Other routes Mr Hoyte has cycled include a Yorkshire terrier in Leeds, two elephants in Birmingham, and a flock of birds in Bristol.
In 2017 he produced his first festive work by cycling a snowman in London and he followed it up last year with Santa in Birmingham.
He said: 'In a sense I've made a rod for my own back in that it's become a tradition and everyone was saying 'So what's it going to be this year?'
'But in the end, the reindeer turned out almost exactly as planned.
'There's a little glitch in there near Shepherd's Bush where I obviously lost the GPS signal and it creates a straight line that cuts through a couple of street blocks, but that's minor,' he said.
'I made a couple of mistakes but they're so small that nobody's going to notice really. I'm happy. It looks how I wanted it to look.'


Additional Resources:
Magazine and Brochures:
- Bee Culture: The Magazine of American Beekeeping: www.BeeCulture.com: Root Publications: magazine
- North American Beekeeping Conference & Tradeshow: www.nabeekeepingconference.com: magazine
- Walter T. Kelley Co.: Serving the Beekeeper since 1924: www.kelleybees.com: supplies: magazine
- Examining Pesticide Use In the Face of Bee Decline: CropLife Foundation: www.croplifefoundation.org: Pamphlet
- Mann Lake: We Know Bees: Equipment and Supplies: www.mannlakeltd.com: Pamphlet
- American Bee Journal: The Beekeeper;'92s Companion Since 1861: www.americanbeejournal.com: Dadant Publications: Magazine
- GloryBee: Ingredients for Healthy Living: Everything To Do With Bees & More: Retail Catalog: GloryBee.Honey.com: Magazine
- Dadant: America; '92s Oldest & Largest Manufacturer of Beekeeping Supplies: Retail Catalog: www.dadant.com
- Honey Bee Biology: Beekeeping Basics: Texas A&M Agrilife Extension: Molly Keck, Entomologist, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
Websites and Social Media:
- Bee Facts
- Honey Bee Health and Colony Collapse Disorder
- Beekeeping on Twitter
- Facebook Comal County Beekeeper Association
- Gretchen Bee Ranch


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I also enjoy listening to all kinds of classical music, and had been selected and participated in the 2014 National High School Honors Orchestra as well as the 2014 California All State Orchestra. I make all sorts of iOS applications and websites with my friends, and know Objective-C, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, iOS Development, and Web Development.


Global Functions in Global Namespace C++
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How do you measure quality? Number of defects? Customer happiness? Money earned? Developer smiles? That’s the question raised by @gojkoadzic in his keynote at the recent BDD and Agile Testing Exchange in London, to make us think and propose some elements of response.
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As in the story of the Gloves on the Boardroom Table, making the problem tangible and visible help trigger reactions. The book Switch gives examples of such surprising techniques.  So visualization can help there.
Best practices change over time, as the techniques in athleticism replace each other. For example at one company they disable most of their functional tests after a feature is developed, because they impede the frequency of their release cycle; on the other hand, they closely monitor the conversion rate of the website, which is for them the best metrics since it encompasses both the technical bugs and the business bugs.
This does not mean you should disable your functional tests, but it illustrate that what may seem nonsense today may be the next best practice tomorrow.
The absence of bugs is completely different than the presence of quality. Twitter has lots of bugs but most people are happy with it so it has quality; on the other hand, Nokia phones have no bug, yet if nobody likes them they have no quality either.
So how to measure quality? If you put 20 people in a room with 3 post-it’s each and ask them to write what attributes of the product they think are the most important, and if you get a small enough group of common answers then they are candidates of things you need to measure.
Here I have the feeling that each of the first two is just a proxy for the next, and only the last is the real one, though I’m not sure.
Taking an example of a UI, a window with 5 buttons on it it will likely requires 5 time more testing than one with only one button, even if the later brings a lot more value, which suggests that test coverage is crap.
If test coverage itself is crap, you may however monitor your risk coverage, that is the amount of testing compared to the associated risk. This metrics helps identify where you need to test more.
Once you know what to measure, you want to visualize it. James Bach proposes his technique of low-tech testing dashboard. You divide your system into high-level subsystems, and for each you monitor the « progress of testing »: not yet started, half done or done, and the « level of confidence so far » with 3 smileys from happy to anxious. That’s better than a bug-tracking tool with 500 tickets mixed altogether.
Another visualization mode is the use of effects maps, or ACC matrix. You may also monitor in realtime the feed of sentiment of every Twitter message about your company or product as they do at FINN Technology in Oslo.
As a conclusion, Gojko introduces the brand new visualisingquality.org website where you can find many ways to visualize your measures of quality and where you can contribute additional ones. Since making things visible is so essential for action, let’s try ideas and share them through this website!
The podcast of the full talk is available here: http://skillsmatter.com/event/agile-testing/agile-testing-bdd-exchange-2011/js-2990


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1 Loved ones, since we have these promises let us cleanse ourselves of everything that makes us unclean in our body and spirit. Let us pursue holiness in the fear of God.
2 Make room for us! We have not wronged anyone. We have not harmed anyone or taken advantage of anyone.
3 It is not to condemn you that I say this.  I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy even in all our afflictions.
5 When we came to Macedonia, our bodies had no rest. Instead, we were troubled in every way by conflicts on the outside and fears on the inside.
6 But God, who comforts the discouraged, comforted us by the arrival of Titus.
7 It was not only by his arrival that God comforted us. It was also by the comfort that Titus had received from you. He told us of your great affection, your sorrow, and your deep concern for me. So I rejoiced even more.
8 Even though my letter made you sad, I do not regret it. But I did regret it when I saw that my letter made you sad.  You experienced a godly sorrow, so you suffered no loss because of us.
10 For godly sorrow brings about repentance that accomplishes salvation without regret. Worldly sorrow, however, brings about death.
11 See what great determination this godly sorrow produced in you. How great was the determination in you to prove you were innocent.  In everything you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.
12 Although I wrote to you, I did not write for the sake of the wrongdoer, nor for the one who suffered the wrong. I wrote so that your earnestness for us should be made known to you in the sight of God.
13 It is by this that we are encouraged.
In addition to our own comfort, we also rejoiced even more because of Titus' joy, because his spirit was refreshed by all of you.14 For if I boasted to him about you, I was not embarrassed.


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Here is some clever content. That was not very clever, but I need more content. I need at least one more sentence to make this a paragraph.
My favorite movies
My favorite fruit flavors
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lonelyhearts
Github repos seeking designers with GSOW (Good sense of white-space) for friendship, forking, maybe more
The background
I've often wanted to contribute design or HTML/CSS to an open source project but have struggled to find repos where thats being sought. After watching @nrrrdcore give an amazing talk at HybridConf I decided to build something to help put repo owners in touch with designers.
Usage
Its all run from a public googledoc via the magic of sheetsee.js by @jlord.
To add your repo to the list, just create a new line on the googledoc, taking care to format the details in the same way. Newest repos will be at the top of the list.


Hello Traveler!
Hidden Gems is mapping the road less-traveled
We believe the best part of traveling is seeing the lesser-known parts of the world. If, like us, you'd rather see video gambling machine that Lemmy Kilmeister played than the Hollywood Walk-of-Fame or you'd rather eat at the 'local spot' in Berlin than what Fromer's might recommends then join us!
Share your lesser-known places of interest with other like-minded travelers. Discover a Gem! Leave reviews on places others have discovered and follow other users to keep on top of their latest and greatest discoveries.


There is nothing to turn in for this assignment.
In this assignment you will review the frontend web applications generated by your peers and provide user feedback surveys for them. User feedback can be extremely valuable when designing and redesigning an application. Afterall, if users do not like the interface, then they are less likely to use it.
Additionally, the skill of writing good feedback is one that we all need improvement on. We want to clearly articulate our ideas and convey our findings to other individuals. Therefore take care in what you write and make sure that it is of the highest level of your writing. Proof read your comments. Review them. Revise them.
Good feedback is descriptive and actionable. Remember that we are providing feedback to help the designers of the site make the site better so that we will have a better experience using the site. Therefore be specific in your feedback. Explain specifically what your opinions are and provide suggestions and recommendations for how the site might be changed to better suit your needs of use.
The survey is non-persistent until you submit. This means if you refresh the page what you have written may not remain. Additionally your login cookie is only valid for one hour, so if you elapse this one hour what you write may be lost if you click submit after the expiration. Therefore either write fast (but remember to review) or you may find it useful to write your comments in a separate text editor and then paste them into the survey.
Remember to take this survey seriously. Your responses will be graded for their candor and usefullness as constructive feedback. In addition, that your provide critical evaluation and comparison of the site.
Complete your surveys online at http://webdev-rice.herokuapp.com and clicking on Survey in the middle section of the page.
Then click on "Complete a Front-End Web App Review"
You should spend no more than about 15 minutes or so on each website. Therefore this assignment should take you about 2 hours to complete.
You are asked to review 5 sites. If a site is not available then you should click "Next Survey" to cycle through the sites to pick one that is available. You may pick which ever 5 you want -- you will be graded on your responses irrespective of the sites you choose. Take your time and demonstrate your critical thinking: You should be writing about three sentences for each answer, this will likely take you about 15 minutes or so on each website. Therefore this assignment should take you just over an hour to complete.


The fire broke out around 9 a.m. off of Tabor Road near Tatum Road.
No people were hurt in the blaze. Smoke was seen pouring from the area.
Multiple agencies responded to the scene.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.


This is our first component, nested inside of
the root component AKA app.component.ts
Components are entities in angular that manage
parts of a webpage or view.
The are typescript classes decorated with @Component
which allow us to tightly bind code with a view
We can use the Angular CLI to generate components
with the ng g c [name] command
Data Binding
Angular supports data binding, which is a mechanism for
coordinating parrts of a template(HTML) with parts of a
component(TS)
There are a few different types of data binding
String Interpolation
String interpolation uses double curly braces to display
data represented in the component.ts or to evaluate expressions.
There are many things we can do with this, however it does have
some restrictions, such as we cannot create new objects in
template expressions
Examples:
Here, we are exploring money pipes,
1000000 dollars => {{ 1000000 | currency:'CAD' }}
Event Binding
This is another form of data binding which links actions directly
to DOM elements -- we do this by adding our events to our elements
in the opening tag as a special attribute
<element (event) = "function()>
{{count}}
Property Binding
This allows us to apply a property to a DOM element dynamically.
There are many types of property binding.
<element [property] = "variable">
Two-way data binding
Thus far, our data bindings have bound either our template to our
typescript ( HTML --> TS = event binding), or our typescript to our HTML
(TS --> HTML = property binding and template expressions). But
how can we establish a relationship that goes both ways between template
and TS. We want to no longer have to obtain data from input field values -
we simply want our input fields to represent some data. We do this
with something called a 'Directive', and a special one at that
This directive is ngModel. In order to use this, however, our @NgModule
must import the FormsModule
Direcitves
Angular Directives are special pre-built instructions
that typically render HTML code or provide additional functionality
There are three types of directives:
Custom Directives using the decorator @Directive. - This is added to a TypeScript class. Furthermore, The @Component decorator is actually a special form of the @Directive decorator. In practice, you’ll use @Directive when creating your own custom directives.
Structural Directives - This will add/remove/or update the contents of the DOM. It basically changes the webpage’s layout. *ngFor and *ngIf which we’ll explain in a moment are common examples of structural directives. The following is a quick example of their usage. Again, we’ll dive deeper into their usage in a moment.
Attribute Directives - The final form is an attribute directive. An attribute directive will change the look and feel or behavior of an element. Examples of attribute directives are ngModel, ngClass, and ngStyle. We cover ngModel in a separate video when we explain two-way data-binding. Here, you’ll see usage of ngClass.
Structural Directive example *ngForList of things that Genesis likes:


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Strawberry Rhubarb Pie
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Ingredients:
For the Crust
- 2 ½ cup all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cold, cut into cubes
- ½ cup cold buttermilk
For the Filling
- 3 cups ½-inch thick sliced rhubarb (about 1 pound)
- 1 pound strawberries, hulled and sliced in half
- ⅓ cup light brown sugar, packed
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup cornstarch
- large pinch of salt
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
Directions:
To make the crust
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, sugar and salt.
- Add cold, cubed butter and, using your fingers, work the butter into the flour mixture.
- Quickly break the butter down into the flour mixture. Some butter pieces will be the size of oat flakes; some will be the size of peas.
- Create a well in the mixture and pour in the cold buttermilk.
- Use a fork to bring the dough together. Try to moisten all of the flour bits.
- On a lightly floured work surface, dump out the dough mixture. It will be moist and shaggy. That’s perfect.
- Divide the dough in two and gently knead into two disks.
- Wrap each disk in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour. Allowing the dough to rest in the refrigerator will help rechill the butter and distribute the moisture.
To make the filling
- In a medium bowl, toss together rhubarb, strawberries, sugars, cornstarch, salt, and lemon juice.
- Toss until all of the fruit is covered in a coating of sugar and cornstarch. The cornstarch will disappear and the sugars will begin to make juice with the fruit.
- Allow to rest at room temperature while you make the topping.
To assemble
- To assemble the pie, on a well-floured surface, roll the bottom crust 1/8″ thick and about 12″ in diameter. Transfer it to a pie pan.
- Trim the edge almost even with the edge of the pan.
- Spoon filling into piecrust.
- Roll out the top crust in the same manner. Use a pizza slicer to slice the dough into 1-inch wide strips and weave the crust strips on top of the pie. Use this guide to help you:
http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-a-lattice-pie-crust-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-191672
- To finish, place a rack in the center of the oven and preheat oven to 400° F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- Brush the egg wash over pie crust, then sprinkle with sugar.
- Place pie on baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes, then reduce the temperature to 350°F and bake the pie for 30 minutes more, or until the crust is golden and the filling is bubbling.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely before serving.


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It has long been my conviction that newspapers in this age o' pap ‘n’ barbarism are written and edited by numbskulls, dimwits, airheads and know-noughts. The sort of people who think “prima donna” is spelled, and means, “pre-Madonna” and who are indeed wholly ignorant of almost everything that happened before about 1985.
Here is a picture of Ringo Starr. I need not explain to Hooting Yard readers who he is.
Ringo was visiting the Chelsea Flower Show this week. A snap appeared in the Telegraph. The caption? “Ringo Starr, the narrator of Thomas the Tank Engine, with his wife Barbara Bach at the Chelsea Flower Show 2010.” [My italics.]
Cruel it may be, but one is tempted to force these nitwits to listen to “Octopus's Garden” over and over and over again, until the cows come home.


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Imagick::getImageProperties
(PECL imagick 2.0.0)
Imagick::getImageProperties — Returns the image properties
说明
array Imagick::getImageProperties ([ string $pattern = "*" [, bool $only_names
= true ]] )
Returns all associated properties that match the pattern. If TRUE is passed as
second parameter only the property names are returned. 此方法在Imagick基于
ImageMagick 6.3.6以上版本编译时可用。
参数
pattern
The pattern for property names.
only_names
Whether to return only property names. If FALSE then also the values are
returned
返回值
Returns an array containing the image properties or property names.
范例
Example #1 Using Imagick::getImageProperties():
An example of extracting EXIF information.
getImageProperties("exif:*");
/* Loop trough the EXIF properties */
foreach ($exifArray as $name => $property)
{
echo "{$name} => {$property}
\n";
}
?>
User Contributed Notes 4 notes
===============================================================================
The output of this method on a PDF:
Array
(
[date:create] => 2013-01-24T13:27:37-05:00
[date:modify] => 2013-01-24T13:27:37-05:00
[pdf:HiResBoundingBox] => 1089x396+0+0
[pdf:SpotColor-0] => PANTONE 697 C
[pdf:SpotColor-1] => Black
[pdf:SpotColor-10] => PANTONE 504 M C
[pdf:SpotColor-2] => Strike_Thru
[pdf:SpotColor-3] => PANTONE 7421 C
[pdf:SpotColor-4] => PANTONE 697 C
[pdf:SpotColor-5] => PANTONE 873 C
[pdf:SpotColor-6] => PANTONE 504 M C
[pdf:SpotColor-7] => Die
[pdf:SpotColor-8] => PANTONE 697 C
[pdf:SpotColor-9] => PANTONE 504 M C
[pdf:Version] => PDF-1.5
[signature] =>
4d871b27b26537c523326f92454ecb2e19fa9e0e86e2a075f97354ad4f3bf122
)
===============================================================================
The getImageProperties function in PHP returns an array of property keys
available for an image. To get these property values, you use getImageProperty
function, giving it one of the available keys provided by the
getImageProperties function result. For some images, you may have a lot of
properties and for some, you may have few. The two that almost every image
seems to have are "date:create" and "date:modify", but some images may have
forty or more properties, some titled "exif:Compression", "photoshop:Credit",
"jpeg:colorspace", "rdf:Alt", "stRef:documentID", and "xap:CreatorTool." PNG
files will also have properties like "png:IHDR.bit_depth" and
"png:IHDR.width,height." So far, it appears generally that GIF and BMP files,
being simpler, have fewer properties, whereas JPEG and PNG files, being more
complicated, have much wider array of properties. It seems incredibly useful
in document management.
And now, some sample code and results :
readImageFile($file_handle_for_viewing_image_file);
// Get Image Properties
// ---------------------------------------------
$imagick_type_properties = $imagick_type->getImageProperties('*', FALSE);
// Print Image Properties
// ---------------------------------------------
print("
"); print_r($imagick_type_properties); // Print Each Individual, Image Property // --------------------------------------------- foreach($imagick_type_properties as $value) { print("$value --- "); print($imagick_type->getImageProperty("$value")); print(""); ?> Results of this done on a standard PNG image : Array ( [0] => date:create [1] => date:modify [2] => png:cHRM [3] => png:gAMA [4] => png:IHDR.bit_depth [5] => png:IHDR.color_type [6] => png:IHDR.interlace_method [7] => png:IHDR.width,height [8] => png:sRGB ) date:create --- 2012-05-19T18:26:45-05:00 date:modify --- 2012-05-19T18:26:45-05:00 png:cHRM --- chunk was found (see Chromaticity, above) png:gAMA --- gamma=0.45455 (See Gamma, above) png:IHDR.bit_depth --- 8 png:IHDR.color_type --- 2 png:IHDR.interlace_method --- 0 png:IHDR.width,height --- 320, 320 png:sRGB --- intent=0 (See Rendering intent) =============================================================================== To access a photograph's EXIF data an alternative method is the normal PHP Exif function. See: http://php.net/manual/en/book.exif.php =============================================================================== ImageMagick only supports setting a very small number of EXIF properties. See http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=14234
"); } print("


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Najib ordered to enter defence in RM42m SRC corruption trial
by BY KENNETH TEEKUALA LUMPUR, Nov 11 — Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak must enter his defence and answer to charges over RM42 million misappropriated from 1Malaysia Development Berhad's (1MDB) former subsidiary SRC International Sdn Bhd, the High Court ruled today.
High Court judge Mohd Nazlan Mohd Ghazali said the prosecution successfully proved prima facie against Najib, who is also Pekan MP, on all of his seven charges.
"A prima facie case has been made out for each of the charges. As such I now call on the accused to enter defence for all the seven charges," he said while delivering his decision.
With a prima facie established against him, Najib has three options to make his defence — by sworn evidence from the witness stand where he will be subjected to cross-examination; by unsworn statement from the accused dock, or remaining silent.
Out of the seven charges levelled against Najib, the Pekan MP is accused of committing three counts of criminal breach of trust over a total RM42 million of SRC International funds while entrusted with its control as the prime minister and finance minister then, and a separate charge under an anti-corruption law of abusing the same positions for self-gratification of the same RM42 million sum.
The remaining three of the seven charges are for allegedly money-laundering the same total sum of RM42 million.
Najib’s SRC International trial began on April 3 this year with the prosecution calling 57 witnesses to the stand.
MORE TO COME


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Popular Areas in why do we have electoral vote
What Is the Electoral College (and is it time to get rid of it ... - KQED
Sep 20, 2012 . When do the electors cast their official votes for president? . you've just gotten about 20 percent of the votes you need to be sitting pretty in the .
http://blogs.kqed.org/lowdown/2012/09/20/what-is-the-electoral-college-and-is-it-time-to-get-rid-of-it/
TED-Ed | Does your vote count? The Electoral College explained ...
You vote, but then what? Discover how your individual vote contributes to the popular vote and your state's electoral vote in different ways--and see how votes .
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The Electoral College System
When you vote for a presidential candidate you are really voting to instruct the electors from your state . Thus, a state with eight electors would cast eight votes. . representation, states with larger populations get more Electoral College votes.
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepoliticalsystem/a/electcollege.htm
Electoral Votes
Instead, they vote for electors who do the actual electing! Both Democrats . Notice that some states have more electoral votes than others. . If you were to add up the electoral votes of all 50 states, there would be a total of 538 votes available.
http://www.vernonkids.com/cedarmountain/4thgradelinks/ElectoralVotes/ElectoralVotes.htm
Why do we still let the Electoral College pick our president?
Aug 20, 2012 . This problem would disappear if we had a truly national election with one electorate and votes counting the same wherever they were cast.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/august/rakove-electoral-college-082012.html
What Is The Electoral College? How It Works And Why It Matters
Nov 6, 2012 . Do electors have to vote for their party's candidate? Neither the . Can you lose the popular vote and win the electoral college vote?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/what-is-the-electoral-college_n_2078970.html


The Trump administration has started approving licenses for US companies to resume doing business with Huawei
by Tyler Sonnemaker, Business Insider US- The US Department of Commerce announced Wednesday that it would allow some US businesses to resume selling goods to Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies.
- The agency said it would issue licenses only in “specific and limited” cases that don’t raise national security concerns.
- The Commerce Department reviewed companies’ requests to do business with Huawei in conjunction with the Department of Defense, State Department, and Department of Energy.
- Huawei remains on an economic blacklist that prevents US companies and individuals from doing business with it without a license.
- Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories.
The US Department of Commerce said in an emailed statement Wednesday that it would grant licenses to some US businesses allowing them to resume sales to Chinese telecom giant Huawei, while it intends to deny others.
The agency said it would only grant licenses in cases that “do not pose a significant risk to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States.” It added that all applications for licenses had undergone an interagency review involving the Department of Defense, State Department, and Department of Energy.
The Commerce Department initially added Huawei to its banned “Entity List” in May, citing national security concerns – but issued several 90-day license extensions in an effort to minimize disruptions for rural telecom providers who rely heavily on Huawei’s technology. Huawei is one of the world’s leading providers of telecom equipment, including base stations and other gear vital to the rising market for 5G wireless service.
The Commerce Department said Huawei will remain on the Entity List and that the previously-issued 90-day extension continues to be in effect.


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MR. NICE GUY A film review by David N. Butterworth Copyright 1998 David N. Butterworth
** (out of ****)
Jackie Chan does it all, often writing, directing, and starring in his own films. And, of course, the diminutive Hong Kong action star, who's half cuddly koala bear, half springbok, does all of his own gravity-defying stunts, risking life and limb in the process.
With "Mr. Nice Guy," Chan's latest outing repackaged for the American market, the likable action hero should have had the opportunity to demonstrate some culinary arts along with the requisite martial variety, since Chan plays a TV chef (kind of like "Yan Can Cook" for the high-kicking set). Unfortunately, apart from the opening credits sequence, Chan doesn't cook a thing.
Plots are generally inconsequential in Jackie Chan movies but this one plays like a pilot George and Jerry could have dreamed up to pitch to NBC (Chan forced to play a TV chef by an unsympathetic judge?). Given that Chan doesn't come anywhere close to a saucepan, or a stove, his occupation here is moot. The *idea* of Chan playing a TV chef is actually funnier than the movie itself. As for the film's "translated" title, the TV reporter that Chan "rescues" early in the film thanks him and calls him a really nice guy. It probably wouldn't have taken a whole lot of effort to have come up with something a little more creative.
The film is set in Melbourne and I can only think of two reasons why that is: 1) filming in Melbourne is cheaper than filming in Hong Kong, and 2) all those Australian accents would have seemed peculiar otherwise.
There are two sets of bad guys in the movie, one called The Demons (snarling, accented dudes in mod clothing who look like rejects from a Dark Bros. porno video) and the other a gaggle of suit-and-tied mobsters led by a nefarious drug lord (Richard Norton) known simply as Giancarlo--ooh, scary! Neither appear to have watched any Al Pacino movies, as the drug deal they're involved in early in the picture turns sour (ever see a drug deal on film that didn't?). Weapons are drawn, money is scattered, cocaine is spilled. Filming all this in an attempt to get a TV exclusive is reporter Diana (played by Gabrielle Fitzpatrick), who runs into Chan and the chase is on.
The chase in question lasts about twenty minutes during which Jackie--as he's called in pretty much all his imports--throws a kick and a punch or two (make that closer to a hundred), and even tries to explain he doesn't even know this woman, but the hoods aren't buying it. Diana settles down to watch the tape...in her underwear!...and realizes it got switched somewhere back there, and the chase is on again. Attempts to retrieve said incriminating videotape by both parties prove to be the central "plot" of "Mr. Nice Guy."
The film's climax involves Chan commandeering a monstrous earthmover and razing Giancarlo's obsessively-clean luxury mansion. Glass, concrete, and wooden structures burst into flames at the slightest of touches.
Jackie Chan's films are equal parts silly, cute, and exhilarating. Chan himself is at his best when interacting with props--there's a contrived but effective sequence on a construction site with a lot of architecturally-suspect blue doors--or putting himself in physical danger (watch out for that buzzsaw!). Obstacles are irrelevant to Chan; he scales them, avoids them, engages them, all with consummate ease.
But his latest movie, although not without its flourishes, tends to concentrate on the cute and silly stuff, leaving even the most diehard Jackie fans screaming "no more Mr. Nice Guy!"
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The Disney Store is selling stuffed animals, mugs, and notebooks based on its beloved movies this year — here they all are, Business Insider - Business Insider Singapore
by Kirsten Acuna- The Disney Store is celebrating 2019 with a look back at some of Disney’s beloved animated movies.
- Each month, one of 12 animated movies is featured in store and online with a plush, mug, pins, and notebook. They’re all themed around an iconic quote from the respective films as part of the Disney Wisdom Collection.
- “Dumbo” kicked off the collection in January. Simba is the latest release for November. You can purchase items in the collection online here.
Disney is celebrating some of its beloved movies in 2019 with themed stuffed animals, mugs, journals, and more.
The Disney Store launched the Disney Wisdom Collection in January, which celebrates the “timeless wisdom” in a dozen of the company’s classic films. Each month highlights an inspirational quote from an iconic Disney movie moment.
Insider exclusively announced the collection in December with the first three themes centered around “Dumbo,” “Mulan,” and “The Jungle Book,” respectively. New collections will be released the third Saturday of every month. The final collection of 2019 will be released on Saturday, December 7.
We’ll continue to update this story each month as new products are unveiled and new photos are available to share. Keep reading to see what characters are featured in the Disney Wisdom Collection.
The Disney Store kicked off the collection in January with “Dumbo.”
Each iconic Disney quote is written on the stuffed plush released. January’s quote is a line Dumbo’s friend Timothy Q. Mouse says to the young elephant, “The very things that held you down are going to lift you up, and up, and up.”
Disney told Insider the inspiration for the quotes came from guest responses to the first release in the Mickey Mouse Memories collection. A Walt Disney quote appeared on the mouse’s foot reading, “I only hope that we never lose site of one thing – that it was all started by a Mouse.”
Disney’s stackable mug and journal show Timothy’s quote front and center.
A journal featured Timothy and Dumbo on the inside.
Limited-edition pins featured Dumbo, Timothy, and the quote on its own.
The three were sold together for $16.95.
February’s collection revolved around “Mulan.”
February’s collection revolved around 1998 animated movie, “Mulan,” and the quote, “The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
The Emperor of China says this line to General Li near the movie’s end to describe Mulan.
A mug features Mulan’s sidekicks Mushu and Cri-Kee the cricket.
The month’s three limited-edition pins featuring Mushu, Cri-Kee and the quote are sold out. The stackable mug was sold for $18.95.
A journal and T-shirt also featured the Emperor’s quotes.
Both also sold out, but you can find them online on eBay.
March’s collection was all about “The Jungle Book.”
“The Jungle Book” theme centers around the lovable bear’s iconic “Bare Necessities” song. “Forget about your worries and your strife” is written on Baloo’s stomach.
It launched Saturday, March 16, here.
The green mug featured Baloo and Bagheera.
The stackable mug was available for $18.95.
The inside of March’s journal features Mowgli and Baloo dancing.
Bagheera, Baloo, and the month’s quote were featured on March’s limited edition pin set for $16.95.
April’s collection celebrated a quote from Christopher Robin.

The Piglet plush has since sold out.
April’s mug features Piglet alongside his pal Tigger.
The stackable mug was available for $18.95.
Tigger and Piglet are also part of April’s pin set and are featured on the inside pages of the month’s journal.
April’s limited edition pin set featuring Piglet, Tigger, and the month’s quote was available for $16.95. The journal was available for $16.95.
“Pocahontas” was featured in the May collection.
Pocahontas’ furry raccoon friend, Meeko, bears Grandmother Willow’s wise words on his chest. It reads: “Sometimes the right path is not the easiest one.”
Meeko quickly sold out.
May’s stackable mug featured the month’s quote on one side and Meeko and Flit on the opposite.
The month’s journal featured Meeko and Pocahontas running on the inside.
Flit and Meeko are also two of three collectible pins for the month.
The pin set was available for $16.95.
June was centered around “Beauty and the Beast’s” Lumiere.
The singing candelabra, Lumiere, has the words “You don’t have time to be timid. You must be bold” emblazoned across him. It’s a line the candelabra says to the Beast to build his confidence before his big dance with Belle.
You can still find Lumiere here.
June’s yellow mug features Lumiere and his buddy Cogsworth.
You can find the mug for $18.95 here.
The two are also featured on the inside of June’s journal and on the month’s pins.
The journal and pins sold out.
July celebrated Disney’s 1940 classic “Pinocchio.”
The Blue Fairy’s advice to Pinocchio, “Always let your conscience be your guide,” is on Jiminy Cricket. The plush is still available for $26.95 here.
The collectible mug for the month features the kitten Figaro and Jiminy Cricket on one side and the quote from the Blue Fairy on the other.
The stackable mug cost $18.95. The journal, featuring the kitten Figaro and Jiminy Cricket, cost $16.95.
The limited release pins for the month include Jiminy and Figaro.
The pins are available for $16.95.
August’s collection was all about “Bambi.”
Thumper’s quote about thinking before you speak – “If you can’t say something nice… don’t say nothing at all” – is what August’s collection revolves around.
The Bambi plush is available for $26.95 here.
The mug features Bambi and his pal Flower the skunk.
Thumper, the rabbit, is seen inside the pages of the accompanying notebook for August.
The collector’s mug is available for $18.95 and the notebook costs $16.95.
Flower and Bambi are also part of August’s pin set.
The three-piece pin set is available for $16.95. A shirt is also available and costs $26.95.
“The Sword in the Stone” was featured in September with none other than Merlin.
September’s quote comes from Wart: “Knowledge and wisdom is the real power.”
You can purchase the Merlin plush for $26.95 here.
September’s mug features Merlin and Mim dancing.
The stackable mug is available for $18.95 here.
Mim and Merlin are also featured on the month’s pins.
You can find the journal, for $16.95 here. The pins, which also cost $16.95, are available here.
“Aladdin” was celebrated in October with a quote from one of Robin Williams’ characters.
At the very start of “Aladdin,” the narrator gives a small speech before the story unfolds and says the quote for this month: “Like so many things, it’s not what is outside, but what is inside that counts.”
You may not have realized it then, but Robin Williams’ character was talking about Aladdin. You can purchase the Genie plush for $26.95 here.
October’s blue mug features Abu with the Genie.
You can find the mug for $18.95 here.
Abu and the magic lamp are also part of this month’s pin set.
You can find the pins, which are available for $16.95, here. The journal, which is also available for $16.95, can be found here.
“The Lion King” collection is available in November with a young Simba cub.
The quote for November’s collection comes from Rafiki: “The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.”
It can be seen on the little mane the Simba cub is wearing.
The mug for the month features Simba and Pumbaa.
The pin set also features both characters. It’s available for $16.95.
The stackable Simba and Pumbaa mug is available for $18.95.
The matching journal also features the two “Lion King” characters.
The month’s journal features Simba and Pumbaa. It costs $16.95.
Disney will close out the year in December with “Cinderella.”
The Fairy Godmother serves as inspiration for the final collection of the year. The items will incorporate her quote, “Even miracles take a little time.”