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  # Helper method to add html soft hyphen entities to words whose character length exceeds a given integer.
  # Note: This is an overkill substitute for the poorly supported CSS word-break property.

  def wordbreak(string, max_length = 12)
    max_length = max_length < 5 ? 4 : max_length # force min max_length of 4
    
    words = string.scan(/(?:"[\w'\.\-]*"\.?)|(?:'[\w'\.\-]*'\.?)|(?:[\w'\.]+)/)
    words.each do |word|
      if word.length > max_length
        index = word.include?("-") ? word.index('-')+1 : max_length-2

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  # removes disallowed opening and closing html tags from a passed string
  def scrub_html(string)
    disallowed_tags = %w[p ul li ol blockquote cite pre code dl dt dd table tr th frameset from input select option address h1 h2 h3 h4 h5 h6]

    disallowed_tags.each do |tag|
      opening_tag = /<\s*#{tag}[^>]*>{1}/i
      closing_tag = /<\/\s*#{tag}\s*>/i
      hr_tag = /<\s*hr\s*\/*>/i
      string.gsub!(opening_tag, '')
      string.gsub!(closing_tag, '')

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  # Based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1293573/rails-smart-text-truncation
  def sentence_truncate(string, num_sentences, enforce_max_length=true)
    pattern   = /[\.\?\!]{1,}\s/
    matches   = string.scan(pattern)
    sentences = string.split(pattern)
    num_sentences = matches.length if matches.length < num_sentences
    
    truncated_sentence = sentences[0...num_sentences].map do |sentence|
      sentence << matches[sentences.index(sentence)]
    end.join("").chop

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module SeoHelper
  def meta_keywords(keywords)
    tag(:meta, { :name => "keywords", :content => keywords })
  end
  
  def meta_description(description)
    tag(:meta, { :name => "description", :content => description })
  end
  
  def meta_author(author_name)

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  # builds an href for an iframe using prettyPhoto.js plugin
  def link_to_lightbox(*args, &block)
   if block_given?
     options      = args.first || {}
     html_options = args.second
     concat(link_to(capture(&block), options, html_options))
   else
     name         = args.first
     options      = args.second || {}
     html_options = args.third

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  # helper method for asking questions in a rake task - returns true or false
  def ask?(question)
    puts question
    respnose = STDIN.gets.chomp.downcase
    %w[yes y yep true].include?(respnose)
  end

  # example usage
  if ask?("Are you having a nice day?")
    puts "Great!"

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// note: this script depends on the jQuery browser plugin
// http://jquery.thewikies.com/browser/

// place this at the very top of application.js
// outside of the document ready block to ensue 
// it loads and initiates redirect as quickly
// as possible.

var browser_redirect = function() {
    var os_param = $.os.name === 'mac' ? '?os=mac' : '?os=win';

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// tiny plugin to clear form form data.
$.fn.clearForm = function() {
	// iterate each matching form
	return this.each(function() {

		// iterate the elements within the form
		$(':input', this).each(function() {
			var type = this.type, tag = this.tagName.toLowerCase();
			
			if (type == 'text' || type == 'password' || tag == 'textarea')

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var perserve_linebreaks = function(text) {
    var html = text.replace(/\r\n\r\n/g, "</p><p>"),
        html = html.replace(/\r\n/g, "<br />"),
        html = html.replace(/\n\n/g, "</p><p>"),
        html = html.replace(/\n/g, "<br />"),
        html = "<p>"+html+"</p>";  
    return html
};

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var todays_date = function() {

    var month_in_words = function(month_num) {
        if (month_num === 0) { return "January" };
        if (month_num === 1) { return "February" };
        if (month_num === 2) { return "March" };
        if (month_num === 3) { return "April" };
        if (month_num === 4) { return "May" };
        if (month_num === 5) { return "June" };
        if (month_num === 6) { return "July" };