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  def bar_event_severity
    data = []
    data_labels = []
    %w(High Medium Low).each do |x|
      sym = x.downcase.to_sym
      unless params[sym].blank?
        data << params[sym].to_i
        data_labels << "#{x} Severity"
      end
    end

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receiver = TestItReceiver.new
pdf = PDF::Reader.file("sample.pdf", receiver)

pullmonkey

class TestItReceiver
  # show text takes a string, but may have some other params for us to look through
  def show_text(string, *params)
    puts string
  end
  def show_text_with_positioning(array, *params)
    # make use of the show text method we already have
    # assuming we don't care about positioning right now and just want the text
    show_text(array.select{|i| i.is_a?(String)}.join(""), params)
  end

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$tumblr_user = Tumblr::User.new('ourtumblr@email.address', 'ourtumblrpassword')

Tumblr.blog = 'ourtumblrcmsblog'

def tumblr_cms(tag)

  post = Tumblr::Post.first(:tagged => tag)

  return nil if post.nil?

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<%= tumblr_cms("home_page_top") %>

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>> VinApi.find("1HGCM82633A004352").year
=> "2003"
>> VinApi.find("1HGCM82633A004352").model
=> "ACCORD EX"
>> puts VinApi.find("1HGCM82633A004352").attributes.to_yaml
--- 
model: ACCORD EX
body_style: COUPE
country: UNITED STATES
vin: 1HGCM82633A004352

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class VinApi < ActiveResource::Base
  headers["X-VinApiKey"] = "YOUR_API_KEY_GOES_HERE"
  self.site = "http://vinapi.skizmo.com"
  self.element_name = "vin"
end

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<h2>Testing home top for speedeals.com</h2>
<b>Really?</b>
<ul>
<li>Hello THere...</li>
</ul>

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<?php
function decodeVIN($vin){
	$curl = curl_init();
        curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://vinapi.skizmo.com/vins/'.$vin.'.xml');
	curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Content-Type: application/xml', 'X-VinApiKey: YOUR_API_KEY_GOES_HERE'));
	$result = curl_exec ($curl);
	curl_close ($curl);
	return $result;
}

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require 'rubygems'
require 'cairo'

class Box
  # height and width for the rectangle, angle for the rotation
  attr_accessor :height, :width, :angle

  def initialize(height=200, width=200, angle=45)
    @height, @width, @angle = [height, width, degrees_to_radians(angle)]
    # The first argument for a surface is the filename, the next two are our canvas/surface size.