grandma's cookie jar: A Very Happy Thanksgiving!
I hope you all enjoyed celebrating Thanksgiving with your families! I was blessed to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner with my husband, daughter, son, daughter-in-law and three, sweet, rascal grandsons! And, then the boys stayed a couple days for sleep-overs and time at grandma & Poppa's house!
After Thanksgiving dinner, the boys helped put up our tree . . . even little Shane (two years old) had great fun hanging ornaments and ran around, pointing at the tree saying "twinkle!" - I do love twinkle lights and have many of them on my tree!
After the tree was decorated - and twinkling - each boy received one gift . . . and I received extremely happy smiles in return! This year, as they boys receive their early gifts, they will be making a "ticket" for their parents which is good for something they will do for or with their parents. We are saving all the "tickets" and then the boys will be able to wrap them up and give them to their parents for Christmas! Some of the tickets are for things like, dusting, putting dishes away, etc and others are for things like playing a game, building snowmen (if we get any snow this year!) and having a snowball fight!
I want my sweet boys to not only receive gifts at grandma's, but to also be thinking about what they can do to give to others . . . their "tickets" will help them do this!
So, what did you do for Thanksgiving? Do you have any plans for celebrating and helping your grandchildren think about giving in this season of "receiving"?


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Gregory County ist ein County im Süden des Bundesstaates South Dakota der Vereinigten Staaten. Das U.S. Census Bureau hat bei der Volkszählung 2020 eine Einwohnerzahl von 3.994 ermittelt. Er wurde 1862 gegründet und zählt somit zu den ältesten Bezirken South Dakotas.

Geographie
Der Bezirk hat eine Fläche von 2728 Quadratkilometern; davon sind 97 Quadratkilometer (3,26 Prozent) Wasserflächen. Er ist in 13 Townships eingeteilt: Burke, Carlock, Dickens, Dixon, Edens, Ellston, Fairfax, Jones, Landing Creek, Pleasant Valley, Star Valley und Whetstone; sowie vier unorganisierte Territorien: East Gregory, North Gregory, Southeast Gregory und Spring Valley.

Geschichte
Das County wurde am 8. Mai 1862 gebildet und die Verwaltungsorganisation am 5. September 1898 abgeschlossen. Es wurde nach John Shaw Gregory benannt, der Indianeragent und Mitglied im Gouverneursrat des Dakota-Territoriums war.

Elf Bauwerke und Stätten des Countys sind im National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) eingetragen (Stand 31. Juli 2018).

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 Gregory

Gemeinden (towns)
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 Herrick

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Knowing of the multiple issues the police department faces, Mathis Interim Police Chief Scott Roush is taking strides to make the department more transparent.
Paul Gonzales
New chief faces old problems
Under new leadership, Mathis PD gears up to face public scrutiny
MATHIS – When Mathis Interim Police Chief Scott Roush took over duties for the police department, he may not have known what he was in for following the public scrutiny the former police chief wrought.
Roush hit the ground running when he was hired in late March, posting on the department's Facebook on April 27, that the police station lobby would be closed from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. due to lack of a dispatcher, but the department was not closed. Instead, the interim chief used connections with the sheriff's office to have them handle the calls at night.
The chief wrote in the same post, "However I would like to report to you that this department has filled all dispatch positions. These dispatchers will undergo a training period to ensure you are provided with a professional service.
"It is my goal to operate a community-oriented, professional and friendly service to our community. I invite anyone who has questions or concerns to visit me at the police department."
On June 17, a letter by former Mathis Police Department employee Isabel M. Rivera, who brought concerns against the former chief of police to the city council's attention last December and was questioned, along with other former employees, in January by the city council, city manager and city attorney, was sent to the council and city manager.
In that letter, Rivera wrote of multiple concerns, one being about the position at the department she felt she was forced to leave due to hostile working conditions.
One of the issues was that she wasn't notified, or never saw job postings, for the administrative assistant position which she left last year.
The letter read, "I waited patiently to see if any of you all were going to inform me about the position being open, as you all were very well informed that back in December 2018 I requested my position to be reinstated upon the departure of Pedro Saenz and Rhonda Payne. The position was not posted for anyone to apply. The position had been filled a few days after the termination of Rhonda Payne."
The letter went on to say that Roush hired a friend for the position and that it would make sense since the job was never posted.
Another issue dealt with dispatch and Roush's Facebook post by saying, "This issue is very concerning to me because I know that the police interim chief has expressed to the community that they are training new dispatchers and that very soon they should be on their own doing their job and trained professionally. His statement is false as I have witnessed all dispatchers in training all together at once, in the morning shift 6 a.m.-6 p.m. (Time sheets are the best area to look into to see this.) How can you be training professionally if they are not getting one-on-one training? How can you evaluate one if one is watching you; this process is not the correct way to train someone who has no knowledge ever in dispatch."
Roush said that what he brought with him to Mathis was a relationship with the sheriff's office and other surrounding agencies because he's been in the area for a long time.
"So all we had to do was reach out to the sheriff and say, 'Look we need help. I have one dispatcher,' and they said absolutely... They really helped us out.
"But we were able to staff our dispatch within three weeks. And that's a task because you really have to find quality people that are trainable, and will adapt to that kind of position.
"And that's harder than it sounds.
"But we were able to do it and we staffed our dispatch and we trained them in a group and individually – whatever fits the needs of this department at the time. We found that it was effective."
The letter does make some damning claims against Roush – both personally and professionally – but overall it does seem to take into account the real issues facing Mathis and its police department: There's a high turnover rate at the department, including the position of police chief, and a large portion of the citizens feel like they can't trust the city's police.
"What we need to convey to the community is that this is a transparent department," Roush said. "We will not do anything behind closed doors. And if the community wants to know what we're doing, they are more than welcome to walk through that front door and come here and watch what we do.
"I encourage the citizens to come out and ride with the officers.
"Really. Come out and ride with us.
"You want to see what a detective does, come hang out with our detective and watch what he does during the day.
"This is the community's police department ultimately. And that's a fact. So if they want to come here, they're more than welcome here, and they shouldn't be shunned away. I feel like maybe that's what has happened in the past. So the community doesn't feel welcome here.
"Even if you've been critical of the department, come see us. We will show you what we do and what's going on here.
"This is a transparent department. This is a community-oriented style policing that we need, and we're trying to get there.
"We're going to get there."
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Ireland: What Happened?
Four months ago, in May, the Irish Free State overturned the Eighth Amendment, that once-proud Catholic country's ban on abortion.
This sent shock waves throughout the world. Ireland; a tiny country whose out-sized influence on the world was due to the massive diaspora of its stubborn and resourceful people. A people which, perhaps more than any other, was imbued with an ethos of staunch Roman Catholicism.
Ireland and the Church. Catholicism and the Irish. Those words were inseparable in the popular imagination. The Kennedys, "The Fighting Irish", Going my Way. Sr Mary Helen Dillahunty who rapped your knuckles with a yardstick if you stepped out of line in Jr High. The local police force.
You get the picture.
So what happened? Two words: sodomy and corruption. They are two sides of the same coin. Add them together and you get an arrogance that puts mere hubris to shame; an arrogance which can destroy a once-great civilization. One follows the other; indeed one necessitates the other. Consider "the glory that was Greece, the grandeur which was Rome".
I realize that for some, this is a bitter pill to swallow but with the recent revelations out of Pennsylvania, the gloves have already come off in Catholic circles. No more are the growing legion of Catholic critics dancing around the issue, speaking only about "paedophilia" (which is the sexual exploitation of pre-pubescent children). We have numbers now: 87 percent of the cases of clerical and episcopal abuse concern the exploitation of post-pubescent young men. This is about homosexuality and the mindset which includes ephebophelia, the seduction of young men.
This much is obvious now.
And that's the way horrified Catholics are talking. Why? Because they learned their lesson from the earlier scandal which broke in 2002. (I recommend the movie Spotlight for a good primer on this subject.) The insistence that the earlier scandal involved only pre-pubescent children (which were overwhelmingly boys) was a classic case of misdirection. Indeed, in comparison with what has come out now, the numbers were relatively small (as stated above).
Criminals do this all the time in order to deflect attention from themselves. After all, in both the popular imagination as well as most legal codes, the abuse of little children is worse than the abuse of teenagers. In doing so however, they throw a minority of the miscreants under the bus. Regardless, it's all evil and it couldn't be hushed up forever.
The monetary damages that the American Catholic Church has had to pay out (4 billion dollars so far) are bad enough but this pales in comparison to the destruction of souls and the loss of the Roman Church's moral authority. Those losses are incalculable. No more can any Catholic bishop speak with authority about anything and be taken seriously, even if he is preaching the Gospel and he himself is as pure as the wind-driven snow.
The case in Ireland is particularly poignant. The loss of the Church's honor was a long time in coming. The priesthood there (as here) had become a gay profession if you will. So when the time came to stand up to the secularist forces which want abortion-on-demand at all costs, they couldn't do it.
Is there a lesson here for the Orthodox Church? Possibly. There has been a slow erosion of moral rigor in those churches aligned with Constantinople. The present Ecumenical Patriarch has signaled as much with his various pronouncements and –let's be honest here–the elevation of certain men to the episcopate.
Let's leave it at that for now. In the meantime, the dissolution of once-proudly Catholic Ireland leaves me with profound sorrow.
The question is where have the voices of straight, traditional, and right minded Roman Catholic priests,cardinals, and bishops gone? Yes many in their laity have left, but what of the devout, and conservative Catholics? You all believe the billions of dollars only went to victims, yeah right? This is more than sex, that's why it will never stop, follow the money. Why do they not demand wholesale removals? The first scandal was not enough? Apparently the sodomites, and the liberal minded have taken over. Imagine the abuse in third world countries.
This example from the first RCC scandal, and now with the second, which will go down as the first(no real change and obscene payouts), is why our Orthodox leaders don't give a shit what we laity have to say, nor bad press, nor spotlight. They are choirboys compared to the RCC leaders, and will always be supported by their bootlickers and sycophants.
Homosexuality has been spiritually destroyed the RCC, but they have the deepest pockets. The Orthodox Church is next for the queer minded. A good percentage of our bishops are either gay,liberal, or both so don't look to them, to correct course, especially as there ranks grow.
Maybe it's a good thing Orthodoxy's pockets are not deep. Our wallets and feet are our only nuclear option, and God forbid it comes to that, but then what to do? Do we allow the RCC infestation to attempt destroy, and splinter our church as well? Men who make excuses, for these sick and fake unbelievers, are simply accomplices and enablers. The greatest enabler preaches,"Whom Am I to judge?"
dan says
As the devil continues to try to stamp out Christianity we have no other option but to grow stronger in faith and grow closer together with like minded Christians. I think a time is coming where jurisdictional preference will be secondary to clinging to the truth but there will also be great confusion especially if the EP makes good on it's fiction of having jurisdiction over the Ukraine. This is the beginning of the end, the great falling away. In a phrase: it doesn't get better, it becomes more real. So prepare and be ready for anything, but don't worry about corrupt bishops and priests. It is later than we think!
Holy Fathers Seraphim and Dmitri pray to God for us!
Deep Steak says
lack of mention of the magdalene laundries or bon secours or other non sodomy related major catholic scandals in ireland
not always about butt stuff
123 says
FWIW, "the [Irish] Free State came to an end with the coming into force of the new constitution on 29 December 1937, which with the Republic of Ireland Act 1948 officially became the Republic of Ireland."
There will be a split between the New Calendar modernists and the Church Calendar traditionalists. The modernists will leave us no choice. Thus will the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church be preserved. The rot in modernism is already terminal. Just a matter of time.
Johannes says
I very much want to go back to the Church Calendar and know which group I will be joining if this happens, but I don't look forward to this. All schisms are tragedies.
Sean Richardson says
It should be noted that Ireland had a centuries long tradition of Orthodox (Eastern Christian) monastic practice and Christian thought. There are many early Irish saints that are recognized within the Orthodox Church for their sanctity, teachings and life. The real change in Ireland happened centuries ago, it didn't just happen this year when abortion laws were passed.
Jonas Colicas says
The idea of Orthodox Ireland is blatant OCA agitprop. The Irish vehemently deny it.
Huh? says
Tell that to St Patrick, who is very much an Orthodox saint and is on the church calendar of even the most traditional/older calendar Orthodox Churches. St Patrick's Englishness/Irishness in no way makes him "not Orthodox."
All it is is a recognition that Ireland and all the West was in communion with the Orthodox East until somewhere around the Great Schism. That's simply a fact. Calling those pre-Schism Irish/Western saints "Orthodox" is simply an acknowledgment of that communion the same way RCs call pre-Schism Greek/Eastern saints "Catholic". There's no insinuation St. Patrick, for example, was Byzantine Rite or followed later "Eastern" practices.
Monk James Silver says
Jonas Colicas (September 7, 2018 at 10:50 am) says:
The Synod of Whitby forced Christians in the British Isles to abandon their Palestinian-Egyptian traditions a thousand years ago, and conform to Roman practice
At that time, Christians in Ireland and the rest of the Isles were Orthodox, in full communion — along with Rome — with the other local churches. The Irish stayed with Rome after the Great Schism and after the Protestant Reformation, but they had remained Orthodox for six centuries after the Synod of Whitby.
And this has, what? exactly, to do with the OCA, which came into existence only in 1970?!
Thank you for setting the record straight.


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I recently lost a big tender. I've heard that the winning bidder, although more expensive, had a better BEE level than me because it is 51% black-owned. Now I also hear that they are subcontracting most of the work to another company. Surely this is not allowed?
The definition is very broad and there has been a lot of confusion as to how this definition will be interpreted in practice.
Our courts recently provided more transparency on the matter, in the case of Prasa vs Swifambo Rail Agency.
In this case, Swifambo was accused by Prasa of fronting, because they had applied for a tender and then subcontracted the job to a multinational company.
The BEE codes require that multinational companies invest substantially in empowerment initiatives and the court found that the arrangement between Swifambo and the international company had the effect of circumventing these requirements.
The international company could reap the benefit of the contract without having the obligation of complying with the BEE requirements. The communities who would have benefitted from the empowerment initiatives were harmed by this transaction in general, which undermined the objectives of the BEE Act.
The court therefore found that Swifambo was "merely a token participant that received monetary compensation in exchange for the use of its BEE rating" and that, on a balance of probabilities, they were guilty of fronting.
The court held that it was not a requirement that there should be misrepresentation or even that there should be exploitation of a specific individual for fronting to be present.
If one then looks at your situation, based on the above decision, it does appear that there may be grounds for potential fronting by the company that has won the tender.
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[PUYB Blog Tour&Review] Close to His Heart by Lenora Pruner
Posted 20 August, 2010 by Molly(Cover To Cover Cafe) in Book Reviews / 1 Comment
In this eighteenth-century romance, a young and naive Grace Carstares plans a midnight elopement with a handsome stableman with suspicious motives. Their plans are thwarted, however, when Grace discovers a mysterious stranger lying guard at her bedroom threshold. All is explained the next morning when, to her dismay, Grace learns her nighttime guardian is young Lord Buryhill, a suitor approved by her father who caught rumor of her misguided romance and decided to protect her from ruining her life.
Determined to marry this particular young woman, Lord Henry Buryhill comes to deeply love Grace and hopes to win her love in return. Yet buried beneath this determination is his own abandoned hope that he would meet a woman who might share his commitment to God.
Henry wins Grace's heart as well as her hand in marriage. But Henry cannot overcome his nagging fears that Grace clings to her affection for the stableman. His distrust darkly clouds their wedding night and shatters their hopes for a joy-filled union. Unaware of the reasons driving her husband's suspicions and jealousy, a devastated Grace withdraws from Henry, busying herself in gardening and taking solace in God's love.
An ensuing pony-cart accident, through which Grace loses all memory of former things, presents both Grace and Henry the opportunity to either abandon their shattered marriage or begin anew. A guilt-ridden Henry is determined to win Grace's heart once again, but Grace must decide whether to accept the courtship of a complete stranger or continue her life in the small community among the people who found her and nursed her back from a head injury. Will Henry's determination, forgiveness, and tender care be sufficient to rebuild a foundation for their marriage?
Leonora Pruner was born in Dubuque, Iowa, but has lived most of her life in California. Writing has been an important activity since junior high. She graduated from Westmont College in 1953 and earned an MBA from Pepperdine University in 1981.
Fascination with a possible eighteenth-century English character led to five years of extensive research, which resulted in the 1981 and 1987 publication of two period novels. That time remains of great interest to the author, and she continues to use eighteenth-century England as a setting for her work.
Leonora married in 1953, and her family has expanded from two children to thirteen grandchildren and five great-grand-children.
She lived in the Republic of Maldives from 1987 to 1997, where she collected folklore and taught economics and computer science. While there she wrote the first drafts of this book.
Other books by Leonora Pruner include Love's Secret Storm and Love's Silent Gift. The title of her next novel is The Aerie of the Wolf.
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Oh my goodness! I love Lenora Pruner's work! She's FABULOUS. I'm asking myself right now, "why haven't I read her book before now?!". I literally stayed up all most all night to work on reading this- I just couldn't put this book down! I had to keep turning page after beautiful page to see what happened to these wonderful characters! Pruner takes us on a fantastically detailed and wonderful trip to 18th Century England and fills the plot with so much fascinating love and lessons. It's enough to make anyone fall in love with historic England.
Pruner immediately introduces us to young Grace, who wishes nothing more than to be wed and mature in her parents' eyes. But what to do when she is introduced to Lord Henry? Hmmm…I would LOVE to tell you what happens but that would be a spoiler! The research that Lenora Pruner did to create such a tender, soul capturing story is terrific. Pruner writes in the style of Jane Austen, as she tells the whirlwind tale of Grace and Lord Henry, all the while weaving a heart worthy love in the pages, along with a powerful lesson of forgiveness and love conquering all. Splendid! Pruner adds just a simple touch of mystery to keep the reader hooked for the entire journey.
I just simply can't express often enough how much I loved this story of love, hope and forgiveness! I most certainly can NOT give this book anything less than 5 stars. It would be unjust if I did! It is deserving of the highest of 5 stars, kudos, thumbs up and any other kind of praises you can think of. I will recommend this book to all those who ask me for a recommendation. I will share it amongst my reader friends and family, but they must know that this is so good, they will have to get their own copy! Please,grab a copy of this fantastic read today!
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With all of the high quality independent feature films now playing at Cinequest, it's easy to overlook the shorts. These guys try twice as hard to earn your respect. And last night at Camera 3 downtown San Jose it showed. To my eyes there wasn't a dud in the batch. Billed as "Dark, Deep and Dangerous," the 8 shorts treated the enthusiastic audience to a bizarre, mind twisting, and yes, even dark, evening of film.
Clocking in at typically 10-15 minutes, with the longest at just 30 minutes, the shorts are a convenient way to traverse many filmmaking styles, cultures, and perspectives all in one sitting. Don't like what you're seeing? No worries, momentarily the next film in queue is at the ready.
A few of these equaled or surpassed the caliber of some of the CQ features.
When you apply all your energy and resources into something that's only, say, 15% the length of the feature there's far less chance of dilution, both in on-screen quality (mostly evident from solid post-production work) and in story. Several much-hyped features at Cinequest tested the patience, rambled and/or came across as unfinished film school pieces. Such is the world of indie film sometimes.
Pain is so close to pleasure—it's also a catchy song by Queen. Meds and 911 calls bond two lovers with most dates ending up in the ER. Decently made, and entertaining enough. Acting not quite at same level as some others. Enjoyed it. 3 out of 5.
Here's an interesting question: what if interpreters conspired in the highstakes arena of nuclear and arms negotiations? This is exactly what we see here in this clever short that lets us eavesdrop on an intense negotiation between the US (played by a very Laura Bush looking actress) and Iran. Confusion ensues. Or is it agreement? 4 out of 5.
This one started off strong, ended weak. It showed promise when a couple come home to their apartment which had apparently just been robbed. Some sort of secret or cherished files on a stolen laptop cause much angst. Overtones of a play we recently saw in Palo Alto called Rabbit Hole (soon to be a motion picture later this year starring Nicole Kidman), it never quite completes the thought, or gives us enough reason to care. 2 out of 5.
A boy is a dog. A girl look for her lost cat that is not really lost. Christmas comes twice a year. Valentine's Day can happen at any moment. A world is turned upside down when a family must look after their very sick daughter. But to what extent will everyone go to appease her living wishes. And, in the end, who is really sick? 3 out of 5.
Mad scientist gone wild! I love this one, although I can see a lot of people being turned off by the rapid-fire cuts, repetitive narration and bleak tonality of the message. For Canadian immigrant Nihad Ademi, the Aurora Borealis are an incredible art form that must be shared across Canada from coast-to-coast. He invents a machine to send the images, music. But is shut down by the Government. Shades of The Creature, and 1950's sci-fi movies, it's terrifically bizarre. 4.5 out of 5.
A mermaid in a stray television found on the beach causes a lonely local to fall in love. But the water is running out. Will the mermaid survive, and, more importantly can a relationship like this work? Charming story. This one might even fit better in comedy shorts. I prefer my dark, more dark. More dangerous. Then again, maybe this one was a welcome reprieve from the others. 3.5 out of 5.
Sado masochism holds a role-playing couple together. See, didn't I already say: pain is so close to pleasure? Like two fighting Siamese fish, they must never share the same bowl, or they will fight each other to the death. Good looking film. 3.5 out of 5.
One of my favorites of the evening. Filmmaker Rory Bain demonstrates that just because a film is short, doesn't mean you can't patiently let a story unfold, with character development. The story of a Muslim boy who fights temptation when he discovers a beautiful, yoga-loving blonde next door. I told Rory that I enjoyed the very American blonde combined with the intensity of the Muslim faith. He replied: everyone likes the blonde. 4.5 out of 5.


> > What's this? An internal track id?
>  Yes, it's from our gerrit. I've just done git format-patch.
> > here: it's just meaningless to us.
> > Otherwise, this patch looks good to me.
>  Should i repost, or can you just drop this tag by yourself when applying?
I'd suggest so. Since it's Thomas (but not me) to apply your patch.


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Q: Rails Tutorial 8.25 I am currently working through Rails Tutorial 4.0. I have reached completed everything up to 8.2.5. For the life of me I can't get a user to be able to sign-in. I have all my valid users specs failing and when I try in the browser, I always get username/password combination failure messages. I have inspected the params debug and the email and password I am using match what I set them to when signing up. The user exists in the database. The only thing I can think of is something with the encryption of the remember_token or something. Any help would be great
factories.rb
FactoryGirl.define do
  factory :user do
    name "James"
    email "test@example.com"
    password "foobar"
    password_confirmation "foobar"
  end
end

user.rb
class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  VALID_EMAIL_REGEX = /\A[\w+\-.]+@[a-z\d\-]+(\.[a-z]+).[a-z]+\z/i

  validates :name  , presence: true, length: { maximum: 50 }
  validates :email , presence: true, format: { with: VALID_EMAIL_REGEX },
    uniqueness: { case_sensitive: false }
  validates :password, length: { minimum: 6 }

  before_save{ email.downcase! }
  before_create :create_remember_token
  has_secure_password

  def User.new_remember_token
    SecureRandom.urlsafe_base64
  end

  def User.encrypt(token)
    Digest::SHA1.hexdigest(token.to_s)
  end

  private
  def create_remember_token
    self.remember_token = User.encrypt(User.new_remember_token)
  end
end

authentication_pages_specs
require 'spec_helper'

describe "Authentication" do

  subject { page }

  describe "Signin Page" do
    before { visit signin_path }
    it { should have_content('Sign In') }
    it { should have_title('Sign In') }
  end

  describe "Signing in" do
    before { visit signin_path }

    describe "invalid signin" do
      before { click_button "Sign In" }

      it { should have_title('Sign In') }
      it { should have_selector('div.alert.alert-error',
                                text: 'Invalid') }

      describe "after visiting another page" do
        before { click_link "Home" }
        it { should_not have_select('div.alert.alert-error') }
      end
    end

    describe "with valid information" do
      let(:user) { FactoryGirl.create(:user) }
      before do
        fill_in "Email",        with: user.email.upcase
        fill_in "Password",     with: user.password
        click_button "Sign In"
      end

      it { should have_title(user.name) }
      it { should have_link('Profile', href: user_path(user)) }
      it { should have_link('Sign Out', href: signout_path) }
      it { should_not have_link('Sign In', href: signin_path) }
    end
  end
end

_header.html.erb

      <%= link_to "sample app", root_path, id: "logo" %>

<%= link_to "Home",    root_path %>

<%= link_to "Help",    help_path %>

          <% if signed_in? %>

<%= link_to "Users", '#' %>

            Account

<%= link_to 'Profile', current_user %>

<%= link_to 'Settings', '#' %>

<%= link_to "Sign Out", signout_path, method: "delete" %>

        <% else %>

<%= link_to "Sign in", signin_path %>

        <% end %>

users_controller.rb
class UsersController < ApplicationController
  def new
    @user = User.new
  end

  def show
    @user = User.find(params[:id])
  end

  def create
    @user = User.new(user_params)
    if @user.save
      flash[:success] = "Welcome to the Sample Application!"
      redirect_to @user
    else
      render 'new'
    end
  end

  private
  def user_params
    params.require(:user).permit(:name, :email, :password, :password_confirmation)
  end
end

sessions_controller.rb
class SessionsController < ApplicationController
  def new
  end

  def create
    user = User.find_by(email: params[:session][:email].downcase)
    if user && user.authenticate(params[:session][:password])
      sign_in user
      redirect_to user
    else
      flash.now[:error] = "Invalid email/password combination"
      render 'new'
    end
  end

  def destroy
  end
end

sessions_helper.rb
module SessionsHelper
  def sign_in(user)
    remember_token = User.new_remember_token
    cookies.permanent[:remember_token] = remember_token
    user.update_attribute(:remember_token, User.encrypt(remember_token))
    self.current_user = user
  end

  def signed_in?
    !current_user.nil?
  end

  def current_user=(user)
    @current_user = user
  end

  def current_user
    remember_token = User.encrypt(cookies[:remember_token])
    @current_user ||= User.find_by(remember_token: remember_token)
  end
end

A: Stepping away and coming back at another time works best. The problem I had was in the views/sessions/new.html.erb which seems like the only file I wasn't looking at at the time. I accidentally had the password label and password_field using symbol :Password instead of :password.

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My grandmother was so proud of her father and wanted him to be remembered, so she wrote his biography.
I happened to be the grandchild who thought what she was doing was like a treasure hunt. After I became a photographer in 1997, somebody suggested to me to do a photo essay on my passion for Great Grandpa Heindrick Hans Nelson's history.
For forever, it seems, I have wanted to make a movie from my grandmother Elizabeth Greenfield's book, On the Heels of the Buffalo.
These words and pictures are the beginnings of fulfilling a dream that I have had since I was 12.
H.H. was born in Denmark. His mother moved the family to Hutchinson, Minn., in 1866.
When he was in his late teens, he got a job out of Bismarck, N.D., to be the trail boss of about seven men to take 300 head of horses to Deer Lodge.
They came across by the badlands near Glendive, then to Coulson, which is now Billings, up the Yellowstone to somewhere by Three Forks, then up to Helena and over the Mullan Pass and on into Deer Lodge.
It was the fall of 1881. Then it was up the Old North Trail to his first job, watching a cow camp over the winter located near where the Marias meets the Missouri.
We now know this as Decision Point, the place where Lewis and Clark had to figure out which channel was the Missouri.
The horses he was training at this job got stolen so he tracked them all the way to the Cypress Hills in Saskatchwan and spent three days talking the chief into returning his horses.
After this winter he went to work for a sheep man near Sun River at Eagle Butte. He was willing to help H.H. get his own sheep. They called this "sharing."
Then in 1883 H.H. filed on his Missouri River property between Cascade and Ulm, calling this place Riverdale.
That is where I photographed these steps in a house built on my Great Grandfather's Riverdale property near Cascade. They represent to me my quest of following his steps around Montana.
My Great Grandfather stayed at Riverdale until about 1904, running one of Montana's largest sheep operations.
A series of misfortunes occurred, and he missed a payment to the bank. They foreclosed. He was left with only a parcel of land west of Glasgow on the Milk River.
He named this place Vandalia. Instead of returning to the sheep business, he became an earth mover. He had 100 mules for digging irrigation canals and building railroad beds.
A group of men from Glasgow, called The Milk River Water User's Association, wanted to irrigate northeastern Montana. H.H. was one of them.
They spent two years convincing Congress and Teddy Roosevelt to give them the money to build dikes from St. Mary Lake in Glacier Park so the water would flow into the Milk River. Near Havre they started building a series of dams that would end at Nelson Reservoir by Saco at Buffalo Hot Springs.
This reservoir is named in honor of my Great Grandfather. He was the person who found the place for a reservoir and surveyed it.
He died before it was finished. That was 1914 and he was only 54.
I went looking for Bird Tail Divide on the Old North Trail one warm June day. Barely any wind. It was one of those photographing days of feeling one with nature and in the zone.
At the Bird Tail I wished I had brought a big picnic lunch, my lover, a bottle of wine. I wished that I could spend all day lying on the earth, feeling the air against my skin, watching the butterflies, smelling the grasses and watching the Hereford cattle. But I had other places to go, people to meet and photos to take. Another day I'll go back and absorb this little piece of heaven.
My grandmother always spoke of this place as though it were a special place in her father's life. I never really understood why, but thought if I went there I might learn.
I knew that Great Grand-father had traveled this road to find his first job in Montana.
Sam Spencer of Sun River had told him on a cattle drive from Minnesota to Canada, "Kid if you want to come west, find me in Sun River, and I'll give you a job."
I suppose this is one of the reasons the Bird Tail was so special to him. He might have grazed his sheep here later in his life. Or was it special because it just is?
When I began to do a photo essay of Great Grand-father's life, I could not know that it would lead me to Native American spiritual landscapes, with their immense history.
In On the Heels of the Buffalo, my grandmother writes that the watering hole below the Bird Tail had been a favorite spot for tired travelers: "Asians were the first to blaze this trail. In pre-historic mists they came, always walking along high places, but not mountains because it was a high, safe route."
I wonder. Did my picture captured the watering hole she was talking about? She, too, was intrigued by the peoples who came before us and wondered about the mystery of their lives.
Hmmm, so man has been drinking from this spring for thousands of years.
And I thought my great grandfather's history was old.
I am fascinated with history and love the old stories that are told.
In our culture, architecture helps tell the story of an age. But the Native Americans don't have architecture. Their history is in the landscape.
I am left wondering what special significance this place has with the Blackfeet and other plains tribes, and the people before that.


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Niagara Falls author and historian Paul Gromosiak remembers speaking with tourists during near nightly walks to the American Falls after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed the 1969 dewatering.
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I-279 Won't Open Until Spring
Clarksburg Exponent Telegram
BRIDGEPORT (Tuesday, January 1, 2002)
Interstate 279, the northern Bridgeport Bypass of U.S. 50, will not open until spring, probably in May.
The highway had originally been scheduled to open in the fall of 2001. The first stages of construction on the 2.8-mile, $30 million project began in late 1999, according to Marvin Murphy, district 4 engineer for the state Division of Highways.
In spite of the warm fall, Murphy said delays over rights of way early last year made it impossible to finish paving details that required good weather.
"The majority of the project has the base coat down," he said.
He said the need for a final coat of asphalt that seals the road from water and provides a non-skid surface is the primary hold up. Workers also need to complete grading work near a bridge over 131.
Other details, such as completing guard-rail installation, may be done after the road opens, he said.
I-279 will connect Route 50 east of the entrance to the Harrison-Marion Regional Airport Industrial Park to the Jerry Dove Drive intersection of I-79.
Development at the latter intersection includes the Federal Bureau of Investigation fingerprint center, the Charles Pointe planned community and the future location of United Hospital Center.


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New Era About Us
A BRIEF HISTORY of New Era Mineral Cell Salts or Mineral Tissue Salts:
In the late 19th century Homoeopath and Biochemist, Dr. Wilhelm Schuessler established his theory that 12 mineral cell salts were essential for good health. He thought that dietary deficiencies, or imbalances of one or more of these salts at the cellular level, may affect our overall health. Using his knowledge of homoeopathy, Schuessler developed tablets containing micro doses of these mineral cell, or tissue salts, to be taken to address these imbalances as part of what was an early form of nutritional supplementation. American Physician, August Luyties worked with Dr.Schuessler and in the late 1800's he took the Schuessler's Cell Salt system to St Louis, where his family homeopathy business, Luyties Pharmacal began the first commercial manufacturing, of their small, unique, dissolving tablets, to the original Schuessler formula.
The New Era Treatment Co of London, (later to become New Era Laboratories Ltd.) introduced Luyties' Combination Tissue Salt, "Elasto", for tired and aching legs to the UK in 1923 and the full range of 12 Single Mineral Cell salts was successfully launched in 1927. These were later followed with the range of Combination Salts designed to meet specific consumer needs as an alternative to making their own mixture of single Tissue Salts.
Many users particularly liked being able to self-select the ready mixed tissue salt product they needed and so New Era Combinations like H, Q, J and B eventually became among the most popular products in the UK health trade. Interest in the system in the UK grew substantially and peaked in the late 1990's but shortly after the business changed hands. Thereafter it was given a lower priority and entered a period of steady decline, but its customers stayed loyal.
Sadly in 2013 for financial reasons, the Brand's owners chose to exit the UK market and sold the business to its Italian distributors. So, after over 90 years of success in UK health care it seemed New Era and its Tissue Salt system was gone forever and many consumers and retailers lobbied for the return of their New Era favourites, because of the unique, small "melt under the tongue" tablets had proved so effective for them over the years. Though hard compressed tablet alternatives have appeared on the market, none have matched the popularity of New Era, so something needed to be done.
New Era is now back in the UK:
At last, we are pleased to say that the New Era range is back in the UK, and you could say its new and improved with some added benefits too. Inside each new screw cap tub, the product range provides all the original Single and Combination Mineral Tissue Salts and now they have a little added biotin, a micro nutrient with extra benefits to enhance their action too.
Nevertheless, New Era Mineral Cell Salts are still prepared using the traditional 90 year old method of finely grinding and diluting mineral ingredients to tiny particles, a process known as trituration. This material with biotin is used to produce the unique 'FastMelt', dissolve on or under the tongue tablets, for which New Era is so understandably famous. The nutrients in New Era's Mineral Cell Salt 'FastMelt' tablets are more rapidly absorbed into the blood stream than any ordinary tablet can be expected to achieve when chewed, swallowed or taken with a drink.
There are 12 Single Mineral Cell salts and 18 Combination Mineral Cell Salt formulations in the range, all with distinct Tissue Salts for our health, whilst biotin additionally contributes to the maintenance of normal, healthy skin and hair and the normal healthy function of the nervous system, mucous membranes and metabolism.


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Most water heaters are automatically set to 140 degrees. If you lower it to about 120 or 125 degrees, you'll reduce the amount of fuel needed. Insulate the first 3 to 6 feet of pipes coming out of the heater. If you have a tank-style heater, wrap it in an insulation blanket, which you can purchase at a big-box store.
You spend a lot of time, money and energy warming up your home, so you don't want it to go to waste. Prevent warm air from slipping outside by creating a tight envelope. Replace, caulk or apply weather stripping to drafty windows and doors. Don't overlook air leaks from utility cut-throughs — the gaps that allow pipes into your home, as well as chimneys and recessed lights. A clear plastic sheet taped tightly to your window frames can stop air from escaping as well. Schedule an inspection with an insulation professional to make sure old and worn-out insulation isn't causing leaks. Check your ducts to make sure you don't have holes, which can seriously impact your bills.


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Q: Is there a way to declare a successive string literal union in Typescript I want to declare a string literal union type: "10" | "11" | ... "99".
I came up with a workaround, but didn't work
const arr = Array.from({
  length: 90
}, (_, i) => i + 10) as const; // expected arr type is readonly [10, 11, ..., 99]
// If above works, then
type NumberToString<T extends number> = `${T}`;
type Successive = NumberToString<typeof arr[number]>;

I wonder if there is a way to quickly define "10" to "99" on top of type level?

A: This should be possible in next (4.5) version of TypeScript where type instantiation depth limit should be increased
type _NextValue<From, LastValue, R extends any[]> = LastValue extends number
    ? R['length']
    : R['length'] extends From ? From : null

/**
 * Fill array with `null` placeholders until index `From`
 * Then append array length as a member until getting to `To` length
 * Example: `_Values<5, 11>` will result in `[null, null, null, null, null, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]`
 */

type _Values<From, To, R extends any[] = [], LastValue = null> = R['length'] extends To ? R :
    _Values<
        From,
        To,
        [...R, _NextValue<From, LastValue, R>],
        _NextValue<From, LastValue, R>
    >

/**
 * Exclude nulls and convert to strings
 */
type NumbersToStrings<T extends Array<number | null>> = `${NonNullable<T[number]>}`;

type N10_99 = NumbersToStrings<_Values<10, 100>> // "10" | "11" | "12" | "13" | "14" | "15" | ... | "99"

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A: I found a different approach to solve this question, while @Aleksey L. fills
Tuple with beginning nulls and records last pushed value, my approach is to use a TempTuple whose length is Start and grows as ResTuple grows.
type AddOne<T extends number, Tuple extends unknown[] = []> =
    Tuple["length"] extends T ? [1, ...Tuple]["length"] :
        AddOne<T, [1, ...Tuple]>;

/** fill tuple to a fixed length */
type FillTuple<T extends number, Tuple extends unknown[] = []> =
    Tuple["length"] extends T ? Tuple :
        FillTuple<T, [1, ...Tuple]>;

/** TempTuple is meant to grow as ResTuple grow */
type RangeTuple<Start extends number, End extends number, ResTuple extends unknown[] = [], TempTuple extends unknown[] = FillTuple<Start>> =
    TempTuple["length"] extends AddOne<End> ? ResTuple :
        RangeTuple<Start, End, [...ResTuple, `${TempTuple["length"]}`], [1, ...TempTuple]>;

{
    type _ = RangeTuple<10, 99>[number];
}

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Have you put any thoughts of golf on the backburner in favour of holiday celebrations and Sunday football? That's OK, there is still time to get your body ready for the fairways. Complete these 4 exercises every other day and get ready to hit the ball farther than ever before!
If you want to improve your swing speed, you have to start with your hip strength. Strong hips will give you powerful rotation, follow through, and stability throughout your swings. Taking care of your hips is also incredibly important for our general health as well, especially as we age.
Start off in a relaxed stance, feet about shoulder width apart. Next, take a large step forward, planting your foot firmly and bringing your shin bone to a position where it is vertically aligned with the floor. Make sure your knee does not go past your planted foot! Let the knee of your back leg slowly come down and touch the floor- when this occurs explode back up to your regular standing position and complete the exercise on the opposite leg. Look to complete 10 repetitions per leg and hold weighted dumbbells as required!
Looking for a visual explanation of a proper lunge?
use your favourite club, or find a weighted club and practise the various motions that you would actually use out on the course. Really focus on your technique and try holding your poses in various stages of your swing. This will do wonders for all the little supporting muscles in your back and shoulders, while also training your brain with muscle memory!
properly. This is where most golf injuries occur, so it's smart to pay extra attention to this area in the offseason. If you strengthen your muscles, you will avoid injuries while playing and potentially add a few yards to your drive as well! Aim for 10-15 repetitions for 3-4 sets and if you are just learning to deadlift, or it has been a few years since you have lifted weights, start very, very light! You don't want to hurt yourself with spring right around the corner!
Proper technique when completing deadlifts is paramount- brush up on your form here.
4. Down Dog to Help with Dog Legs!
Do you want the secret weapon that professional golfers use year-round to elevate their game? It's not a new tool or technology developed by Nike or Taylormade… it's one of the most basic concepts of physical fitness that you know you should be incorporating- stretching.
Stretching can radically improve your game, but if only you do it properly and consistently. When you become more flexible your range of motion will increase, which will give you more swing speed and power. This translates into more control on the fairways and likely a longer drive. A regular stretching routine will also drastically decrease the chances of a golf-related injury.
One of the most underrated and useful stretches you can incorporate into your off-season regime is the yoga position commonly referred to as the downward dog. When completed properly, the downward dog position will stretch out your entire body, focusing on your calves, back and shoulder mobility.
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