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Dilbert-style management
In 1954, when Peter Drucker is said to have invented the concept of management with his book The Practice of Management (Harper & Brothers), the future of management seemed bright. For Drucker, "the manager is the dynamic, life-giving element in every business.... it is management's specific job to make what is desirable first possible and then actual."
Yet today, some 66 years later, hardly any self-respecting executive wants to be called a manager. Executives aspire to be seen as chief executives, leaders, innovators, entrepreneurs, movers-and-shakers, change-agents, rain-makers, integrators, deal-makers—almost anything but a manager.
To be seen as a manager today risks being confused with a low-level bureaucrat, with multiple derisive insinuations illustrated daily in Dilbert cartoons. All around the world, people recognize Dilbert's pointy-haired manager who disguises his lack of skills and understanding with buzzwords and treats his employees with feigned enthusiasm or dismissive neglect, with blithe indifference to the consequences.
How did Drucker's brilliant vision of management as the dynamic, life-giving element of a firm turn into Dilbert-style stupidity? Why do executives continue to tolerate Dilbert-style management in their organizations as unchangeable facets of human nature, while dressing themselves in the supposedly noble clothes of "leadership" and posing as a different class of person altogether?
The answer is a tangled tale, but one worth untangling for anyone interested in successfully running an organization in the fast-paced complex world of the 21st century. In any 21st century organization, Dogbert-style management must be systematically eradicated and replaced by 21st century principles, processes and practices that really do give meaning to work and life.
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1954: Drucker's Bigger Vision Of Management
Prior to Peter Drucker, the principal thinkers on management were the French Henri Fayol (1841-1925) who wrote about administration and the German sociologist Max Weber (1864-1920), who recommended bureaucracy as the most efficient and rational way of conducting human activity, even as he agonized over bureaucracy's tendency to crush the human spirit.
In The Practice of Management, Drucker put forward a bigger vision of management. He saw that "managing a business must be a creative rather than an adaptive task." He defined the purpose of an organization as "making common men do uncommon things." And most important, he gave business a social purpose: "There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer." Making money is a result, not the goal.
The manager has "the task of creating a true whole that is larger than the sum of its parts." In some ways, the manager is like "the conductor of a symphony orchestra." But the manager's task is even larger. "The conductor has the composer's score; he is only an interpreter. The manager is both composer and conductor."
''In the manager," biographer Jack Beatty wrote, Drucker ''would discover an unacknowledged author of modernity, a culture hero to rival the totemic figure of the artist.''
In Drucker's vision of management, leadership was part of management, not something over and above management. Management incorporated leadership: "leadership is given by managers and effective primarily within management." The idea that managers merely implemented what they were told to do by leaders was absurd—the very opposite of Drucker's vision of management.
1970: Business Is About Making Money
The problem was that while big businesses celebrated Peter Drucker as a writer, they didn't implement his vision. In fact, in the 1970s, business mostly rejected the idea that the only purpose of a firm is to create a customer and instead doubled down on the opposite idea that the only purpose of a firm is to make money for the firm's shareholders, and that they should compensate executives generously with stock options for doing so.
The self-interested doctrine of maximizing shareholder value, inspired by the writings of Milton Friedman, Michael Jensen and William Meckling in the 1970s, took over. Boards of directors came to view their job as aligning the interests of senior management with those of shareholders through the use of stock-based compensation. Corporations became explicitly amoral and self-interested. Because employees didn't find making money for the bosses an inspiring goal, the firm had no choice but to manage with tight control and bureaucracy.
It was only in 2009 that Jack Welch, the former head of GE, realized that maximizing shareholder value was "the dumbest idea in the world," and only in 2019 that a swathe of chief executives publicly recognized that the idea of maximizing shareholder value was fundamentally misguided. But in the 1970s, maximizing shareholder value was becoming the rage.
Worse, business schools followed suit. If businesses were about making money, then business schools would train their students on how to do that, since the main source of employment of their graduates were big businesses. Business schools focused their efforts on teaching the tools and techniques of making more money. These practices continue to this day: Why Today's Business Schools Teach Yesterday's Expertise.
1977: The Corruption Of The Concept Of Management
Faced with the corporations' descent into self-interested amorality, aided and abetted by business schools, we can see in retrospect that humanist theorists like Warren Bennis were faced with a choice. They could, following Drucker, have challenged the emerging amoral practice of business as a wholly self-interested and asocial enterprise, or accepted that reality while adding a fix on top of it. Unwisely, they opted for the latter.
The principal landmark of that choice was a 1977 Harvard Business Review article written by a practicing psychoanalyst with no actual experience in management, Abraham Zaleznik. He accepted the negative aspects of corporate money-making bureaucracy as unchangeable aspects of corporations and human nature. Instead of setting out to remedy these stunted practices, Zaleznik accepted them as inevitable, while adding on top of them, a new class of actor—the leader. This very different kind of person with higher level abilities would somehow set direction and provide the guidance that managers weren't capable of, while rectifying the managers' errors.
Managers, according to Zaleznik on the basis of a few scraps of anecdotal examples, exhibited three unchangeable characteristics:
First, the manager focuses attention on procedure and not on substance.
Second, the manager communicates to subordinates indirectly by "signals", rather than clearly stating a position.
Third, the manager plays for time. With conflicting rules and procedures, and conflicts about priorities between different senior managers, managers have no way of knowing what the right answer is. Hence CYA routines occur up and down the hierarchy.
Essentially, Zaleznik argued that firms had a people problem. The flaws in management were due to the fact that leaders and managers were different kinds of people. The problem was not one that could be alleviated by training or changing the way the firm functioned. Instead, the solution was to recognize and recruit a new, separate and elite class of employee: the leader.
It didn't occur to Zaleznik that the absurd management practices he described might have something to do with the amoral principles, processes and practices of the big corporations of his day, which flowed from the goal of making money and the bureaucratic structure of work. Instead of fixing those flaws along the lines Drucker had suggested, Zaleznik proposed living with them and trying to work around them. He posited the notion that there was a different breed of executive with the skills and vision to integrate human values and conduct, despite the shortcomings of the managers.
The approach made no sense. It would be like trying to fix the flaws of medicine by demonizing doctors as mere bumbling dispensers of pills, while training a new class of medical professionals called healers who would treat the patient in a more holistic and more inspiring way. If the practices of doctors were flawed, the obvious solution is be to upgrade their capabilities, not invent and train a separate category of superior being who would oversee their bungled work.
Despite its absurdity, Zaleznik's article was a huge success. It was republished in Harvard Business Review in both 2004 and 2011, and supported by management guru, John Kotter, who continued to argue that Management Is (Still) Not Leadership. Leaders set direction and inspire people to change, while managers grind out execution.
In this schema, leaders are a higher class of human being, suitable to be compensated extravagantly for carrying out their reflections in the comforts of executive suites and private jets, where they might set direction and rectify the errors of their menial brethren—the managers and the workers.
Two very different kinds of tasks. Two very different kinds of people. Two grotesquely different levels of compensation. In such a contest, it's easy to see who executives seek to be seen as leaders.
Unsurprisingly, leaders and managers operated at cross-purposes. As much as leaders can conceive and inspire new ideas, managers dispirit the employees with their Dilbert-style management. The results are counter-productive, in conflicts that continue in many firms, even to this day, as the continuing popularity of Dilbert cartoons shows.
How Zaleznik's Fix Also Corrupted Leadership
The problem was not only that this approach reduced management to a caricature. and spawned the multi-billion dollar leadership industry, which set out to help executives "discover the leader deep within themselves" and "become emotionally intelligent."
The approach also corrupted the notion of leadership as something remote from execution. It encouraged the idea that leaders didn't need to bother with getting stuff done: that was the task of their lesser brethren—the managers
It is as if these writers embraced an upstairs-downstairs concept of leadership, in which corporations are not too different from the fictional Edwardian estates of Downton Abbey in which the executives enjoy the privileges and extravagant compensation of titled lords and ladies, and converse and dine in comfort and splendor, while only occasionally giving attention to the activities in the kitchens, sculleries, workshops, and garages below, let alone to the activities of the tenant-farmers whose toil in the fields finances these great ancestral estates. The fact that these Edwardian properties were steadily losing money and becoming bankrupt was no more than a minor anxiety amid the charm of the luxurious lives upstairs, until financial reality eventually came crashing in on everything.
In Zaleznik's article, the attitudes and actions of "the manager" do not differ significantly from those of the head butler, Carson, in Downton Abbey.
Rescuing Leadership At The Expense of Management?
In 2019, life-long leadership scholar, Barbara Kellerman recognized that the problems of leadership remain significant. "The distinctions between the words 'leader' and 'manager'," she wrote, "have remained frustratingly opaque. Well into the 21st century we are still failing in the main to define 'leadership' and 'management'. We are still neglecting in the main to distinguish between them."
"The solution," she suggested, "is not a problem requiring a rocket scientist. The way to distinguish between leadership and management is to declare once and for all that, by definition, the former implies a service component while the latter does not. In other words, ethics plays a part. There should be no leadership education, training, or development that does not require a demonstrable commitment to serving others."
The notion that leadership should contain an element of service cannot be contested. But the notion that management should be amoral and empty of ethics is problematic.
What's exciting about the integrated concepts of 21st century leadership and management is that the goal is an obsession with creating more value for customers. In effect, management becomes one of people creating value for other people—an inherently ethical concept.
Why Management Eats Leadership For Breakfast
Rescuing leadership by damning management as inherently unethical is not a solution. Unethical management will systematically undermine any ethical leadership. The idea that strong leaders can overcome the processes of management is ridiculous. The reality is that management is inherently much more powerful than leadership.
Management is systematic; while leadership is episodic. Leadership depends on individual effort, while management runs on processes that are like a machine that grinds forward, regardless. Management builds on unstated assumptions that are difficult to eradicate; leadership depends on one-off explicit statements and actions that are easy to ignore. Management is like the operating system of the computer; leadership is like the disposable apps that run on top of the operating system. Leadership can embrace bold new solutions but if management is not in sync, the solutions will never happen.
Integrating Leadership And Management
If 21st century leadership is to have an ethical dimension, then 21st century management must, as Drucker had argued, have a concern for others too. In effect, to achieve a proper balance of leadership and management, 21st century firms need a single integrated view of their role.
And read also:
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Ten Reasons Why Big Firms Stick With Obsolete Management
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REDDING, Calif. – Ten public entities have reached a collective $24 million settlement with PG&E for the damages caused by the Dixie Fire in 2021, according to the County of Shasta.
The 10 entities include Shasta County, Butte County, Tehama County, Plumas County, Lassen County, City of Susanville, Plumas District Hospital, Chester Public Utility District, Honey Lake Valley Recreation Authority and Herlong Public Utility District.
The damages include public and natural resource damages, labor time, damages to roads, lost revenue, increased expenses and other damages caused by the fire.
The $24 million will be allocated to the ten entities for the damages they suffered.
The settlement includes funds that were related to FEMA and Cal OES help.
Shasta County said PG&E denied liability and reached the settlement to avoid further litigation.
The Dixie Fire burned more than 960,000 acres for more than 100 days. It broke out above the Cresta Dam in the Feather River Canyon.
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PHOTO COURTESY OF MU ATHLETICS. The Millerville softball team won by a combined doubleheader score of 23-4 against Bowie State.
Millersville broke their single-season home run record on Monday after hitting 11 home runs in a two-game sweep of Bowie State.
The feat was so notable that CBS 21 mentioned it on the sports segment of their nightly newscast.
The Marauders scored a total of 33 runs between their 17-3, and 16-1 victories.
The 11 home runs brought their season total to 27, topping their previous single-season home run total of 22.
The first game was off to a quick start after the Marauders scored nine runs in the second inning.
Sophomore Rebecca Blatt came up with the bases loaded and hit a grand slam to center field.
Faith Willenbrock then scored on an error by the left fielder hit by Maggie Murphy.
The game broke wide open when Kaylen Buskey blasted a two-run home run to left field to extend the Marauder's lead to 7-0.
Millersville carried a no-hitter through for almost five innings. Cassidy Pinchorski threw two innings and did not allow a hit.
Paige Harris then took the mound and continued the no-hit trend.
Emma Bevard was called onto pitch next and she also built off of the previous two pitchers.
The Marauders would tack on another 10 runs in an impressive win over the Bulldogs.
The Marauders took their momentum into the second game where they won by 15 runs.
Similar to game one, Millersville tacked on seven runs in the second inning to jump out to an early 7-0 lead.
Blatt smashed another home run while on her way to hitting three total on the day.
Kelsey Campbell made the game 8-0 after she had an RBI of her own.
Campbell later scored on a wild pitch in that same inning. Raeann Buskey hit a sacrifice fly to score Meghan McCurdy to extend the lead to 10.
The scoring wasn't finished there. Murphy came to the plate and drove in two runs to extend the Marauder's lead to 12-0 after three innings.
Millersville tacked on their final four runs in a span of two innings.
Freshman pitcher Catherine Johnson earned her fourth win of the season after recording four strikeouts in three innings in the Marauders big win.
Brianna White took the mound next and struck out four without allowing a hit.
The Marauders are 11-8 on the season and they hope to continue their high offensive production as the head into the second half of the season.
They will head to East Stroudsburg to take on the Warriors in a doubleheader on March 30.


Home grocery delivery is emerging as a powerfully disruptive trend. With shipping advances like same-day delivery (which Amazon and Walmart are in a race to achieve), online grocery shopping will upend traditional grocery retail models and food brand merchandising/marketing strategies.
Picture periodically browsing your grocery delivery service, maybe via a meal planner mobile app. It's likely you'll need not order specific ingredients for meals if you choose – you'll simply pick meals you'd like to try, and the app will order exactly what you need.
Following others' meals won't be limited to current friends. Today we follow strangers on Twitter who gather and share interesting links, or subscribe to users who create interesting channels or playlists on Youtube or Spotify. Food can be the same way.
The meals you line up in your queue might include instructional cooking videos – say, Bobby Flay walking you through his famous Brussels sprouts. Cooks at home might subscribe to these cooking personalities in their meal planner app, receiving their recipes and videos in their menu like receiving the tweets in a timeline.
And through this social sharing, you wouldn't need to land a Food Network program to become a famous chef. Normal consumers could put out their own recipes and videos – and if they're instructional, useful, creative, or entertaining enough, other consumers will share them. The best online chefs will gather a following organically, just as people become influential or famous on social networks today just by being funny, educational, etc. Food and kitchenware brands will target these influencers for placement in their videos.
Brands will also have the opportunity to engage their own following – just as they have in social – with recipes or other helpful information. Weight Watchers, for example, could offer a menu planning service as part of the consumer's personal menu. The app knows how many points per day you're allowed, and offers recipe choices or pre-made dishes from the Weight Watchers menu that will keep you on track. You simply pay to subscribe to Weight Watchers as you do to join the club.
And food brands can curate and share their fans' recipes as well. Hidden Valley Ranch already does this on their brand site, inviting consumers' recipes using the dressing. Other consumers can rate the recipes and share their own tweaks, creating a helpful community around the brand.
Ordering groceries digitally will make sticking to a diet and eliminating certain foods simpler. You'll personalize your menu of available dishes with desired settings – say, excluding trans fats, keeping calories under 800 per serving, limiting red meats to twice a week, etc. Then, without ever having to keep track of your dietary concerns yourself, you'll only see menu options that follow your plan, keeping you on track.
Brands today are struggling with the consumers' increasing ability to filter their media and avoid/ignore mass-marketing. Imagine how food brands will struggle – and be forced to change – when consumers can filter out unhealthy and undesirable options altogether. No more happening upon the endcap display for those guilty pleasure pork rinds you can't resist; consumers will control what reaches their digital aisles.
I'm confident that trends like hassle-free grocery delivery and personalized meal planning will help us eat healthier, and more meals cooked at home. Meanwhile, as is true for all social, social grocery buying changes the way brands and retailers sell. They'll need to become helpful, engaging, and transparent to make it into the consumer's cart.
YouMart is an online supermarket in Bangalore with a range of products. Online Shopping for groceries is a smart way to get your daily household items easily. It helps you to save time, effort and money. Over the last few years, shopping groceries online has become quite popular among single working individuals, working women and young working couples with no kids.


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How to vote on August 8 if you're overseas or in the military
Posted: Friday 07.21.2017 5:51 am Zahraa Farhat Local, Local Election
DEARBORN — Majority immigrant cities like Dearborn, Dearborn Heights and Hamtramck tend to see a decrease in residents every summer, since most community members choose this season to visit their families overseas.
In election years, such as this year, civic-minded residents might wonder if they'll miss the opportunity to vote in the primary elections. The answer is no.
According to the acting Dearborn City Clerk Lola Isiminger, special services are provided for overseas civilian and military voters that allow them to vote while abroad or otherwise outside their communities.
"As of this date, we have issued 3,030 absentee ballots for the August election," Isiminger said.
Those who'll be away from home but want to vote on Aug 8 need to download and fill out a Federal Post Card Application (FPCA) form available at www.fvap.gov/michigan. The form needs to be sent in advance, so that it can be used to register to vote or to specify the means they want to use to vote.
After completing the form, a voter needs to check the applicable box for email, fax or mail and send it to his or her city clerk's office through one of those services. He or she will receive an absentee ballot and should return it through email or fax at any time up to 8 p.m. on Election Day.
The status of a requested absentee voter ballot can be checked on Michigan.gov/sos/ under Michigan Voter Information Center, where it will appear after filling out the appropriate boxes.
If they need help or want to ask any questions, they can hit "Contact SOS", also under the Michigan Voter Information Center tab in the Elections in Michigan section.
According to state election rules, which can be read on the website, only voters protected under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) qualify to use the FPCA and receive an absentee ballot by e-mail or fax.
The covered voters are uniformed service members on active duty outside their city or township of residence. Voters can be inside or outside the United States.
Also, those serving in the Merchant Marine and absent from their city or township of residence, whether inside or out of the United States, can also use e-mail or fax to send in their ballots.
Spouses or dependents of uniformed service members or Merchant Marine members away from home because of the active duty or service of the members also qualify. They don't have to be overseas to send in their absentee ballots.
Regular civilian voters who are outside the United States, but eligible to vote in Michigan, can submit an absentee ballot by e-mail or fax.
Candidates for mayor in the Aug. 8 primary election are Dearborn City Council President Pro-Tem Tom Tafelski; businessman Hakim Fakhoury; Edward Binkley; financial advisor Jim Parrelly and incumbent Mayor Jack O'Reilly Jr.
Candidates for Dearborn City Council are Council President Susan Dabaja; Councilmen Robert Abraham, David Bazzy, Brian O'Donnell and Mike Sareini; Dearborn Public Schools Communications Specialist Leslie Herrick; entrepreneur Regan Ford; businessman Sean Green; former Dearborn police officer Kenneth Paris; Wayne County Reserve Deputy Sheriff Commander Ramez Haidar; Erin Byrnes, lead for Democratic Engagement at the University of Michigan; businessman Rifaat Hacham; substitute teacher Nada Al-Hanooti, ICU nurse Fayrouz Bazzi; Sharon Dulmage, R.N. and Ziad Abdulmalik.
Only 14 candidates will advance to the general election on November 7. Councilman Mark Shooshanian is not seeking re-election.
City Clerk candidates are former state Rep. George Darany (D-Dearborn); John Schimizzi; Nofila Haidar; Ameer Abusalah and Adam Alee.
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Toto's Steve Porcaro Joins Weezer on 'Jimmy Kimmel' for 'Africa'
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Weezer's cover of Toto's 1982 hit "Africa" has become their highest-charting song in nearly a decade, so it's no surprise they'd take that show on the road.
Last night, they performed the Toto IV hit on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The cover recently reached No. 89 on the Billboard chart, a spot Weezer hasn't beat since 2009's "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To." The Ratitude track reached No. 81 back then.
Joining the band for a solo on the bridge on Kimmel's show last night was Toto keyboardist Steve Porcaro. You can watch the "Africa" performance below. (Weezer also performed "Buddy Holly" from their 1994 eponymous debut.)
Weezer first took a stab at the cover after a months-long campaign by a 14-year-old Twitter fan, @weezerafrica, lobbied for it. The band first responded with a cover of another Toto hit, "Rosanna," before relenting and fulfilling the teen's request. The recording has since gone viral on social media, though it seems frontman Rivers Cuomo, still donning preppy vests, hasn't nailed down the lyrics just yet, as he seemed to read them from a laptop onstage at the Kimmel taping.
Toto co-founder and guitarist Steve Lukather recently tweeted his approval of the cover and vowed to return the favor by covering a Weezer song.
In March, Cuomo released the solo single "Medicine for Melancholy," while Weezer are promising a new LP, Weezer (The Black Album), soon.
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Nagano Prefecture is famous for its world class ski fields, snow monkeys and Japanese Castles. Nagano Prefecture is a mountainous region, located in the Chubu region of central Japan. The capital of Nagano Prefecture is Nagano City. Other major cities include Matsumoto and Azumino. Nagano Prefecture attractions include some of the best ski resorts in the world at Hakuba and Shiga Kogen. Other attractions include the "snow monkeys" which are located at Jigokudani Monkey Park, Matsumoto Castle and Zenkoji Temple, a famous 7th century Buddhist temple.
Nagano Station is the main train station in Nagano and where the Nagano Shinkansen terminates.


[SS] "Fig, I've got a bet for you", Stan the Stat propositioned Figaro the Fish while retrieving a set of three dice from his left pocket.
[FF] "Okay…", Figaro responded warily.
[SS] "Very well, I choose this one with nothing higher than a seven", the Stat countered.
While it's not blindingly obvious how to use it, the table at the top right of the Mathematrucker Matchups page lets you see any family of heads-up matchups (by gap and suitedness). Just tap on the proper square in the grid. In the answer cells, a pink background means the hands on the left column are winning and a blue background means the hands on the top row are ahead! Tap on the percentage to display the winning hand type breakdown on the left.
[FF] "Ace-Eight?" Figaro the Fish ventured.
[HH] "Ace-Seven?" Harriet the Hazy attempted.
[LL] "Ace-Six?" Leroy the Lion guessed.
[EE] "So, it's not a pair of Aces at all! Then it must be Kings vs. King-Two", Elias the Eagle deduced.
Ace-Eight makes 12 more winning full houses than Ace-Seven, which in turn makes 12 more than Ace-Six.
94.92% from 1,612,287 wins and 26,192 ties out of 1,712,304 possibilities.
94.66%. Then Kings vs. King-Three (94.48%), Jacks vs. Jack-Two (94.35%), Queens vs. Queen-Three (94.22%), and finally Aces vs. Ace-Nine (94.08%), barely edging Kings vs. King-Four (94.04%) and Kings vs. King-Two with four suits (94.03%).
[SS] "If your only opponent is all-in with a pair of Aces, what's the best hand you can hold?" Stan the Stat opened.
[FF] "The other two Aces", Figaro the Fish observed.
[RR] "I thought it was Ten-Nine suited, matching neither of the Ace's suits", Roderick the Rock opined.
[LL] "No, if that's good then Nine-Eight suited has to be better. With Ten-Nine, a King-high straight is no good, since the Aces win with a royal straight", Leroy the Lion objected.
[HH] "Eight-Seven suited", Harriet the Hazy opted, like the next contestant on The Price is Right.
[FF] "Seven-Six", Figaro the Fish output.
[TT] "Now it's a cinch to derive / That it must be the Six-Five", Tyrone the Telephone offered.
The Six-Five suited has 23.056% equity, 0.0235% more than the Seven-Six suited (23.0325%).
Out of 1,712,304 possible boards, the Six-Five suited wins 55 fewer times but ties 916 more times.
This is an excellent estimate as three-thirteenths is the repeated decimal 0.230769.
[FF] Deb the Duchess was being anti-social, tapping away at a Texas Hold 'Em game1 on her iPhone when Figaro the Fish and Nate the Natural approached. "Haven't you beaten that game yet?" Figaro interrupted.
[NN] "To start as simply as possible, the most important element is a player's style. In a home game, you'll get to know the regulars quite well without even trying. You two certainly know how I play, and I know how you play. In an unfamiliar ring game or any larger tournament, you'll have no history with your opponents, but every hand adds to your database of information about them.
How many hands do they play (i.e., are they loose or tight preflop)?
How often do they 3-bet? 4-bet? 5-bet? (i.e., how tight a range does each of those represent)?
Do they correctly value position (e.g., do they play many more hands in late position than early and can you discount their bets in position vs. out of position)?
Do they tend to call or raise (i.e., are they too passive or too aggressive)?
Do they bluff too often or too infrequently (i.e., can you discount the strength of their bets or should you take them as real)?
Do they call too much or can you bluff them out of pots (i.e., should you value bet them or steal from them)?
Can they make big folds? (i.e., should you try to make a big river bluff or all-in bluff)?
Do they like to chase draws? (i.e., should you charge them more for their draws and/or not try to bluff if you think they have a draw)?
Will they bet if they have just a draw (i.e., could your third pair be the best hand despite their bet)?
Do they tend to underbet the turn and river (i.e., will you get a good price to hunt for your draws)?
Do they overbet the flop when the board is scary (e.g., can you put them on a hand like top pair or an overpair)?
Do they adjust to their opponents (i.e., do you need to take into account what they think of your style)?
Do they like to steal the blinds from the button? The cutoff? The hijack? (e.g., can you devalue all of those raises)?
Are they very afraid of busting out? And do they have any rebuys left if it's a rebuy tournament?
Does their style change as the blinds go up?
Are they happy just to cash or are they trying to win it all?
See "A New Game in Town – THETA Poker Pro".
You can watch the segment from the "Deep Space Homer" episode.
[JJ] "Of course!" Joey the Juvenile confirmed.
If you prefer, here is the transcript of the battle of wits.
[JJ] "Miss Cleo?",1 Joey the Juvenile offered facetiously.
Youree Dell Harris portrayed Miss Cleo in television ads for the Psychic Readers Network from 1997 to 2003.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, page 254.
A Scandal in Bohemia, page 162.
A Scandal in Bohemia, page 163.
The Bascombe Valley Mystery, page 204.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, page 687.
Doyle never had Sherlock Holmes say, "Elementary, my dear Watson." The catchphrase was popularized by the many movies made from his stories.
Figaro the Fish responded to Umberto the Unlucky's bad beat story with the tale of his own tournament demise as a series of knock knock jokes.
[UU] "I've had enough bad beats to write a book, but tonight's topped them all. I lost on a one-outer, one-outer!" wailed Umberto the Unlucky.
[UU] "Leroy the Lion was dealing, and after some unnecessary theatrics, he flipped over… drumroll please… the 10♣.
[LL] The whole table went, "Ooh!" and Benny started to dance, but Leroy cut everyone off with a quick apology, "Sorry, wrong deck!" During the long delay when Benny had been thinking, the Lion had grabbed the second, red deck to shuffle and then accidentally dealt the river from it. The Book was in disbelief, but Roderick the Rock picked up the counterfeit river card, turned it face down, and sure enough, its red back didn't match the blue cards in the muck.
If it had been anybody but Umberto, we might have had to call 911 for a heart attack. But the Unlucky one is so inured to bad beats that he merely said, "Figures", and stood up when the other 10♣ hit the felt.


I'm noticing the wisemen this year because Shaunti brought them to my attention while we were setting up the manger scene. I was trying to explain to her what their role was in the Christmas story. I discovered that they were wisemen by profession but the truly wise thing about them was there search for Jesus to bring Him gifts and to worship Him. That is really what is needed in my life these days. True seeking and worship in what God sends to me for my roles as mom and wife. My worship to Jesus might be going through the things of life that keep working my faith and the things that are growing me up. A friend recently pointed out to me that the struggle is not shameful but something to be thankful for because it is changing me and molding me. Its all a part of growing in the wisdom that is from above. Growing wiser is laced with humility and worship for my Maker. thank-you Jesus, for those wisemen that showed by example.


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Iñaki Astiz Ventura, né le  à Pampelune, est un footballeur espagnol. Il évolue au poste de défenseur au Legia Varsovie.

Biographie

Formé à l'Osasuna Pampelune, il y rencontre Jan Urban, alors entraîneur de l'équipe réserve du club. À l'hiver 2007, l'Espagnol suit le coach polonais, qui prend les fonctions du Legia Varsovie, sous la forme d'un prêt avec option d'achat. Il devient alors le premier espagnol à évoluer en Orange Ekstraklasa. En juin 2008, et après 22 rencontres en championnat, Astiz signe un contrat de cinq ans avec le vice-champion polonais en titre. Avec le Legia, Astiz dispute un total de 159 matchs en première division polonaise, inscrivant 8 buts.

Clubs
 2006-2007 :  Osasuna Pampelune
 2007-2015 :  Legia Varsovie
 2015-2017 :  APOEL Nicosie
 depuis 2017 :  Legia Varsovie

Palmarès
  Legia Varsovie
 Champion de Pologne en 2013, 2014 et 2018
 Vainqueur de la Coupe de Pologne en 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013 et 2015

  APOEL Nicosie
 Champion de Chypre en 2016 et 2017
 Finaliste de la Coupe de Chypre en 2017

Notes et références

Liens externes

Footballeur espagnol
Joueur du Legia Varsovie
Joueur de l'APOEL Nicosie
Naissance à Pampelune
Naissance en novembre 1983

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Mount & Blade: Warband
The Guildhall - General Discussion
Private Server Monetisation Policy
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Private Server Monetisation
Private servers are the lifeblood of Mount & Blade multiplayer. Server owners offer a service to the community which brings players together and allows them to enjoy the game in a way in which we as a company are simply unable to. Community events, tournaments, new game modes and custom maps are just some of the ways in which people benefit from the generosity, dedication and hard work of these valued community members, and without them, the multiplayer side of the game would be a lesser experience.
This service often comes at a considerable cost to server owners and administrators. Not just in terms of the time and effort required to provide a quality service, but also with the monetary investment required to maintain a server. We recognise that it is important that server owners are able to raise funds to help with the general costs associated with running a service, however, recently we have noticed that some servers have started to move away from the traditional method of raising funds through donations towards a payment-based method which offers players in-game rewards in exchange for money.
We certainly appreciate the great contribution that server owners make and we believe that it is fair for them to ask for help with upkeep costs, however, we also strongly feel that the game should be enjoyed by all of our players in a fair and inclusive environment, and without them being subjected to any additional costs.
We think that it is time that we set some guidelines for server owners to be clear as to what we consider to be acceptable ways for them to raise funds to maintain their service, in a way which is fair to both server owners and players.
Server Owners
You are allowed to:
•	Accept donations
•	Charge players a flat fee to access your server (providing you have the explicit permission to use any mods, maps, game modes, intellectual property or any other additional content hosted on your server)
•	Offer reserved slots for donators
•	Offer out-of-game rewards
•	Offer in-game custom titles as a reward
You are not allowed to:
•	Restrict access to gameplay features
•	Sell any form of in-game content, cosmetic or otherwise (items, perks, skins etc.) via payment or donation rewards
•	Sell in-game currency for money (or any other means that facilitate the buying of in-game content through real spending)
Server Hosts
•	Lease servers which include script-sets (such as administration tools) or modules, custom maps and other modifications, providing that your prices are consistent across servers (with and without game related content) and you have the explicit permission of the content creator to use their creation.
•	Lease servers which contain the intellectual property of another person or company without their explicit permission
•	Act as a server owner for pay-to-access servers
The only accepted methods to prove you have permission to use any assets (mods, maps, game modes, scripts, models, textures, or any other additional content) or intellectual property are:
•	Letter (physical or scanned)
•	Email
•	A post or a reported personal message on our official forums
Letters, emails, forum posts or reported personal messages should be from the owner(s) of any assets or intellectual property and they should clearly state that you have their permission to use their creation. Screenshots are not an acceptable form of proof.
Given the complexity of the matter and with this being a new policy, we reserve the right to make any amendments or changes to these rules at any time. Furthermore, we reserve the right to take action against any server which we feel goes against the spirit of the community by attempting to bypass this policy in any way, poor sportsmanship in competition or racist/sexist/etc conduct.
We intend to give server owners and hosts a grace period of one month to bring their servers in line with this new policy, however, after that period is over we will add any server that breaches these terms to our blacklist. (09/06/1
If you have any enquiries regarding this policy or you would like to report a server which is in breach of these terms then please contact us at: [email protected]
TommyBristol
Callum_TaleWorlds said:
the game should be enjoyed by all of our players in a fair and inclusive environment, and without them being subjected to any additional costs.
• Charge players a flat fee to access your server (providing you have the explicit permission to use any mods, maps, game modes, intellectual property or any other additional content hosted on your server)
TommyBristol said:
Server owners/admins can already restrict access to their service simply by using a password.
lolbash
Master Knight
We intend to give server owners and hosts a grace period of one month to bring their servers in line with this new policy, however, after that period is over we will add any server that breaches these terms to our blacklist.
How exactly does blacklisting work? Is it enforced by a machine ban or IP ban?
Though that is a big difference from being allowed to then charge for your password.
Can you also define "gameplay features" and give example, please.
Jesse | Oasis-Hosting.net
A question regarding commercial gameserver hosts:
Will you be contacting the hosts of any server that is violating this policy? We for example host a couple 100 servers and can't keep exact track of everything our customers are hosting on their server.
Equipment, Abilities, Cosmetics. Anything that affects the ingame experience and is not specifically excluded in the OP (f.e. custom titles/reserved slots).
Captain Conner said:
Our current blacklist system bans the IP address of the server (this will affect any other servers running on the same IP address). If we find someone in breach of this policy then our initial response will be to contact the server owner or host to explain the situation and ask them to resolve it in a timely manner. If that fails, we will add the server to the blacklist.
althalus311
• Lease servers which include script-sets (such as administration tools) or modules, custom maps and other modifications, providing that your prices are consistent across servers (with and without game related content) and you have the explicit permission of the content creator to use their creation.
Just want to get some clarification on this.
At the moment, we lease scripts for Persistent World at a fixed rate. The rate covers the cost of hosting the script backend and database and the licensing cost that we pay to King Solutions, our script set provider.
By my reading of this, we will no longer be able to charge the license and hosting fee, and must provide them included in the package if we provide them at all.
Is my reading correct?
Lease servers which include script-sets (such as administration tools) or modules, custom maps and other modifications, providing that your prices are consistent across servers (with and without game related content) and you have the explicit permission of the content creator to use their creation.
Does this rule still allow us to sell extra non in-game addons, such as dedicated resources on our infrastructure, control panel features etc?
althalus311 said:
We would consider this to be the script that is being sold and therefore not something we would allow.
So you don't allow the selling of any privately made scripts?!
That is some seriously concerning news if that's what you're trying to communicate to us.
Alright, one further question. Will this mean that the sale of scripts completely independently of the server hosting will no longer be allowed?
I'm trying to figure out now how we can continue to provide the service to our customers without outright losing money on each individual service that makes use of the scripts, or increasing prices across the board (impacting customers that have no interest in the scripts).
If independent script sales are no longer a possibility, then this will obviously impact our script provider as well.
Currently server hosts cannot sell scripts or other content that affects the game-experience for an additional fee. They can, however, change the base pricing of their servers and offer options like script sets to all their customers for *free*. That way they can still use the content to compete/advertise their services. Server owners cannot sell anything that is or affects ingame content to individual players or donators (as rewards), but they can charge a flat fee for all players - exceptions (reserved slots for donaters, custom titles for donaters, etc.) are listed in the OP.
Edith: Sales of services unrelated to server hosting / owning will be discussed at a later point. (I.e. commission a script/model/etc.) This is specifically about server hosting/owning.
flavberg
Thank you, Taleworlds, it was about time we got rid of them.
Doktor von Pig
Vissy
Hah. I feel happy knowing that at least one private server owner is going to tear their hair out at this.
Spanker
Sergeant Knight
Thank you Taleworlds, this is a giant step forward for the blader community and will help create an equal playing field for all.
Karling
I'll have you know, Taleworlds, this is impeding on a certain server's INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY and business model. Not allowing people to monetize your game with their own microtransactions ... watch out you might end up in BIG BOY COURT.
Kidding . . . this is funny


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Caveats Victoria
an occasional blog by Philip Barton
13. Caveat lodged to protect priority of equitable mortgage but badly expressed – Caveat not amended but interlocutory injunction granted to protect priority
Philip Barton	Amendment of caveat, Amendment of S. 90(3) Application to Injunction Application, Injunction to protect priority, TLA S. 90(2) Application	 August 13, 2018 September 22, 2020 5 Minutes
TL Rentals Pty Ltd v Youth on Call Pty Ltd and Ors [2018] VSC 105 (8 March 2018) Derham AsJ.
This interesting case demonstrates that a badly drawn caveat can be rescued
– not under the TLA caveat provisions but by an interlocutory injunction.
The case is also a good discussion of general caveat principles and priorities
between equitable interests
Katherine and Damian Shannon were the joint proprietors in equal shares of land mortgaged to a bank.
The chronology was –
12 October 2016 Plaintiff (TL) leases equipment to first defendant whose obligations are guaranteed by Katherine. Guarantee provides that she mortgaged her interest in the land and would on request execute a registerable mortgage.
12 December 2017 Lessee in default. TL serves notices on it and Katherine seeking payment.
21 December 2017 TL lodges caveat claiming a "freehold estate" pursuant to an agreement with the "registered proprietor(s)" dated 12 October 2016.
7 January 2018 Permanent Custodians Limited (PCL) enters loan agreement with the Shannons.
22 January 2018 Relying on an old title search predating the caveat, PCL advances the funds due by paying out the existing mortgage with the balance to the Shannons. Mortgage lodged for registration.
23 January 2018 Pursuant to the Transfer of Land Act (TLA) s. 90(1) Registrar gives notice to TL of lodgment of an inconsistent dealing and that its caveat would expire in 30 days.
20 February 2018 TL commences proceeding claiming a declaration that it had an equitable mortgage or charge over Katherine's interest in the land securing payment of the sum owed.
21 February 2018 TL applies the court pursuant to TLA s. 90(2) for an injunction directing the Registrar to maintain the caveat until registration of a mortgage in favour of the plaintiff or further order.
22 February 2018 Interim court order directing the Registrar to delay registration of any dealing. TL foreshadows application to amend caveat to limit it to a claim for an equitable mortgage over Katherine's interest in the land.
2 March 2018 Hearing. TL abandons argument for amendment and maintenance of caveat but seeks amendment of summons to claim an interlocutory injunction to protect the priority of its mortgage against defeat by registration of PCL's mortgage.
The TLA s. 90(2) in substance provided, a notice under s. 90(1) having been given, that if within a particular period the caveator appeared before a court, the court may direct the Registrar to delay registering any dealing with the land or make such other order as was just. Section 90(3) provided that any person adversely affected by a caveat may bring proceedings for the removal of the caveat and the court may make such order as it thought fit.
Derham AsJ held –
1. An application under s. 90(3) was in the nature of a summary procedure and analogous to the determination of an interlocutory injunction. The caveator had the burden of establishing a serious question to be tried that it had the estate or interest in land as claimed and that the balance of convenience favoured maintenance of the caveat until trial. In an application under s. 90(2) the same burden rested on the caveator. [29]-[30]
2. The interest or estate claimed in a caveat could probably be amended but only in special or exceptional circumstances, as it effectively substituted a different caveatable interest. In this case it would have been substitution of a claim to a freehold estate in respect of the registered interests of both proprietors with a claim to an interest under an equitable mortgage granted by one proprietor. Although TL's mortgage was not in registerable form it was entitled to an unregistered (equitable) proprietary interest over Katherine's share of the land that was capable of supporting a caveat. Whilst remaining unregistered it was an agreement to mortgage. [9]-[10], [20], [31]
3. TL was granted leave to amend its summons to claim an interlocutory injunction. The caveat procedure was essentially a statutory injunction granted upon consideration of the same factors applied when granting interlocutory injunctions in equity. [34]-[36]
4. PCL was entitled by subrogation to the rights of the mortgagee (NAB) whose mortgage it had paid out. This gave PCL priority over TL for this part of its loan. Otherwise approximately $130,000 was secured by TL's equitable mortgage and $271,000 by PCL's equitable mortgage. The interest first in time would prevail but that may change where the prior equitable interest holder had so acted that it would be unconscionable if its interest were to prevail. However, mere failure by the prior holder to caveat was insufficient to postpone that interest, even where the subsequent interest has been acquired bona fide and for value without notice and on faith of the title. The latter interest holder must show a change of position and prove detriment as a necessary element of any claim for postponement. [21]-[22], [44]
5. It was not unconscionable for TL's equitable mortgage to be afforded its usual priority. PCL should have conducted title searches later than six weeks before advance of funds. Further, having regard to evidence that the market value of the property sufficed to cover all monies secured against it, PCL had not proved detriment if postponed. [23]-[25]
6. There was accordingly at least a prima facie case that TL's mortgage had priority. Whether this prima facie priority would justify the restraint sought depended on: (a) the practical consequences likely to flow from the interlocutory order sought; (b) whether if the injunction was not granted the plaintiff would be likely to suffer injury for which damages would not be an adequate remedy; (c) whether the balance of convenience favoured the granting of an injunction, as to which the strength of the case on serious question to be tried was relevant; (d) whether other discretionary considerations militate against the grant of the injunction. TL met these tests. The grant of an injunction until trial carried the lower risk of injustice if it should turn out to have been wrong. [26], [33], [37]-[38], [46]-[48]
7. Due to doubt whether TL could satisfy the undertaking as to damages required for an interlocutory injunction, it would be made a condition of the grant of the injunction that the ultimate holding company or another company in the same group join in giving the usual undertaking as to damages. [53]-[54]
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Constructive Trust – Misappropriation or Breach of Trust (3)
Constructive trust – Muschinski v Dodds/Baumgartner (5)
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Costs – General (11)
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Discipline for delinquent lodging of caveat (1)
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This course builds on students' previous education and language knowledge to introduce them to the English language and help them adjust to the diversity in their new environment. Students will use beginning English language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing for everyday and essential academic purposes. They will engage in short conversations using basic English language structures and simple sentence patterns; read short adapted texts; and write phrases and short sentences. The course also provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to begin to adapt to their new lives in Canada.
Getting Acquainted 25 hours In this unit students develop the ability to use simple oral and written language for beginning communication at home, at school, and in the community. Using authentic orientation materials, students demonstrate the ability to use simple sentence patterns and key conventions of standard English to participate in social interactions in the classroom and the community. They begin to use reading strategies to acquire beginning English vocabulary and to adapt to key teacher expectations and school routines.
In this unit, students demonstrate knowledge of basic facts about Canada's geography and peoples. By using reference materials and media works, students obtain and record basic information in a variety of written forms, and develop a beginning awareness and appreciation of Canada's regional and cultural diversity. Students continue to add to their reading logs begun in Unit 1.
Students study ecology as a vehicle for English language development and explain some simple scientific concepts as a first step in preparation for the study of other content courses. Students determine the meanings of unfamiliar words using pictures and illustrations. They continue to build their personal vocabulary lists and are introduced to expository writing of short structured compositions.
Students study health and nutrition to further develop their English language skills. Communications with the medical community and the maintenance of a well-balanced lifestyle are emphasized. Students complete personal information forms, and through role playing, express their state of health and feelings in a variety of contexts.
This is a proctored exam worth 110% of your final grade.


One of our most rewarding volunteer programs is introducing active duty Special Forces soldiers and their families to our wonderful state. The Montana Special Forces Association brings active duty soldiers and their families to Montana for all expense paid family vacations. They also host Gold Star family members of Special Forces Soldiers killed in action.
These family vacations include world class fly fishing trips to Ruby Springs Lodge; horseback riding, sailing and fishing at the Flathead Lake Lodge; Chuck wagon dinners and junior cowpokes programs for the kids at the Bar W ranch; as well as the winter ski, dogsledding and snowmobiling vacations at Whitefish Mountain Resort. Two of our dentists, Dr. Annette Dusseau and Dr. Roger Newman are ski hosts and guides for the winter trips. Many of these families have not had a "real family vacation" in over 10 years due to the lengthy and frequent deployments required for the global war on terror. Enjoying Montana hospitality at its finest is the best way we can think of for a Special Forces family to decompress and reconnect.
Dr. Hyvonen participates in numerous community events that raise money for local causes. One such event, the Harriet Anderson Memorial Golf Tournament, is held every August at the UM Golf Course, and raises money for local people who are battling cancer or other medical issues. To date, over $80,000 has gone to defray medical treatment costs for the recipients. Dr. Hyvonen's golf league has a yearly event that raises money to support the YWCA here in Missoula. Over the past 3 years, more than $20,000 has gone to help this very worthy cause.
Our clinicians also volunteer at local health events. Missoula has a wonderful healthcare professional community which gives us lots of opportunities to partner with other healthcare organizations. Project Homeless Connect, sponsored by the United Way of Missoula, was an excellent example of our healthcare community coming together for our local community.
We also provide free dental exams for local Peace Corps volunteers before they leave on their assignments. These volunteers often serve in parts of the world where there is virtually no health care available. This is no place for a dental emergency so we do our best to make sure these volunteers are in good dental health before they leave. We often send a bunch of toothbrushes with them too.
We also try to help out communities in developing countries that lack the world class dental care we enjoy in Missoula. When travelling to developing countries, we take basic dental supplies that might be very difficult for local dentists to obtain. Our dental supply vendors, like Patterson Dental, are always very generous in donating supplies. We've also partnered with our dental supply vendors to ship critical medical supplies to US communities after natural disasters such as hurricane Katrina and Harvey.
Family Dental Group is also a proud supporter of the Miss Montana to Normandy project. This is a project that honors both our WWII Airborne Soldiers who parachuted into Normandy and The Montana Smokejumpers. The aircraft is a DC-3 that was originally built to carry troops in WWII. After the war, it was purchased by Johnson Flying Service to fly Montana Smokejumpers to wildfires around the region. This is the same aircraft that few the Mann Gulch fire near Helena where 12 smoke jumpers were killed while fighting the blaze. Dr. Dusseau is one of the Army Airborne veterans who will parachute into Normandy from this aircraft on the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day invasion. She will be joined on this aircraft by veteran Smokejumpers, Special Forces and an 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper.
These are just a few of the ways we give back. Every month at our clinic meeting we have a discussion about how we have made the world better during the past 30 days. Giving back is always a big part of that conversation.


text:
module CapDeployRightscale
  module Strategies
    class BaseRestartStrategy

      include CapDeployRightscale::Strategies::WaitHelper

      def initialize(deployment_id, load_balancer_name, app_tag)
        @rightscale = CapDeployRightscale::Rightscale::Client.new
        credentials = CapDeployRightscale::Credentials.new
        aws_access_key_id = credentials.get_credential('aws', 'aws_access_key_id')
        aws_secret_access_key = credentials.get_credential('aws', 'aws_secret_access_key')
        @elb = ::Rightscale::ElbInterface.new(aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key)
        @deployment_id = deployment_id.to_s
        @load_balancer_name = load_balancer_name
        @app_tag = app_tag
      end

      def execute
        raise Exception "BaseRestartStrategy#execute should be overidden by subclass"
      end

      def wait_for_server_state(server_id, desired_state, polling_wait_in_minutes)
        get_server_state_function = lambda do
          servers = @rightscale.servers(CapDeployRightscale::Rightscale::Client::FLUSH_SERVER_CACHE)
          server = servers.find { |server| server['server-id'] == server_id }
          server
        end
        check_server_state_function = lambda do |server|
          current_state = server['state']
          valid_state = current_state == desired_state
          puts "Waiting for #{server['nickname']}'s state to change from #{current_state} to #{desired_state}..." if not valid_state
          valid_state
        end
        wait_for_state(get_server_state_function, check_server_state_function, polling_wait_in_minutes)
      end

      def ping_server(url, polling_wait_in_minutes)
        ping_server_function = lambda do
          puts "Pinging URL: #{url}"
          uri = URI.parse(url)
          http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
          begin
            request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
            response = http.request(request)
          rescue Exception => e
            puts e
          end
        end
        check_server_state_function = lambda do |response|
          valid_state = response and response.code.to_i == 200
          puts "Waiting for Server to return HTTP_OK..." if not valid_state
          valid_state
        end
        wait_for_state(ping_server_function, check_server_state_function, polling_wait_in_minutes)
      end

    end
  end
end

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


text:
class Browser;
class GURL;
class Profile;
class TabStripModel;

namespace base {
class DictionaryValue;
class ListValue;
}

namespace content {
class WebContents;
}

namespace extensions {
class Extension;
class WindowController;
}

namespace gfx {
class Rect;
}

// Provides various utility functions that help manipulate tabs.
class ExtensionTabUtil {
 public:
  static int GetWindowId(const Browser* browser);
  static int GetWindowIdOfTabStripModel(const TabStripModel* tab_strip_model);
  static int GetTabId(const content::WebContents* web_contents);
  static std::string GetTabStatusText(bool is_loading);
  static int GetWindowIdOfTab(const content::WebContents* web_contents);
  static base::ListValue* CreateTabList(
      const Browser* browser,
      const extensions::Extension* extension);

  static base::DictionaryValue* CreateTabValue(
      const content::WebContents* web_contents,
      const extensions::Extension* extension) {
    return CreateTabValue(web_contents, NULL, -1, extension);
  }
  static base::DictionaryValue* CreateTabValue(
      const content::WebContents* web_contents,
      TabStripModel* tab_strip,
      int tab_index,
      const extensions::Extension* extension);

  enum IncludePrivacySensitiveFields {
    INCLUDE_PRIVACY_SENSITIVE_FIELDS,
    OMIT_PRIVACY_SENSITIVE_FIELDS
  };
  static base::DictionaryValue* CreateTabValue(
      const content::WebContents* web_contents,
      IncludePrivacySensitiveFields include_privacy_sensitive_fields) {
    return CreateTabValue(web_contents, NULL, -1,
                          include_privacy_sensitive_fields);
  }
  static base::DictionaryValue* CreateTabValue(
      const content::WebContents* web_contents,
      TabStripModel* tab_strip,
      int tab_index,
      IncludePrivacySensitiveFields include_privacy_sensitive_fields);

  // Gets the |tab_strip_model| and |tab_index| for the given |web_contents|.
  static bool GetTabStripModel(const content::WebContents* web_contents,
                               TabStripModel** tab_strip_model,
                               int* tab_index);
  static bool GetDefaultTab(Browser* browser,
                            content::WebContents** contents,
                            int* tab_id);
  // Any out parameter (|browser|, |tab_strip|, |contents|, & |tab_index|) may
  // be NULL and will not be set within the function.
  static bool GetTabById(int tab_id, Profile* profile, bool incognito_enabled,
                         Browser** browser,
                         TabStripModel** tab_strip,
                         content::WebContents** contents,
                         int* tab_index);

  // Takes |url_string| and returns a GURL which is either valid and absolute
  // or invalid. If |url_string| is not directly interpretable as a valid (it is
  // likely a relative URL) an attempt is made to resolve it. |extension| is
  // provided so it can be resolved relative to its extension base
  // (chrome-extension://<id>/). Using the source frame url would be more
  // correct, but because the api shipped with urls resolved relative to their
  // extension base, we decided it wasn't worth breaking existing extensions to
  // fix.
  static GURL ResolvePossiblyRelativeURL(const std::string& url_string,
      const extensions::Extension* extension);

  // Returns true if |url| is used for testing crashes.
  static bool IsCrashURL(const GURL& url);

  // Opens a tab for the specified |web_contents|.
  static void CreateTab(content::WebContents* web_contents,
                        const std::string& extension_id,
                        WindowOpenDisposition disposition,
                        const gfx::Rect& initial_pos,
                        bool user_gesture);

  // Executes the specified callback for all tabs in all browser windows.
  static void ForEachTab(
      const base::Callback<void(content::WebContents*)>& callback);

  static extensions::WindowController* GetWindowControllerOfTab(
      const content::WebContents* web_contents);
};

#endif  // CHROME_BROWSER_EXTENSIONS_EXTENSION_TAB_UTIL_H__