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My manager is rearranging my workspace without consulting me, should I challenge them about it?
I am the only software developer in a company and I have my own private office. This is relatively rare (but not unique) in this company for a non-manager.
I have discovered that they are going to remove the internal walls of my office and they will be moving my work station. I found this out in passing from the receptionist.
I spoke to my boss (a senior manager) and he said it was the managing director's decision and he hasn't seen the plans yet.
Today my boss and one of his colleagues were discussing the work outside of my office. He never even addressed me.
I am used to being consulted in discussions about my workspace. That doesn't mean I always get my own way but every company I have worked in has told us about the changes in advance, asked our opinions, and kept us informed. That has not happened here and it offends me. Should I approach my boss and politely tell him how I feel about this?
Update: I went to see my manager about it and he was quite reassuring. I tried to have an open mind and not be confrontational told him I don't expect to have a private office but I don't want to be put in a distracting environment. It appears that he is a major decision maker in the office redesign process. He tells me that it might not involve me at all, but if it does he will make sure that the environment that I am put in will be no worse than my existing one.
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Lilienthal♦
Personally I would just be straight forward with it. "I'm not comfortable with these changes." If they ignore your concerns then that really says it all, doesn't it? More likely, they value you as an employee and will make an effort to make it up to you in another way. Always say something. Don't be a doormat.
– UpAllNight
@UpAllNight I haven't actually been told what the changes are in any detail yet, so I can't really say that. I suppose the answer is to ask them what they are planning. It seems things are progressing now and he might actually know.
As long as they don't take away your red stapler, you're OK
@DVK what if they plan on moving his workspace into a fireproof room... and THEN take his red stapler? :O
WARNING: They are planning to fire you.
– Jasmine
You'll get through life a lot happier if you don't default to words like "offended" and "challenge" in the workplace. There's a strong sense of entitlement in your post and I would take care not to have that shine through when you "politely tell your boss how you feel."
You got a private office which is certainly a nice perk but one that might now disappear. Rather than feeling resentful, just ask your manager what his plans are and if it's possible to preserve that perk. Stay neutral and matter-of-fact and avoid appearing angry, insulted or disappointed.
As a non-manager you don't have any real input to give in floorplan changes and it's perfectly normal to be out of the loop while things are still being decided. It's also normal that your boss wouldn't interrupt his conversation just because you happen to pass by. In this case, it sounds like you weren't even passing by but listening in on the conversation outside your office, so why would your boss feel the need to suddenly include you?
The decisions-by-committee approach that you describe is frankly an indication of bad or non-existent management.
To clarify that last point: good management is about knowing when you can and should request input from your team and when you should make decisions regardless of what your team thinks. Requesting input on every little thing without ever taking that input into consideration or when the decision has already been made is a good way to foster apathy and lose credibility. The opposite, trying to juggle everyone's opinion on every issue, is a good way to achieve management gridlock and paralyse a team with groupthink.
The reason I brought this up was because the OP apparently expected to be consulted on an issue that was unrelated to his (one-man) team, has no real impact on his work, and where he probably can't contribute meaningful input. What would he be expected to say other than "I'd rather keep my office."? I wanted to point out that the OP should adjust his expectations instead of feeling slighted.
Lilienthal♦Lilienthal
I would strongly disagree that being moved from a private office has no work impact.
– Jack Aidley
I went to see my manager about it and he was quite reassuring. I tried to have an open mind and not be confrontational told him I don't expect to have a private office but I don't want to be put in a distracting environment. It appears that he is a major decision maker in the office redesign process. He tells me that it might not involve me at all, but if it does he will make sure that the environment that I am put in will be no worse than my existing one.
@user46015 Sounds like you handled it well and you've got a good manager. Thanks for the update (I've copied it to your question.)
– Lilienthal ♦
This is an old and accepted answer but I downvoted it anyway, based on the claim that someone in this position shouldn't feel slighted. If this is done to you, you should absolutely feel slighted; if you are seen as important or respected in your office, your office won't be casually taken away in an off-hand manner. If you can think of other employees (including your manager and their manager) to whom this would never be done, but it is done to you, then you are being slighted...period.
– tbrookside
Should I approach my boss and politely tell him how I feel about this?
You could, would it have an effect? Unlikely.
Sounds like the plans are probably part of something bigger if the MD is driving it.
I am used to being consulted
Does the MD consult you on other decisions he makes?
Sounds like what you got was a bit of a perk, but now it's going. It may seem unfair, but I'm sure it's nothing personal.
I can understand not being consulted, but it doesn't sound like the OP was even notified. Even just a "Hey, there's going to be some renovations coming, so be prepared for your office to change."
– David K
@DavidK - Because the plans have not been concreted. Therefore, there is nothing definite to communicate to employees who will surely have a lot of questions. The OP is reacting to a rumor and is complaining about not being involved in decision making that is not his purview..
"You could but would it have an effect? Unlikely." That's a really defeatist attitude. I can't imagine just lying down and accepting something that will adversely affect me on a daily basis.
@Prinz That's exactly why the OP should say something now. Saying something when the plans are set in stone is pointless. Saying something now could potentially change the plans.
@djechlin Yeah good point, "Obey your superiors without question" is a far better truism.
You've learned something, which is that your boss (and especially the MD) don't care for your opinion about the effects of your environment on your work. Furthermore, the fact they didn't bother telling you this was in the works either means that they don't care about the effects of uncertainty on your work, or that they do care, but believe the effects to be minimal.
Since you feel affronted, it's fairly likely that they're mistaken in your case, but perhaps most of their employees in their experience wouldn't be bothered about it.
The upvotes for Lilienthal's answer should strongly indicate to you that these ideas aren't unusual. However, it hasn't been unusual in your experience, since in the past you've worked with people who have chosen to consult you about your environment. So, if you can, figure what it is about this job that resulted in you, unusually for you, working for people who have a bit less respect for you in this area.
Does this company, in general, show less interest in each employee? Is it expanding rapidly and simply cannot maintain individual offices (check: are managers losing their offices at the same time)? Have you leaned towards very employee-friendly companies in the past? Do this lot pay more and expect employees to grit their teeth and take the money? In past companies, did you (for whatever reason) made a stronger reputation for yourself as someone worth consulting?
If you can get some idea why this employer has surprised you, then firstly, it will hopefully make you feel less offended (which isn't an emotion likely to be any help to you if it lasts long), and secondly, it will help you to figure out what the problem is, whether you want to raise it with your managers, and if so, what exactly you should raise. What you shouldn't do is to go to your manager feeling that you're owed an explanation as to why this company is different from what you're used to.
On the other hand, if they genuinely thought it didn't matter whether you work in an office or not, but you can make a persuasive case that it does matter, then you might be able to change their minds, or at least get them to realise that it's worth asking you, the only developer in the company, about issues of developer working environments. So it might help all around if you go to them and they give you an explanation, but basic people-handling skills suggest that, regardless of how polite you are, you'll do a lot less well "telling them how you feel" than "asking them what's happening and how it helps".
Fundamentally, though, everyone knows that noise and distractions really harm programmers' productivity (measured in terms of how long it takes them to complete a piece of programming work to a good standard). But most employers nevertheless don't prioritise these things because they have priorities other than programmer productivity that they need to balance. Low cost and lots of informal communication are the two main benefits cited for putting everybody in one gigantic echoing hall*, and if that's the workplace your managing director wants to run then that's what'll happen. It's annoying when your boss doesn't properly tell you about a done deal that directly affects you and your work, but it's usually possible to get over it.
I will say that my experience has matched yours. Staff often aren't asked what office arrangements they want, but they're still told in advance what kind of changes are coming. I'd like to say that normal human beings will tell their staff when there's an office reorganisation being planned, and will present the information in an ordered way at some point, certainly before the stage where they're loudly discussing the works in the corridor. However, again, see how many votes for Lilienthal's answer: our idea of normal might not be normal after all. In particular the enthusiasm for the view that your office environment has no impact on your work really does surprise me.
* I exaggerate. Slightly.
Dan Henderson
Steve JessopSteve Jessop
Step one: Calm down. Saying this "offends" you and asking if you should "challenge" your boss about it sounds like you are making way too much of this.
I've had a number of times in my career when I had a private office, and then the company moved someone else in or moved me in with someone else. I've never had them tear the walls down on me, but same idea. This happens all the time. There is no reason to believe it is some kind of personal attack on you. Usually it just means that they've hired more people and need to put them somewhere.
I wouldn't expect to be "consulted" on such a thing. Presumably you would say that you want to keep your private office. Do they need to ask? If management believes that for whatever reason this is no longer possible, oh well. Are you, as a software developer, really "used to being consulted" on building renovations? I'm a software developer and I've never had a say in such things. Once I was told I could select the furniture for my office and given a catalog ... but then my picks were ignored and they gave me something else. (Well, now I have a private office and I can select my own furniture and carpeting and whatever I want. But that's because I work from home and anything I get I have to pay for myself.)
It would have been appropriate to INFORM you, rather than letting you hear it as practically office gossip. I think that was inconsiderate of your boss. But then maybe he only found out a sort time before you heard it from the receptionist. Or maybe he was reluctant to tell you because he knew you would be unhappy. (Bad management style, but it happens.) Etc. If this is an isolated incident and he's generally a good manager, I wouldn't worry about it. If it's part of a larger pattern of inconsiderate behavior, that's something to deal with.
Has the company been hiring new employees? It may be they just don't have enough room to let you have a private office any more. Or maybe they've decided that a more "open floor plan" would allow more flexibility or provide some other benefits.
Frankly, there's probably nothing you can do about it. You can complain to your boss or your boss's boss or the president of the company, but it's unlikely that they'll change building renovation plans to satisfy one employee. If you think it's that big a deal you could quit, but I'd call that way over-reacting. Unless when you were hired you were promised that you would always have a private office, I don't think you have much real grounds for complaint. You got a nice little free perk for a while, now it's run out. Too bad.
Such rearrangement may constitute significant worsening of working conditions which is an unilateral change of your work agreement.
They might be giving you a reason to terminate your contract at their fault. Which usually entitles you to at least all the benefits as if they were firing you (eg. severance pay).
As usual - consult your lawyer, but don't reveal this knowledge until you can make most out of it.
/edit: To clarify: what I meant was to consult a lawyer, that is to learn what the options are from someone who's words carry some weight. Because it's quite possible that there aren't any except learning to live with it or quitting. By no means I meant filing an actual lawsuit. That would be absurd, given that nothing had happened so far.
Agent_LAgent_L
I wasn't the downvoter, but this isn't a big enough offense for a lawyer. It's a nickel and dime minor offense. The lawyer will tell them to come back later when they have something substantial, like sexual harassment or evidence of embezzling from the managers.
– Eric Leschinski
@EricLeschinski It's not civil law nor criminal law. It's work law (at least where I live). That's why I said that what he can win is the "being fired" benefits ( eg. 3 months salary in my case). (As a second thought: you can't change any contract unilaterally without giving the other side reason to break it and blame you, so actually civil law may apply here)
– Agent_L
I doubt many people, especially a sole developer in a small company, actually have a work contract that specifies that they have a private office. Unless such a contract actually existed, this seems like really bad advice. Involving a lawyer is (usually) expensive and will burn bridges with management. OP didn't say where they're located, but most places don't have laws that entitle you to a private office absent a contract specifying such (and, frankly, any such law would be rather absurd... the company owns the building, not you.)
– reirab
@reirab He did had an office and now he'll lose it. I don't really know if that can be pulled - hence I recommend the lawyer. I especially warned him to not burn bridges and don't reveal what he learned from the lawyer. Maybe I wasn't clear, but what I meant was to consult the lawyer, that is to learn what the options are. By no means I meant filing a lawsuit, which, I agree, would be absurd.
Wow, this sounds like a huge over-reaction to me. Labor laws vary between countries, I'm not an expert on the law in my own country, never mind others, but unless you have a contract that says you'll have a private office, I can't imagine how you would have a legal basis for any sort of lawsuit or regulatory violation. And lawyers are expensive. Would something like this really be worth the cost of hiring a lawyer?
You've got a card carrying member of the dark Triad as a boss. In my experience, challenging these people always ends in a worse situation for myself. I haven't been able to find a flaw in the armor of those windmills.
The Manager is treating you as an asset; return the favor by treating them as an asset: demand a 5 percent raise this month or you're gone. The only game that members of the dark triad understand are 1: Money now, and 2: power now. Words that do not contain either of these are as meaningless as the wind blowing outside.
So you have to make a choice: do you want to fight his slimy behavior or try to smooth it over? He couldn't care less, as he's calculated your response and his response two or three steps ahead. As I said at the beginning, I've not yet found a way to win these wars. It's his job to make your life miserable to improve your output. That's how he justifies the fact that he makes twice as much money as you do. Either you get your mud boots on and go play in the mud with him and risk termination of both him and you (I've done this), or sit and take it (this is usually what I do). I do not envy your position. The job market seems to be saturated with these dark triad managers.
By the gut feel of it, they were giving you a perk, and now they are ripping it from you because they think you're getting too comfy. They are turning up the heat underneath your seat because frankly they can. So you have to respond in kind and turn up the heat under their seats in a game of chicken and who blinks first, or you do the smart thing and you power down, lower your output, justifying their response, and start looking for a job. Frankly, they couldn't care less which you do. It's no skin off their back, they will just hire someone else.
Shakespeare said it best: "egads man, the game is afoot."
Eric LeschinskiEric Leschinski
I did not downvote you, but I think you should consider that the OP is reacting to a rumor about plans that have not even been concreted and is angry because he is not involved in the bigger planning, which is outside of his job duties.
This is an amazingly cynical view of the world. I'm glad to say it is not grounded in reality where I'm from.
– Tom Bowen
Often times office bullies will push this line of thinking, where a victim taking BS from above expresses discontent from being treated as a cross between a tool and used toilet paper, and the bully manager response is: "oh jeez is the little baby crying?" stop being so cynical! As reverberated in even this comment section. No the little baby isn't crying, and no the little baby isn't just being overly sensitive and cynical. The worker has taken an offense, and he's deciding whether to fight or flight, I say fight. Ask for a beefy raise this month.
This entire answer hinges upon the very first sentence, the validity of which has not been adequately demonstrated. Either that or your advice to go money now or else, when you have no evidence the OP can successfully pull such a move (most likely he won't), could've earned a -1 from me. Yes I know the OP is probably not stupid enough to do it but still
The most up-voted answer on the other end of the spectrum which after it's all said and done, boils down to: "stop crying, baby, and forget about it, they own you" doesn't seem right either. It's the same advice I got when I was in middle school after the bullies ganged up on me to hit me when the teacher's head was turned, the overworked substitute teacher basically says: "Stop crying, baby, and forget about it". The only thing that makes it ok here is that the employee is not being forced to take it, only coerced to take it, and he gets money in exchange for the hassle.
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It's been a good month for awards in the USA! HITLER'S DAUGHTER has been named a "Blue Ribbon" book by the Bulletin for the Centre of Children's Books. In 'The Cuffies' in Publisher's Weekly Diary of a Wombat was awarded Best Picture Book, and tied with Funniest Picture Book , and has also been made an honour book- though I'm not quite sure what.
Diary of a Wombat won something or was listed for something good in the USA, I think- I'm just not sure what it is! But whatever it was meant that the New York Times gave it a great review, and Time magazine listed it as one of the best books to give kids for Christmas. They described a wombat as a sort of Australian bear. Not sure if Mothball would like being called an Australian bear. On the other hand, Mothball's response to any magazine would be to chew it up.
Diary of a Wombat has just won the ABA Book of the Year- which is fairly stunning as it's a kid's book (well, sort of; most grown ups think it is for them too) and the others in the shortlist were for adults- Recollections of a Bleeding Heart , Across the Nightingale Floor and Almost French. (When I have mentioned that list to anyone they have all said in a doubtful tone of voice 'I though 'Bleeding Heart' was absolutely brilliant...'..but anyway, and very, very glad we have won it! (and Bruce and I are in the thick of our next collaboration...heh heh heh...giggle every time I think of it. But it won't be out till next year. ) Wombat also won Honour Book for the CBC Picture Book of the Year, and is shortlisted for the kid's choice Koala, Cool and Yabba Awards. Hitler's Daughter is too.
It's been a great month for shortlistings!
Both Hitler's Daughter and Diary of a Wombat have been shortlisted in the 2003 Children's Choice Awards. That's on top of Wombat's shortlisting for the Children's Book Council award for Best Picture Book. Diary of a Wombat has also been shortlisted in the Australian Publisher's Association Book Design Awards for Best-Designed Children's Picture Book, and also for a Galley Club Award!
And the NSW Premier's Awards will be announced later this month, and Ride the Wild Wind has been shortlisted for the Patricia Wrightson Award too.
Which leaves me a bit breathlesss... The UK rights to Diary of a wombat are being auctioned this month, and the US have doubled their Wombat print run for Christmas, and a host of other overseas countries are taking a horde of the other books. So it looks like Mothball wombat will have fresh doormats for a good while yet.
And Ride the Wild Wind has just been shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Historical Fiction Award, which makes it sound very boring, but it isn't- it's' the histroy of the partnership between huamnsd and horses for the last 3,500 years- and that makes it sound REALLY boring. But they really are exciting horse stories, with everything from Ghengis Kahns armies sweeping across Asia (on horseback- 100,000 horses) to a kid who tames a wild horse that no one else could manage in the 1830's in Australia.
And Diary of a Wombat has just been shortlisted for the CBC awards- I still feel extraordinary delight every time I open that book. How could Bruce Whatley have known exactly what Mothball is like? Stroppy, bad tempered, totally self centred, and sometimes a bit smelly too- and enormous fun to live with.
'In the Blood' (the first in the trilogy) has just been awarded ACT Book of the Year (Wacko!). The third volume will come out next year, packaged up with the first two. They're adult books but any teenagers who loved the first two can grab the third!
Also an Aurealis Award a few weeks ago for Cafe on Callisto, and in the U. K. Hitler's Daughter has won a WOW! award, which is fantastic as it's only just come out there.
Jackie wrote her first children's book `Rainstones' in 1990 in a desperate attempt to earn $106.40 to register her car, while living in a shed with a wallaby called Fred, a black snake called Gladys and a wombat called Smudge. It was described by the editor at HarperCollins as the messiest, worst spelt manuscript they'd ever received.
The book was accepted (also shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Award and CBC Younger Reader's Book of the Year). In the same fortnight she was offered a regular column in a newspaper and a farming magazine and discovered that writing about flowers and fantasy was a heck of a lot easier than hauling manure in the old green truck to feed the peach trees. She has been a full time writer and wombat negotiator ever since.

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xG Technologies appears to have lost its only actual named customer, according to releases on its site.
xG, as Techworld readers will remember, claimed its xMax technology gave massive improvements over wireless technologies such as WiMax in 2005. Since then, we've been waiting for corroboration - with increasing scepticism, since we've learnt that xG's original claims were impossible as they break physical laws.
The company is still saying optimistic things, but there's an announcement on its site: apparently, Florida ISP Far Reach, as far as we know xG's only actual named customer, has sent the equipment back, and terminated the contract.
The equipment was reported to have arrived at Far Reach in April, but according to a page at Far Reach, the ISP asked xG to take it away again - which it has done (elsewhere on the Far Reach site, there's still a page promising xMax, but a release at xG confirms that the contract is terminated).
This happened in May, but we've been looking at some other technologies sucn as WiMax, Wi-Fi and LTE in the meantime, so we can only apologise for missing this development at the time.
There's an update to the company's financial position, which does say, "there will be some changes within the distributors which were signed up at a very early stage in this process. Where a company ceases to represent xMax, the assigned territory reverts to xG and becomes available for resale to another distributor."
Although releases on the site promise other operators, we couldn't find any other named operators committed to delivering the service.
There's also an intriguing reference to a new 250 series base station product that will replace the current 200 series. "The base station 250 series is anticipated to be 4G compliant," says xG. A product design update at xG makes it clear that the change is to support a better handset, the TX-60, that is in development (xG's handsets are dual-mode xMax/Wi-Fi), but gives no explanation ofwhat xG means by "4G" in this context.
The company claimed to be making a profit earlier in the year.
However, as far as we know (and we'd welcome any news to the contrary) there's no one else actually committed to delivering xMax service.


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Oblastní rada Nachal Sorek (, mo'aca ezorit Nachal Sorek) je oblastní rada v Centrálním distriktu v Izraeli.

Rozkládá se v hustě osídlené a zemědělsky intenzivně využívané pobřežní nížině (region Šefela), východně od města Gedera, které ovšem pod jurisdikci rady nespadá. Na severní straně přiléhá k území oblastní rady letecká základna Tel Nof.

Dějiny
Jméno oblastní rady je odvozeno od vodního toku Nachal Sorek, který probíhá zdejším územím. Novověké židovské osidlování zde začalo vznikat už ve 30. letech 20. století tedy ještě v době mandátní Palestiny (kibuc Chafec Chajim osídlený roku 1937). Sídelní síť byla dvotvořena po válce za nezávislost v roce 1948, kdy zdejší region dobyly izraelské síly a zároveň jej zcela opustila arabská populace. Oblastní rada Nachal Sorek vznikla roku 1950.

Úřady oblastní rady Nachal Sorek sídlí ve vesnici Jad Binjamin. Starostou rady je אלי אסקוזידו - Eli Eskozido. Rada má velké pravomoci zejména v provozování škol, územním plánování a stavebním řízení nebo v ekologických otázkách.

Seznam sídel
Oblastní rada Nachal Sorek sdružuje celkem sedm sídel. Z toho je jeden kibuc, čtyři mošavy a dvě společné osady.

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K 31. prosinci 2014 žilo v oblastní radě Nachal Sorek 8200 obyvatel. Obyvatelstvo je zcela židovské.

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WASHINGTON, DC –(ENEWSPF)–May 30, 2017. U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) joined U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and 16 of their colleagues in writing to the White House to express alarm that the Trump administration is attempting to block the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) from discovering how many lobbyists and industry lawyers have been granted ethics waivers by the administration over the past few months. After taking office, President Trump signed an executive order to continue the Obama-era policy of prohibiting lobbyists and lawyers from working on issues involving their former clients. However, the Trump administration has since hired dozens of former lobbyists and industry lawyers at higher rates than its predecessors, raising concerns about whether these hires are violating the law or have been given a waiver allowing them to ignore it. OGE recently requested to know how many people have been given waivers but the White House took the highly unusual step of asking it to withdraw its request even though OGE is statutorily entitled to obtain and review the waivers.
The Senators noted that there is a long-established precedent of disclosing waivers for executive branch ethics pledges – both Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama made all waivers granted to their ethics pledged available for public review. OGE has set a June 1st deadline for the agencies to respond to its request.
The letter was also signed by U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-NM), Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Patty Murray (D-WA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Jon Tester (D-MT) and Gary Peters (D-MI).
"It is an extraordinary thing," said OGE Director Walter Shaub of the effort to deny OGE the waivers. "I have never seen anything like it." OGE was granted the power to request information on ethics waivers following the Watergate scandal.
Even President Trump's own nominees have acknowledged that the Trump Administration's ethics standards, in addition to being undermined by secretive waivers, are weaker than the previous Administration's rules. This issue came up at the recent confirmation hearing for Deputy Interior Secretary Nominee David Bernhardt when Senator Duckworth pressed Mr. Bernhardt on whether he was aware that, under the Obama administration's ethics rules, he would not have qualified for his nomination due to conflict of interest concerns. Mr. Bernhardt confirmed that fact.
We write to register our concern with your letter of May 17, 2017, requesting that Office of Government Ethics (OGE) Director Walter Shaub "stay" his April 28, 2017 "Data Call for Certain Waivers and Authorizations." That data call seeks all waivers granted pursuant to section 3 of Executive Order 13770, "Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Appointees." OGE is statutorily entitled to obtain and review the waivers. Further, there is a significant public interest in making these waivers available to the public and no reasonable justification to keep them secret.
Regarding the recent data call, the OGE Director has statutory authority to provide "overall direction of executive branch policies related to preventing conflicts of interest on the part of officers and employees of any executive agency." 5 U.S.C. app. 402(a). The Director is charged with "monitoring and investigating individual and agency compliance with any additional financial reporting and internal review requirements established by law for the executive branch" and "interpreting rules and regulations issued by the President or the Director governing conflict of interest and ethical problems and the filing of financial statements." Id. at 402(a)(5)-(6). To achieve that end, except where prohibited by law, the Director may direct an agency to provide "all information and records in its possession which the Director may determine to be necessary for the performance of his duties." Id. at 403(a)(2). It is also well settled that employees of the Executive Office of the President are subject to the executive branch-wide standards of ethical conduct at 5 CFR part 2635, and the executive branch-wide financial disclosure regulations at 5 CFR part 2634. 3 C.F.R. 100.1. In your letter, you cite no legal basis to the contrary.
As a policy matter, there has never been a dispute over the merits of disclosing waivers to executive branch ethics pledges. Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama made all waivers granted to their respective ethics pledges available for public review. The Obama Administration posted waivers electronically, and the Clinton Administration published waivers in the Federal Register. See Executive Order 12834 sec. 3(c). President Trump chose not to include a transparency requirement in his executive order, making the OGE data call necessary for assuring Americans that the Trump Administration is taking its own ethics pledge seriously. A pledge that allows for secret waivers is, quite obviously, meaningless.
On April 20, 2017, several of us wrote to President Trump urging him to make waivers to his ethics pledge public. Your letter of May 17 suggests that rather than working with Congress to ensure the highest ethical standards in the Trump Administration you are willing to take whatever steps you can to hide potential conflicts of interest from view.
We want to make clear that we will use all tools available to us as United States Senators to make waivers to the Trump Ethics Pledge available to the public. If OMB does not stand down from its attempt to prevent Designated Agency Ethics Officials from responding to the OGE data call, we will seek the waivers directly ourselves. The Administration cannot dispute that Congress has the right to this information.
OGE set a deadline of June 1, 2017, for agencies to respond to its request. To ensure agencies have sufficient time to meet that deadline, we request you either withdraw your request for a stay of OGE's data call or provide the legal basis for that request no later than May 25, 2017. We also request that by that date you provide to us the number of waivers that have been granted to Executive Order 13770. There can be no reasonable dispute that the number of waivers granted should be a matter of public record, and because waivers may only be granted by the President or his designee, see Executive Order 13770 sec. 3(a), that number should be readily available to you.


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FROM discourse/base:2.0.20201214-2041
MAINTAINER Alan Guo Xiang Tan "https://twitter.com/tgx_world"

RUN sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y qt5-default libqt5webkit5-dev python-pygments netcat

RUN git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv && \
    echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile && \
    echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile && \
    . ~/.bash_profile && \
    mkdir -p "$(rbenv root)"/plugins && \
    git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git "$(rbenv root)"/plugins/ruby-build

RUN /bin/bash -l -c "rbenv install 2.7.2" && \
    /bin/bash -l -c "rbenv global 2.7.2"

RUN useradd rubybench -s /bin/bash -m -U && \
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      cd ruby-bench-web && \
        git config --global user.name "rubybench" && \
        git config --global user.email "https://twitter.com/tgx_world" && \
        git remote set-branches --add origin production && \
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Digital River and Avalara Team Up for a Tax Management Solution to Simplify Global Ecommerce
New partnership eliminates the complexity of international taxes by providing a complete end-to-end solution
August 24, 2021 08:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time
MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Digital River, an experienced global commerce enabler for established and fast-growing brands, today announced it is teaming up with Avalara, a leading provider of cloud-based tax compliance automation for businesses of all sizes. The partnership brings together two respected brands in ecommerce to create a complete global tax management solution to eliminate the complexity of international taxes, as well as further simplify and accelerate cross-border ecommerce expansion.
By combining Digital River's experienced tax professionals and APIs with Avalara's world-class tax automation technology, brands gain a complete end-to-end solution enabling them to scale globally without worrying about the complex tax liabilities and regulations of each local and regional market.
"Retailers and consumers alike are conducting more business online than ever before, which has created increased demand for cross-border commerce," said Craig Reed, GM of cross-border at Avalara. "This partnership equips global sellers with critical cross-border ecommerce capabilities such as duties and taxes calculation, Harmonized System code classification, restrictions, payments, fraud protection, and order management to reduce friction for the cross-border customer experience."
Through this partnership, Digital River and Avalara provide a better customer experience by providing more accurate landed cost information to the shopper. Avalara calculates and applies taxes and item classification codes, while Digital River's Global Seller Services interfaces with global logistics providers and manages the back-office functions including registrations, tax filings, remittance, audits, compliance, and exemption certificates. Together, Digital River and Avalara empower brands to enter new global markets quickly and confidently by protecting them from costly penalties that can result from non-compliance.
"Global commerce comes with layers of regulation that vary not only by region and country, but also at the local level," said Adam Coyle, CEO at Digital River. "This partnership provides a simple and cost-efficient solution that enables global brands to focus on the customer journey while knowing the critical parts of the back-office experience are being expertly handled by a trusted partner that has the expertise to navigate the complexities of global ecommerce."
This solution is now available for Digital River customers and covers regulations in 175+ markets.
About Digital River
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Digital River is headquartered in Minneapolis with offices across the U.S., Asia, Europe and South America. For more details, visit DigitalRiver.com.
Digital River is a registered trademark of Digital River, Inc. All other company and product names are trademarks, registrations or copyrights of their respective owners.
About Avalara
Avalara helps businesses of all sizes get tax compliance right. In partnership with leading ERP, accounting, ecommerce, and other financial management system providers, Avalara delivers cloud-based compliance solutions for various transaction taxes, including sales and use, VAT, GST, excise, communications, lodging, and other indirect tax types. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world in Brazil, Europe, and India. More information at avalara.com.
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A Museum Quality Print of the 1800 Portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale. Jefferson served as the 3rd President of the United States from 1801 - 1809. This portrait of soon to be President Thomas Jefferson was painted by Rembrandt Peale in 1800 and was completed in the capital of Philadelphia before Jefferson left for his home of Monticello in Charlottesville Virginia. The face has a warm complexion and has the glow of good health. This oil on canvas original print measures 23 1/8 by 19 1/4 inches in size and is now in the White House Collection by gifting of Mr. and Mrs Paul Mellon. Rembrandt Peale was an early American portrait painter who was taught by his famous father, Charles Wilson Peale. Thomas Jefferson missed by only 4 votes of becoming president in 1796, losing out to John Adams, Jefferson went on to become the vice president under Adams. In 1800 Jefferson won the presidential election and became President in 1801 and served as our Commander in Chief for two terms until 1809. One of Jefferson's big accomplishments while in office was buying the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon, in effect doubling the size of the young United States overnight, without firing a shot. Jefferson was also the founder and architect of the University of Virginia, a project he worked on from his hillside home of Monticello until his death in 1826.
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Citrix ADC users can deploy inline security devices like intrusion prevention systems (IPS) and next-generation firewalls (NGFW) for enhanced network protection. These security devices inspect the traffic sent by the ADC appliance and prevent vulnerable security exploits on the network.
To add an additional layer of security, a Citrix ADC appliance can be integrated with third-party managed inline devices to perform content inspection more easily for advanced security protection.
The best part of this integration is that the Citrix ADC appliance can not only offload data for content inspection but can also load balance inline devices when there is a heavy volume of traffic for content inspection.
You can integrate inline devices with an ADC appliance in different ways. Let's consider a scenario where there are multiple inline devices integrated with an ADC appliance through a dedicated interface. All devices are integrated with the appliance at the L2 layer.
The following diagram shows how a Citrix ADC appliance is integrated with one or more third-party inline devices.
A client sends a request to the Citrix ADC appliance.
The security device inspects the data for threats and decides whether to drop, reset, or send the data back to the appliance.
The Citrix ADC, in turn, re-encrypts the data and forwards the request to the back-end server.
The appliance again decrypts the data and sends it to the security device for inspection.
The appliance re-encrypts the data and sends the response to the client.
Now let's look at a scenario where you can configure the appliance to these inline devices to offload a subset of traffic and load balance the devices for traffic distribution. You'll see configuration steps for both the command-line interface and the GUI interface. Use the solution based on the configuration method you prefer.
If you want the Citrix ADC appliance to be integrated to inline devices such as an IPS or firewalls, you must enable this mode. For more information about MBF, see Configure MAC-based Forwarding.
If you want the Citrix ADC appliance to decrypt and then send the content for inspection to the inline devices, you must enable the Content Inspection and load-balancing features.
Inline configurations for a Citrix ADC appliance can be specified in an entity called Content Inspection profile. The profile has a collection of device settings. The Content Inspection profile1 is created for inline service 1, and the communication is through 1/2 and 1/3 dedicated interfaces.
You can use this example to configure a Content Inspection profile for inline service in your appliance.
The Content Inspection profile2 is added for service2 and the inline device communicates with the appliance through 1/4 and 1/5 dedicated interfaces.
You can use this example to configure a Content Inspection profile for inline service 2 in your appliance.
After you enable the Content Inspection feature and add the inline profile, you must add an inline service 1 for inline device 1 to be part of the load-balancing setup. The service that you add provides all the inline configuration details.
You can use the example below to configure the inline service for an inline device integrated with your appliance.
Note: Ensure the service IP address is not the address owned by the inline devices configured on the ADC appliance.
After you enable the Content Inspection feature and add the inline profile, you must add an inline service 2 for inline device 2. The service that you add provides all the inline configuration details.
You can use the example that follows to configure the inline service for another inline device integrated with your appliance.
After you have added the inline profile and the services, you must add a load-balancing virtual server for load balancing the services.
You can use this example to add a load-balancing virtual server.
After you add the load balancing virtual server, bind the load balancing virtual server to the first inline service.
You can use the example below to bind the inline service 1 to a load-balancing virtual server.
After you add the load-balancing virtual server, bind the server to the second service.
You can use the example command to bind the inline service 2 to a load-balancing virtual server.
You can use this example to add a Content Inspection action to the service.
After you create a Content Inspection action, you must add Content Inspection policy to evaluate requests for service. The policy is based on a rule that consists of one or more expressions. The rule is associated to the Content Inspection action that is associated if a request matches the rule.
You can use the example below to add Content Inspection policy.
Add a content-switching or load-balancing virtual server to accept web traffic. Also you must enable the layer2 connection on the virtual server. For more information about load balancing, read the post on setting up basic load balancing on the Citrix Product Documentation page.
You can use the example below to add a content-switching or load-balancing virtual server.
You must bind the content-switching or load-balancing virtual server of type HTTP/SSL to the Content Inspection policy.
You can use the following example to bind Content Inspection policy to a load-balancing virtual server.
In the ContentInspection Profile page, click Add.
In the Create ContentInspectionProfile page, set the following parameters.
Select the profile types as InlineInspection.
Egress Interface: The interface through which the traffic is sent from Citrix ADC to the Inline device.
Ingress Interface: The interface through which the traffic is received from Inline device to Citrix ADC.
Ingress VLAN: The interface VLAN ID through which the traffic is received from Inline to Citrix ADC (if it is configured).
Navigate to Load Balancing> Services and click Add.
In the Services page, enter the content inspection service details. Note: The IP is a dummy address.
Go to the Profiles section and add the Inline content inspection profile.
Navigate to Traffic Management > Load Balancing> Virtual Servers. Add a virtual server of type HTTP or SSL.
Go the Policies section and click the Pencil icon to configure content inspection policy.
In the Policy Binding section, click "+" to add a Content Inspection policy.
In the Create CI Policy page, enter a name for the Inline content inspection policy.
In the Action field, click the "+" sign to create an Inline content inspection action.
In the Create CI Action page, set the following parameters.
Name of the content inspection Inline policy.
Select the type as InlineInspection.
Server Name. Select the server/service name as Inline devices.
Request Time-out. Select a time-out value. Default values can be used.
Request Time-out Action. Select a time-out action. Default values can be used.
In the Create CI Policy page, enter other details.
This feature is available in the Citrix ADC 12.1 build 50.28 version. If you have an older version, install the latest version and try out the configuration.
By integrating ADC with inline devices, the appliance can offload its traffic, resulting in less CPU usage and reduced TLS/SSL processing cost. Give the configuration a try!
Sujatha Paramasivam is a technical writer at Citrix. She is part of the Citrix ADC documentation team and is responsible for developing technical content for Citrix ADC features.


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"Spirit of Beauty, whose sweet impulses, Flung like the rose of dawn across the sea, alone can flush the exalted consciousness with shafts of sensible divinity — Light of the world, essential loveliness." A.S.
Beauty Rituals and the use of Sacred Oils have a very ancient past, practiced for thousands of years by Queens and Priestesses who would have elaborate beauty and self care rituals to increase empowerment, beauty and at times, social status. Hair is said to be a direct connection to the soul, an extension of spirit growing from our crown, so caring for your hair and the holiest temple of your body are essential for Self Love.
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EXTENSIVE INTERVIEW WITH JOSE MOURINHO.
Jose Mourinho is featured in today's London Evening Standard speaking of his life in London, his family, his love for the City, for Chelsea and his intentions of staying here. After reading this interview you can forget any talk of Chelsea not being contenders for the Premier League title this season. If I were you, I would bet on Chelsea to be right up there challenging in May.
"I'm not here thinking about my next move because I don't want to have a next move. "I will have a next move if and when Chelsea decides it's time for that.
I'm not chasing new experiences, trying to find where I like it more, where I can make new things for my career — no. It's a completely different perspective.
"More than one year ago, even before I decided to stay in Madrid for one or two more years, our decision was made. We wanted to go to England next because we feel it's the best for all four, as a family and me as a professional.
In this moment there is a lot of maturity in the family. I have a 17-year-old girl, a 14-year-old boy. In the beginning of my career it was not so difficult for them to move but they have entered into an age where moving is not easy.
There was lots of communication and they knew for them that London would be fantastic. A university career is a target for my daughter, my wife just loves the city to live in. We kept our house from last time and, although we tried to hide it, we came lots of times.
"I'm not a person with a big social life. I just want the simple things in life but even the simple things I lost in Italy, Spain and Portugal.
I think London is the only place in Europe where I can keep these little things of life. I can go to school and wait for my son and daughter and the parents feel me as another parent.
I can go to walk on Sloane Street or Old Bond Street and if somebody disturbs me it is not an English person for sure. It's some tourist that sees me and they can't control themselves. The English person is much more polite and respectful in relation to the private life of the person.
"Lots of things drive me. First of all I want to enjoy my life and football is part of that. My wife knows that, my kids know that. From them there is not one bit of talk that one day you have to retire. It's the opposite. Sometimes in a funny way they imagine me as an old man still being a manager. They know I want to do it for a long time. I love the day-to-day of football, more than that I love the game, more than that I love the big game.
People used to say that Michael Schumacher — and as I talk about this, it's about being respectful of the person — couldn't live without Formula One. He couldn't live without the race, the adrenalin impulse. So when he's not driving, he is jumping from helicopters and skiing. Now I have brought his name into the picture, I want to say how I hope in the next few days he's safe. But maybe with me it's the same in football. Football is an important part of my life. I always want to do it at the top. I don't want to do it where one day I relax, go to an easy job or a country where my club is the best by far, without any kind of problem.
"I'm enjoying this challenge. It's a different challenge from before. The other one was to win for the first time, there was the impact of a new foreign owner that was something new in English football and world football. Now it is a different perspective.
I have different people at different stages of their careers in my hands. You never know how they will react.
I didn't know where John, Frank, Ashley and the other senior players were. I didn't know if I could recover their their motivation to play at the top, their understanding of the importance they have in the squad, in the club, even if they're not the players that can play 50-60 games a season any more.
The new players have come from different countries and all of them are young people. Willian never played at a top European club; Andre Schurrle came from a club [Bayer Leverkusen] not fighting for titles; it's Oscar's second season but physically he's still getting used to English football.
Many people told me Chelsea supporters will expect me to do the same as before. I was never worried about that. I was sure about people's trust.
In the same way people know I built a Chelsea team that lasted seven-eight years and was in place to fight for titles even after my departure, I know that I'm going to do the same [this time].
"We are there and fighting for the top positions, we will see if we can fight for the title.
It's important we do because it accelerates the development of the players, it brings to their lives something new, to have the responsibility of having to win every game.
What a fantastic interview! What do you think?


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