Avocados are excellent sources of monounsaturated fats, which can lower your risk of heart disease and stroke by reducing your bad cholesterol levels, according to the American Heart Association. You probably already add slices of avocado to your salads and omelets, but have you tried 'em solo? Langer suggests taking half of an avocado, drizzling it with olive oil and a bit of lemon juice, and sprinkling sea salt on top. Then dig right in.
Don't make the same mistake I did and get the un-shelled ones. (I tried to use them for a dessert and couldn't figure out why it was so crunchy…) Hemp seeds have many amazing benefits – it is rich in GLA, good for digestive health, and can even help reduce sugar cravings. Put a handful in a small container or reusable snack bag for a super-healthy snack.
Ariel Warren is a Registered Dietitian, Diabetes Educator, graduate from Brigham Young, and was diagnosed with Type 1 at the age of 4 years old. Ariel understands diabetes and enjoys working with clients to improve their blood sugar management, healthy eating, weight loss, fitness, and pregnancy. For coaching from a T1D Dietitian, you can contact Ariel directly, through her website: arielwarren.com.
The popular low-carb diets (such as Atkins or Paleo) modify a true keto diet. But they come with the same risks if you overdo it on fats and proteins and lay off the carbs. So why do people follow the diets? "They're everywhere, and people hear anecdotally that they work," McManus says. Theories about short-term low-carb diet success include lower appetite because fat burns slower than carbs. "But again, we don't know about the long term," she says. "And eating a restrictive diet, no matter what the plan, is difficult to sustain. Once you resume a normal diet, the weight will likely return."
This two-day keto meal plan comes from a registered dietitian who prescribes the diet for clients who are looking to reach a variety of health goals. Pegah Jalali, MS, RD, CDN, is an adjunct professor at New York University, works at the NYU Langone Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, and is a private practice dietitian at Middleberg Nutrition, a New York City health and wellness practice.
Try Googling "TDEE Calculator". Once you plug in your stats, the site will calculate your total daily energy expenditure. This is a useful guide in determining how many calories to eat. From there, if you are trying to lose weight, just reduce your caloric intake, increase your expenditure (through exercising more), or use a combination of the two.
The remaining calories in the keto diet come from protein — about 1 gram (g) per kilogram of body weight, so a 140-pound woman would need about 64 g of protein total. As for carbs: "Every body is different, but most people maintain ketosis with between 20 and 50 g of net carbs per day," says Mattinson. Total carbohydrates minus fiber equals net carbs, she explains.
On the ketogenic diet, carbohydrates are restricted and so cannot provide for all the metabolic needs of the body. Instead, fatty acids are used as the major source of fuel. These are used through fatty-acid oxidation in the cell's mitochondria (the energy-producing parts of the cell). Humans can convert some amino acids into glucose by a process called gluconeogenesis, but cannot do this by using fatty acids. Since amino acids are needed to make proteins, which are essential for growth and repair of body tissues, these cannot be used only to produce glucose. This could pose a problem for the brain, since it is normally fuelled solely by glucose, and most fatty acids do not cross the blood–brain barrier. However, the liver can use long-chain fatty acids to synthesise the three ketone bodies β-hydroxybutyrate, acetoacetate and acetone. These ketone bodies enter the brain and partially substitute for blood glucose as a source of energy.
You may also want to buy some Ketostix Reagent Strips so that you can check to see if you are in ketosis for the first few weeks. However, after the first 3-4 weeks on the plan, the goal is to become "keto-adapted". Once adapted, the body should be burning the ketones for fuel. The stick shouldn't register as deep purple if you are using the ketones as a fuel source. And they now have blood ketone meters available to track blood ketones at home. This is a much more accurate way to track your individual ketone levels. See my ketosis page for more information.
Sleep enough – for most people at least seven hours per night on average – and keep stress under control. Sleep deprivation and stress hormones raise blood sugar levels, slowing ketosis and weight loss a bit. Plus they make much it harder to stick to a keto diet, and resist temptations. So while handling sleep and stress will not get you into ketosis on it's own, it's still worth thinking about.
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Not only is this jerky zero-carb, sugar-free, and full of protein, but Davidson says it's the perfect keto post-workout recovery snack, especially since protein is crucial in building and repairing muscles after exercise. (P.S. This is what you need to know about exercising on the keto diet.) And since jerky is harder to eat and chew, it allows time for your stomach to tell your brain you're full, keeping those pesky carb cravings at bay, she says.


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HOMEVEST Reaches S$100m Value in Singapore's Private Securities Exchange
Malaysia's property investment, management and development company surpassed S$100 million market valuation, a milestone reached by the company after it successfully listed on 1Exchange ("1X") platform, Singapore's first private securities exchange regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 4th Jan 2023, King NewsWire – HOMEVEST, Malaysia's property investment, management and development company surpassed S$100 million market valuation, a milestone reached by the company after it successfully listed on 1Exchange ("1X") platform, Singapore's first private securities exchange regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).
HOMEVEST consists of 3 divisions including HOMEVEST Capital, HOMEVEST Living and HOMEVEST Development. Over the years, HOMEVEST has won numerous recognitions and awards throughout the region. Today, HOMEVEST has a total of MYR341 million of Assets Under Management (AUM) with properties portfolio covering the central region of Malaysia.
HOMEVEST's signature programme, Home Ownership Programme for Employees (H.O.P.E.) aimed at enabling corporations and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to empower their employees to own a home. This programme is officially supported by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government and endorsed by the Malaysia Book of Records as the "First Property Company to Provide Homeownership Programme for Employees in Malaysia."
HOMEVEST Group Managing Director KY Lim said in a statement, "Moving forward, we will continue to source for new acquisitions and development opportunities in Malaysia. We are very enthusiastic about the property market in Malaysia with continued long-term growth where we continue to make property investment and home ownership simple and sustainable."
HOMEVEST seeks to continue to innovate the approach to real estate investment and management that creates outstanding value for the customers and adds distinct advantages for the investors. Detailed trend analysis, experiences local market knowledge, and a professional team allows the company to seize opportunities swiftly and optimize every aspect of real estate.
Organization: HOMEVEST Sdn Bhd
Contact Person: JK Soo
Email: jk.soo@homevestglobal.com
Website: https://homevestglobal.com/
Address 1: Level 23, Menara Exchange 106 Lingkaran TRX
Address 2: Tun Razak Exchange
City: Kuala Lumpur
Release Id: 2075
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Four busted for credit card fraud
Women of St. Alban's Episcopal Church Antique Show set to open
Mayor talks city's recent past and its future
By Editor in News
Port Isabel Mayor Joe Vega was on-hand Friday at Pirate's Landing during the "Mayor's Breakfast." He's seen here overlooking the city up top the lighthouse. (Staff photo by Ray Quiroga)
By RAY QUIROGA
rayq@portisabelsouthpadre.com
"El que no habla, Dios no lo oye," (he who does not ask, God does not hear). That's the way the Mayor of Port Isabel Joe Vega described how the city has been able to improve its standard of living and infrastructure in the past year, all with keeping a healthy fund balance.
The adage referred to the city's ability to secure sizable grants that have assisted in tackling these projects.
Citizens should expect more of the same in 2012 as Port Isabel strives to reach a fund balance of $1 million, the mayor told a group gathered at Pirate's Landing Friday as the Chamber of Commerce and Merchant Committee hosted the "Mayor's Breakfast."
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I Watched HBO's Game of Thrones. It was . .. interesting. I haven't read the novels in quite some time, and then only the first two or three at most, so my memories of the series are over a decade old. However, having said that, the first episode definitely stirred my memory cells a bit, and I THINK this episode was fairly true to what I had read.
The acting was, by my estimation, not bad. Scenery, sets and costumes were quite nice, I thought. An ending that will make you either want to come back for more or never watch again, depending upon the way you think.
Myself. .. I'll probably watch it from time to time. It's on a bit past my normal Sunday night Bedtime (I get up at 4:30-5:00 am ) for work.
I thought it was good. Maybe a littlr first episode creakiness, but good.


Arthur Blank, the Atlanta Falcons owner and Home Depot co-founder, has committed millions of dollars to a neighborhood ravaged by poverty. But critics say it's still a raw deal.
ATLANTA — As fans stream into the Georgia Dome on Saturday to watch the Falcons play the Seattle Seahawks, they will pass a construction site next door.
There the team owner and home improvement magnate Arthur Blank is building the Falcons' new home, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, a $1.5 billion palace with eye-popping features: a 30-story-high retractable roof shaped like petals, the N.F.L.'s largest video board and enormous windows that face the Atlanta skyline.
The view through the windows at the other end of the building tells a very different story, one that many fans go out of their way to avoid: English Avenue and Vine City, two of the poorest neighborhoods in the Southeastern United States. Home to drug dealers, swaths of empty plots and abandoned houses, they are part of the Westside, where 42 percent of the households are in poverty and the unemployment rate is twice that of the rest of Fulton County.
The Falcons have been no different, getting a minimum of $200 million in hotel-motel taxes out of the city for the construction of the stadium, and potentially hundreds of millions more for its upkeep.
But rarely does such public investment do much good for the areas around these mammoth stadiums. Such venues effectively blot out a part of the neighborhood when not in use, reducing foot traffic and fraying the fabric of the community. Even when stadiums do draw big crowds, ticket holders spend little of their money at local businesses.
While some owners try to offset these problems by donating money to local charities or buying land to make way for new homes and shops, Blank wants to rebuild the neighborhoods where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Julian Bond and other civil rights leaders once lived.
Blank's plans are ambitious not only because of the neighborhood's history and decay, but also because he said he hopes to effect real change in the lives of his neighbors — though critics say it will be on his terms.
So far, his foundation, the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, has donated $20 million to pay for, among other things, a job training center called Westside Works, new parks, a youth leadership program called American Explorers, and homes for police officers willing to live in the area. Blank's investments have been matched by groups including Invest Atlanta, the city's development arm, more than doubling the amount raised.
And Blank has also committed to spending millions more while also getting the team's sponsors to strengthen their ties to the community.
Stadiums and arenas on their own are rarely economic engines, though some are part of larger developments, like Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Teams like the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco Giants are also very involved in their communities. Blank, though, is using philanthropy on a large scale as a development tool, something that could make the Westside safer and more prosperous, but could also benefit his stadium.
While Blank's spending on the Westside so far is significant, it is still just a fraction of what the city is spending on the stadium. Although some residents appreciate his efforts to create jobs and fight crime, others fear they will ultimately be pushed out.
Indeed, speculators have bought up hundreds of parcels of land hoping to turn a quick profit, and rents have risen by about 20 percent since the stadium plan was announced in 2012, according to a Georgia Tech study.
The chief community liaison for the Blank Foundation, Frank Fernandez, said that a community benefits plan "was developed from a very deliberate process of public hearings and community meetings" and would provide a road map for development after the stadium was completed.
But Fort and other critics of the stadium say that Blank and the city dictated the terms of their efforts to help the Westside, and have not agreed to a binding community benefits agreement, common in other big developments.
"Instead, it's like, we're going to develop it the way we want to develop it and develop it for who we want to develop it for," said Tim Franzen, who works at the Housing Justice League in Atlanta.
Carrie Salvary, who bought a home in Vine City in 1993, said she was concerned that Blank and others trying to revitalize the Westside had not done more to protect historic buildings, including King's home on Sunset Avenue.
She said that lawmakers have also failed to hold absentee landlords accountable for the condition of their properties and done nothing to protect residents from rising rents.
The troubles on the Westside date at least to the 1970s, when new highways isolated poor neighborhoods. In preparation for the 1996 Olympics, the city built the Georgia Dome — construction that created another barrier between the Westside and downtown. In 2002, rainstorms overwhelmed the area's aging sewage system, wiping out entire blocks that were never rebuilt.
Blank became aware of these problems that same year, when he bought the Falcons for $545 million. (The value of the team has nearly quadrupled, to $2.125 billion, according to Forbes, and will surely rise once the stadium opens.) His foundation made incremental investments in the Westside, but he truly began to focus on the neighborhood after 2013, when the team chose to build on the 18 acres just south of the Georgia Dome for the new stadium, which will open in July. The Georgia Dome, which opened in 1992, played host to two Super Bowls but was deemed unworthy as the venue for another one and will be torn down to make way for parking.
Despite some challenging topography, Blank picked the spot because it was next to two commuter rail stations and an easy walk from downtown and some 10,000 hotel rooms. But the Atlanta Falcons Stadium Company paid nearly $20 million to one church to move out, while the state bought out another church. He also hired Fernandez, a former football player at Harvard who helped disadvantaged families in Austin, Tex., to work with the community on a development plan.
Fernandez was surprised at the scale of the problems on the Westside and the apprehension of the residents who remember the unmet promises of the past.
Given the depths of the problems, Blank and Fernandez acknowledge that it will take decades to revitalize the Westside. But they point to some early successes.
Lloyd Foster, a former tattoo shop owner with a criminal background, learned how to use hand tools, read blueprints and follow safety standards at Westside Works. He now operates a freight elevator at the stadium and hopes to continue working there once the construction is complete.
Rolanda Gardner, another Westside resident, graduated from a culinary arts class in May and has landed a job as a baker at the convention center. She lost 30 pounds during the eight-week program, she said, because of the hectic schedule and a better understanding of nutrition. She also started her own catering business, which provides gluten-free meals to a preschool program.
Blank has also used the stadium itself to help; among other ways, by building a 680,000-gallon cistern to capture rainwater that might otherwise flood the local streets. Some of the team's construction partners have also contributed money or expertise: SunTrust has introduced low-cost check cashing in the area; IBM has donated software to neighborhood nonprofits; and employees from other sponsors are mentoring Westside residents to improve their job skills.
With his window down — all the better to smell if drugs are being used by those he passes — Officer Taylor shined his spotlight into backyards where drug dealers and prostitutes often work. Uber drivers and pizza deliverymen are routinely mugged here, and construction workers who park near the stadium have had their cars broken into, he said.
But he also sees potential, if it seems distant. People are starting to buy homes to fix up — not just to resell, but to live in, he said. And thanks to the construction of the stadium, more people are starting to realize that the worst may be over for the area.


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Q: Creating a timer in java I try to create a timer in java and show it on JFrame but when I comper my timer to my phone timer the timer in my phone is faster then my why?
I set the deley to 10 to every hundred of second in my timer.
This is the code only for the timer:
    import javax.swing.Timer;

    int min = 0, sec = 0, hundredSec = 0;

    timer = new Timer(10, new ActionListener()
    {
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
        {
            hundredSec++;

            if(hundredSec >= 99)
            {
                sec++;
                hundredSec = 0;
            }

            if(sec >= 59)
            {
                min++;
                sec = 0;
            }

            timerL.setText(String.format("%02d:%02d:%02d", min, sec, millisec));

        }
    });

Sorry for bad english.
Thanks in advance for answer.

A: I believe that your problem has to do with the third line of code. As the java API docs says: "The delay parameter is used to set both the initial delay and the delay between event firing, in milliseconds." This means that there is a 10 millisecond delay every time, which might be causing your delay. To fix that you can change the line of code to:
timer = new Timer(0, new ActionListener());

By changing 10 to 0 it would run instantly as opposed to slowly falling behind. I would recommend reading this article to learn more about timers.

A: The delay you pass into a Timer is just that, a delay before the event is queued, not an exact time that the event will perform.  While you can be sure that 10ms have passed since the last time the call was performed, you can't be sure that ONLY 10ms have passed.
You probably want something like this (with as little change to your code as possible; there are certainly different/more optimal ways to do this):
import javax.swing.Timer;

Date dt = new Date();

timer = new Timer(10, new ActionListener()
{
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
    {
        int min = 0, sec = 0, hundredSec = 0;

        long millisec = (new Date()).getTime() - dt.getTime();
        hundredSec = ( millisec / 10 ) % 100;
        sec = ( millisec / 1000 ) % 60;
        min = ( millisec / 60000 );

        timerL.setText(String.format("%02d:%02d:%02d", min, sec, hundredSec));

    }
});

There are a couple issues here (missing timerL declaration, and I fixed the millisec reference in the setText call), but they're the same as you had above, so I assume you're just posting a snippet.

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January 14, 2004 Arts & Culture » Culture
Cobo haul
Check out more of the amazing North American International Auto Show 2004 photos taken by Cybelle Codish.
It doesn't take long to detect someone's automobile IQ. Can they stand in front of an exposed engine and carry on a conversation about what they see for as long as three minutes? Do they become insufferable braggarts when they successfully replace a windshield wiper or measure tire pressure without the assistance of the corner mechanic? Suffering with such neophyte status does not preclude one from enjoying the products that the automotive industry provides. Especially when those things come covered in chocolate or are dispensed into pint glasses and espresso cups.
For six days, the press was allowed to preview the 2004 North American International Auto Show, held at Cobo Center in downtown Detroit. Reporters were invited to attend approximately 35 press conferences, invited to collect as many press kits as possible, encouraged to talk with a slew of vice-presidents-in-charge-of-something-or-other, and provided with a dizzying array of amenities not afforded the great unwashed who will swarm these halls through Jan. 19. This is one uninitiate's sojourn through the soft-carpeted halls and the gleaming, beaming floors of seduction, massage and swag. The story begins with a red and black badge and a shoe-shine man.
Sunday Jan. 4, 6:45 a.m. — The sun isn't out, yet it's bright as day in the lobby of Cobo Center. We've heard that if a reporter doesn't get here this early, he misses out on all kinds of stuff. What kind of stuff, we don't know. But we're here to document the storied process, the feeding frenzy. It's not very crowded right now.
We stand next to a shoe-shine stand.
"How 'bout a shine, my man?" the proprietor asks.
"Naw. That's too much of a luxury. Really can't afford it."
"You can always afford yourself a little luxury, my man," he says, smiling with the last eight teeth in his head.
Small groups of Japanese men sleepily mill about the "Credential Validation" stations located throughout the building. You have to show some identification and get your badge validated, otherwise you won't be allowed in when the show floor opens to the press at 10:30 a.m. We get validated. We get a wristband. We get in line at the press kit booth. There is only one man in front of us. We are incredibly satisfied with ourselves for getting here this early. We begin to imagine what treasures lie behind the black curtain that stretches before us. How will we carry it all?
7 a.m. — The press kit office opens. We're handed a canvas sack by a smiling young girl in a red T-shirt and instructed to help ourselves. A 40-foot-long row of wire mesh baskets sits atop some foldout tables. Within the baskets are stacks of folders, binders, CD cases. We start to deposit these shiny, handsomely constructed boxes into our bags.
"Where's all the stuff that the fourth-estaters are supposed to fight each other for? The toys and gizmos that show up on E-bay within hours?" we ask ourselves. We don't necessarily want the goods, we just want to see the jostling. There isn't a radio-controlled car or DVD player or even a key chain in these baskets. There isn't anything in the press kit room other than press kits! Now we've got 30 pounds of paper and plastic to lug around. There is none of the fabled jostling for trinkets and baubles in the press kit room. We have three hours before the show floor opens. We are incredibly dissatisfied with ourselves for arriving this early.
7:30 a.m. —We must find coffee. Nothing seems to be open. We walk up and down carpeting that says "COBO" every three feet. It's transfixing. Once you know it says "COBO" down there, you keep seeing it. "COBO" three feet "COBO" three feet "COBO" three feet. We are elated to find a white booth called "Sundries." The cashier sells us a couple of empty cups. "Coffee pot's over there," she says, pointing. We walk back into the hypnotic thrum of the "COBO" carpeting and we get to thinking "Don't you think they would at least have some coffee and doughnuts or something around here for us? That would be the first thing I would think of if I wanted to impress a bunch of journalists."
Between reading the carpet and grumbling about the three hours we have stretching before us, we happen upon a blue and white sign directing us upstairs to the "Michelin Media Center." Media Center. For media people. That's us, right? We've got red and black badges. We're validated! Anticipation as the escalator drags us toward the third floor.
7:45 a.m. — There is not only coffee and doughnuts; there are mini-bagels and little jars of jelly and cream cheese and apples and bananas and oranges and tea and bottled water and cans of Coke and juice. Not a cash register in sight! Thirty or so tables are spread out, white tablecloths draping to the floor. The other side of the room has couches and an espresso bar. Our disappointment at the press-kit room is replaced by the soft calm that a free breakfast provides. If you could smoke in here it would be perfect. We don't see any ashtrays. Who cares? Small price to pay.
We walk up to a desk that says "Press Information" and ask the smiling folk behind it if they know where any of the after-show parties may be. We hear there's plenty of after-show parties. "Ummmm … Let's see," a helpful young gal chirps as she fumbles with a laminated blue sheet in front of her. "Tonight, you've got The Firehouse right across the street, and GM is unveiling the Corvette at the Detroit Opera House, and … uh … uh …" fumbling with another laminated sheet, "I think there's something going on at Comerica Park. … Can you check back with me?"
On our way back to the table, we notice how bored everyone seems to be with all the food and comfort and painfully enthusiastic assistance provided by the good folks at Michelin. We're practically skipping toward the seat with the prospect of not having to shell out any money for this stuff, and they're eating and drinking and yawning like this happens every day. Undoubtedly it does.
8:30-10:25 a.m. — The media room is filling up. We hear German being muttered at a table to our right, wafts of French coming from the other direction. There are 6-foot-tall flags from at least 12 countries tacked all in a row on the back wall, and they all seem to be represented here this morning. If you listen closely you can hear Swedish and Italian and Japanese and Korean. "We Are the World" enjoying bagels and coffee. A poignant, deeply profound moment that makes me want a cigarette.
We leave the media center and make our way down to the freezing cold concrete and glass in front of the hall. We hear Swedish and Italian and Japanese as we smoke and stomp our feet from the chill that blows in off the Detroit River.
10:26 a.m. — We go over our schedule sheet as we wait near the Macomb Hall entrance for our first glimpse of the show floor. The first scheduled press event is the "North American Car and Truck Awards" held downstairs in Michigan Hall. We wonder if it will follow the framework of award shows we are more familiar with. Big opening musical numbers? Maudlin jubilation and phony sportsmanship? Videotaped tributes to all those who were taken by the Good Lord this year?
There are big men with nervous dogs on leashes all over the place. There are security people at every door, yellow jackets and metal detector wands displayed prominently. We wonder what kind of reception we will be afforded after we walk through security and we're finally inside. Will there be confetti? A brass band? Will they set off fireworks and shake all of our hands?
10:30 a.m. — No. They do not throw confetti at us or blast us with trombones and Roman candles. But the place is lit up — hundreds of spotlights and stage-lights and lights on the ground and lights on the ceiling and lights in all those colors you see on television commercials. Soft blues, muted oranges and reds, silver … silver … everything tinged with silver.
The assembled journos fan out in all directions, lugging their leather camera bags and monopods and beige canvas totes that are not filled with radio-controlled cars and bottles of champagne. Our nostrils are assaulted by fresh carpet vapors and, yes, that "new car smell." It smells like the plastic emissions that surge forth from anything that has been freshly emancipated from its shrink-wrap. The carpet is so new it tugs at our shoes if we let our feet drag even the slightest bit. We jerk forward clumsily about every 15th step.
The cars we can see as we head downstairs for the awards ceremony look like shimmering bubbles. They're rounded and edgeless and every one reflects the light show scientifically.
10:46-10:51 a.m. — "Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to introduce Bob Blagdorf, senior vice president of wire rims, and Blahdie BlahBlah, executive vice president of parts and operations central command, for participating in the selection of blah dee lala and Ferger Lint Brush for contributing in the most successful unit per trade ratio …"
It's unbearable. We came for cars, and we're craning our necks for this? It's way too early to be sitting through an awards ceremony. We don't know whom to root for anyway. These things are only watchable if you have a favorite. There are a lot of people, though, who are clapping and exchanging knowledgeable commentary. Overheard between two suits before we escape upstairs: "You guys did it again. I got to hand it to ya. You did it again!" As we head upstairs I hear the drone of the emcee announce that the F-150 won its category. Nice job, F-150!
10:52-11:45 a.m. —We have a little time before the Chrysler press conference and concept car unveiling and lunch, so we roam. There are people talking into headsets and chattering on cell phones everywhere you look. People with a purpose. They are heading quickly to someplace where they are needed desperately. You can't mosey along daydreaming around here. You'll get knocked down if you do. You'll be interrupting a flow that is churning up and down and between the different exhibits. People with gold and black badges and people with green and gold badges and orange badges and yellow badges, and everyone's got something hanging over their neck or clipped onto their polo shirt or suit coat lapel.
Our first stop is at the BMW exhibit. This showcase is pretty indicative of the rest of the exhibits we will see throughout the preview. Each one slopes upward from the main aisleway, again tripping those who don't pick up their feet. The floors around each vehicle shine with a hundred coats of wax.
A mezzanine above juts out a bit onto the display area. This mezzanine is for the car people, the industry people, and those people who have been invited to see the show by the car people and the industry people. They sup on buffets and hold flutes of liquid as they walk above the throng below. They are expensively attired and seem to be rather fit and trim. Almost every one of the exhibits has this fascinating accessory to the accompanying floor space and wandering spokespeople below. We can't take our eyes off these lofty lairs while traversing the floor. We suspect these are the people who attend the invitation-only after-parties that unfold each night at various locales downtown.
Every exhibit features huge light-emitting diode (LED) screens. Some have one or two of these monstrosities. Some have screens that stretch the entire length of their allotted display area. A technician for the company that provides these screens to the car companies for the show tells us that they lease for about $125,000 a week. It'll cost you $2 million if you want to purchase one outright.
The floor at Cobo Center is jammed full of them, each one blasting out images of their wares racing through countryside and city, through rain and fog and smoke. Trucks barreling through gullies and braving Armageddon. Cars competing with nobody as they roar through metropolis and winding mountain pass. All accompanied by either a pounding heartbeat techno-lite sound track or the exaggerated whoosh of a multi-woofered exhaust system. As you walk through each exhibit, they grab your eye and ear and encase you in millions of dollars of market research and lifestyle-promoting imagery. Each exhibit tries to convince you that you are "the rugged individual who can still appreciate the finer things in life" as the Jeep exhibit boldly asserts as you traipse along its fake grass, fake mountain and the computer-controlled fountain that can make pictures of stars and flags out of droplets of water.
A live jazz band set up near the Lincoln Town Car display sets a mellow and sophisticated mood. The display itself holds a Lincoln door that's been shot full of holes. Etched into the display case's glass: "The Town Car BPS has been tested extensively and offers protection against both handgun and high-powered rifle rounds. None of the rounds have penetrated the ballistic ceramic panel fitted to the interior of the door on the opposite side."
Are you the "Cool Dad," as Honda likes to describe its potential customers? Are you "responsible, practical, comfortable" but still maintain a fun and active lifestyle? Then you are a "Cool Dad," and you are ready for the Honda experience. You'll hear a lot of that on the floor. A Lexus experience. A Mercedes experience. Nobody here drives a car. They experience them. Or, apparently, get shot at in them.
11:46 a.m. — Chrysler's press conference is under way. The reporters sit and stand in a wide semicircle around a stage that emits little puffs of steam. A live band is positioned atop the backdrop of the stage, separated from us by a mesh of blue fabric. They're playing the theme from the "Mission Impossible" television show. That segues into "Mrs. Robinson," which segues into "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," which ultimately segues into "Live and Let Die."
As the mood-setting throbs of non-offensive rock wash over the assembled, we ask the reporter next to us what it's like to be on the automotive beat. His name is Tom Kelly and he's the editor/photographer/owner of a Charlotte, N.C., company called The Deadline Factory. He writes freelance articles and sells them to trade publications. His area of expertise is the heavy truck market. He's a second-generation automotive writer, his dad having worked for The Automotive News. Our conversation concerns itself with what the car companies would do swag-wise for guys like him and his father.
"My father had a term for it: the Bygone Era of Byzantine Opulence," Kelly says. "Back then, you could go to one of these things and practically walk out with a full set of luggage. Go to this exhibit and you'd get a leather briefcase. Go to this exhibit and you'd get a sports bag. It all depends on how the economy's doing. They've taken a pretty big hit last few years. Don't expect to see much of that stuff for a while."
What about cars? Can automotive writers snag a car?
"In the old days, what they did was to let you drive a car for six months or a year, and then they'd sell it to you as a used vehicle."
Our conversation gets cut short as Trevor Creed, senior vice president of design for the Chrysler Group, starts introducing the concept vehicles to us. They are as sleek and sci-fi as you'd expect them to be. Creed is kind of sleek and sci-fi too, with a long leather coat and an English accent. He introduces an anime short featuring one of his team's creations, the Treo. Anime. How specific a niche market is anime supposed to garner? The Treo is for all those dudes who hang out at video stores and collect things. This is their car. As the video ends, the car comes barreling onstage with a real-life version of the character that drove it in the film.
"Ladies and gentleman, our superhero is real! Thank you, Jackie!" Trevor excitedly pronounces as "Jackie" waves and runs off stage. It looks like a dune buggy and has two bicycles attached to it.
He introduces the Jeep Rescue, another concept vehicle. It's a Jeep that looks like it got Hummer-fied and comes with an optional "search and rescue" package. The tire pressure can be adjusted from inside the cab, and the vehicle comes with a 3-D topographical mapping system. It's guaranteed to "find the way, saving the day."
Our legs are wobbly from standing still for so long.
Dieter Zetsche, president and chief executive of the Chrysler Group, is introduced after all the concept cars take their bow. He congratulates the various design teams in a thick German accent.
"Today, vee showed you our idears. Tomorrow vee show you our realities. I want to invite everyone over to the Firehouse and I'll pour you a cold one tonight."
The Firehouse? He'll pour us a cold one? Sounds downright Byzantine.
1-5 p.m. — After Chrysler Group's lunch (which happens to include fancy round tins of imported chocolates), it's off to the rest of the press conferences. Ford's is held in Cobo Arena. We're led into the former rock palace and treated to the "pure American muscle" of the new Mustang, driven by Bill Ford himself. He seems nervous. A bit fidgety. He decides to let the "sheet metal do the talking," and we are treated to one of the loudest commercials we will ever hear. Using the soundtrack to the film Bullitt, the engineers at Ford tuned the new Mustang's exhaust to sound just like the Mustang that Steve McQueen drove in the movie. It's demonstrated for us. It's so loud it makes you wince. Can't wait to hear it on my block someday, competing with the $5,000 sound system that 19-year-old kid (target market?) will surely install at some point.
After the Honda press conference, which introduces the SUT (sport utility truck) concept to "Cool Dads" around the globe, we decide that following this herd around to every press conference is turning into one nasty little buzz-kill and is weighing down our already-overfilling totes with just more pretty press releases and CDs of photos. I decide to walk around and sample the giveaways at the remainder of the exhibits.
At the Jeep exhibit, I am pushed and elbowed while waiting in line for my Jeep Rescue matchbox car. This grown man actually took cuts in front of me. A grown man! We call the offending wretch a "fucking toy hog," but I think he's from Norway and doesn't understand the expression.
Infiniti and Nissan share a café that features Heineken beer, espresso machines, wine, chocolate-covered strawberries and baked goods.
Lexus offers massages and shoe shines and also features a well-stocked café.
Acura's passing out bags of chocolate-covered espresso beans.
GM's got coney dogs and Dove Bars and other frozen treats.
Land Rover has a bar located behind the soothing, negatively charged spectacle of a waterfall. It has bowls of macadamia nuts on the tables as well as on the bar itself.
"You know what? I know they're expensive and everything, but I just don't like 'em!" the bartender explains with a perky certitude. "They're too buttery. I do like them in white fudge, though."
Jaguar has a café.
Lincoln is dishing out hot fudge cream puffs featuring "real Sanders Hot Fudge."
Aston Martin doesn't seem to have anything, but they do feature official Aston Martin pill cases and a set of martini glasses in their display case.
Mini Cooper has smoothies and pinball and video games.
VW has computers and phones that reporters are free to use, Hot Sam pretzels and a dinner of salmon and what looked like beef tenderloin.
That is all available for someone just strolling around today with a red and black badge. Who knows what the real muckety-mucks get to sample, walking around their mezzanines all day? The mezzanine people, looking down on the black guys feather dusting one engineering marvel after another. The Mezzaniners, dripping wasabi onto sweating waifs scrubbing scuff marks off creamy white floors.
5:05 p.m. — The Firehouse is exactly that. The largest firehouse in the city, located just across the street from the auto show. The Chrysler Group leases the ground floor from the city, normally used as a parking garage for the Fire Department personnel who work upstairs. They hire a company to install a pub/restaurant in this location and open it up to anyone with media credentials. The place is gorgeous. Deep red wood furniture and cozy couches and chairs surround a central bar where Guinness and Pilsner Urquell and other brews flow throughout the night. There you'll find liquor and cigars and a bow-tied wait staff and a pretty decent selection of food, all compliments of the Chrysler Group. Fire Station Stew featuring a special "hunters sauce." Third Degree Wings. A Big Chief Burger with Onion Rings. The Captain's Catch and the Stop Drop and Roll sandwich. Johnnie Bassett and Thornetta Davis and Jazzhead are some of the acts booked for the week. Celebrity bartenders are featured, and raise money for firefighters' charities by passing a fireman's boot around while they serve. I watch Miss Michigan and Kwame Kilpatrick bartend as I slurp the cold one that Dieter promised. Club Envy next door is employed as a cigar/martini bar. The place could be an incredibly popular nightclub if it were available to the public all year round, but it is dismantled after the auto show ends.
I chat up an advertising guy for a major automobile magazine who tells me that none of this stuff — free food, free liquor, comped "test cars" — really affects how the automotive press treats the car companies.
"I get into this argument with people all the time," he boozily explains while blowing cigar smoke on my food. "All the big papers, Wall Street Journal and New York Times are always insinuating there's a quid pro quo. But I've never seen it. It's a real church-and-state issue as far as I'm concerned. Do you think some editor's gonna let some 22-year-old go to Japan and let a steak dinner and a blow job affect what he's there to report? It doesn't happen. All that schmoozing is five guys with suits on sitting around a hotel room drinking scotch. It's fucking boring, man. I'm not saying we don't hear shit from the companies once in a while. A guy'll come up to me and say, 'Hey, we didn't like what you said about such and such.' I tell him, 'Hey, you said your car did such and such and it doesn't do such and such.' It can be a real touchy issue sometimes."
He rejoins his posse of cigar-chomping compadres at the adjoining table.
This reminds me of something Tom Kelly told me earlier that day. He said there is a saying among automotive reporters.
No food. No booze. No ink for yooze.
But Kelly also thinks there is a lot less conflict of interest in this arena than in other parts of the press corps.
"Let me tell you what I think is a real conflict of interest," he says. "That's when a big financial reporter from a major publication in New York City gets flown down to Bermuda by some company just to deliver him their year-end financial report. Know what I'm saying? We don't have test tracks in our back yard. We need to get around to these places."
I meet another writer who sheds a bit more light on this murky issue. His name is Dan Ross and he's the creator of a "lifestyle" magazine in England called Intersection. It deals less with the nuts and bolts of bore strokes and compression ratios and more with how automobiles affect our lives, how they fit into a grander scheme socially and politically. He offers this perspective on the whole subject of the symbiotic relationship between automotive writers and the companies on which they report.
"Sure. Some companies want to send you to Morocco to test-drive a vehicle. But we're not critiquing something as subjective as, say, the fashion industry. I can see where someone could easily say that this piece of cloth is much more attractive than that piece of cloth based on how they might have been treated by a particular company. But we're reporting on something that either goes a certain speed or doesn't go a certain speed. That's what you report on. We actually help the design process by pointing certain things out to these companies. I mean, if something falls off a vehicle, it falls off the vehicle. We report that. A lot of times it's just laziness. A local reporter doesn't make much money, he's gonna go to Morocco and say whatever they want him to say. To him, it's a vacation. He doesn't give a bloody shit one way or another."
Kelly tells me that probably 90 percent of automotive reporters don't even own a vehicle. They are provided vehicles from the auto companies to test and report upon and rarely do they find themselves without one. Many automotive reporters drive a different car every week. Dan Ross compares it to travel reporting.
"Do you think a travel reporter is going to pay for their flights and their hotels at these resorts they stay in? Do you think they could afford it?" he asks.
A marriage. The reporter and his industry.
"The only other industry where you have this type of relationship is the entertainment industry," Ross says. "Automotive, travel, entertainment. They're good gigs. Everyone wants in.
"By the way, I want it to be known that I came on my own dime to Detroit. I'm staying at a shitty Ramada Inn and taking cabs."
He laughs, then explains that he's late for an appointment, leaving me to finish my pint.
Thanks for the cold one, Dieter. By the way, that Jeep Rescue is an utter rip-off of the Hummer, my man. That being said, I am available for any long-term road testing you may be planning for this particular vehicle. Never been to Morocco. We'll talk.
Check out more of the amazing North American Auto Show 2004 photos taken by Cybelle Codish. Dan DeMaggio is a frequent contributor to Metro Times. E-mail letters@metrotimes.com
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Iycee Charles de Gaulle Summary The Gender Pay Gap Essay
The Gender Pay Gap Essay
The pay gap between men and women has fallen quite dramatically over the past 30 years though a sizeable gap still remains, but this headline figure masks some less positive developments in recent years. We are used to each generation of women making progress relative to the one before, but this process has slowed slightly with the better than the previous one(Centre Piece Summer 2006). The gender pay gap measures the earning differences between women and men in paid employment in the labor market. It is one of many indicators of gender inequality in a country, when examining labor market participation in terms of gender (EC 2007).
The study "Global Employment Trends for Women" published by the International Labor Organization (ILO) in 2009 provides current information about the global gender pay gap. Assumptions about a decline or increase in the pay gap between women and men depend on the data available and differ in the subjects of study and country-specific wage and salary administration. Therefore a closer look should be taken at regional specificities. According to the ILO, progress in reducing the gender pay gap is very slow in Europe and Central Asia. In certain countries there has even been evidence of an increase in the difference.
REVIEW OF LITERATURE Two main reasons for the pay gap can be identified (UNDP 2006): direct gender, Discrimination, in labor markets and occupational segregation. Direct discrimination occurs When people who have the same level of educational attainment and work experience are treated differently because of their gender: different pay levels for the same work or different job requirements for the same pay level. Efforts and achievements in the field of direct discrimination have been made in many countries by passing laws or establishing supportive institutions.
The various forms of discrimination relating to occupational gender segregation are more subtle as well as more delicate to address with specific actions(Center Piece 2008). According to the ILO, women represent 40. 4 percent of the worldwide workforce. However, that proportion is not reflected when investigating occupational groups within the various sectors: 46. 3 percent of employed women work in the services sector, 35. 4 percent in the agricultural sector and only 18. 3 percent in the industrial sector (compared to 26. percent of employed men) (ILO 2009). The specific sectors in which women employees are the vast majority – secretaries, teachers and nurses – also are poorly paid work areas. And even within these jobs they are paid less than their male colleagues (IWPR 2009). This fundamental under-evaluation of women's work results basically from two facts. Firstly, women's primary responsibility for unpaid care work such as children, education and basic family services seems to channel them into similar working areas in the labor market (UNIFEM 2005).
Some researchers refer to differences in occupations between women and men as the selection effect (e. g. Petersen and Snartland, 2004). The selection effect implies not only that women choose certain kinds of occupations, but that employers are favoring men over women by not adapting the work environment to suit both genders. Secondly, the specific way in which work skills are attained plays an important role in to their financial evaluation: The gender pay gap exists is evident from a brief review of labor force statistics.
The National Women's Law Center (NWLC) declared that in the USA at the present rate of the gender pay gap the average woman had to work until April 2008 to make what the average man made by the end of 2007 ( NWLC, 2008). Evidence suggests a similar tendency in the European Union. For example, in the UK at the present rate of the gender pay gap the average woman who works full time would miss around $369,000 over her working life (BBC News, 2008). The existence of the gender pay gap almost all over the world has generated the need to better understand various factors contributing to it ( Blau and Kahn, 2006; Rubery et al. 2005). Auster (1989) has grouped the main explanations of the gender pay gap into two main categories: macro level, where women are seen as a homogeneous group, and micro level, which concentrates on psychological approaches viewing women as a heterogeneous diverse group. At the macro level, the focus is on economic theories, which provide explanations of the phenomenon based on such factors as differences in education, work experience, amount of starting salary as well as general explanations such as different types of discrimination.
Micro level explanations of the gender pay gap include such personal factors as individual preferences and forces, which change values and attitudes towards working conditions and compensation practices (Hakim, 2000). Gender Pay Gap Overtime Looking at the gender pay gap over time, the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee showed that as explained inequities decrease, the unexplained pay gap remains unchanged. Similarly, according to economists Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn and their research into the gender pay gap in the United States, a steady convergence between the wages of women and men is not automatic.
They argue that after a considerable rise in women's wages during the 1980s, the gain decreased in the 1990s. The 2000s are characterised by a mixed picture of increase and decline(www. wikipedia. com). Thus Blau and Kahn assume,"With the evidence suggesting that convergence has slowed in recent years, the possibility arises that the narrowing of the gender pay gap will not continue into the future. Moreover, there is evidence that although discrimination against women in the labor market has declined, some discrimination does still continue to exist. "(www. wikipedia. com).
A wide ranging meta-analysis by Doris Weichselbaumer and Rudolf Winter-Ebmer (2005) of more than 260 published adjusted pay gap studies for over 60 countries has found that, from the 1960s to the 1990s, raw wage differentials worldwide have fallen substantially from around 65 to 30% The bulk of this decline, however, was due to better labor market endowments of women (2005). The 260 published estimates show that the unexplained or discriminatory component of the gap has not declined over time. Using their own specifications, Weichselbaumer and Winter-Ebmer found that the yearly overall decline of the gender pay gap would amount to a slow 0. 7 log points, implying a slow level of convergence between the wages of men and women (American Progress 2012). According to economist Alan Manning of the London School of Economics, the process of closing the gender pay gap has slowed substantially and women could earn less than men for the next 150 years because of discrimination and ineffective government policies. A 2011 study by the British CMI revealed that if pay growth continues for female executives at current rates, the gap between the earnings of female and male executives would not be closed until 2109.
Factors Indentified Through Raw Gender Pay Gap Six factors that individually and collectively account for appreciable portions of the raw gender wage gap have been identified by researchers who have applied the first approach described above. The factors are: occupation, human capital development, work experience, career interruption, motherhood, and industry sector (American Progress 2012). Historically, men and women have worked in notably different occupations. As a result, the percentage of workers who are female varies greatly among occupations.
Researchers have used several terms to characterize this phenomenon, including occupational selection, occupational sorting, occupational segregation, and occupational crowding (2012). Women have functioned in occupations with relatively low wages (e. g. , teachers, nurses, secretaries, retail sales clerks) and men have disproportionately worked in occupations with comparatively high wages (e. g. , executives, managers, doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists), the average and median earnings of women in general has been much lower than the average and median earnings of men in general.
Many researchers have independently derived results in statistical analyses of different data sets that consistently indicate that the main factor accounting for the gender wage gap is differences between the occupations in which men and women typically work (Wikipedia. com). The data sets used in the analysis include data for different months and years from the Current Population Survey (CPS). Several researchers have concluded, based on the available evidence, that the narrowing of the gender wage gap is largely due to narrowing of the gap in human capital development between men and women. Blau & Kahn, 2000). Specifically, based on a comparison of data from the CPS for March 1975 and March 2000, research has demonstrated that, over that 25-year period, women have become more educated, have increased their rate of participation in and their attachment to the labor force, and have moved into jobs traditionally held mainly by men. These adjustments have raised the average pay of women and reduced the gender wage gap (Blau and Kahn 2000). Blau has found that the narrowing of the gender wage gap throughout the 1990s has been ccompanied by a visible trend toward equality between the wage structure among women and the wage structure among men. They note that these trends have been preceded by increasing admission of women to post-secondary educational institutions during the 1970s and 1980s, and by a concurrent redistribution of men and women among major academic disciplines which has resulted in women increasingly studying mathematics and science, and men increasingly studying health science and education.
They further note that the technological revolution that has occurred during the late 1980s and early 1990s has introduced computers into many industries, including especially white-collar industries in which women are more likely than men to have jobs that involve using computers. (Wikipedia. com). They therefore conclude that women have likely benefited excessively from the technological improvements relative to men, and that all of the observed trends in human capital development have contributed to shrinking the gender wage gap.
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package com.bumptech.glide.module;

import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat;
import static org.mockito.Matchers.eq;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.pm.ApplicationInfo;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
import android.os.Bundle;
import com.bumptech.glide.GlideBuilder;
import com.bumptech.glide.Registry;
import java.util.List;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.mockito.Mock;
import org.mockito.MockitoAnnotations;
import org.robolectric.RobolectricTestRunner;
import org.robolectric.annotation.Config;

@RunWith(RobolectricTestRunner.class)
@Config(manifest = Config.NONE, sdk = 18)
@SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
public class ManifestParserTest {
  private static final String MODULE_VALUE = "GlideModule";

  @Mock
  Context context;
  private ManifestParser parser;
  private ApplicationInfo applicationInfo;

  @Before
  public void setUp() throws PackageManager.NameNotFoundException {
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    applicationInfo = new ApplicationInfo();
    applicationInfo.metaData = new Bundle();

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    assertThat(parser.parse()).isEmpty();
  }

  @Test(expected = RuntimeException.class)
  public void testThrows_whenModuleNameNotFound() {
    addToManifest("fakeClassName");

    parser.parse();
  }

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  public void testThrows_whenClassInManifestIsNotAModule() {
    addModuleToManifest(InvalidClass.class);

    parser.parse();
  }

  @Test(expected = RuntimeException.class)
  public void testThrows_whenPackageNameNotFound() {
    when(context.getPackageName()).thenReturn("fakePackageName");

    parser.parse();
  }

  private void addModuleToManifest(Class<?> moduleClass) {
    addToManifest(moduleClass.getName());
  }

  private void addToManifest(String key) {
    applicationInfo.metaData.putString(key, MODULE_VALUE);
  }

  public static class InvalidClass {
  }

  public static class TestModule1 implements GlideModule {
    @Override
    public void applyOptions(Context context, GlideBuilder builder) {
    }

    @Override
    public void registerComponents(Context context, Registry registry) {
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object o) {
      return o instanceof TestModule1;
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
      return super.hashCode();
    }
  }

  public static class TestModule2 implements GlideModule {

    @Override
    public void applyOptions(Context context, GlideBuilder builder) {
    }

    @Override
    public void registerComponents(Context context, Registry registry) {
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object o) {
      return o instanceof TestModule2;
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
      return super.hashCode();
    }
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}

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package org.batfish.representation.vyos;

import java.io.Serializable;
import org.batfish.datamodel.EncryptionAlgorithm;

public class EspProposal implements Serializable {

  private EncryptionAlgorithm _encryptionAlgorithm;

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    return _encryptionAlgorithm;
  }

  public HashAlgorithm getHashAlgorithm() {
    return _hashAlgorithm;
  }

  public void setEncryptionAlgorithm(EncryptionAlgorithm encryptionAlgorithm) {
    _encryptionAlgorithm = encryptionAlgorithm;
  }

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    _hashAlgorithm = hashAlgorithm;
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FIG Council
Facing the Challenges - Building the Capasity
Vice President G. K. (Ken) Allred,
G. K. (Ken) Allred, ALS, CLS
Date of birth December 30, 1940
Nationality Canadian
Status Married to Marge, 3 children, Mark, Paul and Keith
Ken Allred was commissioned as an Alberta Land Surveyor in 1965 and a Canada Lands Surveyor in 1968, subsequent to graduation from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in 1961 with a diploma in Land Surveying.
His domestic employment has taken him across Western Canada and into the Mackenzie River valley of the Northwest Territories. He has been employed by municipal, provincial and federal levels of government, in resource exploration with Mobil Oil Canada, and with a private practice firm. He was Surveyor to the Land Titles Office with the Alberta Attorney General's department from 1972 until 1977, and Executive Director and Registrar of the Alberta Land Surveyors' Association from 1977 until 1991. He also served as an Adjunct Professor of Cadastral Studies in the Department of Geography at the University of Alberta from 1984 until 1992. Mr. Allred is currently self-employed specializing in the Settlement of Boundary Uncertainties including arbitration and mediation of boundary and other related disputes. He has also been an advisor to the Government of Armenia on Land Registration.
He served as the Alberta Director on the Canadian Council of Land Surveyors from 1977 to 1986, holding the positions of Secretary-Treasurer, Vice President, and President. He was also involved with the CCLS in the areas of continuing education, professional liability insurance and distance learning. Ken recently completed a term as president of the Alberta Land Surveyors' Association.
Mr. Allred has been a member of the Canadian Institute of Geomatics (formerly Canadian Institute of Surveying) since 1961. He has served on the Editorial Board for the Canadian Surveyor (now Geomatica) and chaired the Canadian National Committee to FIG.
Ken has served as the Canadian delegate on Commission 1 - Professional Practice for the Federation Internationale des Géomètres (FIG) from 1981 until 2005. He was elected chair of Commission 1 for the term 1994 - 1998. Ken served on the organizing committee for the FIG Symposium on the Decision Maker and LIS in Edmonton in 1984. He also served on the FIG Task Forces on the Exchange of Surveying Personnel; on Constituting Professional Associations; and on Cultures and Languages. He has been a regular attendee at FIG congresses since 1977. He was elected as a Vice President of FIG for the term 2005-08.
Mr. Allred served as Editor of ALS News, the quarterly publication of the Alberta Land Surveyors' Association, and the CCLS Newsletter, an annual publication. He has served on the Editorial Board of the Canadian Surveyor and Terravue. He has contributed articles to the Canadian Surveyor, CISM Journal, Terravue, The Professional Surveyor (USA) and The Australian Surveyor. He has presented papers at numerous conferences in Canada and around the world.
Ken is the author of Chapter 11 - The Surveying Profession in the Canadian textbook, Survey Law in Canada.
Mr. Allred served for 15 years as an Alderman with the City of St. Albert. He has been extensively involved in urban and regional planning as a civic representative on planning and development boards. He served as chair of the Edmonton Metropolitan Regional Planning Commission and the City of St. Albert Municipal Planning Commission. He also served as a Trustee on the Sturgeon General Hospital Board.
Ken has received numerous awards throughout his lifetime including:
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology - Gold Executive Award - in recognition of outstanding services
Alberta Land Surveyors' Association - Professional Recognition Award - for perseverance, intellect and idealism towards developing a dynamic professional association, serving in the best public interest.
Letter of Appreciation - Minister of Forestry, Lands and Wildlife (Alberta) - for playing a significant role as the interface between my Department and the self governing surveying profession.
Champlain Award - Canadian Council of Land Surveyors - for outstanding contribution in promoting and advancing the profession of land surveying.
Honorary Membership - Association of Nova Scotia Land Surveyors
Leader's Service Award - in Recognition of Outstanding Volunteer Service with the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
Ken is currently a member of the Metis Settlements Appeal Tribunal, Health Professions Advisory Board and the Automobile Insurance Dispute Resolution Committee, all Alberta government appointments.
Major Presentations and Publications
Marketing the Profession – Some Strategies that Work. Presented at the FIG Working Week 2005 / GSDI-8 Conference, Cairo, Egypt, April 16-21, 2005.
Slides of this presentation
Survey Art – An Interesting Subject. Presented at the FIG Working Week 2005 / GSDI-8 Conference, Cairo, Egypt, April 16-21, 2005.
Underground Facilities - The Need for Accurate Records in an Expanding Society - International Federation of Surveyors - Jakarta, Indonesia - October, 2004
Practice Review - The Professional Coach - International Federation of Surveyors - Athens, Greece - May, 2004
The Professional Association - Guardian of the Public Interest. Presented at the XXII Congress of the International Federation of Surveyors - Washington, D.C .- April, 2002
The Principles of Ethics - Presented at the 6th South East Asian Surveyors Congress, Perth, Australia, November, 1999.
Ethics for the Global Surveying Community - Presented to the XXI Congress of the International Federation of Surveyors, Brighton, UK, July, 1998. Published in The Australian Surveyor, Vol.43, No.3, p. 153-156.
A Tale of Two Countries - Co-authored with John Parker - Presented to the Council of Surveyors of South Africa, August, 1997.
Alberta Metis Settlements Land Tenure. Presented to the Council of Surveyors of South Africa iKUSASA Conference on Informal Settlements - Durban, S.A.- August, 1997.
Maintaining Professional Competency. Presented to the International Federation of Surveyors, Singapore, 1997; and the Council of Surveyors of South Africa, August, 1997. Published in Geomatica, Volume 52-4
The Surveyor as a Public Officer. Presented to the Federation Internationale des Géomètres XX Congress, Melbourne, Australia, March, 1994
Professional Ethics Seminar, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic - 1995
Ethical Considerations in Surveying and Mapping. Presented to the International Right of Way Association, Calgary, Alberta. 1993
The Canadian Surveying Profession. Presented to The Society of Land Surveyors of Iowa, Ames, Iowa. 1992.
Optimization in Cadastral Survey Education. Presented by Fred Cheng (co-author) to the Xlll North American Surveying Teachers' Conference, Banff, 1990.
This Business of Surveying . Published in the Professional Surveyor, Vol. ll-5 and the CISM Journal, Vol. 46-4. Presented to the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors Annual Meeting, Ottawa, 1990.
The Professional Survey Association and Its Role in Protecting the Public Interest of a Nation - Presented in absentia by C. H. Weir, to the Centenary Conference of the Institute of Surveyors of New Zealand (1988).
The Real Property Report - The Early Aftermath (co-author). Published in the proceedings of the Canadian Bar Association (Alberta Branch) 1988 mid-winter meeting, and the CISM Journal Vol. 43-1.
Professional Ethics - The Missing Link to a Complete Education. Published in the Canadian Surveyor, Vol. 39-4. Presented to: Colloquium on Surveying and Mapping Education, University of New Brunswick, June 1985; FIG XVIII Congress, Toronto 1986
Survey Law in Canada (Chapter ll - The Surveying Profession) - Carswell, Toronto, 1989.
Proceeding of the Second User's Conference on Land Information Systems (editor and organizer), Edmonton, 1982.
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Q: Ant ReplaceRegExp Questions I'm new to the ReplaceRegExp function in Ant, and have some questions.
Here is my use case.
I have multiple .xml files, which I need to manipulate in specific ways.
Here is one example of the .xml contents:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ApexClass xmlns="http://soap.sforce.com/2006/04/metadata">
    <apiVersion>29.0</apiVersion>
    <packageVersions>
        <majorNumber>1</majorNumber>
        <minorNumber>1228</minorNumber>
        <namespace>prefix1__FirstNamespace</namespace>
    </packageVersions>
    <packageVersions>
        <majorNumber>2</majorNumber>
        <minorNumber>4</minorNumber>
        <namespace>prefix2__TheNextNamespace</namespace>
    </packageVersions>
    <packageVersions>
        <majorNumber>7</majorNumber>
        <minorNumber>542</minorNumber>
        <namespace>prefix3__AnotherNamespace</namespace>
    </packageVersions>
    <status>Active</status>
</ApexClass>

How can I update the the  &  attributes of the  only where the  attribute contains the prefix "prefix3"?
I've tried this function, hoping to change the  attribute to the value specified by ${correctMinorNumber}:
<target name="setminorNumber">
    <replaceregexp  flags="gis"
                    match="<minorNumber>?(.*)</minorNumber>?(.+?)<namespace>prefix3__</namespace>"
                    byline="false"
        >
        <substitution expression="<minorNumber>${correctMinorNumber}</minorNumber>
		<namespace>prefix3__</namespace>"/>
        <fileset dir="${sf.retrieveFolder}">
            <include name="**/*.xml"/>
        </fileset>
    </replaceregexp>
</target>

It worked correct on files where there was only one <packageVersion> node (with prefix3__ in the namespace), but on files containing multiple <packageVersion> nodes it replaces all nodes with one prefix3__ node. I'm guessing the problem lies with my use of the wildcard, but I don't know enough about replaceregexp to identify the correct solution.
Any ideas on what I can do to achieve what I need to do?
Any help appreciated.

A: Parsing XML with regular expressions is fraught with problems and best avoided.
Instead, consider using XMLTask. It's an Ant task dedicated to parsing and modifying XML.
Download xmltask.jar and put it in the Ant lib directory.
Below is part of an Ant script. It identifies <minorNumber> elements that are siblings of <namespace> elements where the <namespace> elements have a text node starting with the string prefix3__. It then replaces the text node under the <minorNumber> element:
<taskdef name="xmltask" classname="com.oopsconsultancy.xmltask.ant.XmlTask" />

<xmltask dest="${dest.xml-file}">
    <fileset file="src.xml"/>
    <replace
        path="//:packageVersions[starts-with(:namespace/text(), 'prefix3__')]/:minorNumber/text()"
        withText="${correctMinorNumber}"
    />
</xmltask>

This script assumes that the XML is in a file named src.xml and a property named dest.xml-file points to where the modified of XML should go.


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January 12, 2021 by AfroGamer
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For me, the best part of Destiny 2 is the polished gameplay.
January 8, 2021 by AfroGamer
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Goldeneye 007 is without a shadow of a doubt one of the absolute greatest video games to have ever been made because of the fact that it was absolutely FIRE.
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There's no reason your player—as powerful as your build them—is stopped from progressing forward because there are pots in the floor. As a matter of fact, we usually just…walk through stuff that falls from counters, tables, or trash in general. Not in this game. These pots and pans are solid. That broken lamp is unmoveable. It's not game breaking but it is extremely annoying.
December 28, 2020 by AfroGamer
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How about those of us who love action? You're in luck, The Venture Bros has a lot of that as well. Because Dr. Venture operates in the private sector repairing complex equipment, he flies close to the intelligence community while being a part of the military industrial complex.
Pair that with the constant threat of attacks from supervillains. His best friend and bodyguard Brock—and later Sergeant Hatred—is needed to clean house. The guy is a beast, a killing machine, even. Usually the action packed part of an episode comes in when an experiment, job, or even a date goes south either because Rusty and Dean, something Rusty forgot to do, or just outside interference.
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Once those films dropped, that all changed and now the benched players were delivering highly-rated films. Marvel was swimming in money. Meanwhile, two of the three A-tier players were mostly dropping the ball as far quality films but still generating hundreds of millions.
With that, The Avengers, Captain America, and Iron Man became A-tier players and that was reflected in the comics and other media.
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I love martial arts manga and manhua as we've established. While there are a lot of manga out there about martial arts, the South Korea and Chinese martial arts manhua/manhwa are a different beast. Let's look at seven more martial arts manga (or manhua/manhwa) to check out!
It's a fun read for fans of Marvel Comics' mutant franchises or if you fancy yourself a bit of a historian and want to check out the writing and style from this period in comics.
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In the last encounter of the story, Judge Death has already started reviving—or reanimating—his body. Dredd comes out of nowhere and blasts the skeleton to fragments! Death is annoyed and goes to escape but Dredd has the room sealed off tight. His foe returns to Anderson's mind, aiming to kill Dredd only to get sprayed with something call "Boing" which encased her in an unescapable bubble. This meant Judge Death couldn't' escape either.
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Imagine a world without the Star Wars: Clone Wars animated stuff alone. You're looking at a dormant franchise with wasted merchandising and spin-off potential.
What I loved about it is that the series was serial. Everything tied in and the story advanced. This wasn't a wacky-zany cartoon. It had a story. That's how Valerie Gray was introduced into the world of Danny Phantom and what a surprise when it you heard it was Cree?
She's a true industry pro who is always in demand. Her voice is one of the standout voices in North American animation. That means that she stays busy and you've probably heard her in a game you've played or a cartoon you've watched this week!


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Triple-Gene Announces Presentation at Upcoming Biotech Showcase Investor Conference
- Company to Discuss First Multigenic Investigational Therapeutic Candidate for Treatment of Heart Failure -
Triple-Gene LLC
GERMANTOWN, Md., Jan. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Triple-Gene LLC, a clinical stage cardiovascular gene therapy company, today announced that Thomas D. Reed, PhD, Co-Founder, will present at the Biotech Showcase on January 15th, 2020 at 11:30AM PT at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square.
Triple-Gene's investigational therapy INXN-4001 for the treatment of heart failure comprises a multigenic plasmid designed to constitutively express human S100A1, SDF-1α, and VEGF165 gene products, which affect progenitor cell recruitment, angiogenesis, and calcium handling, respectively. The non-viral plasmid therapy targeted at addressing the underlying molecular mechanisms of pathological myocardial remodeling is delivered via Retrograde Coronary Sinus Infusion (RCSI), which allows for cardiac-specific delivery to the ventricle.
The Company recently completed enrollment in its Phase I trial (clinical trial identifier: NCT03409627) of INXN-4001. Dr. Reed's presentation will highlight the advantages of Triple-Gene's approach and preliminary data from the Phase I study.
About Triple-Gene
Triple-Gene LLC is a clinical stage gene therapy company focused on advancing targeted, controllable, and multigenic gene and cell therapies for the treatment of complex cardiovascular diseases. The Company's lead product is a non-viral investigational gene therapy candidate that drives expression of three candidate effector genes involved in heart failure. Triple-Gene is a majority owned subsidiary of Intrexon Corporation* (NASDAQ: XON) founded by Amit Patel, MD, MS, and Thomas D. Reed, PhD, Founder and Chief Science Officer of Intrexon. Learn more about Triple-Gene at www.3gtx.com.
*Intrexon Corporation announced on January 2, 2020 that it will refocus the company on healthcare, will change its name to Precigen, Inc., and has appointed Helen Sabzevari, PhD, as President and CEO. The parent company will continue to hold, among its several health assets, majority interest in Triple-Gene's discovery and clinical stage technology and programs.
Some of the statements made in this press release are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based upon our current expectations and projections about future events and generally relate to our plans, objectives and expectations for the development of our business. Although management believes that the plans and objectives reflected in or suggested by these forward-looking statements are reasonable, all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and actual future results may be materially different from the plans, objectives and expectations expressed in this press release.
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About Komono
Named after the Japanese word for "small things," Komono hones in on the minute details of the things around us—music, art, and nature—to craft its unique aesthetic. In the five years since the company was founded by Belgians Anton Janssens and Raf Maes, Komono has developed a devoted following around the world for its unique sunglasses and watches. Komono's fans, known as "Komonoists," appreciate the brand's blurring of boundaries between the classic and the new, between design and fashion, between male and female, between minimalism and color, between accessories and lifestyle.
But Komono's products are about more than just looks; sunglasses are equipped with details such as high-quality optical hinges and UV 400 protection, while its watches are crafted from durable materials and are water-resistant to 30 meters. Another remarkable feature of Komono accessories is that they are affordably priced, enabling everyone to bring beautiful "small things" into their lives.


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Prime Minister welcomes new parliamentary secretaries
OTTAWA, ON, Dec. 3, 2021 /CNW/ - The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced a new team of parliamentary secretaries.
This team will be an important link between ministers and Parliament, working closely with their colleagues to find real solutions to the challenges that Canadians face, as we finish the fight against COVID-19 and build a better future for everyone. Together, we will work to create new jobs and grow the middle class, put home ownership back in reach for Canadians, accelerate the fight against climate change, deliver on $10-a-day child care, and continue to walk the shared path of reconciliation.
The new parliamentary secretaries are appointed as follows:
Gary Anandasangaree becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
Vance Badawey becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Indigenous Services
Jaime Battiste becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations
Terry Beech becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
Rachel Bendayan becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Tourism and Associate Minister of Finance
Chris Bittle becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Canadian Heritage
Élisabeth Brière becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and Associate Minister of Health
Paul Chiang becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion (Diversity and Inclusion)
Julie Dabrusin becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change
Pam Damoff becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Safety
Francis Drouin becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
Terry Duguid remains Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change
Greg Fergus remains Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury Board
Andy Fillmore becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry
Darren Fisher becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Seniors
Peter Fragiskatos becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Revenue
Anthony Housefather becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Services and Procurement
Yvonne Jones becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Northern Affairs
Mike Kelloway becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard
Annie Koutrakis becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Transport
Irek Kusmierczyk remains Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion
Marie-France Lalonde becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
Stéphane Lauzon becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Rural Economic Development
Soraya Martinez Ferrada becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion (Housing)
Bryan May becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence
Yasir Naqvi becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada and Minister of Emergency Preparedness
Jennifer O'Connell becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Infrastructure and Communities
Rob Oliphant remains Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ya'ara Saks becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Families, Children and Social Development
Darrell Samson remains Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence
Marc G. Serré becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Official Languages
Terry Sheehan becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Labour
Maninder Sidhu becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs
Jenna Sudds becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth
Anita Vandenbeld becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Development
Adam van Koerverden becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Sport
Arif Virani becomes Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business and Economic Development
The Prime Minister announced that Mr. Fergus and Mr. Oliphant will be sworn in as members of the Privy Council.
The Prime Minister also announced the following appointments. Under the leadership of the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, Mark Holland, and the Chief Government Whip, Steven MacKinnon, the following team will work with all parliamentarians to make progress on the priorities that matter most to Canadians:
Kevin Lamoureux will continue to serve as Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Mark Gerretsen will serve as Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons (Senate)
Sherry Romanado will serve as Deputy Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
Ruby Sahota will serve as Deputy Government Whip
This new team of parliamentary secretaries brings the diverse knowledge, experience, and skills needed to carry out the Government of Canada's progressive plan and support the unique needs of people and regions across the country. They will help advance new legislation, engage directly with Canadians on key initiatives, and represent the government at home and abroad.
"Canadians across the country have chosen to keep Canada moving forward, from finishing the fight against COVID-19 to getting the job done on $10-a-day child care. This talented and diverse team of parliamentary secretaries will work tirelessly with their ministers and colleagues to deliver on these priorities and build a better future for all Canadians."
— The Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada
Parliamentary secretaries are chosen by the Prime Minister to assist ministers.
The responsibilities of parliamentary secretaries generally fall into two broad categories: House of Commons business and department-related duties.
Parliamentary secretaries are not members of Cabinet and do not play a formal role in the Cabinet decision-making process. They support their ministers, but overall responsibility and accountability remains with the minister.
Parliamentary Secretaries
Guide for Parliamentary Secretaries
Party Leaders and House Officers
This document is also available at https://pm.gc.ca
SOURCE Prime Minister's Office
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Q: How to properly store Git files for multiple IDEs? I use multiple IDEs in different PCs, these are VS13/15/17, Eclipse, Netbeans, and they all create project files for a new one.
If I didn't like to create new project on a new PC for one code, could I keep all the project files on one repository? If so, how do I organise them to prevent misunderstandings in working tree?

A: I am not sure I got the question well, your IDEs create files (e.g. .idea file, or .sln file) in your project and it creates issues if you, for example, clone your project on another PC?
I think IDE files are developer specific and not project specific. Therefore I prefer adding them in a .gitignore file. So that if I use another editor, and it creates some files it needs, it does not affect the repository.
If you don't want to have to think about it every time, you can have a global .gitignore:
git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore-global

Here, the path ~/.gitignore-global is just an example, you can choose another name.
And in it you add the IDE files you want to ignore. So all in your projects, they will be ignored by Git and will stay local to your environment.
I hope it will help.

A: There are two problems with storing IDE project files in source control.
First, the IDE files tend to be a mix of project data and user-specific data, and you'd need to commit only the former while omitting the latter.  This is easily done for some IDE's but not for others, and in any case the knowledge of how is IDE-specific.
Second, if multiple IDE's are used for the same project (by different users, or on different machines), then you end up with two sets of project files that can easily fall out of sync.  (I'm not talking about the case where everyone always uses VS for this part of the code, and everyone always uses Idea for that part of the code; I mean if Alice uses Idea for and Bob uses Eclipse for the same part of the code.)
As I understand your question, it seems like you have the latter problem.  In that case, you should see if you can find an IDE-neutral tool that can manage the project description, from which the individual IDE's can import it.  Then you can source-control just the IDE-neutral project description.  If that's not possible, then you may need to look into whether you can standardize on one IDE per module, at least to the extent of "this is the one managing the canonical project description, so if you want to use something else, you're on your own to import/export that info to your IDE as your IDE files won't be source controlled".
Even if each project is managed in one and only one IDE, there may still be benefits to using a project definition that isn't tied to the IDE where possible, but in that case you at least have the option of consulting your IDE docs to see what should, and what should not, be put in source control.