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Singer/rapper, songwriter and musician born Robert Ritchie in 1971, from Romeo Michigan.
As a teenager, Ritchie became interested in music, particularly rap and hip hop. He taught himself how to rap and to DJ, as well as how to play the guitar, keyboards and drums. When he was DJ-ing at clubs, the predominantly black crowd would say that they liked watching "that white kid rock." Soon, Ritchie adopted Kid Rock as his stage name (today, he says that he hates the name – it was cool when he was 16, but as he approaches 50 years old, he says he has "the worse name in the world"). In the late 80s, he joined a hip hop group called The Beast Crew. In 1988, he met rapper D-Nice, who was impressed by Kid Rock, and D-Nice invited him to open for shows that D-Nice's group was performing. A Detroit-based producer met Kid Rock, and was impressed by his performances. The producer helped him make some demo tapes, which led to a record contract at the age of 17.
Kid Rock's debut album, Grits Sandwiches for Breakfast, was released in 1990. It made Kid Rock more popular in Detroit, but outside of Michigan, he was still unknown.
He further developed his sound with his next 2 albums in 1993 and 1996 – The Polyfuze Method and Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp. His music evolved to a rock sound, with more singing, while still incorporating elements of rap. These albums increased his persona locally, but he still did not have a national breakout. His live shows became extravagant, with pyrotechnics, dancers and a light show. He was known for partying with drugs and alcohol, but still was focused enough to promote his brand.
His breakout happened with 1998's Devil Without a Cause. By now, his sound was predominantly hard metal rap rock, with a hint of country. His stage persona had evolved to a "pimp redneck" which played well to live audiences with the songs from this album. The album peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200 album chart, and was certified 11x platinum. The biggest hits from the record were Cowboy (#10 on the Mainstream Rock chart) and Only God Knows Why (#5 on the same chart, and #19 on the Hot 100 chart – this song was Kid Rock's first power ballad). He was nominated for a Grammy for Best New Artist, even though he had been in the industry for 10 years.
In 2000, he released The History of Rock, which featured re-recorded and remixed versions of songs from The Polyfuze Method and Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp, as well as a new track, American Bad Ass. Another metal song, American Bad Ass made it to #20 on the Mainstream Rock chart. The album sold well, and was certified 2x platinum.
His 4 album releases from 2001 to 2010 were his biggest successes. All were certified platinum, with Cocky reaching 5x platinum, and Rock n Roll Jesus reaching 3x platinum. The big hit from Cocky was his duet Picture. Two versions were released – one featuring Sheryl Crow, and one featuring Allison Moorer as his duet partner. It reached #4 on the Hot 100 in 2002. Rock n Roll Jesus included his biggest hit, All Summer Long. It was a #1 song in Europe and Australia, #23 on the Hot 100, and a top 10 song on several other U.S. charts, including his first song to chart on the Hot Country Songs chart. It heavily samples Warren Zevon's Warewolves of London as well as Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama, giving the song a special appeal to many classic rock fans.
He has released 3 albums since 2012. His music on these records was largely in a country music style. Singles from these more recent albums have sold modestly. Over his career, he has collaborated with many artists – he has nearly 70 songs where he has been a featured artist, across genres including country, rap, metal, hard rock, and even R&B and jazz.
Kid Rock has had plenty of controversy in his career. He doesn't worry about being politically correct, and often his comments lead to protests. That said, he is a philanthropist, supporting many causes, especially supporting the U.S. military.
Want a great song for a party? All Summer Long is perfect. How can anyone not love this song? Here's the video.
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I have and always will be, a fan of simple things.
With that being said, I am also a huge devotee of classic colour combinations and modern aesthetics. When putting together an outfit, I try to keep in mind that the key and secret to a well-dressed man is simplicity. There are times when I love to go all out and wear clothing that is striking in colour and flamboyant in structure but the rest of the time? I prefer simply put together, tailored to perfection ensembles.
Just like the norms we abide by in our day to day lives, fashion too has a critical side. No, this isn't something that you need to study and struggle through. The basic fundamentals of fashion can be simply categorized into colour, patterns, textures and silhouettes. When all four principles come together we find ourselves with a perfectly balanced and ever so stylish outfit.
It's vitally important to know how to combine the right colours in your clothing — it helps to introduce both variety and individuality to your wardrobe. My personal favourite colour combination without a doubt has to be- beige and blue! This combination is very versatile and, can create a perfect look for any formal occasion. Blue is known to give a refreshing and light feel when worn, and when paired with beige or tan it becomes the perfect contrast colour that doesn't steal the show but rather, complements the subtilty of blue. You can also opt to wear formal brown/tan leather shoes with this fabulous colour combination.
In this look, I have paired a white button-down shirt with a light blue pinstripe tie, slim fit denim, a tan brown belt, a beige blazer and tan brown leather formal shoes. This look can be worn to meetings, normal days at the office or even for a casual evening occasion.


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French May, Hong Kong - May 2015
La musique regardée 1: art and cinema
Curated by Pascale Cassagnau (CNAP) and Anne Laure Chamboissier
The parallel and shared histories of modern art and contemporary art—with photography, film, video and television—have been forever interwoven, placing art under the camera's eye, meeting time's requirements. Here we may recall the extremely relevant encounter between film and art through the documentary film made in 1966 by Brian de Palma about modern art, The Responsive Eye. Preparing a programme of films about contemporary art, understood in its wider context, involves encounters of subjects, fields, and areas of expression aimed at highlighting the task of art. From this angle, the encounter between music and film traces an arena rich in unusual works. The films of Pierre Bastien,Charles de Meaux, Cédric Eymenier, Valéry Grancher, Bernard Joisten, Romain Kronenberg, Ange Leccia and Dania Reymond attest to the wealth and diversity of film work in France.
Hong Kong Art Center
2 Harbour Road
MAY 11th MONDAY
7pm to 8pm
Bernard Joisten, La société des items, 2014, 30'
With the support of : Commission du mécénat de la Fondation Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques.
Bernard Joisten is a video-maker, painter, writer and film critic, who is forever shifting his areas of experimentation, from text to sound, from painting to film, and video. Empire, Les Aventures, Crystale, and La société des items are all applications of interactive narratives. Like a collector, the artist compiles and samples a set of images in different styles and chords which evoke memories of TV films, advertisements, clips and films. These materials represent a grid of hypotheses for the narrative. Places, spaces and views of landscapes are organized in a random way based on a set of narrative shifters: adverbs of time and place punctuate the narrative weft, talking in different ways about the possibilities of fiction. For some years now, Bernard Joisten has been visiting and re-visiting contemporary Japanese culture, looking for sources of inspiration. The film La Société des items is inspired by the Japanese urban landscape and the architecture of the media which form it, once again moving his pictorial world into its broader and
"design-oriented" context.
Pierre Bastien, Reviver, 2015, 20'
Commissioned by the CNAP, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris
Reviver is an audiovisual composition made of dozens of short excerpts from old music films. It mixes found footage technics and superimposition and collage. Although it uses exclusively ancient material, the piece is strongly influenced by contemporary electronic
music or electronica: the sequences are edited, sampled, looped, and their sound is sometimes transposed, enhanced or filtered for musical purpose. Paradoxically, this 20 mn video piece does not bear any resemblance to some sort of VJing. Here image and sound are inseparable. Visuals are not adorning sounds: they are the sounds. The piece revives hundreds of performers from the past, known and unknown, and bring them all into a common hybrid and planetary composition.
8.30pm to 9.32 pm {{}}
Ange Leccia, A Perfect Day, 2007, 62'
Produced by : Camera Lucida
All Ange Leccia's films respond to a recording logic peculiar to the clip—that kind of "sound track of life", as Peter Szendy put it in Tubes. A Perfect Day is a montage—a reconstruction of a set of clips—, sequences filmed over the years and here re-visited. In its turn, the film produces a second memory, a sort of temporal layer, which underscores the effect of nostalgia and the recollection relating to listening to disks. Alain Baschung's Avec le temps/With Time is a remake of Léo Ferré's song. Another sequence includes Elie Medeiros's song accompanying a long tracking shot of a Corsican landscape filmed at night. This song which accompanies the vague and dark landscape seems to be the memory of another time: sound and image form a structure referring to their ancient doubles, giving rise to an effect of melancholy, peculiar to any musical hit being listened to.
9.34 to 10.04pm {{}}
Cédric Eymenier, P#12 Tokyo, 2005/2008, 30'
Soundtrack : Akira Rabelais, Oren Ambarchi, Taylor Deupree,
The artist and musician Cédric Eymenier combines photographs, videos, collages, acoustic installations and projections. Tokyo is the twelfth opus of the Platform project which, to date, includes 13 films made in very precise neighbourhoods in one or two metropolises selected for their modernity and their architectural complexity. But the architecture is not film for its own sake, rather it acts as a context. These places are mainly crossroads, different thoroughfares where flows are frequent and varied, and where the host of micro-events is recorded in a single static shot. Each sound track is an original work by a musician involved in the international experimental scene. During the filming, sounds in the environment are caught and removed, with the musician adding his own music to them. This procedure thus makes it possible to keep a foothold in reality while proposing a re-interpretation of the acoustic landscape. For Tokyo, the artist worked with Akira Rabelais (USA), Oren Ambarchi (USA), and Taylor Deupree (Australia).
MAY 12th TUESDAY
7pm to 8.06pm {{}}
Charles de Meaux, Marfa's Mystery Lights, 2006, 66'
Produced by : Mike Luba-Michael Gramaglia; With the support of : CNAP; Original Soundtrack : The Secret Machines Live concert audio
Charles de Meaux is involved in an unusual cinematographic work which questions the subtle interface between History and fiction, between narrative and political geography. Le Pont du Trieur, devised in collaboration with Philippe Parreno, and Shimkent Hotel are cinematographic objects of the third kind, which multiply the number of levels of intelligibility : filmed diary, indirect narrative, summary of geography and history, political fiction. Somewhere between science-fiction and political-fiction, Charles de Meaux's films proceed by way of detours and indirect correlations, the better to analyze enigmatic realities. For Marfa's Mystery Lights, he films the musicians in the American group The Secret Machines in Marfa, a town in western Texas and the place where Donald Judd
lives and works. This film recreates the meeting between music and architecture, then the concert that the group organizes in the nearby desert for UFOs, other unidentified flying objects and asteroids thought to inhabit nature in this area near Roswell, in New Mexico. This film shows the preparations for the concert. It is also a documentary as much about music and the preparations for the concert as about itself.
8.10 pm to 8.33pm
Valery Grancher, Hong Kong Epiphanie, 2014, 33'08''
Produced by : Valéry Grancher; Sound : Aphex Twins and Valéry Grancher
In Finnegans Wake, James Joyce strolls through the streets of Dublin and samples snippets of sentences which he called "epiphanies"! This was definitely one of the first examples of 'sampling' in literature… Hong Kong is one of those very special territories in the world : a small archipelago that has switched from being a British colony to being part of China with a specific status. It has become one of the most liberal places on earth in terms of finance and economy, while in recent years also becoming an art hub between Asia and the West. Through its history and its status, it has taken on a specific urban character: 70% of the territory is still green and protected, and the remaining 30% has encouraged a vertical development (highrise buildings).
Valéry Grancher made this video during several trips made between 2005 and 2012. His wanderings in this territory were a visual shock, made up of architectural and cultural comparisons, not to mention the cultural gap he experienced as a westerner understanding neither the language nor the human codes. The artist was confronted with revelatory realities and prompted to construct a form of psycho-geography mixing anthropological perception, intuitive perception and his own fantasies about the territory. Through this project, he tries to bring this experience to life and share it with the spectator through his own way of looking at things. It is important to underline that this Hong Kong shown by the artist is that of a westerner who lives in this territory, and not a tourist borrowing and always focusing on the same subjects, without even understanding this local culture. This video is a kind of anthropological experiment, and a poetic form emerges from these Hong Kong "epiphanies".
Romain Kronenberg, Marcher puis disparaître, en collaboration avec Benjamin Graindorge, 2014, 43'
Product by : Clément Postec pour Too Many Cowboys; With the
support of : Commission Image/Mouvement, CNAP, Music : Romain
The musician and film-maker Romain Kronenberg organizes his oeuvre around the issue of image and sound. The music he composes has a crucial place in his films. The film Marcher puis disparaître describes the trajectory of a man who, coming from afar, passes through the daily round of a small Turkish town, where he observes customs and places at daybreak: a café, the old mosque, and the streets coming to life… The man reaches the town's outskirts and then plunges into the countryside and gradually moves away from civilization; he crosses the ecumene— the permanently inhabited part of the earth—and then discovers a huge salt lake, where he abandons himself to the climate. Through this path, the walker creates the bond between the town and the lake, and thus opens up a dialogue between opposing notions: collective and individual, concrete and abstract, real and theoretical, documentary and fictional. The sound track is the outcome of some extremely subtle work where the artist rebuilds the acoustic environments from scratch, thus freely highlighting the elements in the image to which he wants to draw the spectator's attention. Through this movement which takes place in a visual way (from the town's energy to the lake's formal perfection) and in a musical way, too (from sound effects to pure music), he invites us on a sensory, hypnotic and contemplative journey.
9.30pm to 9.45 pm
Dania Reymond, Greenland Unrealised, 2012, 15'
In these videos, Dania Reymond interested in several topics, directly connected to our contemporary world, its history and mutations. The question of how we look at reality and represent it in its very structure (physically, politically, artistically...) is the common thread of preoccupations connecting in each of these videos, although manifested differently in each one of them. She looked at painting, cinema and photography and used these systems of representation to provide information about the realities which she portray. This film is the story of the last days of a community living in Greenland, still inhabitable before its glaciation. The image will reconstitute and scour the remains of the community's village after the glaciation while the soundtrack will describe the film project and the impossibility of its production.
Romain Kronenberg Cédrick Eymenier Pierre Bastien
Cédric Eymenier, P#12 Tokyo, 2005/2008
Ange Leccia, A Perfect Day, 2007

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I den vita staden (franska: Dans la ville blanche) är en schweizisk dramafilm från 1983 av den schweiziske regissören Alain Tanner.

Handling
En sjöman, Paul, går i land i Lissabon i Portugal, där han träffar Rosa som arbetar på en bar. Han blir kvar, och medan han driver runt i staden spelar han in filmer som han skickar hem till sin fru (?) i Schweiz.

Rollista
 Bruno Ganz – Paul
 Teresa Madruga – Rosa
 Julia Vonderlinn – Élisa / den schweiziska kvinnan
 José Carvalho – barägaren
 Francisco Baião – tjuven med kniv
 José Wallenstein – den andre tjuven
 Victor Costa – kyparen
 Lídia Franco – barflickan
 Pedro Efe – vännen på restaurangen
 Cecília Guimarães – damen på tåget
 Joana Vicente – den unga kvinnan på tåget

Referenser

Filmer 1983
Schweiziska dramafilmer
Franskspråkiga filmer

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Welcome to your new home at Scholars, Broxbourne!
Two more completions at Scholars, Broxbourne last week. Congratulations to the new owners and we wish you happiness in your new homes.
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First completion at Scholars, Broxbourne today!
Great to achieve our first completion today at our Scholars development in Broxbourne. Congratulations to the owner of this new home!
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Progress Update: St. Edward's Gate, Cuffley Hill
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St. Edward's Gate, Cuffley Hill First Release
Chase New Homes are delighted to announce the first release of plots at our St Edward's Gate development off Cuffley Hill in Goff's Oak. This private, gated development provides 23 executive four and five bedroom family homes in a secluded…
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Great progress is being made with the demolition works at our Lea Wharf development in Hertford town centre with 70% of the demolition works complete. The next phase of the project will see works commence to the first commercial and residential…
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Scholars, Broxbourne featured in Axis Magazine
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We are pleased to announce that our Sales & Marketing suite for Scholars at Broxbourne is now open. For all enquiries please contact our Sales & Marketing Team on 01707 660 660, or through our contact form.
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The Broxbourne School Progress
The following video provides an insight in to the ongoing progress of the new Broxbourne School.
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Times Square Update; Trinity House first floor handed over today
Chase have handed over a further 13 apartments in Trinity House at Times Square to Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing today. Taking our total number of apartments handed over on site to 442.
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Another X Factor live show another tale of a sick contestant.
This week it was 17-year-old Lauren Platt who was struggling as a result of illness.
Despite previous weeks in which hopefuls were told not to moan about being unwell, it seems Lauren's bout of strep throat was worth a mention.
The young pop princess took to the stage to sing dance hit Clarity by Zedd chosen by Little Mix.
Joined once again by her little brother on stage, Lauren struggled slightly with a couple of the high notes having spent the week dealing with her throat condition.
Mel B told her she seemed to not want to be there and appeared very worried about her performance, pointing out that she 'only hit one bum note'.
Cheryl Fernandez-Versini then spoke up to tell everyone that it was actually her fault that the young hopeful had been sick.
Audiences were told that she had in fact had no voice just the day before and as a result hadn't been able to rehearse properly.
Luckily this week the contestants had two songs to sing and Lauren was able to improve on her first song with a rendition of Don't You Worry Child by Swedish House Mafia, which she slowed down like her first week efforts.
She had a personal connection to the song as she had last sung it with all her friends on the way to her school prom.
With Mel telling her she looked much more comfortable on stage for her second performance, Cheryl was quick to tell her how proud she was of her professionalism.


A few words about a special kind of architecture particularly suited to the west coast of Mexico. I am a serious student of these matters, an architect, and I designed Villa Estrella according to some principles that I believe are both uniquely appropriate to its Pacific Coast environment, and also happen to coincide with personal values that I hold deeply.
The design of Villa Estrella is a stunning display of the natural beauty of Mexican architecture.
In the villages of Mexico's Pacific coast, architecture is closer to the earth. Fences are made of sticks, building is predominantly in wood and adobe (sun-dried mud bricks) and the palapa structure, a simple shelter roofed with a thatch of woven palm fronds, endures in a form little changed since pre-Hispanic times. The isolation of the rural environment has produced a timeless vernacular architecture that…. hardly needs any architects.
Even the powerful Mexica or Aztec Empire, which extended as far west as the Pacific, showed little interest in building along this coast as it did in the Valley of Mexico. Yet we know that Montezuma and other great rulers made regular pilgrimages here in search of sun, sea, and recuperation. Perhaps the extravagant beauty seduced the Mexica visitors into a state of euphoria, reducing their usual ambition to build great monuments in stone to a simple desire to enjoy the seductive surroundings.
Not much has changed. When it comes to building along Mexico's Pacific coast, a different set of rules applies. The monumental elements so prevalent in most contemporary Mexican architecture – the stone-paved courtyards, massive walls, and formal haciendas are willingly discarded.
In their place is a more dreamlike architecture that has no doors, no windows, and very few walls. Angles are replaced by sensuous curves, edges are more rounded, and furniture is forsaken in favor of built-in benches and beds. The line between inside and outside has disappeared. Nature flows seamlessly, invading the house, drawing the occupants to live at one with the seductive and splendid surroundings. Natural rock and plants give the privacy, abundant flowers decorate the space, stunning views and sunshine infuse the house with glory.
The sounds of nature, the sound of wind swaying the palm fronds, the sound of waves surging on the rocks below, the call of birds all immerse the architecture with a symphony of wonder.
The steady sea breeze, warmed by the sun caresses and soothes the skin. The brilliant sun dances like diamonds on the blue ocean. The thick palapa umbrella cone provides the shelter and cool shade from the blazing merciless sun, an ancient design with venting at the top to let the heat escape. You live under and inside a hand crafted, hand woven masterpiece of natural beautiful palm fronds, thousands of them, woven into a simple structure of rustic poles that soothes the soul with its earthy beautiful hand made honesty.
Only natural materials are used. Leather for the furniture, hand woven fabrics, rustic wood, rough stone walls, palm fronds for the roof, clay tiles, and everywhere the plants. Rich, simple, natural textured materials, glorious coloured blossoms, butterflies, hummingbirds, fireflies.
Villa Estrella is the inheritor of these traditions; the antidote to a modern life of tension, technology, hurry and worry. The villa represents the deep felt desire of man to be at one with his natural surroundings, to live as simply as possible, in tune with the deepest rhythms of nature that make the earth turn.
We live with the cycles of the sun, sunrise, sunset, heat of day, cool of night, stunning brightness, velvet darkness. We live with the cycles of the moon and the tides, that infinite cycle, the rising and falling of the seas, the endless mating of sea and shore. The rhythm of the waves; those long deep swells that surge across the oceans in endless powerful rows, surging forever upon the shores below, a thundering drama of explosions on the beach. The cycle of the winds, that rise during the course of the day, only to die in the evenings. The cycles of the seasons that brings rains. The cycles of the pelicans and frigate birds appearing every day. The cycles of the whales appearing and disappearing every year. The cycles of plants that grow and flower. These are the cycles of nature that ground the spirit, bring us peace, comfort, joy and restore the balance of our souls.
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Ministry Releases Anthemic New Song "Alert Level" + Lyric Video; Al Jourgensen Asks Fans To Make Videos Answering "How Concerned Are You?"
Mark Smitty Neal April 24, 2020	Headline News, Music Video, Need to Hear, New Media, News, Single Leave a comment
With a new election on the horizon and America still on the brink, Ministry's Al Jourgensen has re-entered the studio to create his missives that will become material for a to-be-announced new album on Nuclear Blast Records. The first taste comes today with the bold new track "Alert Level" accompanied by a provocative lyric video, created by Agent Ogden.
The song is the first new material from Jourgensen in two years and has a timely message as America—and the global population—faces epidemics, environmental crises, political corruption and one of the biggest elections of our lifetime. Regarding "Alert Level," Jourgensen says, "We finished the song in January and it sounded great during rehearsals for our Australia/Japan tour dates, before we went into quarantine. The original plan was to finish the new record before the July 'Industrial Strength' US tour so we could have an Election Day release, but in lieu of the circumstances—and how relevant the song feels for these bizarre times—we decided to release 'Alert Level' now. Considering that this song features the question 'How concerned are you?' I'll be interested to see how folks answer it themselves."
Hear Jourgensen discuss more about "Alert Level" on Bill Burr's latest episode of his "Monday Morning Podcast": https://billburr.com/monday-morning-podcast-4-20-20/
With the release of "Alert Level," fans are asked to be a part of the larger conversation by answering the question posed by the song's central message, "How concerned are you?" Fans should upload videos, 30 seconds or less, to their social media profiles with the hashtag #MinistryAlertLevel. All the members of Ministry will be watching from home and selecting the videos most meaningful to them, which will be later shared.
Ministry also encourages fans to voice their concerns by voting in the upcoming 2020 elections and has partnered with Head Count to help voters to become registered in time. More info can be found here: http://ministryband.com/vote
"Alert Level" will be included on Ministry's upcoming 15th full-length release and the follow-up to the acclaimed 2018 record, "AmeriKKKant," which was a return to form for the industrial juggernaut and garnered international tour dates, a collaboration with Wax Trax! and a support slot on Slayer's final tour.
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Modulus Video will complement recent acquisitions of video, networking firms, Motorola says.
Motorola will soon add to its lineup of infrastructure products it can offer network service providers.
Motorola said Thursday it plans to buy the privately held Modulus Video, which makes equipment for compressing and encoding video. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Motorola has been partnering with Modulus Video for more than two years.
Motorola said Modulus will complement its recent acquisitions of Broadbus, Kreatel, Tut Systems and Netopia.
Motorola has been buying video and networking companies to help create an end-to-end product offering that it can sell to phone companies, cable companies and satellite providers. Motorola already sells set-top boxes to these providers.
The acquisition of Modulus will help Motorola address issues that network operators face as they deliver high-definition TV programming and interactive services such as video on demand, which require a lot of bandwidth. Companies delivering such services need to make their networks as efficient as possible.
"As consumers demand more high-definition video and interactive services, the need for advanced compression technology is increasingly important," Dan Moloney, president of Motorola's home and networks mobility business, said in a statement. "As part of its advanced real-time video encoding products, Modulus Video has a powerful architecture and product development framework that is well-suited for continued technological advancement."


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Happy Birthday: Nia Long Turns 50
By Sandra Rose | Friday, October 30, 2020
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Actress Nia Long turns 50 today (Oct. 30). The gorgeous actress rose to fame in the 1991 iconic film Boyz n the Hood. She is considered one of the most beautiful Black women in Hollywood.
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Nia's movie roles include Friday, Love Jones, Soul Food, The Best Man, Big Momma's House and Are We There Yet?.
The Brooklyn native was 2 years old when her parents divorced. She moved with her mother, Talita, to Iowa City, Iowa, to study fine arts. They moved to South Los Angeles when Nia was 7.
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Nia's earliest role was in the Disney television movie, The B.R.A.T. Patrol. Later she starred in the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Third Watch and Empire.
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Nia shares a son, Kez Sunday Udoka, with her longtime fiancé Ime Udoka. Her firstborn son, Massai Dorsey, 20, played her screen son in Tyler Perry's The Single Moms Club (2014).
Nia is pictured with her sons in 2012 and below in 2019. Take a trip down memory lane with Nia Long in the gallery!
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Rita De la Cruz has been the supervising waiter-girl at the Stewart House for long enough. She's witnessed all of her friends going off to start new lives with their new beaus, and now, she is ready to follow in their footsteps. She carefully crafts an advertisement for a mail-order husband and is delighted to receive many letters in response. Soon, her days are filled not only with working at the restaurant – which is growing busier by the shift, it seems – but also with writing letters to the sweet men who, like her, are looking for love.
Her friends are all excited for her, but when the owner of the restaurant, Mr. Stewart, discovers that she is meeting with potential suitors, he is infuriated for reasons Rita never expected. Will she be able to leave the restaurant that's become her home and the man who has become her dearest friend?


The recently adjourned legislative session has been characterized as "bold" taking actions where no other state has gone by regulating gasoline prices and health care premiums.
Indeed, no other state has gone this far in trying to manipulate the economy and how businesses operate in any jurisdiction. And unfortunately, it does not appear that any other state would want to go in the direction that our state legislature went this past session for America is supposed to be the best of what a free market economy strives to be. Regulating and dictating how business is to operate runs contrary to the concept of a free market economy.
What is even more critical is how these actions will be viewed by those who might be contemplating investing in the state. These actions indicate that there is a great potential for government in Hawaii to dictate just how businesses are to operate, how much of a profit they should make, and where and when the business may operate. Why would any investor want to invest in Hawaii when there is a good possibility that government will tell that business what it can charge and what kind of profit it can make, or for that matter whether or not that business is allowed to make a profit?
Lawmakers supporting this legislation argue that their actions are justified because these companies make scandalous profits at the expense of consumers in Hawaii. What they don't admit is that they do not understand the dynamics of competition in the marketplace nor do they admit that they don't understand pricing.
For example, in the case of the cap on gasoline prices, local dealers will be able to set prices at a specified number of cents over an index determined by West Coast wholesale prices for gasoline. The question that quickly comes to mind is how does an index of wholesale prices charged on the West Coast have anything to do with providing the product in Hawaii? What if, as last year evidenced, the cost of gasoline in say California is higher than the cost of producing the product here in Hawaii? Do consumers have to pay the higher cost of West Coast production while the cost of production in Hawaii is lower?
Conversely, if gasoline dealers cannot sell the product at the capped price and still cover their overhead, will they withdraw from the market? If a business cannot recover costs, then that means the business will lose money. Why then would one want to stay in business providing this product at a loss?
This lack of understanding of what it takes to open and run a business by lawmakers is appalling. What it does tell the public is that the elected official is more willing to pander to the politically correct rather than learn what the forces and factors are that shape the marketplace.
This seems to be the case in the rush to regulate health care premiums. Did lawmakers stop to ask why those premiums are as high as they are? Or was the only response a law that directs the insurance commissioner to judge whether or not those rates are too high?
Studies by the previous administrations indicated that the proliferation of coverages included as part of the prepaid health care mandate is a major cause for rising premium costs as well as the minimal co-pay. Did lawmakers take this into account or was the driving incentive to regulate premiums nothing more than an opportunity to say that they did something about the high cost of health care?
What should concern taxpayers and voters is that there is a pronounced lack of understanding of what makes the economy tick. And despite all their efforts to stimulate the economy, lawmakers seem to lack the understanding of what attracts capital to Hawaii that is so crucial to create the jobs our people need.
Instead they buy into the fantasy that this or that industry will be the magic bullet of cure. Tax credits for high technology or construction are viewed as THE panacea to Hawaii's economic woes. Unfortunately, when tax breaks are given only to certain groups or draconian regulations are imposed on selected industries, everyone loses. Those tax credits need to be paid for by other taxpayers and those regulations will hurt all consumers as investors shy away from Hawaii.
Regulating the cost of goods and services makes absolutely no economic sense. What if we decided that hotel room rates are too high or airfares deter potential visitors from coming to Hawaii. Will lawmakers decide that a cap on those costs will revitalize the economy?


Antioxidants are compounds that prevent or repair damage to cells caused by pollution, sunlight, and normal body processes. These elements cause oxidation in our body, which produce dangerous chemical compounds called free radicals. These compounds are highly reactive and have the potential to damage DNA, causing mutations that can result in the malignant transformation of cells. Free radicals can easily cause harm to the immune system, whose cells divide often. They may also be responsible for some of the changes of aging.
We can help the body in its ability to scavenge and destroy free radicals, before they cause harm, by supplying it with natural substances that act as antioxidants. These substances block the chemical reactions that generate free radicals in the first place, and destroy the ones that have already been formed.
Many laboratory studies have documented the strong antioxidant properties of soy isoflavones in the fight against heart disease. Oxidation, the same process that leads to rust on metal, causes fats to harden and form the blockages that damage arteries. Isoflavones incorporate into lipoprotein particles, such as LDL, and protect them from oxidation. This antioxidant effect can reduce the onset of atherosclerosis by decreasing LDL accumulation in blood vessel walls.
A reduced level of oxidative damage is also associated with a decreased risk of cancer. Research has found that the antioxidants in soy foods efficiently and effectively protects cells from free radical damage while boosting the immune system. This, in turn, helps to prevent cancer and premature aging.
You can find the recipe to make a delicious antioxidant-rich, cholesterol-free, heart-healthy and cancer preventing Creamy Garlic Salad Dressing elsewhere.
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GLENDALE, Calif. ―( BUSINESS WIRE )― Jane Cosmetics today continues the company's commitment to charitable contributions that support women by launching "The Gift of Confidence & Care: Buy One, Give One To A Neighbor In Need" donation campaign that will provide beauty products to women in local shelters.
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BURLINGTON, Vt ―( BUSINESS WIRE )― Few people realize condoms, the very product designed to protect, can actually do harm – to the environment, to the workers and to the body. That's about to change with the debut of Sustain, a toxin-free, Fair Trade certified condom marketed primarily to women.
ATLANTA ―( BUSINESS WIRE )― The Coca-Cola Company today released its tenth annual Sustainability Report and third Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Report highlighting the progress the Coca-Cola system made in 2012 and the new 2020 sustainability goals announced earlier this year.
DUBLIN ―( BUSINESS WIRE )― McAfee, the world's largest dedicated security company, today launched its Online Safety for Kids programme in Ireland. The kickoff event was held at 9:30 am (CET) at Government Buildings, Dublin, with the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny and McAfee President Michael DeCesare. As part of the event, McAfee also released results from its 'Digital Divide' Study, an Irish study that looks at how teens are keeping their parents in the dark about what they're doing online. The findings can be viewed at http://www.mcafee.com/us/about/newsroom/index.aspx.
NEW YORK ―( BUSINESS WIRE> )― According to sports legend and entrepreneur Earvin "Magic" Johnson, the game of basketball is math and science in motion – geometry, physics and even chemistry help bring the game to life. The five-time NBA champion and Chairman and CEO of the television network ASPiRE has joined with Time Warner Cable to expand its STEM in Sports campaign. The program is the latest from the company's signature Connect a Million Minds (CAMM) initiative, which is designed to inspire the next generation of problem solvers by connecting young people to the wonders of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).
NEW YORK ―( BUSINESS WIRE )― Morgan Stanley Chairman and CEO James Gorman today announced the establishment of the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing. The Institute will build on Morgan Stanley's ongoing work to advance market-based solutions to economic, social and environmental challenges, operating from the foundational principle that sustainable investment can only achieve significant scale by attracting a broad range of private sector capital. Through product innovation, thought leadership and scholarship aimed at expanding opportunities for sustainable investing, the Institute will seek to drive capital toward investments promoting sustainable economic growth.
BOCA RATON, Fla ―( BUSINESS WIRE )― This week, Office Depot (NYSE: ODP) revealed the next phase of its multi-faceted anti-bullying partnership with One Direction by announcing sponsorship of the band's seven-hour virtual live broadcast event, 1D Day, which will take place on November 23. As part of the lead up to their third studio album in three years, "Midnight Memories," 1D Day will be a one-of-a-kind experience allowing fans to get closer to the group than ever before.
NEW YORK ―( BUSINESS WIRE )― Calvin Klein, Inc. today announced a unique partnership with non-profit organization, Every Mother Counts (EMC), which was founded by model and global maternal health advocate, Christy Turlington Burns, who is currently featured in the Fall 2013 Calvin Klein Underwear global advertising campaign.


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Noir City Northwest: Moonrise (1948)/Night Has A Thousand Eyes (1948)
Day three's films had two common threads, according to our host and programmer Eddie Muller: actress Gail Russell and a sense of otherworldliness. There's also a third link, namely curses real and imagined.
Moonrise is the work of one of the least likely filmmakers ever to venture into the genre, Frank Borzage. The winner of the first-ever Best Director Oscar (for 1927's Seventh Heaven), Borzage was an optimist and a desperate romantic. On the face of it, not a promising match for noir. Yet that spirit and a visual style honed in the silent era work wonders.
Dane Clark believes that "bad blood" courses through his veins because the father he never knew was executed for murder. When he accidentally kills his lifelong tormentor, he's certain this family curse is about to claim another victim.
The movie announces itself as something special with the opening sequence, which captures a childhood's worth of torture in stark images that feel more like panels from a graphic novel. There's also a bravura scene of Clark suffering a panic attack on a Ferris wheel that's worthy of Hitchcock. (No surprise that Moonrise's cinematographer John L. Russell would later shoot Psycho and many episodes of Hitch's TV series.) The redemptive ending flies in the face of what some fans may expect from noir. It also completely works. Moonrise deserves to be better known.
I've wanted to see Night Has A Thousand Eyes for a thousand reasons. OK, three. Fantastic title, for starters. It boasts a great premise: bogus psychic develops genuine paranormal powers. And you can't beat those writing credits, with Jonathan Latimer co-adapting a Cornell Woolrich novel. The plot is as rattletrap as can be, but Edward G. Robinson grounds the action as the ex-grifter now exiled from his fellow man.
As for Gail Russell, the object of affection in both movies, well, perhaps she was cursed worst of all.
On top of that, we were treated to a bonus. Eddie screened a print of his new short film The Grand Inquisitor, based on his story in the Busted Flush anthology A Hell of a Woman. Marsha Hunt, the 90-year-old star of noir classics like Anthony Mann's Raw Deal, plays a woman who finds a young girl (Leah Dashe) on her doorstep bearing a box of books and a disturbing theory about San Francisco's greatest mystery. It's a terrific piece of work, lean, suspenseful and beautifully acted. Look for it on the festival circuit soon.
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N.Y.C. Fire Union Spars With City Over Response Time Metrics
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The Uniformed Firefighters Association says the department is prominently displaying "discredited" statistics on its website, while others that show longer average response times are more difficult to find.
A firefighters union in New York City accused the city on Monday of promoting misleadingly low response time statistics for fires and other emergencies.
The criticism was swiftly dismissed by the city's fire department.
According to the Uniformed Firefighters Association, the Fire Department of New York is featuring "discredited" monthly and yearly response time figures on its website. These statistics, the union says, are based on measurements that start the clock ticking on calls for emergency service when they reach the fire department, as opposed to when 9-1-1 dispatchers answer the phone.
By not factoring in the time between when a dispatcher begins speaking with a caller and when the fire department is alerted, the union contends that average response times shown on the department's website look seconds, and in some cases minutes, lower than they actually are.
"The numbers the city reports paint a devastatingly inaccurate picture of how long it truly takes for New York City Firefighters to arrive at the scene of an emergency," Uniformed Firefighters Association President Steve Cassidy said in a statement on Monday.
Under a city statute enacted in 2013—known as Local Law 119—New York's fire department is required to track the duration of response times, for certain types of fire and medical emergencies, beginning when 9-1-1 operators receive calls for service, and ending when the first fire truck, or ambulance, arrives on the scene of an incident.
But to find the measurements reported under that law through the fire department's website, a person would have to click a link that says "Local Law 119 Compliance." Figures showing shorter average response times, based on when the fire department receives calls for service, are available via a link called "Fire Statistics."
In the union's view, the link to the Local Law 119 statistics is obscurely labeled and "has no other marker identifying it as the accurate reporting of emergency response times."
The fire department shot back at the Uniformed Firefighters Association's claims, which were outlined in a news release and a report the union issued on Monday.
"There is nothing misleading about the city's transparent and detailed reporting on response times for emergencies," FDNY spokesman Frank Dwyer said in an emailed statement.
Dwyer pointed to the statistics that can be found through the Local Law 119 Compliance webpages.
These pages are housed in a section of the New York City Mayor's Office of Data Analytics website that is devoted to 9-1-1 call performance reporting. Within that section of the website, the response time data can be found under a tab called "Reports."
Figures accessed through the fire department's fire statistics webpage show the citywide, average annual response time for structural fires during 2015 was four minutes 11 seconds. In contrast, the Local Law 119 statistics on the Office of Data Analytics website show the average response time for structural fires last year was five minutes.
Between the two websites, the total number of structural fire incidents recorded last year also differs. It is pegged at 27,403 on the fire department page, and at 14,534 on the Office of Data Analytics site.
The Uniformed Firefighters Association represents about 9,000 rank-and-file firefighters in New York City.
Cassidy stressed that seemingly short amounts of time can be critical in an emergency. "If you are trapped in a fire or having a heart attack," he said, "those crucial seconds and even minutes of extra waiting can mean the difference between life and death."
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Allegations of anti-Semitism rock Britain's Labor Party
Britain's main opposition Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn addressing Scottish Labor's Annual Conference, in Dundee, Scotland, on Friday.
(Andrew Milligan / Associated Press)
By Christina Boyle
Reporting from London —
It was once considered the British party that stood up to racism and inequality. But today, the Labor Party is at risk of splitting over an anti-Semitism crisis with which it seems unable to come to grips.
For several years now, the main British opposition party has faced a steady flow of allegations that some of its parliamentarians and other members were exhibiting openly anti-Semitic behavior.
In February, eight lawmakers quit to form an independent group of parliamentarians, stating that the failure to bring this issue under control was one of their key concerns.
Last week, Britain's Equality and Human Rights Commission announced that the party may have "unlawfully discriminated against people" based on their ethnicity and religious beliefs.
It marked the first step in what could turn into a formal investigation of how the party has handled complaints about anti-Semitism.
"One anti-Semite in our party is one too many," a party spokesman said in response, promising to cooperate with the investigation fully.
But many Jewish people remain critical of the speed and transparency with which complaints are being dealt with by the party and in the nation itself.
"I would say there's a link between what's happening within the [Labor] party and the rise of anti-Semitic crime in the country," said Gideon Falter, 35, who heads the Campaign Against Antisemitism. "It emboldened anti-Semites outside the Labor Party, and within it."
The number of hate crimes has risen dramatically in Britain in recent years, with the Muslim community still the greatest target. Anti-Semitic incidents, tracked for the past 35 years, reached a record high last year with 1,652 episodes reported, according to the Community Security Trust. It marked the third consecutive annual increase and a roughly threefold rise since 2013.
One recent poll showed that nearly 40% of Britain's more than 250,000 Jews would seriously consider leaving if Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn became prime minister.
Rising anti-Semitism is not unique to Britain and has also cast a pall over U.S. politics.
Soon after taking office in 2017, President Trump was faced with how to react to the deadly demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va., at which neo-Nazis chanted, "Jews will not replace us." Trump's response was that there were "fine people, on both sides" of the confrontation.
Last week, Trump claimed that the Democratic Party was anti-Jewish and anti-Israel as he blasted a House-passed resolution, proposed by Democrats, to stem controversy over remarks by freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) that many criticized as anti-Semitic.
Falter was born and raised in England and, until recently, never really questioned his future here. But as a Jewish man, he feels it is becoming an increasingly unsafe place for members of his faith and cites one reason above all others: The election of Corbyn as Labor Party leader in 2015.
Falter is among a growing number of British people who allege that Corbyn has failed to adequately speak out on the issue and not only root out perpetrators, but swiftly expel them from the party.
Corbyn, an internationally focused socialist and vocal supporter of Palestinian rights, has campaigned throughout his career against Western imperialism and aggression. His allegiances with militant groups Hezbollah and Hamas, whom he controversially referred to as "friends," have led to accusations of being a "terrorist sympathizer."
Although Corbyn ordered an independent inquiry into anti-Semitism in his party in 2016, critics say it was ultimately compromised and contend that Corbyn's reticence to speak up more forcefully against those who express anti-Zionist views is borne out of a desire not to alienate himself from those on the left whom he is ideologically aligned to.
But this also makes him an easy target for those on the right who see his failure to lead on this issue as deeply troubling.
Falter believes Corbyn is turning the Labor Party into a place where "racists can be at home.
"I personally feel very worried about my future in this country. One of the two political parties is infected with anti-Semitism," he said. "It's totally terrifying."
Britain's Labor Party has repeatedly said it is committed to tackling the issue, but complaints continue to mount.
Records show that between April 2018 and January 2019, the party received 673 complaints alleging acts of anti-Semitism by its members.
Luciana Berger, a young Jewish member of parliament who was one of those who recently quit the Labor Party and joined the independent group, said she has received a barrage of hate mail and verbal bullying. One online troll was sent to prison after calling her "Jewish scum."
Last month, video published of Labor lawmaker Chris Williamson added fuel to the fire for those who believe Corbyn is either complicit through complacency or privately anti-Semitic himself.
The close ally of Corbyn was caught on camera telling local Labor activists that the party had "given too much ground" and been "too apologetic" over the anti-Semitism issue and that Labor was being "demonized as a racist, bigoted party."
He later said he deeply regretted his comments and was suspended from the party.
"It is impossible to overstate the damage that the anti-Semitism accusations are having on the Labor Party," said Matthew Flinders, director of the Sir Bernard Crick Center for the Public Understanding of Politics at the University of Sheffield.
The Jewish Labor Movement, an organization that has long been affiliated with the party, recently held a lengthy debate over whether it should cut ties, and the leader of the Labor Party in the House of Lords, Toby Harris, said in an open letter to Corbyn published Friday that the human rights probe was a "political failure."
The last time that the watchdog organization took action against a political party was during an investigation of the far-right British National Party regarding its "whites-only" membership policy.
"For the Labor Party to be in this position is nothing short of humiliating and a matter of great shame," Harris said.
Corbyn backers counter that the issue has been overblown and say it is an attempt by rival politicians and right-wing news organizations to discredit their leader, who has presided over a huge groundswell in party membership, especially among younger voters won over by his promise to prioritize education, welfare and healthcare.
Supporters say Corbyn stands by his principles, but some have soured over what they see as a failure of leadership over anti-Semitism as well as the chief crisis facing the country: how to deal with Brexit as the March 29 deadline when Britain is due to formally leave the European Union looms.
"I don't think this is a major embedded problem that has polluted the whole of the party membership and ranks. It's a relatively tiny proportion of Labor Party members that hold some incredibly worrying views," Flinders said. "What I don't understand is why Jeremy Corbyn hasn't made a very clear and strong public statement about his view and the Labor Party's view on the issue. Address this quickly and effectively -- basically show some leadership."
Boyle is a special correspondent.
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Q: Is it possible align text to both the left and right in a section heading in a tableview? I am trying to have some text aligned to the left of the section heading and different text to the right of the same heading.
While using toolBars I have used a flexible button to push both other buttons to the left and right and I was wondering if there was a similar thing for section headings?
A little bit more background is that I have a different section in my tableview for every piece of information entered on each different day. On the left of the section heading I want the date it was entered (Wed 20th Nov) and on the right I want how many days ago that was (20 days ago).
Here is the code I am currently using:
- (NSString *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView titleForHeaderInSection:(NSInteger)section
{
    if (section == 0) {
        return nil;
    }
    else {
        // This gets the day the data was entered
        NSDate * date = [_sectionDates objectAtIndex:(section-1)];

        NSDateFormatter * formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
        [formatter setDateFormat:@"EEE"];
        NSString * dateDay = [formatter stringFromDate:date];
        [formatter setDateFormat:@"MMM"];
        NSString * dateMonth = [formatter stringFromDate:date];

        NSDateComponents * components = [[NSCalendar currentCalendar] components:NSCalendarUnitDay | NSCalendarUnitMonth | NSCalendarUnitYear fromDate:date];

        NSInteger dateOfDay = [components day];

        NSTimeInterval diff = [[NSDate date] timeIntervalSinceDate:date];
        NSInteger days = diff / (60.0 * 60.0 * 24);

        NSString * dateScript;

        if (dateOfDay < 21 && dateOfDay > 4) {
            dateScript = @"th";
        }
        else if (dateOfDay % 10 == 1) {
            dateScript = @"st";
        }
        else if (dateOfDay % 10 == 2) {
            dateScript = @"nd";
        }
        else if (dateOfDay % 10 == 3) {
            dateScript = @"rd";
        }
        else {
            dateScript = @"th";
        }

        NSString * header;

        if (days < 2) {
            header = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %i%@ %@ - %@", dateDay, dateOfDay, dateScript, dateMonth, days == 0 ? bToday : bYesterday];
        }
        else {
            header = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ %i%@ %@ - %i %@", dateDay, dateOfDay, dateScript, dateMonth, days, bDaysAgo];
        }

        return header;
    }
}

At the moment this outputs it like this:
|Wed 4th Dec - Today________|
I want it to be like this:
|Wed 4th Dec_________Today|

A: You can't do it with titleForHeaderInSection. You would need to implement viewForHeaderInSection instead. Return a view with two labels - one to the left and one to the right. Of course you view would also need to replicate the default look of a standard table section header if that's what you want.

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