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The Ruidoso High School baseball team went 50/50 in Saturday's doubleheader with Portales, winning the first game, 10-9, and dropping the second one, 14-4.
Even though the Warriors were out hit in the initial contest, 11 to seven, the hometown boys continually kept focus and answered every Portales run with one of their own - and then some.
Ryan Francis stepped on the rubber for Ruidoso and went one inning.
Portales opened the first inning with four runs on two Ruidoso errors. The Warriors came back with a lone run in the bottom of the first.
Ryan Yaksich came on in relief and went the distance in a good performance. The Rams tacked three more runs in the second inning to take a 7-1 lead but the Warriors exploded for six big runs in the bottom of the second to knot the contest at seven.
In the bottom of the third, Ruidoso climbed out in front by a pair of runs. Portales narrowed the Warriors lead to one run in the top of the fourth when they put a lone run across the dish.
In the bottom of the sixth, Ruidoso scored what proved to be the winning run. Yaksich got a walk and was replaced by courtesy runner, Jordan Wright.
Francis then doubled past the shortstop (who had vacated that position to cover second base) scoring Wright all the way from first base.
"There's an instance where speed can count," RHS head coach Gilbert Alvarado said.
"Wright played a valuable role in the win and the team itself contributed to the victory."
Portales added one run in the top of the seventh and last inning but fell one short of tying the game.
The Warriors committed four errors in the game but Portales had six.
Jesse Tercero started on the mound in the second game for Ruidoso and went 4 2/3 innings.
For a while things looked good for RHS, as they posted three runs in the opening inning to two for Portales.
The Warriors tacked on another run in the bottom of the fourth inning and grabbed a 4-2 advantage.
Then Portales tied the game at four in the top of the fifth. Robert Lopez came on in the fifth in relief of Tercero.
The roof fell in on Ruidoso in the sixth inning when the Rams posted six runs on three Warrior errors, a hit batsman, a walk and three Portales hits and moved ahead 10-4.
Francis came on in relief of Lopez in the seventh inning but Portales added four more runs in that last inning and claimed a 10-run win.
Ruidoso collected six hits but committed seven errors to only one error for Portales.
"One bad inning can change the whole scope of a game," Alvarado said. "It can quickly go from a close contest to a blowout."
The Warriors will have entertained Hot Springs Tuesday in a twin bill.
The Road Warriors will trek to Dexter Thursday for a single/single (one varsity game and one JV contest).
Ruidoso will host New Mexico Military Institute Saturday in another single/single at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the White Mountain Sports Complex.


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|Pulmonary thromboembolism during therapy of dirofilariasis with thiacetarsamide: modification with aspirin or prednisolone.
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|PMID: 6881666 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|The effects that 4 weeks of treatment of dirofilaria-infected dogs with either aspirin or prednisolone had on the pulmonary thromboembolism which occurs after they are given thiacetarsamide were determined, using light and electron microscopies. Pulmonary lesions in control dogs at 4 weeks after thiacetarsamide was given were compared with lesions in dogs which were treated with either aspirin (22 mg/kg daily) or prednisolone (1 mg/kg daily) during the 4-week period after adulticide was given. Pulmonary vascular and perivascular lesions were most severe in the prednisolone-treated dogs and least severe in the aspirin-treated dogs. The aspirin-treated dogs had greater resolution of pulmonary arterial proliferative disease, and prednisolone-treated dogs had the lesser resolution.
|J C Keith; C A Rawlings; R G Schaub
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|Created Date: 1983-09-23 Completed Date: 1983-09-23 Revised Date: 2006-11-15
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ROPING FIESTA: Locals, pros face off in event
Calf roping hosts Cooper, Ohl, area's best
SAN ANGELO, Texas - When Westyn Hughes of Caldwell was 5, he wanted to ride bulls. His father wasn't crazy about the idea, so he put a rope in his son's hand instead.
Ten years later, Hughes will compete against some of the world's best ropers in the Invitational Calf Roping event at 1 p.m.today at the San Angelo Roping Fiesta.
Hughes had the best time among 100 ropers in the preliminary round, which qualified him to compete in today's event. He's the youngest competitor to ever win the preliminary.
"I'm excited, Hughes said. "I'm blessed."
Ropers competed in two preliminary rounds, and the top 12 moved on to compete in an additional round. The top five times from that round qualified for today.
Hughes will be competing against his idol, Justin Maass, who has won the calf roping event three times and is the defending champion.
"He lives 20 miles from me and has helped me out over the years," Hughes said. "He and my dad are the two biggest factors in my roping."
Hughes doesn't have a strategy for today's event, even though he'll be competing against older ropers.
"I'm just going to try and get them (the calves) down," he said.
Also qualifying was Matt Kenney of Midland, a first-time competitor at the fiesta. Kenney is familiar with several of the competitors in today's event.
"I'm just going to rope the calves as they come," he said of his strategy. "I've traveled with a lot of these guys, so I know most of them."
This is the fourth year Cody Quaney from Cheney, Kan., has competed at the fiesta, and this year was the charm.
"This is exciting," he said. "I'm not going to change anything ... just rope as I have been."
The fiesta committee sends out invitations to the top 35 ropers in the world, said chairman Fred Hernandez. The preliminary rounds give rising stars a chance to show their talent and compete with the veterans.
"There are so many that try their shot at a spot," he said. "What they get is a lot of prize money and a real treat to perform in front of 5,000 fans."
Two men familiar with both will compete head-to-head in match roping today.
Cody Ohl, a six-time world champion roper who has won the match roping 13 times, is the defending champion. He'll be facing Tuf Cooper, who beat Ohl in 2010.
"I know Tuf is mentally and physically prepared," Ohl said. "I've been roping quite a bit the last three weeks and eating half as much," he said, joking about needing to lose some weight in front of a crowd of fans gathered at the Buffalo Social Club.
Cooper said he doesn't have the luxury of taking time off when he's facing Ohl.
"This gets me ready for the National Finals," he said. "And I can't take time off when I'm matching Cody Ohl."
With 13 victories, Ohl said he can't single out any particular one as the best.
"Every one has been special to me," he said. "All the great ropers that have ever roped here, and I'm one of them."
He also paid tribute to Jim Bob Altizer, who won the first match roping in 1962 and went on to win seven more.
Cooper's father, Roy, won the matching roping nine times, beginning in 1977.
"I try to follow in his footsteps everywhere," he said. "I get his help and his pointers. It's like he's continuing his legacy through me. We talk about it all year long."
Day 1 results
Preliminary Roping
Round 1
1. Jake Pratt, 9.0
2. Chris Demases, 9.6
3. Rusty Muller, 10.1
4. Jim Wallace, 10.3
5. Ryan Thibideaux, 10.4
6. Cody Waldrop and Matt Keeney, 10.8 (tie)
Round 2
1. Blane Cox, Cody McCartney and Logan Helton, 8.7 (tie)
4. Tyson Arledge, 8.9
5. Giovanni Davis, 9.0
6. Westyn Hughes and Cody Quaney, 9.1 (tie)
Qualifying round
1. Westyn Hughes
2. Chris Demases
3. Cody Quaney
4. Cody Waldrop
5. Matt Kenney
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Chipmaker Qualcomm today said it will show off its new peer-to-peer wireless technology at the Mobile World Congress show next week. Called FlashLinq, it aims to let mobile devices connect and share broadband connection speeds. Embedded into chips, the tech would automatically discover thousands of other FlashLinq devices within a one kilometer radius and share Internet access between them using Wi-Fi.
Qualcomm is currently testing the technology in Korea with carrier SK Telecom. In contrast to Intel's Wi-Fi Direct tech, Internet connectivity can be shared with FlashLinq users. According to the chipmaker, the tech allows users to "communicate, peer-to-peer, at broadband speeds without the need for intermediary infrastructure." It's based on proximal communications and is designed to complement traditional cellular-based services while working on licensed spectrum, therefore requiring operator approval. [via GigaOM]


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Engadget received a tip about an upcoming component to HDMI cable for the non-elite 360, and (Joystiq) is left shrugging (their) shoulders. Such adapters already exist at a steep cost; you plug component and audio cables in one end, and a single HDMI cable feeds out the other.
That's cool if you're down with OCD, but for the rest of us, why bother? One feature of HDMI is to run a digital signal for audio and video over a single cable. Connecting each audio and component feed into an analog-to-digital converter negates that one-cable, digital-only benefit.
Another "feature" of HDMI is its support for HDCP, and these adapters can't handle that copy-protected signal. What that means is someday, when a studio executive pushes a red button to turn on an Image Constraint Token for new movies, an HD-DVD enabled 360 will down-scale HD movies to DVD-quality; full quality in that future scenario will require a direct HDCP connection between a device and a TV. And some of our fancy HDTVs don't even support HDCP. Thank you, piracy panic.
Maybe Microsoft is preparing an HDMI cable to interface with the original 360's video-output port. Even then, the interface change won't impact games; it's only a convenience and movie issue.
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Archive for Thursday, October 4, 2001
Arrowhead Hardware closing doors
Gary Lamoreux doesn't want to leave the hardware business he and his wife, Robbie, own in Eudora. But juggling between Arrowhead Hardware at Eighth and Main streets and the store in Baldwin City are getting to be a bit much.
"I find myself on the road all day," Lamoreux said. "I had to be in two places at the same time. I'm sure we'll be just as busy; we'll just be more productive."
Lamoreux said he felt his time would be better spent focusing efforts on one store rather than running between the two stores, which left him feeling unproductive.
Lamoreux said that although it wasn't always time or cost efficient, he liked to get customers items from the Baldwin store if they couldn't find it in Eudora.
"You can't work in a town for 20 years without feeling bad when you leave," he said. "These people aren't just my customers; they're my friends."
When Arrowhead closes its doors in late November it will leave Eudora without a hardware store, which Lamoreux said he regrets.
But Chamber of Commerce President Keith Turnbaugh said Ace Hardware was looking at possible sites in Eudora. However, the chain wants to sell lumber, trees and other large merchandise that would require an 8,000 to 10,000 square foot building. Turnbaugh said local Realtors were working to find a location for the business.
Even if another hardware store doesn't open in the same site, the building at 8th and Main streets will be occupied.
Co-owner Christine DeArmond said her store, Quilting Bits and Pieces, would move to the larger building, but didn't yet know what they would do with the extra space. She said the details might be ironed out in a month.
The store will have sales until closing that will "keep getting better and better," Lamoreux said. Although he's sad about leaving the business behind, Lamoreux said at least he took solace in the fact that business in Eudora has been great.
The Lamoreux's took over the business from Al Coleman 19 years ago.
"He would probably be sad today, too," Lamoreux said.
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Paris - Ordinary people's satisfaction with life has plunged in the euro zone countries worst hit by the financial crisis as faith in their governments' ability to ease the strain has shrunk, an OECD study found on Tuesday.
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said the impact of the five-year-old crisis went deeper than lost jobs and income as reflected in traditional economic data.
The OECD used answers from a Gallup World Poll of some 1,000 respondees in each of over 30 developed and emerging economies, asking them to rate life satisfaction from 1 to 10.
It found life satisfaction scores dropped by more than 20 percent in Greece over the five years to 2012, while Spain saw a fall of 12 percent and Italy a drop of 10 percent.
"People feel like the government is unable to help them get out of the crisis," OECD chief statistician Martine Durand told Reuters.
The crisis has not only eroded confidence in public institutions in countries worst-hit by the financial crisis but across the developed-economy countries of the OECD organisation as a whole, the study found.
Only 40 percent of people questioned for the report had trust in their government, the lowest level since 2006.
The report, which covered the 34 OECD countries as well as Brazil and Russia, is part of an OECD drive to go beyond traditional economic measures such as gross domestic product by looking at indicators on things such as education, work-life balance and civic engagement.
Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States scored highest in terms of a general sense of well-being including life satisfaction. Chile, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Mexico, Portugal and Turkey had the lowest scores.
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Where is God in my wilderness
When I was first asked this question I thought, well, that will be easy to answer; it's easy to say where God is for me, He's just there, at my side. But then, I thought maybe it wasn't so easy; where is my wilderness?
On a bright sunny day, when work was good and life easy, I didn't have a wilderness. However, on a day when the commute to work had been tough, when I had ten things at work that needed to have been done yesterday and I had family stuff to sort out, I was stressed and tired. I felt as if life was crap and I wanted to cry, and I thought here is my wilderness, not one of physical discomfort but one of mixed up emotions. So, where was God in that wilderness of mine?
I looked and couldn't see him. Then I looked a little harder and he was there, pulling me from my wilderness, reminding me how insignificant my stresses and worries were. What were they when I thought of my God who loved me so much that he sent his son to earth to be human, to be just like me.
And then his son, with all our human frailties went through such pain and suffering for me, died on a cross for me so that I could have everlasting life. My wilderness just went, what were all those stresses and upsets when I thought of that wonderful, glorious everlasting life that God has to give me, to everyone.
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Serial Port Communication in C#
#46 Guest_umer*
Posted 17 May 2010 - 12:01 AM
it works fine for transmission...but how to receive????
Posted 18 May 2010 - 06:45 AM
#48 Guest_Michael*
Posted 09 June 2010 - 08:40 AM
Just to re-iterate what has been said in earlier posts, the program has a "bug" and only opens COM1, even if you have selected COM3 in the combo box. To fix this bug, add "comm.PortName = cboPort.Text;" to the cmdOpen_Click method (shown below).
Once this was done, everything worked fine. Other earlier suggestions such as adding code to the Close Port button are also valid.
private void cmdOpen_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
comm.Parity = cboParity.Text;
comm.StopBits = cboStop.Text;
comm.DataBits = cboData.Text;
comm.BaudRate = cboBaud.Text;
comm.DisplayWindow = rtbDisplay;
comm.PortName = cboPort.Text; // add this line here
cmdOpen.Enabled = false;
cmdClose.Enabled = true;
cmdSend.Enabled = true;
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fenterbug, on 28 June 2010 - 12:11 PM, said:
I figured out a work-around. Just before the ReadExisting() call, I call "System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(333);". That gives the wireless / transmission buffer plenty of time to move all of the data. WOOT!
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I am new to C# i have been assigned the task of changing the existing code All the software has been written including the driver the issue is the device reads the constant value of data and it has to be changed to i.e send the address 5A 04 02 if this is sent my device replies with 0B 80 this value has to be displayed on the screen I need the code for sending the same and receiving it.
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umer, on 16 May 2010 - 11:01 PM, said:
it works fine for transmission...but how to receive????
I had the same problem and drove me a bit crazy.
I found the solution
In the OpenPort method of the class ComponentManager, just set RtsEnable to true, like this
//now open the port
comPort.RtsEnable = true;
//display message
and the delegate will work pretty well
Hope this helps
Posted 30 June 2010 - 02:04 PM
I get timeout trying to read from the port.
What am I doing wrong?
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Then along comes .Net 2.0, and this time Microsoft added the System.IO.Ports Namespace, and within that was the SerialPort Class. DotNet developers finally had an intrinsic way of serial port communication, without having to deal with the complexities of interoping with an old legacy ActiveX OCX control. One of the most useful methods in the SerialPort class is the GetPortNames Method. This allows you to retrieve a list of available ports (COM1,COM2,etc.) available for the computer the application is running on.
Now that we have that out of the way, lets move on to programming our application. As with all application I create, I keep functionality separated from presentation, I do this by creating Manager classes that manage the functionality for a given process. What we will be looking at is the code in my CommunicationManager class. As with anything you write in .Net you need to add the references to the Namespace's you'll be using:
using System; using System.Text; using System.Drawing; using System.IO.Ports;
In this application I wanted to give the user the option of what format they wanted to send the message in, either string or binary, so we have an enumeration for that, and an enumerations for the type of message i.e; Incoming, Outgoing, Error, etc. The main purpose of this enumeration is for changing the color of the text displayed to the user according to message type. Here are the enumerations:
#region Manager Enums /// <summary> /// enumeration to hold our transmission types /// </summary> public enum TransmissionType { Text, Hex } /// <summary> /// enumeration to hold our message types /// </summary> public enum MessageType { Incoming, Outgoing, Normal, Warning, Error }; #endregion
Next we have our variable list, 6 of them are for populating our class Properties, the other 2 are access throughout the class so they needed to be made global:
#region Manager Variables //property variables private string _baudRate = string.Empty; private string _parity = string.Empty; private string _stopBits = string.Empty; private string _dataBits = string.Empty; private string _portName = string.Empty; private TransmissionType _transType; private RichTextBox _displayWindow; //global manager variables private Color[] MessageColor = { Color.Blue, Color.Green, Color.Black, Color.Orange, Color.Red }; private SerialPort comPort = new SerialPort(); #endregion
NOTE:I always separate my code into sections using the #region ... #endregion to make it easier when scanning my code. It is a design choice so it's not necessary if you don't want to do it.
Now we need to create our class properties. All the properties in this class are public read/write properties. We have properties for the following items of the Serial Port:
- Baud Rate: A measure of the speed of serial communication, roughly equivalent to bits per second.
- Parity: The even or odd quality of the number of 1's or 0's in a binary code, often used to determine the integrity of data especially after transmission.
- Stop Bits: A bit that signals the end of a transmission unit
- Data Bits: The number of bits used to represent one character of data.
- Port Name: The port with which we're communicating through, i.e; COM1, COM2, etc.
#region Manager Properties /// <summary> /// Property to hold the BaudRate /// of our manager class /// </summary> public string BaudRate { get { return _baudRate; } set { _baudRate = value; } } /// <summary> /// property to hold the Parity /// of our manager class /// </summary> public string Parity { get { return _parity; } set { _parity = value; } } /// <summary> /// property to hold the StopBits /// of our manager class /// </summary> public string StopBits { get { return _stopBits; } set { _stopBits = value; } } /// <summary> /// property to hold the DataBits /// of our manager class /// </summary> public string DataBits { get { return _dataBits; } set { _dataBits = value; } } /// <summary> /// property to hold the PortName /// of our manager class /// </summary> public string PortName { get { return _portName; } set { _portName = value; } } /// <summary> /// property to hold our TransmissionType /// of our manager class /// </summary> public TransmissionType CurrentTransmissionType { get{ return _transType;} set{ _transType = value;} } /// <summary> /// property to hold our display window /// value /// </summary> public RichTextBox DisplayWindow { get { return _displayWindow; } set { _displayWindow = value; } } #endregion
To be able to instantiate any class object we create we need Constructors. Constructors are the entry point to your class, and is the first code executed when instantiating a class object. We have 2 constructors for our manager class, one that sets our properties to a specified value, and one that sets our properties to an empty value, thus initializing the variables preventing a NullReferenceException from occurring. We also add an EventHandler in the constructor, the event will be executed whenever there's data waiting in the buffer:
#region Manager Constructors /// <summary> /// Constructor to set the properties of our Manager Class /// </summary> /// <param name="baud">Desired BaudRate</param> /// <param name="par">Desired Parity</param> /// <param name="sBits">Desired StopBits</param> /// <param name="dBits">Desired DataBits</param> /// <param name="name">Desired PortName</param> public CommunicationManager(string baud, string par, string sBits, string dBits, string name, RichTextBox rtb) { _baudRate = baud; _parity = par; _stopBits = sBits; _dataBits = dBits; _portName = name; _displayWindow = rtb; //now add an event handler comPort.DataReceived += new SerialDataReceivedEventHandler(comPort_DataReceived); } /// <summary> /// Comstructor to set the properties of our /// serial port communicator to nothing /// </summary> public CommunicationManager() { _baudRate = string.Empty; _parity = string.Empty; _stopBits = string.Empty; _dataBits = string.Empty; _portName = "COM1"; _displayWindow = null; //add event handler comPort.DataReceived+=new SerialDataReceivedEventHandler(comPort_DataReceived); } #endregion
The first think you need to know about serial port communication is writing data to the port. The first thing we do in our WriteData method is to check what transmission mode the user has selected, since binary data needs to be converted into binary, then back to string for displaying to the user. Next we need to make sure the port is open, for this we use the IsOpen Property of the SerialPort Class. If the port isn't open we open it by calling the Open Method of the SerialPort Class. For writing to the port we use the Write Method:
#region WriteData public void WriteData(string msg) { switch (CurrentTransmissionType) { case TransmissionType.Text: //first make sure the port is open //if its not open then open it if (!(comPort.IsOpen == true)) comPort.Open(); //send the message to the port comPort.Write(msg); //display the message DisplayData(MessageType.Outgoing, msg + "\n"); break; case TransmissionType.Hex: try { //convert the message to byte array byte[] newMsg = HexToByte(msg); //send the message to the port comPort.Write(newMsg,0,newMsg.Length); //convert back to hex and display DisplayData(MessageType.Outgoing, ByteToHex(newMsg) + "\n"); } catch (FormatException ex) { //display error message DisplayData(MessageType.Error, ex.Message); } finally { _displaywindow.SelectAll(); } break; default: //first make sure the port is open //if its not open then open it if (!(comPort.IsOpen == true)) comPort.Open(); //send the message to the port comPort.Write(msg); //display the message DisplayData(MessageType.Outgoing, msg + "\n"); break; break; } } #endregion
You will notice in this method we call three methods:
- HexToByte
- ByteToHex
- DisplayData
#region HexToByte /// <summary> /// method to convert hex string into a byte array /// </summary> /// <param name="msg">string to convert</param> /// <returns>a byte array</returns> private byte[] HexToByte(string msg) { //remove any spaces from the string msg = msg.Replace(" ", ""); //create a byte array the length of the //string divided by 2 byte[] comBuffer = new byte[msg.Length / 2]; //loop through the length of the provided string for (int i = 0; i < msg.Length; i += 2) //convert each set of 2 characters to a byte //and add to the array comBuffer[i / 2] = (byte)Convert.ToByte(msg.Substring(i, 2), 16); //return the array return comBuffer; } #endregion
Here we convert the provided string to a byte array, then the WriteData method sends it out the port. For displaying we need to convert it back into string format, so we use the ByteToHex method we created:
#region ByteToHex /// <summary> /// method to convert a byte array into a hex string /// </summary> /// <param name="comByte">byte array to convert</param> /// <returns>a hex string</returns> private string ByteToHex(byte[] comByte) { //create a new StringBuilder object StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(comByte.Length * 3); //loop through each byte in the array foreach (byte data in comByte) //convert the byte to a string and add to the stringbuilder builder.Append(Convert.ToString(data, 16).PadLeft(2, '0').PadRight(3, ' ')); //return the converted value return builder.ToString().ToUpper(); } #endregion
The last method that WriteData depends on is the DisplayData method. Here we use the Invoke Method of our RichTextBox, the control used to display the data, to create a new EventHandler which creates a new Delegate for setting the properties we wish for our message, then appending it to the value already displayed:
#region DisplayData /// <summary> /// method to display the data to & from the port /// on the screen /// </summary> /// <param name="type">MessageType of the message</param> /// <param name="msg">Message to display</param> [STAThread] private void DisplayData(MessageType type, string msg) { _displaywindow.Invoke(new EventHandler(delegate { _displaywindow.SelectedText = string.Empty; _displaywindow.SelectionFont = new Font(_displaywindow.SelectionFont, FontStyle.Bold); _displaywindow.SelectionColor = MessageColor[(int)type]; _displaywindow.AppendText(msg); _displaywindow.ScrollToCaret(); })); } #endregion
NOTE: You will notice that we hyave added the STAThread Attribute to our method. This is used when a single thread apartment is required by a control, like the RichTextBox.
The next method we will look at it used when we need to open the port initially. Here we set the BaudRate, Parity, StopBits, DataBits and PortName Properties of the SerialPort Class:
#region OpenPort public bool OpenPort() { try { //first check if the port is already open //if its open then close it if (comPort.IsOpen == true) comPort.Close(); //set the properties of our SerialPort Object comPort.BaudRate = int.Parse(_baudRate); //BaudRate comPort.DataBits = int.Parse(_dataBits); //DataBits comPort.StopBits = (StopBits)Enum.Parse(typeof(StopBits),_stopBits); //StopBits comPort.Parity = (Parity)Enum.Parse(typeof(Parity),_parity); //Parity comPort.PortName = _portName; //PortName //now open the port comPort.Open(); //display message DisplayData(MessageType.Normal, "Port opened at " + DateTime.Now + "\n"); //return true return true; } catch (Exception ex) { DisplayData(MessageType.Error, ex.Message); return false; } } #endregion
Next lets take a look at our event handler. This event will be executed whenever there's data waiting in the buffer. This method looks identical to our WriteData method, because it has to do the same exact work:
#region comPort_DataReceived /// <summary> /// method that will be called when theres data waiting in the buffer /// </summary> /// <param name="sender"></param> /// <param name="e"></param> void comPort_DataReceived(object sender, SerialDataReceivedEventArgs e) { //determine the mode the user selected (binary/string) switch (CurrentTransmissionType) { //user chose string case TransmissionType.Text: //read data waiting in the buffer string msg = comPort.ReadExisting(); //display the data to the user DisplayData(MessageType.Incoming, msg + "\n"); break; //user chose binary case TransmissionType.Hex: //retrieve number of bytes in the buffer int bytes = comPort.BytesToRead; //create a byte array to hold the awaiting data byte[] comBuffer = new byte[bytes]; //read the data and store it comPort.Read(comBuffer, 0, bytes); //display the data to the user DisplayData(MessageType.Incoming, ByteToHex(comBuffer) + "\n"); break; default: //read data waiting in the buffer string str = comPort.ReadExisting(); //display the data to the user DisplayData(MessageType.Incoming, str + "\n"); break; } } #endregion
We have 3 small methods left, and these are actually optional, for the lack of a better word. These methods are used to populate my ComboBox's on my UI with the port names available on the computer, Parity values and Stop Bit values. The Parity and Stop Bits are available in enumerations included with the .Net Framework 2.0:
#region SetParityValues public void SetParityValues(object obj) { foreach (string str in Enum.GetNames(typeof(Parity))) { ((ComboBox)obj).Items.Add(str); } } #endregion #region SetStopBitValues public void SetStopBitValues(object obj) { foreach (string str in Enum.GetNames(typeof(StopBits))) { ((ComboBox)obj).Items.Add(str); } } #endregion #region SetPortNameValues public void SetPortNameValues(object obj) { foreach (string str in SerialPort.GetPortNames()) { ((ComboBox)obj).Items.Add(str); } } #endregion
That is how you do Serial Port Communication in C#. Microsoft finally gave us intrinsic tools to perform this task, no more relying on legacy objects. I am providing this class and a sample application to show how to implement what we just learned. What I am providing is under the GNU General Public License meaning you can modify and distribute how you see fit, but the license header must stay in tact. I hope you found this tutorial useful and informative, thank you for reading.
Happy Coding
Posted 13 July 2010 - 08:34 AM
but I'd download the zip file and try to opent it with winZip Pro and i get this error.
End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not a Zip file, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part Zip file.
any idea what went wrong?.
Posted 13 July 2010 - 08:42 AM
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Posted 14 July 2010 - 09:14 PM
I get th GPS data for my C# application runing in Win CE 5.0, from a Navigation Software's API.
Is there any way I can synchronize my app. to new data in the API?
Is it possible to have a buffer receiving from the API and the use something like ON Comm in VB6?
#58 Guest_Rob Berry*
Posted 15 July 2010 - 01:33 PM
looks great, I just tried to open the file in Visual Studio 2010 and it looks like it was going to open but it failed. Got the following error
C:\dotnetserial\SerialPortCommunication\SerialPortCommunication\SerialPortCommunication.csproj : error : Unable to read the project file 'SerialPortCommunication.csproj'.
C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Microsoft.Common.targets(1203,12): The project file could not be loaded. The 'CreateItem' start tag on line 1201 position 10 does not match the end tag of 'Output'. Line 1203, position 12.
Can you please advise what to do? I really want to see your code...
Rob Berry
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Posted 03 August 2010 - 04:31 AM
I've tryed to open the port COM2 of my notebook which is a "HANDHELD BARCODE SCANNER" port (the scanner is connected via USB and i've downloaded the driver to emulate COM port) but when i click on the button OPEN PORT i get the followin error message:"The specified name either doesn't start with COM/com or doesn't resolve in a valid serial port"
Can you help me in finding the reason of this?
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|Studio album by Arcade Fire
|October 28, 2013
|Sonovox Studios, Montreal, Trident Castle, Port Antonio, Jamaica, New York, New York
|75:12 / 85:14 (with hidden track)
|Merge (US), Sonovox (CAN), Mercury / Virgin EMI / Universal (international)
|Markus Dravs, Arcade Fire, James Murphy
|Arcade Fire chronology
|Singles from Reflektor
Reflektor is the fourth studio album by the Canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire, released on October 28, 2013 on Merge Records. A double album, Reflektor was co-produced by former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy, regular Arcade Fire producer Markus Dravs, and the band itself.
Influenced by Haitian rara music, the 1959 film Black Orpheus and Søren Kierkegaard's essay, "The Present Age",[3] Reflektor's release was preceded by a guerrilla marketing campaign inspired by veve drawings, and the release of a limited edition single, "Reflektor", credited to the fictional band The Reflektors on September 9, 2013.
The album was recognized as one of The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far, a list published by Pitchfork Media in August 2014.[4]
- 1 Background
- 2 Recording
- 3 Writing and composition
- 4 Promotional campaign
- 5 Artwork
- 6 Release
- 7 Reception
- 8 Track listing
- 9 Personnel
- 10 Charts
- 11 Certifications
- 12 References
The album's origins stem from a trip that both vocalist/guitarist Win Butler and multi-instrumentalist Régine Chassagne took to her family's home country of Haiti. Butler said: "Going to Haiti for the first time with Régine was the beginning of a major change in the way that I thought about the world. Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16. There was a band I [feel] changed me musically, just really opened me up to this huge, vast amount of culture and influence I hadn't been exposed to before, which was really life-changing."[3] Inspired by the country's rara music, Butler and Chassagne incorporated elements of this sound into the band's new material, alongside Jamaican influences. Butler stated, "I mean, it's not like our band trying to play Haitian music. I just felt like we were opened up to a new influence. Bob Marley probably felt the same way the first time he heard Curtis Mayfield."[3]
Recording in Louisiana, the band began work on Reflektor in 2011, and subsequently moved to Jamaica the following year with producer Markus Dravs.[3] Working on roughly sixty song ideas, the band wrote and recorded in an abandoned castle, named Trident: "The castle was built in 1979, or something, by this eccentric Jamaican dude who just wanted to hang out with royalty. And it kind of worked. After about five years he couldn't afford to pay the bill, so it had been sitting empty for many years. I met a dude who was planning on turning it into a hotel, so we just rented it off him for cheap and there was nothing in there. We brought in some beds and a piano and some gear."[3] The album was mostly recorded on analog tape.[5]
In August 2012, the band also began working with producer and former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy, whom the band had been wanting to work with for over six years. Butler: "LCD Soundsystem to me is like New Order and the B-52's and we deeply share a lot of those influences, and we did completely different things with it. Régine is kind of the person who dances. At any given minute, if you can get Régine to dance, you're kind of on the right track, so I think we just wanted to make a record that Régine could dance to."[3]
Regarding the band's decision to record a double album, Win Butler stated, "The record is really long. We intended to make a short record and we ended up with 18 songs that were all between six and eight minutes and we were like, 'Uh oh, I think we screwed up making a short record.' Splitting it over the two halves enables you to get into the different worlds of the records."[3] According to Butler, 50 or 60 songs were written for the album.[6]
Writing and composition[edit]
Primary lyricist Win Butler notes that the 1959 film Black Orpheus inspired his lyrics on Reflektor, in particular its themes of isolation and death: "Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil. The Orpheus myth is the original love triangle, Romeo and Juliet kind of story. Lyrically, it's not literally about my life. I feel like I'm kind of a bit of a sponge in a way. Like, if people around me are going through things, I find it very hard not to be empathetic."[3] Also influential to the album's lyrical content is an essay by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, entitled "The Present Age". Butler states, "[It's] about the reflective age. This is like in 1846, and it sounds like he's talking about modern times. He's talking about the press and alienation, and you kind of read it and you're like, 'Dude, you have no idea how insane it's gonna get.'"[3]
The album tracks, "Here Comes the Night Time" and "Here Comes the Night Time II", each appear on the album's respective halves, with Butler noting, "The second one was actually written first and it almost starts the second half of the record – kind of like after the [Haitian] Carnival. Both of them are very much influenced by when the sun is just starting to go down in Port au Prince, and it's really intense because most of the city doesn't have electricity so everyone is just racing to get home before dark."[3] The first of the two tracks references missionaries, in part: "The absurdity that you can go to a place like Haiti and teach people something about God. Like, the opposite really seems to be true, in my experience."[3]
The track "Supersymmetry" was originally written for the film Her, which the band was composing simultaneously while working on Reflektor. A different version of the song appears during the film's end credits.[7]
The lyrics include singing in both English and French.[8]
Promotional campaign[edit]
In early August, a cryptic logo, which incorporated the word "reflektor", appeared on the walls of cities around the world. The street art was reported to be part of a guerrilla marketing campaign for the new Arcade Fire album.[9] The upcoming album and its release date had already been announced via a message on Twitter, written as a reply to a single fan. An Instagram account posted pictures of the symbol, and included a video of one being drawn.[10]
On August 26, Arcade Fire confirmed that the work was related to them, with a large mural on a building in downtown Manhattan, which included four of the symbols and the words "Arcade Fire 9pm 9/9".[11] On September 9, 2013, the band released two videos for the first single and title track from the album.[12][13] Win Butler later wrote that the Reflektor graffiti was inspired by Haitian veve drawings.[14]
The Reflektor campaign received negative publicity when an article that appeared in Slate in September 2013 depicted instances of property damage that resulted from the advertisements. The band made an apology, explaining that the viral wall stencils were meant to use chalk or other washable media, rather than spray paint, nor binding glues under the paper advertisements.[15]
The build-up to the release of the album was described by Pitchfork as "unusual, ambitious, vague, confounding, a little heavy-handed, and very successful". It was compared to similar campaigns for albums by Daft Punk and Kanye West, also released in 2013. In such campaigns, the music itself becomes one part of a wider experience. Although the events surrounding the album's release take place in the real world, their impermanence suits the use of social media, where the campaign is documented and shared.[16] In an interview, Butler stated that he enjoyed anticipating the release of an album, and that the build-up to the release of Reflektor felt like "a weird art project" or "throwing a good party".[6]
The album's artwork features an image of Auguste Rodin's sculpture of Orpheus and Eurydice.[17]
The band released a 15-second music clip on Spotify on September 2, 2013, titled "9pm 9/9" under the album name Reflektor.[18] On September 9, 2013, the band announced a last-minute secret show under the name "The Reflektors" at Montreal's Salsathèque Club, at 9PM for $9.[19] Following the band's September 28 appearance on Saturday Night Live, a 30-minute concert special aired on NBC featuring cameos including Rainn Wilson, Bono, Ben Stiller, James Franco, Michael Cera and Zach Galifianakis.[20] The band debuted three tracks, "Here Comes the Night Time", "We Exist" and "Normal Person".[21] On October 12 the band released a teaser video containing thirty seconds of the song "Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice)".[22] On October 21, the song "Afterlife" was debuted in a music video, playing over edited clips of Marcel Camus's 1959 film Black Orpheus. On October 21, the song "Normal Person" aired on The Colbert Report, with the band identified not as Arcade Fire but only as "The Reflektors". On October 24, a lyric video for the Official Reflektor Full Album Teaser,[23] playing over longer clips of Marcel Camus's 1959 film Black Orpheus was posted to the band's website.
In September 2015, a Deluxe edition was released. It featured five new tracks (that didn't make it on the original album), and a new remixed version of "Flashbulb Eyes" by Dennis Bovell featuring Linton Kwesi Johnson. "Get Right" was released as a single.
Critical reception[edit]
|Professional ratings
|Aggregate scores
|Review scores
|Entertainment Weekly
|The Guardian
|The Independent
|Los Angeles Times
|The Observer
|Rolling Stone
|Slant Magazine
Reflektor has received largely positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received a average score of 80 based on 48 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[24]
Rolling Stone gave the album a rating of four and a half stars out of five, and stated "It is also a perfect summary of their group's still-fervent indie-born hunger after a decade of mainstream success, and specifically, the decisive, indulgent ambition on Reflektor: a two-record, 75-minute set of 13 songs and the best album Arcade Fire have ever made".[33] Pitchfork Media gave the album a 9.2, the band's highest rating since their debut Funeral, stating "Reflektor is a triumph, but not a victory lap; the band never sounds content enough for that."[32]
USA Today gave three out of four stars and stated that on the album, "much of the music — audacious, heavily distorted and bubbling with electronics — sounds magnificently fresh. As the ensemble shape-shifts from the cleaner rock template of The Suburbs and Neon Bible to exotic beat-driven mashups, Arcade owes a debt to David Bowie (who has a brief cameo) and Achtung-era U2. Co-producer James Murphy of defunct LCD Soundsystem also brings his rhythmic chops to the mix in dizzying dance hybrids."[34]
The Quietus notes that "the question of what comes next, though, isn't one that Arcade Fire need fear any longer. With Reflektor, they've answered it strongly. Four albums in, their sound glitters with many facets and possibilities – they can be proud of how it reflects on them."[35]
PopMatters journalist J.C. Maçek III said "Reflektor doesn't contain any actually bad songs (the closest we can peg on the collection would be a small amount of filler material), but the impact of a full listen is one of catchy excitement and impressive pop rock which slowly rolls downhill into the murky sonic depths of the more somber second half without any truly punctuating final moment of the record itself."[36]
Reflektor fails to "fully justify the size of it and it doesn't end so much as unravel", according to Q. "While Reflektor isn't so flawed as to strip them of their sash, it's a wobble on the podium, a needless error of judgement that could have been easily avoided had they heeded that... old truism. Here is proof you really can have too much of a good thing," reviewer Simon Goddard concluded, giving it a 3/5 rating.[37]
At Rolling Stone, they ranked the album at No. 5 on their "50 Best Albums of 2013" list, writing that the fact that album has the "ability to provoke actual feelings is what makes this great."[38] Stereogum ranked Reflektor at number ten on their "The 50 Best Albums of 2013" list, stating: "[Reflektor is] the record that Arcade Fire didn't need to risk making, but they did anyway and we're lucky to have it. This is an album that sets a new milestone. From now on, we're listening to a post-Reflektor Arcade Fire, and they've never been more exciting.".[39] Drowned in Sound placed Reflektor 5th in their favorite albums of the year list, despite initially giving the album a negative review.[40] 17 music journalists of the Polish media company Agora SA (Gazeta Wyborcza, Gazeta.pl, TOK FM) placed Reflektor at number one in their ranking of 10 Best Foreign Albums of 2013.[41]
The album is a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize.[42]
The album has been nominated at the 57th Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Music Album, whilst the track We Exist has additionally been nominated for Best Music Video.[43]
|Consequence of Sound
|Top 50 Albums of 2013[44]
|Drowned in Sound
|Drowned in Sound's Favorite Albums of 2013[40]
|Gazeta Wyborcza
|10 Best Foreign Albums of 2013[41]
|The Line of Best Fit
|Best Fit Fifty: Albums of 2013[45]
|50 Best Records of 2013[46]
|Rolling Stone
|50 Best Albums of 2013[38]
|The 50 Best Albums of 2013[39]
|Pitchfork Media
|Top 50 Albums of 2013[47]
The album was recognized as one of The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far, a list published by Pitchfork Media in August 2014.[4]
Commercial performance[edit]
The album debuted at number one on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 49,000 copies. This marks an increase from their previous album's debut week.[48] The album sold 101,000 copies in Canada in 2013.[49]
In the US, the album also reached number one on the Billboard 200, with 140,000 copies sold in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan.[50] It was the third best-selling vinyl album in the US in 2013, selling 31,000 copies.[51] As of December 2014, Reflektor has sold 367,000 copies total in the US.[52]
The album debuted at number one in the UK with sales of 45,252.[53]
Track listing[edit]
Note: On CD and digital releases, "We Exist" is the second track of the album, but the fourth on the vinyl version (as the first song of Side B, or 1:4 [54]). Disc one of the CD release contains 10 minutes of hidden reversed samples of tracks from the disc in the pre-gap before the first track, while a five-minute soundscape follows "Supersymmetry" on disc two.
|Disc one
|Untitled (hidden track)
|"We Exist"
|"Flashbulb Eyes"
|"Here Comes the Night Time"
|"Normal Person"
|"You Already Know"
|"Joan of Arc"
|Disc two
|"Here Comes the Night Time II"
|"Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice)"
|"It's Never Over (Hey Orpheus)"
|"Supersymmetry" (includes untitled hidden track)
|Deluxe edition bonus tracks
|"Women of a Certain Age"
|"Flashbulb Eyes" (Dennis Bovell remix featuring Linton Kwesi Johnson)
|"Soft Power"
|"Get Right"
|"Crucified Again"
Arcade Fire[edit]
Additional musicians[edit]
Recording personnel[edit]
|Chart (2013)
|Australian Albums (ARIA)[55]
|Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[56]
|Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[57]
|Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[58]
|Canadian Albums (Billboard)[59]
|Croatian Foreign Albums (HDU)[60]
|Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[61]
|Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[62]
|Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[63]
|French Albums (SNEP)[64]
|German Albums (Official Top 100)[65]
|Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[66]
|Irish Albums (IRMA)[67]
|Italian Albums (FIMI)[68]
|New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[69]
|Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[70]
|Polish Albums (ZPAV)[71]
|Portuguese Albums (AFP)[72]
|Scottish Albums (OCC)[73]
|Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[74]
|Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[75]
|Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[76]
|UK Albums (OCC)[77]
|UK Digital Albums (OCC)[78]
|US Billboard 200[79]
Year-end charts[edit]
|Chart (2013)
|Canadian Albums(Billboard)[80]
|US Billboard Alternative Albums [81]
|US Billboard 200[82]
|US Billboard Rock Albums[83]
|Chart (2014)
|Canadian Albums(Billboard)[84]
|US Billboard Alternative Albums [85]
|US Billboard 200[86]
|US Billboard Rock Albums[87]
|Canada (Music Canada)[88]
|3× Platinum
|France (SNEP)[89]
|United Kingdom (BPI)[90]
*sales figures based on certification alone
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Grace Potter and the Nocturnals will play today at an event for President Barack Obama at UVM / IAN THOMAS JANSEN-LONNQUIST, for the Free Press
Even for a musician whos uncomfortable merging politics and music, its hard to turn down an invitation to play at a campaign stop for the president of the United States.
Grace Potter was in Burbank, Calif., on a sunny day in late February, holed up inside the darkened studio of Waterbury native Rich Costey as he mixed the new album by Potter and her band, the Nocturnals. Among dozens of emails she scrolled through at the studio, one in particular caught her attention: It was a representative of the campaign of Barack Obama asking if she and her band would be willing to perform at an Obama event in Burlington in late March.
I thought it was a fundraiser, Potter said by phone Tuesday from her home near Waitsfield. I didnt know he was going to be there.
Once she realized she and her band, including new bass player Michael Libramento, would be the featured entertainment for a campaign stop for Obama it takes place today at the University of Vermont her reaction was less measured.
I think it was pandemonium in my house for a hot second, complete with screaming and jumping, Potter said. Its a dream come true on a lot of levels. The thing that really clinched it for me is its in Vermont, its not in D.C. Im not one of 500 artists and he comes in and youre just lucky to get within 10 feet of him.
Potter, whose national profile increased last year when she shared a duet with Kenny Chesney on the Grammy-nominated song You and Tequila, hasnt shied away entirely from linking politics and music. The song Ah Mary, on the Nocturnals 2007 album This is Somewhere, obliquely references the era of George W. Bush and the Iraq War (Shes the beat of my heart/Shes the shot of a gun/Shell be the end of me/And maybe everyone).
I have, in general, been very ambiguous about anything I do politically, Potter said. I try to in a lot of ways not treat music as a soap box. Im very against that. I feel like the music always suffers. Songs that address politics effectively do so with subtlety, Potter said.
There are definite examples where people have skirted the issue, she said, but still found a way to come back to it in a very poetic way.
For their self-titled 2010 album, Potter and the Nocturnals recorded the song Colors, which Potter said was inspired when Obama was elected in 2008 and cemented when the band performed as part of his inauguration ceremony in 2009. She remembers seeing newscasts showing the breakdown of voters on Election Night with maps of red states and blue states and thinking that was a wild misuse of colors.
It was a united nation of people simply making decisions, said Potter, who wrote her song to reflect that (I dont want to build a wall/Or draw a line across the sand/Because theres room for one and all/And this land is our land).
She never worried about whether supporters would be angry with her and her band for playing at a Democratic presidents campaign stop. She said she has heard some grief from fans about her choice.
That doesnt matter to me at all, Potter said. This is an opportunity that anyone would take. It doesnt matter where you stand. This is our president.
Burlington guitarist Paul Asbell said he and the Unknown Blues Band featuring Big Joe Burrell didnt think twice, either, when they performed on Church Street as part of former Vermont Gov. Howard Deans announcement that he would seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2004.
The group, he said, played at events for former Gov. Madeleine Kunin and considered then-Progressive Mayor Peter Clavelle an enormous supporter of the band. Burrell often worked the name of Bernie Sanders, the former Burlington mayor and U.S. representative whos now an independent U.S. senator from Vermont, into various raps during shows, Asbell said.
There was no internal debate, no wrestling, no question mark, no perceived downside, Asbell said of the Dean campaign performance. He represented a candidate that we were in support of for starters. But also, even if we hadnt been, its a great kind of way to get on the map.
He was a serious candidate, Asbell said of Dean, somebody who represented what a lot of people thought was a Vermont-consistent approach to how the country could be managed. He did an excellent job, I thought, of herding the cats of various political stripes and managing Vermont very well.
The tenor of the times when the band played for the Dean campaign in 2003 made it easier to support a candidate, according to Asbell. The city had really in its kind of Progressive side really embraced the band, he said, noting that it might be harder in this more politically contentious era to support a candidate.
Potter whose new album with the Nocturnals, The Lion the Beast the Beat, is due out June 12 said she still supports Obama even though his campaign built on the word hope has given way to three years of often bitter wrangling over lingering war, economic recession and health care. Reality has certainly set in, she said. That doesnt change the way I feel.
She emphasized that shed rather save political discussions for the dinner table than public discourse, but added that everyone knows which side of the line I slope toward.
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