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2015 SoHum Year End Recap
Posted by john hardin on December 28, 2015
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As 2015 draws to a close, and I sip my holiday nog, I reflect on what has happened over the past year, in this little corner of the world we call Southern Humboldt County.
2015 started off with a little squeeze on our pocketbooks, as Measure Z went into effect. Measure Z a regressive, countywide sales tax, now forces Humboldt County's poorest and most vulnerable citizens to pay for county services to dope yuppies, merchants and ranchers. A couple of things that didn't happen in 2015, despite this windfall of revenue in the county coffers: Another year went by and still, there is no public wifi, anywhere within a 50 mile radius of Garberville. I realize that here in Sierra Leone, where years of bloodshed and political instability make such critical infrastructure difficult to secure and maintain… Oh wait, SoHum is in California, USA, WTF!
Also in 2015, no public restroom appeared on the streets of SoHum. This much talked about, and much needed, facility remained, for the entirety of 2015, confined to that rarefied space reserved for aspirational visions. At least there, nobody has to clean it. Garberville is the only town of any size between Laytonville and Eureka on 101. Many people in the hills have to drive an hour or more to get to town. However you get there, by the time you get to Garberville, the first thing you need to do is find a restroom. It's just cruel not to have one.
Speaking of cruel, 2015 marked the rise in prominence of local street artist Ron Machado. Ron's edgy assemblages of found objects, appeared all over Garberville in 2015, challenging this small town's image of itself. Ron's controversial work provoked much public debate, but things turned ugly in February when vigilante thugs attacked Ron, sprayed him with chemicals and set his camp on fire, filling the streets with the acrid stench of burning plastic and cultural intolerance. The attackers remain at large.
Speaking of large, in March, large boulders fell from the bluffs above, blocking Redwood Drive between Redway and Garberville. Two towns, two miles apart, suddenly became two towns, 15 miles apart. This completely changed the dynamics of Southern Humboldt. For example, when we go to town for groceries, we generally visit Chautauqua in Garberville, and Shop Smart in Redway, but when Redwood Drive is out, to get from Redway to Garberville, or vice versa, you have to get on the highway. Once you get on the highway, then fuck-it! You might as well go to Eureka. Businesses in both Redway and Garberville complained about slumping sales during the road closure, and the closure lasted well into April.
In May, SoHum hosted a very distinguished visitor, thanks to a new organization that made a lot of waves in Humboldt County this year. California Cannabis Voice Humboldt, or CCVH, an association founded by some of some of Humboldt's greediest dope yuppies, hired a professional lobbyist to help them push their agenda in Sacramento, and in Eureka. On May 29 Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsome came to SoHum with dollar signs in his eyes. He toured a pot farm, and spoke to a packed house in Garberville.
Newsom convened a "Blue Ribbon Commission on Marijuana Legalization" that told the dope yuppies exactly what they wanted to hear. Newsom told us, with a straight face no less, that it was important to keep the price of marijuana high, and that the people who grow it for the black market are the best people to grow it for the legal market too. After being roundly criticized for jumping in bed with drug dealers, Newsom quietly stepped away from his legalization agenda, and took up the mantle of gun control.
At the county level, CCVH threatened to impose a new countywide cannabis cultivation ordinance in 2015, by sidestepping the supervisors, and going straight to the voters. They soon realized that the voters were even less likely to give them what they want than the supes. So far, it looks like the county will bend over backwards for CCVH, whether the voters like it or not, and our local environmental non-profits will have to sue the county for not living up to their responsibilities to the public. If that happens, we can watch our tax dollars battle our charitable donations until they both disappear in a useless cloud of legal fees and paperwork, as dope yuppies kill off the last of the wild salmon.
Speaking of legal fees and paperwork, in June, a big posse of law enforcement descended on Island Mtn, to show us what today's marijuana industry looks like. Just after the Summer Solstice, Deputies seized over 23,000 plants, mostly in full bloom and near harvest. These large scale "light-dep" operations have taken the cannabis industry by storm because they dramatically increase cannabis productivity. These resource intensive operations dramatically magnify the impacts of cannabis farming on the surrounding environment as well.
In addition to the many thousands of plants, deputies seized an enormous quantity, even by Humboldt County standards, of processed sinsemilla flowers, ready for market. The raids netted over 4,000 lbs of bud. Who keeps two tons of weed on hand? "Dude, it's my head-stash." they must have said. There are two kinds of drug dealers. The kind who use forklifts, and the kind who don't. I guess we know which kind these were.
Incidentally, a few of the properties raided on Island Mountain belonged to prominent CCVH members, and outspoken cannabis industry apologist, Hezekiah Allen, who claimed he had been trying to get his name off of that property deed. If you ever have that problem again, Hezekiah, give me a call. You can sign a property over to me today, or any day, and I'll have your name off of that title in a week.
Also in June, Kathy Epling died unexpectedly. In many ways, Kathy Epling, was the heart of SoHum. Being the heart of Southern Humboldt, is kind of like being Dick Cheney's heart. Like Dick Cheney's heart, Kathy was overburdened, her needs went largely ignored, and she pumped her life into something bigger than her, over which she had no control, and only a little influence, but she gave it everything she had. She is sorely missed.
Speaking of nice women with difficult jobs. This summer, Cinnamon Paula resigned from her position as director of the Garberville-Redway Chamber of Commerce. For the last few years, Cinnamon Paula put a kind, sensitive face on the heartless greed, and fascist agenda of the Garberville-Redway Chamber of Commerce. Ultimately, though, her humanity, compassion, and sense of community mattered more to her than money. I wish I could say that about more people in SoHum.
As Summer wore on, lightning storms ignited drought stricken, tinder-dry forests all over Northern California. Compared to Lake, Trinity and Sonoma counties, Southern Humboldt emerged from the 2015 fire season relatively unscathed, but Garberville became a major staging area for firefighting efforts. For weeks, every restaurant in town had a line, five deep, of buff young men in uniform, including a large contingent of regular army GIs. As usual in SoHum, Summer dissolved into a haze of heat and intoxicating smoke, echoing to the rhythmic reverberations of helicopter blades.
Speaking of dissolving. In September. The Redway Community Services District drove a stake through the heart of the, proposed, Gyppo Ale Mill. At the height of the worst drought in recent memory, the Redway Community Services District rejected the proposed brewery's water use application. Local entrepreneurs had hoped to capitalize on this community's heroic, and seemingly insatiable thirst for alcohol, but it's damn hard to make beer without water.
No great loss. With a location in an out-of-the-way industrial park, walking distance from nowhere, it makes more sense to think of the Gyppo Ale Mill as a manufacturer of drunk drivers. Who would argue that we need more of those on our roads in SoHum?
Speaking of things we don't need more of, in September, at an annual cannabis competition event, called the Golden Tarp Awards, judges disqualified nearly half of the entries because of mold contamination. The Golden Tarp is awarded for the best "light-dep" cannabis flowers. Increasingly growers turn to these "light-dep" methods, which utilize large light-blocking tarps to artificially manipulate the length of day. Using "light-dep" techniques, some growers can produce two or three crops each season. No one seems to know why so many of these buds, hand picked by professional growers, hoping to win a contest, contained mold, but you have to wonder what quality control was like on the other nine-million tons of weed these growers produced.
Speaking of contamination. Scientist Maurad Gabriel with the Institute for Integral Ecology announced his latest findings in his study of pacific fishers. He concludes that more pacific fishers have perished due to rodenticide poisoning, and that contamination rates continue to rise. A recent survey finds 85% of pacific fishers test positive for rodenticides, up from 76% in his previous study. These elusive forest dwellers, related to weasels and pine martins, eat rodents, but lately, a significant portion of wild rodents, even in deep forests, contain large doses of rodenticide poison. Marijuana growers operating deep in the woods use rat poison to protect their crop from rodents, and sick rodents wander off to be eaten by unsuspecting fishers.
Speaking of unsuspecting, at least three people were severely beaten this past fall, by people they did not know, who woke them up by pounding the crap out of them. This Fall, like every Fall, SoHum's population swelled with an influx of trimmigrant labor for the harvest season. The cannabis harvest season brings, far and away, our greatest influx of European tourists and European tourist dollars. Instead of seeing them as an economic blessing, and an opportunity for cultural exchange, locals treat them as an inconvenience, a nuisance and an eyesore. Local media, especially the Redwood Times, help amplify these hostilities, and so these seasonal visitors become targets for harassment and convenient victims for venting pent-up anger. No one was arrested in any of these attacks.
Visitors to SoHum should be aware that this area is a safe haven for dangerous violent criminals who seek out poor and vulnerable people for unspeakable abuse. Some of these dangerous violent criminals wear a Humboldt County Sheriff's Department uniform. Former Sheriff's Deputy Daniels spent the entire year of 2015 in jail, awaiting trial on two counts of sexual assault. Two Southern Humboldt women came forward and testified that Daniels sexually assaulted them while in uniform, and on duty in Southern Humboldt. The second assault happened months after the first victim took her complaint to the DA, and Daniels remained in active duty for months after the DA took the second woman's report. How many victims kept the abuse to themselves, rather than risk further humiliation. Why did the Sheriff's Department fail to take the first report seriously enough to prevent the second? Perhaps we'll find out in 2016.
Finally, in December, the Clover Insurance building on Sprowell Creek Rd. was involved in a traffic accident for the second time in two months, leading to much speculation. What was this building doing out on the road so late at night? Had it been drinking? More importantly, do you want to keep your insurance policy, your safety net, if you will, in such a reckless building, especially when Miclette Insurance, right around the corner, hasn't been involved in a single traffic accident since at least the turn of the century. I guess it's good that Clover is in the insurance business, because with a traffic record like their building now has, it's going to be tough for them to find an affordable policy. I for one, won't be surprised to see the Clover Insurance building peddling a bicycle around town in 2016. I hope I see you around town in 2016 too.
We Must Defeat Measure Z
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It's only a campaign if you stick with it till the bitter end, we must defeat the forces of greed and corruption in Humboldt County, and we must defeat Measure Z. Unfortunately, this is an uphill climb. I really don't know how to gauge the electorate, but from the people I've talked to about the issue, public opinion ranges from ignorance to stupidity.
The most common response I heard from people was: "What is Measure Z?" That's just simple ignorance. I understand that. I can explain Measure Z to them, no problem, and then they can make up their own mind, but that takes work, and it costs money which I don't have.
Measure Z is essentially a one-half of one percent increase in the cost of almost everything for everyone in Humboldt County. Measure Z is the rich stealing from the poor. Measure Z is the same greedy bastards who took over our Board of Supervisors, reaching deep into the pockets of the working people of Humboldt County. Measure Z makes you pay for big subsidies to ranchers and developers, and allows them to profit from your hard work.
There's been almost no press about this issue, except the blandest pile of BS you ever heard from our local Supervisor, and another from someone in the Sheriff's Dept. Everyone in the county got a mailer about Measure Z, paid for by the taxpayers. The mailer was equally bland, and completely unbalanced.
Measure Z proponents are hoping for rain on election day, and a poor turnout. They don't want Humboldt County working people to even bother to vote. They know that the greedy bastards looking for a free ride on your shoulders will make it to the polls, rain or shine. We need to GET OUT THE VOTE on November 4. Measure Z is going to bite you in the wallet if you don't wake up now and beat it at the ballot-box. Please vote No on Measure Z.
The stupidity is a lot harder to deal with. Stupid land owners say things like (excerpted from a fb exchange):
" I am a property owner and a landlord. I have no problem with increased taxes, but county government is for all of us from law enforcement, public records, the library, our courts, public health to public welfare. I agree we may well have a planning problem with developers, but I don't see ranchers and farmers as greedy–they provide us with our food. Ranchers and farmers have been heavily impacted by the recent drought. Poor people and the homeless need government services–before I retired I was on the homeless coalition. There are those who care about the poor who work in county government. I would be very careful pitting people against each other. We all need to work together to make our area a better place to live. Paying property taxes is a way to make the lives of the less fortunate better. Proposition 13 that decreased county property taxes heavily impacted the poor by decreasing government services."
What a crock of Bullshit! People like this don't think they are being greedy, because greed is the water they swim in. Calling them "greedy" is like calling a fish "wet." 90% of what county government does, is guarantee the property rights of property owners. Courts, law-enforcement, public records primarily serve these ends. There may be people who care about the poor who work in county government, but that's not what they get paid to do. They get paid to implement policies that have been created to protect property owners from the poor.
Ranchers and farmers don't "provide us with food," unless we buy it from them, at a price they agree to. Measure Z forces poor and homeless people to subsidize these farmers and ranchers, even though they have no land themselves, and get no food at all in return. Those alleged "property rights" amount to nothing more than an expensive and violent occupation of stolen land by vicious genocidal invaders.
I agree that we all need to work together to make this area a better place to live, but to do that, we need to find homes for the more than 2,000 people who have no place to live in Humboldt County. Instead, Measure Z makes those homeless Humboldters pay for services to rich, stupid and greedy land owners, heirs to the most violent, racist and genocidal empire to ever despoil the face of God's green Earth.
That's the kind of greed and stupidity we're up against folks. Measure Z supporters are "Marie Antoinette" stupid, and there's only one cure for that kind of stupidity.
Here's some more helpful information to help you make up your mind about Measure Z:
The North Coast Journal usually only accepts letters to the editor about topics they cover in the magazine, and they haven't even mentioned Measure Z. In this last month before the election they have made space for letters about political issues, but limited the length of these letters to to 150 words. 150 words is barely longer than a bumper sticker for Christs sake. Anyway, here's mine.
Measure Z, the proposed county-wide sales tax will raise the price of basic necessities like shoes, clothes and toiletries, as well as most other things, for everyone in Humboldt County. This new tax will most severely impact Humboldt County's students, working people, low-income families, disabled people and seniors living on fixed incomes. It is particularly unfair to fund county government with a sales tax because the primary purpose of county government is to secure the property rights of property owners. If you own property, county government works for you, whether you live here or not. If you don't own property, county government are the people who evict you from your home. If Measure Z passes, Humboldt county's low-income residents will begin paying their landlord's tax bill. Measure Z is a cynical ploy to take advantage of the county's most vulnerable. Please, VOTE NO on Measure Z.
Sincerely, John Hardin
Continuing my campaign to sink Measure Z I present the text to an "All Sides Now," a nightly audio editorial feature on KMUD, that I submitted regarding Measure Z. Read it now or save yourself the trouble of interpreting all of those English language characters and listen to it tonight, Monday, October 20 at 6:30 after the evening news, instead.
This is John Hardin for All Sides Now,
Measure Z, if it passes would establish a brand new county-wide sales tax, on top of the already high seven-and-a-half percent state sales tax, and in addition to any municipal sales tax, such as the one up for reconsideration in Eureka. If Measure Z passes, it will make almost everything in Humboldt County, more expensive, including basic necessities like shoes, clothes and toiletries.
Measure Z will most severely impact Humboldt County's young people and students, low-income working families, single mothers, disabled people, retirees and others living on a fixed income. In other words, Measure Z hurts the people who can afford it the least.
Who benefits from Measure Z? Greedy developers, rich ranchers and large estate owners expect to reap a windfall of taxpayer subsidies from Measure Z funds. If Measure Z passes, you will pay for taxbreaks on new McMansion developments, every time you buy toilet paper. If Measure Z passes, you will have to pay for subsidized pest control for ranchers, through Wildlife Services, a notoriously inhumane agency of the USDA that needlessly kills millions of wild animals every year, every time you buy cruelty-free cosmetics in Humboldt County.
Measure Z is a cynical plan, hatched by Humboldt County's richest and greediest, to foist the burden of county government on to the backs of people who can afford it the least, while they insure that the benefits of county government remain firmly within their grasp.
Measure Z steals from the poor and gives to the rich. We must stop Measure Z now, before it is too late. Please, vote NO on Measure Z.
Vote NO on Measure Z
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I just googled "Measure Z Humboldt County," and discovered that this blog ranks higher than any other site that opposes Measure Z. Right behind the official Support Measure Z site, the county's Measure Z page, and a LOCO story about Measure Z, my piece, No Wifi in SoHum Means No on Measure Z ranked fourth, and was the only "No on Z" site to turn up on the entire first page of results.
Fuck! Somebody needs to stand up to Rob Arkley and Lee Ulansey's plan to screw the poor and working people of Humboldt County. It looks like everyone else is busy with the Eureka Fair Wage Act and the County-wide GMO Ban. Personally, I don't even garden, let alone farm, and I don't live in Eureka, so those issues don't effect me much.
On the other hand, Measure Z, if it passes will hurt me, and a lot of other people in Humboldt County like me, who barely make ends meet, and have neither the time nor the resources to launch a political campaign. I don't have money for campaign literature. I don't even have a phone to call other people to help organize a fundraiser. I have a blog. That's it. That's what makes Measure Z so unfair. It specifically targets the people who have the least resources to fight it. It's like taking candy from a baby.
I make my living as an artist. The key to survival as an artist is not talent or hard work, because God knows I lack the former, and avoid the latter like Ebola. The key to survival as an artist is finding creative ways to spend even less money than you make. There is no minimum wage for artists, nor do we get any raises, cost-of-living increases or bonuses. Keeping costs down is critical to my survival, and Measure Z, if it passes will raise my cost of living, and it will definitely hurt.
If Measure Z passes, I will have to pay more for things like shoes, clothes, shampoo and toilet paper, basic necessities of life that everyone needs and has to buy. Everyone who buys anything in Humboldt County will have to pay this tax to county government. Measure Z will raise the price of everything from tampons, condoms and diapers to beer wine and cigarettes for everyone who shops in Humboldt County, but it won't effect everyone equally.
People who have plenty of money will just shrug it off without a second thought. Land-owners think it beats paying property tax, so they won't complain. Merchants think they are going to get something for it, namely more sheriff's deputies tasked with the job of removing unsightly poverty from our business districts, so you don't hear them complaining. For work-a-day stiffs, low-income families, disabled people and retirees on a fixed income, Measure Z could easily become the straw that breaks the camel's bank.
The injustice of a county sales tax is that the primary purpose of county government is to protect the property rights of property owners. If you own property, then county government works for you, but if you don't own property, but instead rent your home, county government are the people who evict you. That's why, until now, your landlord paid for county government. That's why a county-wide sales tax is unfair. Everyone pays it, but it primarily benefits land-owners, and hurts renters.
The landlords in Humboldt County have gotten so greedy that they want to make poor and working people pay for their own eviction every time they buy shoes. Listen closely to the way land-owners talk about "transients, " because when land-owners say "transients" they mean everyone who doesn't own land. If you're a renter, they're talking about you. They're not satisfied with the exorbitant rent they already charge you. They want more. If Measure Z passes, it will be like giving your landlord an extra nickle every time you spend $10 in Humboldt County.
Your landlord takes too much of your money already! Measure Z is a shameful attempt by rich ranchers and greedy real estate developers like Lee Ulansey and Rob Arkley to steal from the poor and working people of Humboldt County. Measure Z steals from the poor and gives to the rich. We must stop it NOW. Vote NO on Measure Z
…And don't forget to register to vote!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Following letter appeared in this week's Independent and Redwood Times:
The only thing that looms larger on the landscape of Humboldt County than the majestic redwoods for which we are rightly famous, is the unmitigated greed of some of it's richest residents. Today, that greed has a stranglehold on county government, and stands poised to reach into the pockets of this county's poor,
low-income,
and working people.
Measure Z, the countywide sales tax, will make bare necessities, like clothing, shoes and toiletries, more expensive for the people who can least afford them: single mothers,
working families,
disabled people,
and retirees on fixed incomes.
Measure Z steals from the poor, and gives their hard-earned money to Lee Ulansey's hand-picked Board of Supervisors, who then give it to rich ranchers and greedy developers in the form of subsidies and tax breaks.
The Board of Supervisors, and the puppet-masters who pull their strings, know that poor people are the most generous, community minded people in the county, and they intend to play us for suckers.
The county has not promised to do anything to help poor or working people. Quite the contrary, the county has promised to use the money to harass homeless people, speed up evictions, and to make room in the county jail for people accused of petty crimes.
If the county is broke, it is only because it has so consistently pandered to the desires of rich land-owners, and failed to tax them sufficiently.
If measure Z passes, the county will begin collecting sales tax from everyone who spends money in Humboldt County, including many local residents who can ill afford it.
That money will pay for subsidized infrastructure to support new McMansion developments.
It will pay for subsidized pest control for ranchers, through Wildlife Services, an expensive and outdated agency notorious for cruel, inhumane practices and for indiscriminately killing millions of wild animals every year,
and it will pay for thousands of little perks for land-owners, like subsidizing the cost of hazardous materials inspections at agricultural businesses.
Measure Z will be a windfall for Humboldt County's richest and greediest 1%.
I urge each of you to stand together with the 99%. Tell the county to tax the rich, not the poor! Make the 1% pay their fair share. Please, vote NO on Measure Z.


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Response to Jewson & French: 'A comment on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method'
Steven Stern*
Bond Business School
[Extract]
Let me start by heartily thanking the authors for their careful consideration of DLS and its application. I have, of course, always wondered how well the DL methodology, built as it is on international data, mimicked scoring patterns in national competitions (and even district and club leagues, where the method is now being utilised in many places). One of the main premises of the methodology is that scoring patterns are governed by a reasonably consistent risk–reward trade-off more than by overall run rates (at least until such rates become extreme), and thus it should in theory be applicable at most levels of the game, but seeing that confirmed in the data of competitions other than the international ones is a pleasure to read. Indeed, I was recently fortunate enough to gain access to a large database of ball-by-ball outcomes for women's international matches and was able to confirm there as well that while overall totals were obviously lower, scoring patterns in terms of resource usage were essentially identical to those in the men's international game, making use of a common DLS version not just expedient, but also justifiable and appropriate.
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Stern, S. (2018). Response to Jewson & French: 'A comment on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method'. Journal of the Operational Research Society, 69(7), 1164-1165. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41274-017-0282-8
Stern, Steven. / Response to Jewson & French: 'A comment on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method'. In: Journal of the Operational Research Society. 2018 ; Vol. 69, No. 7. pp. 1164-1165.
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T1 - Response to Jewson & French: 'A comment on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method'
AU - Stern, Steven
N2 - [Extract]Let me start by heartily thanking the authors for their careful consideration of DLS and its application. I have, of course, always wondered how well the DL methodology, built as it is on international data, mimicked scoring patterns in national competitions (and even district and club leagues, where the method is now being utilised in many places). One of the main premises of the methodology is that scoring patterns are governed by a reasonably consistent risk–reward trade-off more than by overall run rates (at least until such rates become extreme), and thus it should in theory be applicable at most levels of the game, but seeing that confirmed in the data of competitions other than the international ones is a pleasure to read. Indeed, I was recently fortunate enough to gain access to a large database of ball-by-ball outcomes for women's international matches and was able to confirm there as well that while overall totals were obviously lower, scoring patterns in terms of resource usage were essentially identical to those in the men's international game, making use of a common DLS version not just expedient, but also justifiable and appropriate.
AB - [Extract]Let me start by heartily thanking the authors for their careful consideration of DLS and its application. I have, of course, always wondered how well the DL methodology, built as it is on international data, mimicked scoring patterns in national competitions (and even district and club leagues, where the method is now being utilised in many places). One of the main premises of the methodology is that scoring patterns are governed by a reasonably consistent risk–reward trade-off more than by overall run rates (at least until such rates become extreme), and thus it should in theory be applicable at most levels of the game, but seeing that confirmed in the data of competitions other than the international ones is a pleasure to read. Indeed, I was recently fortunate enough to gain access to a large database of ball-by-ball outcomes for women's international matches and was able to confirm there as well that while overall totals were obviously lower, scoring patterns in terms of resource usage were essentially identical to those in the men's international game, making use of a common DLS version not just expedient, but also justifiable and appropriate.
M3 - Comment/debate/opinion
JO - Journal of the Operational Research Society
JF - Journal of the Operational Research Society
Stern S. Response to Jewson & French: 'A comment on the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method'. Journal of the Operational Research Society. 2018 Jul 3;69(7):1164-1165. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41274-017-0282-8


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Topic: Gcode Sender with a Second Arduino to untether Computer???
Gcode Sender with a Second Arduino to untether Computer???
I am looking for help to free up my computer from the long print times which require it. Assuming a permanant machine setup, I beleive you only need to set the machine settings once in the beginning, meaning the rest of the magic (after "set home") is gcode.
Would it be possible to add a second arduino to send gcode from an sd card?.
2) Button1 (pinx) activates "Set Home" feature sending the appropriate information to the polargraph.
3) Button2 (piny) activates a gcode sender to pull information from an SD card and begin sending it to the polargraph.
**Additional buttons can be added such as "toggle servo position" or "return home" but I feel these first two buttons ar what is necessary.
If anyone code savvy people would take this on, or assist me by answering questions and providing direction, I would be most appreciative as I am but a novice.
Re: Gcode Sender with a Second Arduino to untether Computer???
What a good idea! The second arduino is purely concerned with waiting for the "ready" message and then retrieving one command at a time from the SD card and shipping it off over the serial port.
Only thing is that it's not really pure GCode, it's a special "polargraph" command sequence. Doesn't make much difference - except the commands must be generated by the Polargraph controller.
To untether my laptop I have had some success using a Raspberry Pi with the Standalone command queue runner. The Pi is connected to my home network and I can SSH into it from my laptop over wifi. May be an option for you if you can't get the second Arduino working like you want.
I use my laptop for the things the Raspberry Pi isn't good for like the heavy image preprocessing, generating and optimizing the text files.
*Generate an 'image.txt' with my laptop using the Polargraph Controller.
(just in case it goes Terminator on me).
Still playing with the setup a bit and so I haven't left it to do a complete drawing yet, but so far it looks promising.
I am still not comfortable leaving it unattended, but at least I have my laptop available for other things.
Ok, I've tried to connect second arduino with SD and LCD, and it works!!!!
Oh, ha ha! Nice work! That's a neat job - love the idea of decoupling the command readout from the movement. Updating the LCD has always been something that happens synchronously with the drawing, so it's always caused a pause.
It works quick, but sometimes its stuck on "Basic command executed." It happens rarely and after drawing wave and receiving a lot SYNC. I dont know it freezes on polargraph or my controller skips READY command and wait next.
And i have a question - does a Ready command has a 10 symbol on end?
I'll post a code after editing it and adding comments.
This is so cool gamebox!
Sorry about delay, I was busy and forgot.
My sketch uses a simple PCD8544.h library by carlosefr (there is information how connect LCD to board) https://github.com/carlosefr/pcd8544 and SoftwareSerial.h to connect directly to RX and TX (D1 and D0) Polargraph's board.
SD connection described in sketch.
If your polargraph works fine with PC, you can connect it to second arduino - controller. Controller's D8 to Polargraph's TX(D0) and D9 to RX (D1). And now you must not connect Polargraph via Usb and power it by +5V and GND pins from controller which can power via USB but it not good idea. You can see debug information from controller in Serial terminal but it can reset arduino and drawing is broke.
Its ok and contain pensize, speed and acceleration information.
Next step: press SET HOME.
After rendering commands you can press RETURN TO HOME, its adds return home command after drawing.
Put SD on controller slot, manually set gondola to home position and turn on power.
If SD and file OK screen show filesize (as you can see on video higher( and now you can press RUN button and it will start draw!!!
PS: Dont forget to connect 2 buttons between +5V and inputs A0, A1. Also there are need pulldown resistors around 1 ...100 kOhm which connected between GND and inputs.
Simplified SD sender with a "cheap" Polargraph SD, really good results!
do i still need to configure the polargraph_server_a1 codes?
Do you have 2 buttons on A0 and A1? You need to connect the buttons between +5V and inputs. Also there are need pulldown resistors around 1 ...100 kOhm which connected between GND and inputs.
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Anyway, a couple fun things happened since the last update. First, I completed the Cranberry Country Olympic Distance Triathlon on my 35th birthday. I trained with a fairly consistent focus for about seven weeks, and I felt like it really paid off. I felt decent when it was over and gave it my best effort for the day. I did this one in its inaugural year--2002, and the event has grown signficantly. The distances became a little more accurate, too.
Results are below for comparison with the 2002 event, which is not apples to apples given the changes. I include the winning time for humor's sake, I guess. I have to rereiterate that I am constanly confounded to believe that the swim continues to be my best event by placement. You should reread this story if you forget about my second ever (first-with-swim) triathlon experience (aka near-death swim leg). Anyway, it's been a rare occurrence for me to walk away from an athletic endeavor and be just-the-right-amount-of satisfied. Happy Birthday to me.
I did the race with a friend from work, Dave Fitzhenry, while another, Leslie Sandberg, made some great signs and was an active, very timely supporter. We had a fun cookout at Dave's post-race and told war stories to elicit sympathy. Happy Birthday to me.
The next good time was a Labor Day weekend trip to CO to vist Grandpa Bryan, Bernadine, and her girls. My sister, Kristin, and her husband, Garret, joined us for the whole weekend, which was great. We also had the pleasure of catching up with some long-time (from back in the early Iowa days) family friends, Frank and Beth Padilla. Luke and Ben had a lot of fun playing soccer and jumping on the trampoline. A day of golf, watched Karissa and Katrina play some quality volleyball, and trip to the famous Rio Grande restaurant. Fun stuff. Enjoy.


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Q: Complete binary tree as an efficient data-structure You are given an array of size n(n being a power of two). All the entries of the array are initialized to zero. You have to perform a sequence of the following online operations :

*

*Add(i,x) which adds x to the entry A[i].

*Report sum(i,j) = sum of the entries in the array from indices i to j for any 0 < i < j <= n.

It can be seen easily that we can perform the first operation in O(1) time whereas the second operation may cost O(n) in worst case. Your objective is to perform these operations efficiently. Give a data-structure which will guarantee O(log n) time per operation
I think the solution is segment tree but did know whether i am wrong or right?

A: Well, you can do this with a tree or you can do it with a more efficient data structure. In either case, you don't need a segment tree -- those are more search-oriented and less data oriented.
For reasons of efficiency, I'd go with an array of arrays where the first array is n sized, the next array is n/2 sized, n/4, n/8, ... 1. Whenever you add x to A[i] (the first array), you also add it to index (i >> 1) (a.k.a. i/2) in the second array, index (i >> 2) (a.k.a. i/4) in the third array, etc...
The trick is in calculating sum(i, j). We're now going to compute both sum(0, j) and sum(0, i - 1) because sum(i, j) = sum(0, j) - sum(0, i - 1).
To compute sum(0, v) (for some v) all you have to do is add up at most a single entry from each level. The pseudocode to sum from 0 to index *not including the index itself is as follows:
sum from 0 to index:
begin
    i = 0
    sum = 0
    while i < maxlevel
        if ((index >> i) & 1) != 0
            sum = sum + array[i][index]
    return sum
end

To get an intuition for why this works, think about the lowest level array and summing from 0 to an even index vs. an odd index. If you're using an even index, you could just do it more efficiently by using the array just above it since it already has every two entries summed already! Effectively, for an odd number index you could just do the same thing as you'd do for an even index, but add the one entry that's the "odd man out" by hand. But since you're going to be summing indices at the second level, you could just do all but potentially the last one (if the new index to sum to) is odd.. Etc, etc, etc.. That's precisely what we're doing here.
Those should be all the pieces you need. If you want to do it with a binary tree, you still can in much the same fashion. You can keep a sum in each node of the binary tree. As you traverse to add a sum to a specific node, also add it to all the nodes you traverse. Likewise, you can use the same trick of finding the zero to index trick. Finding the sum from zero to index now becomes a binary tree traversal where for every node you traverse you add the node's sum and subtract any "right hand" (or higher value) child you are not traversing.
Hopefully I haven't spoiled the homework problem, and by reading this you have enough flavor to get it done but not so much that the problem is now trivialized to mere implementation.
Best of luck!

A: a tree solution:
create a full tree, whose leaves are your entrees: 1,2,...,n
node.value = inserted value [if node is a leaf]
node.value = node.left.value + node.right.value [if node is not a leaf]
so, actually - for each subtree, its root's value is the sum of the values of all its nodes.
updating an entree is O(logn) since you need to update sums all the way up to the root.
for sum(i,j) we will find the sum of all elements left to i, and all elements right to j, and subtract it from root.value, and we'll get what we needed.
so:
 sum(root,i,j) = root.value - sumLeft(i,root) - sumRight(j,root)

the calculation of sumLeft() and sumRight() is simple, [for sumLeft:] just start from the root down to the lower bound, and every time you go left, subtract the right son value, and by doing so, you cut from sum the not needed nodes. [convince yourself why this is true]. at the end, the sum has only the relevat nodes. [same principle for sumRight, but we subtract left sons instead].
pseudo code:
sumLeft(x,root):
  curr <- root
  sum <- root.value
  while (curr is not a leaf):
      if (x is in curr.right):
         curr <- curr.right
      else:
         sum <- sum - curr.right.value
         curr <- curr.left
  return sum
sumRight(x,root):
  curr <- root
  sum <- root.value
  while (curr is not a leaf):
      if (x is in curr.left):
         curr <- curr.left
      else:
         sum <- sum - curr.left.value
         curr <- curr.right
  return sum

so, sum(root,i,j) requires you twice to go down the tree, which is still O(logn), as needed.
EDIT1 :
this is how you add x to entree i, on root: [the question indicates there the oporation is adding to the entree and not replacing it, so this is what this solution assumes. it can be easily modified to insertion as well].
add(root,i,x):
  root.value <- root.value + x
  if root is leaf:
      return
  else if i is in root.left:
     add(root.left,i,x)
  else:
     add(root.right,i,x)

note that you can know exactly which subtree (left or right) of the root, the entree i belongs to [if i < n/2 to the left, else to the right]. explain yourself how it is done for any subtree, and not only the root.
EDIT 2:
example for tree with 8 elements:
                21
      10                 11
  4        6        7        4
1  3     2  4     6   1    2   2

summarize example:
sum(4,6) should provide 4 + 6 + 1 = 11.
sumLeft(4) should provide 1 + 3 + 2 = 6 and it provides: sumLeft(4) = 21 - 11 - 4 = 6 as expected.
sumRight(6) should provide 2 + 2 = 4 and it provides sumLeft(6) = 21 - 11 - 7 =4. [as expected]
so, at overall: sum(4,6) = 21 - 6 - 4 = 11 as expected.
add example:
add(2,4) [adding 4 to the 2nd element] will result in modifying the tree to:
                25
      14                 11
  8        6        7        4
1  7     2  4     6   1    2   2

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