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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Brown's 'Kulturkampf' Should be Binned
I find it typical of Labour's values that they are willing to spend £200 million on a new British Film Centre, and yet won't contribute to the upkeep of many of our deteriorating national treasures.
All this puts arts funding in the spotlight. Simon Heffer argues that "Leftists justify public funding of the arts as a means for it to shrug off "elitism"." But later in his piece he admits he does support some public funding of the arts - things like Radio 3. This illustrates the trouble people on the right have on this subject - many are happy for public money to go into the arts - as long as it's things that they approve of.
The arts and 'culture' mean many things to many different people. What is one person's art is another person's philistinism. Like Heffer, I am a traditionalist in this area and regard things like modern art as no such thing. Like him I would like to see this Green Paper consigned to a dustbin in Cockspur Street. We don't need to be told what is good for us by the government. If they left the private sector to get on with it and stopped interfering in this way, the arts would be so much better off.
Note: Tomorrow's HEFFER CONFRONTED is on this subject. As I agreed with Heffer's article I had to use a bit of ingenuity to conjure up a debate!
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Anyone who think that 'leftists' can be trusted to fund public arts properly should take a look at http://www.for3.org/index.html. The Brown Broadcasting Corporation has been extraordinarily evasive in its supposed commitments to culture on radion, in the experience of Friends of Radio Three.
- February 13, 2008 10:18 am
Anyone who think that 'leftists' can be trusted to fund public arts properly should take a look at http://www.for3.org/index.html. The Brown Broadcasting Corporation has been extraordinarily evasive in its supposed commitments to culture on radio, in the experience of Friends of Radio Three. (Corrected for embarrassing typing error)
- February 13, 2008 10:19 am
- Ed said...
I'm glad I'm not the only one who couldn't believe my ears when I heard about this on R4 this morning.
Of course this will come to nothing, it's just an attempt to be on the airwaves every morning. Has Brown got a "grid"? - February 13, 2008 10:27 am
I don't know, surely a boost to Britain's Film Industry is more democratic than propping up "Larry's Arts Club". Great year for British cinema, Paul Greengrass at the BAFTAs said it was mostly down to Gordon Brown.
- February 13, 2008 10:40 am
The private sector doesn't always work though does it? We have lost The Jazz radio because of "commercial" interests. Is Radio 3 next? We do need state support in a genuine way and not tokenistic like previous Labour and Tory Governments have been.
- February 13, 2008 10:45 am
Kulturstunden: kids in London will get an annual trip to the theatre, other kids will mess about in the library for 5 hours a week. Arts education is the easy bit, the government should put its resources into encouraging science.
- February 13, 2008 10:50 am
This is populist philistinism and needs to be rejected.
Are you saying it is wrong to fund things like the National Orchestra for Wales ? For independent cinema to get much needed funding from the EU Media programme so that we aren't forced to exist on a diet of Hollywood blockbusters ?
For councils to help keep local theatre groups going ?
This is the ridiculous argument used in England where anything like the Barbican or Tate Modern is dismissed as 'elitist' because the policy makers haven't the wit or wisdom to realise that appreciating art is not something that is confined to the so-called 'middle classes'.
I suppose if you were in charge, Wales would never have projects like the Wales Millennium Centre, and you would be in favour of the Arts Council STARVING funding not just to that large list publicised a few weeks ago, but ALL of the organisations they support, including the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which has just been given a reprieve ???
Clearly, Iain, you are in favour of this because you think culture is something which lives in yoghurt, and your idea of a 'night at the opera with some classical music' is watching some Andrew Lloyd Webber $h!te, or popping in to town to see Mamma Mia !!
Stop trying to deprive the country of the things which make it worth living here !! Go and see the film 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' and then tell me that we shouldn't be helping more people to enjoy foreign films, rather than exist on a monoculture of imported Yankee crap !!
To coin a phrase 'If you think spending money on the arts [which is a minuscule fraction of defence spending], then you should see how expensive ignorance can be'..
And I feel ignorance of the arts is something you have a great deal of experience in, judging by your R2, Middle-of-the-road taste in muzak! - February 13, 2008 10:52 am
Right, so Wilf Stevenson, Brown's best friend and confidante, and Director of the Smith Institute, and former Director of the British Film Institute, has managed to get Gordon to fork out £200 million on a new National Film Centre.
It's hardly patronage, when you look at the sums - £200m is just one 300th of a Northern Rock - it's petty cash. - February 13, 2008 10:59 am
I appreciate that British politics is pretty boring at present but your recent posts call to mind barrels and scraping. I guess it's not worth advising an ardent blogger to follow the age-old maxim "if you've nothing worth saying, say nothing" is it?
Speaking of advice, how's your campaign for the Old Bexley and Sidcup nomination going? You might do well to cultivate Ted Heath's shoulder-heaving laugh or to take up sailing. After the embarrassment that their family man has caused them, they would probably relish another jolly bachelor as their candidate... - February 13, 2008 11:08 am
If you want to be a 'grumpy old man' why not have a go at Dwain Chambers ?
Or better yet, check out the great post from Jeff Randall in Telegraph Digital.
It features our 'Sub-Prime Minister'.. - February 13, 2008 11:12 am
is it not possible for the lib/dems and conservatives to form a bloc against new labour
why wait for an election when they can put a sitting government into opposition? - February 13, 2008 11:27 am
"regard things like modern art as no such thing"
Do you mean you are not a fan of 'modern art' - or 'contemporary art'? Which one?
That's quite a sweeping generalisation. Are you blushing?
You should be. - February 13, 2008 11:30 am
This is the government that's diverting lottery money from the Arts Council to pay for our Olympic Games.
Re schools going to Theatres and Museums: they do that already. When I was a teacher, I took my class on a trip at least once a term. - February 13, 2008 11:35 am
- Wrinkled Weasel said...
As the Paulo Freire said,
"Education is a Political act".
Have no doubt, this bit of "culture" will be aetheistic, nihilistic, relativisistic, left-leaning codswallop or if you like, political correctness at its shittiest. It will be "our kind of education" for "our kind of people"
Heffer's article is wonderfully spenetic, but also devastatingly apposite:
"The other day the Government told English Heritage that it could not have more than £2.1 million next year towards the upkeep of our cathedrals...
..Yet this Green Paper proposes a mere £200 million for something called a national film centre"
Young Weasel is a young film maker. He does not need this. All the culture and support he needs is already in place and he is not only using it, he is doing very well. Young Weasel went to a "good school" with an assisted place (abolished by Tony Blair) Young Weasel has been steeped in "culture" by me, all his life. He has been taken around Cathedrals and Museuams and gone to concerts and listen to Old Weasel's CDs and given improving books that he's probably never read. He is already a successful filmaker, and he will continue to do so on merit.
It is not the purpose of the state to inculcate "culture", because the very word is politically loaded. It is not motivated or mediated by intellecual rigour but by the glib doctrinaire imaginings of pen pushers at the Ministry of Truth.
(Also at Weasel's place) - February 13, 2008 11:59 am
- AethelBald, King of Wessex said...
I agree that the Arts should not be subsidised by government, but partly because government consists of a lot of people like you who have "limited" taste. Modern Art isn't? That's a whopping generalisation.
Of course, the Olympics would meet the same fate if I were in charge. Boring elitist drug-addled prats wasting their lives at our expense. Thank goodness for Dwain Chambers as the comic relief.
Public libraries are another example of the sequestering of collective funds by elites. I dare you to have a go at them. - February 13, 2008 12:00 pm
- mutleythedog said...
Doesn't a lot of modern art make its own way in the world- I don't think Damien Hirst or Tracey Emin need much public subsidy or many others with the likes of the Saatchis about? Or am I wrong? Whereas opera is phenomenally expensive to put on and no one likes it....
- February 13, 2008 12:21 pm
- Newmania said...
"Go and see the film 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' and then tell me that we shouldn't be helping more people to enjoy foreign films, rather than exist on a monoculture of imported Yankee crap !! "
This diving bell and butterfly thing sounds like a rattling yarn plunging us into the helter skelter world of a man who is unable to do anything being (yawn) immobile ..( sound familiar), and blinks out a book in painful hours while ( I expect ) a petit butterfly come to represent freedom and the possibility of spiritual transcendence in the usual god awful flabby maudlin dated sentimental way. In gods name show some humanity and give me waterboarding instead !
Helping people to enjoy foreign films may be ,in the face of stiff competition , the stupidest reason for taxing anyone I have yet heard. I suggest ,you pretentious twerp , you go and see some of the following and rather than sniffing your old ladies armpit Euro centric provincial snobbery worthy of Mappe and Lucia , marvel at the triumph of the 20th century's crowning artistic achievement , the Hollywood Film.
Here is a selection .
Stage Coach
Ground-hog Day
Angles With Dirty Faces
Asphalt Jungle
Die hard
Godfather ( one and two...not three of course)
Terminator 1 ( and 2 actually )
White Heat
Airplane ( ...and don1t call me Shirley)
Apolcalypse Now
Good Fellas
Reservoir Dogs
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Falling Down
Heat ( or LA take down)
Alien ( not Aliens although it's a decent product)
( almost any Hitchcock)
MGM Musical....most
The Graduate
The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance
A Fist full of Dollars
Dirty Harry
Some Like It Hot
That lot didn't need a grant so why should anyone else.WE need more " The Unforgiven " and less twits hanging naked from scaffolding mangling Hamlet. - February 13, 2008 12:54 pm
- Unsworth said...
Why should art be funded? Who determines what 'art' actually is?
- February 13, 2008 12:54 pm
- tory boys never grow up said...
I've just read Ed Vaizey's article both on and off line - and I cannot see where he calls the Green Paper "Stalinist" - in fact he criticises it for having little substantive content (not a well know feature of Stalinist cultural policy) and also make the point that it isn't a Green Paper.
You then just compound the problem by using the Hitlerite "Kulturkampf" in the title. Don't you possibly think that what you are doing might just be slightly libellous
The fact that you can use such comparisions to Stalin and Hitler really just demonstrates your near to total ignorance of what those individuals were responsible for. Can I suggest you go on a sabbatical to read some modern history so you can begin to fathom your own terms of abuse and perhaps come up with some more sensible ones in the mean time.
As your comments on culture probably the less said the better. - February 13, 2008 1:08 pm
Iain, Something funny has happened to your blog since you returned from the States.
Your posts seem 'older' and 'grumpier'. Why?
I remember when you recommended everyone go see 'Riverdance' on this blog. IS that your idea of 'culture'?
I think you need a chat with Sir John Tusa about art and culture asap - before you really become embarrassed by your unenlightened comments.
Sorry, but it's true. - February 13, 2008 1:48 pm
10:52 - You are everything that is wrong about the self-serving "arts" sector.
You ask, "Are you saying it is wrong ... for independent cinema to get much needed funding from the EU Media programme so that we aren't forced to exist on a diet of Hollywood blockbusters ?" Who is "forcing" you to "exist" on a diet of Hollywood blockbusters? If you don't like them, don't go. Read a book.
"I suppose if you were in charge, Wales would never have projects like the Wales Millennium Centre, and you would be in favour of the Arts Council STARVING (eeeeek! STARVING! Not even "existing"!)funding not just to that large list publicised a few weeks ago, but ALL of the organisations they support ..." blah blah blah.
The arts industry is big business in this country because it is "funded" by taxpayers who don't give a stuff about 99% of its output.
If an endeavour cannot find a paying audience, that means it is not wanted. It does not mean that some great souls should spend other people's money to keep them going because, in the judgement of these great souls, these projects are worth while.
Is the American film industry subidised or do the Americans make films that audiences queue up to see? The British film industry - which is basically a nationalised industry - makes films that can't find an audience because they are b-o-r-i-n-g. When Brits make the occasional good film, people go and see it. The fault is with the arts, not the "funding". - February 13, 2008 1:51 pm
- Yak40 said...
unsworth Why should art be funded? Who determines what 'art' actually is?
Exactly. When's the book burning start?
Extreme ? As has often been quoted, A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. - February 13, 2008 1:57 pm
Newmania - Anything with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. I don't believe they got a grant.
- February 13, 2008 2:02 pm
For Kulturkampfers" everywhere
"The sun on the meadow is summery warm.
The stag in the forest runs free.
But gather together to greet the storm.
Tomorrow belongs to me.
The branch of the linden is leafy and
The Rhine gives its gold to the sea.
But somewhere a glory awaits unseen.
Tomorrow belongs to me.
The babe in his cradle is closing his eyes
The blossom embraces the bee.
But soon, says a whisper;
"Arise, arise,
Tomorrow belongs to me
Oh Fatherland, Fatherland
Show us the sign
Your children have waited to see.
The morning will come
When the world is mine.
Tomorrow belongs to me!" - February 13, 2008 2:04 pm
This is a load of rubbish.
The reason for this (other than chasing airtime and headlines) is apparently that "deprived" children are denied access to arts events due to parental poverty.
Abject nonsense. The reasons for such cultural impoverishment are:
1. Parents are completely devoid of cultural values and see no benefit beyond anything not related to binge drinking or smoking, or not in the tabloids, gossip glossies, soaps or sports.
2. Parents are disinclined to spend money on anything that could be spent on their own gratification.
No amount of public money will change this. I make my own cultural choices and they do not involve sport, vertical drinking pubs, trash films and TV, soaps or rampant consumerism. I would prefer it if the partakers of such activities remain in their sphere and leave me to mine, shared of course with likeminded people!
(there are, of course exceptions to the above, but my observation is that the rule tends to apply!) - February 13, 2008 2:05 pm
The "Carry On" films. I believe they made their own way in the marketplace. A bit lowbrow for all these arts funding mahatamas, of course. No deep message. No dark undertones. No drugs.
- February 13, 2008 2:09 pm
- strapworld said...
Why do the film industry need public money? Why do 'Arts' need an expensive Arts Council to dole out public money?
People flock to see what they wish to see. If people do not wish to see whatever WHY should the majority have to pay out, through taxes, for the enjoyment of a few?
People scramble to get tickets to see James Last and his Orchestra. Why then cannot our many many orchestra's learn from that experience and never forget The Electric |Light Orchestra.
So many Theatre's need public money to exist. That is surely saying that they are putting on shows etc that the public do NOT want to see!
Paul Daniels. Tom Jones. Shirley Bassey and all the variety acts do not get public money. They have to work hard to get the people interested.
I hope the next government will scrap The Arts Council and if Theatres. Opera Houses. Ballet and Orchestra's have to close the shutters then so be it.;
The money saved could be used building flats for MP's. Proper Housing for the Armed Services. More houses for the homeless and so many GOOD things.
Anonymous at 1052. I have no respect for anyone who does not have the guts to put a name to their spiel! - February 13, 2008 2:28 pm
- tapestry said...
I'd noticed on my visits to Belgium that local politicians crawled all over artists and threw money at them. Sound bad.
I think this is an EU idea - to adopt the cultural aspect of society and control it - by funding the desired, acceptable elements i.e. the pro-EU and promoting such ahead of the anti.
Political correctness moving into art as it were.
Of course gauleiter Gordon would follow the EU instruction manual on this. - February 13, 2008 2:45 pm
Jess The Dog: "1. Parents are completely devoid of cultural values and see no benefit beyond anything not related to binge drinking or smoking, or not in the tabloids, gossip glossies, soaps or sports."
This is grossly unfair! They devote a lot of time to working out their lucky numbers for the Lottery. Also, they are scratch card afficionados and can be seen patronising outlets them throughout the land. - February 13, 2008 2:47 pm
Regarding all this art and movies with a message, message schmessage. If I want to send a message, I'll call Western Union.
- February 13, 2008 2:49 pm
Oh, there you are! I'm ready for my close-up, Mr De Mille.
- February 13, 2008 3:16 pm
Sorry Iain but you are talking nonsense.
As far as I am concerned and many other people. If someone thinks the government should be spending tax payers money on anything but the minimum of things like a minimal armed forces and the police and judicial system they are not right wing at all.
They are either left wing internationlist socialists or left wing national socialists. Both of which are not right wing, and certainly not libertarians or conservatives.
I for one completely disown these people I suggest you do the same.
Atlas Shrugged - February 13, 2008 3:21 pm
I didn't read the word 'stalinist' once in the article by Ed Vaizey. He says no such thing.
- February 13, 2008 3:23 pm
I don't believe the greatest English language playwright of the 20th Century, Tennessee Williams, ever got "funding". Of course, he was suffering from an immense handicap. He was talented.
- February 13, 2008 3:26 pm
- Oscar Miller said...
Five hours of culture a week or else! This announcement was so inept I couldn't help giggling. I kept thinking of Peter Sellers playing Fred Kite in I'm Alright Jack - "all them corn fields and ballet in the evening". This is yet another bogus announcement. And anyway anyone who really enjoys the arts doesn't call it "culture" and doesn't count the hours. What policy wonk devoid of emotional intelligence dreamt this one up?
- February 13, 2008 3:29 pm
Iain also before you start laying that PRACTICAL argument again on me please read the following carefully.
No one is more practical then myself. I built a manufacturing business from jack and have survived and prospered in spite of many set backs.
Right now the powers of liberty in this country are the collective will of myself Guido The Devil the Libertarian Alliance and a relatively few other desperate individuals and mal-contents.
We can not change the world all on our own and we know it. The job is bigger then could possibly be imagined.
But like a religious preachers we hope to change this world very slowly one mind at a time. This will not change the world much if at all, but it makes us feel better trying.
As individuals we still have choices in our lives, thank god. I only wish to help as many as possible make well informed ones for themselves and their families.
Atlas shrugged - February 13, 2008 3:38 pm
- lettersfromatory said...
If schools controlled their own budgets, they could decide how much culture is needed and when.
Teachers being given charge of children's education - wouldn't that be a revelation! - February 13, 2008 3:45 pm
Iain obviously confused the normally mild mannered Ed Vaizey with the normally mild mannered Simon Heffer - easy mistake to make!
- February 13, 2008 4:12 pm
By the way, Iain, as much as I adore Ed Vaizey (and I do!) it must be noted that he really deserves an award for WORST BLOGGER OF THE YEAR.
Ed Vaizey tries to blog - but he fails - over and over and over again...
:) - February 13, 2008 4:53 pm
canvas "I think you need a chat with Sir John Tusa about art and culture asap - before you really become embarrassed by your unenlightened comments."
verity "If an endeavour cannot find a paying audience, that means it is not wanted. It does not mean that some great souls should spend other people's money to keep them going because, in the judgement of these great souls, these projects are worth while."
Another typically asinine, thick, narrow-minded comment from verity. Maybe she is in favour of Frank Field's suggestion of getting the wealthy to contribute to these things, as they seem totally incapable of such philanthropy at the moment.
Time was when 'mainstream' culture was willing to subsidise quality arts. Since they are now getting a free ride are you saying that the theatres which provide the training for the actors which go on to appear in, yes, Hollywood films should be closed down ? Because I don't see anyone in Hollywood offering to fund them !
"The "Carry On" films. I believe they made their own way in the marketplace. A bit lowbrow for all these arts funding mahatamas, of course. No deep message."
Congratulations, verity, as you have made the point that art and culture cannot simply be left to the mass market far more eloquently than I ever could !! When you say a film is 'boring', what you are in fact saying is that you are too thick or ill-educated to understand it, and would prefer the far more simplistic American film which even someone of your clearly limited intelligence can understand.
strapworld "So many Theatre's need public money to exist. That is surely saying that they are putting on shows etc that the public do NOT want to see!
Paul Daniels. Tom Jones. Shirley Bassey and all the variety acts do not get public money. They have to work hard to get the people interested.
I hope the next government will scrap The Arts Council and if Theatres. Opera Houses. Ballet and Orchestra's have to close the shutters then so be it.;"
s/w - your pig ignorance, and down in the gutter level of intellect, as evidenced by your inability to understand the apostrophe, is again making the argument against scrapping arts funding powerfully.
If you guys had your way, Lowest Common Denominator Shite would be available 24/7 across the country, while the incubation grounds of actors, musicians and singers would have been nuked in favour of 'Let them apply for the X-Factor' Marie Antoinette-ism.
I can forgive strapworld and verity for thinking this way - they are too thick to know any different. But I had hoped that Iain would know better. - February 13, 2008 5:21 pm
verity: Once again you and I are on the same wavelength. The government has no business spending any of our money on any of the arts. Moreover, with very few exceptions, the greatest artists this country has ever produced, and the greatest writers, never received a penny of government money.
As for movies, they are an extremely high risk business, and as such even less suitable for taxpayer funding. - February 13, 2008 5:38 pm
but didn't Tennessee Williams work in academia while he was writing his earlier plays, and before he could pay hus way, which amounts to a form of state subsidy. - February 13, 2008 5:40 pm
- Iain Dale said...
Point of info - both Heffer and Vaizey called this initiative Stalinist. Vaizey said it in interviews yesterday. So there!
- February 13, 2008 5:43 pm
- Oscar Miller said...
A few more points:
1. The arts are not nearly as subsidised as people think - in this respect the public sector is not so public - just as the private sector is really not that private (stuffed full of subsisdies from RDAs). Strategies to maximise earned income in the arts are (by and large) just as developed as in the private sector and the targets are high. In addition to earned income all government money must be matched from other sources. Most arts professionals spend all their time filling in funding applications these days from the bewildering array of different schemes. The real people on a junket are the ones who work for the Arts Council, which is now just a branch of government, wangling all kinds of lavish benefits for those at the top. Real independence should be restored to the Arts Council which (many moons ago) used to be a rather conservative outfit. Then you might get some good - non political - funding decisions.
2. The UK Film Council is a ludicrous waste of public money - a bunch of cyncial film entrepreneurs milking the public purse for all its worth. The place should be axed (Cameron take note) - that way we'll get some genuine competitiveness back into the film industry which is quite capable of paying its own way and turning a profit without public subsidy. One caveat - the old BFI Production Fund was always a good idea, produced some fine British films and should be restored - for genuine art and experimental film making only.
3. I am all for encouraging young people to discover the joys of the arts, but this latest bogus government scheme is the fast way to turn yoof off kulcha. - February 13, 2008 5:44 pm
I think we need to get a little bit of perspective here..
1/ A teacher on the radio this morning indicated that the amount of funding available amounted to £15 per pupil per year. So I guess they are not going to bring about much improvement / cause much damage / waste too much cash [delete as you think fit] either way.
2/ Bonkers Burnham was forced into admitting to John Humphrys that this plan was not a 'target' for 5 hours of 'culture' a week, but an 'aspiration'.
So I don't think we need to lose too much sleep that anything is going to change this year..
But heigh-ho, if it keeps Dale's traffic levels up while he is out on a golf course, it can't be all bad... - February 13, 2008 6:07 pm
5:21 - Oh, God! - this is the best yet! Too long and windy to fisk, but a couple of minor points to add to the general merriment on this thread:
Re the commercially successful Carry On films: Congratulations, verity, as you have made the point that art and culture cannot simply be left to the mass market far more eloquently than I ever could !! Well there you go. I'm such an idiot savant!
Another typically asinine, thick, narrow-minded comment from verity. Maybe she is in favour of Frank Field's suggestion of getting the wealthy to contribute to these things, as they seem totally incapable of such philanthropy at the moment.
No. Knuckle-dragger that I am, I don't approve of handing taxpayers' money over to enterprises that are not commercially viable. If those same taxpayers had wanted to see another movie about drug dealing in the Gorbals or whatever, they would have paid for a ticket. Although Frank Field is an admirable man, I don't think it is his business to tell rich people where to spend their money or which charities (and that's what support of "the arts" is - charity for the terminally self-regarding) to support.
Congratulations, verity, as you have made the point that art and culture cannot simply be left to the mass market far more eloquently than I ever could !!
Thank you.
When you say a film is 'boring', what you are in fact saying is that you are too thick or ill-educated to understand it, and would prefer the far more simplistic American film which even someone of your clearly limited intelligence can understand.
No. When I say a film is boring - or pretentious rubbish - I understand it and the motivation behind making it only too well. Egos of inadequate people who cannot produce anything people will buy of their own free will.
Since they are now getting a free ride are you saying that the theatres which provide the training for the actors which go on to appear in, yes, Hollywood films should be closed down ? Because I don't see anyone in Hollywood offering to fund them !
No. Hollywood doesn't do "funding" as you understand it.
Am I saying that theatres which provide training for actors should be closed down? Well, not if they are self-supporting and turning a profit for their investors and paying rent for the premises and salaries for the actors and stage hands, ticket sellers and cleaning crews.
If the money was extracted from the taxpayer, then yes, that is what I am saying.
You reprimanded Strapworld for "pig ignorance" for making a mistake with an apostrophe. May I point to this piece of your writing: "theatres which provide the training for the actors which go on to appear in, yes, Hollywood". An inability to distinguish between which and who is an early sign of ego-driven dementia.
I could go on, but I see my keeper is coming up to my cage with some nice plump bananas. - February 13, 2008 6:14 pm
5:40 I didn't know that Tennessee had laboured in the salt mines of acadème. He survived pretty damn' well, did he not!
- February 13, 2008 6:21 pm
I think Verity has the point here - many of the most successful contributors to our cultural life [whether I liked their book/film/play/artwork or not] managed to do so without any state control.
"Culture" is and should be sufficiently objective that I don't need it to be dosed out to me by the state. The corollary is that someone else will want to look at/listen to things that I don't - I will want to look at the modern art that Iain doesn't. I'll also be watching the Carry-On films with Verity!
Where the state should help out - and I think its role should be way smaller than currently - is to make sure that we each get the chance to try out the different things on offer so we can then make choices ourselves. Five hours of "quality culture" as selected by Andy Burnham is not the way to do that. Schools working together with theatres, galleries, etc, might be. Then in adult life, the state can butt out as we make our own cultural choices.
Any coherent libertarian prescription - and Nozick acknowledged it - requires full and good information flow among "consumers," otherwise competition is fatuous. That means educating the young, but only in offering them the menu - not making choices for them. - February 13, 2008 6:52 pm
- Travis Bickle said...
The key to this is the 3 year implementation target, which will mean that it will be long forgotten by then (along with most of Brown's daily policy visions) or, hopefully, this shambolic government will have been consigned to the dustbin of history (where it belongs) in a humiliating rout in next general election.
- February 13, 2008 7:29 pm
No doubt taxpayer funding for the "National Film Centre" will be justified on the grounds that cinema is art for the people.
When it is pointed out that popular films pay for themselves, the argument is then inverted into the claim that it is because some films are unpopular that they ought to be funded by the taxpayer.
Which raises the question, who decides which films ought to be subsidised? The same people who demand that films ought to be subsidised of course!
The Left (lovers as they are of the feudal order - with they and their chums as the aristocracy) are keen to extract money from the masses in order to pay for what pleases them. Is there anybody in the country who does not know every detail of what the Leftist establishment believe?
A British (State) education? Humouring the bigotry of Leftist cretins essentially. Which reminds me - "tory boys never grow up" maybe you ought to look up the meaning of the word kulturkampf [Hint - Bismark]? - February 13, 2008 8:43 pm
- Newmania said...
I think I would go further than to suggest that arts funding was useless I think it has a positively harmful effect . The British film industry serves us failure after failure but the tiresome bilge oozes ever onwards , it has got to the point when even when the British make a decent film the brand is so dreadful that no-one will go and see it until it has success in America. ( Four Weddings ). The reasons for this are not the hopelessly jaded palates of the viewers but the failure of narrative technique conception and above all taste . I think the point when the old dad in Brassed off coughs up coal dust at the brass band competition final at the Albert Hall must be some sort of cosmic nadir in pitiless soul torture . They deserve no only to fail but to never reappear .
The funded theatre is universally banal and attended only in an act of masochistic worship at the cloacal shrine .God knows I `ve suffered a few evening s that would have a living death without a sense of humour.
Then I would also say the free air of America with its low tax bracing atmosphere of achieve itself provides grand backdrop to ambitious art. TS Elliot , John Updike Robert Lowell leap to mind but for an artistic manifesto I doubt this can be improved upon
" My name is John Ford , and I make Westerns " - February 13, 2008 9:02 pm
- tory boys never grow up said...
Well if Vaizey said it was Stalinist yesterday he seems to have changed his tune by today's Times article - whatever Stalin was accused of it wasn't a lack of substance and i don't think he was ever criticised for downgrading a Green Paper to a Strategy Document. Perhaps Vaizey is another one who should learn a bit of history before he starts throwing such terms of abuse about.
- February 13, 2008 9:08 pm
It shocks me sometimes that even the likes of verity does not understand the REAL reason why the government should keep its grubby hands of the arts and just about everything else.
The sentence that comes to mind is.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Or more accurately put, because we all know who is really paying.
The person or persons that gives the money over, that they stole from the tax payer, calls the tune.
Which is far more serious to the sanctity of our own free minds, then losing a few bob.
Surly a free mind and the liberty to use it, are the only things we have of any real value, now or at anytime in the past.
I for one do not trust government to do virtually anything in my interests, even if they could possibly know what that is.
If I am not always completely sure at 47 years old. How in the hell is a government minister supposed to know, who has never even asked me.
Atlas Shrugged - February 13, 2008 9:12 pm
Marvellous idea, Mr Dale, simply marvellous. But why stop at cutting funding for theatres ? Cut out all state funding full stop. YES !
No more schools - after all there is a danger of people learning to read - and they might start reading things which don't agree with your right wing view of the world. They might learn that markets are not perfect.
And stop subsidising the museums - I mean, there is a danger that they might learn something, and start to realise that the British Empire was not a complete analloyed success and unmitigated benefit. And if the people can't afford the charges, then close the bloody things. Can't have them running at a loss, now can we ?
And we save money - I mean the Greeks have been asking for those bloody Marbles back for years - and I mean, what do those Greeks know about culture anyway ?
And of course, last, but not least close down the bloody churches - after all they have music and sculpture and craftwork in them, and that can't be good for the oiks now can it ?
And get of all that modern art which is sponging off the taxpayer - I mean it's not as if a wealthy individual like Charles Saatchi is ever going to buy it, now is it ?
Not bloody likely !
And close all those Tate galleries as the encore ! Save all that tax dosh ! I mean, anyone would think that the money for those came from white granules that people put in their Rosie Lee ! I mean to say, 'Do me a faaaavvaaahh, Governor'.. - February 13, 2008 9:12 pm
The irony in 9:12's long, reptitive post weighed more than the Forth Bridge. Example: No more [state funding for] schools - after all there is a danger of people learning to read.
Not while the state's in charge, there isn't.
Blah de blah de blah blah. - February 13, 2008 10:07 pm
Sir John Tusa:
"This is the definition I would suggest: the final value of the arts cannot be predicted or quantified; to curtail them on these grounds is to deny the possibility of an unpredictable benefit.
The risk of funding the arts offers benefits far greater than the immediate gains of not funding them.
The arts link society to its past, a people to its inherited store of ideas, images and words; yet the arts challenge those links in order to find ways of exploring new paths and ventures.
The arts are evolutionary and revolutionary; they listen, recall and lead. They resist the homogeneous, strengthen the individual and are independent in the face of the pressures of the mass, the bland, the undifferentiated.
In a postmodern world, in which individual creativity has never mattered more, the arts provide the opportunity for developing this characteristic.
The investment in the arts is so small, the actual return so large, that it represents value as research into ideas." - February 13, 2008 10:13 pm
Canvas - Anyone who wants to "invest" in the arts is free to do so.
Thanks for letting us know that the arts are a link to the past. Except, the smarty-pants iconoclasts - the ones who need "funding" - are proud to be destructive towards the past and society at large.
This is their privilege, as long as I don't have to pay for it. - February 13, 2008 10:58 pm
- Yak40 said...
"anonymous" posters should be limited to ten words or less.
- February 13, 2008 11:46 pm
Canvas, I fed your post into Babelfish and couldn't find a translation into English. Care to tell us what it means? What is a "postmodern world", given that with every new technological advance, the word forges ahead into new modernity?
"Individual creativity has never mattered more?" Fine. Then people won't mind paying for it of their own free will, and not at the point of a gun. - February 14, 2008 12:05 am
At the point of a gun?????
Where do you think we're talking about?
"Verity", you cannot understand written English, but that does not mean that Tusa's argument is invalid.
"Kulturkampf" suggests Iain wants us to adopt the German language - is there any other reason for using that word? I'm confused.
Yak40 - your annoyance at the "anonymous" is ridiculous - almost everyone here is "anonymous", it's just that some use pseudonyms. - February 14, 2008 8:13 am
- Chris Paul said...
Funnily enough it is often the "modernity" that you despise - rather as Stalin and Hitler did with their demands for fascist realism - that washes it's own face with artists like Gormley, Emin and Hirst doing fine thank you very much - and the traditional figurative and "high arts" you like - like Wagner's Ring which Hitler famously kissed - that needs the public gravy.
A huge proportion of the funding from the public purse goes to those high arts and very little relatively to the new expression that is the lifeblood of our creative industries. Not directly necessarily. But through a perfectly invidious inspiration for architecture, advertising, music, film and television.
Personally as someone with an interest and some expertise across the full gamut from high to low and old to new and popular to unpopular I don't think the balance is too bad at the moment but that if anything the old school arts are getting too much.
Heffer is a Philistine and probably has little idea of where the balance of funding is these days. Are you a Philistine too Iain? - February 14, 2008 11:07 am
Anonymous February 13, 2008 5:21 PM
Elitist prat. Spend your own money. - February 14, 2008 11:41 am
Has 'Sir' John Tusa ever done a day's work in his life?
- February 14, 2008 11:42 am
Anonymous of 11.41 and 11.42 -
Thickos both.
FYI John Tusa was Independent Chair of the Arts Policy Task Force, reporting to David Cameron in October 2007. (Wikipedia)
The Royal National Theatre pulls in tourists and produces world-class theatre. - February 14, 2008 12:33 pm
8:13 - Oh dear. So early in the morning, you must have written your post before you drank your first cup of stupid.
"Point of a gun": tax, darling.
Your taxes are removed from you under threat of imprisonment. And the government is going to distribute some of the cash it has taken from you by force, to its pretentious mates who cannot earn a living practising their trade.
Your self-involvement and inability to understand a simple allusion leads me to believe you're in the subsidised arts and are an active sucker on the taxpayer tit.
12:33 - I assume you are the same Anonymous as the one I refer to here above? Your limited vocabulary (everyone you are really, really angry with is a "thicko" or "thick"),which tells me you are probably a scriptwriter in the susidised sector - possibly a writer of "edgy" films.
Whatever. You are one angry little dude. Try getting a job. Repeat after me: "Do you want fries with that?" - February 14, 2008 1:35 pm
Verity - Yet again, no reason to your childish attacks, no argument, no merit.
I work in a financial institution which sponsors artistic endeavours.
"Verity" is a stooge - a recruiting sargeant for the Labour Party whose modus operandi is to alienate conservative supporters. I'm amazed Iain's readers put up with "her" and haven't seen through the deception. - February 14, 2008 1:47 pm
Verity -
The "punishment" for not paying your tax bill is bankruptcy in the UK, not imprisonment. - February 14, 2008 1:51 pm
"Personally as someone with an interest and some expertise across the full gamut from high to low and old to new and popular to unpopular I don't think the balance is too bad at the moment but that if anything the old school arts are getting too much."
Labour Party apologists supports Leftist establishment; hold the front page! - February 14, 2008 2:15 pm
I'm sick of these tiresome non-thinkers. Argue amongst yourselves, by all means call me a "leftist", but don't pretend thgis site is anyhting other than a hard-right slug-fest, with real lefties infiltrating in order to encourage extremism.
Right of centre? Ha! - February 14, 2008 2:46 pm
1:47 - "I work in a financial institution which sponsors artistic endeavours. "
NS,S. Who could have guessed you were an interested party?
1:51 - "Verity -
The "punishment" for not paying your tax bill is bankruptcy in the UK, not imprisonment."
Then all those OAPs who refused, or didn't have the money, to pay their council tax should sue for wrongful imprisonment.
2:46 - I don't think we want our political beliefs defined by an illiterate communist. I sometimes wonder if you people understand how very far left you are. You are teetering on the brink of madness, having lost all contact with real life. - February 14, 2008 3:18 pm
Verity, I'm also a member of my local Conservative Association.
You, my dear, are off your trolley if you think that views which do not chime with yours must by definition be "communist".
I hope your personal hygiene problem is responding to the flea-powder. - February 14, 2008 3:31 pm
3:31 - I do not believe you belong to the Tory Party, so can that defence.
What "personal hygiene problems" does flea powder clear up? I'm intrigued.
Given your sense of entitlement, self-importance and loopy incoherence, you are Heather McCartney and I claim my £5! - February 14, 2008 3:59 pm
I believe you are Paul McCartney, and I claim mine! (Although you come across more like Robert Kilroy-Silk after oversleeping on the sun-bed)
You are not the cat-"lover" you claim to be if you don't know the consequences of letting the little blighters get in your bed-clothes.
Get out a bit more, engage with people, then you might develop some taste. - February 14, 2008 4:42 pm
4:42 - Flea powder! How quaint! Don't you have Front Line over there?
- February 14, 2008 5:24 pm
Front Line? According to my research this morning, thst's a spray.
Try not to inhale so much, it's sent you barmy.
Is to-day a good day to be a supporter of the NRA? Can't these idiots understand that the Constitution allows the right toi bear the arms of the time it was written, not the mass-murder accessories of the 21st Century? - February 15, 2008 8:02 am
Front Line is not a spray. Perhaps it is in Britain. Who cares?
Yes, today and every day is a good day to be a supporter of the NRA. Three hundred and two million is a lot of people to expect to be sane. Some people will be nuts.
Look to the slimy, scum-covered pond you call your own society. Fathers stabbed on their own doorstep because your government has created a cesspit of lawlessness and "rights" that is clearly insane and unknown in human history. Islamic men suspected of planning mass mayhem are suing the government on who knows what grounds? Doubtless pointed in that direction by some kindly "human rights advisors" and some lawyers working for gigantic contingency fees.
In the US, they are going to have to allow guns on campus. If some students have guns, they can shoot mass killers, and then they wouldn't be mass killers.
Arms are legal in most states and their sale is controlled. Purchasers undergo background checks before they return to carry their guns out of the store. In Britain, the Jamaicans and others have thousands of unregistered guns. Any piece of garbage in Britain who wants a gun can get one easily, but any citizen who wants a gun for self-protection is told to trust your laughable police. Tony Blair must be so proud.
And now you are going to let this destructive wretch be unelected "president" of the EUSSR. How inept is British governance! - February 15, 2008 3:12 pm


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The party is in a region where vermin are a real problem. In the past they have dealt with giant killer bees, phase spiders and giant ants eating them in cramped dungeon tunnels while they tried to crawl and climb out of the nest "my legs, aaah, my legs". That sort of thing.
Heading through a new region inside this vermin infested land, I wanted to throw in giant funnel web/trapdooor/mouse spiders. Since I just found a webbed hole in my backyard and purged it with cleansing burning water.
I want to give these spiders some spellcasting ability, not so dissimilar to the phase spider. What abilities/spells should they have?
The party will stumble across some burrows, be attacked and then find a village that is truly creeped out by the increased trapdoor spiders and really needs some help.
So, how would you make these spiders cool?
I'd add ghost sound or some other siren effect used to lure prey. Alternatively, give them an ability to briefly animate corpses that also flushes the skin and mimics life; think wolf-in-sheep's-clothing. Villager sees a seemingly wounded deer, goes in to finish it off and collect the meat, gets tangled in web, and becomes an arachnid's snack.
Give them the ability to switch from a single Large spider into a spider swarm (that fills the same squares) as a swift action. This provides a wealth of movement options and also seriously messes with melee classes. Maybe give it SR so long as it is in Large spider form. This way, when it's big, it's resistant to magic and when it's a swarm, it's resistant to weapons. Since it's a swift action to change, it can't change back and forth in the same round.
That is seriously messed up.
I vote for this.
Web? Hold Person?
Or possibly just giving them a few levels of Ninja and Vanishing Trick?
Create Pit and Clairvoyance
I had the idea of spiders that use the drained corpses of their prey like puppets to defend their webs and capture more food for the spider. Through some bizarre, psychic power, the spider would attach a strand of webbing to the exposed spine of a corpse hanging around in its lair. The strand would then allow the spider to animate the corpse, see through its eyes and treat it as an animated object so long as the web remained attached to the spider at the other end.
If you're feeling a little crass, you could always make one of your monsters an actual "barking wall spider."
Now I have net back...
The idea was a trapdoor spider that used one of the create pit series (depending on level) to effectively "relocate" an extradimensional trap under targets. Should the target survive, they then web the top. For best effect, use acid or hungry pit and describe as their actual digestive mechanism.
If possible, an ability to create a simple illusion of a floor over the pit could be very useful.
While the spider needs LOS to do all this, it itself can be hiding in a conventional (or extradimensional) trapdoor underground, peeping out. Most of the time it can be simply using clairvoyance to track where targets are. Rather than having to lure targets to its trap, it can relocate its trap to its targets.
Your goal here is a bit of "the floor is lava". Anyone standing on the floor is screwed. You have to be holding onto a wall, or on a bench, or on a long table or something.
Any spell with the word "Trap" in it as a spell-like ability.
Have them lay eggs in a host. The host can live on for some time before the young erupt - swarms based on host size. Outwardly there are no signs and hence no warnings - "talking to Joe the other day and Bam he erupted with spiders" no wonderthe villagers hate them. Perhaps the sipders can even affect behaviour like that parasite that infest ants and causes them to climb atop plats for birds to eat and ingest. Sort of spider infests deer, deers behaviour changes making it easy to catch, villager eats and gets infested. Would creep me out.
Could even have sifferent sizes based on the host size, so small to large.
Since blindingly-fast spiders scare people more than slow spiders, I'd suggest giving them a haste ability.
If they have experienced spiders and other crawlies that live in the ground you could play with their expectations. Rather than some hole in the ground they do down to find the spiders let them enter a large barn with webs allover it and have the spiders descend from the beams in the ceiling and drag someone up with them. Spiders get both walls and ceiling to move on while the players have only the webbed floor.
Use Aranea stats for the spellcasters, and have one set up a sand funnel like that of an ant lion, and transform itself to appear as a helpless person, trapped in quicksand or something. Someone comes near to try and pull them free, and BAM, she transforms and pulls them down into the warren of tunnels she's got beneath the sand.
She remains at a distance, hurling the occasional blob of silk like a bola, to hamper her prisoner, since she's teaching her babies to hunt, and the prey is intended for them to eat, horrid little half-spider / half-children, who lack any meaningful control over their Change Shape ability, and so appear as horrific creatures, like a spider with a baby's head and eight toddler arms and legs instead of spider legs.
Great suggestions. I am really pleased and impressed. Keep them coming.
Use Aranea stats for the spellcasters, and have one set up a sand funnel like that of an ant lion, and transform itself to appear as a helpless person, trapped in quicksand or something. Someone comes near to try and pull them free, and BAM, she transforms and pulls them down into the warren of tunnels she's got beneath the sand. She remains at a distance, hurling the occasional blob of silk like a bola, to hamper her prisoner, since she's teaching her babies to hunt, and the prey is intended for them to eat, horrid little half-spider / half-children, who lack any meaningful control over their Change Shape ability, and so appear as horrific creatures, like a spider with a baby's head and eight toddler arms and legs instead of spider legs.
Worse. Baby body covered in spider eyes, spider head, baby limbs but with spider legs protruding out of the ends of the limbs. Scutter scutter scutter!
If they have experienced spiders and other crawlies that live in the ground you could play with their expectations. Rather than some hole in the ground they do down to find the spiders let them enter a large barn with webs allover it and have the spiders descend from the beams in the ceiling and drag someone up with them.
I've done the giant spiders in the barn things recently. They were creeped out by ettercaps in there.
Aranea using acid pits, collapsible floors, illusions, silken puppets; big trapdoor spiders using create pit, haste and spring attack.
Hmmm... If the spiders are intelligent, you could do a quite scary spider that demands people work for it. Turn the whole town into a trap.
on the other hand... Trapdoor spiders are really just very quick. The scariest way to do it might be Time Stop. Best of all (from a balance perspective and horror) is a variant time stop. For n rounds only it and the target can move. From an outside perspective, people are talking to you, then you simply vanish. Suddenly the sky goes red and you are brutally attacked by a spider that webs you up and drags you away to its lair to eat later.
You bust into the spider's lair, it time stops, drags its stored prey away, restarts time.
I'd be tempted to give it a poison that slowly "ages" people.
You could probably do something similar with a teleport based power if time stop is too freaky.
If balance isn't an issue, draw the time stop out. Let players wander around a frozen timescape of their friends for hours, desperately hiding and running to survive until the power wears off and they can get help from their friends again. In this case the trapdoor is a trapdoor into time.
If you do do the temporal spider, bonus points if you have Hounds of Tindalos as a natural predator.
Well the trap spiders aren't that intelligent, they do however have spell like abilities and have been modified by shapeshifter fey (the areanea which I am modifying). The aranea are the leaders, the others the hunters.
Score, in the book Terrors of Athas I have found the psionic wall walker spider.
They can add +10 to their stealth with chameleon, but even scarier, they can use shadown body to creep out of their burrows, up any surface and into a great position. They have Dr and take half fire damage when this is activated. They also have a nasty bite and a paralysing stinger, so yeah, three types now.
Running two games, with no players in both, therefore these spiders are going into BOTH of my next games.
It went really well, but not too hard for them.
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Hi Andre,
Thanks. I am a complete newbie to this.
The output above "can't open /dev/ttyS0: No such file or directory process '-/bin/sh' (pid 403) exited. Scheduling for resta"
is what I see on minicom ( on /dev/ttys1) from the host linux box.
The leopardboard is on the uart port ( with the audio type jack ) and connected to the host linux box.
The leopardboard starts up looking for /dev/ttyS0 ? Shouldnt the leopardboard knows where its only uart port is?
Since my minicom on linux box already can see the output, then the leopardboard is already sending out "console" output via the correct only uart port that it has. Why is the leopardboard looking for ttyS0??
I must have missed something very fundamental.
I expect the boad to boot into a login or command prompt state or telnetable state?
Thanks for any advice.
HI Richard, I was having problem trying to install uboot via TFTP so I did it via serial and it works fine, just make sure minicom is close while you do all this.
Have already installed uboot and the new image on target leopardboard with make installbootloader and make install.
Both went well there were no error messages.
This is the output of the new image when the Leopard board is booted up.
Anyone can help please?
no one? :(
I dont undertand, if you got everything install with make installbootloader and make install, and if everything is right, can you go on minicom connect to the board and copy and paste everything that happens. because is not clear.
Thanks Andre. Below is leopardboax bootup messages as seen from minicom
Welcome to minicom 2.3
OPTIONS: I18n
Compiled on Sep 25 2009, 23:40:20.
Port /dev/ttyS1
Press CTRL-A Z for help on special keys
initialization passed!
Customized by RidgeRun
TI UBL Version: 1.50
Booting Catalog Boot Loader
BootMode = NAND
Starting NAND Copy...
Valid magicnum, 0xA1ACED66, found in block 0x00000002.
Jumping to entry point at 0x81080000.
U-Boot customized by RidgeRun
U-Boot 2009.11 (Apr 29 2011 - 11:40:57)
Cores: ARM 216 MHz
DDR: 171 MHz
I2C: ready
NAND: 256 MiB
Bad block table found at page 131008, version 0x01
Bad block table found at page 130944, version 0x01
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x000000020000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x000000040000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x000000060000
nand_read_bbt: Bad block at 0x000000660000
Net: dm9000
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
Loading from nand0, offset 0xc0000
Image Name: "RR Linux Kernel"
Created: 2011-05-16 6:15:28 UTC
Image Type: ARM Linux Kernel Image (uncompressed)
Data Size: 3376616 Bytes = 3.2 MB
Load Address: 80008000
Entry Point: 80008000
Automatic boot of image at addr 0x80700000 ...
## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at 80700000 ...
Verifying Checksum ... OK
Loading Kernel Image ... OK
Starting kernel ...
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.29-ridgerun-davinci1 (root@optasia-desktop) (gcc version 4.2.4) #1 PREEMPT Fri Apr 29 10:52:59 PHT 2011
[ 0.000000] CPU: ARM926EJ-S [41069265] revision 5 (ARMv5TEJ), cr=00053177
[ 0.000000] CPU: VIVT data cache, VIVT instruction cache
[ 0.000000] Machine: DaVinci DM355 leopard
[ 0.000000] Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
[ 0.000000] DaVinci DM0355 variant 0x0
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 29464
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200n8 video=davincifb:osd1=0x0x8 root=/dev/mtdblock3 rw mem=116M rootfstype=jffs2 mtdparts=davinci_nand.0:640k(UBOOT),128k(UBOOT_ENV),3840k)
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes)
[42949372.960000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[42949372.960000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[42949372.980000] Memory: 116MB = 116MB total
[42949372.980000] Memory: 114076KB available (3056K code, 208K data, 116K init)
[42949372.980000] Calibrating delay loop... 107.72 BogoMIPS (lpj=538624)
[42949373.210000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[42949373.210000] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[42949373.220000] net_namespace: 520 bytes
[42949373.220000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[42949373.220000] MUX: initialized INT_EDMA_CC
[42949373.220000] MUX: initialized VIN_CINL_EN
[42949373.250000] DaVinci: 104 gpio irqs
[42949373.330000] bio: create slab <bio-0> at 0
[42949373.340000] vpss vpss: dm355_vpss vpss probed
[42949373.340000] vpss vpss: dm355_vpss vpss probe success
[42949373.340000] ch0 default output "COMPOSITE", mode "NTSC"
[42949373.340000] VPBE Encoder Initialized
[42949373.350000] SCSI subsystem initialized
[42949373.350000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[42949373.350000] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[42949373.360000] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[42949373.370000] Avnetlcd encoder initialized
[42949373.380000] musb_hdrc: version 6.0, pio, host, debug=0
[42949373.400000] musb_hdrc: USB Host mode controller at fec64000 using PIO, IRQ 12
[42949373.400000] musb_hdrc musb_hdrc: MUSB HDRC host driver
[42949373.400000] musb_hdrc musb_hdrc: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[42949373.400000] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[42949373.400000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[42949373.400000] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[42949373.410000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[42949373.410000] IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[42949373.410000] TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[42949373.410000] TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[42949373.410000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
[42949373.410000] TCP reno registered
[42949373.410000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[42949373.420000] JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY) �© 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[42949373.430000] msgmni has been set to 223
[42949373.430000] io scheduler noop registered (default)
[42949373.440000] davincifb davincifb.0: dm_osd0_fb: 720x480x16@0,0 with framebuffer size 1350KB
[42949373.450000] davincifb davincifb.0: dm_vid0_fb: 0x0x16@0,0 with framebuffer size 675KB
[42949373.460000] davincifb davincifb.0: dm_osd1_fb: 0x0x8@0,0 with framebuffer size 1350KB
[42949373.470000] davincifb davincifb.0: dm_vid1_fb: 0x0x16@0,0 with framebuffer size 675KB
[42949373.480000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 3 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[42949373.480000] serial8250.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x1c20000 (irq = 40) is a 16550A
[42949373.480000] console [ttyS0] enabled
[42949373.810000] brd: module loaded
[42949373.840000] loop: module loaded
[42949373.840000] dm9000 Ethernet Driver, V1.31
[42949373.970000] Unable to read MAC address: Generating random value ...
[42949373.970000] The random generated MAC address: 42:de:15:8f:b1:55 will be assigned to your device
[42949373.980000] eth0 (dm9000): not using net_device_ops yet
[42949373.990000] eth0: dm9000a at c785c000,c7860016 IRQ 73 MAC: 42:de:15:8f:b1:55 (chip)
[42949374.000000] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[42949374.010000] vpfe-capture vpfe-capture: video device registered
[42949374.010000] vpfe-capture vpfe-capture: v4l2 int master registered
[42949374.020000] vpfe_capture: init successful
[42949374.030000] Trying to register davinci display video device.
[42949374.030000] layer=c65f7200,layer->video_dev=c65f7364
[42949374.040000] Trying to register davinci display video device.
[42949374.040000] layer=c65f7000,layer->video_dev=c65f7164
[42949374.050000] davinci_init:DaVinci V4L2 Display Driver V1.0 loaded
[42949374.060000] vpfe-capture vpfe-capture: register slave mt9v113
[42949374.060000] mt9v113 1-003c: chip id mismatch read 0x0, expecting 0x2280
[42949374.070000] mt9v113 1-003c: Unable to detect decoder
[42949374.080000] mt9v113 1-003c: Registered to v4l2 master vpfe-capture!!
[42949374.090000] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[42949374.100000] NAND device: Manufacturer ID: 0x2c, Chip ID: 0xda (Micron NAND 256MiB 3,3V 8-bit)
[42949374.110000] 2 NAND chips detected
[42949374.110000] Scanning device for bad blocks
[42949374.120000] Bad eraseblock 3 at 0x000000060000
[42949374.120000] Bad eraseblock 51 at 0x000000660000
[42949374.210000] Bad eraseblock 2051 at 0x000010060000
[42949374.210000] Bad eraseblock 2099 at 0x000010660000
[42949374.300000] 4 cmdlinepart partitions found on MTD device davinci_nand.0
[42949374.310000] Creating 4 MTD partitions on "davinci_nand.0":
[42949374.310000] 0x000000000000-0x0000000a0000 : "UBOOT"
[42949374.320000] 0x0000000a0000-0x0000000c0000 : "UBOOT_ENV"
[42949374.330000] 0x0000000c0000-0x000000480000 : "KERNEL"
[42949374.340000] 0x000000480000-0x000001940000 : "FS"
[42949374.350000] davinci_nand davinci_nand.0: controller rev. 2.3
[42949374.360000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[42949374.360000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[42949374.370000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[42949374.370000] i2c /dev entries driver
[42949374.380000] watchdog watchdog: heartbeat 60 sec
[42949374.390000] davinci_mmc davinci_mmc.0: Using DMA, 4-bit mode
[42949374.410000] davinci_mmc davinci_mmc.1: Using DMA, 4-bit mode
[42949374.430000] Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.18a.
[42949374.440000] No device for DAI tlv320aic3x
[42949374.440000] No device for DAI davinci-i2s
[42949374.450000] AIC3X Audio Codec 0.2
[42949374.450000] asoc: tlv320aic3x <-> davinci-i2s mapping ok
[42949374.480000] ALSA device list:
[42949374.490000] #0: Leopard Board (tlv320aic3x)
[42949374.490000] TCP cubic registered
[42949374.500000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[42949374.500000] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[42949374.510000] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[42949374.520000] drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
[42949374.810000] VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem) on device 31:3.
[42949374.820000] Freeing init memory: 116K
init started: BusyBox v1.14.2 (2011-04-29 10:58:30 PHT)
starting pid 268, tty '': '/etc/rcS'
Error while running '/etc/rc.d/S00mountall'.
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Configuring network interfaces
Error while running '/etc/rc.d/S30network'.
can't open /dev/ttyS0: No such file or directory
process '-/bin/sh' (pid 324) exited. Scheduling for restart.
[42949389.030000] JFFS2 warning: (267) jffs2_do_read_inode_internal: Truncating ino #504 to 48386 bytes failed because it only had 8192 bytes to start with!
process '-/bin/sh' (pid 325) exited. Scheduling for restart.
process '-/bin/sh' (pid 326) exited. Scheduling for restart.
process '-/bin/sh' (pid 327) exited. Scheduling for restart.
process '-/bin/sh' (pid 328) exited. Scheduling for restart.
anyone can help ? :(
anyone can help?
anyone managed to load a new image onto the leopardboard and run it??
have a piece of dead board sitting for a long time :(
tried to look for latest install updates...but found the later versions of the sdk all removed and only have the 2009 version?
whats going on? am i looking at the wrong place or has the sdk been withdrawn?
Only this version now avail?
message me on skype, basicrobots
RidgeRun is in the process of releasing the updated SDKs. We removed the DM355 SDK as it is very old and no longer supported. Once we get an updated DM355 SDK, we will port it. This work is currently not scheduled.
Thanks Todd,
according to the software install guide the later versions are
These have been removed and the earlier 701905 version remains.
Does the 701905 version works with the new leopard board we acquired recently?
Guess the later versions were removed because they were not stable?
We had tried to create a workabe image out of them without success :(
We are intenting to port our LPR software onto the leopardboard so as to OCR by parking lots (bay).
Market is rather large if we can control the cost.
Please assist.
Hi Richardg,
I'm having a similar problem with booting the Kernel. When I boot system I also get these :
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ALUMAPALOOZA - An Event Like No Other
Alumapalooza is an event like no other.
From the welcoming nature of those who attend the annual event to the fact it's held in within a stone's throw of where the iconic travel trailers are built, Alumapalooza seems to parallel a festival concert series more so than your garden variety, multi-day camping excursion.
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Wright & Filippis acquires interest in South Carolina orthotics company
Wright & Filippis President and Chief Executive Officer A.J. Filippis Wednesday announced the Rochester Hills company has acquired a controlling share in Carolina Orthotics & Prosthetics of North Charleston, S.C.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
Founded in 1944, Wright & Filippis Inc. is a Michigan-based health-care company specializing in prosthetics, orthotics, respiratory care services and home medical equipment and supplies.
Wright & Filippis is the largest family-owned, full-service provider in the United States with 35 locations and more than 900 employees.
Carolina O&P, an American Board of Certification-accredited provider with six locations in South Carolina, will continue to operate independently, retaining its name, management and staffing. C. Ralph Hooper, CPO, will continue to serve as the company's president.
"I've known and had great respect for Ralph Hooper and the entire staff of Carolina O&P for many years," Filippis said. "Their approach to serving their patients absolutely mirrors the Wright & Filippis mission, so this is a very, very natural fit for everyone involved.
"Wright & Filippis has resources and expertise that can truly benefit the patients served by Carolina O&P. At the same time, this investment will help strengthen Wright & Filippis, diversifying our interests and expanding our reach in the very areas upon which our company was founded — orthotics and prosthetics."
Wright & Filippis' O&P roots date back to April 29, 1929, when 13-year-old Tony Filippis lost both of his legs after slipping beneath the wheels of a moving train. In an era when people with disabilities were frequent victims of discrimination, Filippis was unable to find steady employment — and that's when his prosthetist, Carl Wright, offered to teach Filippis how to make artificial limbs. Ten years later, in 1944, the two men formed their own company, Wright & Filippis.
The discrimination and frustration Tony Filippis experienced fueled his lifelong passion for assisting people with disabilities. Although Filippis died in 2007, his son, A.J., and three generations of the Filippis family continue Tony's mission of helping people regain their independence with dignity.
Contact Jerry Wolffe at 248-745-4612 or email@example.com or follow him on Twitter @JerryWolffe1 or on Facebook. Continued...
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