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Koneki/Simulators/OMA-DM/User Guide
- 1 Overview
- 2 Getting started
- 3 Concepts
- 4 Tasks
- 4.1 Simulate one connection by the client device to one OMA-DM server
- 4.2 Simulate FUMO (Firmware Update Management Object)
- 4.3 How to configure and use the OMA-DM server provided by Funambol
- 4.3.1 Prerequisites
- 4.3.2 Install the Funambol Device Management server
- 188.8.131.52 Step 1: Download required programs
- 184.108.40.206 Step 2: Extract archives
- 18.104.22.168 Step 3: Configure PostgreSQL database
- 22.214.171.124 Step 4: Set your environment variable
- 18.104.22.168 Step 5: Edit the file /opt/Funambol/dm-server/install.properties
- 220.127.116.11 Step 6: Install the dm-server
- 22.214.171.124 Step 7: Run the dm-server
- 4.3.3 Use the web interface of the dm-server
- 4.3.4 Use the dm-server with the OMA-DM simulator
- 4.3.5 Access to the database of dm-server
The OMA-DM simulator provides a way to simulate communications between a client living in the Eclipse workbench, and an OMA-DM server. The simulator supports a large part of the current OMA-DM Protocol version 1.2. In a nutshell, the OMA-DM protocol allows a client to synchronize the contents of a data tree with a server. More details about the OMA-DM protocol are available in the Concepts section.
Getting started
Create a new OMA-DM simulator
All informations you will fill into the wizard's pages are settable directly with the simulator. The wizard just offer you an easy way to edit basic informations about the simulation.
Step 1: Select wizard page
To create a new OMA-DM simulator you just have to select "OMA DM Simulator" in "File" → "New" → "Other" → "OMA Dm Simulator".
Warning: the new OMA-DM simulator have to be into a project ("New" → "Project" → "General") , else, it doesn't work.
Click on the "Next" button.
Step 2: OMA DM simulation file page
Choose the location and the name of the future simulator file.
Click on the "Next" button.
Step 3: Device configuration page
This page allows to fill some basic informations in the OMA-DM tree.
- Server URI: the URI of the OMA-DM server you want to use.
- Server login: the user name for the authentication on the OMA-DM server
- Server password: the user password for the authentication on the OMA-DM server
- Device ID: the ID of the device which is simulated
Warning: The simulator just supports the basic authentication. It doesn't yet support the auth-md5 authentication.
Click on the "Next" button.
Step 4: Device informations page
In this page you can fill basic information about the device. the Device ID must not be empty. Other informations could be empty.
- Device id: the same ID than the device ID in the previous step
- Manufacturer Name: the manufacturer's name of the device
- Model Name: the model's name of the device
- Language: the current natural language of the device, for example: "En"
Click on the "Next" button.
Step 5: Device details page
In this page you can fill other informations about the device.
- Device Type: The device ID type. The default type is "FREE". Two others type are recognized; "IMEI" and "MAC". All other words will be translate in "FREE"
- OEM Name: the OEM's name of the device
- Firmware Revision: the number of the current firmware version
- Software Revision: the number of the current software version
- Hardware Revision: the number of the current hardware version
Click on the "Finish" button.
Description of the OMA-DM protocol
The OMA-DM Protocol is based on the HTTP protocol. XML messages are exchanged between the client and the OMA-DM server through HTTP requests. The complete specification of the OMA-DM protocol is available here: www.openmobilealliance.org/Technical/current_releases.aspx
Data representation
The device's data are represented by a tree nodes. This tree is stored twice. Once on the client device and once on the OMA-DM server. The synchronization of these two trees is made during the exchanges between the client device and the server.
There are two types of nodes in the tree: nodes and leaf. Each node and leaf contains four informations
- Name: the name of the node
- Data: the data of the node
- Type: the type of the node (MIME type for leaf node and empty or Management Object Identifier for interior node)
- Format: the standard OMA-DM format of the node
For the leaf, all informations have to be fill.
For the nodes, Type an Data information must be empty. Name is the name of the node. The value of Format is "node".
The OMA-DM tree must contain some specific nodes and leafs. Some other nodes are just optional. The complete description of the basic tree is available in the OMA-DM specifications. After the non optionals nodes, the tree can contain other nodes and leafs which are specific for the client device.
OMA-DM commands
The protocol provides some commands which could be sent by the server and executed on the client device. Below is the list of commands which are supported by the simulator:
- Add: insert a new node in the tree
- Delete: delete a node in the tree
- Get: ask the data of one node
- Replace: change the data of one node
- Copy: copy the value of one node to another
- Exec: invoke an executable file on the client device. It's usually used for FUMO (Firmware Update Managed Object).
The result of the execution of one command is send by the client device to the OMA-DM server. Once, the server receive the result, it can choose to send a new command to the client device.
Once you have created a new OMA-DM simulator, you can simulate some connections to one OMA-DM server.
Simulate one connection by the client device to one OMA-DM server
The simulator is divided in three tabs: Configuration, Simulation and Dashboard. These tabs allow you to configure the simulator before to run connections on the OMA-DM server. The two first tabs offer you a way to configure the simulator. The last tab is use to run connections to one OMA-DM server.
The Configuration tab
The first tab is Configuration. It allows to fill basic informations to identify the OMA-DM server and authenticate the client device on the server. These informations are similar with the Device Configuration page of the wizard.
The Device Management Tree tab: three sections
Device Management Tree tab is divided in three sections: Device tree, Node properties and Node management.
Section 1: Device tree
This section allows to edit the OMA-DM tree. By default, the simulator create one basic tree with non optional nodes. This section is the most important section of this tab. With this section, you can insert or delete nodes and leafs directly into all the tree. Delete non optional nodes is forbidden by the editor.
You can recognize into the tree the informations that you filled in the Configuration tab. Below is the correspondence between information in the Configuration tab and leafs into the OMA-DM tree:
- Server URI: ./DMAcc/AppAddr/Default/Addr
- Server login: ./DMAcc/AppAuth/Default/AuthName
- Server password: ./DMAcc/AppAuth/Default/AuthSecret
- Device ID: ./DevInfo/DevId
The node "./DMAcc/AppAuth/Default" and "./DMAcc/AppAddr/Default" are optional nodes. The leafs "AuthName", "Addr" and "AuthSeret" can be stored anywhere in the node "./DMAcc/AppAuth". You can edit all informations about nodes and leafs in the next section: Node properties. If you change data of nodes which are listed above, the new values will be directly updated in the Configuration tab.
Section 2: Node properties
This section allows you to edit informations about the current node or leaf which is selected in the Device tree. These informations are described in the Data representation section.
As you can see in the screen shot above, you just can edit the data of the selected node. Indeed, for standard nodes, the name, format and type are not settable. But, for non standard nodes, all informations are settable.
Section 3: Node management
This section allows you to choose how execute all OMA-DM commands. There are four modes to execute one command. By default the root of the tree has all commands set in automatic mode. And all other nodes have commands set in inherit mode. There are two other modes: manual and constant. Below is the explication of all management modes:
- Automatic mode: the simulator perform the command like a real device
- Constant mode: the simulator return the status code selected
- Inherited mode: the node management of the parent node is used
- Manual mode: the simulator demand to the user the status code which must be returned
The manual mode is very interesting. The user can change the result of any command directly during the simulation. For example, during one Replace command, you can refuse to set the value of the node.
You can also change the value of one node during one Get command.
One last example of the command management is available in the FUMO section. Here, the command management is use during one Exec command with FUMO.
The Dashboard tab: three other sections
The Dashboard tab is also divided in three sections: Device tree, Node properties and Session management.
The dashboard with the Command view.
The dashboard with the message view.
Section 1: Device tree
This section is almost similar with the tree section in the Device Management Tree tab. But here, you just can to select one node. You can't edit the tree.
Section 2: Node properties
This section is almost similar with the properties section in the Device Management Tree tab. But, here, you just can edit Data information of the selected node. You can't edit other information.
Section 3: Session management: two views
This section is the most important section of this tab. With this section, you can create a new connection between the simulator and one OMA-DM server. When you click on the connect button the simulator create a connection. Then, the simulator and the OMA-DM server will exchange XML messages through HTTP requests. During these exchanges, if the OMA-DM server have to execute some commands, it will send instructions on the simulator. Then, the simulator will execute each instructions. The execution of instructions depends on the node management which is associated with the concerned node.
Section 3.1: Command view
In this view, you can see an abstract of all commands which have been executed.
Section 3.2: Message view
In this view, you can see the details of all OMA-DM messages which are exchange between the simulator and the server.
Simulate FUMO (Firmware Update Management Object)
This section describes all steps to simulate one firmware update with the simulator.
Step 1: Prepare the node management
If it is the first FUMO for your simulated device, this node management is recommended for the root node.
And for other nodes:
Step 2: Launch the simulation
Now click on the connect button for receive the FUMO. Perform the manual get and replace are automatically performed. At one point, the simulator demand you if you want perform a FUMO on the exec node. If you want select "Yes".
Now a pop-up appears and demand you to select FUMO result code and if you choose "Successful" the new version of the firmware version.
When you click on "OK" the FUMO work flow end. Moreover, you can put management commands of the root node in "automatic" except "exec".
Like all commands, one notification of the exec command is show in the Command view.
How to configure and use the OMA-DM server provided by Funambol
This section explains how install the OMA-DM server provided by Funambol. This server is called dm-server. The document also explains how use the web interface of the dm-server and where data are stored. To finish, the document shows how interact the OMA-DM simulator with the dm-server.
The official documentation about Funambol's products is available at this address: www.forge.funambol.org/download/documentation.
All versions of the source code and documentations about Funambol are available at this address: download.forge.objectweb.org/sync4j
This tutorial has been realized with
- Ubuntu version 11.10
- Funambol Device Management server version 3.6
- JDBC 3 version 9.1-901
- JBoss version 5.1.0
- PostgreSQL version 9.1.2
Install the Funambol Device Management server
This section explains how install Funambol dm-server with PostgreSQL database. It supposes PostgreSQL is already installed on your machine.
Step 1: Download required programs
Funambol Device Management server
The dm-server is available at this address: sourceforge.net/projects/funambol/files/dm-server
JBoss is available at this address: www.jboss.org/jbossas/downloads
Warning: Funambol dm-server only works with Jboss 5.1! With latest versions of Jboss, the dm-server doesn't work! Indeed, the latest version of Jboss has a new architecture and Funambol dm-server doesn't support it.
JDBC driver for PostgreSQL
The JDBC driver is available at this address: jdbc.postgresql.org/download
Step 2: Extract archives
The architecture which has been used for this document looks like this:
- /opt/Funambol/dm-server → the device management server
- /opt/Funambol/postgresql.jar → the JDBC driver
- /opt/Funambol/jboss → the jboss server
Extract downloaded archive in the good path.
Step 3: Configure PostgreSQL database
- Create a new PostgreSQL user with these parameters: username = "funambol", password = "funambol"
- Create a new database called "funambol"
Of course, all these parameters are settable.
Step 4: Set your environment variable
- J2EE_HOME points to the top directory of Jboss server: /opt/Funambol/jboss
- JAVA_HOME points to the top directory of your JDK
- JBOSS_CLASSPATH points to the JDBC driver for PostgreSQL: /opt/Funambol/postgresql.jar
Warning: JBOSS_CLASSPATH variable may already exists. To don't break your system, a good solution is to use this command: export JBOSS_CLASSPATH=$JBOSS_CLASSPATH":/opt/Funambol/postgresql.jar
. The JBOSS_CLASSPATH variable is used by dm-server during its execution. If this variable is not set, you will not be able to correctly use the server.
Step 5: Edit the file /opt/Funambol/dm-server/install.properties
This file is use to configure the installation of the dm-server. Some parameters have to be set.
- Set the parameter jdbc.user with the name of the user of PostgreSQL. In this document the password is "funambol"
- Set the parameter jdbc.password with the password of the user of PostgreSQL. In this document the password is "funambol"
- Replace this line: "jdbc.classpath=/opt/postgresql/share/java/postgresql.jar" by this line: "jdbc.classpath=/opt/Funambol/postgresql.jar". This line point to the path of the JDBC driver.
- You can set the line "server-name=http://localhost:8080/funambol/dm" with another IP address. It's the address which is use by the dm-server to receive OMA-DM messages. (The default value works to only use the server with your local machine.)
Step 6: Install the dm-server
To install the dm-server you just need 2 commands:
cd /opt/Funambol/dm-server/
sh ./bin/install.sh jboss5
Warning: jboss5 is not an optional parameter. Without it, the installation doesn't work !
The program will offer you to recreate the PostgreSQL database. Accept, and choose 'y'. If it's the first time you run the script, some errors will appear. It's not a bug. It just means the program tried to delete some SQL tables which doesn't exist yet... If everything is OK, the last message should be: "BUILD SUCCESSFUL". Then, you are ready to run the dm-server.
Step 7: Run the dm-server
To run the dm-server you just need 2 commands:
cd /opt/Funambol/dm-server/
sh ./bin/start.sh
After a few seconds, you should have one message which inform that the server is started.
If you want to change the server name parameter setted in the install.properties file during the Step 5: Edit the file /opt/Funambol/dm-server/install.properties , you don't have to re-install the dm-server. A good way consists to edit the file "/opt/Funambol/dm-server/config/Funambol.properties". The first line (server.uri) set the dm-server name.
Use the web interface of the dm-server
Create one new device on the dm-server
To test the dm-server, go on this page: http://localhost:8080/dmdemo/. You should see one page which looks like this:
Warning: The address of the web interface is not settable. It's not the same address than the name-server parameter available in the install.properties file. The server name parameter is only use for the OMA-DM protocol, not for the web interface.
Click on "Add New device" and choose one device ID. "MyID" has been choose for this document. Once you chose your device ID, click on "Add". If everything all right, you should have one message which inform you the device is correctly created. Now you have one new device store on your dm-server which is identify by its ID: "MyID".
Now you can go on the LogIn page and insert the ID of your new device. In this example, it's "MyID". Once you're logged in, you can choose some OMA-DM command which will be executed on the client device.
Add one new OMA-DM command to the device
Once you are logged, you can choose an operation and add it in the operation list.
From this page, you can chose three types of operations
- Get device details: send one Get command to many important nodes (./DevInfo/Man, ./DevInfo/Mod, ./DevDetail/DevTyp, ./DevDetail/OEM, ./DevInfo/Lang, ./DevDetail/FwV, ./DevDetail/SwV, ./DevDetail/HwV, ./DevInfo/DmV)
- Tree discovery: discover all or a part of the device's OMA-DM tree by sending Get commands to which node you want
- Custom operation: create a collection of commands (Get, Add, Replace or Delete) on which node you want
Tree discovery operation | Custom operation |
Once you chose which operation you want to execute, it is showed in the operations table.
After the execution of the new command, its status change and the date of start time and end time is set.
Now, you can launch new operations.
Use the dm-server with the OMA-DM simulator
Using the OMA-DM simulator with the dm-server needs one specific configuration. In the Configuration tab, fill these informations:
- Server URI = http://localhost:8080/funambol/dm
- Server Login = funambol
- Server Password = funambol
- Device ID = MyID
This parameters are those which have been fill in the Step 4: Edit the file install.properties. The server URI is different than the URI of the web page of the server. Indeed, the web interface is available on this URI: http://localhost:8080/dmdemo/ whereas the OMA-DM server is available on this page: http://localhost:8080/funambol/dm. The server Login and password are used to identify the user on the OMA-DM server. It's the user name and the password for the PostgreSQL account. The device ID is the ID which was use to create a new device on the dm-server.
Once all parameters are set on the simulator, you can run a new connection to the dm-server. If some commands are associated to the device which you want to simulate they will be executed. Then, you will see the result of the operations in the Command view of the dashboard and on web interface of the dm-server.
Access to the database of dm-server
In this document, the dm-server uses PostgreSQL server. The dm-server can use other database server like MySQL or ORACLE. You can get and set the database of the dm-server with your PostgreSQL account (user name = "funambol", password = "funambol", database name = "funambol"). Below is the list of all tables which are created by dm-server during the installation.
- fnbl_device: store all informations about each device
- fnbl_dm_state: store all current commands which are waiting to be execute on on device
- fnbl_id: store come counters to create many unique ids
- fnbl_principal: store the associations between one device and one user. In future version many users could manage many device and vice versa
- fnbl_role: store different role which are available for users. It's not really use in this version of the dm-server
- fnbl_treediscovery_processor: specific table to store only about "Discover tree"
- fnbl_user: store the user name and password which are in the file install.properties during the installation of dm-server. Currently, this table is not really use
- fnbl_user_dm_demo: this table is not use yet
- fnbl_user_role: store the associations between fnbl_user and fnbl_user
A complete description of this database with the foreign keys is available in the document Funambol DM Server Developer's Guide.


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Flour portioning note: It is critical to weigh the flour for this recipe to work as seen in the video. 10 ounces by weight is about 2 cups by volume, but because flour can become quite compressed in the bag or canister, portioning by cup is not very accurate. If you are not going to weigh, only add about a cup and a half of flour, proceed as shown, and if the batter seems too thin after mixing, add more flour, little by little, until you have the thick batter seen in the video.

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The clock to unlock a new mobile phone is running out.
In October 2012, the Librarian of Congress, who determines exemptions to a strict anti-hacking law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), decided that unlocking mobile phones would no longer be allowed. But the librarian provided a 90-day window during which people could still buy a phone and unlock it. That window closes on January 26.
Unlocking a phone frees it from restrictions that keep the device from working on more than one carrier's network, allowing it run on other networks that use the same wireless standard. This can be useful to international travellers who need their phones to work on different networks. Other people just like the freedom of being able to switch carriers as they please.
The new rule against unlocking phones won't be a problem for everybody, though. For example, Verizon's iPhone 5 comes out of the box already unlocked, and AT&T will unlock a phone once it is out of contract.
You can also pay full-price for a phone, not the discounted price that comes with a two-year service contract, to receive the device unlocked from the get-go. Apple sells an unlocked iPhone 5 starting at $649, and Google sells its Nexus 4 unlocked for $300. [See also: Can I Get a Smartphone Without a Contract? ]
Advocacy group the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) questions whether the DMCA has the right to determine who can unlock a phone. In an email to TechNewsDaily, EFF attorney Mitch Stoltz said, "Arguably, locking phone users into one carrier is not at all what the DMCA was meant to do. It's up to the courts to decide."
If you do buy a new phone and want to unlock it before the deadline, you must first ask your carrier if the company will unlock your phone for you. The DMCA only permits you to unlock your phone yourself once you've asked your carrier first.
(Note that unlocking is different from " jailbreaking," which opens the phone up for running additional software and remains legal for smartphones.)
Christopher S. Reed from the U.S. Copyright Office noted in an email to TechNewsDaily that "only a consumer, who is also the owner of the copy of software on the handset under the law, may unlock the handset."
But come Saturday, you'll have to break the law to unlock your phone. If you want to get in under the gun, you can search the Internet for the code to enter to unlock the phone or find a tool that will help you accomplish the task.
The change could crimp the style of carriers like T-Mobile, which have pushed "bring your own device" as an incentive for switching service providers. Such carriers promise savings in exchange for using your existing phone on their network.
T-Mobile has promoted this notion for iPhones, in particular, since the company is the only one of the big four U.S. carriers that doesn't sell the iPhone. The carrier goes so far as to feature ads displaying an open padlock, with an iPhone replacing the body of the lock. T-Mobile declined to comment.


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We appreciate the confidence placed in us at Citi Animal Hospital and acknowledge that the greatest compliment is when our valued clients recommend us to their family, friends, neighbors and co-workers.
Our Pet Pals referral program provides us with the opportunity to give back to our loyal clients for continuing to help our practice grow, in addition to those who are willing to give us a try. You can use the form below to refer friends and family to our hospital. Simply provide their e-mail address (feel free to include a message) and they will receive an email from you with a link to our website. As a thank you for the referral, we will credit your account $25 after their first appointment (you must be mentioned as the referral).
Pet Pals is just our small way of saying "thank you" for your trust in our team.


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What I'm Wearing
* J Brand shocking pink jeans for Fashion's Night Out {courtesy of J Brand} where 100% of the proceeds got to The New York City Aids Fund in the New York Community Trust – the official charity of FNO. They sent me a size larger {30} than I normally wear {29} so they were just a tiny bit too big but they are extremely comfortable because of it {zero muffin top} so it all worked out. You know J Brand jeans are my absolute favorites. I've been wearing them since 2006 and must have at least 7 pairs in different styles.
I wore them out at night with…
* American Apparel heather gray racer tank
* Vintage blazer with beaded/sequined lapels …seen here
* Vintage leopard calf hair belt
* Vintage snakeskin clutch
* Casadei peep toe leopard print stilettos
* Mixed silver bangles and rhinestone bracelets
* Lee Angel Silver & Glass Stone Chandelier earrings
* Tom Ford cat eye sunglasses
* I LOVE these stilettos but HOTDAMN the heels are HIGH *
I wore them to work at the gallery with…
* Brushed silk black tank blouse by Zoa from GILT
* Forever 21 suede pumps {that I took to the shoe repair & had 2 extra straps added}
I just so happened to match a very large {and very pretty} Tim Bavington canvas. Thank you drollgirl for capturing it!


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Wonderbaby has always been, shall we say, follically challenged. Sparsely-haired. So much so that that we were asked, more than once during her first year, whether we shaved her head. (For the record: no.) Since her first birthday it has been coming in – surely, but very slowly – and although she now has a thickish mop of fluffy flaxen hair, it is nonetheless a very short mop. Short, that is, except for the bangs. Wonderbaby's meagre coif is entirely pixie, except for the long flip of fringe that has been dangling over her eyes for some weeks now. We haven't been quite sure whether the look is more Pob or Donald Trump, but whatever the case, it was starting to obscure her vision and get in her soup and so, we decided, it needed a trim.
So it was that although it has long seemed unlikely that she would be getting her first haircut before her second birthday, she received, yesterday, just shy of twenty-two months of age, her first set of proper bangs (the first of many, if she is anything like her mother). Behold the Wonderbaby makeover!
And so it begins. Tomorrow she will insist upon wearing a black trenchcoat and oversized Gucci sunglasses and will refuse to do interviews. Then, I suppose, I will have start calling her Wondergirl.
(In the meantime – giving shit away! HERE! First time ever! Am capitalist whore with potlatch complex!)


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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Hail, Hailoween!
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Hah! See? Told you it was fun.
And speaking of Wrecked inscriptions...
And speaking of things that are mixed up...
And speaking of anatomy:
Unless you think they're simply flesh-colored versions of a "pumpkin" and a "haystack," that is. Then they are what you think they are. Allegedly.
Kind of like how this is allegedly a pumpkin:
Chickpea, Katie H., Sarah C., Bill P., & Rebekah F., that stem really wipes out the competition, doesn't it?
- Related Wreckage: Why You Don't Raid Other People's Refrigerators
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- Christie said...
Man, I was hoping that once you were a skeleton you didn't have to worry about doing squats anymore. You, since you wouldn't have a butt. And adding in the press-your-elbows-together-until-your-shoulders-pop-out-of-joint move is just mean.
- October 31, 2009 at 9:40 AM
- Unknown said...
How can a baker misspell "Halloween?" Even the lowest level of my non-native English speaking classes can spell it!
And the flesh colored things? Well, I thought the one on the left was a tree and the circle on the right was a look at a tree trunk with all the rings visible. After all, there were leaves falling all over the place . . . that means the tree was cut down, right?
Go figure. The skeleton decorator didn't want his/her item to end up on Cakewrecks for having a bad pelvis. Too bad they didn't know that a missing pelvis was just as bad! - October 31, 2009 at 9:43 AM
- Maggie said...
Hailoween sounds, out loud, how I imagine Target Lady from SNL would say it.
If you say it in her accent..... - October 31, 2009 at 9:47 AM
I think the fourth one is actually supposed to be a cornshock rather than a haystack. Either way, hmmm.
And the poor skeleton--sort of an anatomy student's nightmare. (I thought at first the upper arms were supposed to be wings--or a wing-tip collar.) - October 31, 2009 at 9:47 AM
- Jen said...
Actually, I think that "fleshly colored pumpkin" is actually supposed to be a hay bale.
Allegedly. - October 31, 2009 at 9:48 AM
- Melinda said...
Turd exploding on the sun! Hysterical! And I actually think that's a haystack and one of those round hay bales, though I can see how you got pumpkin with the random leaf right where a stem should be.
- October 31, 2009 at 9:50 AM
- TracyCakes said...
DEFINITELY at turd exploding on the sun!!
- October 31, 2009 at 9:52 AM
- Nobody said...
WOW Halloween is like Cake Wrecking gold, isn't it???
- October 31, 2009 at 10:01 AM
- Mad in Crafts said...
I made a sad sort of "ohhh" sound when I saw the Happy Birthday cake. That's just not nice.
But, the turd exploding on the sun is hilarious!!! - October 31, 2009 at 10:04 AM
- Unknown said...
As a biology student who has studied the skeletal systems endlessly, may I just say the skeleton cake might just be my favorite wreck ever.
Chrissy - October 31, 2009 at 10:16 AM
I can't remember how I came across your blog but I've been reading faithfully since that first time when I started laughing so hard I cried. So I was completely excited to find the new book featured in the new issue of People Magazine under the category of Buzz Book. I think it's pretty exciting, so, congratulations!
- October 31, 2009 at 10:19 AM
- Zerotime said...
So that fourth cake isn't Orthanc and... uh... The Eye of Sauron?
- October 31, 2009 at 10:25 AM
I thought that was a bug on the pumpkin...the skeleton on the other hand is actually kinda cute.
- October 31, 2009 at 10:26 AM
- Unknown said...
oh! it's supposed to be a stem because I thought it was a mutant turdroach with its legs coming out of its head. and maybe the birthday cake is for a dearly departed, because that's the sort of macabre thing i would do.
- October 31, 2009 at 10:28 AM
The media is constantly trying to scare us with doomsday scenarios like Killer Bees, bits of space junk crashing to Earth, Zombies. Little do they know that we are actually in danger of world destruction thanks to a giant turn exploding on the sun!!!
- October 31, 2009 at 10:37 AM
- Brian said...
Yuck, I don't have to say it out loud. Hailoween is embedded in my brain from work yesterday as everyone was leaving to go home. Southern hospitality meets serious mispronunciation!
- October 31, 2009 at 10:38 AM
That last bright orange cake? I REALLY think that's a giant, blood-swollen tick on it-missing a few legs. Eww.
- October 31, 2009 at 10:41 AM
- Cindy said...
The skeleton cake has inspired me to break into song: Leg bone connected to the knee bone / Knee bone connected to the thigh bone / Thigh bone connected to the...
Verification word: domstr. A good place to put an unfixable cake wreck. - October 31, 2009 at 10:52 AM
- jess said...
LOL, I was already saying it out loud...too funny. You rock!!
Happy HAILOWEEN!!!! - October 31, 2009 at 10:54 AM
The "deadly" birthday one definitely falls under the category of "decorator read the first word on the cake topper and failed to read the second." Oops...
I actually thought the last one looked more like a giant squished bug, but exploding turd works too. :P - October 31, 2009 at 10:55 AM
I actually know the perfect person for the Happy Birthday cake. My friend put on her facebook this morning,
"Happy Birthday Dad - RIP= Happy Halloween"
That's a creepy equation. - October 31, 2009 at 11:03 AM
Hailoween! Yup, it was fun to say it out loud. Thanks for the laughs!
VW: arcleu - These wreckorators need to get arcleu. - October 31, 2009 at 11:03 AM
You know... I kind of like the 'Turd Exploding on the Sun' image a little better. Go out with a BANG! or Sad Flat Pumpkin... I would choose the smell of burning crap and happiness over depressing gourd-relative any day. But thats just me...
- October 31, 2009 at 11:08 AM
- October 31, 2009 at 11:09 AM
- FlagFreak said...
I must say, there've been quite a few "Do you see what I see?" posts today.
- October 31, 2009 at 11:13 AM
ROFL at "turd exploding on the sun!" XD
And I'm from south Alabama and I've never heard Halloween pronounced like that, not even by my hickest relatives.... - October 31, 2009 at 11:14 AM
Silly, Hailoween is the night before it hails.
- October 31, 2009 at 11:17 AM
So you're not from a rural area are you? The flesh colored things? On the left, a traditional hay stack, on the right, the round "thing with rings" is a round bale. Most of the farmers bale hay into very large round or rectangular bales that can only be moved w/ a tractor/forklift. They usually stand around 6 feet high.
- October 31, 2009 at 11:30 AM
I live in the south and have never heard anyone pronounce it that way either. Apparently somebody does, though!
Hail All Hallows Day!! - October 31, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Well, obviously that skeleton is doing the Funky Chicken.
- October 31, 2009 at 11:54 AM
I just wanted to say that the Cake Wrecks Lady is really funny. She writes the funniest comments for these cakes. Sure, the pictures are funny by themselves, but what really makes this blog successful is the spot-on witty stuff she writes under each cake. Just wanted you to know. I really enjoy your blog.
- October 31, 2009 at 12:03 PM
"There's a little black spot on thsun today..."
- October 31, 2009 at 12:05 PM
- Djinn said...
Always enjoy this blog, especially today's gems! But I never comment because I do not understand how to make my Blogger account identity function. The help section doesn't cover this problem, so I appeal to the commenters. Can anyone give me a quick tutorial? Sometimes it works and yet most often it just posts my words as if from anonymous. Maybe it's just the feeling the Hallowe'en spirit? Thanks in advance.
- October 31, 2009 at 12:16 PM
It looks like the happy skeleton is doing the Charleston. Love your blog.
- October 31, 2009 at 12:16 PM
- Ros said...
...thigh bones connected to the wrist bones, the wrist bones connected to the ankle bones...
- October 31, 2009 at 12:33 PM
- Unknown said...
That skeleton is too funny.
Happy Hailloween.;o)
Amy B-H - October 31, 2009 at 12:37 PM
- Melissa said...
Someone else already said it, but I thought the skeleton was doing the Charleston, too. Don't all skeletons do the Charleston? ;)
Thanks for the humor you bring to my day! - October 31, 2009 at 1:00 PM
- Hobbit said...
Apparently, not everyone learned the Halloween song in elementary school: H-A-Double L-O-W-Double E-N spells Halloween!
Happy Hailoween y'all!! - October 31, 2009 at 1:13 PM
These are great Halloween wrecks!!! My fiance and I were at Costco (of all places) and decided to walk though the bakery to see if there were any Cake Wrecks. To our surprise, there was!!! It was fantastic! Your site has brought so much joy to so many people. I now find myself looking for failed cakes everywhere I go :)
Danielle - October 31, 2009 at 1:18 PM
- Nona said...
Nope a turd and the sunis it!!
- October 31, 2009 at 1:53 PM
- Shari said...
Geez, my mind is so far out of whack..I thought the turd exploding in the sun was a turd on a tomato!
- October 31, 2009 at 2:11 PM
Jen! Congrats on the review of CakeWrecks in this week's People!!! For once, I knew what book they were talking about!!
So happy for you.
wv: estrappy. I am wearing estrappy high heel tonight with my costume. - October 31, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Hmm. I thought the flesh colored one was a tree and a hay roll, at first glance.
- October 31, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Skeletal legs are definitely messed up. Everyone knows the greater trochanter is on the lateral edge of the humerus, rather than the medial.
wv: cobsesed. What happens when people fixate on corn. - October 31, 2009 at 2:22 PM
- Shannon said...
I think that last one is the turdiest looking one yet.
Do you think the winged creatures on the birthday/RIP cake are birds or bats? - October 31, 2009 at 2:38 PM
You know, I thought that last one was a turd exploding on the sun too, but then I saw the sprinkles, and it was clear to me that it was a pumpkin. Really a crucial element for any pumpkin cake.
--kate - October 31, 2009 at 2:42 PM
I am originally from a rural area, but we never saw a reason to celebrate hay on a cake. Is the Halloween connection supposed to be in the flesh color of the hay? Is it a scene from one of those "Children of the Corn" movies?
- October 31, 2009 at 2:45 PM
- Unknown said...
I'm from North Carolina, and I know many people who pronounce "Carolina" "Care -uh-LAH-nuh", but Halloween would probably be "Hal-uh- WANE" not hailoween. To me it sounds like it should be pronounced with aspirated H's. HHHappy HHHailoween. =P I also agree with the person who thinks the flesh colored round thing is a hay bail. Although I honestly must say, I stared at that for about 2 straight minutes just trying to figure out what the heck it could be. I thought the tall one might be a misshapen tree... but upon review, I think it's some wheat stalks tied together..... Keep up the awesome work. =)
- October 31, 2009 at 3:18 PM
- Sheila said...
Ahaa... I actually *did* think it was a haystack. Though I didn't think the other thing was a pumpkin, I thought it was one of those rolled-up hay things. Maybe I'm naive and sheltered? :-P
- October 31, 2009 at 3:31 PM
How is it that you do not get incredibly irritated by people who point out the obvious and entirely miss your humor?
- October 31, 2009 at 4:20 PM
- Sarah Carrico said...
AHHHHHHHHHH!!! I was really hoping my skeleton cake pic would make it on... I'm glad everyone enjoyed it - I'd been giggling at it for a few days before I took the photo. Happy H'ween!
- October 31, 2009 at 5:02 PM
- Unknown said...
1) Hailoween makes me think of that South Park episode with the woodland creatures singing, "Have a Merry Woodland Christmas...Hail Satan!"
2) Now now, someone could have a birthday on Hailoween and want a dual-purpose cake.
Oh crap, I shouldn't say it that way or these freaky bakers you keep finding will put two dolphins on it...
3) Now now again, maybe the bones were found that way in the remains of some torture chamber that was buried mid-torture by the ash and lava from a volcano. And...um...the other bones were...um...
Meh, I got nothing. - October 31, 2009 at 6:07 PM
- Harriet said...
Not really on topic for the post...
But I think Frank Warren AKA Mr. Postsecret may read Cakewrecks:
http://twitpic.com/myc6z - October 31, 2009 at 6:26 PM
- Jennifer said...
Ok... I actually was saying "Hailoween" out loud before you told me too. And sitting here, alone, laughing at the pronunciation.
Seriously... the things we do for you! - October 31, 2009 at 7:35 PM
- Breath-e said...
MIxed message, definitely mixed...oy.
- October 31, 2009 at 8:45 PM
Doesn't that birthday cake remind you of that other one you posted a bit back for the nine year old, with the parent's graves?
- October 31, 2009 at 9:16 PM
I respectfully suggest that the term "flesh coloured" could be considered narrow minded. Flesh is LOTS of different colours. Choosing to describe beige as "flesh coloured" is not cool.
- October 31, 2009 at 9:30 PM
Happy Halloween, um, I mean Hailoween. I want even more Halloween wreckage! Keep it coming, won't you please. Tomorrow's Day of The Dead and stuff.
- October 31, 2009 at 9:32 PM
Anon @ 9:30,
Didn't think I'd put your comment through did you? Well I did. But you're wrong.
"Flesh" is defined as "the soft substance consisting of muscle and fat that is found between the skin and bones of an animal or human."
So cut open the belly of any random chubby dude on the street* and we all look pretty much the same: a rather nasty yellowish, pinkish beige-ish color.
And that, my anonymous friend, deserves a booya.
*Please don't cut anyone open. - October 31, 2009 at 9:41 PM
- LamontWayne said...
The cake I submitted was WAY funnier and worse than these! ...oh well, at least its on the Fail Blog.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! - October 31, 2009 at 10:08 PM
For the poop pumpkin, I could also see the "stem" as an eggplant with tentacle arms.
- October 31, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Big congrats on being featured on 'The Graham Norton Show'!!!
Now you're even famous-er. - October 31, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Holy cow! You guys got a shout out on The Graham Norton Show tonight.
An awesome moment... :-)
Steph - October 31, 2009 at 10:55 PM
- Chris Mower said...
The last one looks like a spider tick maggot, if there is such a thing.
- October 31, 2009 at 11:35 PM
- Unknown said...
Hahaha...hey John, a friend of mine once quite rightly pointed out that if anyone's skin was the colour of "flesh tone", at least as defined by band-aids, they should seek a doctor's help immediately.
- November 1, 2009 at 12:01 AM
I think of "flesh"-colored as the color of Band-Aids, which match the skin of absolutely nobody I've even known. Happy Hailoween!
- November 1, 2009 at 12:27 AM
- Unknown said...
As a girl who lives in the rural south, I'ma go ahead and tell you that that's a sheaf of wheat and/or corn on the left and a hay roll on the right. Both traditionally that color (more or less), thought that explains neither the plain white background nor the psychedelic jack o'lantern flotsam...I'll leave that one up to you!
- November 1, 2009 at 12:47 AM
The second one reminds me that, strangely, despite having a Hallowe'en birthday (I turned 27, btw), my birthdays have lacked a true Hallowe'en/birthday crossover wreck. I feel cheated.
- November 1, 2009 at 1:11 AM
I love this blog. I just saw it on the Graham Norton Show on BBC America!
- November 1, 2009 at 1:42 AM
- Kaede said...
Doesn't everybody pronounce Carolina as "Care-uh-LAH-nuh"? If you think that's a poser try Mebane. Go ahead, try it.
It's pronounced MEB-ain. Try Manteo.
Nope it's not Man-TAY-o. It's MAN-ee-o.
But did anyone else see that on the corn shock cake that the leaves are SMILING?
WV puncetic I believe the definition of puncetic is how those folks spelled Hailoween. - November 1, 2009 at 2:42 AM
- miss leigh said...
who's graham norton? sorry i was reading the comments
leigh - November 1, 2009 at 5:03 AM
- Haiku Joy said...
Snow White's glass coffin
one-upped by glass tombstones in
a white, white field. - November 1, 2009 at 9:26 AM
I said Happy Hailoween out loud before being encouraged to do so, and I'm glad I'm not the only one, Jennifer!
- November 1, 2009 at 11:39 AM
- Amanda | Glittericity said...
ROFL... oh man, I got to the bottom with merely a snicker at the "Hailoween" cake (because I live in the south and have heard some people actually pronounce it this way), but then I saw the phrase "not a turd exploding on the sun". I'm still laughing! Jen, you are awesome!
- November 1, 2009 at 11:43 AM
Subcutaneous fat is yellow. Our muscles look basically look like cuts of beef, very healthy red. I've never seen a 'flesh' colored bandaid in either of those colors. And if it is something meant to be used on the outer layer of dermis, why would they call it 'flesh'?
Just pondering. - November 1, 2009 at 11:50 AM
- Unknown said...
I'm not sure I see a different meaning in the first cake. I see a bound cornstalks and a round hay bale. That could be because I grew up on a farm though.
As for the "pumpkin".. that's a little disturbing. It looks as if a dog took a potty break on it. - November 1, 2009 at 12:12 PM
A friend of mine was actually born on Halloween. I think he'd find that wreck pretty amusing.
- November 1, 2009 at 2:01 PM
- Red Wolf said...
I thought it was a haystack and a hay bale (the rolled kind.)
- November 1, 2009 at 4:28 PM
- skatej said...
We don't say it "hailoween" in the south, we say it more like "howloween" so I don't know what kind of accent you'd have to have...
- November 1, 2009 at 9:14 PM
- Tammi said...
That "RIP" birthday cake made me click through today but the "flesh-colored" chat has me weighing in. Dictionary aside, John, the "what is flesh colored" question has been going for some time. Maybe you didn't know? Crayola removed their "flesh-colored" crayon because of the debate, Bandaid (I believe) offered additional colors because of the debate, pantyhose had the same, and so on.
It's the little things that define a much greater issue of systemic "us versus them" race issue and whose flesh is normalized is one of those.
A little substance with all the sweet cake wreckage does a body good, so glad to see this thread diversion.
On with the wreckage! - November 1, 2009 at 9:14 PM
Hey Tammi,
I actually did know about it but being a stickler for definition, it's always bugged me that "Flesh" and "Skin" have become interchangeable. It's not the same thing. I know it's a matter of semantics.
Quick bad analogy. A banana is considered a fruit. It also has fruit beneath it's peel which, while part of the fruit, is not in and of itself fruit. It's the peel. See? Flesh is the fruit and skin is the peel.
What color is the fruit of a banana? White even though the fruit, as a whole, is yellow. Now I'm confusing myself.
My point? It doesn't make one culturally insensitive or bigoted to use a term correctly, even if everyone else uses it wrong.
p.s. Is it just me or is everyone in the world getting just a bit too sensitive. - November 1, 2009 at 11:25 PM
neck-bone's connected to the... elbow-bone?
- November 2, 2009 at 9:09 AM
- Me said...
My heavens! I thought the last one was a Giant Tick!!!ewwwwww Deb
- November 2, 2009 at 9:36 AM
The thigh bone's connected to... (ahhhhh-nothing!!!)
- November 2, 2009 at 11:01 AM
- Shannon said...
To me, Hailoween isn't so much Southern as old lady with a really nasal voice....just try it.
- November 2, 2009 at 11:49 AM
- ME! said...
HAY! Well, at least, that's what I thought the 4th cake was. A corn stalk and a bale of hay... That does not make it any better, of course!
Happy Hailoween - November 2, 2009 at 12:14 PM
- Melissa (& Billy) said...
Whoa! Day-glo orange frosting on that 'pumpkin'. Don't think that's going to do my insides much good.
- November 2, 2009 at 12:42 PM
i caved and said "Hailoween" and laughed for a good 5 minutes.
thank you. so much : ) - November 3, 2009 at 12:09 AM
I'm curious if the northern USA accent analog to the Southern "Hailoween" would manifest itself in sports-themed cakes, where we really draw out our long-O sounds, e.g. "Goooooooooooooooooooooo Team"
Really t'ink ya do a good job wit' dis site, eh. - November 3, 2009 at 2:36 PM
- Moraelyn said...
I have two words to explain that Skeleton Cake: "JAZZ HANDS!"
- November 4, 2009 at 4:59 PM
I live in Tokyo and I can get you some Ginza Cozy Corner meringue pets. They're royal icing, and sometimes they have jelly bodies. The cute here is surreal, so much of it-I'm pretty much cuted out. Wish you could see the cute cake stuff at the 100Yen stores. Cute, Cute, CUTE! ARGH!!!!
let me know if you're interested- and Happy Falkersatherhood!
email@example.com - November 5, 2009 at 2:51 AM
- Laser Potato said...
The "haystack" cake looks like a bunch of bundled sheaves of wheat (the famous Van Gogh painting comes to mind; tinyurl.com/yzckhhv) and a rolled hay bale rather than a haystack and a pumpkin. What *I* want to know is why they're surrounded by hitodama! (Hitodama are mysterious, small lights that resemble flames that supposedly appear near graveyards; they're the generic Japanese depiction of ghosts. There's a similar supernatural phenomenon in the UK, but they call them something boring like "grave-lights" or the like.)
- November 5, 2009 at 9:49 AM
What I love is that the skeleton one it is sitting right next to some throw away cameras... Just like it's saying, hey look I'm a wreck!! Take my picture!! Marketing scheme by the bakery? Hmmm... Maybe?..
- November 5, 2009 at 10:32 AM
- RJLittle said...
Hm... That last one could also be a small, unfortunate cephalopod clinging to a large, orange rock. I'm thinking cuttlefish.
Though the turd exploding on the sun bit did make me laugh out loud. The comedic timing was perfect. - November 13, 2009 at 4:48 AM
- TupeloHoney said...
Wow, the last one was pretty bad, but the caption sent me into hysterics. :)
- November 17, 2009 at 12:41 AM
- TupeloHoney said...
Also, "Hailoween" immediately makes me think of Paula Dean in the Smithfield Ham commercials. And I AM Southern. :)
- November 17, 2009 at 12:44 AM
Not even the true-blue southerners where I live pronounce it "Hailoween."
The worst I've ever heard it pronounced was a very heavy Howl-uh-ween or Hawl-uh-ween. A toddler once told me "Happy Haul-a-wayne," but I merely passed that off as the child's age and his Joker costume. (Get it? Bruce Wayne? Batman? Oh forget it; that was a lame joke) - November 25, 2009 at 5:46 PM
- Cupcakes Lady said...
That skeleton is funny. Made me giggle. Not long now to halloween. ;) xx
- October 13, 2010 at 3:25 PM
I knew someone at my school who's accent was so heavy that they thought that "finger" was spelled "fanger." She never lived it down.
- December 3, 2010 at 9:29 PM
- Unknown said...
"Black-hole sun ,won't you come,and wash away the pain?....."
- March 23, 2011 at 5:03 AM
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While it's lengthy, read it all the way through to the end. The reason he gives for selling it and not, say, just giving the item to the Reagan family is priceless:
"These articles have actually been in my family's possession since 03/30/1981, the day that President Reagan was shot in Washington D.C. Back in the 70's and 80's, my mother worked for Bio Science Laboratories in Columbia, Maryland.
Her laboratory was the laboratory contracted by Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well as the George Washington University Hospital to handle blood testing as well as other types of testing. Her lab did the blood work and testing for President Reagan.The test tube and the lab slip that I have are for his blood work to be tested for lead on [Monday] 03/30/1981. The testing was completed and the test tube was sitting on my mother's desk. At the end of the week, she asked the director of her laboratory if she could keep the paper work and the test tube.The director of the lab told her no problem and really never gave it a second thought. It has been in my family ever since. My mother passed away back in November last year [2010] and my father passed away in January 2009. Prior to their passing, they knew that it was the only thing that I wanted with regards to their personal property or money that they accumulated over the years..."About 3 to 4 months ago, I contacted the Reagan National Library and spoke to the head of the library, a Federal Agent. I told him what I had, how I came across it and so on. We spoke for about 45 minutes. The reason that I contacted the Reagan National Library was to see if they would like to purchase it from me.He indicated that if I was interested in donating it he would see to it that he would take care of all of the arrangements. Prior to hanging up the phone, he said to me, do me a favor, don't move from where you are, I will call you back within 30 minutes but I have to make a couple of phone calls to seek legal counsel, consult with National Archives, the FBI and other three or four letter agencies that I have heard of.I said am I in any kind of trouble or will there be some black cars/suv's or helicopters hovering above my home and he said not yet but possibly in the very near future depending on what he learned from the phone calls he had to make.I told him alright, I will not move from where I was sitting and would await his return call. He called back in 25 minutes and said that everything was ok, National Archives was not interested in what I had, nor was the Secret Service, the FBI and other agencies.Since 30 years had passed by, he thought that it was simply something that was of no importance at this time and that I was free to do with whatever I wanted with it. He then stated that he felt the family would be interested in it being returned to them and if I was interested in doing so to contact him and he would make all of the arrangements.I told him that I didn't think that was something that I was going to consider, since I had served under Pres. Reagan when he was my Commander in Chief when I was in the ARMY from '87-'91 and that I was a real fan of Reaganomics and felt that Pres. Reagan himself would rather see me sell it rather than donating it."
As I said, a priceless explanation. Hard to argue with that logic, that the leading advocate in his era of American free enterprise would want to see the owner of his blood sample profit from his valuable item instead of giving it away and getting nothing in return but a warm glow inside.
Meanwhile, the blood vial has a very real price. At the current exchange rate, the latest bid places it at about $14,418.
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A fair amount of schadenfreude greeted the release last week of a study showing that the kids of parents who pay for college return their families' largesse by achieving lower grades. The study, conducted by University of California at Merced professor Laura Hamilton and published in the American Sociological Review, offered those of us who worked our way through college — or took out burdensome student loans — a rare opportunity to gloat. But our self-congratulation is mistaken, or at least beside the point. Hamilton's work, and that of other researchers, demonstrates that we should all be concerned about the state of higher education in the U.S. today and that college students enjoying a four-year paid vacation courtesy of their parents are merely a symptom of a larger problem.
That problem is this: across the board, American colleges and universities are not doing a very good job of preparing their students for the workplace or their postgraduation lives. This was made clear by the work of two sociologists, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa. In 2011 they released a landmark study titled "Academically Adrift," which documented the lack of intellectual growth experienced by many people enrolled in college. The authors examined the results of tests taken at the beginning, middle and end of students' undergraduate careers and concluded that 45% of students "did not demonstrate any significant improvement in learning" during their first two years of college, while 36% failed to demonstrate improved learning across all four years. In particular, Arum and Roksa found, college students were not developing the critical thinking, analytic reasoning and other higher-level skills that are necessary to thrive in today's knowledge-based economy and to lead our nation in a time of complex challenges and dynamic change.
(MORE: The Myth of the Four-Year College Degree)
Arum and Roksa placed the blame for students' lack of learning on a watered-down college curriculum and lax undergraduate work ethic. Although going to college is supposed to be a full-time job, the authors reported that students spent, on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and that many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing. Students who take more challenging classes and spend more time studying do learn more. But the priorities of many undergrads are with extracurricular clubs and activities, fraternities and sororities, practicing and playing sports, and partying and socializing — and let's not forget sleeping. The results are clear, wrote Arum and Roksa: "Educational practices associated with academic rigor improved student performance, while collegiate experiences associated with social engagement did not."
If students' priorities are off, perhaps they're taking cues from the top. Another study released last week — this one by the Delta Cost Project, a branch of the American Institutes for Research — found that universities and colleges that belong to Division I, the top tier of college sports, spend about three to six times as much on athletics per athlete as they spend on academics per student. In the Southeastern Conference, which produced the last seven NCAA national champions in football, the ratio is more like 12 times as much spending on athletes as on students. "Not only does athletic spending per athlete far exceed academic spending per student, it is also growing about twice as fast," the report noted, with much of the spending going to multimillion-dollar coaching contracts, more athletic staff and better facilities.
(MORE: Highlighting Is a Waste of Time: The Best and Worst Learning Techniques)
Hamilton, the author of the study on parents who pay for college, will argue in a forthcoming book that college administrations are overly concerned with the social and athletic activities of their students. In Paying for the Party, a book she co-authored with sociologist Elizabeth Armstrong that will be published this spring, Hamilton describes what she calls the "party pathway," which eases many students through college, helped along by a powerful Greek system, residence halls that funnel students into the party scene and a host of easier majors. By sanctioning this version of college lite, Hamilton and Armstrong write, universities are "catering to the social and educational needs of affluent, full-freight students at the expense of others" who won't enjoy the financial backing or social connections of richer students once they graduate.
These students need to build skills and knowledge during college if they are to use their degrees as a stepping-stone to middle-class mobility. But more-privileged students must not waste this opportunity either. As recent graduates can attest, the job market isn't kind to candidates who can't demonstrate genuine competence, along with a well-honed willingness to work hard. Nor is the global economy forgiving of an American workforce with increasingly weak literacy, math and science abilities. College graduates will still fare better than those with only a high school education, of course. But a university degree unaccompanied by a gain in knowledge or skills is an empty achievement indeed. For students (parentally funded or not) who have been coasting through college — and for American universities that have been demanding less work, offering more goodies and charging higher tuition — the party may soon be over.


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I think it's funny that food plays a big part of so many important occasions in the world. Take, for example, ham for Easter, cakes on birthdays, turkey on Thanksgiving. There's nothing better than sharing a big meal around a table with your family and friends. However, I like to commemorate the everyday occasions in life with a little celebratory something, too; in this case, peanut brittle for my mom and stepfather. They just moved to Tampa. They're filled with stress and constant decision-making, and frankly, they could use some candy.
I just recently learned that this is one her favorite treats that she only rarely indulges in, and there's nothing I like more than spoiling the people I love! So, off to Florida went a big bag of this homemade candy, along with a quirky antique store find, to welcome them into their new home.
So, for those of you interested in making this sweet treat, you'll be happy to know that it is so ridiculously easy. This stuff also has the power to turn unsure peanut brittle novices into peanut brittle lovers. It sure did for me!
All it takes is a cookie sheet and a saucepan; no candy thermometer necessary (I just used a regular old kitchen thermometer). You are essentially making caramel with sugar, corn syrup, salt, and water, then adding the peanuts, butter and baking soda towards the end. Once it's got a nice, warm color to it, onto the sheet and into the fridge it goes. Give it about half an hour to harden, then munch on your delicious candy confection, or share it with someone you love!
Peanut Brittle
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 cup peanuts
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Grease a large cookie sheet. Set aside.
- In a heavy 2 quart saucepan, over medium heat, bring to a boil sugar, corn syrup, salt, and water. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Stir in peanuts. Set candy thermometer in place, and continue cooking. Stir frequently until temperature reaches 300 degrees F (150 degrees C), or until a small amount of mixture dropped into very cold water separates into hard and brittle threads.
- Remove from heat; immediately stir in butter and baking soda; pour at once onto cookie sheet. With 2 forks, lift and pull peanut mixture into rectangle about 14x12 inches; cool. Snap candy into pieces.
- Enjoy!


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1116: Traffic Lights
This comic is an animated gif which features an array of traffic lights which are lighted signals posted at intersections to control vehicular traffic. The standard North American traffic light has three solid lights: red, yellow and green (meaning, in simplistic terms, "stop", "slow down in preparation to stop" and "go" respectively). More complicated lights sometimes have additional signals such as arrows indicating go or stop for a specific direction such as left or right turns.
However, as in the strip, sometimes an intersection has multiple lights with certain of them designated to apply solely to a specific lane or specific direction of travel. A common one is a left-turn light that allows the lights to stop or allow left-turn traffic independent of the rest of the traffic. Another common example is a light that applies only to public transit like streetcars that run on tracks on the city streets.
There are also other rules and features that tend to be unique to different localities as noted in the Wikipedia article for Traffic-light signalling and operation.
In this comic, Randall is commenting on the confusion that can be caused by having too many lights with multiple rules attached by creating an exaggerated example.
In this strip, the right light has a sign indicating that the light and the right lane are for left turners, while the 3rd-from-left is a straight or right turn lane and the 2nd from left is right turn only. In normal course, right turns would be permitted from the right lane and left turns from the left lanes. The system in this comic would have turning traffic crossing each other, as well as the straight-ahead traffic and would cause chaos (and require very complicated traffic light phases to control). The left-most light on the post has a sign indicating that left, right and straight travel are all prohibited, which is even more confusing.
The comic, as an animated gif, cycles through various phases, at first appearing somewhat normal, but then adding unusual phases. The animated gif takes about 90 seconds to cycle through the 32 discrete panels before repeating. The left post light has (unusually) left and right arrows, later becoming up and down arrows. At times the light completely shuts off, and at other times, has conflicting signals.
The third-from-left light has red and yellow, and later all three lights come on at the same time, then all three lights go yellow, and then reverse with green at top and red at bottom. The bottom light then becomes an arrow.
The fourth-from-left traffic light switches from a green light to a purple light at times.
The right light only lights red in each position.
The second-from-left light and second-from-right lights do not appear to have any quirks other than changing phases in unusual patterns.
At frames 21 and 22 (see below) the colors of the latter five lights correspond to the color sequence of the letters in the Google logo. Only the first letter of the logo, which is blue, is not reproduced on the first traffic light.
Title Text
The title text mentions a straightforward intersection that allows going forward but not turning. Even though Randall is confused, in some places, a red light and a forward green arrow permits going forward but disallows turns.
Frame by frame breakdown
The following is a breakdown of all of the frames of the animated gif comic.
Closeups on the Lights
The following is a closeup on the lights, and the bird. The lights from left to right are here shown top to bottom. Time advances to the right.
Originally, the second light had a couple frames near the start that were different. The closeup of this was as follows:
I doubt that this comic carries any deeper meaning. 22.214.171.124 16:29, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
Traffic signals really are one of the most inscrutable inventions to ever be made. I mean, red means stop, yellow means caution, green means go. Unless you're in a turn lane, which means you have to watch for the green arrow, if there is one, or wait for an opening. Unless you're turning right, which is permitted to turn at any time providing there aren't any cars. Unless there's a sign that says "No Right Turn On Red". There's also the crazy cities that have special right turn lights. Then there's the intersections that have a sign for each lane telling what can and cannot be done. Or, if you're really lucky one of those intersections that has the LED screen that dynamically changes what the lane can and cannot do. And to top it all off, the Colorado Department of Transportation (as well as a few other states I'm sure) are testing out a 4-stage left turn light to increase the safety of drivers. [1] Yes, you read that pamphlet correctly. There is a special 4th light, just to blink yellow, because you couldn't just make the yellow light blink, like it does anyway after 9pm. No. There has to be a whole special light that indicates when a left-turn-er must use special caution to turn.
- Note that New York City doesn't allow right turns on red, unless a sign is posted that says otherwise. I suppose this helps reduce the incidence of pedestrians being run into/over. You might also think it helps keep vehicles out of crosswalks, but it doesn't. CityZen (talk) 01:13, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
- What about turning left on red from a one way street onto another one way street? I don't know how prevalent that is but it's fairly common in downtown Columbus Ohio (my locale) and to a lesser extent some smaller towns around here. 22.214.171.124 12:30, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
- First time commenting. Not sure about the reply syntax. But @ Ohio person: Up here in Michigan, we have supposedly special U-turns on divided highways (not to be confused with expressways; I'm just referring to the main business roads.) If there is a light, you can treat it like turning right, even though it is an apparent left-turn and an actual u-turn. "So long as you don't cross a lane of traffic, it is legal to turn if the lane is clear unless posted otherwise." From my driver's ed instructor. This does not apply to the second turn lane. I cannot tell you how many times I've been honked at for obeying the law and not turning right from the left lane. Sorry for any terrible typing or messups. I'm doing this on my phone. 184.108.40.206 08:42, 20 November 2013 (UTC)Dartania
Nope. I'm done driving. Bring on the self-driving cars, people are officially idiots. lcarsos (talk) 16:52, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
- There is a problem with a blinking yellow arrow. Blinking yellow is already used. It means you have the right of way, but the other direction may proceed as well. What is wanted here is blinking red, which means that you stop, but may proceed, as someone else has the right of way. As for adding a fourth light, this just confuses things even more, particularly with respect to color blind individuals. Having said that, Virginia's variant is to have lights with both left arrows and solid greens. If it is green arrow, you have the right of way, while solid green means the other direction also has a green. There is almost always a sign reading "left turn yield on <solid-green-circle>" Divad27182 (talk) 18:19, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
- so the blinking yellow left arrow generally means the same as a round green light - you can go when it's clear, but the opposite traffic has a green light too. I love this idea because a lot of the time where there is a separate left-turn signal, there are advanced lefts for both ways, and then left turners get a red left arrow and have to stop while people going straight get a green - so even where there's no oncoming traffic, you can't turn. this way, you just lose your "advance" status and go back to the regular rule of "turn if you can, otherwise you end up turning as the lights go yellow"
- I think what Lcarsos is pointing out if you check the PDF link, is that the new left-turn lane has 4 lights, all of which are left-arrow shaped. Thus, his point is why couldn't they make the 2nd light (yellow left arrow) blink, instead of installing a third light which is also a yellow left arrow whose job is to blink?
- I can think of a few possible reasons - first, perhaps an all-blinking light has different bulbs which are more efficient for blinking and won't burn out as much; second, because they want to distinguish between the two lights more strongly (i.e. if you glance over between blinks, you don't have to wait a moment to see if it will blink - if you see the 3rd light up, you know it's going to blink without waiting for it to actually blink); similarly, I suppose there could be colour blindness issues where they want to make it clear which light is which.
- You can also white a white 'cigar' light that is inteded for busses only.
- From the first traffic light in London 1868 until standardization in the 1920s people tried out many crazy lights (see http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/T-VT.1970.23426) including---literally---bells and whistles to announce changes. It seems this phase is still not really over.126.96.36.199 10:33, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
Hmm... not one to do the actual analysis, I still wonder whether there could be some message encoded in the pattern of lights -- in binary ASCII, baudot, Morse, or something. Hmm... 184.108.40.206 19:12, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
This explanation mentions a lot of hands where no hands exist. "The right-hand lane," for example. This is a pet peeve of mine. People just adding the word, "hand" randomly into a sentence. It's superfluous and it's annoying. It should be removed before someone slaps whoever did it with their right-hand hand.184.108.40.206 14:35, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
- I believe "right-hand" is used to differentiate "the opposite from the left" from "the opposite of wrong". If I say "get in the right lane", there is a chance for confusion and/or a cliche joke. If I say "get in the right-hand lane", my meaning is clearer. -- Tryc (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- Red and yellow
In Poland you can sometimes stumble upon red and yellow -- while yellow alone means that there shortly would be a red, and you can proceed if you are at or almost at crossing, but stop otherwise, red and yellow is to mean that there shortly would be green (go), and to prepare oneself. But it is quite rare. JakubNarebski (talk) 06:45, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- At least some lights in Czech behave this way too. -- 22.214.171.124 08:04, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
- I find it funny how you people say "some lights", considering the red-yellow combination is the standard across Europe before it turns green; and is the default behaviour for all lights, with minor exceptions. 184.108.40.206 22:25, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
This is the way ALL UK lights behave.
Some lights in the US use red and yellow to mean that a pedestrian is crossing, although I've only seen this when the light is blinking red/yellow to start with (yes, I've seen full 3-bulb traffic lights that are only used to flash red/yellow). Zer0keefie (talk) 11:42, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
OK, here is the difference between the US and Europe:
Originally I believe all the traffic lights went through the sequence (1) green in one direction, red in another, (2) yellow in both directions, meaning "clear off the intersection" for the first direction and "get your car into gear" in the second direction, (3) red in one direction, green in another.
There are two problems though: first, when the green changes to yellow, people try to squeeze through (and it may even be difficult to stop if you're traveling at speed), second, when the red changes to yellow, people who are not stopped but carrying speed are trying to squeeze through earlier while the light is still yellow (this gets worse if the yellow is long and the incoming drivers don't know if it's after red or after green), and collisions ensue.
The solutions for these problems taken in US and Europe are different. In Europe the yellow-after-red is shown together with the red still on, strongly suggesting "no, you may not enter", and in the other direction the green often blinks once 10 seconds before it switches to yellow. In US there is no yellow-after-red, the red changes directly to green, and yellow always goes only after green (the automatic transmissions being prevalent, there is no need to shift into gear). The yellow is often long, to let the traffic on the fast roads to clear off, Also, there is usually a period of red in all directions which lets the stragglers clear off the intersection for sure before the other side goes green. This is why slipping on red just after yellow had ended is considered no big deal in US and a major no-no in Europe. 126.96.36.199 23:15, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
- Where I live, in Santa Cruz do Sul - Rio Grande do Sul - Brazil, we have no yellow before green, but very few traffic lights blink red once right before green. Here, slipping on red is also common, but it's also common to stretch it a bit more and confusion ensues. Continuing from what has been said below, some traffic lights in Porto Alegre even have a numeric countdown.126.96.36.199 20:06, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
In Brazil some cities have greens and red in a row, and they decrease to indicate how long the green or red will last. something like http://www.guiasjp.com/fotos_noticias/foto_1165344648.8822.jpg 126.96.36.199 20:22, 5 October 2012 (UTC) In BRazil too, in Goiânia there's a nice one here for pedestrians, with leds, that show an animated pedestrian walking and when the time is running out HE RUNS FASTER! Like, it's about to go green for the cars, but feel free to cross... IF YOU'RE FAST!
In Tianjin China they have a traffic signal that is a single bar of light. If it is green it starts subtracting bar length segments. When there is about a quarter left it turns yellow and then red. It then start subtracting bar length segments from the other end until it gets to about a quarter length and then turns green again. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bob406/3428844012
In Beijing China we have side ways lights ,numric countdowns and sometimes both.We sometimes turn left from the right.Somtimes we can turn right on red and sometimes we can't.No signs telling you what to do.1337-PI (talk) 00:56, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
- Obvious
It's how traffic engineers troll you when you are going the wrong way on a one-way. Learn to read signs!
- Reference to previous comic
This comic has some tongue in cheek self reference to 277: Long Light. #Meta And definite trolling, by Randall
- What about 781: Ahead Stop?
- Turing Machine?
Any chance it is one?
- Etc
I was almost expected to see the Konami code in the left light, though I'm not sure how "B A Start" would have been shown. CityZen (talk) 01:13, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
- Music
I am no musician, but I can't help but wonder if there could be a hidden music chart in there somehow. Also, if you want confusing, try understanding parking signs in Montreal.
- Might be, but depending on what pitches or sounds you assign to the lights, you could get pretty much every degree of harmony or cacophony you want. - Another possible music reference: Anybody reminded of Hendrix' "The Wind Cries Mary"? "The traffic lights, they turn, uh, blue tomorrow." 18.104.22.168 08:14, 10 September 2013 (UTC)
- And You thought 4 stage was bad enough
Here In BC, in older installations, and I'm not sure whether any still exist, there used to be lights with 5 stages. It wasn't really any different than the standard red-yellow-green-turn combo you generally see where the turning light may come on, it just had the yellow arrow shown when the turning arrow is about to expire in it's own lamp. It behaves pretty expectantly, but it looks very imposing.
- Race cars
The second light has quite a resemblance to the "christmas tree" that governs the start of a drag race, where the lights change colors according to a pattern http://www dot nhra dot com/nhra101/basics.aspx 126.96.36.199 04:32, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
I sat and watched this increasingly surreal show for about three minutes, then I broke down laughing when one of the lights turned purple. 126.96.36.199 06:09, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
In UK, ALL lights go Red -> red AND yellow -> green -> yellow on it's own -> red again. Red and yellow means it's about to go green and yellow on it's own means it's about to go red. 22.214.171.124 21:43, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
- Bird
What is the bird doing? 126.96.36.199 19:12, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
- Left lane
The page says "In normal course, right turns would be permitted from the right lane and left turns from the left lanes.". In Melbourne there are intersections where traffic turning right is required to use the left lane. 18.104.22.168 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
18.104.22.168 03:15, 5 October 2016 (UTC) You should try driving in utah
I do not know how to add the incomplete tag but no where do I see any mention of the sign under the left most light, the one showing at least where I live no forward travel in any direction is allowed. 126.96.36.199 11:59, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
- Turn right from left lane
Believe it or not,, turning right from the left lane is actually a thing in Melbourne, Victoria. They call it a hook turn, and it's used on roads with trams to stop cars stopping on the tram line while waiting to turn. The car pulls over on the left (outermost lane in Australia), and when there's a large enough gap or the lights change it turns across all lanes of traffic. Terrifying thing when you see it for the first time. Alcatraz ii (talk) 02:36, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
Oh god, the sign beneath the furthest left traffic light is cropped. Is the sign important here? Beanie (talk) 13:12, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
In my country we call traffic lights "robots", that is the official name. We had friends visiting from England once, that we gave directions to (pre-GPS). They got very confused at the instruction given, "turn right at the second robot", lol! -- The Cat Lady (talk) 17:30, 7 September 2021 (UTC)
actually in spain the rare times there's transition from red to green is blinking yellow and in places where you gotta be careful green is replaced by another yellow that when it's "green" the 2 yellows alternate. so not *all* of europe. An user who has no account yet (talk) 17:23, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
Blue is Green in Japan
The blue "green" light may refer to the Japanese system. The The Japanese green light is actually blue, reflecting the language's lack of a clear blue-green distinction.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction_in_language#Japanese
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light#Variations
- https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=japan+traffic+light&iax=images&ia=images
Sorry about the formatting. I haven´t edited a Wiki in a while. 22.214.171.124 02:22, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
- Re: formatting, not a problem, here in Talk. Though the site's {{w}} template can be used for a couple of those.
would link nicely enough, for starters (pending adding a further "|display text"). You can replace underscores with spaces, probably use the unescaped title "Blue–green distinction in language" over the one with the tag-codes. It should eventually come out as something like "information about the Blue–green distinction in Japanese". And that's one of the more complicated examples. - As a fall-back, or on other wikis, there's use "[URL<space>...whatever link-text you want]" (or just "[URL]") for any link that you can't find a handy template for (there's Wiktionary, RationalWiki and TVTropes versions of the Wikipedia shortcut template...). So
[https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=japan+traffic+light&iax=images&ia=images Images of Japanese traffic lights]...
renders thusly: Images of Japanese traffic lights... - Hope that helps people. (There's also the [[]] for internal/cross-wiki links, which would also handle Wikipedia articles if you do it right, but you might as well {{w}} things in most article-linking cases.) 22.214.171.124 18:21, 15 October 2023 (UTC)


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WACO, Texas (AP) — The outfit Lone Ranger actor Clayton Moore wore when making appearances as the character after retiring from television has sold for $195,000 at a Texas auction.
Waco-based A & S Auction Co. said the outfit was sold Saturday.
Moore, who died in 1999, played the masked lawman on the ABC television series "The Lone Ranger" from 1949 to 1957.
The auction house says that after retiring from television, Moore made appearances in character at events including fairs. His outfit included a powder-blue shirt and pants, red kerchief, Stetson hat, boots, gun belt and Colt pistols.
The outfit spent more than a decade in the collection of a late Texas businessman whose family offered it at auction.


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Artwork Description
Koganecho Flip are photos of a Keikyu Line train passing between Hinodecho and Koganecho Stations in Yokohama. The 683 photos taken on August 17, 2018, when the first shutter was pressed at 5:23:57 a.m. until 12:37:07 at night when the last train passed, were at latitude 35,26.4719N and longitude 139,37.5211E; The series was filmed at the same viewpoint at an altitude of 36.00 m.
The vibration of the Keikyu Line passing by an old two-story house in Japan designed with an earthquake disaster prevention method causes minute vibrations in the body of the photographer and the tripod. The human retina melts the passengers in the train into the light of the Keikyu Line passing by with a sense of speed. Nevertheless, passengers captured by the camera's high shutter speed emerge from the abstract image and appear as a still photographic image with a grainy feel. Images of the same angle with continuity from No. 1 to No. 683 distinguish the planes in the frame that change inside and outside the train only with the change of time.
The Keikyu Line opened in 1898 and moved along the same track. The trajectory of the Keikyu Line, which creates a sense of the night in a continuous timeline, of the movement of heavy machinery and the extension of time brought about by artificial light, is the trajectory of the 'Koganecho Flip' to compress and process individual photos.
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The English national character is an eternal mystery. But from time to time we get a glimpse of some of its components. The story of Billy The Trumpet is one such occasion.
Billy is the embodiment of English eccentricity. He belongs to a boisterous ragtag band of sports fans called the Barmy Army. They're considered "barmy" for very good reason: These people follow England's national cricket team everywhere.
They travel all over the world, sitting through rain and sweltering sunshine, watching games that can last up to five days, cheering and chanting lustily, even when defeat is certain.
As his nickname suggests, Billy Cooper is a fine trumpeter.
A decade or so ago, Billy started showing up for cricket matches with his instrument.
His flawless renderings from within the crowd of the Blackadder theme, "YMCA" and — when England's about to lose — "The Last Post" — soon made him famous.
Billy's trumpet became one of the signature sounds of the English summer, along with the crack of croquet mallets, whining lawn mowers and flying champagne corks.
On Wednesday, a lot of English folk were looking forward to hearing Billy again.
It's the opening day of international cricket's greatest contest of all — the five-match Ashes Series between England and its old archrival, and former colony, Australia.
The first match is being played at one of England's finest cricket grounds, Trent Bridge, headquarters of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club.
There's great excitement in England and Down Under about the series.
To mark the occasion, a military band played "Land of Hope and Glory" before the game on Wednesday. Jets from the Royal Air Force's aerobatic display team, the Red Arrows, zoomed overhead. The crowd sang lustily.
There was not a peep out of Billy.
"We just don't let musical instruments into Trent Bridge," Lisa Pursehouse, NCCC's chief executive, told Talksport Radio.
It's not a matter of being "stuffy or boring," she explained; it's just that Trent Bridge is "an intimate ground" where "the atmosphere is created by the cricket."
(Trent Bridge is not entirely alone; Billy's also not allowed to blow his trumpet at Lords cricket ground, headquarters of the English game.)
Billy's followers are not at all convinced by this argument.
Two top England cricket stars have joined the fray; they say they like it when Billy's trumpet sounds. They want him to play.
Britain's Guardian newspaper has weighed in, with an editorial headlined "In Praise of Billy The Trumpet."
The editorial identifies two quintessentially English themes — class and tradition.
"In the traditionalist view, test cricket should be watched in total silence by crowds who know their forelock-tugging place in the scheme of things," it says.
It accuses Trent Bridge of trying to differentiate itself from "riff-raff" grounds (where Billy's allowed to play), and points out that the Barmy Army is paying plenty of money on tickets for The Ashes.
So — it concludes — let Billy's trumpet sound.
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