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Posting Date: January 30, 2013
Meet Holly Botella: Shaping the minds of next generation's musicians
By Nicholas Hinterhauser
Holly Botella
Holly Botella's musical journey started at the age of 6 when she unwrapped a flute on Christmas morning. "My babysitter played flute, so I asked Santa for a flute and the rest is history," Holly shares. Perhaps her babysitter had more than just a musical influence, considering Holly's development of a strong love for children. Choosing to specialize in music education, she states, "I love kids, I babysit all the time and I'm always around them, so I went for teaching."
Holly's contemporary influences are filled with figures from the faculty of KSU's School of Music. She admires Assistant Professor of Choral Music Education Alison Mann's perseverance and enthusiasm in the classroom, stating that, "she is full of life and always inspired me to be enthusiastic no matter how I'm feeling. She would come to class with a fever and we wouldn't even know it." Director of Orchestras Michael Alexander is another professor who has had a profound impact on Holly's journey. "He knows his craft better than anybody I've met in my life," Holly shares. She greatly enjoys the historical lessons he gives about each piece she plays. Holly also appreciates Associate Professor of Music David Kehler and the high expectations he places on his students. "He really knows how to inspire you to do better," she says. "He's not afraid to call you out if he can tell you didn't practice."
Holly, who graduated from the School of Music in December 2012, jumped at the chance to be a student teacher at Newnan Crossing Elementary where she teaches general music to kindergarten through fifth grade. Holly believes KSU has been crucial in preparing her for those unexpected moments in the classroom. "Within the first two weeks, three kids puked in my class. I learned here how to indirectly deal with that by being taught how to think on my feet," Holly says. She shares a moment in Mann's class where she was given a random object and asked to teach the class a singing technique based on that object. "I got an oven mitt, so I was thinking maybe a warm tone. They throw that kind of stuff at you in your music education classes all the time," Holly shares. Alexander boasts Holly's potential as a teacher, saying that, "Holly is a spirited student that relates amazingly well to people. This and her passion for spreading her joy of music will make her a tremendous teacher."
Despite the joy she gets from teaching, Holly still wants to make time for performance. She is considering auditioning for the Georgia Symphony Orchestra so she can keep playing flute on the side after she starts teaching full-time. Holly has been involved in a variety of KSU's student performance groups, including her role as principal flute and piccolo in the wind ensemble of the KSU Symphony Orchestra, three years of singing in the Women's Chorus, playing in the KSU Mixed Chamber Ensembles and Woodwind Quintet and pit performance in KSU's Opera Theatre. In December of 2010, she travelled to China with the orchestra on a three-concert tour including a performance at Beijing's Central Conservatory of Music. The orchestra's finale broke a light fixture in the performance hall and Holly jokes that, "it just shows how we can tear the house down here at KSU." If she chooses to pursue it, Holly's extensive experience at KSU suggests a promising future in professional performance.


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Linux Bridging for GNS3 LAN communicationsPosted by Josh on Fri 19 Dec 2008
Categories: CCIE , Cisco Routers , Dynamips , GNS3 , Linux , Voice LAB - [54] Comments
I apologize for the delay in posting the next tutorial in the virtual voice lab but I ran into a problem communicating from the HQ router to the host Ubuntu server. I thought I was able to communicate from the HQ router to the host during the Headquarters build tutorial….but I was wrong.
I discovered that I was able to communicate with every device on the LAN except the actual host machine. While troubleshooting, I finally read the GNS3 FAQ. Then I learned how to solve the problem with Josh Atterbury's posts: 'Dynamips External Cloud Interface on Linux – Part1 and Part2.
I have altered Josh's setup a bit but the theory is the same. If you are running Ubuntu, you just need to install 'uml-utilities' and 'bridge-utils'. Once the tap interface has been activated, you will need to change the GNS3 cloud object to use the tap0 interface instead of generic NIO and eth0.
Here are the steps to manually create a bridge group.
- Create a tap interface
sudo tunctl -t tap0
- Remove ip addressing and set eth0 and tap0 to promiscuous mode
sudo ifconfig tap0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
sudo ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
- Create a new bridge interface
sudo brctl addbr br0
- Add tap0 and eth0 to the bridge group
sudo brctl addif br0 tap0
sudo brctl addif br0 eth0
- Enable the bridge interface and give it an ip address
sudo ifconfig br0 up
sudo ifconfig br0 10.10.10.99/24
- Configure the default route
sudo route add default gw 10.10.10.254
Here are the steps to reverse the changes (these can be copied and pasted in)
sudo ifconfig br0 down
sudo brctl delif br0 eth0
sudo brctl delif br0 tap0
sudo brctl delbr br0
sudo tunctl -d tap0
sudo ifconfig eth0 up
sudo ifconfig eth0 10.10.10.99/24
sudo route add default gw 10.10.10.254
Add the following to your /etc/network/interfaces config file if you are using static addressing.
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
address 10.10.10.99
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.10.10.254
bridge-ports eth0 tap0
pre-up ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
pre-up ifconfig tap0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
Add the following to your /etc/network/interfaces config file if you are using dhcp.
auto br0
iface br0 inet dhcp
bridge-ports eth0 tap0
pre-up ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
pre-up ifconfig tap0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
54 Responses to "Linux Bridging for GNS3 LAN communications"
vijay Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 9:44 am
nice tut..
hey josh… where is james???
we r missing him and his updates on ccie studies…
James Key Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Hi Vijay,
Nice to hear someone is missing me I am still hard at it. And between juggling studies, work, and the Holiday's I haven't had a chance to post. Hope to have an update very soon.
chikkis Says:
December 24th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Hi Josh,
How do we do this on windows as host os system?
fouad Says:
December 27th, 2008 at 5:09 am
Hello Josh,
Many many thanx man, it worked great
* note for newbies like me: add the tap int from the "tap" tab in the cloud config… took me some time to know that…
Thanx again
fouad Says:
December 27th, 2008 at 5:11 am
Hi Chikkis,
I don't think this problem exists on windows as I was able to ping the router directly from the host pc when i connected it to the Ethernet interface..
Josh Says:
December 27th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Thanks. You are correct. This problem does not exist in Windows environments.
Simply select an ethernet interface within the cloud configuration.
Erwin Says:
December 31st, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Great tut!
I google for long time, looking for something like that, but i have some questions..
1.-I don't have tunctl installed at backtrack3
i download it, but….
bt tunctl-1.5 # make
cc -g -Wall -o tunctl tunctl.c
docbook2man tunctl.sgml
make: docbook2man: Command not found
make: *** [tunctl.8] Error 127
Josh Says:
December 31st, 2008 at 2:34 pm
I ran into this problem yesterday … on a CentOS 5.2 system. I could not find a package that contained the tunctl command. Grrrr….
Anyways, here is what I did find out. I didn't need it.
I was able to just type 'modprobe tun' and 'ifconfig tap0 up' as root and it worked.
Use 'lsmod | grep tun' to see if the tun kernel module is loaded and 'ifconfig' to see if the tap0 interface is up.
Try skipping the 'tunctl -t tap0′ part.
Erwin Says:
December 31st, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Im running bt3 kernel 188.8.131.52
Here's the results:
bt / # modprobe tun
bt / # ifconfig tap0 up
tap0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
bt / # lsmod | grep tun
tun 12160 0
Sorry but it's that module tun, dont create the bridge interface
Thx 4 ur time
Josh Says:
January 5th, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Sorry that did not work out for you.
I am not familiar with backtrack3.
You might try installing it from source.
William Says:
January 8th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
With CentOS 5.2 i386 I installed tunctl from fedora 10 and it *appears* to work.
rpm -Uvh tunctl-1.5-1.fc10.i386.rpm
Idea came from here…
Erwin Says:
January 11th, 2009 at 2:54 am
Thx Josh
I installed ubuntu 8.10 and actually running bt3 in a virtual machine. I follow the tuto and its works hehe great work!
But one question, if my ubuntu have 192.168.0.100 ip, in this step:
sudo ifconfig br0 10.10.10.99/24
i have to change from 10.10.10.99 to 192.168.0.100, and add the route again too, assign an ip from 192.168.0.x and give the gw to have access to the internet?
Thx 4 ur time!!!
Josh Says:
January 11th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Yes, just change the ip addresses however you like to match your topology.
nu Says:
February 5th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Hi josh
Can i just use tap interface as your the other tutorial?
The reason I ask because i use remote login to access my linux box. Thanks
Btw, your website has been my top ten list for years. greate work.
Rick Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Hi Josh,
Great site – have been visiting for a few weeks now and this is one of the best knowledge bases for GNS3.
I have followed the how to you published above and I have a couple of problems.
Firstly I create the bridge interface and edit my interface file reboot my pc and I can't access any websites using firefox – I can ping 184.108.40.206 and any other pingable device on the net but www sites are not possible. If I remove the config and reboot its back to normal and I can access all sites again.
The second issues I have is that none of my GNS3 routers can access the internet i.e. the host PC can ping to 220.127.116.11 but the cisco router can't. It does have local connectivity (linked to host via bridge)
Any ideas?
Thanks and keep up the good work!!
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February 28th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
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Janardhanaya Says:
March 15th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
This may not be revelant but i figured i'd post this anyway. If you're using ubuntu 8.10 you may be in for some issues with the network manager. For some unknown reason it stops functioning. You will need to manually set you're resolv.conf with your ISP's DNS servers. That file is located in /etc/network/resolv.conf
Oliver Says:
March 31st, 2009 at 8:01 am
Hi All
I've followed this tut, which is very clear, but am having problems. I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 on VMWare ESXi. On top of that I've got GNS3 running.
The problem I've got is as follows:
I can ping from the router to the ubuntu IP.
I can ping from the Ubuntu PC to my real PC.
I can ping from the Ubuntu PC to my GNS3 router.
I cannot ping from my real PC to the GNS3 router.
There are no rules in the Ubuntu firewall (IPtables I think it's called). One curious thing is this. When I shut the interface on the GNS3 router the ping response on my real PC is "dest unreachable". When I issue a no shut to the interface I get request timed out.
Anyone got any ideas?
Rousseau Says:
April 2nd, 2009 at 7:11 pm
can this be done with the wirelless connection in ubuntu
Rousseau Says:
April 5th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Ok I did it…and I use eth1 my wireless interface…
I can connect to the GNS3 topology but not to the Internet… :-)?
same as Rick #15
tunctl -t tap0
ifconfig tap0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
ifconfig eth1 0.0.0.0 promisc up
brctl addbr br0
brctl addif br0 tap0
brctl addif br0 eth1
ifconfig br0 up
ifconfig br0 172.16.0.99/24
route add default gw 172.16.0.1
the gw is the gns3 router I am connecting to…
Alejandro Says:
April 6th, 2009 at 9:03 am
Ready, i can connect the GNS3 to my LAN connection and ping my CPE!
But¿?¿?How can i connect the GNS3 to the internet?
How i can do this in Ubuntu?
Thanks you for all
Josh Says:
April 19th, 2009 at 6:39 am
You are correct. There are some issues with the network manager. I have not had time to figure them all out, but the /etc/network/interfaces config file and network manager are in conflict at times.
I ended up creating a script that I run right before starting labs to create tap interfaces and bridges. Hopefully I can find time in the near future to troubleshoot the problem with the network manager.
Josh Says:
April 19th, 2009 at 7:32 am
This video covers the concept using dynagen, but the idea is the same.
Gerard Says:
August 3rd, 2009 at 7:30 am
Thank you so much. This was really helpful.
One thing that did take me a while to figure out was to configure "Promiscuous Mode: Accept" on the ESXi host machine where I was running the Ubuntu Desktop.
By default the vSwitch (in the ESXi host Networking Configuration) is configured to vSwitch: Reject
Before changing this config I was only able to ping to/from the Cisco router to Ubuntu Desktop but not from router to outside of the host PC.
(I could confirm ICMP packets were leaving Ubuntu Desktop OK but were not coming back in).
xiphos45 Says:
August 21st, 2009 at 7:45 pm
I am not quite sure why I was not able to get this to work with the interfaces configuration file but I was able to get this to work with the rc.local. I made the following configuration, which works across reboots as well:
tunctl -t tap1 -u user
brctl addbr br1
brctl addif br1 tap1
brctl addif br1 vmnet1
ifconfig tap1 0.0.0.0 promisc up
ifconfig vmnet1 0.0.0.0 promisc up
ifconfig br1 184.108.40.206/24 up
Max Marschall Says:
October 21st, 2009 at 9:16 am
He guys, if you're using networking inside VMware ESX(i), you'll better connect your VM (where your virtual router resides in) to a seperate VMPG (create new networking) and allow all hosts inside this VMPG to use promiscuous mode (edit settings of VSwitch and then edit settings of VMPG) – otherwise you won't get communication between VRouter and real world running up – in my case a great solution!
Max Marschall Says:
October 21st, 2009 at 9:17 am
Oh already written down – so please ignore me
CCIE Lab » Blog Archive » Run remote procedures & GNS3 Says:
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:12 am
[...] First of all, I will suppose that you have configured a tftp server somewhere in your LAN. Second thing is you can configure a bridge between your Ethernet interface and a tap interface (a virtual interface, for use with the emulated router). In Linux, you can use the Bridge-utils and uml-utilities to do that. You can find a tutorial on how to do a bridge <here>. [...]
Mike Says:
November 22nd, 2009 at 11:13 am
Hi there,
I followed this tutorial several times but I end up getting the same result. I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit as Host OS and a VMware vm that runs the CUCM, using my wlan0. When I'm done with all the configuration in this tutorial:
- from my host OS I'm able to ping every device (including the router in my GNS3 lab)
- from my vmware vm I'm able to ping my host OS (br0 ip address) and every other device except the router in my GNS3 lab.
- from my GNS3 lab's router I'm able to ping only the br0 ip address.
I have tried also with ip_forward and using eth0 but still no luck with that either. I need help.
Thanks in advance for your help,
andy Says:
January 23rd, 2010 at 1:20 pm
mike, what is it you want to be able to do?
telnet from outside the vm into the vm?
first things first, start on the inside and work your way out. you can telnet from your host to your router correct?
in the host ipv4forward
vm network needs to be bridged to server
your host needs a default route
your server needs a static route
or you could use the routed daemon on the server
and peer with the virtual router
your server needs ipv4forward
now give it a try
server should be able to telnet to host
you could even add a static route on your residential router and set up a box that acts like a pod. that's what i did
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Max P Says:
February 1st, 2010 at 7:32 am
I'm using fedora 12, and there is no /etc/network directory. I was wondering if anyone knows how to enter the following information into Fedora so that my bridge connection becomes permanent?
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
address 10.10.10.99
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.10.10.254
bridge-ports eth0 tap0
pre-up ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
pre-up ifconfig tap0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
Mike Says:
February 4th, 2010 at 2:50 am
what I want my gns3 router to have connectivity with all the other devices in my LAN, to continue setting up my virtual voice lab. However, when I follow the steps in this tutorial I'm just able to ping my gns3 router to/from my ubuntu host, but not with the vmware workstation cucm server, the network adapter of that vm is bridge. I have tried the ipv4forward but still doesn't work. I'm using just one subnet. I don't understand what you have told me, can you please be more specific.
andy Says:
February 7th, 2010 at 7:01 am
vmware can get funny using wlan i would set vmare to tap on lo0 or create a lo1 and tap then dyn to bridge on a tun interface. then bridge the tun int and the lo interface. make sure firewall rules aren't blocking connectivity. will give it a shot on my latop today. will let you know
andy Says:
February 17th, 2010 at 12:58 pm
your whole lan, is the cucm server on another PC. you may have to set up additional routes in the lan. also with virtual devices sometimes you have to populate the arp cache yourself or ping from hosts in a specific order.
ip addressing information required for more troubleshooting. it all works for me.
if you use more than one pc for virtualization test pc to pc then vm to near pc, then vm to far pc. where it fails will tell you who doesn't know how to get back. that is usually the problem with vm. everybody knows how to get out. the network doesn't know how to get back.
Manu Says:
February 24th, 2010 at 5:49 am
Hey Guys,
You guys are rocking and thanks for all the support. Let me jump into my problem.
I've GNS3 running inside my Vmware virtual machine and everything seems to be perfect. The problem is that, I can't ping my router from the VM that hosts GNS3. Also, not pinging from the GNS3 router to the host VM. What could be the problem? I can ping fine with VPCS. I'm sure that my NIO ETH configuration is correct. Can someone help?
Andy D Says:
March 2nd, 2010 at 7:43 am
Hi All
Or another way when you configure the cloud you will note it says requires root access. If you run Terminal (shell) then enter sudo gns3 this will run GNS3 with root access and all will be well
If GNS3 is not installed in a path that linux searches for binaries you will have to enter the full path i.e. sudo /home/ubuntu/gns3
Hope that helps
Aaron Peter Samuel Says:
July 21st, 2010 at 11:18 pm
OK I know im 2 years late…
This tutorial is very good. I had been hacking at getting this working for atleast a week off and on. This was 1-2-3. Cheers!!!
venkatesh Says:
August 31st, 2010 at 6:46 am
Hey Guys,
As i tried in windows XP, i am able to ping to access server from other PC's on the LAN, but not to other routers on the GNS.
I have one router say R1 and one cloud, I made connection with R1 and cloud, and made R1 as Access-server. I have another router name R2 which is not connected to R1 nor cloud. How i can access R2 on GNS from other PC on the same LAN.
This is the configuration made on R1
! No configuration change since last restart
version 12.4
service timestamps debug datetime msec
service timestamps log datetime msec
no service password-encryption
hostname access-server
enable password anand
no aaa new-model
resource policy
ip cef
ip host r1 2001 172.16.0.240
ip host r2 2002 172.16.0.240
ip host r3 2003 172.16.0.240
ip host r4 2004 172.16.0.240
username anand password 0 anand
interface FastEthernet0/0
ip address 172.16.0.111 255.255.0.0
duplex half
speed auto
interface FastEthernet0/1
no ip address
duplex auto
speed auto
interface Serial1/0
no ip address
serial restart-delay 0
interface Serial1/1
no ip address
serial restart-delay 0
interface Serial1/2
no ip address
serial restart-delay 0
interface Serial1/3
no ip address
serial restart-delay 0
interface Serial1/4
no ip address
serial restart-delay 0
interface Serial1/5
no ip address
serial restart-delay 0
interface Serial1/6
no ip address
serial restart-delay 0
interface Serial1/7
no ip address
serial restart-delay 0
no ip http server
no ip http secure-server
logging alarm informational
line con 0
logging synchronous
transport output all
stopbits 1
line aux 0
transport output all
stopbits 1
line vty 0 4
login local
transport output all
line vty 5 14
login local
transport output all
line vty 15
login local
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KinetiK Says:
February 17th, 2011 at 11:03 pm
i have managed to create two taps with two bridges. they both work, both way pings work, i need those two interfaces to ping each other through a gns network, but not from local manner, this is a huge problem cause i have no idea how this could be resolved.
ping -I ip.of.tap.1 ip.of.tap.2
how can i split those two interfaces from seeing each other? each tap has its own interface number connected to a unique bridge, both bridges are on different networks.
i have noticed that when tunctl "sets the persists", both of my interfaces are owned by UID 0, what does that mean? could i split them here somewhere????
Josh Says:
February 23rd, 2011 at 8:52 am
This is a problem. This can not be accomplished from your host machine. It will find a better route.
You can use vmware server on your host and bring up a virtual machine only connected to tap.2.
Fintan Keeling Says:
March 28th, 2011 at 7:35 am
Many tx, details from your original post worked perfectly after I had spent some hours trying to combine bits and pieces from other sites on bridging and tapping.
Manish Says:
March 31st, 2011 at 4:23 pm
Hello Josh,
I am trying to do on window but not able to access the Local PC address.
Do you please let me know how to do it on a window PC
Dan Says:
April 18th, 2011 at 8:19 am
I found this configuration worked in my /etc/network/interfaces file as a permanent solution.
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
address 10.105.105.20
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.105.105.254
dns-nameservers 10.105.105.254
dns-search something.com
pre-up tunctl -t tap0
pre-up brctl addbr br0
pre-up brctl addif br0 eth0
pre-up brctl addif br0 tap0
pre-up ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
pre-up ifconfig tap0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
post-down ifconfig eth0 down
post-down ifconfig tap0 down
post-down ifconfig br0 down
post-down brctl delif br0 eth0
post-down brctl delif br0 tap0
post-down brctl delif br0
Chris Says:
May 3rd, 2012 at 9:38 am
I tried following this post but it's complicated and I think it causes my physical machine's wi-fi to go down.
Does it need to be this complicated? I thought it was something along these lines…
Run GNS3 as root (google how & making icon for this)
Run virtual box as root
VBox: file-preferences-network add host-only networks vboxnet0, vboxnet1, (one for each network, if you have 2 devices attached to switch, both clouds are in same vboxnet#)
Go into the settings for each of these (screwdriver icon) & tweak the ip addresses appropriately.
GNS3 add a cloud, configure, under NIO Ethernet tab: Linux Ethernet section select vboxnet# from dropdown.
Boot your virtual machine from virtual box. Assign appropriate ip & gateway…
Then here is where I am stuck
I tried assigning the vboxnet0 the same ip address as the router interface connected to the vbox, ex 192.168.3.1/24 (this is in the vbox global settings) and then the vbox machine has an address in this subnet like 3.7. But the vbox machine's network doesn't come up, no ping. I tried assigning an address like 3.6 to vboxnet0 which doesn't exist on any device in the GNS3 topology. That doesn't work, either.
Any recommendations? I'm on the last step of getting this all to work. And my assignments are past due
Chris Says:
May 3rd, 2012 at 9:41 am
…I forgot to mention…in virtualbox, on each virtual machine's network settings I did set up the network adapter to be vboxnet0.
Attached to: host-only adapter: name vboxnet0
egoping Says:
June 30th, 2012 at 1:46 pm
thank you very much from Chile!!
muchas gracias me sirvió mucho ! =)
arun Says:
August 28th, 2012 at 11:32 pm
thanks a lot for giving great tutorial..
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vik Says:
August 22nd, 2013 at 7:32 pm
hey josh i need help
scenario is like :-
rhel6 linux is in vmware , gns3 is on windows 8 , i want to create all the servers on the linux like DNS , DHCP etc .. and want to connect with gns3 .. please tell me how to do this
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Google Chrome Causing Freezing and Crashing on New Mac Notebooks
Google has now issued a statement to Gizmodo acknowledging that Chrome is the culprit and discussing the steps it is taking to address the issue. While Google has disabled some of Chrome's GPU acceleration on an emergency basis as it seeks to deploy a permanent solution, the company has also filed a bug report with Apple as such issues should not be able to cause an entire system to freeze or crash.
"We have identified a leak of graphics resources in the Chrome browser related to the drawing of plugins on Mac OS X. Work is proceeding to find and fix the root cause of the leak.With the issue affecting all systems using Intel HD 4000 graphics, all of Apple's notebook models released earlier this month are susceptible and owners of the new MacBook Pro models are indeed also reporting the issue.
The resource leak is causing a kernel panic on Mac hardware containing the Intel HD 4000 graphics chip (e.g. the new Macbook Airs). Radar bug number 11762608 has been filed with Apple regarding the kernel panics, since it should not be possible for an application to trigger such behavior.
While the root cause of the leak is being fixed, we are temporarily disabling some of Chrome's GPU acceleration features on the affected hardware via an auto-updated release that went out this afternoon (Thursday June 28). We anticipate further fixes in the coming days which will re-enable many or all of these features on this hardware."
First launched in September 2008, Chrome has steadily gained in overall popularity among desktop Internet browsers and is currently running neck-and-neck with Firefox for the second position behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
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...the company has also filed a bug report with Apple as such issues should not be able to cause an entire system to freeze or crash.
This really is the key part of the article. There's no way that this should be happening in the first place.
I'll stick to Safari until it's updates (if that ever happens) :rolleyes:
Listen Apple, you gotta make it available to set chrome as a default browser in ios because I ain't comin' back to safari what so ever.
What does this comment have to do with mac notebooks?
am i the only one who uses chrome?
Nope Chrome user here. Far better than Safari and Firefox. Never crashes or freezes on me. Go figure :rolleyes:
lol at Google-haters on here. I think sometimes Apple fanboys hate Google more than M$.
am i the only one who uses chrome?
It is Safari all the way for me.
Firefox represent!
I really liked Firefox up until version 3.
So when Chrome freezes and crashes Macs, Google blames it on Apple.
Just wow.
I switched from IE6-7-8 to Chrome to Firefox to IE9 to Safari. I like Safari the best, Firefox second, IE9 third and Chrome last. The way it renders things and the UI for some reason doesn't sit well with me... :/
Because an operating system shouldn't be allowed to crash simply from running a browser. It's bad security if anything. Duh.
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For attorneys and clients who may be keeping physical property and fear damage or loss could give rise to sanctions for evidence spoliation, help—or at least protection—may be on the way.
In December, Lexington Insurance Co. announced plans to offer extended policies to guard against spoliation tort claims against clients that are often entrusted with property that can affect the outcome of a court case.
To enhance liability offerings already available to architects and engineers, the insurer plans to expand its coverage in the first quarter of 2011 to include independent warehouse operators, accounting firms and law firms, says Karen O'Reilly, Lexington's chief information officer.
Nine states currently recognize spoliation tort claims for the destruction of or failure to preserve evidence that is necessary to litigation, which O'Reilly says was the catalyst that prompted one policyholder to request the extended coverage.
"The client came to us and said, 'What if this car that has been entrusted to us burned up or it was stolen from the property?' " explains Robert Rogers, assistant vice president at Lexington, which is part of the Chartis Inc. insurance companies. "That client can buy bailee coverage for the market price of the car, but what about the plaintiff who had a $10 million lawsuit against a car manufacturer?"
But just how necessary is such coverage?
Insurance defense attorney Susan Levy says she's witnessed many instances where an outside investigator fails to anticipate the legal peculiarities that might transform a seemingly innocuous object into a piece of potentially valuable evidence. However, none of those cases resulted in sanctions.
"It's hard to imagine a company would have the investigation process break down enough times that it would need insurance against it," says Levy, name partner of Levy & Pruett in Decatur, Ga.
U.S. District Judge James Holderman of the Northern District of Illinois also has questions about such insurance.
"A judge wouldn't consider presence or absence of spoliation insurance," Holderman says. "That wouldn't go to consideration whether sanctions would be imposed."
And, he notes, "the existence of the insurance may be discoverable if the issue arises to spoliation under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure."
Bill Tolson, director of product marketing and evangelism at Iron Mountain Inc., the data storage company that specializes in records management and information destruction, says many of his attorney colleagues were also dubious of the need for spoliation coverage. He points to the existence of safe-harbor rules to protect companies that have demonstrated good intent to prepare for effective discovery.
However, Tolson's corporate clients were not as quick to dismiss the need for spoliation coverage.
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Although the extended coverage only includes tangible objects, the insurer is keeping a close watch on e-discovery as it evaluates its next step, says O'Reilly.
Judicial rulings that find companies have ordered the destruction of potentially discoverable documents, including e-mail, are on the rise, and sanctions for those culpable have run into the millions of dollars. A Duke University study found 97 e-discovery sanction cases in 2009, more than any prior year.
Holderman thinks spoliation problems in e-discovery will level off.
"In my opinion," he says, "lawyers will become more and more educated regarding the problems and pitfalls of e-discovery."
As for the need for insurance policies against sanctions, he says, "I agree with those lawyers who say that if a person believes they may be subject to sanctions so often or in such magnitude that insurance is necessary, perhaps the lawyers ought to change their practices so as to not have that risk."
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Should you go to all your children's games?
In its June parents' newsletter, U.S. Lacrosse answers the guilt-driven question, "Should I go to all my children's games?" But first, let sports psychologist Richard Ginsburg tell you whether your children want your presence:
In our research on this very question, we learned that almost 100% of youth soccer-playing-kids ages, 7-14, wanted their parents to attend their games. Our kids want us to watch them play, to witness the wins and losses, the accomplishments and the disappointments.
Don't you feel guilty for even asking the question?
Actually, Ginsburg let we parents know that our children will not someday end up on Dr. Phil if we miss a few games.
That said, it is also OK for us as adults to have our own lives, to miss a few games here or there. In fact, having a life outside of our children's sport experiences is healthy.
Are parents fucked in the head, or what? We need a psychologist to pat us on the shoulder and tell us that our child won't become a serial killer if we miss a baseball game! That a truly adult perspective is NOT revolving your life 100 percent around your children's activities!
Your kid's cellphone: a youth sports parent's best friend
You might have seen over the weekend that the New York Times put up a blurb about the growth of cell phone use by six-to-11-year-olds, a group that back in my day (insert old man voice) would still have been playing with pretend land lines. However, I see nothing disturbing at all in kids having cell phones, not with my 12-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter having had them for about two years. I'm also guessing a lot of parents who are shuttling kids to multiple events, sports or otherwise, feel the same way.
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"Oh-hoh! I'll send Goofy to pick you up at the field, Billy!"
The Times, quoting a study released Jan. 4 by Mediamarket Research and Intelligence, said that in 2005 11.9 percent of six- to 11-year-olds had their own mobile phone. In 2009, that number was up to 20 percent. The most dramatic increase, according to the market research company, was 10- and 11-year-olds, whose phone ownership was up 80.5 percent.
These numbers might be disturbing if you believe cell phones cause brain tumors, or if you imagine your 6-year-old now having the power to send naked pictures of himself all over the virtual world. And, yeah, when I put it that way, even I'm starting to freak out a little bit. Let me check my kid's phones, and I'll be right back. …
(OK, nothing untoward there. Whew.)
Or maybe you think merely that a post-toddler or preteen is too young to have a phone.
The New York Times item on this survey, being a blurb, left out a key part of the 5,000-child survey: why they use their phone.
The overwhelmingly No. 1 reason why kids use their phones is to call their parents. Now, as a child — and I was a good kid (really, I was) — my worst nightmare was that my parents could have some sort of tracking device on me that would always reveal to them where I was at any given moment. But my experience with my own children is that both sides like the security of being able to get in touch, anytime. Certainly, a cell phone would have been helpful so I could go from one park to another without having to make a detour home first so I could ask my parents if I could go.
The survey said 88.1% of the kiddie cellphone wielders use the device to call their parents. This is where the phone as youth sports parent's best friend comes in. There comes a time, when the number of kids you have and the schedules they keep outflank you ability to be everywhere at once, that the phone is a necessity for making sure that your child isn't left stranded after practice or a game — or that you can talk to your child and the parents of whomever has offered to bring him or her home, preferably via a postgame ice-cream shop stop.
My 12-year-old's phone certainly comes in handy for his frequent, hours-long in-line skating jaunts, so I can call him home, or he can call me in case there is a problem. I feel safer with him having the phone, though my concern for his safety does not extend to making him wear a helmet and pads.
Over the summer, when we were visiting my family in Carmel, Ind., my son bladed over to the nearby Monon Trail (a conversion from a rail line upon which a parent threatened to send up Hickory basketball coach Norman Dale after hidestrapping his ass to a pine rail), which runs south to downtown Indianapolis. I was running the trail myself, so I saw him as we entered at about 146th Street, and I saw him again as I ran south from the trail's end at 161st Street in Westfield, with him heading north. His phone in hand, I let him keep going after I was done running.
About 90 minutes later, not having heard from my son, I figured I'd better call him to see if he was OK. "Yeah, I'm fine, Dad," he said. "Where are you?" "I'm not exactly sure." "What was the last street sign you saw?" "I think it was… 96th Street." (96th Street is the border between Carmel and Indianapolis.) "96th Street? Where the heck are you going?" "I wanted to go all the way downtown and back." "Uh, no."
Hey, my 12-year-old son may be old enough to have a cell phone, but I wasn't going to let him traverse by himself to downtown Indianapolis and back. I might let him skate with no pads and no helmet — and an iPod going full-blast — but I have my limits. (I did let him skate back, though.)
By the way, second in the survey was calling friends (68.1 percent) and emergency purposes (55.7 percent). Mediamarket says much of the rise in cell phone use has to do with more kid-friendly phone offerings.
Left totally unsupervised, with no cell phone pads and cell phone helmet, can mobile technology welcome your 6- to 11-year-old to a world of sexting, cyberbullying, tumor-iffic, airtime-charge-sucking ne'er-do-wells? Perhaps. When we got our kids phones, my wife and I gave long lectures about what they were to be used for — and not. We haven't gotten our 7-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter their own phones yet, but they're not moving about independently enough to need them.
Anyway, I think the results of the Mediamark survey show that children — and parents — want that electronic tether to make sure they're never out of reach; what was once my nightmare, now a child's and parent's dream.
If sports parents aren't crazy enough for you, go to Chuck E. Cheese
If you have children in sports, or children of any sort, you probably already know about the hell that can be Chuck E. Cheese, where the ad tagline says it's a place where a kid can be a kid, but leaves out that a parent can be a fucking maniac. Watching their kid at a ballgame can bring out the worst in some parents, but even close access to weaponry such as hockey sticks or baseball bats does not bring out the level of mayhem as close access to animatronic rodents and lousy pizza.
Like the executives at Chuck E. Cheese say, the vast majority of the time you can bring your children there and have a pleasant experience, especially if you give your children a Karen Silkwood-style disinfectant shower afterward. However, the presumed kid-friendly environment is a powder keg of subsumed violence ready to explode at any moment, such as if someone is taking too long at the photo machine.
That was the cause of a Feb. 15 fight in a Memphis location, which ended up with four people being arrested, and is part of the reason I'm reminded at this moment about the worst of Chuck E. Cheese.
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A few days later, in Indianapolis, a Chuck E. Cheese security camera showed a mom who used her 5-year-old to help her jack another patron's purse.
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That Chuck E. Cheese is a place where your child can play grab-ass while you play punch-face is hardly a recent development. The Wall Street Journal two years ago had a great story about the chain's criminal customer element that started thus: "In Brookfield, Wis., no restaurant has triggered more calls to the police department since last year than Chuck E. Cheese's."
Fights among guests are an issue for all restaurants, but security experts say they pose a particular problem for Chuck E. Cheese's, since it is designed to be a haven for children. Law-enforcement officials say alcohol, loud noise, thick crowds and the high emotions of children's birthday parties make the restaurants more prone to disputes than other family entertainment venues.
The environment also brings out what security experts call the "mama-bear instinct." A Chuck E. Cheese's can take on some of the dynamics of the animal kingdom, where beasts rush to protect their young when they sense a threat.
Stepping in when a parent perceives that a child is being threatened "is part of protective parenting," says Frank Farley, a psychologist at Temple University and former president of the American Psychological Association. "It is part of the species — all species, in fact — in the animal kingdom," he says. "We do it all of the time."
That explains the Saturday night in a Bradenton, Fla., Chuck E. Cheese, when I looked up and saw my oldest, heretofore quiet, even-keeled son, then 4 years old, huffing and growling repeatedly, mama bear-like, at another boy in the rat tunnel. He was baring his teeth enough, I thought perhaps my son had turned into Way Pre-Teen Wolf. When he came down — I couldn't physically get up there to extricate him — my son explained that the boy had pushed aside his 2-year-old sister, and that made him mad. As heartened as I was he was protecting his sister, it was clearly time to go.
The post-toddler growling was the climax of a night that featured what causes the tension at Chuck E. Cheese: parents of varying parental ability gathering in one spot to let their children run buck-wild because Chuck E. Cheese is a place where a kid can be a kid, and a parent doesn't have to be a parent.
So why do we as parents keep going back? I'm not sure I have a good answer to that question. My kids have generally had a good time there over the years, and after Brandentongate we learned to never go on a Friday or Saturday night again. But I must admit, entering a Chuck E. Cheese makes my adrenaline rush like a walk through an unknown bad neighborhood, part fear of what might come, and part excitement for a chance to witness mayhem and make my dull suburban life just a little more exciting.
The field guide to youth sports parents
Parents are treated as a necessary evil in youth sports, because without them the kids wouldn't have chauffeurs, coaches and their very existence. You've heard about all the crazy sports parents out there, and they all seem alike in their overbearing, screamy, I-love-you-a-little-less-because-you-lost ways — but don't be fooled! Like Tolstoy's unhappy family, none of these parents is exactly alike.
In part two of my series looking at the unholy trinity of youth sports (coaches were covered in part one, the kids themselves will be part three), here is a breakdown of the kind of parents you will find on the sidelines:
The Coach
Characteristics: Not the actual coach, but the parent who stands at the sideline and yells instructions because that stupid-ass coach isn't doing it right, and/or because that stupid-ass kid isn't doing it right. Is under the apparent belief that his/her child is a voice-activated robot.
Reason kids quit: If they want to get yelled at, they can not take the garbage and get reamed in the comfort of their own home.
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John, for Christ's sake, would you get behind him?
The Don't-You-Know-Who-My-Kid-Is
Characteristics: As much agent as parent. Manages child's career in a way that would make the Lohans look askance. Rips coaches, rips other kids, and butters up anyone who might give their child a leg up. Will starve members of own family to pay for lessons/travel team/steroids, with the full expectation that child will reward them later by turning pro and buying them a big house. If kid screws up, offers the constructive criticism that child is a stupid fuckhead who is letting everyone down.
Reason kids quit: To have a life, and find the birth parents they hope they have.
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"I'll get you, buddy."
The Gossip
Characteristics: Is completely uninterested in what's going on during the game, but is completely interested in which parent got popped for a DUI or slept with his nanny. Appears friendly, but don't open up too much or suddenly you'll find yourself on the business end of a suffering-from-erectile-dysfunction rumor.
Reason kids quit: To leave town after parent cuts out of house in the middle of the night after everyone finds out about their eBay purse-resale scheme.
The Type A
Characteristics: Hands permanently shaped as if holding a Blackberry. On the phone to corporate when kid hits first career home run. Always there, but never really there.
Reason kids quit: They actually quit two seasons ago, but the parent never looked up from the laptop to notice.
The Ass-Kicker
Characteristics: Always ready for a fight whatever pisses them off — the ref, the coach, other parents, own kids, concession stand volunteer, goddamn water bottle that won't open. Only parent who swears over their breath. One bad day at work and bad call from doing something that's going to appear on the local news.
Reason kids quit: Can never go out against after ass-kicker parent appears on your local news.
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Next on your local news: dad is an asshole!
The Superfan
Characteristics: Always yelling, always screaming, always clapping for our little baby. Cheers for all players by name like he or she wants to take them home and eat them. Tries to lead the wave.
Reason kids quit: Too many times hearing their toddler nickname in public.
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Is it OK to celebrate an adult who spends a lot of her time uploading videos of high schoolers?
The Absentee
Characteristics: Never there. May or may not bring kids to practice or games. Coach doesn't like spottiness, but does appreciate knowing this parent will never call to complain.
Reason kids quit: Hitchhiking isn't legal.
The Role Model
Characteristics: Friendly to parents, respectful of coaches, says the right thing every time to kids. This probably isn't you.
Reason kids quit: They've discovered another interest, and parents risk dissolution of future pro career by allowing children to go on a logical path of self-discovery that may or may not end in an ashram.
The field guide to youth sports coaches
If you're new to the youth sports world, maybe because your first young child is playing, you are satisfying terms of your first community-service order, or you are scouting first-graders for Clark Francis' Hoop Scoop, you probably don't have an intimate familiarity with the kinds of kooks, whacknuts and Jekylls-gone-Hyde that populate that peculiar place.
For your benefit, whether you're a parent, coach, parent/coach or creepy scout, I will give you a four-part field guide to the major players in youth sports: the coaches, administrators, parents and the children themselves.
Today I start with the coaches, mainly because I can adapt a piece I already wrote that piece four years ago for Flak Magazine. Also, because these will be the first people to screw up your child's athletic experience, if you haven't already (as the parent, not the coach. But maybe you've already done it both ways!)
Before I start, please understand I use "he" because the vast majority of your youth coaches will be men. No offense intended to any female coaches who could fit comfortably into any of these categories.
They are:
The Genial Incompetent
Characteristics: Friendly and outgoing. Brings treats. Makes sure everyone is having fun and plays an equal amount of time. Doesn't have a fucking clue about the sport.
Reason kids quit: Even the most gentle children — those raised on ultrasensitive PBS cartoons where everyone wins, sportsmanship is paramount, and everyone wears a helmet and pads while riding a bike — don't like getting their asses beat game after game.
The Sgt. Hartman
Characteristics: Drill sergeant lite. Or heavy. Never likes what he sees. Will run 5-year-old soccer players for three hours after a game if the little shits don't look like they care enough. Thinks making children cry is the most effective form of motivation. Often bearded.
Reason kids quit: Tinnitus.
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Your kid's coach introduces himself, sets ground rules, sets tone for contentious relationship with dumpy player.
The Budding Belichick
Characteristics: No matter what the sport or the players' ages, has a 3-inch-thick playbook for the kids to memorize. Keeps a clipboard tucked in the back of his pants. Takes it out to cover his lips while talking, in case another team has hired a lip-reader. Has full-time videographer for Thursday "film sessions." Tells kids that if they can do long division, they sure as hell can figure out the three options for modifying a pass route on the fly depending on if the defense plays Cover 2, a Mike Blitz or straight man coverage.
Reason kids quit: To engage in a hobby less complicated. Like calculus.
The Starfucker
Characteristics: Identifies the top player early, and ignores everyone else. All plays boil down to "Get the Ball to the Star and Get the Hell Out of the Way." Hopes to glom onto the young star to become future agent, shoe company liaison, acceptor of college recruiters' hundred-dollar handshakes.
Reason kids quit: Coach won't let them be part of the posse.
The Stage Parent
Characteristics: Parent coaching own child on team, which can go one of two ways. One, adopting a Starfucker-like focus on own prodigy, turning other children and parents into the Hatfields to the coach and child's McCoys. Two, and more aggravating and/or entertaining, adopting a Starfucker-like focus on own spazz. When the coach puts own child into position of being the hero, and the child flops (again), other parents can take solace in fantasizing about the extremely uncomfortable dinner conversation and family counseling sessions sure to follow.
Reason kids quit: They have enough drama in their own families, thank you very much.
The Vaguely Creepy Guy
Characteristics: He's the reason so many leagues insist on having at least one team member's parent as coach. Loves to travel, shoot the breeze, share bathroom stalls with young charges. Always will to give players "private lessons." Lots of butt-slapping. Lots of team pool parties. Lots of butt-slapping at team pool parties.
Reason kids quit: To make the bad man stop.
Time for layup line, kids!
The Dream
Characteristics: Always organized, always communicative with parents and children. Teaches kids skills and wins. Ends season with lots of attaboys from parents, a few gift cards, and an invitation for illicit, extramarital sex that the parent knows the coach is too upstanding to take. Ruins your child for any coach in the future who inevitably can't live up to this example. Extremely rare. Most often seen on the sideline opposite your child.
Reason kids quit: Intense, self-loathing feelings of not being worthy to breathe the same air.
Who's coaching your kids? Creeps!
I hate to break this to you, but if a pedophile or general pervert wants to coach your kids, they can.
This story from the San Jose Mercury News, breaking down how a swim coach accused of molesting girls over the course of 30 years was able to bounce from club to club, is sadly not unusual. In most cases, the background forms coaches are requiring to fill out — and I've filled out many in my youth sports coaching career — are used only to check against a local or national sex-offender database. They're great if a convicted pedophile tries to apply. But if the person has given fake information, or has never been convicted of anything (as was the case with the swim coach in question), the person will check out clean.
And you can't always assume your league has a background check. The Saraland (Ala.) Dixie Youth Baseball league didn't, though even if it did it wouldn't have caught the coach who was arrested 31 times in 19 years — all the arrests for misdemeanors, not all were convictions, and none were sex crimes. Or that the background check is done on time. I didn't have to turn in my forms to my son's T-ball league until about halfway through the season — a little too late to stop me if I was a bad, bad man.
Boogity! Boogity! Boogity!
So what's a parent to do? There's lot of impractical advice out there, about how you should check court records and plea bargains your ownself. Even if parents were given free Lexis/Nexis accounts, no one would have the time and energy to figure out if Coach Tim Smith is the Tim T. Smith who got busted for molestation four states away. Or you could go with this ridiculous from Great Britain, where a school banned parents from coming to their children's own sports days because allowing them in meant it couldn't guarantee no "unsavoury" characters would show. (Boy, there's nothing parents like better than their own child's school implying they're unsavoury, er, unsavory.)
Parents, if your knickers are in a twist over whether your child is going to be with a coach who wants to put their knickers in a twist, the best advice is to do everything to ensure your child is never alone with that coach. That's the advice I got during how-not-to-molest-children training for coaching Catholic school teams, telling me for my own protection that I should never be alone with a child (in a related note, Virtus training for Catholic volunteers is designed by the church's liability lawyers). The experts in the San Jose story say the same thing about making sure your child isn't alone with a coach. If there are multiple adults and multiple kids around, it's going to be hard for anyone to pull anything, literally or figuratively.
You can always check with your league to make sure that sort of policy is in place. You can also make sure not to drop off your child to practice or games too soon, or pick them up too late. Also, if you see something that strikes you as strange, don't be afraid to speak up to the league. The people running it, believe it or not, in most cases will appreciate you raising your concerns. Let's put it this way — if they don't, you'd be right to take your child out of it.
How well-intentioned parents cause future head cases
Nell Minow smartens up the vast wasteland of the Internet with a Beliefnet.com Q&A with Richard Weissbourd, author of the book, "The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Parents Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development."
I haven't read the book — in fact, I just heard of it by looking at this interview — but the title conforms with my own hypothesis (hardly unique) that most of the problems with sports parenting are caused by parents who care way, way too much. (For a hilarious look at how that plays out, I highly recommend you get the first season of the Canadian television series "The Tournament," which focuses on the foibles of the parents of a traveling hockey team of 10-year-olds. Not the second season, though. That is as awful as the first season is spectacular.)
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The portion from 2:52-3:17 is about the most brilliant distillation of youth sports ever in a work of fiction.
Here is the exchange in Minow's interview with Weissbourd regarding sports parents. Inside his answers are two irrefutable truths about sports parenting. One, that when someone first becomes a sports parent, you go a little crazy inside watching your child having to fight on his or her own right in front of you — and you can't step in. Two, that it's very easy to wrap up your self-worth, and the worth of other parents, in how well your child or their child performs, especially if a social circle builds with the parents of the "good" kids — and you're not in it.
You write about the "morally mature" sports parent. Why do you think many parents are immature, and what can be done about it?
While a great deal of media attention has been trained on reckless parents and coaches at children's sporting events, many of us as parents and coaches, if we are honest with ourselves, get far too wrapped up in these events and fail to model for children a basic respect and responsibility for others. I remember realizing that whether my child's hit slipped by the shortstop or was caught might affect my mood for days, and being furious at a perfectly innocent eight-year-old child who kept striking out my son and his teammates. Sports consultant Greg Dale coaches parents to be alert to other classic signs of their overinvestment, such as saying "we" won or lost the game, regularly occupying dinner conversations with talk about children's sports or planning family vacations around sports events. Some of us get bent out of shape at these games, of course, because we are looking to our kids to fulfill our fantasies, or because of our competitive feelings toward other parents. But there are many other reasons.
Children's sports can stir up old childhood wounds and yank us back to old childhood battles–peer and sibling rivalries, difficulties with authority, painful experiences of unfairness and mistreatment, struggles with shyness and self-assertion. For some adults who experience their lives as monotonous, children's sports can provide an eventful, compelling plot, with their own child as a central character.
Your kid bores me
As I've mentioned before, many newspapers are going into overdrive encouraging parents and coaches to submit youth sports photos and scores, figuring that those parents and coaches, and anyone who knows a kid on the team submitted, will buy the paper or peruse the Web site as a result. For example, the Signal in Valencia, Calif., is setting up dedicated web pages for leagues and sports, and even individual teams. The newspaper also will collect stats. So just in case you wanted to know who was leading all 9-year-olds in doubles in local softball — now you'll know.
The risk I hadn't mentioned in my previous post about this strategy is that for every person all excited about your newspaper and web site for accepting little Jimmy's soccer picture, you'll have an infinite number on the other side who don't give a shit.
That is the stated opinion of the Mansfield (Ohio) News-Journal's Larry Phillips, who is, shall we say, skeptical of his newspaper's fawning over kiddie sports. He figures it's a bit of a yawner to anyone outside the child's immediate orbit.
At the risk of rankling my superiors, I've got a youth sports bulletin.
For years here, we conducted reader panels that insisted folks wanted more youth sports coverage. In response, our marching orders were for more youth sports stories.
After 20 years in sports and repeated attempts at attacking this beat with issue-oriented stories, event coverage stories and feature stories garnering mostly negative feedback, I can say with full confidence the truth about this topic.
No one, repeat no one, wants to read about youth sports unless those stories are about their child, their grandchild, or someone else near and dear to their heart.
That's a fact, and I can prove it.
My 5-year-old is in his first season in youth soccer. He split the posts for the first time with an own goal, but has since rallied to find the correct net twice in four games.
Bored to tears?
Of course. That's two sentences readers will never get back.
I absolutely understand the personal investment in youth sports. I also understand its relevance in the overall landscape of north central Ohio sports.
What we've tried to do, and in fact encourage, is the team picture philosophy. Submit the squad's photo identifying each youngster and the team's accomplishments. As the weather warms and more teams are participating, we'll move those photos toward a consistent online package. With our space in sports, that's what we've done with turkey and deer pictures for our hunting fans. It still gives the kids recognition and for those readers cutting out such things for scrapbooks (and my wife is among them), it serves a dual purpose.
So, Larry, are you saying I'm wasting my time with this here blog? Um, I'm not sure I want you to answer that.


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2013 is almost over.
Thank you dear reader!
You who read the BKWine Brief and BKWine Magazine! It is thanks to you that we continue to write. It is thanks to you that BKWine Magazine has become a wine site with a wealth of information on all sorts of vinous subjects. And also one of the oldest wine web sites, "wine on the internet since 1996". 2013 was a year with more published and with more readers than ever before.
We hope that you, dear reader, will continue to read and enjoy what we write!
Thank you to all the BKWine reporters!
It is thanks to you that BKWine Magazine is becoming even richer in contents. We look forward to new and exciting wine stories.
Thank you to all wine tour participants!
We spend a great portion of our time on the wine tours. Each year we meet several hundred wine travellers on our wine tours. It is always a fun to meet you, taste some wines, visit vineyards, and share a delicious meal. It is also thanks to you that we continue to find new outstanding producers to recommend. Each year we personally visit some 200-300 wineries. (Perhaps not a wine writer record? But still quite a lot!) Wineries that we chose ourselves, which gives us more freedom with than marketing-driven press trips. 2013 was a year with more wine tour and more wine travel guests than ever.
We hope that you, dear wine traveller, come back soon! And that you who are "just" a reader perhaps one day also become a wine tour participant on one of our tours!
Talking about tours, there are still a few places left on the wine tour to South Africa in March. But if you want to join us, do hurry up! It will be a magnificent wine tour.
We are also getting closer to the deadline for the May tour to the Douro. Book now to join us!
Over Christmas and New Year one tends to spend a lot of time with food and drink. By coincidence we have several pieces in this month's Brief on port wines. Port is something that is sometimes considered a Christmas wine but why not extend that period a bit. Let's make January a port wine month.
In the Brief you will find plenty of other good wines: Bordeaux that does not have to be horribly expensive, Burgundy, southern Italy, Spain, South Africa and more. Much more.
Now we are charging the batteries for 2014 that will be a fun year!
One last thing: We are very grateful for your help in spreading the word about the Brief! Do you know someone who is interested in wine? Tell him/her to subscribe to The Brief! Do you know someone who could be interested in a wine and food tour to one of the world's wine regions? Tell him/her about our wine tours!
Thank you and see you next year! Happy New Year!
Britt & Per
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What's on at BKWine Tours
- South America: Chile and Argentina, 1-16 February 2014
- South Africa, 28 February – 10 March 2014
- Douro Valley, Portugal, 14-18 May 2014
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From the World of Wine
BKWine runner-up in wine / travel blogging competition!
A bit of a mouth-full, wine / travel blogging competition… Great Wine Capitals is an association of some of the world's great wine regions. Their mission is to spread the word that these wine regions are fantastic travel destinations. This year they arranged a competition for bloggers who write on wine and travel. We write a lot about wine and travel on The Wine Travel Blog so we were of course keen to participate. We did not win Mindy Joyce did with her piece A Magical Trip to Bordeaux, A Better Trip to the Wine Counter on WineryCritic.com. Congratulations! But we came in second place, runner-up with Britt's article Combining Valparaiso and Casablanca makes a magical wine tour. In addition we landed the number 5 and number 7 slots. Her are our articles:
- The Mendoza wine region: a land of amazing contrasts (Britt)
- Pouring over the edge in the Franschhoek vineyards (Britt)
- The importance of always carrying a flash-light when wine touring in Bordeaux (Per)
- Let's go for a walk in Bordeaux City! (Per)
- The red soul of Tuscan wines: sangiovese (Åsa)
- Combining Valparaiso and Casablanca makes a magical wine tour (Britt)
- Florence, a capital of wine and food (Åsa)
- The Douro Valley: a meandering river and terraced vineyards (Per)
LAN D-12 Quarta Edicion Rioja 2010, Bodegas LAN | Britt's Wine of the Month
It has been awhile since I drank a Rioja. This wine I was served blind and I did not guess that it was a Rioja (I will not humiliate myself by telling you my guesses). But I thought it was delicious. Elegant and smooth was the first words I used and I added lovely cherry fruit and other red berries. A well balanced wine.
The grape is tempranillo from four different vineyards around Haro in the Rioja Alta. The taste of the oak is discreet. The wine has spent 10 months in partly new American barrels and partly in new French barrels. Here we have a skilled winemaker who knows how to handle the oak. Which is probably a necessity when you are responsible for a large oak barrel cellar with a French, American and Russian oak barrels and even some mixed. Bodegas LAN is owned by Portugal's largest wine company Sogrape since 2012.
Have you ever visited France? What did you think?
France is the world's most popular travel destination. More than 80 million visitors (!) come to France each year. When you travel around France it is easy to understand why; landscape, climate, people, gastronomy, wine etc. All at reasonable prices. But France still wants to improve the welcome they give visitors and therefore they are conducting an international tourism survey. If you want to contribute to make France even better as a travel destination you can respond to their international tourism survey here.
And if you are eager to travel to France and enjoy some of the wonderful experiences, not least food and wine, then you should come on a wine tour with BKWine.
Kopke Colheita 1957 | Magnus' Wine of the Month
A few weeks ago I was in Portugal, mainly to taste wine and port. Port wine is something I to connect with Christmas (and all other days too). To sit and sip a glass of really good port wine together with a piece of chocolate, a piece of cheese or just with the feet warming in front of the fire-place is pure pleasure. Personally, I'm fond of tawny and colheita port. Tawny is a port that has matured for at least seven years in small oak barrels, has a lighter colour and a clear barrel-aging character. The wine is sold with the age specified on the bottle, such as ten, twenty, thirty, or forty years. It is a blend of wines with an average age as indicated. Colheita is a port that resembles a tawny but comes from a single vintage and is matured in oak barrels until it is ready for consumption.
It is hard to choose when you have fabulous wines to choose from. In the end it was a stand-off between Kopke Colheita 1937, 1957, and 1961. After careful consideration the 1957 wins, mainly because of a great acidity that makes it seem as if this wine's flavours echo between the taste buds for an eternity.
Rickety Bridge wins double gold for South African bubbly
South Africa makes very good sparkling wine. Since a few years back they call their sparkling wines made from the traditional method that is with a second fermentation in the bottle, MCC, Methode Cap Classique. In the MCC Challenge which recently took place in South Africa, 100 wines were tasted and judged and one of our favourite producers in Franschhoek, Rickety Bridge Winery, was the winner of a double gold medal with their MCC Blanc de Blancs 2009.
This MCC was the first sparkling wine that Rickery Bridge had ever made. Wine maker Wynand Grobler used chardonnay from a selected plot for this wine. With very low yields, fermentation partly in French oak barrels and a little over three years on the lees the result is a full bodied, fresh and complex MCC. A very worthy winner. Read more on Rickety Bridge.
Aix-en-Provence without "Coteaux"?
Cote and Côteaux, we see these words everywhere: Côtes du Rhône, Coteaux du Languedoc, Cote des Blancs, Côte de Beaune, etc. It is an old French tradition to call wine regions located along rivers or slopes like this. Often the prefixes indicate a larger wine area (though not always, Côte Rôtie is a good example).
For several years now the appellation Coteaux d'Aix en Provence has struggled to get rid of their Coteaux. They would prefer to call themselves simply "Aix en Provence", just like the well-known town close by. They still have not managed to convince the INAO but they will not give up. And why would it not work? The nearby appellations of Luberon and Ventoux have both managed to get rid of their Côtes. They were previously Côtes du Luberon and Côtes du Ventoux. But not anymore. And Coteaux du Languedoc is now Languedoc.
An appellation without a prefix is associated with higher quality, at least by the French consumer. Read more on reussir-vigne.com
Selling wine in supermarkets, something to be ashamed of?
Often we hear wine producers in France saying, not without a certain pride in their voice that their wine is certainly not sold in supermarkets (grande surfaces). I wonder why this would be so terrible. Today's supermarkets often have as a minimum a very decent selection of wines and sometimes an extremely good one. So what is there to be ashamed of it? And you cannot ignore the facts: 88 % of all wines in France are sold in supermarkets.
The wine shops in France only have 7 % of the sales. These shops often specialize in regions like Languedoc-Roussillon and the Rhone Valley, where there are many small producers that find it hard to sell to supermarkets, or in more niche products like biodynamic and natural wine that may need to be explained to customers. The remaining 5 % is direct sales, either at the winery or at wine fairs.
Figurers from vinetsociete.fr/chiffres
The golden secateurs to Lynch-Bages' pruner
Now in winter time, maybe the wine produce can slow down a little and recuperate? Hardly. Now begins the season for la taille, the winter pruning. An extremely important task that requires special skill so you do not put a pair of secateurs in anybody's hand. But you probably would put it in Diamentino Rato Teixeira's hand. He recently won a pruning competition held at the Château Dillon in Bordeaux. He and his rivals had to prune as quickly and as skilfully as possible a number of vines. A theoretical test was also part of the competition, testing the competitor's knowledge of vines diseases and similar things. Teixeira works at Château Lynch-Bages in Pauillac.
This competition for the "Golden Secateurs" was only the beginning. Several pruning competitions will be organized in France during the winter. French farmers like competitions. They can be quite amusing actually, not least the ploughing competition where you must plough as straight as possible.
Read more sudouest.fr
Kryp In, restaurant in the Old Town of Stockholm
Britt recently visited Restaurant Kryp In in the Old Town of Stockholm. A perfect place if you want to try Swedish ingredients and Swedish specialities. The wines are mainly organic, well-chosen and often from small, high quality producers.
There was actually a Restaurant Kryp In in the Old Town already in the 18th century. It was a favourite restaurant of the famous (at least in Sweden) poet Carl-Michael Bellman.
Read more about Restaurant Kryp In
Sweet and delicious, lovely ports (and some more) to savour
We have had some very special and delicious red sweet wines over Christmas. A 40 years old tawny, a colheita 1940 (vintage tawny), a vintage port 1975 and an insanely sweet wine from Andalucía. We had a small and intimate wine tasting one evening with these wines to see how the differed and how they were similar. Not least the two tawnies were outstanding and memorable wines, a type that we hope more people will discover.
Read more about these four fantastic sweet port and other wines here.
Bordeaux is not only exclusive and expensive wines, there is also much affordable quality
The vast majority of wine producers in Bordeaux make wines at very reasonable prices, and often of very good quality. Unfortunately one tends too easily to only think of the now very expensive "classified" chateaux in the Medoc, Graves and Saint Emilion and their un-classified but equally famous cousins in Pomerol. It is a mistake to believe that all of Bordeaux is at this exalted level of prices.
Unfortunately, the chateau in the medium price range, say between 10 and 25 euro have difficulties getting noticed (not least in Sweden where there is a big monopoly buyer). But now Le Grand Cercle has decided to change this. They came in force to Stockholm and presented their wines. BKWine's Carl-Erik Kanne was there and tasted. He gathered a lot of recommendations on excellent Bordeaux wines for reasonable monies!
Read more: Delicious Bordeaux wines at wallet-friendly prices
Why not discover some of this on location? Come on a wine and food tour to Bordeaux with BKWine.
Travel to the wine country with the experts on wine and the specialist on wine travel.
Writing and telling stories about wine on the internet
The recent #DWCC, Digital Wine Communications Conference, in Rioja included a session on wine communications, what it is and who does it. BKWine was one of the panellists. It became an interesting exchange of ideas with several well-known international wine personalities: Robert Joseph, Tyler Colman, Paul Mabray, Justin Howard-Sneyd, and BKWine.
Read more and watch the video: What is wine communication and who are the communicators?
Sun and rain and wine in southern Italy
"'The sun always shines in Campania except in Irpinia,' said my friend from Napoli. He seems to be right. Because when I get off the train at Naples Central Station unseasonably warm sun rays heat me up. But the closer we get Irpinia the denser the dark clouds become. After a forty minute drive that brings me to the hotel the rain pours down in big heavy drops."
BKWine's Åsa reports from the "anteprima", the primeur tasting, in DOCG Greco di Tufo in Campania: Greco di Tufo from Irpinia, Italy's forgotten treasure
One good opportunity to explore the wines and food of Irpinia is to come on a wine and food tour to Campania in southern Italy with BKWine, including of course a lunch at the luxurious Marennà restaurant.
Burgundy wines from 2011 from Louis Jadot in Beaune
Early after the harvest 2011 in Burgundy the wines were said to be of mixed quality, some outstanding, others of more modest quality. What is assessment today? BKWine recently had the opportunity to taste a range of wines from 2011 from the big Burgundy producer Louis Jadot together with their export manager Sigfried Pic.
BKWine's Roland Eriksson tastes and reports: The 2011 vintage in Burgundy at Louis Jadot
Another way to get a good insight into the quality of the vintages in Burgundy is to go there: you will taste many vintages and wines at the vineyards on a wine and food tour to Burgundy with BKWine.
Travel to the world's wine regions with the experts on wine and the specialist on wine tours!
A harvest report from Chablis
Here is a summary of the vintage 2013 as seen by the growers' association BIVB-Chablis.
In summary, they say:
- A difficult growing season due to the weather, that led to:
- Late harvest and
- Small volume. Nevertheless
- Sufficient maturity and
- Balanced wines
According to the growers' association.
Read more: The 2013 vintage in Chablis
A short introduction to port wines with the Calem house
The port wine producer Calem dates back to mid-1850s. Today, like many other port producers, it is part of a group together with several other famous names. It has a wide range of ports, from young ruby to very old tawny. We had the opportunity to taste a number of their wines back to a tawny 1961, together with Sónia Figueira, export manager of Calem.
BKWine's Carl-Erik Kanne reports: Calem, a port house with a range of ruby, vintage, tawny & colheita.
There are many good and great wines to discover in the Douro Valley, both the sweet port wines and "regular" table wines. Both the port and table wines will be plentiful, at tastings and at gourmet meals, along with Portuguese food on a wine and food tour to the Douro Valley with BKWine. Book now for May!
Travel to wine regions with the experts on wine and with the specialist on wine travel.
Mixed bag of goodies: wines we remember from December 2013
"Uncorked", Under this heading we collect various wines that we have tasted, and liked, recently. It can be wines that we have had during dinner at home, at wine tastings, press lunches, visits to vineyards, or other occasions.
We describe the wines just with a few short sentences, tasting notes that we hope will give you a short but accurate impression of what we thought of the wine, without delving into finer points tasting notes.
On this month's wine list:
- A mixed bag from the Rhône Valley
- Burgundy
- Bordeaux
- Barolo and others from the Piedmont, including an unusual ruché
- Mosel
- Champagne
- Douro
Some inspiration for more wine discoveries! As well as, in some cases, a perspective on what to expect from older wines. Read more on these wines: Uncorked: Good wines we have tasted recently, December 2013.
Cold Facts: a misleading TV program on wine growing and wine making
It caused a certain brouhaha when an "investigative" television program on wine was aired recently in Sweden, Kalla Fakta (Cold Facts). Several wine producers and wine importers appeared in the program in a way that can best be described as misleading or manipulative. The program talked about treatments in the vineyard showing as "scandalous" agricultural practices that are well-known and hardly any news (nor particularly outrageous). They also talked about "additives" in wines giving the impression that wine is to a large extent a concoction of various more or less dangerous foreign ingredients to create artificial flavours.
Read more on what Britt has to say on this television program that was a good example of manipulative and misleading journalism rather that serious investigative reporting: Poison in your glass? Big headlines, thin on news in television program on wine.
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Different Voices: Defending Cleveland on Mike Brown
Though he isn't the sole target, Mike Brown has managed to unsurprisingly be everybody's favorite scapegoat for a Cavaliers frenetic offense that has frustrated fans early in the season.
There is a long standing view that Brown is strictly a defensive coach and those LeBron era Cavaliers were defensive juggernauts while being more offensively mediocre like the current Pacers squads, but that just isn't true. The current Pacers squad that is currently 9-1 and more importantly sporting the highest point differential in the league at 9.4, is only ranked 15th in offensive efficiency so far this season. In the last two years here of the LeBron era the Cavaliers ranked 4th overall in offensive efficiency. Who was the coach? Mike Brown.
Those Cavaliers were a floor spacing machine that slowed down play and excelled in the half court due to having solid perimeter shooting and the unparalleled drive and kick ability of LeBron James. They were catered to compliment LeBron, but on a team with limited offensive talent outside of him, it was the smartest way to scheme an offense. Mike Brown didn't sign Larry Hughes or any other of the mediocre level talent that the front office was able to bring in. He just worked with what he had. Sure one of those players was LeBron James, but the rest of those rosters were mediocre. Ferry did an impressive enough job recovering from the franchise albatross that was the Larry Hughes' contract, but he could only make marginal upgrades; never again having a real shot at a second all-star level talent.
And don't remind me that Mo Williams made an All-Star game. He was a last minute replacement and benefited from the "well, schucks, this
Mike Brown's stint in LA was almost doomed to fail as he was made to follow coaching legend Phil Jackson, and, forced to do battle with the biggest basketball ego the world has ever seen in an aging Kobe Bryant. Even then he coaxed the best year out of Andrew Bynum anyone has ever seen in his first season as the Lakers coach. All of this despite Kobe's resistance to the idea of running the offense through Bynum, which culminated into chemistry problems that plagued their losses to a great Oklahoma City team in the playoffs that year. He was then scapegoated early in his second season, as a supposedly championship caliber roster struggled out of the gate and despite Brown's dismissal, continued to do so. It was also a roster that with a bunch of changes that had little practice time together in the preseason, mainly because of key injuries.
I can already imagine a lot of you readers saying, "JOE, HE HAD LEBRON JAMES AND KOBE BRYANT. ANY COACH WOULD HAVE HAD A GOOD OFFENSE WITH ONE OF THEM ON THE TEAM."
Maybe, but I find that argument lazy and way too one sided. It is no secret; Brown himself has stated he didn't work on offense in the preseason and training camp instead choosing to use that limited time to install his defense and worry about the offense later. He even used the phrase "winging it" when describing their offensive approach against the Wizards on Saturday night, and you know what? It worked.
Offense in the NBA, more so than defense, is dictated by the players you have at your disposal. It makes sense to install this later as Brown gains a better understanding of the roster and how it best fits together. Any Cavs fan who says they knew the answer to this team's offensive woes was to run a backcourt trio of Jarret Jack, Matthew Dellavedova, and Kyrie Irving, is telling fibs.
Some people wanted to put it down to Kyrie Irving just "snapping out of his funk" and making shots. The thing is he's not finishing well around the basket, but moving Kyrie off the ball while the team ran screens for him kick started the offense and showcased what a great shooter he is. This was Mike Brown's decision. Kyrie Irving did not tell him what line up to go with. If Mike Brown would have said "Hey Kyrie, just go one on one every time", I'm sure Kyrie would have been happy to be his dribble happy self and oblige. Give the man some credit, and some time. He's a good coach. He has a five year contract and he isn't going anywhere anytime soon, and the Cavaliers are better off for it.
Mike Brown's "build a team from the defense up" approach is already paying dividends in this young season. The Cavs so far this year rank in the top 1/3rd of defensive efficiency, this after finishing the last three years in the bottom four. It is quite nice to see a team that can
actually get stops when it matters; a trait that was highlighted by the final possession in a win at home against a very good Minnesota team in which the Cavaliers forced Minnesota into a deep and contested Kevin Love three point shot.
While there is still room for improvement, especially with their lazy transition defense, the Cavaliers defense is a lot easier on the eyes than last year. The Cavs are also doing this despite having to deploy defensively light line ups in order to get their currently stalled offense flowing, and, Bynum's limited minutes aside, without the services of a true center to protect the rim.
One nice aspect of the long seasons of baseball and basketball is that teams are afforded time to experiment and fiddle with rotations, plays, and line ups, which is much less doable in the "every game feels like do or die NFL". This affords teams with young talent the time and experience to go through growing pains, instead of being forced to sacrifice development for a more "win now at all cost" approach. Mike Brown will continue tinker with the pieces he's been given, and his track records show he'll eventually get it right.