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In the April-May and February-March issues of MOTHER EARTH NEWS, I discuss some aspects of growing your own wheat: variety selection, growing methods, and processing of the harvest. One of the more important considerations in deciding which kind of seed to plant is the variation among wheat varieties in their reaction to fungi, bacteria, and viruses that can cause disease.
Wheat is plagued by a wider assortment of diseases than are most other grain crops. (North Dakota State University provides a good photographic compendium of wheat diseases.) The particular array of microbial threats varies from region to region and year to year, but few places escape completely. And when severe, diseases can wreck both the yield and the quality of harvested grain. Over the past century, wheat breeders have put at least as much effort into selecting for naturally-occurring genetic resistance to disease (no GMOs needed!) as they have into breeding for higher yield. In general, recently-developed varieties tend to have better resistance than do older ones; however, that is not always true, and almost every variety has one or more Achilles heels.
The risk-averse should simply avoid varieties that are especially susceptible to diseases that often strike wheat in their area. Many wheat growers plant a blend of two or more varieties. The logic of blending is that a mixture is more well-buffered against weather, diseases, and insects: when one variety has a bad year, others may take up the slack. But varieties included in the blend should be either all winter or all spring types with similar heights and harvest dates.
Guides to varieties, with disease-resistance ratings, are available for Eastern soft wheats, Great Plains hard winter wheats, and Northern hard red spring wheats, and there's also a guide for growing variety blends.
For wheat growers, it's a truism: Sow varieties that are resistant to prevalent diseases. But what if the wheat plant has to give up something for its resistance, so that it is less productive or its grain makes poorer bread? Would the resistance then be worth it?
Those are not questions that can be answered without controlled experiments. Simple observation can be deceptive. Close your eyes and think of any two wheat varieties; they will very likely differ in their geographical adaptation, yield potential, and reaction to the huge range diseases that infect wheat. If, for example, you happen to compare a specific rust-resistant variety with a susceptible variety, the resistant one might yield less or make poorer-quality bread than the susceptible one in a year without rust. (Depending on which ones you've picked, it could also yield more or make better bread.) However, that does not mean that resistance causes lower yield or quality. The two varieties differ not only in that rust gene, but also carry contrasting genes throughout their genomes. Any of those genetic differences could contribute to a difference in performance.
Over the years, controlled field experiments in wheat and other crop species — all of them designed to answer the question, "Does the plant pay a price for resistance?"—have provided us with a clear answer: "Flip a coin." A survey of these comparative studies, published in the 1990s, found that in exactly 44 out of 88 cases covering a wide range of species and genes, resistant plants were less productive than susceptible ones in the absence of the relevant disease, insect, or herbicide. In the other 44 cases, there was no difference or, rarely, the resistant plants were more productive. The results of studies done since that time have continued to give widely varying answers to the questions of whether there's a yield effect and if so, how big it is.
In wheat as in other crops, some resistance genes reduce yield or quality while others do not. Many of wheat's genes for resistance have been transferred from related species. In the process, long stretches of DNA extending to either side of the resistance gene came along for the ride. Once in a wheat variety, some of those hitchhiking genes may affect other traits even if the resistance gene itself is benign. This has happened in the past with a chromosome segment from Aegilops umbellulata carrying the Lr9 gene for leaf-rust resistance; it depressed yield by 5 to 14 percent. There are other genes such as Fhb1, which protects against Fusarium head blight, that appear to have brought no yield- or quality-reducing hitchhikers with them. Then there's a chromosome segment transferred from rye that carries genes for leaf, stem, and stripe rust resistance; it has had a positive effect on productivity but a negative impact on quality.
Sometimes the resistance gene itself appears to have a direct impact. The Lr34 gene, which confers adult-plant resistance to leaf rust, originated within common wheat, but its yield-depressing effect is well known. But whether a yield reduction is caused directly by a resistance gene or indirectly by its bad neighbors, it is crucial to remember that these negative yield impacts have all been measured when there is no disease present. To the wheat grower, such an effect may be less important than the impact of the disease when it does strike.
For example, Lr34 reduces yield of spring wheat by about 6 percent if there is no leaf rust infection. But when leaf rust infects the plant, it can cause 43 to 84 percent yield losses in varieties that are not protected by Lr34 or other genes. At Kansas State University in the 1990s, my colleagues and I found that a leaf-rust gene transferred into wheat from the wild grass Ae. tauschii provided a 42 percent yield advantage under heavy leaf rust, while it had no yield-depressing effect when leaf rust was absent. And when fungi, bacteria, or viruses infect a wheat plant, they can decimate the bread-making or nutritional quality of the harvested grain. The rust diseases, for example, result in shriveled seed with poor gluten, while Fusarium head blight (a.k.a. "scab") produces a dangerous toxin.
You never know at planting time which diseases will be the biggest threats over the coming season, but for diseases that are locally common, the possibility that a gene may have a modest negative effect on yield or quality in the absence of disease is probably less important than the risk of taking a much bigger hit to yield and quality that comes with sowing a susceptible variety.
And finally, there's no need to worry about at least one thing: wheat breeding for disease resistance has not made wheat's gluten proteins hazardous to your health.
When rain falls, some of the water ends up in lakes and rivers, some is used by plants, some evaporates back into the atmosphere, and some seeps through the ground into aquifers – large, natural underground water storage areas. This groundwater provides more than 40 percent of the U.S. population with drinking water. Not only does groundwater quench our thirst, but it is also important in protecting water quality and quantity in surface rivers and streams – during drier times, these waters are derived almost completely from groundwater supplies. In coastal areas, pumping too much water from aquifers can increase the amount of salt water entering groundwater supplies, sometimes making it undrinkable.
Viewer Tip: March 9-15, 2014 is National Groundwater Awareness Week. One of the easiest ways to protect groundwater supplies is to save water at home. Try these simple tips to save 30 gallons in one day:
Save 5 gallons: Turn water off between rinsing dishes, rather than running water continuously.
Save at least 20 gallons: Water your lawn and garden in the early morning or evening hours, when the weather is cooler and water is less likely to evaporate.
(Source: National Groundwater Association. "National Groundwater Awareness Week"; The 40 Gallon Challenge)
Citizens' Institute on Rural Design Issues Request for Proposals for Rural Communities Facing Design Challenges
Washington, DC—The Citizens' Institute on Rural Design (CIRD) has issued a request for proposals to rural communities facing design challenges - such as Main Street revitalization, how to manage and direct growth, design community-supportive transportation systems, preserve natural and historic landscapes and buildings, protect working agricultural lands, and provide adequate and affordable housing - who are interested in hosting a local workshop in 2014-2015. Successful applicants will receive a $7,000 stipend and in-kind professional design expertise and technical assistance valued at $35,000. The Request for Proposals is posted on the CIRD website. The deadline for submitting a proposal is Tuesday May 6, 2014 at 9:00 pm EST CIRD works to help rural communities with populations of 50,000 or fewer enhance their quality of life and economic vitality through facilitated design workshops. CIRD brings local leaders, non-profits, and community organizations together with experts in planning, design, preservation and placemaking – all in an effort to help communities address pressing design challenges and to put design tools into the hands of the people who can create local change. CIRD does this by offering an opportunity for four rural communities to host local design workshops, and by offering free public webinars, conference calls, and a resource-rich website to practitioners and community leaders across the country. Since the program's inception in 1991, CIRD has convened 70 workshops in all regions of the country with results that range from strengthened local economies, enhanced rural character, the leveraging of cultural assets, and design of new housing and transportation systems. Each community selected to participate in the Institute will receive $7,000 to support planning and hosting a two and a half day workshop. Communities are required to provide $7,000 in matching funds (cash or in-kind services). CIRD will work with community leaders to assemble teams of specialists most qualified to address the community's identified design challenges. The workshops will be augmented with conference calls and capacity-building webinar presentations led by professionals who will discuss a range of rural design topics. All calls are also offered free to the general public through CommunityMatters, a program of the Orton Family Foundation. The CIRD website is a portal to resources on many aspects of rural design gathered from diverse organizations across the country including information on past CIRD workshops. It is a place for citizens and practitioners alike to get information about improving their own communities. Read more about last year's workshops here. Find the RFP and application guidelines here. Selected communities will be announced in June 2014, and workshops will be held during the fall of 2014 and first quarter of 2015. CIRD will offer two pre-application assistance conference calls to answer questions and guide interested applicants in assembling their proposals. The first of these calls is scheduled for Tuesday, April 2, and the second call will take place on Thursday, April 24. Both calls will begin at 3:00 pm EST and last approximately one hour. Participation in each call is free but registration is required. Go here to register. The Citizens' Institute on Rural DesignTM is a National Endowment for the Arts leadership initiative in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Project for Public Spaces, Inc., along with the Orton Family Foundation and the CommunityMatters Partnership.
The National Endowment for the Arts, established by Congress in 1965, is an independent agency of the federal government. To date, the NEA has awarded more than $4 billion to support artistic excellence, creativity, and innovation for the benefit of individuals and communities. Join the discussion on how art works. Visit the NEA to learn more.
USDA Rural Development administers and manages housing, business and community infrastructure programs through a national network of state and local offices. Rural Development has an active portfolio of more than $176 billion in loans and loan guarantees. These programs are designed to improve the economic stability of rural communities, businesses, residents, farmers and ranchers and improve the quality of life in rural America. Visit the USDA website here.
Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a nonprofit planning, design, and educational organization dedicated to helping people create and sustain public spaces that build stronger communities. Founded in 1975, PPS has completed projects in over 2,500 communities and all 50 US states. PPS has become an internationally recognized center for resources, tools, and inspiration about Placemaking; check out their website. The Orton Family Foundation seeks to empower people to shape the future of their communities by improving local decision-making, creating a shared sense of belonging, and ultimately strengthening the social, cultural, and economic vibrancy of each place. The Foundation's Heart & Soul approach supports citizens in steering their towns' future by discovering the characteristics and attributes valued most by residents and, then, by placing those shared values at the center of future decisions. Visit the Orton Family Foundation. CommunityMatters® is a program of the Orton Family Foundation that equips cities and towns to strengthen their places and inspire change. Together, the CommunityMatters partnership, conference calls and other projects fuel a growing network of leaders, thinkers and doers in a variety of disciplines. The CommunityMatters partnership is driven by seven national organizations with the common goal of building strong communities through the improvement of local civic infrastructure. The partners are: Deliberative Democracy Consortium, Grassroots Grantmakers, National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation, New America Foundation, Orton Family Foundation, Project for Public Spaces, and Strong Towns. Visit their website here.
This press release is presented without editing for your information. To learn more go to www.rural-design.org.
While some visitors to the Miami and Fort Lauderdale area spend much of the time baking in the sun, hitting the clubs or running up credit cards shopping, my family and I discovered that a subtropical ecotravel adventure awaits less than a half hour away in every direction from the big city bustle.
In this series of three posts, I'll reveal some of the nature-based experiences possible in the "gold coast" stretching north from Miami to Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, I'll share our adventures on land, in the ocean and atop America's slowest-flowing river in what is famously known as the Everglades.
The stretch of sands connecting the metro areas of Miami and Fort Lauderdale wouldn't appear to be viable ecotourism destinations – at least not at first glance. But shimmering turquoise waters, powdery soft beaches, large swaths of mangroves preserved in various parks, and miles of bike paths makes it easy to escape the droves of sun-worshipers and traffic-clogged expressways.
With their catamarans docked in both Miami's Bayside Harbor and Bahia Mar Marina in Fort Lauderdale, Tropical Sailing offers both sunset sails and snorkeling trips that make the big city feel miles away while on their "Spirit of Lauderdale" 50-foot catamaran.
Once we hit the open Atlantic about a mile off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Captain Gary pulled the engines out of the water and we soared with the wind. Kicking back on their webbed "trampoline" that stretched between the twin hulls, sails stiff with the steady breeze, we enjoyed a champagne toast as the sun dropped behind the sand-trimmed coast. Not a sound from a motor or drop of fuel being burned.
Less than a twenty minute drive from Miami's towering financial district, across the other side of the Rickenbacker Causeway, past Hobie Island Beach and the Historic Virginia Key Beach Park, emerges Key Biscayne, with it's pristine, palm-tree-dotted beaches. The mangrove-formed island is book-marked by the 800-acre Crandon State Park to the north and the Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park with its stunning Cape Florida Lighthouse to the south.
"I'm a paddling encyclopedia," jokes Alex Martinez, our guide for our kayaking adventure with Miami-Dade Eco-Adventures. He lives up to the moniker, and then some. Among other things, he managed the reptile collections and animal rehabilitation at the Falcon Bachelor Bird of Prey Center at the Miami Museum of Science before leading sea kayak trips for the past five years. He knows the difference between Vase and Queen Conch and just about everything else we might see. "Everything is so beautiful here. All I do is just give an educational spin on what we're seeing, or, in some cases, touching," he says, as my wife and son climb into our sea kayaks and head out into the calm, azure waters.
For our three-hour trip we paddled about fifty yards off shore, down what is one of the final remnants of the South Florida Barrier Islands known as Bear Cut Preserve. Our first objective, besides the possibility of catching a glimpse of the Lesser Electric Ray moving in for a meal in the sea-grass beds during high tide, are the fossilized remains of an underwater mangrove forest. Despite the Miami skyline in the distance, we felt as if our small group of six kayakers, plus a few picnickers on the beach, were the only ones around.
Pulling up to a small stream inlet between mangroves, we hopped out of our kayaks and followed Martinez into the 5,000-year-old fossilized reef on foot. By now, the tide was going out. Part snorkeling, part hiking the reef carefully on seagrass, we discovered an abundance of sea life within reach, including Giant Hermit Crabs, West Indian Sea Eggs, "near threatened" West Indian Cushion Stars and a Florida Spiny Lobster.
While nowhere as abundant with fish as we found in the coral reefs off shore in the Florida Keys, the underwater petrified forest is oddly unique, one of only two in the world. To complete our loop, we pushed further north to a sand bar to stretch our legs before turning back, making sure to wiggle through some mangroves. Looking to extend our trip, we took a stroll through the park's Crandon Gardens, a former zoo reclaimed by countless (and friendly) bird species and other animals; some, like a Sandhill Crane and some peacocks, even joined us on our walk.
During the warmer spring and summer months, snorkel or dive trips out to the coral reef in Biscayne National Park are also possible. In fact, such trips are the only way to experience it since most of the 172,000-acre park is either underwater or encompassing off-shore islands. For a brief, land-based intro to the park, visit Convoy Point's Dante Fascell Visitor Center.
With the deep waters less than a mile off shore, we couldn't pass up a couple fishing trips to either hook our dinner or catch-and-release some of the most spectacular pelagic fish in the world: sailfish and kingfish. These were the ones Hemingway was always after.
Fishing Headquarters out of Fort Lauderdale offered a wide selection of trips, both daytime and at night, appealing to anglers of all skill levels and interests. My son and I first headed out for a nighttime trip on their group party boat, looking to catch our dinner in much the same way we grow it in our gardens back in the Midwest. Our four hour trip netted us enough snapper, porgies and grunts for three meals.
A couple days later, we headed out on a half day sports fishing charter joined by a father and his son from New York, hopeful for a bite from a dolphin fish or kingfish while trolling the waters. We ended up having to "settle" for grey tilefish and a few porgies we snagged when we all bottom fished, catches of which made for a feast for us all.
My next blog explores the natural wonders to be experienced onshore.
John D. Ivanko, with his wife Lisa Kivirist, have co-authored Rural Renaissance, the award-winning ECOpreneuring and Farmstead Chef along with operating Inn Serendipity B&B and Farm, completely powered by the wind and sun. Both are regular speakers at the Mother Earth News Fairs. As a writer and photographer, Ivanko contributes to Mother Earth News, most recently, "9 Strategies for Self-Sufficient Living". They live on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin with their son Liam, millions of ladybugs and a 10 kW Bergey wind turbine.
To the people of the Manu region of the Peruvian Amazon, Reynaldo Ochoa is a teacher, a role model and a champion of a way of farming that allows local people to flourish while forging a sustainable future for their imperiled homeland. Ochoa is now the subject of a short film directed by Dan Childs and Nick Werber, which has won the UN Forest Short Film Festival Award. It is the first of four such films Werber is producing in partnership with the Crees Foundation, an organization working to help achieve a sustainable future for this region of the Amazonian rainforest.
In Reynaldo – Rainforest Hero, Ochoa describes his transformation from being a farmer practicing the "slash and burn" agriculture typical of the region to his present mission of helping his fellow residents learn and practice a sort of permaculture uniquely suited to their soil and growing conditions. For decades, local people have been clearing the forest to plant crops such as yucca and bananas as cash crops. When the crops deplete the soil – often within two or three years – the farmer moves on to another plot of land and starts the process again. After years of working this way, Ochoa realized that if the people continued this approach, no forest would be left.
He began experimenting with sustainable farming and eventually found a system that works, using waste from his chickens to feed algae, which feeds the fish in his pond, the water from which he uses to fertilize his land, which is intercropped with trees, vegetables and fruit in a give-and-take cycle familiar to any farmer or gardener trying to work with the laws of nature. Ochoa now works with farmers as part of the Crees agroforestry project to transform the wasteful way of doing things to one that can sustain the forest ecology even as it feeds the farmers who rely on the land. "I hope my grandchildren will be able to stand beneath the shade of the trees I plant today," he says in this brief, heartwarming documentary. Chances are good that might happen: Ochoa has helped start more than 350 gardens, planted more than 30,000 trees himself – and he's nowhere near finished yet.
Take a look at Reynaldo – Rainforest Hero for a shot of inspiration as you consider the difference you can make doing what you can, right where you are.
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The USDA has published a request for comments on how to handle agricultural "coexistence," which refers to simultaneous plantings of organic, conventional and genetically modified (GM) seed on neighboring farms throughout the U.S. For organic and conventional farmers who do not plant GM seed, the future of agricultural coexistence is incredibly and increasingly important, as it has become clear that coexistence without contamination is not possible. Comments on the proposal are due by Tuesday, Mar. 4, to the USDA. If you would like to have your voice heard, be sure to submit comments online before the end of the period this week.
The Cornucopia Institute has released an Action Alert to Protect Organic/Non-GMO Farmers and the Purity of Our Food Supply, calling for the USDA to implement mandatory GMO contamination prevention measures and to ensure shared responsibility for the unwanted spread of GM products. The action alert outlines the questions the USDA is seeking guidance and responses on during this comment period.
The Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association has several resources on the subject, including a handbook entitled, "Protecting Organic Seed Integrity: The Organic Farmer's Handbook to GE Avoidance and Testing." This guidebook was written to help growers and seed breeders learn how to protect their crops, as well as how to test and monitor for contamination.
Be sure and submit your opinion and comments to the USDA by Tuesday, March 4!
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One of the most recognizable features of wetlands across the country is their smell. But what is it that makes these areas so pungent? To find out, you'd have to stick your nose all the way down to the mud, and even then, you wouldn't be able to see the microscopic organisms that are responsible.
Wetlands serve an important function as "recycling stations" of sorts, collecting organic litter in the form of dead plant matter and animal waste and reducing it to usable nutrients again. Through this process, bacteria and fungi break down the structural elements of leaves and other materials, creating byproducts that either enrich the soil with nutrients or escape in the form of gasses. This escaped gas is what we smell. Different types of wetlands house different bacteria and fungi, resulting in different gaseous byproducts. Two common – and stinky – wetland gasses are sulfur and methane. In coastal salt marshes and estuaries, smooth cordgrass is a common wetland plant that stores large amounts of sulfuric compounds from the ground and water. When the plant dies and begins to decompose, these sulfuric compounds are broken down through a series of steps resulting in the release of hydrogen sulfide gas, among other byproducts. You may recognize this chemical better as the rotten egg smell you pick up around salt marshes and other wetlands.
Viewer Tip: Even though we can't see the bacteria carrying out the decomposition processes, we can still have a major impact on their ability to help cycle nutrients through a wetland. Pollutants like fertilizer runoff or boat engine oil leakage can throw off the chemical balance that the bacteria rely on. Learn more about small ways you can help protect wetland health in your region here.
(Sources: Sundareshwar, P.V. "Decomposers." National Estuarine Research Reserve System, 2001.
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CheckRoles |
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CheckRoles allows somebody (most likely a raid leader) to request role and gear information from either the entire guild or the current raid group. This will then display what specs each player can play and the gear he has available for those specs. To be displayed here, each player first has to create sets of gear and assign them to his specs. The GUI was created to be self-explanatory. | |||||
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Dec 20, 2013 | Planning | |||
CalendarExtras adds some features to hopefully make the ingame calendar a bit more bearable to use. Features Sorting by role Adds fourth sorting method to the create/view event windows, that lets you sort the invite-list by role (tank/healer/melee/ranged). People of the same role are hardcoded to first be sorted by status and lastly by name. You can change roles by right-clicking the player in question and selecting the bottom option Set Role Extra status indicators Shows a check mark next to... | |||||
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Bug fix for the Blizzard calendar: prevents unexpected window closure while editing events There is an annoying bug in the event window of the Blizzard in-game calendar that causes the event description or title edit box to lose keyboard focus at random times (specifically, upon receiving a GUILD_ROSTER_UPDATE event from the server). If the user happens to be typing an event description when this happens, the loss of keyboard focus enables keybinds, which often results in closure of the... |


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Fall Festival
The 5th annual Fall Festival at Rockwood Fire Hall, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 29. Hay rides, fire truck rides, food vendors, children's activities, contests and entertainment. Benefits the Rockwood fire department. 814-926-4030.
Spaghetti dinner
An all you can eat spaghetti dinner with salad bar starts at 4 p.m. Sept. 15 at the Sipesville fire hall. Takeouts are available or call ahead at 814-445-4899. Proceeds benefit the Sipesville Volunteer Fire Co.
Heritage Festival
Western PA District Church of the Brethren annual Heritage Festival Sept. 15 at Camp Harmony, Hooversville. Food, craft vendors, children's activities, music, a blood drive and basket and quilt auction. 814-798-5885. Schedule at campharmony.org.
Confederate Wedding
A Civil War Confederate Wedding Sept. 29 at Mt. Union Church, Rockwood. 814-926-3142. mtunion.org.
Pork dinner
Pork and sauerkraut dinner hosted by Amity UCC, Meyersdale, from 4 to 7 p.m., Sept. 29 in Amity Hall, North Street door. Tickets available at the door.
Taste of LH
The Johnstown Symphony Orchestra Somerset Auxiliary "Taste of the Laurel Highlands" from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 17 at Green Gables Restaurant, 7712 Somerset Pike, Jennerstown. Samplings from a wide variety of local restaurants, a cash bar, silent auction, 50/50 drawing and door prizes. For tickets call Laurel Arts at 814-443-2433 or the event chairman at 814-445-4771.
Candlelight vigil
The Somerset County Military Family Support Group 10th annual Candlelight Vigil 7 p.m. Sept. 15 at the Somerset County Courthouse. In case of inclement weather, Friedens National Guard Armory, 1483 Stoystown Road, Friedens. www.somersetmilitaryfamilysupportgroup.org.


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RE: "I'll be Frank (my real name)" - can I be Earnest?
Pretty sure there are lots of deists that believe in "re-jiggering". They just call it miracles.
If there's going to be any re-jiggering, why can't it be grass that grows to a nice, even 5 cm or so and just stops?
I think the constant need to mow lawns is a failure of both God and Science.
Big Up to Ricky!!!
Big Up to Ricky!!!
Ha! That's definitely an article/headline worthy of The Onion.
This is like that, 'No atheist's in a foxhole' thing, pure crap.
I'm fairly ignorant of most religions. I tried to get through the bible once, but after a while I said to myself, "Hey, why do I need to know this stuff? I don't believe any of it."
It's the believer's responsibility to know their written excuses, they're the one's who live by them, not me. It's not their job to know how and why I do what I do; I'm not going to concern myself with their reasoning either.
However, it always seemed to make sense to me that if God created the Universe, created all life, and counts every hair on your head; if he created every single thing on this planet and beyond, everything in our minds and hearts, then he must also be responsible for everything that happens.
So if he whipped the tornado up to begin with, why would you thank him for not killing you with it?
"Hey, thanks for not beating me to death Dad! I really appreciate your mercy!"
Natural disasters will always remain a thorn in the reasoned foot of all theists. To worship a being that is obviously so fickle and inconsistent in safeguarding their flock truly requires blind devotion.
Thank goodness it's (god) behavior remains a mystery of the ages. -sarcasm-
Here ya go.. in case you haven't had your quota of crazy for the day.
May I present to you Glen Beck's take on the situation?
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Here's one for the ultimate baby boomer game room. Stern Pinball has announced the Rolling Stones pinball machine. While playing the game, you collect famous record albums, ride Rolling Stones ramps and advance through four decades of rock and roll. The machine plays 13 Rolling Stones favorites during game play, including "Brown Sugar," "It's Only Rock 'n Roll," "Start Me Up" and many more classic Stones hits.


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Versatility and Connectivity Efficiency of Bipartite Transcription Networks Biophysical Journal, Volume 91, Issue 8, 15 October 2006, Pages 2749-2759 Mark P. Brynildsen, Linh M. Tran and James C. Liao Abstract The modulation of promoter activity by DNA-binding transcription regulators forms a bipartite network between the regulators and genes, in which a smaller number of regulators control a much lager number of genes. To facilitate representation of gene expression data with the simplest possible network structure, we have characterized the ability of bipartite networks to describe data. This has led to the classification of two types of bipartite networks, versatile and nonversatile. Versatile networks can describe any data of the same rank, and are indistinguishable from one another. Nonversatile networks require constraints to be present in data they describe, which may be used to distinguish between different network topologies. By quantifying the ability of bipartite networks to represent data we were able to define connectivity efficiency, which is a measure of how economic the use of connections is within a network with respect to data representation and generation. We postulated that it may be desirable for an organism to maximize its gene expression range per network edge, since development of a regulatory connection may have some evolutionary cost. We found that the transcriptional regulatory networks of both Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Escherichia coli lie close to their respective connectivity efficiency maxima, suggesting that connectivity efficiency may have some evolutionary influence. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (184 kb) |
Numerical Matrices Method for Nonlinear System Identification and Description of Dynamics of Biochemical Reaction Networks Biophysical Journal, Volume 92, Issue 10, 15 May 2007, Pages 3459-3473 Alexey V. Karnaukhov, Elena V. Karnaukhova and James R. Williamson Abstract A flexible Numerical Matrices Method (NMM) for nonlinear system identification has been developed based on a description of the dynamics of the system in terms of kinetic complexes. A set of related methods are presented that include increasing amounts of prior information about the reaction network structure, resulting in increased accuracy of the reconstructed rate constants. The NMM is based on an analytical least squares solution for a set of linear equations to determine the rate parameters. In the absence of prior information, all possible unimolecular and bimolecular reactions among the species in the system are considered, and the elements of a general kinetic matrix are determined. Inclusion of prior information is facilitated by formulation of the kinetic matrix in terms of a stoichiometry matrix or a more general set of representation matrices. A method for determination of the stoichiometry matrix beginning only with time-dependent concentration data is presented. In addition, we demonstrate that singularities that arise from linear dependencies among the species can be avoided by inclusion of data collected from a number of different initial states. The NMM provides a flexible set of tools for analysis of complex kinetic data, in particular for analysis of chemical and biochemical reaction networks. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (196 kb) |
Dynamic Light Scattering Microscopy. A Novel Optical Technique to Image Submicroscopic Motions. I: Theory Biophysical Journal, Volume 87, Issue 2, 1 August 2004, Pages 1279-1287 Rhonda Dzakpasu and Daniel Axelrod Abstract The theoretical basis of an optical microscope technique to image dynamically scattered light fluctuation decay rates (dynamic light scattering microscopy) is developed. It is shown that relative motions between scattering centers even smaller than the optical resolution of the microscope are sufficient to produce significant phase variations resulting in interference intensity fluctuations in the image plane. The timescale and time dependence for the temporal autocorrelation function of these intensity fluctuations is derived. The spatial correlation distance, which reports the average distance between constructive and destructive interference in the image plane, is calculated and compared with the pixel size, and the distance dependence of the spatial correlation function is derived. The accompanying article in this issue describes an experimental implementation of dynamic light scattering microscopy. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (169 kb) |
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Biophysical Journal, Volume 89, Issue 5, 3399-3409, 1 November 2005
Yongmei Wang* and Robert L. Jernigan†, ,
* Department of Chemistry, The University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee 38152-3550
† Laurence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics and Biological Statistics, Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-3020
A general method is presented that allows the separation of the rigid body motions from the nonrigid body motions of structural subunits when bound in a complex. The application presented considers the motions of the tRNAs: free, bound to the ribosome and to a synthase. We observe that both the rigid body and nonrigid body motions of the structural subunits are highly controlled by the large ribosomal assembly and are important for the functional motions of the assembly. For the intact ribosome, its major parts, the 30S and the 50S subunits, are found to have counterrotational motions in the first few slowest modes, which are consistent with the experimentally observed ratchet motion. The tRNAs are found to have on average ∼72–75% rigid body motions and principally translational motions within the first 100 slow modes of the complex. Although the three tRNAs exhibit different apparent total motions, after the rigid body motions are removed, the remaining internal motions of all three tRNAs are essentially the same. The direction of the translational motions of the tRNAs are in the same direction as the requisite translocation step, especially in the first slowest mode. Surprisingly the small intrinsically flexible mRNA has all of its internal motions completely inhibited and shows mainly a rigid-body translation in the slow modes of the ribosome complex. On the other hand, the required nonrigid body motions of the tRNA during translocation reveal that the anticodon-stem-loop, as well as the acceptor arm, of the tRNA enjoy a large mobility but act as rigid structural units. In summary, the ribosome exerts its control by enforcing rigidity in the functional parts of the tRNAs as well as in the mRNA.


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Her name is Akemi. Kissed her at midnight, then spent an hour talking to her about my paintings.
Heh. You've definitely been a true patron.
I hope she was hot.
Yeah, and I'm really just starting to see how big the potential market is for them. Also, some local burlesque chicks are being very supportive of the show, which is nice. I may even be painting one of them.
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03-10-14-My Morning Thoughts: Just Once! Do you remember that scene in "Good Will Hunting" when Will (the guy from nowhere) just literally out schools that 'Harvard intellectual' in the bar?...now tell me you wouldn't love to be him if not just for one moment in time!...great movie…have a great Monday all…plain and simple.
03-07-14 My Morning Thoughts: "Global Warming" Since I'm a very scientific person (ya right) who has been trained in the atmospheric pressure field of feeling sub-zero temperature precipitation for almost an entire……3 months now, I'm here to tell ya…there aint NO global warming cause I'm still freezing in Cleveland!!!!...however it is supposed to warm up today…have a wonderful safe weekend all!...plain and simple.
03-05-14 My Morning Thoughts: "Unnoticed Miracles" Day in and day out I walk by these little miracles and more than often they appear to go unnoticed, maybe a cool breeze that hits me right in the face or a lone seagull flying overhead gracefully floating into the blue sky. I could say I'm too busy today to notice such things or tomorrow I'll take some time to look around or a million other excuses to prolong the wonders of the world, but if I don't start now there will be some point in my life to be sure, that when reflecting back, I'll be saying things like, I should have spent more days enjoying the moments…Today, and every day after, I'm putting forth the effort to notice those little miracles… Whether it be, as simple as the snowflake that hits my tongue or the sunset sizzling in the distance on the lake or everything in between…and as always, the amazing miracles of family and friends I can share these little wonders with…plain and simple.
03-03-14-My Morning Thoughts: "Jungle Book" "Bare necessities those simple bare necessities forget about your worries and your strife"…the best animated cartoon movie (for me) ever! You know why? Well tell the truth now, how many started singing this while you were reading it????...I know there are so many higher-tech animated movies but we can't forget the classics…plain and simple.
02-26-14-My Morning Thoughts: The Favorite Song? Can there be a favorite song? Could it be just the song we remember playing thousands of times in our lives? I think I probably played thousands of songs thousands of times but the song I played the most was probably "Instant Karma" by john Lennon…"well we all shine on, like the moon and stars and the sun"…what else can I really say about that…plain and simple.
02-25-14-My Morning Thoughts: "Tuesday's" You know I was thinking that maybe Tuesday is the most forgotten day of the week. I mean everyone talks about the dreaded Monday all the time and the Hump day of Wednesday and Thursdays have become the prequel to the weekend and of course Friday and Saturday are the weekend and Sunday the day of rest…but never a word of Tuesday in comparison. Poor little Tuesday, no wait, come to think of it there use to be a thing called two for Tuesday's on the radio back in the day! Ya they use to play two songs in a row from the same artist…you see…music brings everything together…Happy Tuesday everyone!!…plain and simple.
02-21-14-My Morning Thoughts: Birthday… What's in a birthday? Is it a reminder of how far we made it? Could it be how much someone loves us? In a world that fly's by in a blink of an eye is it a constant that we are still here? It really doesn't matter much of what a birthday is when you get the chance to say… I love you Mom…happy birthday…plain and simple.
02-20-14-My Morning Thoughts: "would you still love me" If I said I loved the president and all he stood for would you still love me? If I said I think atheists are one hundred percent right would you still love me? If I said I loved all conservatives would you still love me? If I said I loved Christianity would you still love me? I could probably say a bunch of things you may or may not agree with but I would never base my feelings or degrade my respect for anyone because I don't see exactly eye to eye with them. We may believe in different things some slight and some monumental however we do believe in 'something' and that makes us unified with the belief of that 'something'…sure words can hurt, people can hurt, things can hurt though disagreement should not hurt, it should enlighten at bare minimum in my mind. We are still all human beings! The air we breathe is the same! The problems we face affect all, one way or another! There are plenty of times in life that we may disagree on politics, religion and just about everything else in between…nevertheless…know that I believe in you…and…I still love ya my brothers and sisters!...plain and simple.
02-19-14-My Morning Thoughts: "Give us your tired your poor"… "Give us your tired your poor"…they might have said, tired of being poor…come on in and make your own way…the sky is the limit if you're willing to work hard for it…welcome brother!...plain and simple.
02-17-14-My Morning Thoughts: is there a problem here? Millions upon millions of dollars spent on new school buildings, new laptops, new everything…but however nice and new and fantastic you make the school experience it boils down to this…time spent educating! First parents then teachers!...this will never change and all parents should realize this. You must have a parent or legal guarding participation throughout the process or the outcome is already written, and it is unfortunately almost never good. There have been monumental statistics that show a teacher alone cannot be the parent and the teacher for every student all the time, it's just not feasible. Think about this; if a teacher works 30 years and has an average classroom of 20 to 30 students each day, that teacher taught thousands of students in his or her career. Do you think you could teach (and parent) thousands of students? I think even Olivia Walton would have a tough time with that request…not only must it start at home it must finish at home there are no easy ways around it. Parents need accountability for their actions or in some cases lack of their actions to regain some normalcy that works…time spent educating does not just mean those licensed to educate, it's the total package deal needed for total package recovery…take some time or should I say spend some time and effort and you will be truly amazed at the results…kids will learn, and with the right direction, they will learn well…plain and simple.


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Erectile Dysfunction and Diabetes Mellitus
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This study consists of filling out a questionnaire on possible erectile dysfunction.
Condition | Intervention |
Diabetes Mellitus Erectile Dysfunction |
Procedure: Filling out a questionnaire on the possible occurrence of erectile dysfunction |
Study Type: | Observational |
Study Design: | Time Perspective: Prospective |
Official Title: | Erectile Dysfunction and Diabetes Mellitus |
- Documentation of the prevalence of erectile dysfunction in the diabetic convention
- Increase the awareness of diabetologist for erectile dysfunction
- Relation of erectile dysfunction with metabolic parameters
- Relation of erectile dysfunction with sex steroids
- Adjustment of the systematic follow-up of diabetic complications.
- Optimalisation of the healthcare for diabetic patients, so that the quality of life for male diabetic patients can be improved
Estimated Enrollment: | 300 |
Study Start Date: | May 2005 |
Study Completion Date: | March 2007 |
Male diabetic patients who attend a diabetic routine year program visit will be asked to give their voluntary permission to fill out a questionnaire on possible erectile dysfunction.
The questionnaire consists of two parts: Part 1 is the IIEF (International Index of Erectile Function) questionnaire and Part 2 is an additional questionnaire. The included patients have to fill out these questionnaires two times; once at the beginning at a diabetic year program visit and a second time one year later at the next diabetic year program consultation.
The patients will also be asked to give their permission for using their results of the routine diabetic year program for scientific research.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Male |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male diabetic patients
- Age older than 18 years
Exclusion Criteria:
Additional Information:
No publications provided
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00134329 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | 2005/096 |
Study First Received: | August 23, 2005 |
Last Updated: | December 19, 2007 |
Health Authority: | Belgium: Institutional Review Board |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Diabetes Mellitus Erectile Dysfunction Glucose Metabolism Disorders Metabolic Diseases Endocrine System Diseases |
Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological Genital Diseases, Male Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological Sexual and Gender Disorders Mental Disorders |
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I've been playing a barb since launch and have amassed decent gear for him under a couple of different playstyles (hammer and whirlwind) but have grown bored and want to try something new. I'd prefer not to have to sell all of his gear but I will be using the sale of some pieces to make these purchases. I've not played my monk in a long time - actually it was last summer when I was working on getting every class to 60 - so I have no idea what the gear market is like for these guys.
I am not trying to build an elite monk, just something that can do farming runs on MP5 or so and be efficient and different. You guys have any idea how much something like that would cost me? Also any ideas on what my stats should be in order to do MP5 with "relative" ease? Everything I've looked at seems to indicate that a sweeping wind build that focuses on attack speed, crit chance and damage, and either loh or life steal depending on how much damage you do (btw what is the break point for monks when life steal is better?).
Any other tips or information you guys think would be appropriate would also be appreciated, thanks in advance!
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10-04-2013, 15:12 #1
Looking to build a monk who can do MP5 or so
10-04-2013, 20:02 #2
Re: Looking to build a monk who can do MP5 or so
you'd probably want 500-550 of all resists, 35-40k life, 4.5kish armor, 80-90k dmg, 3 LL/1000LoH or so till higher dmg, 30 crit, 200 crit damage, get innas belt/pants maybe with a one with everything resist or vitality (decent amount), Innas helm with spirit regen one with everything resist, Wam Kim Lau fist with decent lightning dmg, good rare with leech dex socket etc whatever to fill stats,
Fist of Thunder Thunderclap, Sweeping Winds- Cylcone, Mantra of Conviction Overawe, Breath of Heaven Blazing Wrath, Serenity- Ascension, Seven Sided Strike- Fulminating Onslaught. That's about as baseline as they come. Seize the Initiative, One With Everything, Chant of Resonance/Combination Strike/The Guardian's Path/ Fleet Footed/Resolve the first two and pick one for the last.
That's a decent starter. Just kinda threw this together so don't take my word as gold, but that may help some.
10-04-2013, 22:38 #3
Re: Looking to build a monk who can do MP5 or so
Awesome, thanks for the reply on what stats I should be shooting for. I guess when I get home I will hit up the AH and see what some of those pieces will run me and decide whether or not it's something that would be worth it for me.
Thanks again!
Also is it true with monks as well that roughly half your budget should be spent on your weapon(s)?
10-04-2013, 22:43 #4
Re: Looking to build a monk who can do MP5 or so
yeah on weapons oh and firewalkers are a good budget item for boots. especially if you use fire resist for your One with everything resist type.
15-04-2013, 13:30 #5
Re: Looking to build a monk who can do MP5 or so
So a quick update. I built the following monk over the weekend with a lot of help from a friend who decided to be generous with some old gear he was not using. I can face roll MP3 without even paying attention now and I can do MP5 if I am careful in how I engage the pack and don't get a particularly nasty affix combo. The main issue facing me at MP5+ is ranged attackers do a ton of damage to me before I can start to stunlock and leech off the group. Slower caster mobs are no problem for the speed at which the monk can cross the screen but the archers and spear throwing goatmen can really hurt especially if it is a larger group mixed in with Champions or Rare minions. Any ideas on the best way to combat those?
On the skill layout, I am still getting used to how this build works and it certainly encourages a fast playstyle and large groups of mobs. I found that I needed the additional mobility of dashing strike to handle the ranged attackers mentioned above. The best strategy I have come up with is to quickly get to the back of the pack to deal with the ranged attackers and then clean up the trash. What is the best strategy for handling these guys?
Lastly any tips on what piece(s) I should be working to upgrade next? I am still trying to get those godly shoulders crafted, but other than that what are your thoughts? Oh and how much are upgrades going to start costing me? Would it be cheaper to upgrade my gems first?
16-04-2013, 05:29 #6
Re: Looking to build a monk who can do MP5 or so
I don't want to be the voice of the monk community on this one, but I always considered gems as one of the late things you worry with upgrading. Maybe consider cyclone strike implosion between overawe 3 second refreshes or even using Fist of Thunder- Quickening for the huge spirit regen coupled with using Wave of Light- Empowered Wave for big damage. I really personally got to a point where defensive skills other than dashing strike were of less concern, but you can always consider fleet footed passive or Transcendance for life per spirit spent. A big ticket item I might consider for you would be a unity ring with attack speed(looks like you need more AS) or crit damage. I'm sure they go for a bunch. and a cheaper Vile Ward shoulder. Seems like you need armor for the ranged damage issue and that can be solved with more dex and more armor, both of which are accomplished with those type upgrades. My build setup is quit out there as far as what's normal so I'm not trying to mold you one way or another. My setup changes often on what I like using, but my dmg is closer to 200k (sheet dmg poorly reflects actual dmg) http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/D...9/hero/1227391 I do Mp7(Act3)/Mp8(Act 1)
Also consider getting an Azurewrath (she can equip it trust me) with high freeze chance for your enchantress and a buncha Attack speed items with int/AR/Vit for her jewelry. Her damage is negligible of course. All that matters for her is that she stay alive and freeze stuff =) of course you get the armor buff and the attack speed buff.
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Last edited by Genocides; 16-04-2013 at 05:42.
16-04-2013, 06:49 #7
Re: Looking to build a monk who can do MP5 or so
i would use fleet footed instead of the guardian's path. dodge doesn't work vs plague or molten or desecration which are the most dangerous mods. also i find thunderclap enough mobility vs ranged you can use breath of heaven/blazing wrath for a heal and dps. gear looks good, any upgrade would be like the things you have, but more stats. if you have enough money then a crit mempo should replace inna's helm. the 3 piece bonus of .33 spirit regeneration is not that good. only upgrade gems in weapon if you have the money, upgrading gem in other slots don't add a whole lot. and lastly if possible try to get a decent hellfire ring it will help a lot with paragon levels.
17-04-2013, 15:10 #8
Re: Looking to build a monk who can do MP5 or so
So my previous complaint about getting hurt by ranged attackers was really just me being new and crappy at playing a Monk. All I am doing now is shooting to the back of the pack (where the ranged bastards are) and either popping Blinding Flash or Serenity and everyone is dead before I can take much damage.
Thanks for the tip on gems, pretty sure I have a lot I can upgrade before I get to that point. How many attacks/second should I be aiming for? Both my MH and OH are at 2.04 right now. Based on a quick search a Unity that increases AS and doesn't drop my eHP or DPS costs many 10s of millions so I think that is out of my price range at this time. Interesting idea for the Enchantress, I will have to try that one out. And thanks for the link to the battle.net page I seemed to have hit just about all the benchmarks for a budget monk and surpassed quite a few. Probably means that I will just have to get better at playing my monk!
I already have 24%MS and feel like I can move pretty quick. Is the additional MS to try and reduce losing SW stacks as you travel between packs? I did change it to Resolve as you made good points about the primary threats being ground effects and then taking damage from packs on top of that. Early results appear positive!
17-05-2013, 07:13 #9
Re: Looking to build a monk who can do MP5 or so
meh fleet footed was pretty decent in 1.0.7 but in this patch the mobs in a1 are actually so close to eachother and in huge clumps you're better off taking a dps skill. i've been using speed palm( <--reeeaaally awesome for mp10) and using chant of resolute so i can still spam moc/overawe while expoding palming everything. if you are not using OWE passive(or not using spirit spender) then maybe combination strike with wothf/blazing fist. NDE is also good option with palm build because if you explode a elite with reflect damage mobs nearby you will kill yourself by doing it lol. its pretty funny i've done it many times.
28-05-2013, 16:47 #10
Re: Looking to build a monk who can do MP5 or so
Just a quick update as I feel like I accomplished and surpassed my original goal. This is my current gear: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/J...6/hero/2646507
If you guys don't use D3up, I highly recommend it. I was able to test out what different gear sets would do to my survivability and damage and use that information to make really good decisions on the AH. Here is my current profile: http://d3up.com/b/518181/jubal
With this gear and build I can run MP7 solo confidently and MP8 pretty efficiently. MP9 or 10 I can handle as long as I don't mind spending forever wailing on elites. My focus is now on trying to upgrade my DPS without losing my eHP stats (trying to roll trifecta crafted gloves, a double res roll on bracers to switch out my Inna's hat for one with SW or FoT damage or to upgrade one of my rings to pure DPS, and a shoulder craft similar to what I have but with an extra Dex roll.)


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Table of Contents
1. What is Layer 2 and Layer 3 QoS
1. Input Trust and Queue Scheduling: When the frame enters the switch port, it can be assigned to an ingress port-based queue prior to being switched to an egress port. Different queues can be used for different traffic that require different service levels, or where switch latency must be kept to a minimum. For instance, IP based video and voice data requires low latency, so there may be a need to switch this data prior to switching other data like FTP, web, email, telnet, etc. The Trust element of QoS determines whether to honor any existing priority settings incorporated in the incoming frame.
2. Classification: The process of classification is one of inspecting different fields in the Ethernet Layer 2 header, along with fields in the IP header (Layer 3) and the TCP/UDP header (Layer 4) to determine the level of service that should be applied to the frame as it transits the switch.
3. Policing: Policing is the process of inspecting whether traffic on a given port or within a VLAN has exceeded a pre defined rate. Should that traffic be out of profile (i.e. the traffic stream is in excess of the pre defined rate limit), excess data can be either dropped or its priority value can be marked down.
4. Marking: The process of rewriting is the ability of the switch to modify the priority of the packet via the CoS in the Ethernet header or the Type of Service bits in the IPv4 header
5. Output Queue Congestion Management and Scheduling: When the packet is ready to be switched to its next hop destination, the switch will place the Ethernet frame into an appropriate outbound (egress) queue for switching. The switch will perform buffer (congestion) management on this queue by monitoring the utilization. Congestion management utilizes 4 different algorithm:
a. Random Early Discard (RED) algorithm whereby random frames are refused admission to the queue once a threshold has been exceeded.
b. Weighted RED (WRED) is a derivative of RED whereby the frames priority values are inspected to determine which frames will be dropped. When the buffers reach set thresholds, then (typically) lower priority frames are dropped allowing the higher priority frames to enter the queue. Scheduling of the packet is performed by a round robin (and possibly strict priority) scheduling technique that moves between the queues to forward the packets.
c. Deficit Weighted Round Robin (DWRR), this algorithm is similar to WRED but monitor utilization in the transmit queues. If a queue uses excess bandwidth, the DWRR algorithm keeps track of this excess usage and subtracts it from the queue's next transmission bandwidth allocation. This results in a fairer use of bandwidth over time.
d. Shaped Round Robin (SRR), with SRR, each queue gets a "SHARE", which translates into a fraction of the output time this queue can send data for.
2. Why The Need for QoS in a Switch
Figure 1. Congestion causes in switches
3. Hardware Support for QOS in the Catalyst 6500
3.1 Policy Feature Card (PFC)
• Traffic policing using a dual leaky bucket algorithm.
• Egress aggregate policer on both routed ports and VLAN switched virtual interface (SVI) ports
• Traffic classification of ingress traffic using Access Control Lists to inspect information in the Layer 2, 3 and 4 headers
• Re-marking of DSCP priority bits
• Ability to trust incoming Class of Service and Type of Service priority bits
• The ability to push down local QoS policies to a Distributed Forwarding Card (DFC)
• A dedicated QoS TCAM (separate from the TCAM used to store Security ACL's)
• Egress marking and egress classification
• User Based Rate Limiting (UBRL)
• DSCP Transparency
• L2 ACLs for IP traffic on VLAN interfaces
• Match on COS per VLAN
Figure 2. Policy Feature Card 3 on the Supervisor 720
Figure 3. Policy Feature Card 3 (PFC3)
• Apply QoS policies on Tunnel interfaces
• Apply Layer 2 ACL's for IPv4 traffic (supported on a per VLAN basis)
• Ability to match on CoS or VLAN within a class map
• Ingress and egress policers can operate independently of each other (in serial mode)
• Ingress IP DSCP and MPLS EXP marking at the IP-to-MPLS edge.
• Concurrent CoS and DSCP transparency for Layer 2 VPNs.
3.2 Distributed Forwarding Card (DFC)
Figure 4. DFC3C and the DFC3A
Table 1. PFC/DFC Interaction Matrix
3.3 Linecard Port ASIC Queue Structure
• "Q"-indicates the number of normal queues in the queue structure
• "P"-indicates the number of Strict Priority (Low Latency) queues in the queue structure
• "T"-indicates the number of thresholds per normal queue-the Strict Priority does not implement any form of threshold.
Table 2. Linecard Queue Structures
3.3.1. 10/100 Line Cards (WS-X6148 Series)
• WS-X6148 group includes WS-X6148-RJ45, WS-X6148-45AF, WS-X6148-RJ21, WS-X6148-21AF
Table 3. QoS on 10/100 Line Cards (WS-X6148 Series)
Figure 5. WS-X6148-RJ45 Linecard
3.3.2. 10/100 Line Cards (WS-X6148A Series)
• WS-X6148-FE-SFP (100FX Linecard)
Table 4. QoS on 10/100 Line Cards (WS-X6148A Series)
Figure 6. WS-X6148A-RJ45 and WS-X6148-FE-SFP Linecard
Table 5. QoS on 10/100 Line Cards (WS-X6196-RJ21)
Figure 7. WS-X6196-RJ21 Linecards
3.3.4. 10/100 Line Cards (WS-X6524-100FX-MM)
Table 6. QoS on 10/100 Line Cards (WS-X6524, WS-X6548)
Figure 8. WS-X6548-RJ45 Linecard
3.3.5. Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards (WS-X6408A, WS-X6516A)
Table 7. QoS on Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards (WS-X6408A, WS-X6516A)
Figure 9. WS-X6516-GBIC with optional DFC
Table 8. QoS on Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards (WS-X6148-GE-TX, WS-X6548-GE-TX)
Figure 10. WS-X6148-GETX and WS-X6548-GETX architecture
3.3.7. Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards (WS-X6724, WS-X6748)
Table 9. QoS on Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards (WS-X6724, WS-X6748)
Figure 11. WS-X6748-GETX Linecard
3.3.8. 10-Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards (WS-X6704-10GE)
Table 10. - QoS on 10-Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards (WS-X6704-10GE)
Figure 12. WS-X6704.10GE Linecard
3.3.9. 10-Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards (WS-X6708-10G-3C, WS-X6716-10G-3C)
Table 11. QoS on 10-Gigabit Ethernet Line Cards (WS-X6708-10G-3C, WS-X6708-10G-3CXL)
Figure 13. WS-X6716-10G-3C Linecard
3.4 Catalyst 6500 QoS Hardware Summary
Table 12. QoS functions in a Catalyst 6500
4. Catalyst 6500 Software support for QoS
4.1 Priority Mechanisms in IP and Ethernet
4.1.1. Type of Service (ToS)
Table 13. IP Precedence Priority Bit Settings
IP Precedence bits |
IP Precedence Value |
000 |
Routine |
001 |
Priority |
010 |
Intermediate |
011 |
Flash |
100 |
Flash Override |
101 |
Critical |
110 |
Internetwork Control |
111 |
Network Control |
Figure 14. ToS Byte Settings
4.1.2. Class of Service (CoS)
Figure 15. Inter Switch Link (ISL) Frame Format
Figure 16. Class of Service User Priority (802.1p) in an Ethernet frame
5. QoS Flow in the Catalyst 6500
Figure 17. QoS Flow on the Catalyst 6500
1. An existing DSCP value set prior to the frame entering the switch
2. Derived from the received IP Precedence bits already set in the IPv4 header. As there are 64 DSCP values and only 8 IP Precedence values, the administrator will configure a mapping that is used by the switch to derive the DSCP. Default mappings are in place should the administrator not configure the maps. Mappings are explained later in this document.
3. Derived from the received CoS bits already set prior to the frame entering the switch. Like IP Precedence, there are a maximum of 8 CoS values each of which must be mapped to one of 64.DSCP values. This map can be configured or the switch can use the default map in place.
4. The DSCP can be set for the frame using a DSCP default value typically assigned though an Access Control List (ACL) entry.
6. Queues, Buffers, Thresholds and Mappings
6.1 Queues
6.2 Buffers
6.3 Thresholds
6.4 Mappings
• At what thresholds frames with specific CoS values are eligible to be dropped
• Which queue a frame is placed into (based on its CoS value)
• Map a CoS value on an incoming frame to a DSCP value
• Map an IP Precedence value on an incoming frame to a DSCP value
• Map a DSCP value to a CoS value for an outgoing frame
• Map CoS values to drop thresholds on receive queues
• Map CoS values to drop thresholds on transmit queues
• Mapping DSCP markdown values for frames that exceed policing statements
• Mapping a CoS value to a frame with a specific destination MAC address
Figure 18. Mapping Priority to Internal DSCP
6.5 Weighted Random Early Discard and Round Robin Scheduling
Figure 19. WRED high and low thresholds
Figure 20. Weighted Round Robin
6.5.3. Deficit Weighted Round Robin
Figure 21. Deficit Weighted Round Robin
6.5.4. Shaped Round Robin
Figure 22. SRR compared to WRR
6.5.5. Strict Priority Queuing
Figure 23. Strict Priority Queuing process
7. Configuring (Port ASIC based) QoS on the Catalyst 6500
Figure 24. Ingress QoS Processing Flow
1. Trust states of ports
2. Applying port based CoS
3. Determine CoS Mutation
4. Receive Drop Threshold assignment
5. CoS to Receive Drop threshold maps
Figure 25. Egress QoS Processing Flow
1. Transmit Tail Drop and WRED threshold assignments
2. CoS to Transmit Tail Drop and WRED maps
3. DSCP Rewrite
4. CoS Rewrite for ISL/802.1Q frames
7.1 Enabling QoS
Table 14. Default Transmit and Receive Queue Settings
7.2 Trusted and Un-trusted Ports
7.2.1. Un-trusted Ports (Default setting for ports)
Note: For Cisco IOS, the software, setting trust is not supported on 1Q4T ports except Gigabit Ethernet ports.
7.2.2. Trusted Ports
7.3 Preserving the Received ToS Byte (DSCP Transparency)
7.4 Port based vs. VLAN Based QoS
7.5 Setting the Switch to Queuing-Only Mode
7.6 Input Classification and Setting Port Based CoS
1. The port is configured as untrusted, or
2. The Ethernet frame does not have an existing CoS value already set
7.7 Applying CoS Mutation on 802.1Q Tunnel Ports
Table 15. Example CoS Mutation Mapping
Table 16. CoS Mutation Port Groupings on WS-X67XX linecards
7.8 Configure Receive Drop Thresholds
Figure 26. Receive Drop Thresholds-Example uses 1P1Q4T threshold (on GE ports)
Table 17. Per Queue Structure Default Threshold Mappings
7.9 Configuring Transmit Drop Thresholds
Figure 27. Output Thresholds
7.10 Mapping CoS to Thresholds
Figure 28. Mapping CoS to Thresholds
7.11 Configure Bandwidth on Transmit Queues
Figure 29. Weighted Round Robin (WRR)
7.12 Egress ACL Support for Remarked DSCP
7.13 Egress DSCP Mutation Mapping
7.14 DSCP to CoS Mapping
7.15 Adjusting the Transmit Queue Size Ratio
Figure 30. Transmit Queue Size Ratio
8. Configuring QoS on the Policy Feature Card
8.1 Classification and Policing with the PFC
Figure 31. QoS Processing for the PFC3
Table 18. Policing capabilities of different Supervisor Engines
8.2 Configure Policing on the Catalyst 6500
8.3 Rate and Burst
8.4 PIR and Max Burst
8.5 Hardware Interval
Figure 32. Policing Per Interval
8.6 Aggregates and Microflow's
Figure 33. Microflow Policer
Figure 34. Aggregate Policer
1. Per interface aggregate policers, and
2. Named aggregate policers or shared aggregate
8.7 The Rules of the Token Bucket
8.8 A Walk through how the Token Bucket is used
Figure 35. Step 1 and 2 of the Token Bucket Process
Figure 36. Steps 3 and 4 of the Token Bucket Process
Figure 37. Steps 5 and 6 of the Token Bucket Process
Figure 38. Step 7 and 8 of the Token Bucket Process
8.9 A Simple Policing Example
• Single Ingress Aggregate Policer applied to a Fast Ethernet Interface.
• Traffic arrives at a rate of 100Mb/sec (fully utilizing the FE interface).
• 100Mb arrival rate equates to 25,000 bits per interval (10,000,000 / 4,000)
• Policer is set to rate limit traffic to 10Mb/sec
• A constant stream of 64 byte packets arrives at the interface.
• PFC3B is used, so L2 Header plus Data is counted.
• Burst set to 5,000.
• Conforming traffic will be transmitted as per configuration statement.
• Traffic exceeding the rate will be dropped as per configuration statement.
• Token Rate Replenishment for each interval is calculated as 10Mb / 4000 = 10,000,000 / 4000 = 2500
Table 19. Policer in Action
8.9.1. DSCP Markdown Maps
8.10 User Based Rate Limiting (UBRL)
• Interface Destination: Input interface, Destination IP Address
• Interface Source: Input Interface, Source IP Address
• Interface, Source & Destination: Input interface, source and destination IP address
• Interface, Full: Input interface, Source, Destination IP address, IP protocol, TCP/UDP source and destination ports if present
8.10.1. Egress Policing
8.11 Configuring Classification
8.11.1. CoS to DSCP Mapping
8.11.2. IP Precedence to DSCP Mapping
8.11.3. PFC Classification
1. An access list being created to identify http flows coming into the port
2. A policy map called new-dscp-for-flow
3. A class map (names test) that uses access list 102 to identify the traffic that this class-map will perform its action for.
4. The class map test will set the trust state for the incoming frame to un-trusted and assign a DSCP of 24 to that flow
5. This class map will also limit the aggregate of all http flows to a maximum of 1Mb.
8.12 MAC ACL Filtering
1. VLAN interfaces with no IP address assigned
2. (Physical) Switch ports configured to support Ethernet over MPLS (EoMPLS)
3. (Logical) Sub-Interfaces on switch ports configured for EoMPLS.
9. Appendix One-Buffers and Queues Summary
10. Appendix Two-QoS Summary Feature List
11. Appendix Three-Comparison of QoS Features between PFC's
12. Appendix Four-Default QoS Settings for Selected Catalyst 6500 Linecards
12.3 WS-X6516a-GBIC


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