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5 Keys to Victory for the Seahawks vs. the Bills …
After roasting the Cardinals over a slow spit this past Sunday, the Seahawks once again take flight for a 1pm East Coast meeting with the Buffalo Bills. While the Seahawks are flying high … the Bills, losers of 5 of their last 7 games, are still struggling to find themselves. Can the Seahawks take advantage of a team that looks very much like lame and easy prey? Here are 5 Keys to Victory for the Seahawks this Sunday …
Key #1: Don't Spill On the Road …
You don't have to be a genius to know that the most important player that you have to stop on the Bills Offense is running back C.J. Spiller. Capable of running a 40 yard dash in 4.27 seconds, Spiller (5'11" 200 Pounds) is simply put one of the fastest and most explosive players in the NFL. This season, the former Clemson star is averaging an incredible 6.6 Yards/Carry (2nd in football only to RGIII) and his 11 rushes of 20 yards or more is 2nd only to Adrian Peterson. To put it in to context as to just how good Spiller has been, ProFootballFocus.com noted that a full 44.1% of his yards have come on gains for 15 yards or more … AND, according to them, Spiller is the 2nd most elusive back in the league. Football Outsiders concurs, as they have the Bills ranked as the 2nd best team in the league in 2nd Level Yards (yards earned 5-10 yards beyond the Line of Scrimmage).
For a team like the Seahawks that allowed monster rushing days to Frank Gore (131 Yards and 5.5 Yards/Carry) … Adrian Peterson (182 Yards, 9.0 Yards/Carry, and 2 TD) … and the Miami Dolphins (189 Yards, 6.8 Yards/Carry, and 2 TD) … those numbers should give Hawks fans pause.
Spiller has also been a heck of a weapon coming out of the backfield for the Bills this season as well. This season, he has been targeted 40 times and has 34 Catches to show for it for 354 Yards (a 10.4 Yards/Catch avg.). Though he has only 1 touchdown reception this season, 8 of those receptions have gone 20 Yards or more (tied with TE Scott Chandler for the most on the team).
Looking at the numbers reveals that Buffalo has run the football 362 times this season (10th most attempts in the NFL) … and passed the ball 407 times (tied for 24th Most). So, they have run the football 47% of the time … and passed it 53% of the time this season.
Of the Bills 362 total carries this year, 144 of them have gone to C.J. Spiller (39.77%). If we also consider the fact that 34 of the Bills 253 receptions (13.44%) have gone to Spiller … it becomes abundantly clear that he has accounted for 28.94% of their total offense.
With word coming down this week that RB Fred Jackson has been placed on Injured Reserve with a lower leg injury, those numbers figure to significantly increase beginning on Sunday. Jackson was 2nd on the team with 115 Rushes (31.76% of the Bills total rushes) … and like Spiller had 34 receptions as well. So, Seahawk defenders can expect a steady diet of Spiller all day long.
A look at the Bills Rushing stats from this year is fairly revealing …
|2012 Bills Rushing Performances
|Week (Date)
|Opp. Rush Yds/G Allwd
|Game Notes
|1 (9/9)
|at Jets
|136.5 (29th in NFL)
|Spiller 169 Yds/1TD
|2 (9/16)
|vs. Chiefs
|131.2 (27th in NFL)
|Spiller 123 Yds/2TD
|3 (9/23)
|at Browns
|120.5 (18th in NFL)
|T. Choice 91 Yds
|4 (9/30)
|vs. Patriots
|100.8 (8th in NFL)
|Spiller 33 Yds
|5 (10/7)
|at 49ers
|90.8 (tied 2nd in NFL)
|Spiller 1 Car for 35 Yds
|6 (10/14)
|at Cardinals
|140.5 (30th in NFL)
|Spiller 88 Yds/1 TD
|7 (10/21)
|vs. Tennesee
|127.0 (tied 27th in NFL)
|Spiller 70 Yds
|9 (11/4)
|at Texans
|90.8 (tied 2nd in NFL)
|Spiller 39 Yds
|at Patriots
|100.8 (8th in NFL)
|Jackson 80 Yds/2TD--Spiller 70 Yds
|vs. Miami
|102.1 (9th in NFL)
|Spiller 91 Yds
|at Colts
|120.6 (19th in NFL)
|Spiller 107 Yds
|vs. Jaguars
|145.7(31st in NFL)
|Jackson 109 Yds --Spiller 77 Yds/1TD
|vs. Rams
|110.3 (13th in NFL)
|Spiller 37 Yds
As you can see from the numbers above, there is a direct correlation between the strength of defense that the Bills have faced and their overall run production in a particular game. The Patriots in Week 10 and the Dolphins in Week 11 are the only 2 quality defenses in which the Bills have actually put up good numbers against. In every other instance, they racked up tons of yards against bad run defenses … and struggled against the good ones.
While Spiller and the Bills run offense is admittedly explosive (All but 3 of the Bills longest runs this year are from Spiller) … they CAN be stacked up at the line of scrimmage in critical down situations. While the Bills are only stuffed 17% of the time (7th Best in the NFL) … they are 29th in the league in terms of Power Ranking (3rd or 4th Down runs of 2 yards or less that result in 1st Downs), being successful only 50% of the time.
Of all the keys heading in to this game, Seattle's ability to stop the run will probably determine whether they win the game or not. Let's take a more in depth look at the Bills Offense vs. the Seahawks Defense …
Key #2: Take Off With the De-fense – Take Off … It's a Beauty Way to Go …
It's hard coming down off the ceiling after a 58-0 pasting of what was arguably the worst time in football. A large part of what allowed the Seahawks to dominate the Cardinals so much was the fact that they have easily the worst trio of quarterbacks in the game. That's significant for Seattle's defense because this Sunday they won't face near the same level of incompetence. While the Bills are certainly far from being mentioned among the elite teams if the game … their QB situation is far better than the Cardinals. Here is a quick look at how Ryan Fitzpatrick compares with his Seattle counterpart …
|Ryan Fitzpatrick vs. Russell Wilson
|Pass Comp
|Pass Att
|QB Rating/NFL Rank
|Total QBR/NFL Rank
|85.8 (18th)
|46.6 (26th)
|94.9 (7th)
|64.8 (10th)
On the surface, Ryan Fitzpatrick's numbers appear to compare pretty favorably with Russell Wilson's. But as you start to break them down by quarter though, the differences start to become apparent …
|Ryan Fitzpatrick vs. Russell Wilson QB Rating (By Period)
|1st Half (NFL Rank)
|2nd Half (NFL Rank)
|4th Quarter (NFL Rank)
|Ryan Fitzpatrick
|89.9 (13th)
|81.3 (23rd)
|68.9 (31st)
|Russell Wilson
|102.5 (6th)
|87.0 (15th)
|97.9 (6th)
As you can see, Ryan Fitzpatrick has a far higher QB Rating in the 1st Half than the 4th Quarter. To put it in to perspective, Matt Cassel (70.5), Mark Sanchez (87.0) and John Skelton (84.3) ALL have better 4th Quarter QB Ratings than Fitzpatrick.
While Fitzpatrick has passed for 13 TD passes in the 2nd Half this year (tied for 4th Most) … he has as many interceptions in the 4th Quarter as he does TD's (6).
And unlike Russell Wilson, Fitzpatrick has definitely cooled a bit of late. In the Bills first 7 games, Fitzpatrick threw for 15 TD's. Over their past 6 games however, he has thrown for only 6 TD's. They have lost 4 of those 6 games. Before we move on, let's take a moment to introduce you to Fitzpatrick's top targets this year …
|2012 Bills Top Receiving Targets
|#Catches of 20 Yds+
|% of Passing Off
|WR Steve Johnson
|6'2" 207 Lbs
|WR Donald Jones
|6'0" 208 Lbs
|TE Scott Chandler
|6'7" 260 Lbs
|RB C.J. Spiller
|5'11" 200 Lbs
|WR T.J. Graham
|5'11" 188 Lbs
Steve Johnson (former 7th Round Draft pick out of Kentucky) has been Fitzpatrick's go-to guy for most of this year. Though he only runs a 40 yard dash in 4.59 seconds, he can get deep, as he had receptions of at least 20 yards in 7 games this year (including a 63 yard catch against the Colts). He's only had 1 TD over the last 6 weeks, but is still someone to keep an eye on.
Like Johnson, tight end Scott Chandler is another that can surprise. If you'll notice, he leads the team in catches of 20 yards or more, as he too has had at least one in 7 of the Bills games this year (including a 20 yard pass against the 49ers). He was a limited participant on Wednesday with a groin issue, but is listed as Probable for this game.
We talked extensively about C.J. Spiller above. He should be the #1 focus for Seattle's defense this Sunday.
Donald Jones (who was an undrafted FA out of Youngstown State in 2010) is mostly a short to intermediate threat. He's a poor man's Doug Baldwin. After being a limited participant in Friday's practice (calf issue), he's listed as Questionable for this game. If he can't go, 30 year old journeyman Ruvell Martin (the former Seahawk) could get the nod.
T.J. Graham (this year's 3rd Round pick out of North Carolina State) is a guy that the Bills liked so much they gave up a 7th Round pick to move up 2 spots in the draft to get him. He doesn't have true deep speed (though he has been clocked at 4.41 in the 40), but has drawn some comparisons to Steelers' standout Mike Wallace. As the fastest receiver on the Bills team, he did start for Donald Jones (due to injury) in the Jacksonville game and hauled in a 51 yard reception. Though he's not done much yet – I would say that this is the Bills' version of Titus Young the Seahawks should watch for this week.
Friday it officially came down that Walter Thurmond, limited in practice after tweaking his hamstring on Wednesday, was ruled out for Sunday's contest. (Can we praise Richard Sherman enough for his decision to appear his suspension?) Despite that fact, I see this as a group that Sherman, Jeremy Lane, Byron Maxwell and crew should match up very well against. Like Sherman, Byron Maxwell (6'1" 207 Pounds) has excellent size, is fast (ran a 4.43 at the Combine), and plays a very physical style of football – exactly why Carroll and company drafted him and why he is on this roster. I don't know how many of you noticed, but he had a pretty good game against the Cardinals. In limited duty last week, Maxwell had 3 tackles … 1 Pass Defensed … and forced not just 1 … but 2 fumbles. That trend is a continuation of the kind of production he had in college, as during his Senior season at Clemson, Maxwell had 46 tackles, 2.5 Tackles for Loss, an interception, 7 Passes Defensed, and 3 Forced Fumbles. Jeremy Lane also showed promising flashes in that game as well. Lane and Maxwell got good playing time against the Cardinals last week -- this Sunday, they will obviously be put to the test by Fitzpatrick and the rest of the Bills coaching staff.
The numbers are fairly revealing not only about this Bills offense in general … but also about who Ryan Fitzpatrick is as a quarterback. If you'll notice, C.J. Spiller has caught 34 passes on the year – the exact same number of passes that Fred Jackson had ironically. A full 26.87% of all receptions (over ¼ of them) have gone to Buffalo running backs this year. The numbers bear that out, as the Bills passing attack averages a mere 6.7 Yds/Reception (24th in the league). Russell Wilson, on the other hand, is 7th in the league with a 7.6 Yds/Reception average. So, a large reason that Ryan Fitzpatrick has such a high completion percentage (63.2%) is because a TON of his completions are the result of screen passes and short high percentage patterns. In the end, Fitzpatrick profiles as an Alex Smith/Mark Bulger game-manager type -- the kind of quarterback that AT BEST may not LOSE you games … but also isn't a guy who's going to be able to consistently put a team on his back and WIN a lot of games either. ESPN's Total QBR statistic bears that out. On the Total QBR scale, 50 is considered an NFL average QB … while a QBR of between 65-70 is Pro Bowl Level. Russell Wilson's current Total QBR is 64.8 … Ryan Fitzpatrick's is 46.6 – a tick below average.
Given all that and the nature of the receivers they are going up against and the Seahawks injury situation in the secondary, Seattle's game plan will probably be all about containment and not allowing themselves to get beat deep. Barring any more unforeseen injuries (Kam Chancellor didn't practice because of a groin issue on Wednesday, but he should be good to go after being a full participant on Friday), that shouldn't be a problem for this secondary. To put it in to perspective for you, Calvin Johnson leads the NFL with 30 receptions of 20 yards or more this year. Bears receiver Brandon Marshall has 17 receptions of 20 yards or more (which ranks 6th best in the league). Chandler's and Spiller's 8 catches for 20 yards or more … is tied for 47th overall.
Back to looking at Buffalo's offense as whole …
The Bills started off the season fairly hot offensively, averaging 28.75 Points/Game over their first 4 games of the season. In their 9 games since … they have averaged a mere 19.33 Points/Game. That would rank among the bottom 10 teams in the league.
To put it further in to perspective just how inept their offense has been, the Bills scored 34 points against the Titans (who have allowed the 7th Most Passing Yards) and 31 Points against the Patriots (who have allowed the 4th Most Passing Yards). Outside of those two games though, the Bills have averaged only 15.57 Points/Game (in those 7 other games) since their Week whooping by the 49ers. Only Kansas City (15.0 Pts/Game) and Arizona (14.3 Pts/Game) would be worse.
And things most certainly HAVE gotten worse for this team as of late. Let's further narrow the klieg light on a key matchup heading in to this game …
Key Matchup: Buffalo's Offensive Line vs. Seattle's Defensive Line …
Center Eric Wood and Right Tackle Chris Hairston were both hurt in the Jacksonville game and missed last game against the Rams. Hairston was placed on Injured Reserve with an ankle injury that he suffered in the Jacksonville game … while Wood suffered a partially torn MCL in that Jacksonville game. As a result, OT Sam Young (6'8" 316 Pounds) and C David Snow (6'4" 303 Pounds) made their first career NFL starts against the Rams this last Sunday. The result -- the Rams had 4 Sacks … 11 QB Hits … 8 Tackles for Loss … limited the Bills to a mere 308 yards of total offense … and yielded only 12 points.
Wood did not practice on Wednesday and though the official timetable was at least 2 weeks until he was scheduled to return … it's highly unlikely that he's going to play the rest of the year. On Friday, he was officially ruled out of this game. RG Kraig Urbik was expected to slide over to center for the Rams game … but they decided to go with Snow instead. Both Urbik and LG Andy Levitre (knee) were limited participants in practice all week with knee issues. Levitre was still listed as Questionable (he was still limited) while Urbik was upgraded to Probable after Friday's practice.
Seattle's Front 7 could potentially have a hey-day against the Bills, as they are basically holding things together with bailing wire at this point. Though it's tempting to think that the Seahawks should bring the heat and blitz the heck out of Fitzpatrick, I don't necessarily believe that would be the best strategy against this group. Remember, the 49ers Frank Gore sprung free on a few of his big runs when the Hawks did bring pressure … as he was able to dart right through the gap that the defender had just vacated. With an explosive incredibly fast back like C.J. Spiller who can and has busted off long runs this year … gap discipline and closing down those running lanes would be more what I would suggest from Seattle's D-Line with more of the onus falling on the linebackers to clean things up. With Red Bryant still dealing with plantar fasciitis and Kam Chancellor a bit banged up because of a groin issue … Brandon Mebane, Alan Branch, Bobby Wagner, and Malcolm Smith become much more key to this game. Since stepping in for Leroy Hill (who went out with an ankle injury) in the Arizona game, Malcolm Smith has had the look of a guy who could start and maybe even star. He's looked far quicker than Hill at this stage of his career and has shown a real nose for where the ball is going to be. Though he's back to starring in a reserve role this week (as Hill is back as the starter for now), they're going to need guys like Smith to step up in this game.
Key #3: Be Special …
For the first time all year, we turn our attention to special teams. Why? Because the Bills actually happen to have put up some pretty good numbers in most special teams categories. Here is a quick look at how the Bills and Seahawks compare …
Offensive Kickoff Return Average …
Bills … 27.7 Yds/Return (4th Best)
Seahawks … 28.4 Yds/Return (3rd Best)
Offensive Punt Return Average …
Bills … 17.2 Yds/Punt Return (#1 in the NFL)
Seahawks … 8.5 Yds/Punt Return (19th in the NFL)
The Bills have been fairly potent returning the ball thanks in large part to CB Leodis McKelvin, who has been a weapon – both as a kick and a punt returner. While McKelvin has averaged 28.3 yards per kickoff return this year (5th Best in the league) … he is the #1 Punt Return specialist in the NFL this year, sporting a league leading 17.2 yards/punt average … and having taken 2 all the way back to the house for touchdowns. Coming in to the league, he was drawing comparisons to Chicago's Devin Hester. Seattle would do well to avoid kicking directly to him if at all possible. And Seattle's special teams have done a fantastic job on coverage all year long.
Seattle has allowed an average of 21.7 Yards/Kickoff Return this year (tied for 6th Best).
The longest return they have allowed all year long is 40 yards (4th Best in the league). And in many instances, they have allowed none at all, as kicker Steven Hauschka has 29 touchbacks (8th Best in the league) this season.
On punt coverage, Seattle has been solid as well. Seattle has allowed 244 Punt Yards for an average of 9.0 Yards/Punt this year (tied for 11th Best in the league). Thanks to Special Teams standouts like Jeremy Lane, Seattle has had 28 punts downed inside the 20 this year (tied for 5th Best in the league). The Seahawks have not allowed a punt to be returned for a touchdown yet this year. They're scheduled to be facing the NFL's best in McKelvin though (IF he plays – more on that later), so the Hawks will have to continue to be solid on coverage.
On the other side, the Seahawks could experience some good success in the field position battle on Sunday. While the Bills have done relatively well in covering kickoffs (their 23.0 Yds/Return Allowed is tied for 11th Best) … their punt coverage teams are a completely different story. The Bills come in to this game having allowed 471 Punt Yards (2nd worst in football). The 15.7 Yards/Punt they have yielded this year is by far the WORST in the league. Though Leon Washington hasn't had a good year returning punts so far (his 8.7 yards/punt ranks 18th), I could very easily see him having some big returns this Sunday.
Key #4: Keep An Eye Out for Charging Bison …
Though the Bills are 5-8 on the season, they are still a team that can gore the opposition on defense. Let's take a quick look at some of the numbers before we start talking about individual match-ups …
|Bills vs. Seahawks Defense Comparison (w/NFL Rankings)
|Rushing Yards Allwd
|1,748 (28th)
|1,370 (10th)
|Rushing Yards/Game Allwd
|Tackles for Loss
|46 ( )
|Forced Fumbles
|18 (tied for 4th)
|17 (tied for 6th)
|Rushing TD's Allwd
|18 (tied for 32nd)
|7 (tied for 6th)
|Passing Yards Allwd
|2,959 (14th)
|2,552 (4th Fewest)
|Passing Yds/Game Allwd
|227.6 (14th)
|196.3(4th Best)
|Pass Comp% Allwd
|57.8% (6th Best)
|58.5% (8th Best)
|3rd Down Conv%
|43.7% (30th)
|40.5% (22nd)
|1st Downs Allowed
|290 (3rd MOST)
|237 (7th Fewest)
|Passing TD's Allwd
|22 (tied for 20th)
|12 (tied for 1st Fewest)
|31 (tied for 12th Most)
|32 (tied for 10th Most)
|11 (tied for 17th)
|14 (12th)
|Passes Defensed
|77 (13th)
|76 (14th)
|Give Away/Take Away Margin
|-7 (tied for 22nd)
|+8 (tied for 8th Best)
|Points Allwd/Game
|27.1 (21st)
|15.5 (3rd Fewest)
Let's start right up front looking at some of the biggest match-ups of the day …
LDE Mario Williams vs. RT Breno Giacomini …
At 6'6" 292 Pounds, defensive end Mario Williams is one of the best defensive linemen in the game. At just 27 years of age, the former #1 overall pick of the 2006 NFL Draft has 63.5 career sacks … 13 forced fumbles … 2 All Pro selections (2007 and 2008) and 2 Pro Bowl selections (2008 and 2009) on his resume. Though he struggled with injuries the first part of this season, he is ending well and once again is putting up Pro Bowl numbers, as he has 10.5 Sacks and 3 Tackles for Loss on the stat sheet. He has also been very good at batting down passes, as he has 5 Passes Defensed on the season. The one man who's truly got to come up aces on Seattle's offensive line is the one man who Williams is facing – Breno Giacomini. So far this season, Giacomini (6'7" 318 Pounds) has been credited with allowing 2 sacks … and has been penalized 11 times (tied for 3rd Most). Giacomini is a street brawler who brings a real nasty element that's needed on this team. But he's got to play with a level of control as well – especially on the road. The Hawks are certainly going to need him to dominate in this game … but also to play with some semblance of control against Williams. We'll see how he does against him this Sunday.
RDT Kyle Williams vs. Max Unger and John Moffitt
RDT Kyle Williams (6'1" 303 Pounds) is another big bison that bears watching. The former 5th Round choice out of LSU may not have garnered a whole ton of attention heading in to the NFL Draft, but he is one of the better defensive tackles in the game. Like Mario, Kyle Williams also went to the Pro Bowl in 2009 and 2010 and made All Pro in 2010 as well. So, he can be a disruptive force right up the middle. This season he has 5.0 Sacks and 6 Tackles for Loss – numbers that should get him consideration for a 3rd trip to Hawaii. Seattle center Max Unger is having a very quiet season, as his name doesn't get mentioned very often. For an offensive lineman, that's a very good thing, as he is also having a Pro Bowl caliber season. John Moffitt, on the other hand, has struggled at times. On Sunday, both guys will have to bring their lunch pails against Williams.
Bills Secondary vs. Seahawks Receiving Corps …
The Seahawks enter Sunday's contest with the Bills with concerns surrounding the health of Sidney Rice. At Pete Carroll's press conference on Wednesday, Carroll revealed that Rice has been dealing with a toe issue all season long. He was subsequently been wearing a walking boot all week long and sat out Thursday's practice. Though Carroll said he expects Rice to play this Sunday, Seahawk fans are admittedly nervous. Well, let me break down this match-up further and see if I can provide a little oxygen and a reason to breathe a bit easier.
The biggest bison of the Bills secondary that Gus Bradley and the Hawks should concern themselves with is CB Stephon Gilmore (6'0" 190 Pounds). Gilmore (the Bills 1st Round Draft Choice out of the U. of South Carolina) is among the NFL leaders in Passes Defensed (his 16 PD's ranks 7th Best) ... but he has also drawn his share of flags as well (11 penalties including 3 for holding and 4 for pass interference). If Rice plays, he'll undoubtedly find himself opposite Gilmore for much of the day.
SS George Wilson (6'0" 214 Pounds) is the Bills version of Kam Chancelor – a good run defender who can bring the wood on receivers crossing the middle as well. He's 2nd on the Bills with 77 Tackles and has 5 Passes Defensed on the year.
Those guys are the only members of this secondary who aren't question marks for this game though …
FS Jairus Byrd (5'10" 203 Pounds) is a very talented player who bears watching IF he ends up playing. His 5 interceptions on the season is tied for 5th in the NFL and he is very capable of separating opposing receivers from the ball (he has 6 Passes Defensed this year). He did not practice on Wednesday and was limited in practice on Thursday and Friday with a shin issue. He's listed as Questionable and still may be a bit hobbled even if he does play.
Starting LCB Leodis McKelvin (5'10" 185 Pounds) is not only a great return man – he is also a quality cover corner who had the 7th highest 40 time at the Combine heading in to 2008 Draft (4.38). Though he isn't a real physical corner, he has decent reactions, ball skills, and obvious catch-up speed. He has 20 tackles, 1 interception, and 3 Passes Defensed on the season. McKelvin didn't practice on Wednesday and was limited in practice on Thursday and Friday with a groin issue. If he doesn't start, the air starts to get a bit thin.
CB Ron Brooks (5'9" 190 Pounds), this year's 4th Round Draft Choice out of LSU, took over as the starter in the Jacksonville game at LCB because Leodis McKelvin had back spasms the morning of the game. He got toasted in that game, as he gave up several completions including a 5 Yd TD to Cecil Shorts. Brooks was also flagged for a 24 yard Pass Interference … a 5 yard illegal contact … and a 15 yard unneccesary roughness penalty. Brooks himself was limited in practice Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday with a hip issue. He's listed as Probable for this game though.
CB Justin Rogers (5'11" 181 Pounds) was limited in practice on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday with a foot issue. He's listed as Gilmore's backup and as Questionable for this game.
CB Aaron Williams (6'0" 199 Pounds) has 23 tackles and 5 Passes Defensed in a reserve role this year. He's been dealing with a knee issue, but is listed as Probable for this game.
So, YES Sidney Rice's health is a bit of a concern … BUT the Bills secondary as a whole is even MORE of a concern heading in to this weekend. In the event Rice can't go, I'd honestly look for greater reliance upon the Seahawks Tight Ends. Anthony McCoy had a very good game against the Cardinals, getting open deep and showing that he could potentially be a weapon in the passing game. Against this crew on Sunday, I believe Seattle could get by with Golden Tate, Doug Baldwin, Zach Miller, and Anthony McCoy if for some reason it's determined Rice needs the rest.
Here are a few other tantalizing Tatanka from the Bills Defense to keep an eye on this Sunday …
LDT Marcell Dareus (6'3" 331 Pounds) was the Bills 1st Round Draft choice in 2011 and the highest draft pick (#3 overall) since the team selected Bruce Smith 1st overall in 1985. The former Alabama product had 5.5 sacks in his rookie campaign – most by a rookie since Aaron Schobel. Dareus has 3.5 sacks and (like Mario Williams) has batted down 5 passes heading in to this game, so he could potentially be an issue. However, Dareus was limited in practice on Thursday with a shoulder issue after not practicing at all on Wednesday -- so stay tuned.
RDE Shawne Merriman (6'4" 261 Pounds). The former Charger star has lost a lot of his luster since 2006 when he led the NFL in sacks (17.0) ... but he still has talent. The Bills re-signed him back on October 15th after cutting him in training camp due to injuries. Though he has recorded just 1 sack and 7 Tackles in 7 games thus far … at just 28 years of age I don't at all preclude the possibility that he could regain some of his old form. Even if 75% of the old Merriman shows up on Sunday – that could be a problem.
WLB Nick Barnett (6'2" 228 Pounds) leads the Bills with 92 Tackles and has 2.0 Sacks and 5 Tackles for Loss to boot. Barnett didn't practice either Wednesday or Thursday with a knee issue, so that could mean more playing time for Bryan Scott – our next dark horse.
LB Bryan Scott (6'1" 220 Pounds) – the former Falcon, Saint, and Titan is a good veteran linebacker (31 years old) who has been productive in limited playing time. He has 7 Passes Defensed coming in to this game, so is good in pass coverage as well as being a capable tackler (has 54 Tackles).
Russell Wilson appears to be on the brink of becoming one of the true elite quarterbacks in this league. As a rookie, his 94.9 Passer Rating is the 7th Best in the league … and he stands a mere 6 TD passes from tying the All Time Record for Most TD's by a Rookie QB that Peyton Manning set in 1998. He has shown that he can find the chinks in the armor of opposing defenses – and despite what some of the numbers I listed above suggest, there ARE weak spots that Wilson, Darrell Bevell, and the Seahawks can exploit. Still, looking at the numbers above there is one obvious offensive strategy that I would suggest …
Key #5: Make the Bills Pay the Price For Their Lack of Vision …
A storm is brewing – one that has been silently stewing and steadily building for 2 years now.
In October of 2010, the Bills made a fateful decision to trade then 3rd string running back Marshawn Lynch to the Seahawks for a 4th Round Choice in 2011 and a 5th Round Draft Choice in 2012. Though those picks begat starting Right Tackle Chris Hairston and opened up the door for more playing time for C.J. Spiller, one has to wonder what in the world Bills' management was thinking.
All week long Marshawn Lynch has shied away from reporters, refusing to talk to them about his feelings regarding playing against his old team.
Though he's not talking, you know that Lynch would LOVE to drive a spear through the Bills heart this Sunday and prove to them definitively that they made a grave mistake in giving up on him.
Given a Bills team that is giving up the 5th most rushing yards per game in football (134.5 Yards/Game) … and the 3rd worst overall yards/rush average (4.8 Yards/Carry) … that would appear to be a solid plan. After all, this is a team that gave up 247 Yards and 4 TD on the ground to the Patriots in Week 4 … and then a week later chased that bitter pill with another bitter tonic, allowing (an almost impossible to believe) 311 yards and 3 touchdowns on the ground to the 49ers (and you thought the Seahawks did poorly against them).
But as some local broadcasters have noted this week, the Bills defense has played the run much better over the past 4 weeks. Here is a brief breakdown showing how they've done …
|Bills Rush Defense (Last 4 Games)
|Week (Date)
|Opp. Rush Yds/G Off.
|Game Notes
|11 (11/15)
|vs. Dolphins
|107.2 (19th in NFL)
|D. Thomas 33 Yds
|12 (11/25)
|at Colts
|105.6 (22nd in NFL)
|V. Ballard 41 Yds
|13 (12/2)
|vs. Jaguars
|82.2 (29th in NFL)
|M. Owens 29 Yds
|14 (12/9)
|vs. Rams
|112.2 (16th in NFL)
|S. Jackson 64 Yds/1TD
Now it's obvious in looking at those numbers that the Bills have allowed far less rushing yards in their last 4 games than their season long 134.5 Yards/Game Allowed average. However, it's also hard to overlook the level of competition that the Bills have faced. While Steven Jackson is a fairly quality NFL running back … Daniel Thomas, Vick Ballard, and Montell Owens aren't names that exactly strike fear in the hearts of many defenses.
Given that and what I believe will be a very motivated and angry Marshawn Lynch, I wouldn't want to be that guy having to tackle him this week. I envision a lot of Beast Mode left … Beast Mode right … and Beast Mode straight up the middle gaining a lot of real estate on a tired Bills defense by the 4th Quarter. Russell Wilson is going to rack up numbers in this game … but I contend a large part of that will be due to the success of play action pass and misdirection created as a result of the multiple footprints of Lynch all over this game.
Bold Prediction …
I know that I went down this road prior to the Dolphins game, but there is a large piece of me that is having a hard time buying that the Bills are even as good as some of their numbers might indicate …
|2012 Bills Strength of Schedule (as of Week 14)
|ESPN Opponent Power Ranking
|at New York Jets
|#22 Team
|vs. Kansas City Chiefs
|#31 Team
|at Cleveland Browns
|#24 Team
|vs. New England Patriots
|#3 Team
|at San Francisco 49ers
|#4 Team
|at Arizona Cardinals
|#27 Team
|vs. Tennessee Titans
|#26 Team
|at Houston Texans
|#1 Team
|at New England Patriots
|#3 Team
|vs. Miami Dolphins
|#20 Team
|at Indianapolis Colts
|#9 Team
|vs. Jacksonville Jaguars
|#32 Team
|at St. Louis Rams
|#19 Team
Looking at the Bills schedule this year, I find myself saying, "Looks fairly weak to me." So realistically, many of the numbers that I've listed throughout this preview could be more inflated than a Macy's Day Balloon.
This week, Football Outsiders announced that the Seahawks defense had the 2nd Best in wDVOA in football. Well, with arguably 2 of their best corners out now, it's time to prove just how good (or not) they truly are. With a somewhat depleted and banged up defense, I personally see this group struggling in this game somewhat.
Given that this game is being played at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, I don't see the crowd being all that much of a factor, as this will be more of a neutral environment. Coupled with the fact that this game begins at 1pm our time, I don't believe that the Seahawks offense will be adversely affected by the normal East Coast game phenomenon that has plagued this team for the past several years. I see this as a hard fought contest that (due to injuries and Browner's suspension) will be much closer than a lot of people might think. In the end though, this is one game that I honestly don't see the Seahawks losing, as the Bills are honestly a fairly defeated and depleted club without a whole ton of firepower at this point of the season.
Let's call it:
Seahawks 20
Bills 16


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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Tasting Envy
Yes, I'm talking about tasting envy. No, not the jealous grip in your gut when you read about a bunch of the happy few drinking 39 vintages of La Tâche - no, I mean the uncomfortable sensation of looking over the rim of your glass with narrowed eyes when someone you're tasting with "gets it"... maybe better than you do.
We were sitting in a ridiculously sun-filled apartment high over the quai de Grenelle, where a generous and somewhat eccentric wine-lover had invited a tiny cluster (read: 3) of us over for a Burgundy tasting.
Michel sniffed the 2003 Yves Darviot Beaune 1er cru "Clos des Mouches"... and the rest of this paragraph is not a tasting note, because he got it and I was slow. Sure, maybe by the time the wine started to open up in the glass I was catching up, but it was mostly thanks to his tip-offs.
Another day, I tasted a white Burgundy with Neil. "A little watery on the attack, and there's a strange kind of butterscotch spiked with lemon rind on the finish," he mused, before my brain had started processing what was going down my throat. Well, damn. Yes, that's right. Thanks. I'm going to go hide behind this stack of Veuve-Clicquot cases.
We can't always get there first, I know. I smile and nod. And of course, in the end, my only consolation is to think that maybe sometimes, somewhere, someone is thinking, "Damn, how did she get that?"
4 comments:
- Gavin said...
Hi Sharon,
I can sympathise. I usually taste with people more experienced than I and it is often frustrating to see them recognise characteristics of the wine so quickly and confidently.
I've just been working les vendanges en Bourgogne. I presented a blind wine to a vigneron who nailed some aspects of its élevage. I interrogated him until he explained just how he was able to identify them so accurately. This seems to be the best way to learn about the intricacies of wine once the basics have been obtained. :)
- September 12, 2007 at 2:44 PM
- Vinotas said...
Was that when we did the small tasting in July? ;->
Seriously, it's not about how fast you get it, it's about enjoying it at one's own pace and relaxing with the wine.
- September 13, 2007 at 8:49 PM
Hi Sharon,
I'm working at France Today, an american magazine about French cuture and travel. In our website we have a section where we reveal some original blogs about France written in english.
I found your blog "Sharon's wine", and I would be interested in asking you some questions in order to introduce the blog.
Can you help me by anwering to a little interview? Since we are in San Francisco and have to cope with the time difference, we can do it by mail!
Thanks by advance, if you have any question just let me know (my e-mail:email@example.com)
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- September 14, 2007 at 1:36 AM
- A Bon Vivant said...
I just came upon your blog and I really enjoy it. I, too, feel the same way about tasting sometimes - it always seems as if my wine-drinking friends are always quicker on the comprehension and identification...
but I have found that some of my most creative (and, ironically, accurate) tasting notes come from just letting go of the insecurities I have as a novice and just going for it!
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In a normally routed environment, frames pass from a source to a destination in a hop-by-hop basis. Transit routers evaluate each frame's Layer 3 header and perform a route table lookup to determine the next hop toward the destination. This tends to reduce throughput in a network because of the intensive CPU requirements to process each frame. Although some routers implement hardware and software switching techniques to accelerate the evaluation process by creating high-speed cache entries, these methods rely upon the Layer 3 routing protocol to determine the path to the destination.
In a normally routed environment, frames pass from a source to a destination in a hop-by-hop basis. Transit routers evaluate each frame's Layer 3 header and perform a route table lookup to determine the next hop toward the destination. This tends to reduce throughput in a network because of the intensive CPU requirements to process each frame. Although some routers implement hardware and software switching techniques to accelerate the evaluation process by creating high-speed cache entries, these methods rely upon the Layer 3 routing protocol to determine the path to the destination.
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In a normally routed environment, frames pass from a source to a destination in a hop-by-hop basis. Transit routers evaluate each frame's Layer 3 header and perform a route table lookup to determine the next hop toward the destination. This tends to reduce throughput in a network because of the intensive CPU requirements to process each frame. Although some routers implement hardware and software switching techniques to accelerate the evaluation process by creating high-speed cache entries, these methods rely upon the Layer 3 routing protocol to determine the path to the destination.
Unfortunately, routing protocols have little, if any, visibility into the Layer 2 characteristics of the network, particularly in regard to quality of service (QoS) and loading. Rapid changes in the type (and quantity) of traffic handled by the Internet and the explosion in the number of Internet users is putting an unprecedented strain on the Internet's infrastructure. This pressure mandates new traffic-management solutions. MPLS and its predecessor, tag switching, are aimed at resolving many of the challenges facing an evolving Internet and high-speed data communications in general.
To meet these new demands, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) changes the hop-by-hop paradigm by enabling devices to specify paths in the network based upon QoS and bandwidth needs of the applications. In other words, path selection can now take into account Layer 2 attributes. Before MPLS, vendors implemented proprietary methods for switching frames with values other than the Layer 3 header. (MPLS is described in more detail in a later section.)
Based upon Cisco's proprietary tag-switching protocol, the IETF is defining MPLS as a vendor-independent protocol. (At the time of this writing, the MPLS definitions were not quite complete.) Although the two protocols have much in common, differences between them prevent tag-switching devices from interacting directly with MPLS devices. MPLS will likely supercede tag switching. However, this article starts with a comparison of terms involved with tag switching and MPLS.
MPLS and Tag Switching
MPLS has a heritage stemming from Cisco's tag-switching protocol. Many similarities exist between the two protocols. Significant differences exist, too, particularly between the tag and label distribution protocols. This section focuses on vocabulary differences between tag switching and MPLS.
Table: Equivalency Table for Cisco Tag Switching and IETF MPLS Terms compares tag switching with MPLS terminology.
Table: Equivalency Table for Cisco Tag Switching and IETF MPLS Terms
|Old Tag Switching Terminology
|New MPLS IETF Terminology
Tag switching
Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS).
Tag (short for tag switching)
Tag (item or packet)
Tag Distribution Protocol (TDP)
Label Distribution Protocol (LDP). Cisco TDP and MPLS Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) are nearly identical in function, but they use incompatible message formats and some different procedures. Cisco is changing from TDP to a fully compliant LDP.
Tag forwarding information base (TFIB)
Label forwarding information base (LFIB)
Tag-switching router (TSR)
Label-switching router (LSR)
Tag switch controller (TSC)
Label switch controller (LSC)
ATM tag switch router (ATM-TSR)
ATM label switch router (ATM-LSR)
Tag VC, tag virtual circuit (TVC)
Label VC, label virtual circuit (LVC)
Tag switch path (TSP)
Label switch path (LSP)
XTag ATM (extended Tag ATM port)
XmplsATM (extended MPLS ATM port)
Definitions follow for the MPLS terms:
- Label - A header created by an edge label switch router (edge LSR) and used by label switch routers (LSR) to forward packets. The header format varies based upon the network media type. For example, in an ATM network, the label is placed in the VPI/VCI fields of each ATM cell header. In a LAN environment, the header is a "shim" located between the Layer 2 and Layer 3 headers.
- Label forwarding information base - A table created by a label switch-capable device (LSR) that indicates where and how to forward frames with specific label values.
- Label switch router (LSR) - A device such as a switch or a router that forwards labeled entities based upon the label value.
- Edge label switch router (edge LSR) - The device that initially adds or ultimately removes the label from the packet.
- Label switched - When an LSR makes a forwarding decision based upon the presence of a label in the frame/cell.
- Label-switched path (LSP) - The path defined by the labels through LSRs between end points.
- Label virtual circuit (LVC) - An LSP through an ATM system.
- Label switch controller (LSC) - An LSR that communicates with an ATM switch to provide and provision label information within the switch.
- Label distribution protocol (LDP) - A set of messages defined to distribute label information among LSRs.
- XmplsATM - The virtual interface between an ATM switch and an LSC.
MPLS Operations
This section illustrates the passage of a frame through an MPLS system to highlight the function of several key MPLS components. Specifically, it illustrates MPLS through a frame-based infrastructure as opposed to a cell-based (ATM) system.
In Figure: Series of LSRs Interconnect, a series of LSRs (edge and core) interconnect, forming a physical path between two elements, Station A and Station B.
Figure: Series of LSRs Interconnect
The frame generated by Station A follows the standard Ethernet format with a normal Layer 2 header followed by a Layer 3 header. Because the destination address resides in a different network, Station A targets the Layer 2 header to its default gateway. In this case, the default gateway also serves as the edge LSR (ingress side). The ingress LSR references its internal switch table (LFIB) and determines that it needs to forward the frame out port 2 toward the next LSR.
Furthermore, the ingress LSR must insert a label between the Layer 2 and Layer 3 headers to indicate what path the frame should travel on its way to Station B. Router 2 looks at the frame entering port 1 and determines that there is a label embedded between Layers 2 and 3. Therefore, the router treats the frame according to the configuration in its LFIB, which says to forward the frame out port 2 and replace the label with a new value. Each of the subsequent routers handles the frame in a similar manner until the frame reaches the egress LSR. The egress edge LSR strips off all label information and passes a standard frame to Station B. Because each of the routers between Stations A and B could switch the frame based upon content in the LFIB and did not need to perform usual routing operation, the frame was handled more quickly.
MPLS/Tag-Switching Architecture
MPLS relies on two principal components: forwarding and control. The forwarding component uses labels carried by packets and the label-forwarding information maintained by an LSR to perform packet forwarding. The control component is responsible for maintaining correct label-forwarding information among a group of interconnected label switches (LSRs). Details about MPLS's forwarding and control mechanisms follow.
Forwarding Component
The forwarding paradigm employed by MPLS is based on the notion of label swapping. When a packet with a label is received by an LSR, the switch uses the label as an index in its label information base (LFIB). Each entry in the LFIB consists of an incoming label and one or more subentries (of the form outgoing label, outgoing interface, outgoing link-level information). If the switch finds an entry with the incoming label equal to the label carried in the packet, then, for each component in the entry, the switch replaces the label in the packet with the outgoing label, replaces the link-level information (such as the MAC address) in the packet with the outgoing link-level information, and forwards the packet over the outgoing interface.
From the previous description of the forwarding component, we can make several observations. First, the forwarding decision is based on the exact-match algorithm using a fixed-length, fairly short label as an index. This enables a simplified forwarding procedure, relative to longest-match forwarding traditionally used at the network layer.
This, in turn, enables higher forwarding performance (higher packets per second). The forwarding procedure is simple enough to allow a straightforward hardware imple-mentation. A second observation is that the forwarding decision is independent of the label's forwarding granularity. The same forwarding algorithm, for example, applies to both unicast and multicast: A unicast entry would have a single (outgoing label, outgoing interface, outgoing link-level information) subentry, while a multicast entry might have one or more subentries. This illustrates how the same forwarding paradigm can be used in label switching to support different routing functions.
The simple forwarding procedure is thus essentially decoupled from the control component of label switching. New routing (control) functions can readily be deployed without disturbing the forwarding paradigm. This means that it is not necessary to reoptimize forwarding performance (by modifying either hardware or software) as new routing functionality is added.
Label Encapsulation
Label information can be carried in a packet in a variety of ways:
- As a small, shim label header inserted between the Layer 2 and network layer headers
- As part of the Layer 2 header, if the Layer 2 header provides adequate semantics (such as ATM)
- As part of the network layer header (such as using the Flow Label field in IPv6 with appropriately modified semantics)
As a result, MPLS can be implemented over any media type, including point-to-point links, multiaccess links, and ATM. The label-forwarding component is independent of the network layer protocol. Use of control component(s) specific to a particular network layer protocol enables the use of label switching with different network layer protocols.
Control Component
Essential to MPLS is the notion of binding between a label and network layer routes. MPLS supports a wide range of forwarding granularities to provide good scaling characteristics while also accommodating diverse routing functionality. At one extreme, a label could be associated (bound) to a group of routes (more specifically, to the network layer reachability information of the routes in the group). At the other extreme, a label could be bound to an individual application flow (such as an RSVP flow), or it could be bound to a multicast tree. The control component creates label bindings and then distributes the label-binding information among LSRs using a Label Distribution Protocol (LDP).
Label Distribution Protocols
With destination-based routing, a router makes a forwarding decision based on the Layer 3 destination address carried in a packet and the information stored in the forwarding information base (FIB) maintained by the router. A router constructs its FIB by using the information that the router receives from routing protocols, such as OSPF and BGP.
To support destination-based routing with MPLS, an LSR participates in routing protocols and constructs its LFIB by using the information that it receives from these protocols. In this way, it operates much like a router.
An LSR, however, must distribute and use allocated labels for LSR peers to correctly forward the frame. LSRs distribute labels using a label distribution protocol (LDP). A label binding associates a destination subnet to a locally significant label. (Labels are locally significant because they are replaced at each hop.) Whenever an LSR discovers a neighbor LSR, the two establish a TCP connection to transfer label bindings. LDP exchanges subnet/label bindings using one of two methods: downstream unsolicited distribution or downstream-on-demand distribution. Both LSRs must agree as to which mode to use.
Downstream unsolicited distribution disperses labels if a downstream LSR needs to establish a new binding with its neighboring upstream LSR. For example, an edge LSR may enable a new interface with another subnet. The LSR then announces to the upstream router a binding to reach this network.
In downstream-on-demand distribution, on the other hand, a downstream LSR sends a binding upstream only if the upstream LSR requests it. For each route in its route table, the LSR identifies the next hop for that route. It then issues a request (via LDP) to the next hop for a label binding for that route. When the next hop receives the request, it allocates a label, creates an entry in its LFIB with the incoming label set to the allocated label, and then returns the binding between the (incoming) label and the route to the LSR that sent the original request. When the LSR receives the binding information, the LSR creates an entry in its LFIB and sets the outgoing label in the entry to the value received from the next hop.
Hierarchical Routing
The IP routing architecture models a network as a collection of routing domains. Within a domain, routing is provided via interior routing (such as OSPF), while routing across domains is provided via exterior routing (such as BGP). All routers within domains that carry transit traffic, however (such as domains formed by Internet service providers), must maintain information provided by exterior routing, not just interior routing.
MPLS decouples interior and exterior routing so that only LSRs at the border of a domain are required to maintain routing information provided by exterior routing. All other switches within the domain maintain routing information provided by the domain's interior routing, which usually is smaller than the exterior routing information. This, in turn, reduces the routing load on nonborder switches and shortens routing convergence time.
To support this functionality, MPLS allows a packet to carry not one, but a set of labels organized as a stack. An LSR can either swap the label at the top of the stack, pop the stack, or swap the label and push one or more labels into the stack. When a packet is forwarded between two (border) LSRs in different domains, the label stack in the packet contains just one label.
When a packet is forwarded within a domain, however, the label stack in the packet contains not one, but two labels (the second label is pushed by the domain's ingress-border LSR). The label at the top of the stack provides packet forwarding to an appropriate egress-border label switch, while the next label in the stack provides correct packet forwarding at the egress switch. The stack is popped by either the egress switch or the penultimate switch (with respect to the egress switch).
Multicast Routing
In a multicast routing environment, multicast routing procedures (such as protocol-independent multicast [PIM]) are responsible for constructing spanning trees, with receivers as leaves. Multicast forwarding is responsible for forwarding multicast packets along these spanning trees.
Multicast in an MPLS environment is still under study by the IETF. However, MPLS supports multicast by utilizing data link layer multicast capabilities, such as those provided by Ethernet. Details are still in progress in the IETF committees. (See the references at the end of this article.)
Label Switching with ATM
Because the MPLS forwarding paradigm is based on label swapping, as is ATM forwarding, MPLS technology can be applied to ATM switches by implementing the control component. The label information needed for tag switching can be carried in the ATM VCI field. If two levels of labeling are needed, then the ATM VPI field could be used as well, although the size of the VPI field limits the size of networks in which this would be practical. The VCI field, however, is adequate for most applications of one level of labeling.
Implementing MPLS on an ATM switch would simplify integration of ATM switches and routers. An ATM switch capable of MPLS would appear as a router to an adjacent router. That would provide a scalable alternative to the overlay model and would remove the necessity for ATM addressing, routing, and signaling schemes. Because destination-based forwarding is topology-driven rather than traffic-driven, application of this approach to ATM switches does not involve high call-setup rates, nor does it depend on the longevity of flows.
Implementing MPLS on an ATM switch does not preclude the capability to support a traditional ATM control plane (such as PNNI) on the same switch. The two components, MPLS and the ATM control plane, would operate independently with VPI/VCI space and other resources partitioned so that the components would not interact.
Quality of Service and Traffic Engineering
An important proposed MPLS capability is quality of service (QoS) support. Two mechanisms provide a range of QoS to packets passing through a router or a tag switch:
- Classification of packets into different classes
- Handling of packets via appropriate QoS characteristics (such as bandwidth and loss)
MPLS provides an easy way to mark packets as belonging to a particular class after they have been classified the first time. Initial classification uses information carried in the network layer or higher-layer headers. A label corresponding to the resultant class then would be applied to the packet. Labeled packets could be handled efficiently by LSRs in their path without needing to be reclassified. The actual packet scheduling and queuing is largely orthogonal: The key point here is that MPLS enables simple logic to be used to find the state that identifies how the packet should be scheduled.
The exact use of MPLS for QoS purposes depends a great deal on how QoS is deployed. If RSVP is used to request a certain QoS for a class of packets, then it would be necessary to allocate a label corresponding to each RSVP session for which state is installed at an LSR.
One of the fundamental properties of destination-based routing is that the only information from a packet that is used to forward the packet is the destination address. Although this property enables highly scalable routing, it also limits the capability to influence the actual paths taken by packets. This limits the capability to evenly distribute traffic among multiple links, taking the load off highly utilized links and shifting it toward less-utilized links.
For Internet service providers (ISPs) who support different classes of service, destination-based routing also limits their capability to segregate different classes with respect to the links used by these classes. Some of the ISPs today use Frame Relay or ATM to overcome the limitations imposed by destination-based routing. Because of the flexible granularity of labels, MPLS is capable of overcoming these limitations without using either Frame Relay or ATM. To provide forwarding along the paths that are different from the paths determined by the destination-based routing, the control component of MPLS allows installation of label bindings in LSRs that do not correspond to the destination-based routing paths.
Traffic engineering allows a network administrator to make the path deterministic and bypass the normal routed hop-by-hop paths. An administrator may elect to explicitly define the path between stations to ensure QoS or have the traffic follow a specified path to reduce traffic loading across certain hops. In other words, the network administrator can reduce congestion by forcing the frame to travel around the overloaded segments. Traffic engineering, then, enables an administrator to define a policy for forwarding frames rather than depending upon dynamic routing protocols.
Traffic engineering is similar to source-routing in that an explicit path is defined for the frame to travel. However, unlike source-routing, the hop-by-hop definition is not carried with every frame. Rather, the hops are configured in the LSRs ahead of time along with the appropriate label values. Traffic engineering may be accomplished through constraint-based routing. Extensions to LDP allow traffic engineering to occur. Called constraint-based LDP (CR-LDP), it enables a network engineer to establish and maintain explicitly routed LSPs called constraint-based routed LSPs (CR-LSP).
Review Questions
Q - In downstream-on-demand distribution, how does the upstream LSR know that it needs a label?
A - The unicast routing protocols distribute the presence of a network. When the upstream LSR needs to forward a frame to the new network, it can request a label from the downstream LSR.
Q - FIB refers to a forwarding information base. How does this differ from an LFIB?
A - FIB tables are developed from routing protocols such as OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, and so on. LSRs reference these tables whenever they need a label/route binding. The actual bindings are contained in the LFIB that displays destination networks/labels/interfaces in one table.
Q - What are the two LDP modes?
A - One mode is downstream unsolicited distribution, in which an LSR announces a binding without any request from a neighbor LSR. The other mode is downstream-on-demand, in which an LSR requests a binding.
Q - It is highly recommended that neighbor LSRs operate in the same LDP mode. What might result if an upstream LSR operates in downstream unsolicited distribution mode and the downstream LSR runs in downstream-on-demand mode?
A - This is a case in which labels would never get distributed. The upstream LSR assumes that it never needs to ask for a binding, while the downstream unit assumes that it should never create one unless explicitly requested. Neither LSR will trigger a label distribution.
Q - If a vendor's router already uses high-speed switching and caching techniques for forwarding frames, then performance may not be a valid motivation for using MPLS. Is there any other reason that might merit deployment of MPLS in such a network?
A - Traffic engineering could further enhance the network by enabling an administrator to select a path between locations based on policy. The policy may take into consideration parameters such as network loading, security, and several other elements. Otherwise, the administrator leaves the path selection to the destination-based routing protocols.
For More Information
Davie, Bruce S., and Yakov Rekhter. MPLS: Technology and Applications. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers: New York, 2000.
McDysan, David, Ph.D. QoS and Traffic Management in IP and ATM Networks. McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing: New York, 2000.


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It is with great sadness that I report the following news to our readers: we just learned that Beverly Eckert, widow of the late Sean Rooney (who died in the WTC on 9/11) was one of the victims in the Continental Airlines commuter plane crash in Buffalo. Flight 3407 mysteriously fell out of the sky at around 10:20 p.m. last night and crashed into a private home, killing all 47 persons on board and one person on the ground.
This news just breaks my heart. Although I never had the chance to meet her personally, I exchanged several emails with Beverly over the years in regards to her outstanding work as a victims' advocate, and as a leader for the 9/11 widows who continued to seek answers from the government as to what REALLY happened to their loved ones on that horrible day. I had tremendous respect and admiration for the lady and her work, and of course, just naturally assumed that our paths would eventually cross one of these days. Unfortunately, that will not happen now.
Beverly Eckert was a key member of the now-defunct 9/11 Family Steering Committee, an offshoot of the Coalition for an Independent 9/11 Commission, which advocated the creation of an independent commission to investigate the intelligence failures that made 9/11 possible. The coalition represented a wide array of 9/11 families' organizations, including Families of September 11, Sept. 11 Advocates (also known as "The Jersey Girls"), and Voices of September 11. Although the call for a commission was initially resisted by the Bush Administration, the coalition eventually prevailed in the creation of the 9/11 Commission.
Beverly cooperated with and monitored the 9/11 Commission, but later criticized the commission's final report, claiming that commission members had only selective memories of all the evidence they had been presented. She also later complained publicly that many of the protective measures recommended by the 9/11 Commission were never implemented.
In 2006, Beverly was prominently featured in the 9/11 documentary film, On Native Soil, a must-see for anyone interested in learning the facts of that fateful day in our history.
Most recently, Beverly joined forces with the ACLU in December 2008 to challenge the legitimacy of the Guantánamo military commissions and their ability to achieve justice.
A week before her death, Eckert met with President Obama at the White House as part of a group of 9/11 families and relatives of those killed in the bombing of the USS Cole, discussing how the new administration would handle terror suspects.
Beverly was not only a sweet lady who gave so much of her time, money and effort to this cause, she was also tremendously dedicated to her late husband's memory, and to seeking justice for ALL 9/11 victims and their families. She has spent nearly every day of her life since 9/11/2001 in pursuit of the truth and government accountability.
Feb. 12, 2009 was no different for Beverly. Late yesterday evening when she hurriedly boarded the last flight out of Newark in inclement weather, she was on her way to Buffalo to present a Sean Rooney scholarship at his former high school (Rooney was a Buffalo native) which had been established in her late husband's memory. To further compound the tragic irony, this weekend would have marked her late husband's 58th birthday, and she was planning to mark the occasion with his friends and family in the city of Buffalo.
It's sad and certainly strange enough that the woman who fought such a long and tireless battle for truth and justice for all victims killed in the fiery plane crashes of September 11, 2001 would meet her own fate in another fiery plane crash. That in itself I can barely comprehend. But when I think of where Beverly was headed, going back to Sean's hometown on his birthday to give a scholarship in his name, my brain locks up and my heart sinks into the pit of my stomach.
Dammit, it's just not fair, I tell `ya. It's not fair.
If, as they say, there ain't no justice in this world and we'll have to wait until we reach the next world for that, I suppose the only real consolation is that Sean and Beverly are finally together again now.
Sadly, 8 1/2 years after the Sept. 11 tragedy, so many of the 9/11 commission's recommendations have still not been implemented. So much of Beverly's tireless effort was never fully and officcially recognized, except by those within the 9/11 Truth activist community, who saw her as one of their heroes.
Beverly Eckert was not a 9/11 Truther. She was not a conspiracy nut. She never wore a tinfoil hat or stood on a streetcorner with a bullhorn yelling, "9/11 Was An Inside Job!" She was a respectable insurance professional who lived a quiet, unassuming life with her beloved husband in Stamford, CT until 9/11 changed everything. She felt compelled to speak up and demand a REAL investigation and JUSTICE, as any reasonable, concerned American should. She always spoke eloquently and truthfully, never showing any flashes of temper, but plenty of righteous anger. She was a woman of great courage and many of us will dearly miss her energy and leadership.
But we must press on. We must move forward in our search for the truth. We must honor her by continuing to demand real answers and accountability from our government officials. If it was in fact an inside job, we must chase down the real terrorists who did this dastardly deed and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. We must do all that we can to ensure that it NEVER happens again. That's all Beverly was saying: that the most patriotic thing we as Americans can do is to raise legitimate questions and expect honest answers.
Summing up Beverly's mission in life these past eight years is an extremely difficult task upon learning of her death first thing early this morning. I can't even comprehend it yet, let alone begin to process it. Words elude me.
But while I was reflecting on the meaning of Beverly's life and her ironic, tragic death, the words of President Theodore Roosevelt suddenly popped into my mind. This particular quote from T.R. seemed to me a perfect way to describe what motivated Beverly to do what she did — and the lasting contribution she made to our understanding of what really happened on 9/11. It also reminds us to keep seeking the truth, and to never give up the fight for justice, despite forces who seek to oppose and silence us:
"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does NOT mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country."
— Teddy Roosevelt
26th President of the United States
But I'll give Beverly the last word.
In a 2006 interview with the BBC, Beverly related the heartwrenching story of her husband's final moments on September 11, which she unfortunately "ear-witnessed" over the phone. After the South Tower was hit by a plane, Sean tried to escape but became trapped on the 105th floor. Once he realized that he probably was not going to make it out alive, he called his wife and they began to say their goodbyes to one another.
"We were just remembering how happy we were. I just wanted to crawl through the phone and hold him but then there was an explosion (emphasis mine – Ed.), followed by a loud crack and a sound like an avalanche. That was the tower coming down. He was gone.
I try not to look at what I lost but what I had. We had 34 very good years together – we were together since we 16 – and there are not many people who have had that.
I felt that the best way to honour his memory and the life we lived was to live a good life, to be strong and to inspire people.
I can tell Sean's story so that people understand his bravery in the face of death. Sean died without regrets and that helps me get through the day. "
Beverly Eckert lived and died without regrets. Her courage and strength will continue to inspire and motivate us all for decades, perhaps even centuries, to come. It is my hope and indeed a fervent prayer that one day in the distant future, after the haze of emotionalism has cleared, her name will go down in the annals of history as one who dared to take a stand against the incompetence which resulted in the preventable loss of nearly 3,000 innocent lives on 9/11.
Farewell and God Bless You, Beverly!
— Tiger Haynes


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Talk:Arduino Weather Station
From MyLabWiki
- Managed to get the TMP102 work with the Arduino Duemilanove even though I do not have any Logic Level Converter. Apparently, the 3.3V part does not go up in flames when exposed to 5V on the SDA and SCL pins though I can not know if there is any internal damage.
- Fritzing starter kit has arrived. Good value for money.
- Recreated the temperature sensor mockup using the breadboard, see Ustream recording.
- Often the readback from the TMP102 returns error – could that be due to the volt mismatch? I will put wirk with TMP102 on hold until I get a Logic Level Converter.
- Ordered the Logic Level Converter from Cool Components.
- The Logic Level Converter has arrived. Reworked TMP102 connection on the breadboard.
- Followed the instructions [ here] except that I connected V+ of TMP102 to 3.3V instead of 5V. Also tried to connect to 5V and that worked too, but then again, it also worked without the level converter
- Recorded video showing the TMP102 connected to the Arduino via the Logic Level Converter. See video on YouTube.
- Started to create a Fritzing mock-up with custom part for TMP102 and level converter using Inkscape, but having trouble with the SVG, see http://twitpic.com/1um7x5
- When loading SVG into Fritzing parts editor images look all right. After saving the labels are moved as shown on the screenshot above.
- Tried to change the SVG's to be horizontal but didn't make any difference.
- Added the pressure sensor:
- Did some experiments trying to make the Inkscape SVG to Fritzing work with ridiculously unsatisfactory results. I even got to a point where the Inkscape SVG is loaded all right, but after saving the part and using it it looked bad. So, Fritzing is saving SVG that it is not able to render correctly.
- Ended up creating Fritzing breadboard using "mystery part":


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NBC News producer Ghazi Balkiz is traveling in northern Syria with NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel. He took these photographs in Aleppo within the past week.
Ghazi Balkiz / NBC News
Rebels in Aleppo's old city sit 20 yards from Syrian army troops. The fighting in these narrow streets and alleys has reached a stalemate with neither side advancing or retreating. Rebels at this location told NBC News that they were so close to the enemy that they sometimes talk with the Syrian army soldiers.
Ghazi Balkiz / NBC News
Aleppo's Dar Al-Shifa hospital stands in ruins next to the rubble of a building that used to be next to it. Members of the Free Syrian Army told NBC News that the hospital was targeted because it was treating anti-Assad forces.
Rebels prevented NBC News from filming the outside of all functioning hospitals in the city because, they said, the government would use the images to target the buildings. They allowed NBC News to film Dar Al-Shifa because the hospital was no longer being used.
Ghazi Balkiz / NBC News
A nurse treats a Free Syrian Army fighter who had been shot by a sniper. The nurse uses a head torch because there is no electricity in the hospital. NBC News saw many wounded people being turned away from this hospital and sent to other clinics.
A doctor told NBC that the hospital was running low on all sorts of medicines, and had even performed an amputation without anesthetic.
Ghazi Balkiz / NBC News
A crater scars the yard outside a bombed school in Aleppo, Syria's largest city and commercial center. Some residents told NBC News that the school was targeted by President Bashar Assad's forces in an effort to destroy all aspects of normal life and force people to turn against the rebels. Other residents said that the Syrian army bombed it because the rebels had taken shelter in it.
During past visits to Syria, NBC News saw evidence that the Syrian army was taking over schools and using them as temporary bases.
Ghazi Balkiz / NBC News
A textbook with a picture of former Syrian President Hafez Assad, father of current President Bashar Assad, sits on the ground amid garbage and other debris in the schoolyard of the bombed school.
Ghazi Balkiz / NBC News
A doorway stands in Aleppo's Old City, classified as a world heritage site by UNESCO. The ancient walls and alleyways of the city, once renowned as a tourist attraction, are now riddled with bullet holes.
The ancient, once-bustling city has been devastated by war and even health clinics are forced to operate in secrecy to avoid being bombed. NBC's Richard Engel reports.
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But what if we entertain the possibility that those around the direct beneficiary are actually a shifting population, and what's more, a population that is shifting in direct response to the transfer? This raises significant issues for how we think about measuring the benefits of these transfers. A nice recent paper by Amar Hamoudi and Duncan Thomas gives us some evidence as to why this might be an issue this using the South African Old Age Pension.
Let's start with the context. As Hamoudi and Thomas point out, the South African Old Age Pension (OAP) is a hefty transfer, weighing in at around $120 a month (as of 2000) -- about equal to the median income of employed black working age men. To qualify folks have to be over 60 for women and 65 for men (at the time of the analysis -- it's since changed) and have assets below a certain threshold (a criteria which most of the black population had no problem satisfying). As a result, in 2000, around 80% of eligible black women and 75% of eligible black men reported getting the OAP.
This program originally had racial gaps in the amount of the benefits, but with the end of apartheid, these were erased. And a host of papers looking at the impacts of this pension ensued, ranging from child nutrition in pension receiving households (here and here) to the displacement of remittances (Hamoudi and Thomas have a nice comprehensive review). And as Hamoudi and Thomas point out, some of these papers raise issues of changing household composition. Indeed, a recent paper by Ardington et. al. indicates that the substantial pension income may have financed outmigration from the pension households.
Hamoudi and Thomas tuck into this issue, asking how the composition of pension households might end up being different than those not getting the pension. Of course, the OAP wasn't randomized, but they use age eligibility as an instrument and put in a bunch of controls for household demographics. And for data, they use the 1998 DHS which not only was conducted soon after the OAP was extended to the whole black population, but also has some data on adult height and education -- which they are going to use to measure the human capital levels of individuals within households.
What do they find? In short, adults with lower human capital are more likely to be present in OAP recipient households. Men aged 20-55 have 1.02 years fewer schooling (12% of the average schooling) and women are 2.76 cm shorter (that's 1/3 of a standard deviation). And there is more of this negative selection in male pension-recipient households. There are also some effects for male children: 6-14 year old boys in pension households are 0.36 years behind the schooling of those in non-pension households.
If we focus on the negative selection of adults, what could be going on? Hamoudi and Thomas don't nail it down, but give us two theories to think about. First, it could be that the pensioner's bargaining power has gone up, and he or she demands more home-produced services. And the individuals with comparative advantage in these services come on home, and those with more human capital (and thus comparative advantage in the labor market) are not around. Or it could be a shift in family time allocation, with the higher human capital adults migrating.
The bottom line here is that when we think about evaluating these programs, we can't take the composition of the household as given. And this is something we should think about seriously when we think about benefits to folks other than the direct recipient of the transfer. Moreover, this goes beyond transfers. As Hamoudi and Thomas nicely put it we need to think about "moving beyond theory and data that is bound by the confines of a spatially-defined household to a broader conceptualization of the networks that play an important role in decisions about family life." We need to do this not only in our analysis, but also our data collection.
I once read a paper on cash
I once read a paper on cash transfers in Uganda and the results were very surprising. A test for reduction in poverty was key to the study but there were unintended consequences, magnitudes varying according to the randomization of the experiments. This study noted insignificant or no increase in child enrollment as women started own businesses despite an increase in incomes as reported by participants.
-these studies tend to ignore social protection and household insurance strategies. Selected participants often face jealousy from others and loose other important aspects of social protection in the village, e.g joint childcare and rearing forcing domestic child labor, reduced school attendance, reduced enrollment in some cases and reduced child health seeking behavior- more sick children as mothers must optimize their labor between their household activities, social insurance and the new business. These effects are not being tracked well for example:
- kin or neighbor conflicts among those who get cash transfers and those who dont, based on the perception that others are being favored despite minor cut off selection creteria differences.
- reduction in external informal consumption smoothing sources once they are seen to have got a windfall, being abandoned by others unless they do their own transfers to keep their existing strategies and reputation-their informal credit rating is messed up and they must build new networks.
- how easy is it to ignore transfers with those who may have kept them afloat at some point in time
If I was in the field out there or have all these data I would be looking at these other effects. Over all poverty reduction strategy seem to be sensitive to these transfers as they have always been among the poor, and there are also many cases where little transfers among kin have uplifted some generations through schooling and training. Public transfers, exotic vouchers will have to last longer after destroying kin and private social markets.


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So what now for Symbian?
Foundation Chieftain steps down
It's a little heartbreaking for anyone who knows Symbian - or anyone who appreciates good system design - to see its predicament today. It's a bit like gradually watching a divine beauty turn into a neglected and unloved hag in middle age. Through lack of care and attention, Nokia has let those good looks go to waste.
Now Lee Williams, chief executive of the Symbian Foundation, has stepped down for "personal reasons", with the Foundation's operations guy Tim Holbrow replacing him with immediate effect.
It's the latest in a series of departures from Nokia or projects critical to Nokia's success. Two weeks ago the lead of Nokia's Meego operating system Ari Jaaksi departed, also for personal reasons, and has been snapped up by HP. These won't be the last. Nokia is the biggest sponsor and backer of Symbian.
With the benefit of hindsight, we're all geniuses. But it's fair to say that with the benefit of hindsight the Foundation has failed in most of its objectives.
Nokia bought out Symbian and all its developers 30 months ago, and is the stakeholder with the largest investment in the system over ten years, and the greatest strategic interest in its development. Yet Nokia also wanted Symbian to be an open, industry-owned venture - that was the founding principle of the organisation as Psion sought to make its Epoc OS an industry standard in 1998*.
These tensions were never successfully resolved when Symbian was an independent, jointly owned limited company, and became harder after the buy-out, we can now see. So Nokia acquired the code, then created an independent administrative body to continue the work of licensing, with the seven million lines of code becoming open source.
The Foundation had three kinds of licensees. There was Nokia itself, which undertook practically all of the development. There were the rival OEMs such as Samsung and Sony Ericsson, and then there were Japanese - Fujitsu and Sharp - who used it to create closed devices.
But the legal issues involved in open-sourcing the code proved incredibly complicated and had been underestimated by Nokia. Just as Symbian's licensees needed accelerated development to combat the competitive threat of Apple and Android, the venture was stalled for two years. A Lost Weekend ensued. One by one, the stakeholders pulled out.
First Motorola withdrew, canning a range of multimedia smartphones. Then the UIQ touch UI was canned, and finally Sony Ericsson and Samsung switched their focus to Android. Aside from Nokia, the only remaining manufacturer on the Symbian board, as Rafe Blandford points out in this succinct summary at All About Symbian, is Fujitsu as a shareholder. An "industry standard" without "industry support" is a bit like a log falling in a forest.
Using the N8 phone today it's clear to see why Sony Ericsson and Samsung looked at Symbian^3 and ignored it - the hardware is superb but the UI feels antiquated compared to Android, and the user experience issues haven't been resolved. Android supports a wider range of hardware, feels much slicker and looks more modern, and most crucially, has the factor of momentum.
Yet Symbian provides - and here's our starlet analogy - the most resource efficient and reliable operating system for phone manufacturers. It has years of useful life left in it. And if the User Experience had been maintained, few would doubt Symbian would still be challenging Android - it has the technical chops to compete so well.
Nokia still needs Symbian for its midrange handsets if nothing else. The question facing Elop is whether anybody else needs Symbian too. It may now be cheaper to take it in house, and perhaps even closed source, with compensation to the many IP stakeholders who've contributed over the years. If Symbian^4 fails to find new markets, or fails to win over the manufacturers who've defected to Android, it may as well regain control. ®
*Gawd. Is it really that long ago?


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Don't forget to try this dishes sure u will love all these. Let me explain how we can prepare this simple and delicious curries:
Lima beans: 1 cup
Oil: 1 tsp
Green chili: 2 nos
Garlic : 2 pods
Ginger: medium size
Onion: 1 small
Tomato: 2 small
Ground cumin :1/2 tsp
Turmeric Powder: 1/2 tsp
Chili Powder: 2 tsp
Coriander Powder: 1 tsp
Garam Masala:1 tsp
Kasoori methi:1/2 tsp
Water: enough
Salt: to taste
Coriander Leaves:some
- Cook the Lima beans in a pressure cooker with 1/2 cup of water until one whistle. Do not over cook. Add salt to taste
- Crush ginger and Garlic.
- Cut the green chili into small pieces
- Cut the tomato into 8 pieces
- Dice the onion into small pieces
- Heat the oil in a pan.Add green chili and crushed Ginger garlic.saute for sometime.
- Add the diced onion and saute well.
- Add the tomato pieces into it..stir well ..
- Once the tomatoes are well cooked add the Turemric powder followed by Chili poswder,coriander powder and garam masala.Mix well.
- Add the cooked Lima beans into it.
- Add the Kasoori methi, ground cumin,coriander leaves and salt into the mix.
- Saute well and then add 1-11/2 cups of water.
- Close the pan and let the mix to cook for 5-10 minutes in medium heat.
2.Dal-Tomato curry
Use the Split mung dal 1/2 cup
- In step1 cook the Dal with 1 cup of water in a pressure cooker for 2 whistle or until well cooked.Add salt to taste.
- Follow Step2 & 3 as described above
- In Step4 add the cooked Dal and rest is same as above.
Use the Green Peas 1/2 cup .(soak it Overnight)
rest of the ingredients are same as above.
- In step1cook the green peas with 1 cup of water in a pressure cooker for 2 whistle or until well cooked.Add salt to taste.
- Follow Step2 & 3 as described above
- In Step4 add the cooked Green peas and cook as per the above recipe.
- Do not overcook Green peas and Lima beans .
- According to your taste change the quantity of masala
- If u need more gravy add more water at Step4.


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Deliver Us from Evil
Year: 2014
Duration: 1h 58min
IMDb: 6.2
Country: USA
Actors: Eric Bana, Edgar Ramirez, Olivia Munn, Chris Coy, Dorian Missick, Sean Harris, Joel McHale, Mike Houston, Lulu Wilson, Olivia Horton, Scott Johnsen, Daniel Sauli, Antoinette LaVecchia, Aidan Gemme, Jenna Gavigan
In DELIVER US FROM EVIL, New York police officer Ralph Sarchie (Eric Bana), struggling with his own personal issues, begins investigating a series of disturbing and inexplicable crimes. He joins forces with an unconventional priest (Edgar Ramirez), schooled in the rituals of exorcism, to combat the frightening and demonic possessions that are terrorizing their city. Based upon the book, which details Sarchie's bone-chilling real-life cases.


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Tornado Kills In Oklahoma City
A tornado that has been reported to be more than a half a mile wide has hit the suburbs of Oklahoma City, OK.This is a very sad day as it hit an elementary school and several other homes and buildings in Oklahoma City and Moore. The death toll has so far reached fifty and they have reported that it could reach more!
The National Weather Service issued that the tornado was an EF-4 on the Fujita scale, the second most-powerful tornado.
My heart goes out to these family's and there loved ones!


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Editorial: Breaking News
Magazine: (France) Grazia Magazine, September 2010
Photographer: Christophe Meimoon
Stylist: Stephanie Brissay
She has an Alexa Chung look which is cool.
I especially like the long boucle jacket. I enjoy seeing an editorial interpretation of a professional wardrobe.
a NY working girl. she looks like she could kill someone!
Nice and effective!
Love her hair.
I like the idea of the editorial and this girl reminds me of Tao :)
This editorial reminds me of Ariane Koizumi in Year of the dragon! Does anyone know what happened to Ariane since she stopped modeling?
i don't think her face has that model palate, or maybe her hair and make-up are just off.
she has quite a plain face; it is rememberable, but it doesnt spark that "wow" facteur
and this shoot doesnt seem like a something in a french magazine
Love this Spread .. and Gwen's hair..
I think She nails it this time.. !
Shots are pretty dynamic and reflect the atmosphere of busy NYC Manhattan. On point !
They aren't many short haired asian girls around that serve it like she does with edge and lots of spunk.
Long hair bores the heck out of me.. who needs another plain long haired asian model..
I love photo no.4. :)
She's channeling Tao! :)
Ennie, Gwen had the short hair earlier than Tao's bowl cut.
yes, gwen had the short hair earlier than Tao's.
luv it!!!
freakin awesome...