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Great 30 minutes of football: After trailing 31-0 at halftime, the Seahawks came roaring back but fell short Sunday, with a season-ending 31-24 loss to Carolina.

The first half was so ugly that longtime Seahawk fans could have sworn they were watching Rick Mirer taking snaps and Tom Flores on the sidelines.

Good to go — at least you were: Drivers can now check toll rates for the I-405 express lanes on the Web, thanks to a new state website. The thing is, toll rates are subject to change every 5 minutes and the online map also lags the information posted over roadways by up to 5 minutes.

Seems like the alert tone for this app should be a sad trombone.

Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: An eight-hour miniseries based on Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” premieres tonight on the A&E, History and Lifetime cable networks.

Since the unabridged audiobook of “War and Peace” clocks in at 61 hours, it seems likely that they cut out all of the peace from the TV version — sort of like the Middle East.

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff

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