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Classical singer Nithyasree's husband Mahadevan (45) committed suicide on Thursday afternoon by jumping into the Adyar River after parking his car on the Kotturpuram bridge. Police officers attributed it to depression.
According to police, around 12.15 pm, Mahadevan sat behind the wheel of his luxury sedan and started driving with his driver Suresh alongside. Midway through the bridge, he pulled over and parked the car. After both alighted, Mahadevan locked the car, put the key in his pocket, walked across the sidewalk to the parapet wall and jumped into the Adyar River around 12.30 pm, police said. It all happened in a flash and the driver couldn't respond.
While passersby alerted police and Fire and Rescue Services personnel at Kotturpuram, driver Suresh called up Nithyasree, who rushed to the spot. As she was sobbing inconsolably, the police advised her to go back. She then left for her home at Vellaiyan Street in Kotturpuram.
Around 1.30 pm, Mahadevan's body was fished out of the river and taken to a private hospital where doctors declared him 'brought dead'. Kotturpuram Police Inspector N Elangovan told Express that Mahadevan was being treated for his depression at a multi-specialty hospital for the past five years.
"Mahadevan's mental condition worsened after his mother Shanthi passed away in April. When he stopped the car in the middle of the bridge, his driver thought Mahadevan wanted to take a leak, but he jumped into the river," he said. Nithyasree is the grand-daughter of legendary Carnatic vocalist D K Pattammal. Mahadevan was an engineer with a private firm. They have two daughters — Thejasree (8) and Thanujasree (6).
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Stella Josephine Zarzeczny Bialek, 94, currently a resident of Elkins Regional Convalescent Center, Elkins, however, most of her life was spent in McKees Rocks, Pa. She departed this life Monday evening, Sept 3, 2012. Stella had been in her usual health and death was unexpected.
She was born Nov. 17, 1917, at McKees Rocks, Pa., a daughter of the late Peter and Anna Mach Zarzeczny.
She was the last surviving member of her immediate family, which included eight siblings.
On Sept 24, 1941, she married Chester Bialek, who preceded her in death, March 30, 1989. They had celebrated nearly 48 years of marriage.
She is survived by three children, Edward and wife, Joann, of Plano, Texas, Joani Fadool and husband, Ray, of Tinley Park, Ill., and Jimmy Bialek and wife, Karen, of Elkins. Also surviving are six grandchildren, Amy Bialek Parsons and husband, John, of Elkins, Ashley Bialek Flanagan and husband, Chris, of Morgantown, Scott Bialek and wife, Jennifer, of Austin, Texas, Chris Fadool and wife, Jodi, of Chicago, Ill., Nicki Rogers and husband, Jason, of Dallas, Texas, and Meghan Agatep and husband, Ron, of London, England; and eight great-grandchildren, Grace Parsons, Eli Flanagan, Stella and Penelope Agatep, Julia Rogers, Jake and Emme Bialek and Joseph Fadool.
One grandson, James Brent "JB" Bialek preceded her in death.
She and her husband, Chester, worked tirelessly or 16 years at their restaurant, Bialek's Cafe in McKees Rocks, Pa. She was an avid cook and was well known for making hot sausage, wonderful Polish cookies and specialty Polish foods. You never left her home without eating something.
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Ice Climbing Festival | Highlights from UIAA - Mountaineering & Climbing on Vimeo.Ice climbing had a unique and prominent presence at the Olympic Park during the recently concluded Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Part of the Ice Climbing Festival, it included a Speed wall and a Lead structure, built with the generous support of sponsor Sberbank, which saw thousands of visitors witness ice climbing and dry tooling for the first time.
More than 300 visitors lined up daily to climb the wall.
It was also an opportunity for a group of international and Russian climbers who participate in the annual UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup to showcase the sport, which they and the UIAA – International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation hope, one day will be included in the Winter Olympics.
The format was a dual lead route with two athletes climbing similar routes at the same time. The same was the case for the Speed wall. Two people competing against each, the first one to reach the top wins.
"Words can't even describe how awesome it is to demonstrate a sport that we love in front of the Olympic world," said Gord MacArthur, a Canadian climber participated at the festival. "Every day we climbed hard, we tried hard and we supported each other, athletes from the entire world."
Climbers at the Ice Climbing Festival in Sochi gather by the Olympic rings (Photo: Lukasz Warzecha for UIAA)"We were doing what we do best, in front of the world," said MacArthur. "Not only that, but we were doing it with the same passion you see on the sharp end of a competition, in the heat of the moment. This experience will forever be remembered as the time that ice climbing truly became a common ground, no matter the language barrier or boundary between nationalities."
The climbers who participated included Russian climbers such as Maxim, Tomilov, Alexey Tomilov, Ivan Spitsin and an international contingent which featured Nathan Kutcher (Canada), Jennifer Olson (U.K), Marc Beverly (U.S.A.), Markus Urbanowski (Germany), Olov Isaksson (Sweden), Zohren Abdollahkhani (Iran), Petra Klingler (Switzerland), Kevin Huser (Switzerland) and Ankhbold Dangaasuren (Mongolia). Also present at the venue was UIAA Ice Climbing Commission president Urs Stoecker.
All of them spent long hours on the wall being ambassadors of the sport they love while patiently answering questions from novices and media alike.
UIAA President Frits Vrijlandt on the wall in Sochi (Photo: Lukasz Warzecha for UIAA)
UIAA president Frits Virjlandt who took a crack at climbing the ice wall said it was a thrill to see ice climbing being demonstrated at Olympic Park and watch the crowds of visitors who enjoyed the spectacle.
"We have our own Olympic ambition," said Frits Vrijlandt, adding any exposure of ice climbing to the world raises the profile of the sport. "What happened in Sochi can only be good for us."
Media outlets from around the world were also on hand to cover the festival, with reporters giving the wall a try, including NBC reporter Blake Essig who challenged Russian speedster Ivan Spitsin to a friendly Cold War style duel on the ice tower.
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UPPER SANDUSKY - With Seneca East in town, there was a lot of orange and black in Upper Sandusky Friday. So much of it that a cool late summer evening could have been mistaken for Halloween.
But the game on the field between the Tigers and Rams was no horror flick. More like an edge-of-your-seat, action-pack thriller.
After trading the lead back-and-forth all night, the fate of the game came down to one play.
With 4:03 left on the fourth quarter clock, Seneca East's Ethan Caudill threw his fourth touchdown of the night, a three-yard pitch-and-catch to Adam Hall on a fourth-and-goal play, which brought the Tigers within one of the Rams at 28-27.
Tiger coach Ed Phillips had a decision to make: tie the game up, or go for the win.
Phillips sent his offense back out for the two-point conversion. Caudill dropped back and went to hit a receiver on a slant over the middle.
"All night their quarterback was looking straight to where he was throwing and I knew that," Upper Sandusky linebacker Tylor Pritchard said. "They burnt me a couple times on that same exact play; they run that slant right inside of me. This time I saw it right away out of the corner of my eye. I just stepped up and (Caudill) was looking at him and I knew I had a chance to knock it down."
And that's what he did. Pritchard broke up the pass and preserved the lead.
Four minutes still remained on the clock, but Pritchard soon ran them all off. From his quarterback spot, he picked up several critical first downs to seal the 28-27 win for his team.
"It feels good. I'm exhausted, everyone is. That was just a grind-it-out game, got to keep grinding," Pritchard said.
"I feel like it's on my shoulders to put the team in a winning position there," he added. "I know when I'm tired, I have to start making plays even more. The guys have confidence in me, Coach has confidence in me and I have confidence in myself 'cause of those guys."
The night featured many big plays on both sides, but none was bigger that the two-point conversion stop.
"That was their go-to play in the first half, was that little dink-dunk over the middle and you go with what got you there, you go with your best," Upper Sandusky coach Jake Moyer said. "That was their best at that time. (Phillips) cannot be criticized for that call. He did what we felt was right at that point in time, give him all the credit in the world."
Having a feeling what play was coming, Moyer put his players in position to make the stop.
"We really read our keys very well is what we did," he said. "And we kind of suspected that that was coming so the linebackers were really looking for the guys coming off the edge there, near the tackle box and that was what we were looking for."
Phillips said the choice to go for two was obvious.
"We came to win," he said. "That's what I told the guys in the locker room beforehand. I said 'I feel like Rocky Balboa when he was fighting the Russian.' ... Ain't nobody in God's green earth thought we could win this game. I told them we could. I said we were going to come in and we were going to swing haymakers. And that's what we did.
"To look at it a little more analytically, the short field was their game. I felt like you go to overtime with them on a 25-yard field, that's advantage them. We felt like we had what we wanted there, and we did. (Pritchard) made the play."
That wasn't the only play of the night Pritchard made. Pritchard also had an interception return for a touchdown, 151 yards rushing, 116 yards passing and two more offensive touchdowns - one on the ground and one through the air.
But the second biggest play of the night perhaps came from Will Adelsperger. With the game knotted at 21 early in the fourth, Seneca East had to punt the ball away deep in its own end. Adelsperger found a seam and came up with a block, setting up the Rams on the Tigers 3 yard line. Two plays later, Pritchard plunged into the end zone to give the Rams the lead.
"I have a lineman that pushes the guy out ... I shot the gap and got a hand up and got it," Adelsperger said of the punt block. "Wouldn't happen without the line."
"That is [USHS assistant] coach Russell Hall. That's his specialty," Moyer added. "He did it all last year with our kids. Coach Hall did it again tonight. He's the master of the kick game."
The game featured two of the area's best quarterbacks in Pritchard and Caudill, and the battle didn't disappoint.
Caudill completed 29 of 41 passes for 292 yards and four scores. Caudill was 5-for-5 for 81 yards on the team's opening drive, hitting Hall from 24 yards out for the game's first score.
After two Upper Sandusky touchdowns - a 23-yard rush from Adelsperger and a 40-yard interception return from Pritchard - Caudill marched his team 80 yards and hit Alex Scheiber for a three-yard score to tie the game at 14 before halftime.
"The last thing I told the kids before we came out, I said we're going come out and sling the ball and were going to have some fun. And that's the way they played," Phillips said. "They came out and they had some fun. They played like they were in the backyard and they made plays. It was a fun game to watch, it would've been ever funner if we had two more points."
Coming out of halftime, Caudill again connected with Scheiber to put Seneca East back in front, but Upper Sandusky quickly answered with a 10-play drive. After nine-straight runs, Pritchard tossed an 18-yard pass to Alex Kenner for a touchdown to tie the game again.
"There's no hype about that kid. He's better than good; he's something," Phillips said of Pritchard. "Our kids found out tonight that we're a better-than-good than football team too, and we don't have to take a back seat to anybody. We just missed out on one tonight."


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From Yahoo.com: The Best Diets For Your Skin
The food you eat—from wrinkle-fighting antioxidants in fruits and vegetables to hydrating healthy fats in fish—may matter to your skin almost as much as it does to your waistline.
Is what you eat and drink helping or hurting your complexion?
The Mediterranean Diet is among those that are recommended.
Tomatoes are part of the Mediterranean Diet.
The diet includes fish.
Leafy greens are another part of the diet.
Olive oil
Olive oil, tomatoes, and red wine also have antioxidants that help block the chemical reactions that lead to sun damage.
Eating Mediterranean may also protect against melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, a recent Italian study suggests.
On the cosmetic front, omega-3 fatty acids in fish help keep skin-cell membranes strong and elastic.
Another diet that is suggested as good for your skin is a vegetarian or vegan diet.
Eating more fresh produce is good for your skin.
The antioxidants in these foods neutralize the free radicals that contribute to wrinkles.
Vegetables can also help with brown spots, and other signs of aging.
Vegetable diets tend to be low in fat.
It is suggested that you incorporate ground flaxseeds and olive and safflower oils to help your skin retain water.
Olive and safflower oils can help make your skin more supple.
Another diet that is recommended is one that is high in protein and low in carbs.
The Atkins or South Beach diets are examples.
Cutting back on white bread, pasta, and refined sugar can also lower the stress hormone cortisol.
Eliminating breads and pasta can lower the stress hormone cortisol and minimize breakouts.
Plans that swap in whole grains, fresh produce, and lean meats also up antioxidants.
Fish is also recommended on this diet.
However, "Too much animal fat can result in an increased production of free radicals, which are thought to interfere with normal cellular processing," says aesthetic dermatologist Lisa Airan, MD.
Drink lots of water to keep skin hydrated.
Eat antioxidant-rich leafy greens daily.
A diet that is low in saturated fats is also recommended.
A diet low in animal fat also stems the production of free radicals that can prematurely age skin
Cutting down on saturated fat is great for your heart and waistline.
However, your skin needs some fat, especially the good kind found in nuts and olive oil.
Fat helps your body absorb complexion-friendly antioxidants and fat-soluble vitamins.
"Get at least 20% of your calories from fat, mainly the unsaturated kind," says dermatologist Cheryl Karcher, MD.
Another diet that can help your skin is eating "Raw."
They will mainly eat produce, nuts, and sprouted beans and grains.
These claims aren't universally accepted by doctors, but these foods do help your complexion.
The healthy oils in nuts, avocados, and olive oil keep skin cell membranes strong and pliant.
However, "When you eat very little meat, it's challenging to get enough of the building blocks for collagen," Dr. Airan says.
Next on Yahoo's list is the CarbLovers diet.
You can read about the diet at Health Magazine to see if it's right for you.
The idea is that eating more carbs can keep you away from sugar-laden foods that can damage your skin.
You'll note these diets have many foods in common.
In the end, a diet that works best for your waistline, may also work best to keep your skin looking young,
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Jeff Bower spent the past 15 years coaching and working in various capacities of the NBA.
As a general manager and coach of the New Orleans Hornets, he was a significant contributor to the team's Southwest Division title in 2008 before being let go in 2010, but Bower was not necessarily longing for an NBA return.
From his days in the early 1980s as a student assistant at St. Francis and the next 12 seasons at Penn State (1983-86) and Marist (1986-95), part of his heart remained in the college game.
That affection was rewarded Wednesday when Bower was named head coach of the Marist College men's basketball program.
Coaching in college, he said in a teleconference after the announcement, "is something I had never forgotten about. It's a door I had never closed no matter what my role was in the NBA."
He liked watching raw freshmen grow into senior leaders in a game in which coachability is prioritized - unlike the NBA, where players make an average of $5 million plus annually, are often terminally miserable and have been known to tune out coaches.
"I felt there was a place for somebody [in college] who wanted to coach and a place in the game for someone who wanted to make players better, not only physically but growing into young men," Bower said. "Relationships in college are different than at the NBA level. But I also wasn't certain that the right place or the right time would come together."
It's really an ideal situation for Bower.
He's arriving when the Red Foxes needed a change, and Marist is not typically a program where players bring a one-and-done mentality. He was also once an assistant with current Athletic Director Tim Murray, who called Bower "a perfect fit" after he emerged from "an excellent pool of candidates."
Magarity, ever the mentor, isn't far down the road as the Army women's head coach and fresh from a Patriot League regular season championship.
Marist is in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference that has not been dominated by any one team, and its proximity to New York City provides fertile and familiar recruiting turf to Bower.
"The expectations and the goals for Marist are very high," Bower said. "The results of what has been achieved [recently] have been different. My job is to close that gap between expectations and performance."
Having been responsible for scouting talent will help him in recruiting, and his attention to detail will contribute to player development.
"There's a tremendous challenge working in the NBA - a challenge I love and appreciated every minute of," Bower said. "And there's a challenge in college basketball, and very few people have had the opportunity to know what the challenges are like at both levels."
While excited about the future, Bower also paid tribute to his past. He called former Hollidaysburg assistant coach John Wiberg, "probably the greatest coach nobody has ever heard of," and, along with Magarity, who gave him his first big break, he holds Jim Pfingstler, Tom Irwin and Harold Price in equal regard.
Bower becomes the first Division I head men's basketball coach from Blair County since Skip Hughes' fantastic run with St. Francis ended almost 50 years ago.
"The people who allowed me to learn from them were incredible," Bower said. "Those guys laid the foundation for me at Hollidaysburg. I was just a young fellow who wanted a break; I'll always be indebted to them."
In the 30-plus years since, Jeff Bower has more than justified that belief in him, and like all of those here who have admired his basketball journey, I wish him well.
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Rebel Wilson is set to star in the remake, which will see the title character re-envisioned as a redneck who escapes a bad life situation by joining the Marines, Variety reports.
Hawn was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in the original title film (which she also executive produced), a hilarious fish-out-of-water story of a bereaved and pampered woman who gets tricked into joining the U.S. Army by a recruiter after her new husband passes away on their wedding night.
Wilson, 28, who starred in Pitch Perfect and is currently seen in ABC's Super Fun Night, will be joined in the remake's military endeavors by a wealthy "city girl" friend who's also looking to change her life, Entertainment Weekly reports.
Producer Mark Gordon is helming the film for New Line, The Wrap reports, and the project is seeking a director. Wilson, from Sydney, Australia, is also set to begin filming on Pitch Perfect 2.


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Is there a more fickle game than the game of golf? One minute you are sailing along feeling good about yourself as well as your game, and the next thing you know it's head shaking time. Things happen on the links that cause a golfer to ask a series of familiar questions. Invariably the questions begin with the words "how come."
At least this is the case for yours truly. Maybe it's the way I play the game. Perhaps if I were a little more talented I wouldn't have as many questions, but I doubt it. The game can make you smile, laugh, cry or scream and all of those things can happen on the same hole. Whether you are an amateur or a professional eventually golf will have you questioning the stark realities of the game.
My "tour" group ventured to Riverby Hills Golf Course for our weekly golf experience. Riverby is a course that was brand new to most of the gang. That did not however, stop the questions from springing forth. Here's a sampling of those "how come" questions.
How come when all members of your foursome hit sparkling drives on the opening hole, none of them put their second shots on the green?
My group was our final pairing of the day and as another foursome stood waiting for their turn, they watched us tee off. After hitting great tee shots, one of my guys remarked about how we showed off to the strangers behind us. Another of our group was quick to point out that they hadn't seen our second shots yet. If we were lucky, they didn't get to see them.
Though all four of us were near the green - we were hitting from 130 to 160 yards out - no one reached the putting surface. To make matters worse, no one got up and down for a par. Wouldn't you think at least one of us would hit the green and maybe two or three of us would par the hole? It didn't happen and left us asking how this could be.
How come when you have a four-foot putt for birdie you can't even touch the hole, but a forty-footer for bogey finds the bottom of the cup? Yes, that did indeed happen to one of the golfers in my foursome and believe me, I was none too happy about it.
Despite missing the short birdie putt on the front nine, I was playing well until the 11th hole, when my game went south. I thought I had settled down a little by the time I reached the par 5 18th. Two good shots left me with a chance to hit the green in regulation, and then the head shaking began. Two absolutely miserable shots left me still a sizable distance from the elusive green. The next shot found the putting surface, but alas it was 40 feet from the cup.
Now, I'm perturbed, if not a little perplexed, and waste no time in lining up the bogey putt. Forty feet away with a two-foot break and that silly little golf ball drops dead center. Now I'm left to wonder if using a "who cares" putting approach is not the best way to use the flat stick. Seriously, how come things like that happen?
The 160 yard-par 3 11th left me shaking my head again. There was a big wait on the tee and a different group from the front nine came up as we waited. Having time to chat with the newcomers, it occurred to me that we could show off for a different foursome. That, it turned out, was a bad thought.
I was the first to tee off and though there was water all the way to the hole, it should not come into play. When you strike the ball and it only goes some 50 yards and slightly to the right, well at least the water did not come into play. It was a little embarrassing to say the least. I compounded it by hitting my next shot slightly worse than the first.
How come the golf gods let you do that in front of people who are starting to wonder if you only talk a good game?
As you have read before on these pages, we have some senior golfers and some youngsters as we like to be called. Deciding what tees to play, particularly at a new course can be interesting. We looked at the scorecard and noticed that the 15th was a concern.
The seniors were going to have to play tees that measured 420 yards while the kids got to tee it up from 380. We shook our heads until we realized that the seniors were playing the hole as a par 5, while the juniors were playing a par 4. We made the decision to switch the tees. The non-oldsters would play the hole from 420 and the cagey veterans from the shorter distance. Both groups would play it as a par 4 with a chance for a skin.
Problem solved, or so we thought. How come on this day the course decided to move the senior tees up to the standard tee box? Talk about confusion. My group, after consulting with the group ahead of us, teed off from the blacks and proceeded to line up our second shots. We were then told by an earlier group that they decided to play the hole as is, meaning the seniors got only a ten yard advantage.
Much to the chagrin of the group following us, we returned to the tee area and had at it again. If nothing else, we gave those strangers some stories to tell at our expense of course.
Despite all the craziness of playing the game, we will return next week because we love the game. You cry about the missed birdie opportunity, you laugh at the made bogey putt, and you think you will never hit another bad shot in the presence of a stranger.
To quote the late Jim Valvano: If you laugh, you think and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day.
That's golf.
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I'm with you. I wonder what it'll say if I type in thighs?ReplyDelete
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CRACK UP!!! :)ReplyDelete
Snort. And I'd like some new thighs.ReplyDelete
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Yeah, me too. I have cankles and would gladly trade them in.ReplyDelete
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Second-quarter sales tax receipts are down slightly in Erie County, according to the Comptroller's Office, which this week distributed receipts of $139 million to the county and its municipalities. That figure is down about $621,742 from the same period last year, the significance of which is a matter of dispute between the Comptroller's Office and the County Budget Office.
"That's not a good trend," said Gregory Gach, deputy comptroller for the accounting/fiscal division.
"It's the point we've been making all year, that the administration's sales tax revenue projections have been overly optimistic," Gach added.
The Comptroller's Office has been critical of the administration's projection of a 3 percent annual growth in sales tax revenue.
However, Deputy Budget Director Timothy Callen described the difference between what was anticipated and what was collected in the second quarter as minor, even though he conceded that sales tax receipts for the first six months of the year have come in $3.2 million under budget.
"As we're getting deeper into the summer shopping months, we're seeing the negative variance going down and the sales tax growth inching upward. We're closely monitoring it and expect that trend to continue," Callen said.
The County Budget Office has projected $721 million in sales tax receipts for this fiscal year, $394.6 million of which has been budgeted for the county coffers.
The remainder, $326.4 million, has been budgeted for distribution to the municipalities in the county, as well as the school districts, the NFTA and the Erie County Fiscal Stability Authority.
"The second quarter is not a big sales tax period. The third and fourth quarters are the highest for sales," Callen said.
He added that the third and fourth quarters are, respectively, the periods for summer and back-to-school shopping and holiday shopping when, historically, there also is an influx of Canadian shoppers.
"But is it something we noticed and are paying attention to? Of course," Callen said of the negative figures from the Comptroller's Office.
Gach, however, said the decrease in sales tax receipts could have a significant impact on the county's smaller municipalities, particularly if they budgeted for more revenue.
Out of the total amount of sales taxes collected for the second quarter, Erie County's share is $97.4 million compared with the $97.7 million that the county took in for the same period in 2012. That's a difference of nearly $303,000.
The remaining $41.7 million was distributed to the NFTA, the various school districts, as well as the cities, towns and villages in Erie County, which will share about $318,742 less than a year ago. The Comptroller's Office said those various entities should receive their respective second-quarter sales tax revenue checks sometime this week. By state law, sales tax revenue for the City of Buffalo and the Buffalo Public Schools is distributed directly to the Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority.
A complete list of the sales tax revenue distribution can be found on the county comptroller's website at www.erie.gov/comptroller.
Meanwhile, the Budget Office issued a copy of the May Budget Monitoring Report that shows the county has a positive variance of $673,418, while negative variances for overtime persist in the sheriff's division, jail management, the correctional division's health programs and the safety net program in the Department of Social Services.
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Can 'Brave' Chua Soi Lek Win Back Chinese Support for BN?
But Daim isn't saying the same thing to a host of mass media who interviewed him. He regarded MCA President Chua Soi Lek as a leader who has bravely spoken up for the interest of the community. I am unsure what Chua has spoken up for me but I have not heard him telling the government to treat all its citizens fairly and stop the distinction between Bumi-and-Non-Bumi. It is really a silly political game which aims at divide-and-rule the people.
If you are Chinese and you are poor. You are still poor. No point harping about how the NEP had helped to enriched people like Vincent Tan, Francis Yeoh, Robert Kuok or the late Lim Goh Tong. The only similarity the rich Chinese tycoons have with poor Chinese coolies is the ethnicity. What is theirs is theirs and whatever my woes are remain mine alone. They are not obliged to share their wealth with the poor Chinese. So, should we rejoice a few billionaires and disregard millions of poor?
What did Chua speak up for me? Chua was brave enough to tell us that MCA is not going to join the government if the party performs worse than 2008. He told us a vote for Dap is a vote of Pas and we should be very afraid of Pas' Islamic ambition to implement Hudud.
Did Chua even understand what troubled the Chinese community? What is his party stand on various issues such as political thuggery, Lynas rare earth processing plant, corruption, NEP which breeds cronyism and nepotism (cases of ministers' families being given lucrative government contracts) and others?
Did Chua speak up against the political arrogance of Umno and its association and tacit support for right wing and racist organizations such as Perkasa?
The Oracle should know one very important fact. It is difficult for MCA and Chua to sell Umno to the Chinese voters. Chua must prove that he has the political will and courage to stand up against what's wrong in Umno and the latter excesses in the government. Chua cannot use fear (of Hudud and Pas) to try to lure back Chinese support to his party.
It is good to be brave but it is more important to be righteous.
Now Daim is saying that we will have a better future under Najib's economic model. Which model? NEP or NEM? ETP, GPP, 1(Everything), KRA and whatelse?
Daim says Malaysia has the base to become a great economy because it has the workforce, resources and infrastructure as well as flexible institutions and policies to generate high economic growth. Which country does not have the workforce, resources and infrastructure?
What Daim did not elaborate on Malaysia's continuous dependence of cheap foreign labour and unskilled workforce. SMI associations are arguing that the implementation of RM900-1000 minimum wage may cause 80% of them to close down. If local workforce are going to earn such inhumane level of salary, these SMIs might as well close shop.
Logically, this helps to explain why Malaysia's brightest and skilled are not working in the country when they can obtain 3-4 times the pay outside the country. Malaysia has long been an employer market since the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Entry level salary has remained stagnant for the past one and half decade.
We should not blame the government solely for the minimum wage issue. The implementation of minimum wage requires the support and collaboration of all including employers and employees. I agree that higher wages must be compensated with higher productivity and better work attitude. The solution to rectify Malaysia middle income trap crisis is not as easy as merely the implementation of minimum wage if all parties are not willing to address more pertinent and serious challenges together.
Does Najib economic model spells out the solution? Even Anwar Ibrahim and his Pakatan coalition does not have a solution to the problem apart from promising to implement minimum wage of RM1200 if they win Putrajaya, a move which may isolate the employers and business owners.
Ironically the Oracle did not address the issue of wastage when he spoke about resources. Our oil reserve is dwindling and drying up. Petronas has warned of depleting revenue moving closer to year 2017. Almost half of government's budget is dependent on oil and oil related revenues. Did we use our finite resources wisely?
Is the Oracle predicting a stop to wastage, corruption and misuse of resources? Why are public infrastructure projects are still being awarded to companies (or cronies) at exorbitant price?
I would like to say that the Oracle of Syed Putra is still a political and not a 'medicine man' or 'political bomoh' that Sakmongkol/Ariff claimed he was.
Nonetheless, Ariff should still continue to humour us with his 'Oracle of Syed Putra' series. They are well written and entertaining. I am sure a lot of opposition supporters and his own colleagues in Dap needed some motivation reading the gloomy prognosis doled out by the Oracle on Najib's BN chances in the next GE. On the flip side, I am sure MCA leaders and supporters are very happy and relieved reading the Oracle singing praises of their daring leader.
Welcome to Malaysia's political talk! Sensational but at times senseless.
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all I hear from MCA are yapping about PAS, or Valentine's Day or buying some newspaper company or inviting celebrities or some nonsensical garbage
MCA must point to UMNO that top govt positions should be shared more evenly rather than exclusively to one particular race.Do away with the discount for bumiputra purchase of property.
It sometimes puzzle me why there are still some CINA-BENGS & CINA-LIANS who still CAN'T understand what CHUA SOI LEK is trying to tell us. OK, OK, OK...maybe I should translate them to a more AH BENG-LIAN kinda lingo to get the message across & here it goes:
'Ah Lek Kor' is trying to tell us:
1) If we vote for PAKATAN RAKYAT, the CHINESE will all be "Harm Kah Chan" becos' when PAKATAN RAKYAT comes into power, PAS will be the dominant party & PAS will "disregard" whatever opposing views coming from DAP.
2) Although DAP assures the CHINESE that they will NOT be subjected to the ridiculous EXTREMIST LAW of PAS but when the time comes when PAKATAN RAKYAT becomes the Govt., it will all be "TOO LATE" for the CHINESE to abandon PAKATAN RAKYAT becos' the cabinet will be mostly made-up by PAS leaders of whom will NOT even ENTERTAIN DAP's objections.
3) With a Govt. built-up of mostly PAS leaders, do you think PAS will still care about whether the CINAPEKS still have PORK to eat, 4D to punt, BEER to 'yam seng' or Health Centre to 'cheong'??? When PAS comes into power, whatever DAP object will be likened to listening to mere music off our radio by those PAS dudes.
4) 'Ah Lek Kor' DOESN'T want to see all the hard work & effort made by our forefathers by leaving the struggling life they once had in China & by swimming all the way to Malaya to build a better life comes CRUSHING DOWN in the end simply due to the IGNORANT BRAINS of their son/daughters/grandchildren/great grandchildren of whom are TOO BLIND to see the DANGER of PAS making use of DAP to achieve PAS objective.
5) 'Ah Lek Kor' DOESN'T want to see our forefathers burial site turning into Islamic burial site becos 'Lek Kor' could foresee PAS turning this country into 100000% Islamic country whereby AFHGANISTAN cum IRAQ law will be implemented upon its' citizen regardless of ones original ethnic background.
6) 'Ah Lek Kor' wants to see the Christians continue praying in churches & 'Ah Lek Kor' wants to see the Buddhists continue praying in temples. What 'Ah Lek Kor' DOESN'T want to see is the said group of people ending-up converting their original religion towards PAS belief & teachings.
7) 'Ah Lek Kor' hope to see young men & young women dressing up as they wish & NOT see young men dressing up like OSAMA bin LADEN & young women dressing up like NINJAS.
Lastly,'Ah Lek Kor' had been time & time trying to tell us to be WISE in our judgement & 'Not' allow simple candy-laced statements made by DAP who is in the midst of being used by PAS to DESTROY the fair share CHINESE are currently enjoying in Malaysia.
'Ah Lek Kor' also WARNED that we CHINESE will be PAS soon if we DON'T change becos PAS means....
"Parah Akibat Sesat"
Chua soi Lek has spoken bravely of all the shenaniggans he has done with his head under a lady's skirt.Or jumping up and down from a bed starked naked,like an ape caught by all the attention of the crowd and the camera's lights.
Yet he thinks that he is brave to admit his rampant cheatings on the spouse..He is actually a stupid fool to be caught with his pants down with a whore in a cheap hotel.But we have to give credit to him for being stupid but brave enough to lecture the public on family values.What a grown up stupid fool of a doctor.
The only thing that CSL is brave about is that he has the thick hide of a politician and the guts to lead the MCA into GE 13th to get decimated.
First of all those harping on the minimun wages issue are all stupid fools.Be they from PR or BN.These are election gimmicks good enough only to fool the two legged lembus from NFC and their lap puppies from the MACC and PDRM.
Why the brain drain.The main causes are corruption and cronism.Those well educated professionals saw that their talents are not being appreciated.To be bypassed by the political cronies of the ruling elite,who have the brains of a water kerbau fit to tend the lembus.
Corruption and corruption everywhere.From the PM's office down to the office boy,and even the janitor tending to the restrooms collecting quarters.From every hand the files passes by,money has to pressed palms.Inflated jacked up prices of negotiated contracts.
All these add up to the costs of producing our goods.It erases any productivity our workers have if any.Therefore simple commonsense tells us that corruption has forced ourselves to priced our goods out of the free competitive markets
To have a minimum wage will be adding on more costs.In other words we have produced overpriced goods that cannot attract buyers in the free markets.So eventually the manufacturers will relocate to other countries.Before it was Indonesia,Phillipines,Thailand, Chinaand India etc.
Now it is Vietnam,Cambodia and soon to Burma.Eventually maybe to wartorn Somalia too.The problem is corruption,because it kills our competitiveness and eventually pushes up the unemployment lines.
can you not show some common sense in your comments.You are acting like that clone of yours,Dr Chuah.I thought that you were much smarter than him.You sure is one to dissapoint,even to the creatures crawling on your scalp and hair.
CSL is only brave to tell the whole nation he had cheated on his wife with his son stood behind him.
And like Dr M, he could convince himself that he's righteous enogh to condemn others on imoral activities.
CSL is only brave in front of video camera during his porn flick shot, not in front of his U-Putra master. It is not that difficult to figure it out anyway, he is not allowed to play 'brave' without explicit permission from master.
There is a BIG difference between brave and thick-skinned!
You couldnt have expressed it better. However, Malaysians have to make a choice just like some other nations. If the poor keep on being poor, there'll be a day when their life is meaningless anymore and that they would not go quietly or alone as they were not given a chance. The mega rich (now many billionaires in Malaysia) can just scoot off with their (ill) gotten wealth and Malaysia will never ever become a developed nation
Speaking of Malaysian workforce, I was in Malaysia recently visiting relatives. Has the opportunity to deal with many Malaysians working on frontlines ... sales assistants in retail shops, banks, accounting firm, young company executives ...
I left Malaysia feeling sad that our young Malaysians now seems lacking in confidence in handling customers, struggle to speak English, at loss answering non-standard questions, unable to handle customer complaints ... I see a whole bunch of young Malaysian walking zombies. There is not fire in their eyes, doing what they do, no enthusiasm, no energy. Are these the upcoming backbone of the Malaysian workforce?
I was in Vietnam, Indonesia and Cambodia recently and boy, the young working folks there are energetic and eager to learn, has the spirit of trying.
At this rate, I worry what will happen to the Malaysian workforce of the future. Can they take on the global challenges or will they remain simply low-end workforce.
By the way, I am a Malaysian and I left the country for better career opportunities.
I rather have PAS rule than UMNO and MCA.
If PAS impose law to cut a thief's hand, it will be so easy for us to recognise who is from UMNO and MCA. They will be walking around without hands. Hahaha!!!
Correction! Chua was caught naked with a female acquantaince (not a whore) in the most expensive and upmarket hotel (not a cheap hote)in Batu Pahat.
I won't classified his act as 'brave' except a shameless act in light of the porn flick he so blantantly displayed to the public, and then steadfastly denied such sexual tryst outside his marriage to his wife; son, supporters and voters. It has nothing to do with a man character at all except having a deceitful nature.
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WELLSVILLE -Wellsville homeowners will see a boost in their sewer rates come the new year. Village council passed an ordinance at their regular meeting Tuesday evening establishing new sewerage fees effective Jan. 1, 2013.
While the minimum rate itself has actually dropped a dollar, the usage minimum limit has also gone down by 30 percent, coupled with a higher overage fee, resulting in a higher overall payment schedule.
The existing charge has been $21.07 for the first 3,000 gallons used per month, with a rate of $6.19 per thousand for all usage over 3,000 gallons. Starting next year, the charge will be $20.07 for the first 2,000 gallons used per month, with a rate of $7.50 per thousand for all usage over 2,000 gallons.
Councilwoman Diane Dinch, chair of the village finance committee, said it was a difficult decision the committee members know will be unpopular, but a combination of factors make the rate hike necessary. "It's not anything we wanted to do, but it comes down to we can't find any other way to make it work," she said.
Dinch said village has 1,534 customers for it sewerage, which is handled by United Water at their wastewater treatment facility on 16th Street, which is down from a customer base over 1,800 several years ago. Of those customers, 833 are using 2,000 gallons or less per month at the current rate. She said those revenues aren't enough to maintain the current service and keep up with associated debts.
"What it boils down to is, we're not generating enough money to make our loan payments and operate our plant," Dinch said.
Dinch estimates the loss of population in recent years has resulted in roughly 200 fewer customers for the sewer plant. The closure of businesses and facilities that used large volumes of water, including the Sterling China works and MacDonald Elementary School, have resulted in an even steeper drop in demand for the facility's services. She also suggested that village residents replacing older toilets and washing machines with newer, more water-efficient units was a factor.
Insufficient funding to pay United Water to operate the facility would necessitate in the village taking over operations. This would be very problematic, Dinch says, because Wellsville has no current employees qualified to run the plant. She also said keeping the keeping facility up to code is crucial. Failing to do so would result in heavy sanctions from the Environmental Protection Agency, costing the village huge losses in fines.
Dinch used the example of Wellsville's former fresh water plant as a example of what can happen when the village is forced to handle such operations on its own with insufficient funding. She reminded residents that the village eventually became unable to maintain the old reservoir and operate the former treatment plant, resulting in crushing punitive fines from the EPA. "That's how Buckeye Water ended up taking over our water," she said.


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on December 5, 2012 - 6:17 AM
With the holidays fast approaching, I'm getting questions from readers about steakhouses. To many people – myself included occasionally – a good steak dinner represents celebration at its best.
But let's get our terms straight first. There is steak and there is Steak – and it's the latter we'll discuss in this column.
This Steak – as opposed to the tasty beef you can find in items like steak sandwiches – is cut at least an inch thick, is aged and is served rare (at least to my way of thinking).
The meat is accompanied by a good drink, a good potato (hash brown or baked), a good salad and, often, for some historic reason I am unable to determine, creamed spinach.
Some people might call this a "real testosterone meal," which it probably is. But it tastes fine on a cold winter night. And …
It doesn't come cheap.
But look at it this way. If you eat all of the above, you needn't bother with dessert.
This kind of meal is considered by many to be the very basis of the American culinary experience, and most cities across the country have several restaurants devoted to it. (Did I say "devoted to it?" I might better have said "that worship it.")
Buffalo has its very own, and here are some I suggest. These are places that center around Steak, though you can probably get a similar meal at many upscale restaurants.
So, sharpen your knife and let's begin.
Buffalo Chophouse, 282 Franklin St. Busy, glitzy, luxurious. If you're lucky, you can glom onto a coupon and save some bucks. The Chophouse offers at least five cuts of Steak, including a 24-ounce Chateaubriand for two for $75.
A tip: The lobster bisque is terrific, but if you order it, you won't finish your meal.
E.B. Green's Steakhouse at 2 Fountain Plaza in the Hyatt Regency Buffalo. A little more serene than the Chophouse, it's actually a beautiful tiered room with great floral arrangements. It offers at least five different Steaks, including a kosher, bone-in rib eye.
A nice thing here, if you have a drink in the bar that overlooks the dining room and it's the right night, is that you can hear Jackie Jocko play the piano. Sometimes, if it's quiet, you can even hear him in the dining room. That's almost as good as the steak.
We tend to think of steakhouses as urban institutions, but there is at least one in the near suburbs. Black and Blue, 5493 Sheridan Drive, Amherst, is big, handsome and maybe a little more casual than the places above. (That doesn't stop the manager from suggesting a dress code on the website – but it's nothing too onerous. Business casual – that includes khakis – is the thing.)
There's a great-looking, glass-enclosed wine tower in the center of the main room that the servers climb to get selected bottles, so obviously wine is a special thing here. (You can't see the tower from the side room where they put the overflow on busy evenings.)
And though I admit to a bias against chains, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the Hyde Park Steakhouse at Walden Galleria, with a decidedly nonmall ambience.
There are many steaks here, many with sauces. There's also a 34-ounce Long Bone Rib Eye on the online menu, but you can't have it because it's only offered in Pittsburgh, Columbus and Detroit. And so I have to ask:
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After his arrest, murder defendant Ali-Mohamed Mohamud sent his wife a letter asking for her forgiveness.
She threw the letter away.
Monday, Shukri Bile cried through much of her husband's first day on trial, refusing to look at him or even utter his name from the witness stand. Mohamud is fighting the charge that he bludgeoned to death her 10-year-old son and his stepson, Abdifatah, in the family's Guilford Street home.
"I don't know why he did this," Bile said of her husband.
"What I did, it happened," he said in his letter, according to Bile, a refugee from Somalia who testified with the assistance of an interpreter.
That was one of his reported confessions. Another occurred at Mohamud's workplace.
Shortly after the boy was killed, Mohamud, a security guard employed by U.S. Security Associates, called his work supervisor at home and asked him to come to The Buffalo News, where Mohamud had been assigned to work the past couple of years. When Louis Yoseph, the supervisor, arrived at the paper, Mohamud handed him money, papers and some property.
"It was really strange," Yoseph said. "He was giving me directions on how to handle his money."
Mohamud told his boss to give the money to his children – not his wife. Mohamud mumbled something about all the problems he was facing, Yoseph said.
And he said, "I killed my kid," Yoseph testified.
Mohamud then ate a doughnut and drank water before the police arrived to arrest him.
Prosecutors said Mohamud also admitted to police that he had beaten his stepson to death. Homicide detectives are expected to testify in the next day or two about what he told them after his arrest.
Prosecutor John Feroleto, in his opening statement, previewed a horrific murder case in which Mohamud is alleged to have stabbed, suffocated and beaten to death the fifth-grader from International Preparatory School on April 17.
"This man, this adult, this stepfather, bound his hands with an electrical cord, stuffed a sock inside his mouth and sealed it with duct tape," Feroleto said as he looked at Mohamud. "Abdi was powerless. He was powerless to stop this man from taking his life."
"This defendant brutally murdered a 10-year-old boy," the prosecutor told jurors. "This case doesn't require guesswork or mystery solving."
Mohamud told Buffalo police where to find the evidence, Feroleto said, adding that "the evidence in this case is overwhelming."
Defense lawyer Lana V. Tupchik did not mention Abdifatah during her seven-minute opening statement, or suggest another scenario about how the boy died. But she reminded jurors that Mohamud is owed the presumption of innocence.
"Mr. Mohamud denies this accusation," Tupchik said.
Abdifatah arrived in the United States in 2004.
His mother brought him along with her other children. He was born in a refugee camp in Uganda; his mother and her other children had fled Somalia after her husband died in the clan warfare in that country.
Abdifatah was a well-liked boy at school who received A's and B's on his report card. And he liked watching cartoons and playing video games like other boys his age.
But his life ended cruelly.
Abdifatah was struck about 70 times with a hardwood baker's rolling pin.
The blows fractured the boy's skull, broke his ribs and caused two dozen distinct injuries to his hands and as many to his legs, sustained as the boy sought to block the blows, Feroleto said.
A police officer and the boy's stepbrother found Abdifatah in the basement, in a fetal position, his hands and mouth duct-taped.
Prosecutors say his stepfather taped a sock in the boy's mouth during the beating to stop him from screaming.
Mohamud bound him with electrical cord to keep him from running, Feroleto told jurors. The stepfather replaced the sock with another after the boy vomited during the beating, he said.
"This wasn't some accident," Feroleto said. "This was murder."
Mohamud also stabbed the boy with a steak knife and tried to drown him in the bathroom, Feroleto said.
Some of the most graphic testimony of the day came from police investigators.
Homicide detective Michael Mordino described the crime scene in the basement.
Bloody footprints were found on the floor and steps, Mordino said. Blood was splattered across 15 to 20 feet of a wall; blood was found on pipes on the ceiling.
There was no part of the boy's body that was not bruised or bloodied, Mordino said, responding to questions from prosecutor Thomas M. Finnerty.
Police found a piece of the boy's skull on the floor next to his body. The back of the child's head was "caved in," and his brain was exposed through a hole the size of a golf ball, Mordino said.
The prosecution intends to show jurors a police video of the basement, as well as crime-scene photographs.
Defense lawyer Kevin Spitler objected, but State Supreme Court Justice Christopher J. Burns allowed in many of the images from the photos and video, ruling that just because the images may be gruesome does not preclude admitting them as evidence.
Bile, Abdifatah's mother, and a stepbrother testified that neither even saw the boy's stepfather act violently toward the boy before Mohamud's arrest last April.
Hussein Waris, 24, the stepbrother, called the boy "the best child anyone could have."
Waris testified he was often at his mother's Guilford Street home but had never witnessed any violence.
He described Mohamud as "a normal stepfather."
"He was treating him just like the other kids," Waris said, referring to how Mohamud treated his two young children who also were living in the home at the time.
In her tearful testimony Monday, Bile said she had never seen her husband strike Abdifatah.
A neighbor, driving along Sycamore Street on that fateful April day, recalled seeing Abdifatah running along the street. He had run away from home.
"I saw his stepfather running on the other side [of the street]," said Olive Ndayishimiye, who lives across the street from the Mohamud home.
She pulled over and gave Mohamud a ride so he could catch up to the boy.
When they caught up to the boy, Mohamud grabbed the boy's hand and led him to the vehicle. "He said he doesn't want to go home," she recalled.
"The stepfather was saying he doesn't want to do his homework," she said.
Ndayishimiye told the boy he could come over to her home to study and wait for his mother.
Mohamud said, "I won't do anything," she recalled.
"You always say that," the boy replied, she testified.
The boy did not study at her home, but went home instead. The neighbor said Mohamud looked "upset and tired" as she left the two outside their home, but Mohamud never raised his voice.
Bile was returning home from work at about 10:45 p.m. when she had a brief exchange with her husband. "He didn't want to do his homework," Mohamud told her, she said.
Mohamud was carrying bags on his way out of the home and refused to answer her questions: Where are you going? What happened?
"Don't ask me what happened," he said, according to her testimony. Then he drove off.
She could not find her son. That's when she called police.
Waris and a police officer – who was investigating the report of the missing boy – looked in the bedrooms and other rooms for the boy. Then they went into the basement, where they found him.
She recalled the last time she saw her son alive. He came home from school and ate some food she prepared for him the afternoon of April 17.
He went to his room to do his homework, she said.
Before she left, he asked her if she was heading to work.
Yes, she replied.
"Bye, mom," he said.
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Running game: A-
C.J. Spiller had another strong game — as we've come to expect. He didn't have the workhorse performance people wanted to see in Fred Jackson's absence because the game got away from the Bills so fast. But Spiller ran 17 times for 103 yards and a touchdown. He hit the 1,000-yard plateau in the fewest carries since Beattie Feathers for the 1934 Chicago Bears.
Passing game: D
An ordinary game would've been an improvement for Ryan Fitzpatrick. He completed 21 of his 38 attempts for 217 yards and a TD, but he threw two interceptions and got stripped for another turnover. The Seahawks mauled the Bills' offensive line, sacking Fitzpatrick three times. Stevie Johnson had a strong game with 115 yards and a score. T.J. Graham had at least four drops.
Run defense: F
The Bills' streak of not allowing opponents to rush for 90 yards ended at four games. Emphatically. Defensive tackle Kyle Williams said all week the Bills practiced to stop the Seahawks' zone-option attack yet still looked clueless. Rookie quarterback Russell Wilson rolled up 92 yards and three touchdowns. Marshawn Lynch ran 10 times for 113 yards and a touchdown.
Pass defense: D+
The Bills started off with a bang, when linebacker Kelvin Sheppard sacked Wilson on the first play. But the Bills hit Wilson just four times more the rest of the game. Wilson routinely found targets wide open and finished with a 104.4 passer rating. He completed 61 percent of his throws and averaged 7.8 yards per attempt. The Bills recorded just one pass breakup.
Special teams: D+
Marcell Dareus blocked an extra point. That was the highlight. The Bills were embarrassed late in the game when, down by 30 points, the Seahawks ran 29 yards up the middle on a fake punt. Some might consider Pete Carroll's decision unsportsmanlike, but the Bills were more aggravated they failed to stop it. Top return man Leodis McKelvin didn't play because of a groin injury.
Coaching: F
Buffalo was overmatched and outsmarted from the jump. Buffalo was pathetic on both sides of the ball. The Bills let a rookie quarterback play like Fran Tarkenton. With 6:40 left in the first half, five Seahawks already had gains of 20-plus yards. The second half didn't get any smoother for the Bills. The Seahawks continued to push them around. The Bills just took it.
Running game: A
Seattle did whatever it wanted on the ground. Wilson became the first quarterback in NFL history to rush for three touchdowns and throw for one in a half. Wilson and Lynch each averaged more than 10 yards a carry. Seattle ran for 270 yards as a team. Even if you take out the fake punt, Seattle averaged the same distance per rush as it did per pass attempt (7.8 yards).
Passing game: B+
Seattle's line and Wilson's quicksilver feet kept him upright all afternoon. The Bills sacked him twice and hit him three times. Pass distribution was terrific, with Wilson targeting 10 teammates, none more than five times. Sidney Rice and Golden Tate combined for seven catches and 140 yards. Tight end Zach Miller got wide open in the end zone for Seattle's only passing TD.
Run defense: C
The NFL's 10th-rated run defense had its problems containing Spiller, but few teams have been able to manage that feat. Spiller was the lone threat, accounting for all but 15 of the Bills' rushing yards. The game quickly became a pass-first attack for the Bills, rendering much of their ground game immaterial to the outcome. Only seven of the Bills' 21 first downs were on the ground.
Pass defense: A
The Seahawks were dominant despite being without right cornerback Brandon Browner (suspension) and top backups Marcus Trufant (hamstring) and Walter Thurmond (hamstring). Fitzpatrick often was swarmed by pressure. The Seahawks registered six pass breakups in addition to their two interceptions and forced fumble. They also dropped Spiller for a 9-yard loss on a screen.
Special teams: C
Prudence probably should've kept Seattle from faking that punt, but it worked. That cancels out the missed extra point for grading purposes. The Seahawks were otherwise vanilla on special teams. They punted only twice. Leon Washington was so-so on his returns. Steven Hauschka made all three of his field-goal attempts, from 19, 33 and 23 yards.
Coaching: A
The Seahawks became the first team since the 1950 New York Giants to score 50 points in back-to-back games. The game was a statement for Seattle, which has struggled to win on the road but now has posted consecutive victories away from CenturyLink Field. With a rookie quarterback and players missing in the secondary, Carroll has his team at 9-5 with two home games left.