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Gunshots cut softball games short
A report of gunfire near two high school softball games in Beloit resulted in the games ending early on Tuesday, according to police.
Sun Prairie varsity and junior varsity teams were playing Beloit Memorial at Krueger Park when the shots were fired nearby, according to Beloit police.
The game was suspended and not resumed.
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Has anyone tried More Milk Plus to increase milk supply? If so, how quickly did it work and what type of increase did you see (how many ounces pumped before taking it vs. after taking it)?
As of now, I pump around 2 oz. total from both sides combined (sometimes less) and my daughter is 7 weeks old and she eats between 3 - 4 oz. per feeding so I have to give her formula.
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I just started taking it Saturday and have not noticed a difference yet...
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I started taking it from the beginning. IDK if it worked or not. I was/am a HVP, and I was scared to stop taking it. So, it may have worked for me, or it might not have. I stopped taking it at 4 months when I dropped to 4 pumps a day. I had a decrease, but that could be correlated to the dropped pump.
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They are serious about the water thing. It's important that a concentrated dose go into your system. I used to take it after pumping (so 20 min w/ o water) and then wait to drink until I'd made up all the bottles and cleaned up.
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Mr. Simon is off base here to suggest that Tea Partiers and mainstream Republicans are really very close to the same. Mainstream Republicans are the reason we are in this mess. They have been co-opted by the DC establishment against the American citizenry. They have been bought off to allow the progressive movement to erode the foundation of this great country with only nominal opposition. They are effectively allies to the destruction of the US.I agree that we should be targeting those who would wreck this country, but that MUST include the Cochrans, McCains, Grahams, and their ilk, or we will surely fail.
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I agree with 1. It´s like saying members of the French Underground and officers of the Vichy French government were both---after all---Frenchmen. We need to rid ourselves of the collaborators on the R side, but they will not go easily. Treachery pays big dividends...at least for a while.
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PJ Media blather-- There are three main distinct political elements in America.1. The Dems and the media willing to roll over and fetch and bark their obvious socialist agenda.2. The GOP so willingly assisting them by never mounting a challenge or advancing conservative principles.3. The Tea Party (types)-- This is truly the majority of America-- conservative, hard working when they can find work, freedom loving, law abiding, aware of sedition (Obama) and understanding that with each and every scandal from Benghazi to the IRS debacle to the ILLEGAL ALIEN flood to the destruction of the US military and fall from influence of America on the world stage-- all orchestrated by those pulling the POTUS" strings (Puppet of the US)-- that America must not change fundamentally but must return to it´s fundamental objectives as set forth in the US Constitution!
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We are NOT at a crossroads--we are many miles away from the crossroads GOING DOWN THE WRONG ROAD!!!!We are almost to the point of no return because the so-called "conservative" party has sold us out for big business. They have sold us out for big government and big taxes just as long as they are the ones in charge.The American people are trying to gather the will to create coalitions to fight this tyrant, but are made fun of, put down, disavowed, and made to seem like they don´t matter by both parties and the media.Our Liberty and Freedom is under assault every day and people cannot believe that "its THAT bad" because they are too busy trying to survive and raise their families while the America they grew up in has slowly been changed and now is RAPIDLY being devalued by this invastion of persons who will drain our resources to the breaking point.We are in the middle of a Constitutional crisis because we have lost the "separation of powers" since anyone challenging this is put down. We have scandal after scandal and there are so many we cannot keep up with them.We are supposed to take our leaders at their word when they blatantly and willfully LIE to us, and think they can get away with this every time.We celebrate our Independence from a tyrannical King George III this year, but how much longer before we are commanded to worship Barack Obama?Its up to each of us to be a beacon of truth against those would would take it from us! Eagles UP!!!
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Quote "This Fourth of July, take it. Talk to your liberal and independent friends, family and neighbors, but don't gloat."With liberals/leftist its about their religion you are wasting your time.
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James May 'hologram' raves about old tech at Science Museum
Re: James May
He does according to the super-secret court injunctions :)
Ten... two-bay Nas boxes
I've never really understood the benefit of NAS boxes when a fully functioning PC could be had for the same price or lower. Or for that matter the bits left over from a recent upgrade.
Hanging's too good for 'em - so what do you suggest?
Put them to work in the Foxconn factories, but all their wages go to the Chinese person they replaced.
Metallic Glass iPhone 5 to battle pottery Samsung Galaxy S3
Re: iphone liquidmetal
"But can it form knives, and stabbing weapons?"
And curvy blondes?
Hamburg court: Google must police YouTube content
Re: The users lose out
The music industry should be killed.
It's the artists who need to live on, not the accounts who populate the "industry".
China's bullet trains to get face-invading cameras
'Don't break the internet': How an idiot's slogan stole your privacy...
Re: freedom?
Not been to the US much then?
The land that no shoed person shall enter,
I wonder if they got the idea from the Muslems?
Five charged after fanboi sells kidney for iPad and iPhone
At least he'll have something to play with when in the hospital awaiting death.
IPv6 networking: Bad news for small biz
They can have my IPv4 static IP...
...when they prise it from my cold, dead router,
Ape sanctuary seeks funds for armed Robo Bonobo
Given that Bonobo's are the primates that lurve to fuck. It can only be presumed that once they have access to words then it won't be long before we can expect some Mills & Boon bodice rippers from them.
As far as the robot is concerned, I hear Ann Summers has expressed an interest in partnership with Duracell.
Dot-word TLD registration closes tonight, maybe for many years
Anyone applied for...
... .ellipsis?
Chinese to burn iPads in upcoming celebrations
I'm surprised that...
...Apple haven't gone after those printing pictures of the rounded corners.
Female Chinese astronauts must have no scars, straight teeth
I'm wondering...
...if finally someone is going to do research on just how long a fart does hang around in a spacesuit.
Robotic surgeon successful in first prostate snip
Keyhole surgery?
More like peehole surgery... yeah I know, I'll get my coat!
Enormous Apple market cap swells and swells ... like a bubble
Eggs & Basket are the words that spring to my mind.
Russell Brand 'threw small voice-enabled iPad through window'
What a shame it wasn't Brand who got launched through the window, with the accompanying "Just trying to make people laugh fucker!"
Jimbo Wales 'to advise Whitehall on transparency'
Sheesh, Jimbo is as transparent as a not very transparent thing.
I wonder if he'll regale the Whitehall staff with anecdotes of his career publishing porn?
India splurges £100m on new mega internet snooping HQ
I'm sure India's starving millions will consider the price to be a bargain.
Please remind me again, why is Britain sending millions of pounds in aid to India?
Doctors sick of anonymous-coward NHS feedback commentards
People don't seem to realise that 50% of all doctors were in the bottom half of their classes, and of that 50% most end up as a GP.
A Jack of all medical trades, but a master of none.
Looks like the doctors are having difficulty adapting to their new pedestals which seem to be a lot lower than they ever used to be.
Apple vs Amazon in ereader format smackdown
Who cares?
Write them all and let calibre sort 'em out (paraphrasing of course).
Google and Facebook remove 'offensive' content from Indian sites
Pah! Fucking religion!
As if life wasn't complicated enough.
Android users more likely to put out
I put out on the first date regardless of the phone I have in my pocket!
Newt Gingrich wants Moon to be 51st US state
Aren't you forgetting Sweden?
Shouldn't that be Mediocre Britain these days?
It's just unfortunate that it wasn't Newt in the boot!
Man vanquishes robot cop in hand-to-hand combat
That would be Metal Mickey, featuring the voice of Mickey Dolenz.
Kiwis collar Megaupload kingpin, Anonymous exacts revenge
Commentards in lynch-mob fervour...
...why is it in the post-9/11 world people are automatically assumed to be guilty?
Has the "innocent until proven guilty" mindset in this world of terrorism disappeared for every big media bust?
Is it any wonder that the US is the most reviled nation on Earth?
Virgin Media takes itself in hand after punter-package tickle whoopsie
Our street is 50mb compatible. I don't use VM at all. As a result I must be pissing them off as they send me tons of junk mail. It's ridiculous the amount of trees that must have died to try to persuade me to take on something there is no way in hell I'd use.
So one errant email? Meh!
Child labour, lost wages uncloaked by Apple factories audit
"...treat workers with dignity and respect..."
Unlike their customers of course!
Ten... stars of the Consumer Electronics Show
The Nikiski picture
I can't help but see the parallel, from times gone by, with the pictures of Rolf Harris advertising the Stylophone.
Japanese boffins crack arse-based ID recognizer
There's no such thing as American English, let alone British English.
The UK uses English, Americans speak American. There is no England in America (and although it tried, New England is still not England).
The "ish" on the end of English means pertaining to England. HTH
Facebook suggests you get out more - and it'll tell you how
I bet it won't know about my swinging weekends much less advertise them :)
Brits turned off by Smart TVs
If you can find me a 50" plasma monitor (none of that LCD/LED rubbish for me) at a TV price I'd be more than happy.
I only watch blu-rays, occasional DVDs and HD-DVDs, downloaded TV shows in hi-def and MKVs. That's it. Broadcast TV is so shite these days it really isn't worth the expense of putting a tuner in a TV.
Gimme a hi-quality screen where the usual expense of all the fripperies is spent on the plasma panel and its associated electronics and I'd be a happy man
Don't need one.
I have a 3-year-old Panasonic plasma with a PC with HDMI out (and a Keysonic wireless keyboard with integrated trackpad). Far smarter than any smart TV out there.
But if I were to buy a new TV it would have had to have all the money spent on getting the best picture it can. No 3D, no 'net access, no media streaming. Just a very, very good monitor really. My Denon amp and Mordaunt-Short 6.1 supplies the sound so it wouldn't even need a volume control.
These days TVs are getting more and more like the integrated stereo systems of old and it'll get to the point where they do everything with mediocrity but nothing with brilliance.
Boffing boffins create 3D map of orgasmic female brain
...no sound on the video!
Purely to get the relationship between activity and result of course.
Ice Cream Sandwich
A quantum leap of difference?
Oh boy!
Fragged, fragged and thrice fragged! 20 years of id Software's Doom
Ah I remember the Doom obsession well. Spending literally days downloading mods from the infant2 server circa '93. I think my personal stash of mods ended up at around 1500...though I think I only actually tried a quarter of them.
Engineers seek funds for world's largest Tesla coil
Ten stories?
I thought this was going to be a partwork in installments.
Bloke gets wedding tackle trapped in ring
## Pink thing in the ring dah, dah, dah, dah, dah ##
Fingerprint scanner can detect drugs in sweat
I've been on opiates for nigh on 30 years, all courtesy of a long list of quacks of course, first dihydrocodeine and now tramadol (the latter I have a physical dependency on...my pain clinic consultant says "addicted is when you mug old grannies for your drugs, patients are 'physically dependent'" - I like my consultant. So what happens if I get scanned? I'm doing drugs quite legally with the full knowledge of my quack and the DVLA, but I'm sure Mr Plod won't give a shit at 3am on a cold night when my brakelight bulb has gone (and I have a digital camera on the seat next to me!).
Deep-sea squid go from transparent to dark as fast as a Kindle
Great, looks like I'll be able to read a Kindle underwater soon Well I take mine everywhere else!
Yelp update ridicules Republican (ex)-hopeful Rick Perry
The US wasn't a fascist state then, it was trying to be one, but bin Laden was on our side then and hadn't started in the demolition biz.
Lost cities found beneath sands of Sahara by satellites
Are we sure...
...that it isn't the actual storage area of the legendary Weapons of Mass Destruction that Bliar and Bu$h knew were hidden round here somewhere?
Robot cop tackles mystery tinfoil poo-bomb bandit
And if , as requested, they do report to the police, will they find themselves in the shit?
Gadget Shop kingpin cuffed in nightclub 'toilet sex' incident
Looks like Mr & Mrs Gorman like to watch the BBC.
Blogger freaks after airport lackey fondles checked-in vibrator
Since when is scribbling a note an invasion of privacy? The TSA guy had to search her bag anyway.
Sounds like this 'lady' needs her vibratory friend as she's too uptight to get the real thing!
Official: Kindles get heavier as you add e-books
I've sussed it...
...it's all this physics shite, it's very heavy reading. That's why Kubiatowicz's Kindle got weightier.
Stallman: Did I say Jobs was evil? I meant really evil
He may be a bit raving, but I have to agree with what he says.
Apple gets patent for 'unlock gesture'
Ah but, they didn't invent it. They merely patented it.
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Almost 30 percent of the American Midwest—the area that produces most of the country's corn, soybeans and livestock—is suffering an escalation of its most extreme drought in five decades.
Conditions in the region have worsened despite the first measurable rain in a month in some areas. More than 53 percent of the U.S. and Puerto Rico is experiencing moderate droughts or worse, a record for the fourth week in a row for the 12 years climate experts have been watching.
—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.
Reuters via The Guardian:
More than half of the country's pastures have been rated poor or very poor by the US Agriculture Department, while the corn and soybean crops have wilted under scorching temperatures during their more vulnerable periods of pollination.
A Reuters poll this week estimated the US corn yield at 130.8 bushels per acre, the lowest in 10 years.
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A Spanish-language requirement reopens old wounds at DISD
Who says the mayor is a racist? You'll be surprised by the answer.
Nobody believes Terrell Bolton anymore--except his friends at Dallas City Hall
Ron Davis' wife disappeared 13 months ago. So why isn't he telling police everything they want to know?
And the Tom Dunning staff member who has been subpoenaed to the grand jury is...
Black leadership goes in the tank on civil rights, fights for the police chief's job instead
The Dallas Morning News sends a crack team to make sure a big story doesn't get covered
In the battle for the District 6 council seat, the dark horse has a white face
When Lancaster's school superintendent ordered a lenient sentence for two white kids caught with shotguns, black parents said it was one more example of the suburb's bigotry
Buzz hacks through the past in search of the cool cats and fools of the year that was
Not even close
He's white
They the people; Free stuff
City council members find ingenious ways to screw poor kids out of their swimming pools
What do you get for 50 bucks a meeting? Thomas Korosec sizes up the man and woman most likely to succeed Al Lipscomb.
The Dallas NAACP is making some political moves. That much we know.
Confusion reigns at the Dallas NAACP, while its national leader and John Wiley Price feud
Local NAACP President Lee Alcorn is running for re-election--if his opponents don't get him disqualified first
The Evans-Tyler school board race disintegrates into cheap talk of sex and powerlust
John Wiley Price, the man who once toted a bullhorn in protests outside Mayor Ron Kirk's home, learns that it helps to have friends in high places
Are bad-boy lawyers Bill Brewer and John Bickel building a bridge to Dallas' minority communities, or trying to sell them one?
Bad teachers make bad students, according to DISD's own statistics; just don't ask to see them
The voters could care less. But someone's gotta win the runoff for the last lowly DISD board seat
Elected by no one, John Scovell and a clique of Dallas business leaders brought you DISD's most infamous cast of characters: Yvonne Gonzalez, Dan Peavy, Bill Keever, and Sandy Kress. Thanks a lot.
Don't expect racial tensions to cool in DISD as long as emotion trumps the truth
She's the toughest superintendent DISD has ever had. But Yvonne Gonzalez's administration has already developed a dangerous tendency for bulldozing the facts.
How honest is the DISD superintendent being about her costly office renovation?
With Hispanics the majority among Dallas schoolchildren and a Latino superintendent in their corner, Jesse Diaz and other activists say
The self-proclaimed ministers of capitalism have gotten a cool reception to their gospel in Dallas. But Chevis King Jr. and Joe Howard won't give up till they've found a better way to spend black people's money.
Learning that rabble rules at Dallas school board meetings
DISD hired Clarence Glover to defuse a racial crisis. But is he tough enough for the job?
How John Wiley Price and Chad Woolery have made students pawns in Dallas' racial politics
How John Wiley Price and Chad Woolery have made students pawns in Dallas' racial politics


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The goal is to attract new families to the sport of competitive swimming. No competitive swimming experience is necessary to tryout. At the tryout, swimmers will be asked to swim one length of the pool. An informational parent meeting will also be held at the same time to describe the new program and answer questions.
There will be no program fee for the month of December however all swimmers must become members of United Sates Swimming. Program fees begin January 1st and will include a youth metro Milwaukee YMCA membership.
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Well I've asked in Wow-Europe.com forums before I got the answer but I'm asking in here since many experts walking around here.
Hi fellow Death Knight players,
I would like to learn how Taunt mechanics work, I've searched thru all the forums and web but I couldn't find enough information that I'm looking for.
As a DK I have Dark Command as a Taunt ability, what happens if I taunt a target I'm already tanking? It says "has no effect if the target is already attacking you." but some of my friends say 'Target will attack you until the debuff wears off even if the target is already attacking to you.'
Which one is a false information? Tooltip or this? Anyone has extended information on DC mechanics?
Please read the topic and first 17 posts before proceeding.Quote:
Lets put few numbers on the table.
1. Me - 100.000 Threat
2. A Mage - 99.999 Threat
Let's say I'm tanking a 83 Elite Raid Boss (named Gamon q:) and boss is attacking to me
I cast Dark Command and put Dark Command debuff for 3 seconds on Gamon and stop generating more threat.
Mage casts an instant cast Pyroblast within that 3 seconds and Pyorblast projectile hits Gamon for 50k damage(and threat) in 1.2th sec.
What happens in the next 1.8 second?
Gamon keeps attacking me till DC debuff wears off?
Or changes its target to Mage?
Any kind of extra information would be greatly appreciated.
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Hardee's opinions wanted.
- jrvedivici Sep 5, 2012 06:28 AM
Ok my "southern" Chowhounders I need some help or advise from you. It has been brought to my attention the chain Hardee's is looking to make a presence for itself in the New Jersey Market where I am located. I have been told that from Delaware South Hardee's is the preferred fast food/burger restaurant than Mc'Donalds or others of that nature in its competing areas.
I did a search and found Hardee's mentioned in a few threads but didn't find any dedicated to it so I'm starting this just to hear as many opinion of the good and bad of the Hardee's restaurant(s) as a whole. Give me your opinions please….your responses are greatly appreciated.
The good - For fast food burgers, Hardee's food is genuinely good. The burgers are reasonably tasty, although I can't comment on the LTO's and "fancy" loaded burgers since I generally prefer simpler burgers. The onion rings are actually good. The best fast food onion rings IMHO, at least among those available in my area. The ice cream is hand-dipped and IIRC, it's Hershey's so you should be familiar with it. Not the best, but at least it's real ice cream, as opposed to say Chick-Fil-A's "ice dream" AKA ice milk. They have semi-table service, meaning you order at the counter and the food is brought to your table.
The bad - To me, it's their advertising and what it says about how they feel about their customers. Except for their most recent commercial which, in a big change for Hardee's is all about beefcake, their commercials are all highly sexualized and usually come down to watching a well-endowed woman have sex with a hamburger. I'm sure many of you have no problem at all with that but I have a big problem with what that says about the company's attitude about women and what type of customer they hope to attract. As a result, even though I like Hardee's food I generally avoid eating there. The choice, of course, is purely up to you.
re: rockycat
I can't imagine anyone calling their food "preferred" in the South. We have 4 in our (Southern)city, and they are only located in bad neighborhoods. I can't imagine eating in one, so I can't vouch for the table-service. The food is average fast food - not great, not terrible (except the chicken strips - yuck!). It's never very hot or fresh. Breakfast sandwiches are slightly better than other FF places. I find the prices equal to, or even a little higher than McD's and the like.
I did, however, get a sausage biscuit at a Hardee's in Alabama that was one of the best things I ever put in my mouth. Maybe it depends on management or staff, but they were definitely serving different food that other Hardee's locations.
re: rockycat
Since I've never had their ice cream products I went to their site and checked the ingredient list of the ice dream
Icedream (whole milk, sugar, nonfat dry milk, cream, corn syrup, natural and artificial flavors, dried whole eggs, cornstarch, mono and diglycerides, disodium phosphate, cellulose gum, carrageenan, sodium phosphate, guar gum, sodium citrate, annatto and caramel colors, artificial color [Yellow 5 & 6]). Cone (enriched flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate {vitamin B1}, riboflavin {vitamin B2}, folic acid], contains 2% or less of cornstarch, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, soy lecithin, baking soda, salt, annatto [for color], vanilla).
I hit their Bridgeville DE location on the way to or from the beach a couple times a year, usually at breakfast time.
Biscuit sandwich with breaded pork chop and sausage gravy.
What else do you need to know?
I do not think they are the preferred burger/burger restaurant in the South at all. They are definitely further down the list when compared to McD, BK, Wendy's and even Chic-fil-a (fast food, not burgers). I think their breakfast biscuits are better than any other FF biscuits, but they are super greasy. I rarely eat a burger there.
re: Dax
Preferred is a matter of opinion (and sales figures), of course, but before Hardee's was bought out by the Carl's Jr. people they were headquartered in Rocky Mount, NC where the first company store was located. The story goes that Ray Kroc got the idea for the design of the old McDonald's buildings from Hardee's. I don't know if that's true,though. There is a certain amount of home-town/regional pride, though.
I did forget about Hardee's breakfast biscuits. They'e pretty darn good and I love me some tenderoin biscuit. But then again, Bo's breakfast biscuits are excellent, too, and no social baggage associated with Bo's.
re: rockycat
The country ham biscuits are the real deal too. There is one on the way to the BHM airport so I pass by there frequently and sometimes stop in for a breakfast biscuit.
I'll give you the Coles Notes version.
It's an above average FF place. You'll not give up a good Indy for it but it beats most in it's class.
I like that they do table service, but the quality of their food is all over the map, in every sense of that phrase. After having gotten some truly good fried chicken at several of them in Nashville, I recommended that during a trip with my brother. So we stopped at one in Poplar Bluff, MO, and there had some of the most wretched chicken either of us had tasted. Snotty service, too.
Out here in SoCal they're all Carl's Jr., and I'm quite fond of their Six Dollar Burger. Again, some locations have been better than others. My only caveat would be to ask for "sauce" (it's really just mayo) on the side, since otherwise the bun won't make it through the meal without dissolving.
re: Will Owen
Carl's Jr and Hardees are not the same. Not by a long shot.
re: rasputina
They share the same look in their advertising since the buyout, and my understanding is that they share at least most of the menu. I know those biscuits are a big hit here.
re: Will Owen
I've eaten there after the buy out. Yes, their sign looks similar. Their food surely was not.
re: rasputina
They are owned by the same company and share many of the same menu items, but in the south they have some specialty items.
re: malibumike
I've eaten at both, Carl's Jr just today actually and Hardee's most recently was last year. I have never eaten breakfast there so my comments are just about the non breakfast items.
Online, looking at their website you'd think they served the same food. But when I was there in person, the menu was not the same. Hardees had I think 2 similar type basic burgers as Carl's Jr ( IE the same basic burgers that every FF place has), but none of the other selections. None of the grilled chicken sandwiches for example. I don't like their french fries so I can't compare those but the onion rings at Hardees where not the same as Carl's Jr. And while I've had poorly prepared food at Carls before the food at Hardees was horrible.
Maybe this location was a fluke. I don't know, but I'm not wasting my money again to test it out. The only thing I finished of that meal was the drink.
re: rasputina
Carl's Jr bought Hardee's a few years ago, that is why the advertising is the way it is.
re: Will Owen
Table Service? Not in Alabama.
re: Davwud
To be honest, that Poplar Bluff Hardee's was the last one I've been to, and that was maybe fifteen years ago. But after ordering we did sit down at a table and a rather snippy young woman brought the wretched remains to us …
re: Will Owen
My first visit to Hardee's was probably no more than 10 years ago. I'm of the opinion that they upped their game just prior. Which, if memory serves, is one reason why we decided to give it a whirl. Perhaps they did and it's better now. Perhaps we went in with low expectations and were surprised.
Either way, of all the FF burgers I've had, it's probably second in my mind.
I do love that they have Coke 0 on the fountain. I grab one pert neer every day when I'm at my SIL's.
re: Davwud
Hardee's made what seems to me to be a big move into this area 20-25 years ago. They were the first national chain in several of the nearby small (pop. 1,000-3,000) towns. They did well for awhile and we were proud to have them.
I can't recall a new store being built around here in the past 20 years and can only think of two out of five that I have actually eaten at still being open.
I would try Hardee's again if I saw a reasonably prosperous looking location during my travels.
The Hardee's in my neck of the deep south are generally disgusting. I would choose any of the other national burger joints ahead of them. I LIKE McDonalds, Wendy's,Burger King etc. so I am not a fast food snob.
That said; I don't think they are required to be nasty, by corporate charter, but the ones around here are.
Hmmmm so far outside of breakfast it seems the information I have been provided regarding their reputation and popularity in the South (South of Delaware) seems to have been misleading.
i have had hardees numerous time. (i dont really know why.) its basically just a step above burger king. (burger king is gross). as far as the huge burger joints are concerned, i pretty much always choose wendys.
but also it seems what matters more is who is running the particular franchise. the wendys i go to, the food has always been freshly made, and never has anything been screwed up. at the other fast food joints near me, screw ups are pretty common. so it all depends i guess.
Hardee's burgers are not amazing but put it this way... I have had worse burgers at cheap sit-down chains like Applebees, Chili's, Don Pablos, etc. for twice the price after tax and tip. Hardee's is a fast food burger that is about twice as good as it should be, given its price point.
The breakfast there is legitimately good, not just goodfor fast food. I think their biscuits are baked in house and they beat the hell out of biscuits I've had at independent diners or my own kitchen. Their sausage is pleasantly crumbly and heavy on the sage instead of rubbery and lifeless, and their egg resembles an actual griddle-fried egg instead of the standard fast food pressed disk.
They also do a serviceable chili dog at some locations, but these can be hard to find.
re: carolinadawg
I must say that I left that target group 37 years ago, which may be why the advertising impresses me not at all. I got that first Six Dollar Burger when I was shooting some appraisal photos out in Santa Clarita - this was when they were a new item - and a Carl's Jr. was the handiest place to stop for lunch, so I was just satisfying my curiosity. I was surprised at how good it was; the service was quite friendly, too, which helped.
Although I'm sure the biggest single category of Hardee's/Carl's Jr. customers fall into that targeted area, so I think do most habitual fast-food consumers in general. At any given time of day those will be the people you'll likely see more of. But you'll also see moms with kids, travelling salesmen, high schoolers and office workers, and a few old duffers like me.
re: Will Owen
Yes, that demographic is the most frequent consumer of fast food, but other chains such as McDonalds are actively chasing other demographics, such as women, with salads, oatmeal, etc. My wife recently went in Hardee's and remarked that there wasn't a single menu item "for her", meaning anything resembling lower cal or healthy.
re: carolinadawg
@ carolinadog.................It was brought to me as a potential investment.
re: jrvedivici
Thanks, that was my assumption. If it were me, I'd look at it very hard. As I have said, they have focussed on a very narrow market, imo.
re: carolinadawg
To be perfectly honest I had very little interest except for the fact the person who brought it to me is a close relative and really seemed convinced of their reputation/poplularity in the "south". I have already sent him a copy of this thread to show the feeback which at a guess I would say is 60% - 70% negative overall. (With the exception of breakfast which seems to get a much higher approval rating).
re: jrvedivici
I don't know that I would weight the opinions of CH'ers very heavily in this context. We are, for the most part, nowhere near Hardees' desired demographic and our opinions about food do not, again for the most part, coincide with the majority of fast food-eating Americans.
re: rockycat
While I do partially agree with you regarding most Chow's aren't the prime demographics for Hardees or fast food customers in general I do think they at least have a finger on the pulse of what is going on in their respective areas.
As I previously stated it was told to me that in southern markets where Hardees competes head to head with Mc'Donalds, Burger King or Wendy's that Hardees is right in the mix of the more popular fast food establishments. So even if most Chow's don't necessarily eat there themselves I'm sure if they pass a Hardees and Mc'donalds across the street from each other and there is always a line at Hardees and not Mc'Dondalds I would have heard about it thus far in this thread. (as you see nobody has remotely supported that)
The bottom line and I thank you all for this.....I was suppose to take a day trip down to the Delaware, Maryland area to check out a few of the locations and see what kind of business they are doing. This thread was my first exploration into this potential "investment" and after reading everything thus far you have all saved me a hundred or two in gas because what little interest I had has been diminished.
I'll have to disagree at least about the biscuits.
I was impressed with Hardees thirty years ago when I traveled a lot in the southeastern states. Their biscuits and breakfast items were more than acceptable for a fast food place.
Unfortunately when CKE of Carls Jr fame bought them, their corporate standardized industrial ingredients list came along and quality dived - cardboard biscuits anyone? Even my Wisconsin / Minnesota relatives said 'crap alert - stay away'. I can't say that they've returned to the biscuit recipe of old IMO. Perhaps there a few locations who can 'fudge' the standard process to get better results.
re: DiveFan
As recently as 1997 - the last time I was in Gainesville, GA for the Mitty Challenge at Road Atlanta - the only breakfast available near our motel was a Hardee's, and the biscuits and sausage were excellent. My only problem was that I was trying to hold down my fat intake and have nothing more caloric than an Egg McMuffin, but my friend was not going to drive the van and its car-hauler over to McDonald's; if I wanted breakfast I had to walk there. So what the hell … I had two of them!
I'm from North Carolina, and Eastern NC at that. I always saw Hardee's and the bottom of the barrel for fast food. They were preferable to KFC when they introduced fried chicken, but that isn't universally available now. Until recently, my last Hardee's stop was some time in the late 1990's when I was passing through Rocky Mount on my way to take my grandmother back to her house. We chose Hardee's because a fully loaded school activity bus has just stopped at the McD's across the street. I remember wishing I has braved the crowds at McD's. A few weeks ago I went through the drive through near home and got a chicken biscuit after my weekly long run (usually get pancakes with the running group, but there were scheduling conflicts). Hardee's was convenient and I was hungry. The biscuit was one of the best fast food biscuit I've had, and the chicken was above average. The "hash rounds" were not good - overly greasy. All told, I still don't think I will choose Hardee's over other fast food options, and I certainly wouldn't invest in the company (except maybe in a franchise for a town that doesn't have any other fast food options).
re: mpjmph
The Carl's Jr. stores here have been pushing their biscuits hard - I think they must have bumped the recipe, and they have been bragging about how they're freshly baked on-site. I recall that Hardee's biscuit of fifteen or so years ago as remarkably good, too, so I think I owe it to myself, and the general spread of biscuit knowledge (so hard to come by in SoCal!) to drop in at my local and get some. Pardon, I mean "git me some."
re: Will Owen
Definitely worth a try. I wonder is biscuits are one of the items that wasn't standardized across the two chains. Hardee's have long advertised their fresh, made from scratch biscuits.
I ended up at Hardee's for lunch today on a long drive home from the coast. The hand breaded chicken tenders were pretty good, and the kids meal size was just right.
re: mpjmph
Seems to me CJr has had biscuits for some time - not absolutely sure, since they aren't my usual FF choice for breakfast - but then suddenly they started bragging about them with prominent signage, even posting employees out on the sidewalk holding up signs. So perhaps they'd previously been using commercially baked and delivered biscuits - not uncommon in SoCal - and then had switched over to Hardee's recipe and begun baking in-house. This is all speculation, of course, but it seems reasonable.
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The other day I saw a guy waving a sign on the sidewalk outside Carl's Jr. advertising that they're selling Hardee's Biscuits. I thought of this thread.
Another southernern saying Hardee's is not prefered. It's not horrible either.
Solid fast food burger, great chicken tenders and onion rings, good breakfast biscuits.
I am from the South, and I am familiar with Hardee's.
In the past, the restaurant did a lot of breakfast business. In most locations, the biscuits are fabulous, but it depends on the bread maker. Ingredients are pre-measured, but the biscuits are from scratch. Our church had the makings donated once (for a fundraiser dinner), and I was able to work with the products while a neighbor tanked hers. In the Virginia mountains, biscuit makers put out Hardees biscuits that beat most home scratch biscuits by a long mile.
Up until the last five years or so, breakfast was great at Hardees, but the burgers were horrible. The fries also were not very good. Then, they came in with the angus burgers. Local locations now have burgers that taste quite good for fast food but do cost more compared to Burger King or McDonalds.
As far as the South, it seems seniors are the biggest patrons and for breakfast. They offer a discount, so they have a lot of older people for breakfast. I think that may be why the ad campaigns shoot for males and younger, but the ads are often awful. They try for the cool effect, but they miss by a long shot.
Straight up food? At solid locations, they have some of the best biscuits (esp with gravy) around, and the burgers are a step up from most fast food places. French fries still are not very amazing.
Hardee's lures me in once every year or so with the crazy variety of burgers they dream up. I'm always disappointed, but I never seem to learn.
There aren't any very close to me, so it's not a big problem, yet.
There used to be one up the street from me. It closed around 1999. The space has since been a dozen different things. They cleared the land recently, and are building a new structure. I checked to see what it is becoming, surprise, a Hardee's. When I heard that I thought of an old song lyric, "For it must end as it began, and then, start again". I put on Uriah Heep and played "Echoes in the Dark". Best thing Hardee's ever did for me.
Years ago I was a Hardees fan. They did biscuits before McDonalds did. I liked their breakfast biscuits, biscuits and gravy, and the sweet biscuit with raisins. They had good roast beef sandwiches as well. Their hamburgers were mediocre. Then about 20 years ago they found themselves slipping. They added fried chicken. The problem was, they were not really a chicken place. They needed to sell 300 pieces of chicken per day just to break even. (I used to know a guy who was a regional manager for a Hardees franchisee who owned about 18 stores). I don't know when Carls Jr. took over Hardees but a big change was made to emphasize the big burgers ($6 burger). I've only been back to Hardees twice since that time, once for breakfast and once for a burger. The problem I have with Hardees is that their burgers are now about 1,500 calories, 100 grams of fat and about 2,000 mg of sodium.
I'm glad I found this page! I just moved to western NC after living in FL for 30 years. There are no Hardees in Florida, but there's one in the new town I live in. Thought I'd check it out. The burgers - though they do have a broiler mark on them - remind me of the boxed frozen burgers you get at Sam's Club. They seemed more like meatloaf than a burger. Maybe it's just "culture shock," but I'd prefer the devil I do know - McDonald's, BK, or Wendy's.
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In reading this discussion, someone said that there are no Hardee's in Florida. I can't find the post of the person who said that, now. But anyway, not true. There is one in Arcadia (or was--I haven't been there in years) and one by the exit off I-4 by the Rooms to Go warehouse, just outside of Tampa.
Hardee's had an identity problem for a long time. Hardee's management could not figure out what it specialized in and tried a whole bunch of approaches and different foods. I like that. Variety is the spice of life. They tried a heavy emphasis on Mexican food . . . and burgers, a heavy emphasis on roast beef and other sandwiches . . . and burgers, a heavy emphasis on bready things . . . and burgers.
Since Carl's, Jr. bought them, they have become the large burger place . . . and (regular-sized) burgers.
Their biscuits and breakfast food are the best things that they do. They do a McDonald's-style scrambled eggs and sausage in a tortilla thing which was far bigger and better than McDonald's (and cost a lot more, too).
Hardee's changes its menu so much that I wouldn't be surprised if any of the items which I have mentioned have already disappeared. (I haven't been there in a few years.) But that's nice--you never know what surprises are in store for you when you go to a Hardee's.
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The post immediately above yours is the one that said there are no Hardees in FL. There are actually about two dozen, mostly in the Daytona/Orlando/Tampa areas. It's a large state...obviously the other poster lived in a different part of FL.
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There are many Hardee's in the panhandle of Florida too.
Their biscuits are the best on the menu, and their breakfast beats McDonald's by a mile.
I have not eaten at a Hardee's in years (never at a Carl's Jr.)
I just saw a television commercial for their Texas BBQ Thickburger with jalapeno straws and it really got me excited about the burger, until Paris Hilton showed up.
Go there for the biscuits, and once in a blue moon will get a chili dog. Otherwise their food is very mediocre.
A long time ago they used to serve roast beef sandwiches which rivaled Arby's as well as a delicious chocolate vanilla twist frozen yogurt cone! Oh, one more thing - they also used to have those rectagular fried apple pies that tasted every bit as good as McDonald's used to serve but Hardee's coated theirs in cinnamon sugar - yum.
re: littleflower
I too liked their roast beef sandwiches. I wonder if their demise had something to do with Carl's Jr.?
didn't Hardee's buy out the old Burger Chef (and Jeff) sometime around 1986?
at about the same time they bought the Kansas turnpike rest stop vendor rights and wow it sucked, but I can understand why they were trying to be all things to all people and the corporate ID switchover issues (and at 3 AM there weren't many, uhh any choices around there and we didn't much care).
I stopped off at one in central MO a few years ago just for a milkshake and it was fairly good, no detectable cellulose products anyway.


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Horizon 2 feels like the core concept for the design team was two fold: Freedom and Fun. The game allows you wishfulfillment in the form of not only a cross-continental road trip with the breath-taking beauty of Europe but a phenominal level of car customization to make exactly the kind of ride you've only ever dreamed of (unless you're super rich).
+In Depth Car Customization+Wide Open Road and Exploration+Beautiful Scenary to Drive Through+An Impressive and Ever-Expanding Car List
-There Could Be More Options for Upgrades-The Road Trip Story Line Progresses Too Quickly (if you stick with one car class)
Ever since I was a child I was influenced by my father's extensive love and knowledge of automobiles. It shaped how I viewed transportation as a whole, and for decades since has been the root of my fascination with classic cars. It's a hobby that I would absolutely love to have as my own, but as a mere writer there's no way I'll be able to collect like the comedians with millions in the bank to fuel their passion for automotives and its sports.
Thankfully as gamers, we're not wanton for venues of wish-fulfillment.
From incredibly fun combat and how rewardingly violent Talion deals with his Uruk enemies, to roaming around vast parts of Mordor in a variety of acrobatic ways, I had a surprisingly great time with this title. Shadow of Mordor's key feature, the newly introduced Nemesis System, was for sure the standout here and the source of most of my mischievous fun I had. The side missions can get repetitive and the story isn't anything spectacular, but there was more than enough to have me coming back and decapitating Uruk after Uruk.
+Nemesis System is excellent.+Combat is an absolute blast. +RPG elements aren't deep, but very well used.
-Side quests get repetitive. -Story is nothing amazing.
Destiny is a really good game that shys just short of true greatness by being a fairly standard feeling FPS game at its core. It has the potential to be a really great game franchise down the road, but the current iteration is held back by a lot of little things that annoy slightly, like taking a lovely family vacation but not being able to ignore the mosquitos.
+ Solid mechanics
+ Addictive 'bread-crumb' style gameplay
+ Large, expansive scenes to explore
+ Plenty of varity in game modes and play styles
- Derivitive feeling story and characters
- Nagging UI/flow issues
- Character fatigue online (not enough customization)
The amount of hype that Destiny has been able to generate, for a new IP, is simply unprecedented.
Some of that is natural; the fans saw something new and exciting, and they flocked to it.
Some of that is manufactured. The amount that was spent on marketing the game was a little beyond ridiculous as well… But it all in all it's paid off.
The prequel to Rocksteady's ace series, Arkham Asylum and Arkham City, arrives to an overwhelming amount of expectations. So it's really no surprise that Arkham Origins doesn't quite live up to them all. WB Games has everything needed you think would add up to a great success for this franchise. All of Gotham is now open to explore, the enemy roster has never been deeper, and the animations and combat flow with such a graceful ease that it will be hard to go back to any other combat system ever again. However, something feels off. The exploration of the city doesn't feel as fluid, the story comes across as lacking compared to the previous games, and the worst of it, Arkham Origins is plagued with glitches. There is a lot of good to experience here, just know that you could always be replaying Arkham City, and probably having a better time in doing so.
+ Combat feels better than ever.+ The Animations are spot on.+ Enemy roster is fantastic.+ Voice acting (even though missing fan favorites) is solid.
- Free roaming across the city feels clumsy.- Story feels less important than it actually is.- Sometimes suffers from game breaking glitches.
Five years before Batman had his troubles with the inmates of Arkham Asylum, when he was only a couple years into donning the cowl and terrorizing the streets of Gotham, he had one very bad Christmas Eve. A night full of assassins trying to kill him, new enemies popping up all over Gotham, and one terrible nuisance that plagues him with riddles and challenges all over the damn city. This brings us to Batman: Arkham Origins.
Sega remakes one of their successful 2D side-scrollers with a complete overhaul of graphics and gameplay. The story is the same, and the goals are the same: Rescue Minnie from the evil witch by collecting all the different colored gems, each guarded by a big boss at the end of every level. The gameplay is a mix between classic side-scrolling elements, very similar to that of the original game for the Genesis, and a 3D mechanic that is very reminiscent of Mario 64. The typical, easy enemies and basic platforming is not something that is going to blow you away, nor is it anything that we haven't seen before, but there is charm to be had here, nonetheless. Castle of Illusion HD does enough things differently to distance itself from the swarms of platformers found throughout downloads, and if you were a big fan of the original, it just might be worth a look into this time around.
+ Strong artwork and sound editing add to its charm.+ Easy to pick up and play.+ Unlockable outfits helps add to the replay value.
- $14.99 seems a little steep for about a three hour game.- Platforming can feel floaty and get frustrating fast.- No real gameplay mechanics will challenge you throughout.
I played a lot of Sega Genesis growing up. A lot. The wave of nostalgia that hit me when I saw that Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse was getting a remake was rather large. I'm a sucker for old platformers, and very much so for Sega ones. It wasn't long into the opening cinematic of the game that I realized this remake is going to be quite different than the original I remembered playing with my brother.
Blood Dragons is a love-letter to b-movie sci-fi films from the 1980s. It is genius in its satirical take on the iconic sub-culture of the material itself as well as video games in general. Fans of action movies, the 80s, satire, or just goofy action games in general will fall in love with this game before the tutorial is completed.
+Great sense of humor.
+Sense of loyality its inspiration (80s action films).
+Same great gameplay of its predecessor (Far Cry 3).
+Stunning visuals (both the neon in-game, and the 16-bit cut-scenes).
-Character customization has been almost completely removed to make way for a straight forward leveling system (earn a level, get a new game-choosen ability).
Far Cry: Blood Dragon is a perfect, or rather the only, example of what fans of the 80s sci-fi/action b-movie genre have been hoping for out of video games for about the last 30 years. Of course that's a pretty ridiculous standard for Ubisoft to try and live up to… but it was refreshing to see how serious, or rather not-serious, the team building the game took the project.
The fact this game was released is astounding. Any positive points from WWE Attitude Mode or player creation are fully eclipsed by an absurd number of bugs and poor game design.
+ Attitude Era Nostalgia Bomb.
+ Deep and impressive player content creation tools.
- Frequent game crashes.
- Unpolished and riddled with glitches and bugs.
- Online servers keep erasing data.
- 3GB save file on PS3 makes PS+ Cloud storage useless.
- Broken Universe mode design.
- Pay-Per-View matches have no purpose.
- Terrible game audio issues.
- David Otunga's Music.
THQ's latest installment of their long lived World Wrestling Entertainment licence hit the shelves on October 30th 2012. While many publications, blog and fans rushed to get their reviews of WWE 13 up on day one, I waited. Patiently. Now that we're over a month since its release, I'm rather glad I sat on this and really took the time to explore this game.
A brilliant blend between high-stakes, full-throttle racing and meditative country drive in your dream car, Forza Horizon takes a well-loved, established franchise and dares to do something a little different. Fans of the franchise may miss the game's simulation edge, but for a game that offers so much variety strung together, quite nicely, with a core concept that holds throughout, it's hard to stay angry at the decision to change for more than a couple minutes into the game.
+Intelligent use of the world, environment, menus and audio to create a unified theme throughout.
+Combines the best of both worlds: full-throttle super-speed racing, and a relaxing Sunday drive through the country.
+Slightly more relaxed atmosphere/controls than the previous games, lowering the barrier of entry for new/casual players.
-Some of the "challenges" push the boundaries of casual into straightforward boredom, i.e. the photo challenges (where you just need to get your car to a visually stimulating point without wrecking the car, without any form of time challenge).
Forza has spent the last seven years working its way into my heart. Originally a franchise I passed off as Microsoft's attempt to be Gran Turismo. It's grown over the years in leaps and bounds, the most recent iteration, Forza 4, becoming one of my favorite racing games of all time. When Horizon was announced, so shortly after the launch of four, I found myself wondering if it was a bit too soon for a sequel.
Dance Central, with two previous titles, is a well-established series. It's not something that needs any further explanation at this point beyond "That Harmonix game where you dance like a lunatic in front of your TV for the bemusement of your drunken friends." If you've picked up Dance Central 3, or are considering it, you likely know exactly what you're getting into.
+Far more diverse set-list then the previous games.
+Funny, if not slightly cheesy, 'story mode' in the vein of Elite Beat Agents.
+Gangnam Style DLC announced.
-Shorter set-list than other games in the genre.
-Dance party mode only offers the set-list via SmartGlass.
When the Kinect originally launched, two years ago now, there was only one thing that had me excited for the hardware (I mean, aside from the potential and the games we were all dreaming up; I mean real, announced titles). That game was Dance Central. "Harmonix is allowing gamers an excuse to dance like fools in the safety of their own living rooms?" I thought.
Assassins Creed 3 ends up feeling rushed and forced in a lot of areas. While the naval combat system is by far the shining star of this title, it feels like a lackluster ending to what I've felt is one of the most promising and interesting franchises in gaming.
+Naval combat is so good it could be a stand alone game.
+Impressive graphics and cinematics make for solid presentation.
+A concise (theoretical) ending to the franchise.
+Beautiful and fun hand to hand combat.
-Story is not friendly to casual franchise fans.
-Terrible loading design.
-Lackluster and shallow missions.
-User interface is needlessly cumbersome.
-New features meant to expand on past games are just tedious and meaningless.
I've had a rather love/hate relationship with the Assassins Creed franchise. For me, it seems to be a never-ending cycle where Ubisoft announces a game that sounds amazing on paper (and looks incredible in trailers!), but when I sit down to play it, a huge amount of small-issues add up to ruin the experience of what should have been an incredible game. Assassins Creed 3 (AC3) managed to once again follow this trend. I guess they get points for consistency.
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This post from the numpy list shows you how to turn a ctypes c_void_p into a numpy array. The glMapBuffer() function maps your currently-bound array into a void * which you can access directly... combining the two:
def map_buffer( vbo, access=GL_READ_WRITE ): """Map the given buffer into a numpy array...""" func = ctypes.pythonapi.PyBuffer_FromMemory func.restype = ctypes.py_object vp = glMapBuffer( vbo.target, access ) buffer = func( ctypes.c_void_p(vp), vbo.size ) array = frombuffer( buffer, 'B' ) return array
You have to call vbo.bind() before you call map_buffer(), and you need to do a glUnmapBuffer() before you do vbo.unbind(). You can use array.view() to get a different data-type in the array, and reshape() to get a different data-shape. Will have to think about making a wrapped version of something like this available on the vbo objects, AFAIK only ctypes arrays and numpy arrays (of the current formats supported) will support this kind of behaviour, but even with those restrictions it might be useful.
Fixed an API bug in the glBufferData() calls as well (this post's code is from the test script for that), fix should show up in the next release.


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In this file photo, Chandler Patrick, right, tackles Jon Patten during Tyner Academy's football game against Signal Mountain High School at Signal Mountain, Tenn., Aug. 26, 2011.Staff File Photo/Chattanooga Times Free Press
If any high school football team in the Chattanooga area has reason to be perplexed by the TSSAA state-playoff system, it's Tyner. Fate hasn't been kind to the Rams since the current system was put in place in 2009.
Perhaps the state organization felt Tyner deserved a break this year, so the Rams are being slotted against a 6-4 team in the first round in Class 3A. By the way, that 6-4 team happens to be Alcoa, winner of seven consecutive state titles. Kickoff at Alcoa is 7 p.m. Friday.
The Rams also drew the Tornadoes in the opening round the first year of the existing system and lost 44-7. Last year in the first round they played at Polk County, which was on a nine-game win streak, and lost 18-13.
Coach Wayne Turner said he's learned something regarding those losses.
"Don't draw who we've been drawing," he said. "We've got to make our own breaks, I guess, this year."
Tyner (5-5) is higher seeded than the previous two seasons, although that leaves Turner bewildered, too.
"The thing I don't really understand is two years ago we were 7-3 and finished second in our district. Last year we were 8-2 and finished first in our district. Both of those years we were seeded sixth. This year we're seeded fifth," Turner said. "Explain that."
Turner said at least this year's Alcoa squad isn't as explosive on offense or as terrifying on defense as the team two years ago.
Chandler Patrick, now a 6-foot, 226-pounder and the leader in tackles with 105, was a sophomore starter at middle linebacker for the Rams when they played the Tornadoes back then. He said when he found out this year's first-round opponent, his first thought was "It's get-back time."
"Honestly, everything they did was perfect," Patrick said of the 2009 game. "I have to give them credit for the way they played."
Turner said this year's Alcoa team is reminiscent of Red Bank, the team the Rams beat 26-14 last week with the No. 2 position in District 6-AA at stake. It starts with the comparisons at quarterback.
D.J. Oggs, who gained 127 yards on 21 carries in last week's loss to Christian Academy of Knoxville, operates the Tornadoes' attack. Niquia McDuffie directs the Lions.
"The quarterbacks are somewhat alike," Turner said. "How McDuffie goes offensively will tell you how Red Bank does. If McDuffie goes well, they go well. The same thing with Alcoa. The kid is a heck of an athlete."
Turner knows his team's running game will be put to the test but figures rushing the ball will be of paramount importance. Not only must the Rams control the clock with first downs and keep Alcoa's offense off the field, they must score at the ends of sustained drives.
As Patrick put it, the Tornadoes have seen on video what Tyner does, so there are no secrets. He thinks the fundamental elements -- blocking and tackling -- will determine the winner.
"Alcoa is going to have a tough team," Patrick said. "They're used to winning. Maybe we can give them a run for their money and hopefully come away with a win this time.
"We're going to have to come with our 'A' game, and nothing less -- maybe more."
Kelley Smiddie is a sports writer who has worked at the Times Free Press for 12 years. He covers high school sports and softball. Kelley's hometown is Chattanooga, and he graduated from Brainerd High School and graduated Chattanooga State and UTC. Contact Kelley at 423-757-6653 or email@example.com.


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About 1,000 Virginians enrolled in health plans through the federal and state insurance marketplace during its first month.
The enrollments occurred from October 1st through November 1st as the federal government struggled to overcome flaws in the electronic system it operates in Virginia and 35 other states.
Governor Bob McDonnell decided last year the federal government would run the marketplace in Virginia.
Advocates tell media outlets that they expect the Virginia numbers to increase, with more than 32,500 people eligible to purchase insurance in the marketplace.
The federal and state marketplaces completed more than 846,000 applications for health coverage for more than 1.5 million people. One million of those people were found eligible for coverage in the marketplaces. Of those, about 10 percent completed enrollment for benefits that will take effect Jan. 1.
In Virginia, the federal marketplace completed 21,667 applications for coverage of 42,341 people and found 32,534 were eligible. A total of 1,023 completed enrollment.
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