If you sweep a stone early, you can delay the point at which it starts to curl. Or, you can wait until the stone starts to curl, and then sweep. Those two stones will wind up in different places. How much you sweep, and even when you sweep, can alter the path and distance of the stone. It’s subtle, but sometimes an inch or two can make a big difference.
There’s also something called corner sweeping. If you watch a sweeper, the strokes of the broom are at a 45-degree angle to the path of the stone. That leaves tiny scratches across the ice. If there’s only one sweeper, those scratches will tend to influence the stone away from the sweeper. Again, it’s not a huge difference, but sometimes it’s enough. Some teams were experimenting with different materials on their broom heads to have more of an impact, so a few years ago they started mandating a standard, mustard-yellow fabric for all brooms.
I read an article once about Canadian curlers making instrumented brooms, so they could measure the speed and pressure of their sweeping. They couldn’t use them in competition, but it was useful in training.
Anger especially at this part. Damn you Murdoch, you could’ve helped things in some small meaure, but you just let the lies continue to fester:
The messages also revealed that Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of Fox Corporation, did not believe Trump’s election lies and even floated the idea of having Carlson, Hannity, and Ingraham appear together in prime time to declare Joe Biden as the rightful winner of the election.
Such an act, Murdoch said, “Would go a long way to stop the Trump myth that the election stolen.”
I like the idea of having Hannity, Carlson and Ingraham appear together on prime-time television so someone can hit them with a whappity-whappity-whappity broom.
“According to Dominion, FNN had a duty not to truthfully report the President’s allegations but to suppress them or denounce them as false,” Fox attorneys wrote. “Dominion is fundamentally mistaken. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press would be illusory if the prevailing side in a public controversy could sue the press for giving a forum to the losing side.”
Nope. You could have said “The President says Dominion rigged the election” until your vocal cords were numb, because that statement is the truth. Unfortunately, what you did say was, “Dominion rigged the election”, which is a big fat lie that is gonna cost you a big fat judgment.
The Republican Party has said that they won’t allow Republican candidates on the debate stage unless they sign a pledge to support the eventual candidate. Individual 1 has already said that he won’t guarantee his support for the candidate if it isn’t him. Does anybody believe they will really prevent him from appearing on the stage?
