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Having curled myself, I can assure you it does not...and if it did make a difference, it would almost certainly be negative, since you're giving up any semblance of control that you had on the actual throw. There's not going to be some "precision poke" that magically steers it where it needs to go. But don't take my word for it.

Does it make any difference?

"No. The double-touching that I've seen has been incidental contact, and that's fingers brushing or hand brushing on a 40-pound piece of granite," said Eugene Hritzuk, a Canadian curler based in Saskatoon who has been involved in competitive curling and coaching for more than 60 years.

"What can fingers brushing against a 40-pound piece of granite do in any event? You need the palm on your hand against that stone to do anything."

Delivering a stone entails acute skills to slide on line and on pace, he said.

Once sliding on target and at the right speed, releasing the stone and then touching it with any force would cause it to veer off its intended line and speed, Hritzuk said. "That would not be advantageous to good execution."

Canadian curling commentator John Cullen, who hosted the CBC podcast Broomgate: A Curling Scandal, said most top curlers will say that double-touching has no effect on the stone.

As well, most top curlers will double-touch at times and don't think it's a foul, he said.

"The idea that a top curler would let a rock go and then want to try to adjust it with their finger —it doesn't seem like there's any way you could get an advantage from that. It feels like it would be worse."

But as I said, the rules are the rules, and I don't think it's wrong to enforce them.

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...if said billiard ball weighed 40 lbs.

A little finger poke ain't gonna do shit.

But, the rules are the rules.

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I think they're cool (but obnoxiously loud) on the slopes, and completely useless on the speed skating and luge tracks.

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Up to 10 dead, including the suspect, now.

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Oh, interesting - not that I know of, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did some sort of tie-in.

The Chimerans were introduced about a year ago, though it's been a pretty thin year since then, and we still don't know much about them.

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Additionally, we'd like you to join us in welcoming Thomas Marrone as the new Executive Producer of Star Trek Online! Formerly the Art Director for Star Trek Online, Thomas Marrone will be leading its current and future development.

Holy crap, what a career trajectory...

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Between this and Freeland, I wonder if we'll see an election called in the near future.

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True, but I assume that if there were an obvious successor waiting in the wings, the result would have been...at least less lopsided.

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I look forward to analyses. Was it a lack of clear alternatives, or is their base so far gone that they genuinely think he's their guy?

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I would be fine with that - "shit is fucked" isn't a crime with a specific legal definition!

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“The SIU’s investigative jurisdiction is limited to those incidents involving officials where there is a serious injury, death, allegation of sexual assault or discharge of a firearm by an official at a person,” Denette said.

Weeeeeeaaaaaaak shit

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Yeah, unfortunately I don't see anything there about FIFA actually considering it...

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I'm describing Eby's use of the word casual, as I don't think he, as an elected official, should be accusing people of crimes - especially those with an extraordinarily high bar.

Do I think the Alberta separatists are wrong? Yes.

Do I consider it a betrayal? Yes.

Am I fine with the average person on the street using the word "treason" to describe it. Sure.

Do I think elected officials should do the same? No.

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Is there really a credible source on that? I wouldn't think there's a snowball's chance in hell that they change course now.

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is as threating if not more than military buildup.

I really don't think that would hold up in court, and in any case it is irrelevant to whether the Alberta separatists are sharing military secrets, or doing anything that would meet Canada's legal definition of treason.

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As was pointed out when that was discussed earlier this week, no they aren't. They're trying to convince us that our military will be weaker if we don't buy their planes, and that they will have to pick up the slack.

The administration isn't that bright. When they threaten military force, it won't be subtle.