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Generally, manufacturers and other companies that have inventory are required to use the accrual method, but current law exempts businesses with average annual revenue of $5 million or less. The House bill would raise that exemption to $25 million, while the Senate version would set it at $15 million.
'Bachelor' Recap: Michelle Punches Herself in the Face?
As The Bachelor progresses so does the drama! Last night, Michelle — the 30-year-old mom who has played the role of crazy this season — really pushed the envelope on the hit ABC reality show, mysteriously waking up with a black eye at the start of the episode.
Michelle seems just as baffled by her black eye as the rest of the women, claiming she must have received it in her sleep.
“Maybe I sleep walk?” she questions.
Soon her attention wanders from the black eye to Chantal O. who has the first one-on-one date of the evening, to Michelle’s complete dismay.
The drama between Chantal O. And Michelle — who seem to be two frontrunners this season — ensues throughout the episode, but luckily both women get a rose on their one-on-one dates!
Remember, Michelle is the actress of the bunch, and she even starred in an independent film.
Watch Michelle talking about her black eye in the clip below.
“Diaries of the Departed” — Lindsay, Meghan and Stacey are sent home in the end.
The ladies all left calmly and level-headed, and for the first time — no tears were shed!
Soccer fans gathered at America's Backyard in downtown Fort Lauderdale to watch the World Cup final match between Argentina and Germany. Germany won the game becoming World Cup champions for the fourth time.
Photos of soccer fans watching the World Cup throughout South Florida.
How do you reach the soccer haters?
The Gataors’ four-headed quarterback battle continues, as the veterans (Luke Del Rio and Austin Appleby) took the lion’s share of snaps with the first-team offense. Both early enrollees (Kyle Trask and Feleipe Franks) had opportunities, too, though.
McElwain specifically was happy with how the receivers and running backs caught the ball, highlighting explosive plays by junior college tailback Mark Thompson and little-used wideouts Alvin Bailey and Ryan Sousa.
Defensively, Florida forced three turnovers, including a takeaway on the goal line by early enrollee safety Chauncey Gardner during a red-zone rep.
The Gators will scrimmage again Friday, one week before their spring game on April 8.
All-SEC cornerback Jalen Tabor (hamstring), sophomore defensive end CeCe Jefferson and sophomore tailback Jordan Scarlett (leg) sat out Thursday’s scrimmage, but all three players returned to practice Monday.
Meanwhile, starting center Cam Dillard (broken nose) and receivers Dre Massey (leg) and Ahmad Fulwood (leg) remain sidelined.
Defensive back Duke Dawson sustained a thumb injury in the scrimmage but was able to return to action.
Defensive end Thomas Holley, who lost more than 60 pounds in the offseason in an effort to allow his chronic hip injury to heal, reaggravated his hip and his football future is unknown.
Nearly 30 years ago, McElwain earned $4,723 a year in his first coaching job at Eastern Washington.
“Still have the contract,” he said, chuckling.
“I’ve come a ways,” he said.
McElwain joined the $4 million coaching club in February, as Florida announced his $750,000 raise on Friday.
The Gators’ coach now earns $4.25 million annually, becoming the highest-paid coach in the SEC East after winning the division in his first season.
This week's entertainment podcast is packed full of VR hedgehogs, HBO hits, and Adam Sandler misses. Join us, won't you?
Kevin James plays the president. QED.
Donkey Kong is king of videogame bosses. So leaving him out of a homage to arcade classics would've been a major oversight.
Listen to selections from composer Henry Jackman's chiptune-esque score here.
Head on in for clips from Pan, Pixels, and the Maze Runner sequel.
This week's best trailers are a pretty mixed bag—from Avengers to Tangerines.
Adam Sandler is about to star in a feature film where iconic videogame characters invade Earth. Next spring, Sandler is slated to appear in a big-screen adaptation of Pixels, a two-minute animated short about 8-bit arcade characters attacking New York City.
Cameron Oehler learned about woodworking from his cabinet maker father, but also has a deeply ingrained passion for video games and digital culture. Luckily, he found a way to dovetail his two interests and started a company called "1337 Motif" that combines old world craftsmanship with pop culture icons.
As a kid, Shawn Smith spent hours playing the Atari game Pitfall, where players tromp though a forested gauntlet of rolling logs, quicksand, rattlesnakes and fire. "I'd never been camping, so I thought that's what it was: wrestling crocodiles living in pixelated lakes, jumping over scorpions," Smith says. "The whole idea was to avoid nature and win some gold coins."
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Using increments of 48 hours or less, Town Hall staff has pooled about 1,000 hours of sick time for Town Manager Anthony Troiano as he recovers from injuries in a car wreck that killed a woman last week.
Town employees are allowed to contribute up to six days of their own sick time each fiscal year to a bank of hours set aside for staff who have a health or family emergency, town officials said yesterday.
"It's in the bylaws to go to anybody within the town, anybody who's not a union employee," said Michelle Patten, benefits coordinator for the town.
Troiano has been charged with motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation and was cited for speeding, failure to pass safely and a marked lanes violation in the head-on collision, according to state police.
Lilija Berents, 69, of East Falmouth died in the crash.
The town knows little about the investigation and charges, nor how they may affect Troiano or his job, said selectmen Chairman Muriel Kramer.
"I think that most of us in Town Hall realize we do not have the facts in front of us yet, so we're not going to address that until we do," she said.
She credited town staff for stepping up and said it would help Troiano's family.
Troiano has only worked in Hopkinton since January and had accrued few sick hours, town officials said.
For now, criminal charges will not likely affect Troiano's access to sick time or other benefits, said Ezat Parnia, chairman of the Personnel Board.
"As that's going on, he's going to be an employee of the town and be treated like anyone else," Parnia said.
Pat Mikes, communication director for the Massachusetts Municipal Association, said Hopkinton is not the only community that allows some employees to contribute to sick banks, though the rules vary.
"That's not unusual," Mikes said. "That language has been in place generally for a long time, both actually in the public and private sector."
In Hopkinton, the measure has been part of the town's bylaws for a few years, Patten said. Nonunion employees, including most staff at Town Hall, are allowed to participate, said Geri Holland, executive assistant to Troiano.
With the start of the next fiscal year coming up July 1, town employees will be able to donate more hours if Troiano needs it, Holland said.
Employees can roll over sick time from one year to the next, so some longtime staff members are able to spare the time, Holland said.
In Troiano's short time here, Holland said he made an impression as a hardworking "man of integrity" on Town Hall staff.
"He wanted to get to know all of the different employees. ... We all liked him very much," Holland said. "Tony's had an effect on everybody."
Holland said Town Hall probably would have stepped up for any other employee in need, and has in the past for other colleagues.
Town managers in Holliston, Ashland, Natick and Franklin said they have some provisions for employees to bank sick time. Ashland Town Manager John Petrin said his town likely had only one union contract with that provision.
"You're going to find it in a few places," Petrin said. "What some places may do is react to the situation on an emergency basis."
In Holliston, Town Administrator Paul LeBeau said a similar setup is provided for nonunion employees, and unions also have provisions to pool sick time. However, no single employee can withdraw more than 15 days, he said.
"Knock on wood, we don't have to access it very often," LeBeau said.
Franklin Town Administrator Jeffrey Nutting said his community, like several other towns, has not faced a situation like Hopkinton's.
"Charges are one thing," he said. "Convictions are something else."
Freshdesk announced today that it has updated its Android and iOS apps with new features to allow its users to easily respond to customer support issues on Twitter.
The company’s apps now include a tab dedicated to social media support. It allows users to surface urgent tweets in a custom stream so they can spot customers’ questions and respond quickly.
Tweets can also be converted into support tickets right from the app, and assigned to the right team for quick resolution.
Plus, when a customer tweets to a brand, support agents can access past interactions over email, phone, chat and other channels for context.
The new social tab is now available to Freshdesk customers on all its paid plans (Blossom and above).
Australian consumers are not only buying more milk but preferences have shifted in favour of full cream milk.
DEMAND FOR dairy products has increased steadily across Australia, as evidenced by the numbers from the 2017–18 season currently rolling in.
Australians are buying more milk and over the past ten years milk sold in supermarkets has increased close to 24 per cent.
This results from population growth and our large appetite for milk. Australians consume more milk per capita than most other comparable developed countries; this can partly be attributed to our love of coffees.
Fresh white milk is considered Australia’s largest and most mature dairy segment and represents 78 per cent of total liquid milk sales.
Supermarket milk sales increased 1.1 per cent in volume in 2017–18 which is in line with a conservative long-term growth rate.
In 2011–12 close to half (47 per cent) of all milk sold in supermarkets was modified skim or low-fat. Today two thirds of milk sold in supermarkets is full cream milk.
Consumer preferences have shifted significantly over this time in favour of full cream milk, as consumers want ‘natural products’ and have a greater appreciation of the benefits of dairy fats.
In 2017–18 full cream milk sales increased 4.4 per cent by volume and 3.7 per cent by value, largely at the expense of modified skim or low-fat varieties.
Over the same period modified milk varieties contracted 4.8 per cent in volume and 6.4 per cent in value, indicating a drop in average price in addition to total volume.
While sales of fresh white milk continue to grow at a conservative rate, supermarket sales of non-dairy ‘milks’ have increased.
In 2007–08 sales of these beverages represented 5.6 per cent of total milk sales, with soy beverages making up close to 85 per cent of these sales.
Consumers who drink non-dairy alternatives seem open to substituting between varieties and since 2007–08 sales of soy beverages have decreased while those made from almonds have grown in popularity.
In 2017–18 sales of non-dairy alternatives represented 7.6 per cent of total milk sales in supermarkets by volume, and 12 per cent of total value. These substitutes are substantially more expensive than milk and purchase data suggests customers are more likely to purchase when they are offered as part of a promotion.
Supermarket sales of butter declined in 2017–18 due to a sharp spike in sales price. After a prolonged period of higher global butter prices, Australian prices eventually followed and in 2017–18 the average per-kilo price of butter reached $12.08, up 35 per cent compared to last year.
Despite this large spike, sale volumes only fell 6.3 per cent while sale values increased 26.9 per cent. The largest drop in volume came from large pack sizes, while sales of smaller pack sizes increased.
Supermarkets tended to increase the price on larger pack sizes while keeping the price constant on smaller ones and consumers proved willing to opt for a smaller pack in response to the higher price.
Total blends sale volumes grew 3.8 per cent as some customers chose to substitute butter for blends.
While many farmers in drought-affected regions continue to battle with the ongoing challenges of this season, it’s worth noting that domestic demand for dairy remains strong.
Australia may be a land of volatility in weather, feed prices, politics and Prime Ministers, but Australians continue to love dairy products.
In 1988, South Korea hosted its first Olympics in Seoul. The host nation claimed 33 medals -- still its highest mark in one Games -- showing off its athletic prowess to the world. South Korea has won at least 21 medals in every Summer Olympics since.
In 1988, South Korea had zero Winter Olympics medals. Not just that year -- ever. But that would soon change. The 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, introduced short-track speedskating to the Games. South Korea won three medals -- two gold -- that year and hasn't looked back. Its 42 short-track medals lead all nations, with China a distant second at 30.
That number would be even higher if it were not for the efforts of one particular individual: Apolo Anton Ohno. With eight medals in three Olympics from 2002-2010, Ohno is tied for the most medals ever in short track.
And he knows how wild the scene is going to be in PyeongChang.
"I think the short-track event is going to be the 'hot ticket' out of the entire Olympic Games," Ohno says. "I've always thought it would be. It should be. Obviously, hockey and figure skating are wildly popular. Skiing is incredible. But short track to Korea is their pride and joy. They've won the most medals, they're so incredibly dominant and I can't wait to commentate on it. I think the energy inside that arena is going to be absolutely incredible."
Ohno has had a complicated history with South Korea. He was raised by a single Japanese-born father and was greatly influenced by Asian culture as a youth. However, Ohno became Public Enemy No. 1 in South Korea after winning gold in the 1,500 meters at the 2002 Olympics. Ohno, in second place on the final lap, attempted to pass leader Kim Dong-Sung of South Korea. Dong-Sung drifted to the inside, Ohno threw up his hands and Dong-Sung was disqualified for impeding. The South Korean team appealed to the IOC, to no avail.
In a very 2002 moment, the USOC servers actually had to be shut down due to more than 16,000 angry emails from South Koreans.
That summer, when South Korea played the United States in the group stage at the World Cup in Daegu (South Korea and Japan were co-host nations), South Koreans players celebrated a goal by mocking Ohno's theatrics on the rink.
Ohno skipped a 2003 World Cup race in South Korea due to concerns for his safety. He did go to Seoul in 2005 and was met at the airport by 100 police officers in riot gear.
"It was just some people manifesting this image of me and anti-American sentiment," Ohno said in the lead-up to the 2006 Olympics in Torino. "I was really bothered by it. I grew up around Asian cultures. I have a lot of friends who are Korean. I couldn't understand it.'"
Just this past summer, Ohno told The Salt Lake Tribune, "I was the second-most hated person in Korea. Second. No. 1 was Osama Bin Laden. That's not a joke."

Generally, manufacturers and other companies that have inventory are required to use the accrual method, but current law exempts businesses with average annual revenue of $5 million or less. The House bill would raise that exemption to $25 million, while the Senate version would set it at $15 million.

'Bachelor' Recap: Michelle Punches Herself in the Face?

As The Bachelor progresses so does the drama! Last night, Michelle — the 30-year-old mom who has played the role of crazy this season — really pushed the envelope on the hit ABC reality show, mysteriously waking up with a black eye at the start of the episode.

Michelle seems just as baffled by her black eye as the rest of the women, claiming she must have received it in her sleep.

“Maybe I sleep walk?” she questions.

Soon her attention wanders from the black eye to Chantal O. who has the first one-on-one date of the evening, to Michelle’s complete dismay.

The drama between Chantal O. And Michelle — who seem to be two frontrunners this season — ensues throughout the episode, but luckily both women get a rose on their one-on-one dates!

Remember, Michelle is the actress of the bunch, and she even starred in an independent film.

Watch Michelle talking about her black eye in the clip below.

“Diaries of the Departed” — Lindsay, Meghan and Stacey are sent home in the end.

The ladies all left calmly and level-headed, and for the first time — no tears were shed!

Soccer fans gathered at America's Backyard in downtown Fort Lauderdale to watch the World Cup final match between Argentina and Germany. Germany won the game becoming World Cup champions for the fourth time.

Photos of soccer fans watching the World Cup throughout South Florida.

How do you reach the soccer haters?

The Gataors’ four-headed quarterback battle continues, as the veterans (Luke Del Rio and Austin Appleby) took the lion’s share of snaps with the first-team offense. Both early enrollees (Kyle Trask and Feleipe Franks) had opportunities, too, though.

McElwain specifically was happy with how the receivers and running backs caught the ball, highlighting explosive plays by junior college tailback Mark Thompson and little-used wideouts Alvin Bailey and Ryan Sousa.

Defensively, Florida forced three turnovers, including a takeaway on the goal line by early enrollee safety Chauncey Gardner during a red-zone rep.

The Gators will scrimmage again Friday, one week before their spring game on April 8.

All-SEC cornerback Jalen Tabor (hamstring), sophomore defensive end CeCe Jefferson and sophomore tailback Jordan Scarlett (leg) sat out Thursday’s scrimmage, but all three players returned to practice Monday.

Meanwhile, starting center Cam Dillard (broken nose) and receivers Dre Massey (leg) and Ahmad Fulwood (leg) remain sidelined.

Defensive back Duke Dawson sustained a thumb injury in the scrimmage but was able to return to action.

Defensive end Thomas Holley, who lost more than 60 pounds in the offseason in an effort to allow his chronic hip injury to heal, reaggravated his hip and his football future is unknown.

Nearly 30 years ago, McElwain earned $4,723 a year in his first coaching job at Eastern Washington.

“Still have the contract,” he said, chuckling.

“I’ve come a ways,” he said.

McElwain joined the $4 million coaching club in February, as Florida announced his $750,000 raise on Friday.

The Gators’ coach now earns $4.25 million annually, becoming the highest-paid coach in the SEC East after winning the division in his first season.

This week's entertainment podcast is packed full of VR hedgehogs, HBO hits, and Adam Sandler misses. Join us, won't you?

Kevin James plays the president. QED.

Donkey Kong is king of videogame bosses. So leaving him out of a homage to arcade classics would've been a major oversight.

Listen to selections from composer Henry Jackman's chiptune-esque score here.

Head on in for clips from Pan, Pixels, and the Maze Runner sequel.

This week's best trailers are a pretty mixed bag—from Avengers to Tangerines.

Adam Sandler is about to star in a feature film where iconic videogame characters invade Earth. Next spring, Sandler is slated to appear in a big-screen adaptation of Pixels, a two-minute animated short about 8-bit arcade characters attacking New York City.

Cameron Oehler learned about woodworking from his cabinet maker father, but also has a deeply ingrained passion for video games and digital culture. Luckily, he found a way to dovetail his two interests and started a company called "1337 Motif" that combines old world craftsmanship with pop culture icons.

As a kid, Shawn Smith spent hours playing the Atari game Pitfall, where players tromp though a forested gauntlet of rolling logs, quicksand, rattlesnakes and fire. "I'd never been camping, so I thought that's what it was: wrestling crocodiles living in pixelated lakes, jumping over scorpions," Smith says. "The whole idea was to avoid nature and win some gold coins."

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Using increments of 48 hours or less, Town Hall staff has pooled about 1,000 hours of sick time for Town Manager Anthony Troiano as he recovers from injuries in a car wreck that killed a woman last week.

Town employees are allowed to contribute up to six days of their own sick time each fiscal year to a bank of hours set aside for staff who have a health or family emergency, town officials said yesterday.

"It's in the bylaws to go to anybody within the town, anybody who's not a union employee," said Michelle Patten, benefits coordinator for the town.

Troiano has been charged with motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation and was cited for speeding, failure to pass safely and a marked lanes violation in the head-on collision, according to state police.

Lilija Berents, 69, of East Falmouth died in the crash.

The town knows little about the investigation and charges, nor how they may affect Troiano or his job, said selectmen Chairman Muriel Kramer.

"I think that most of us in Town Hall realize we do not have the facts in front of us yet, so we're not going to address that until we do," she said.

She credited town staff for stepping up and said it would help Troiano's family.

Troiano has only worked in Hopkinton since January and had accrued few sick hours, town officials said.

For now, criminal charges will not likely affect Troiano's access to sick time or other benefits, said Ezat Parnia, chairman of the Personnel Board.

"As that's going on, he's going to be an employee of the town and be treated like anyone else," Parnia said.

Pat Mikes, communication director for the Massachusetts Municipal Association, said Hopkinton is not the only community that allows some employees to contribute to sick banks, though the rules vary.

"That's not unusual," Mikes said. "That language has been in place generally for a long time, both actually in the public and private sector."

In Hopkinton, the measure has been part of the town's bylaws for a few years, Patten said. Nonunion employees, including most staff at Town Hall, are allowed to participate, said Geri Holland, executive assistant to Troiano.

With the start of the next fiscal year coming up July 1, town employees will be able to donate more hours if Troiano needs it, Holland said.

Employees can roll over sick time from one year to the next, so some longtime staff members are able to spare the time, Holland said.

In Troiano's short time here, Holland said he made an impression as a hardworking "man of integrity" on Town Hall staff.

"He wanted to get to know all of the different employees. ... We all liked him very much," Holland said. "Tony's had an effect on everybody."

Holland said Town Hall probably would have stepped up for any other employee in need, and has in the past for other colleagues.

Town managers in Holliston, Ashland, Natick and Franklin said they have some provisions for employees to bank sick time. Ashland Town Manager John Petrin said his town likely had only one union contract with that provision.

"You're going to find it in a few places," Petrin said. "What some places may do is react to the situation on an emergency basis."

In Holliston, Town Administrator Paul LeBeau said a similar setup is provided for nonunion employees, and unions also have provisions to pool sick time. However, no single employee can withdraw more than 15 days, he said.

"Knock on wood, we don't have to access it very often," LeBeau said.

Franklin Town Administrator Jeffrey Nutting said his community, like several other towns, has not faced a situation like Hopkinton's.

"Charges are one thing," he said. "Convictions are something else."

Freshdesk announced today that it has updated its Android and iOS apps with new features to allow its users to easily respond to customer support issues on Twitter.

The company’s apps now include a tab dedicated to social media support. It allows users to surface urgent tweets in a custom stream so they can spot customers’ questions and respond quickly.

Tweets can also be converted into support tickets right from the app, and assigned to the right team for quick resolution.

Plus, when a customer tweets to a brand, support agents can access past interactions over email, phone, chat and other channels for context.

The new social tab is now available to Freshdesk customers on all its paid plans (Blossom and above).

Australian consumers are not only buying more milk but preferences have shifted in favour of full cream milk.

DEMAND FOR dairy products has increased steadily across Australia, as evidenced by the numbers from the 2017–18 season currently rolling in.

Australians are buying more milk and over the past ten years milk sold in supermarkets has increased close to 24 per cent.

This results from population growth and our large appetite for milk. Australians consume more milk per capita than most other comparable developed countries; this can partly be attributed to our love of coffees.

Fresh white milk is considered Australia’s largest and most mature dairy segment and represents 78 per cent of total liquid milk sales.

Supermarket milk sales increased 1.1 per cent in volume in 2017–18 which is in line with a conservative long-term growth rate.

In 2011–12 close to half (47 per cent) of all milk sold in supermarkets was modified skim or low-fat. Today two thirds of milk sold in supermarkets is full cream milk.

Consumer preferences have shifted significantly over this time in favour of full cream milk, as consumers want ‘natural products’ and have a greater appreciation of the benefits of dairy fats.

In 2017–18 full cream milk sales increased 4.4 per cent by volume and 3.7 per cent by value, largely at the expense of modified skim or low-fat varieties.

Over the same period modified milk varieties contracted 4.8 per cent in volume and 6.4 per cent in value, indicating a drop in average price in addition to total volume.

While sales of fresh white milk continue to grow at a conservative rate, supermarket sales of non-dairy ‘milks’ have increased.

In 2007–08 sales of these beverages represented 5.6 per cent of total milk sales, with soy beverages making up close to 85 per cent of these sales.

Consumers who drink non-dairy alternatives seem open to substituting between varieties and since 2007–08 sales of soy beverages have decreased while those made from almonds have grown in popularity.

In 2017–18 sales of non-dairy alternatives represented 7.6 per cent of total milk sales in supermarkets by volume, and 12 per cent of total value. These substitutes are substantially more expensive than milk and purchase data suggests customers are more likely to purchase when they are offered as part of a promotion.

Supermarket sales of butter declined in 2017–18 due to a sharp spike in sales price. After a prolonged period of higher global butter prices, Australian prices eventually followed and in 2017–18 the average per-kilo price of butter reached $12.08, up 35 per cent compared to last year.

Despite this large spike, sale volumes only fell 6.3 per cent while sale values increased 26.9 per cent. The largest drop in volume came from large pack sizes, while sales of smaller pack sizes increased.

Supermarkets tended to increase the price on larger pack sizes while keeping the price constant on smaller ones and consumers proved willing to opt for a smaller pack in response to the higher price.

Total blends sale volumes grew 3.8 per cent as some customers chose to substitute butter for blends.

While many farmers in drought-affected regions continue to battle with the ongoing challenges of this season, it’s worth noting that domestic demand for dairy remains strong.

Australia may be a land of volatility in weather, feed prices, politics and Prime Ministers, but Australians continue to love dairy products.

In 1988, South Korea hosted its first Olympics in Seoul. The host nation claimed 33 medals -- still its highest mark in one Games -- showing off its athletic prowess to the world. South Korea has won at least 21 medals in every Summer Olympics since.

In 1988, South Korea had zero Winter Olympics medals. Not just that year -- ever. But that would soon change. The 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, introduced short-track speedskating to the Games. South Korea won three medals -- two gold -- that year and hasn't looked back. Its 42 short-track medals lead all nations, with China a distant second at 30.

That number would be even higher if it were not for the efforts of one particular individual: Apolo Anton Ohno. With eight medals in three Olympics from 2002-2010, Ohno is tied for the most medals ever in short track.

And he knows how wild the scene is going to be in PyeongChang.

"I think the short-track event is going to be the 'hot ticket' out of the entire Olympic Games," Ohno says. "I've always thought it would be. It should be. Obviously, hockey and figure skating are wildly popular. Skiing is incredible. But short track to Korea is their pride and joy. They've won the most medals, they're so incredibly dominant and I can't wait to commentate on it. I think the energy inside that arena is going to be absolutely incredible."

Ohno has had a complicated history with South Korea. He was raised by a single Japanese-born father and was greatly influenced by Asian culture as a youth. However, Ohno became Public Enemy No. 1 in South Korea after winning gold in the 1,500 meters at the 2002 Olympics. Ohno, in second place on the final lap, attempted to pass leader Kim Dong-Sung of South Korea. Dong-Sung drifted to the inside, Ohno threw up his hands and Dong-Sung was disqualified for impeding. The South Korean team appealed to the IOC, to no avail.

In a very 2002 moment, the USOC servers actually had to be shut down due to more than 16,000 angry emails from South Koreans.

That summer, when South Korea played the United States in the group stage at the World Cup in Daegu (South Korea and Japan were co-host nations), South Koreans players celebrated a goal by mocking Ohno's theatrics on the rink.

Ohno skipped a 2003 World Cup race in South Korea due to concerns for his safety. He did go to Seoul in 2005 and was met at the airport by 100 police officers in riot gear.

"It was just some people manifesting this image of me and anti-American sentiment," Ohno said in the lead-up to the 2006 Olympics in Torino. "I was really bothered by it. I grew up around Asian cultures. I have a lot of friends who are Korean. I couldn't understand it.'"

Just this past summer, Ohno told The Salt Lake Tribune, "I was the second-most hated person in Korea. Second. No. 1 was Osama Bin Laden. That's not a joke."