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Things like this need to be done. But there is a hugh amount of room for misuse.
If google can remove anything they want why not protect our kids more and remove the mess that really needs removing? Save us a lot of tax money now being diverted to every police dept in the country.If it is not there it does not need monitoring. We seem to invent complicated things to fix simple problems.
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Whack this mole yet?
Again, the problem is not the tools, but who and how uses them. I could be exposed to thousands of pro-terror videos, I would never hurt anyone. The terrorists and potential terrorists will find their way of learning and committing.
That is not all google censors..Anyone else notice when you do google searches, you get panned responses, from just a few websites, though you know there are literally ;millions. It has become an advertising medium for their paid advertisers. Anyone know if a real search engine exists anymore?
It's always been that way. How do you think they pay for the billions of dollars of equipment they have, and the thousands of employees.......Ad Revenue.
Even worse is that the background for paid ads is now indistinguishable from "natural" results, making it almost impossible to tell what is paid and what is not. Google is essentiall tricking searchers into clicking paid ads, something that is against their own policy for other advertisers. THIS is what you get when a company goes public; ANYTHING in the name of profit
Even with a new computer it takes forever to come to life.That is the tip off you are being blistered by brand x.Try to get out from the spell your newer computer has so conviently benn supplied with. We bought cable tv and paid through the nose because we were told it had ver yu few commercials.Still think so now?
Hard to imagine that this was not done before - it's a no brainer. Al Qaeda followers may have a 14th century mentality but they are using 21st century devices to spread their doctrine of hate and violence. We need to be ever vigilant - banning their videos from U-Tube is a great move.
BTW: hate to be a nit picker, but a note to the writers of the article about an error...."has seen a myriad of propaganda and do-it-yourself terror tricks posted" is incorrect usage of the word myriad. The phrase should be "has seen myriad propaganda and ..." Surprising that this kind of slip made it to publication.
Not so sure if your grammar monitor badge should be rescinded here..... Is it used as an adjective or a noun?
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Ban the Internet! Free speech has brought me nothing but trouble! I'm sick of having "rights", because along with "rights" comes more WRONGS. Send in the Thought Enforcement! Once we are captive slaves of the state, we will no longer have to worry about personal responsibilities and unpredictability. Freedom just isn't worth it. As they say, "you can't kickstart a dead horse"! Let's ban our freedoms and get to work on a better tomorrow!
This statement covers a lot of ground,especially a lot of us posters and the 14th century mentality of Al Quaida. Not many Einstiens in the audience,more loafers than anything I suspect.
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I guess you are referring to President Obama's successes [for example, killing Bin Laden, taking out top al-Qaeda operatives, bringing the economy out of a nose dive (see the CNN Money report for the stats)] being too hard for the faux news folks to take. Betting against the president and hoping he fails is like betting against your own team. Please get over the fact that a man of color is president, has done a masterful job against unbelievable odds and 100% resistance from the Republican Party, and is going to be in residence for another 4 years. He is the highest caliber statesman this country has seen in generations. It is so refreshing to have a commander in chief who is not an international embarrassment and an apparent idiot. Mission accomplished!
Yes, because it's fantastic having a President that won't get us out of Israel's wars, passes the most draconian legislation of my lifetime with NDAA and is has done absolutely nothing to limit the expansion of corporate power, nor the influence of malevolent banking practices on our economy. Also, last I checked, the Drug War was still running strong with plenty of black market profits being enhanced by the decreased supply brought on by persecution, and the gang warfare to go with it. Oh, and how is our education system doing? Obama– what a guy. Not that any Republican candidate, other than Ron Paul, is any better but we all need to get over this stupid mindset that voting for either major candidate in this election is going to do anything except make us look like idiots, again. Get yourself informed so that when we go to the streets, you have something to say. That's your best bet. Start with looking into the truth behind 9/11. It's incredible that there are still some people out there who haven't heard of WTC7 nor of the thousands of architects, engineers and firefighters that demand an independent investigation. Has Obama mentioned that? (AE911truth.org)
I agree. Vote all the Tea Party politicians out and vote in real representatives.
Very simple fix. If videos get uploaded that are against policy, just block the IP address from where they came. and then report to the government where those IP adresses are so that they can be carpet bombed.
Not quite that simple. IP addresses are quite easily masked.
Yes, because it's intelligent to do that. Take them out at their source! Maybe we should just kill anyone who believes in any God, just to be safe. Or we can just kill EVERYONE... Then we can be sure we got him. Or just kill all the babies to prevent him from reproducing. No abortions, though– I at least wanna give the little guy a chance to come out. Then it's straight under the diesel truck wheels for you, little ugly baby. But yeah, definitely; carpet bombs!!
Maybe if the CIA and NSA were a bit smarter, they would make videos just like the ones the terrorists post, but with mistakes and incorrect data, leading to these morons who follow these videos to commit these errors and blow themselves up while bomb making or setting themselves up for capture and punishment.
Who's to say they don't?
I hope they are, but I doubt it....
"If videos are taken down, they will get re-uploaded." Really? I've been trying to find 'Imagine There's No Kenny' which was a nice parody of the destruction of an arrogant corporation 'Band of Brothers' in the game Eve-Online. The only link found goes to YouTube where 'this person's account had been disabled.'
Oh... wait... Google must be in BOB's pocket! The Evil Empire truly has won!
Ask any Spl Ops trooper from any country in the world and they will tell you that Google is the number 1 friend to Terrorists on the web, from Google Earth showing any and all installations in detail, to killi videos, to murder your neighbor propaganda. Google is way beyond the pale in assisting terrorists.
Google is a tool, nothing more. And like most tools, it can be used for good or bad. At least Google has in place ways to reduce this content.
oh less of the hyperbole already
No you're wrong. They do not show detail of everything on google earth. Look at military installations. If they're meant to be secret, they are blurred out or won't let you see at all. Do some research before spewing your stupid sh!t all over the place.
There is a very simple solution to prevent reposting videos. Simply fingerprint the video and then check every upload against known "bad" videos. Easy as pie to do, and would completely prevent reposting, without at least modifying the content. IT would even be possible to use a more advanced algorithm to detect videos with a specific segment, meaning editing would not be enough
Such heuristic scanning tech is definitely in the works. But I agree that YouTube could at least generate an MD5 hash of uploaded content and refuse anything that was previously removed.
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These guys the United States business community funds and can never catch. Are a really good excuse to show why anyone that isn't in the loop. Dosen't get their material on youtube unless they are approved. It also really justifies the reason all search engines are catalouged along with youtube. So you can't get any relevant information. All the other nations websites are cached and you get the same information over and over just like the cached google and youtube pages. This country isn't free. Its time you realize that.
Its best to keep everyone in a bubble. Remove the supposed "terror" threats from our free sites but let Hollywood make movies and have you pasy for them too. The Jews love playing these mind games.
America does not own the internet, no matter how much we think we do. The internet is owned by no single country or corperation.
Well, technically, that may be true but so what? What's yer point??
The US created the internet and most of the important infrastructure and innovation are still created and maintained by US-based companies. The US bears a huge responsibility in the care and feeding of the internet. Everyone else is pretty much just along for the ride.
Other important US inventions include aviation, GPS, and the list goes on and on.... Not bad for such young country.
I say that we use the information that we have from these YouTube videos of terrorists and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law based upon their malintent, which is absolutely no secret at all. Amen.
Since the Internet is world-wide and each country doesn't have the same laws, its hard to simply say prosecute them. With who's laws? And not all countries feel they are terrorists, only the US and US allied countries do.
One of the biggest things to remember is that the Revolutionary War was fought by terrorist, our fore fathers. They were terrorist in Great Britian's eyes. Yet they are heros in ours. Keep that in mind. Best way to fight terrorists is not get involved in their business.
All Terrorist always fight for a reason. Take away the reason to fight, and they will always quit fighting. That is the only way you can truly beat Terrorism. So why do our current Terrorist of the US want to fight us? If we figure the truth out on this, we can stop it.
Our fore fathers used IEDs as roadside bombs and targeted the caravans of british troops as their wagons drove by. Sound familiar?
The Revolutionary War was not an act of terrorism. Terrorism is the deliberate attack upon innocent civilians (i.e. not politicians or soldiers). Our fore fathers targeted the British soldiers and associates of the Crown. Therefore, what you stated is false. Playing the counterterrorism game is not so black and white. One needs to understand the culture, religion, and political motivation behind the act of terrorism. Terrorism is a method not a political ideology. Our fore fathers did not purposely target innocent civilians at a market and execute the innocent civilians to pressure Parliament and King George III to give Americans independence.
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They want you and the whole world to be Muslims. Let me know when you start your conversion process to appease them. Thanks.
What kind of society is it we are living in when we are not allowed to know what the opposition's narrative is?
Agreed. In addition we could learn something about their methods should we need to fight them. I do not condone fighting, but it is required in order to keep our freedoms. Besides, maybe they are right. Maybe they have a very valid point, just like Rosa Parks did in 1960s about segregation. You should keep an open mind, even when they do not.
Besides, even God says not to judge others as that is his right and his alone.
Well that would be a closed society....a fearful society ...a society that looks upon it'd own population with distain and mistrust....That would be America..Land Of The Free...Home Of The Brave
There's this little thing called an IP address. So, you're whack-a-mole strategy is kind of inane. There's only one reason why some would have 20 to 30 youtube accounts. You should do something about that.
Terrorist chatter is not free speech. Don't even go there.
IP Addresses can be spoofed (i.e. faked). Your idea of using them to limit content is a little misguided. Most computers use DHCP which dynamically allocates an IP address. So you would recommend they band all IPs of a internet host? This would be great for the terrorists who could shutdown utube by simply spoofing their ips for every ip set in the world and make posting to utube to ban them. Very flawed thinking.
It would be a disaster if Youtube banned .gov IP's because of CIA shenanigans...and pretty god damn funny and deserved. NO consent....NONE
Since Youtube is a Google site, they have a right to employ whatever censorship they wish and Google's policy appears to be well thought out. That being said, censorship can be a slippery slope and can be used to censor legitimate dissent. In a truly free society one's speech is protected, even when we disagree with the message. In addition, when you censor someone you can in some ways empower them, as the act of censorship can convince those censored and some sympathizers of the legitimacy of their message.
As always, people are always focused on the selfish aspect of true freedom. True Freedom requires everyone to be accountable for their actions and that their choices should not impeed the freedoms of others or influence others. Expressing your opinion about something is fine as long as it doesn't affect others. This is the part everyone forgets about freedom.
In your society of non-responsible speech rights, you can say there is a "bomb" on an airplane full of people when on that airplane, and delay the plane without penalty.
I do not condone censorship, rather I recommend that litegation be put against those that choose actions that negatively affect others. Post it if you want, but you will pay a price for posting it and continue to pay a price as long as it is posted. If you wish to pay that price, then the post can stand.
Your lack of understanding surrounding free speech and how it works frightens me a great deal.
You said the expressing your opinion is fine as long as it doesn't influence others. Are you listening to yourself?
OMG and then you went on to say that posting things that "negatively affect others" would be prosecuted unless the poster could pay enough money, then the post could stay up. You are not thinking at all! For goodness sake, stay out of politics.
Why did it take the FBI to make YouTube enforce its own policies? Any sensible organization would have pulled those travesties long ago. Sad times when people and groups can't set reasonable limits themselves. Typical.
Cheryl, it would be poor pr for Google to start self-selecting their censorship. It is best to wait for the government to enact their requests backed by their laws so Google appears to be acting lawful without alienation.
Poor PR to follow your own policies? If that's the reasoning, it's very flawed.
Another "panties in a wad" moment for the general public ... The solution will spark more controversy than the problem, giving the "offenders" more publicity than the actual videos in question ever would ...
Perhaps risking a little bad PR is better than risking the bomb that results from the poster's instructions.
Just remember when uploading your video of someone being be-headed to abide by Google's music copyright laws.
folks should really watch the definition of terrorist closely. We don't live in a free and open society any more. It is just a fact of life. Now can I have a 20% raise so I can go back to slurping my corn syrup because we gotta burn all the sugar made with slave labor to keep the base industries going after the oil runs dry...
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There are coded messages in the Internet the only Muslim or Arab followers can decipher. A perspon should have to speak and write in Arab or other arab dialects to het the message.
A muslim boy in New Jersey told ABC reporters that he read an article in the internet stating that 2 tall buildings will disappear on 9/11.
...and you believe everything you're told by little muslim boys, right?
Where the videos taken offline or just banned from the US network? Obviously lawenforcement would still have access.
Unbelievable, these terriosts groups are using American hardware to promote violence against Americans
Actually no, most computers these days are made in Communist China.
And Google has server farms over seas also.
What was most interesting was the statement that these terrorists are from the "West".
And the part about leaving some material up. What they didn't say was so the government agencies could track who was visiting those videos.
Please censor and remove my previous comment. I dare you.
You tube is very strange, if i post a video of a hockey team scoring a goal i have to remove it because of copyright. But a video showing violence and horrible things can stay up.
Yes, that is the way it should be. America and the west are hypocrites.
Whats hypocritical about that. The rules are plainly posted.no copyrighted material.
Steve's saying that also in the rules is "no violence, hate speech," etc. yet they rely on flaggings to remove this while on their own volition they'll remove copyrighted material. Corporate rights are more important than human rights, remember?
Someone should copyright acts of terrorism, be-heading, and the rest so Google will take everything down. But you know the trick, don't you? Just put "no copyright infringement intended" in the description and it stays.
Who gives a shi t?
All censorship must be opposed.
Take down videos, and send to officials for review.
Why shouldnt YouTube do this? FoxNews did it when the hate filled and vile rhetoric of the radical right became too much for even Fox (which you know is extreme!). They pulled all of their commenting because it seems that their FanBase (far from fair and balanced) would spew hate speech regularly.
this story is not about Fox News.
Actually Fox news is pretty much left wing these days....
That's because Fox "News" is similiar to the Soviet Union's Tass media when they were around. If you disagree with them, they will not air or print your disagreement. And it's Fox...so who gives a ****?
So censorship is the new tool in the War on Terror.
Pot, meet my good friend kettle.
The best way to deal with these videos is to change the foreign policy that provokes and in many
ways makes them necessary in the first place...
This may work in some way on youtube and US controlled sites but not on the hundreds of Jihadi sites... I'm certain very few in America are influenced by these videos but it does give one some insight to their motivations and often highlights their hypocrisy.
Another way to combat these postings/videos would to be to ask the public to volunteer more to flag these videos. Patriots scanning the web and reporting.
Sure, the "patriots" would flag anything said by Romney as propaganda, if they were Democrats. And, the Republican's would flag any Obama message as propaganda. Easy answers are not the way. Perhaps it's time to let a pair of fresh unbiased eyes look for a solution. Get someone respected by all sides from Switzerland.
This approach is like attacking individual cancer cells. You can do it, you'll probably kill all the cell around it, but, by the time your done 10 million other cells will be bad!
Go and troll around on a BBC web site
BloodNThunder and very little brains.
You don't fight them by trying to stop them. You fight propaganda with truth. But no one is doing that. All we have is the news media spreading their hypocrisy.
Because the real truth is as bad as their propaganda.
Correct, unfortunately very very few people realize this. And so the problem will get worse.
"Our review teams respond to flagged videos around the clock, routinely removing material under those guidelines when content is flagged by users or other external groups," the Google spokesperson said. AND WHO WOULD THE EXTERNAL GROUP BE?
VERY Astute my friend!
Owners of the content in many cases.
the users are the external group
The external groups are probably just what you think they are – government agencies like the FBI, the CIA and Homeland Security who are in charge of monitoring terrorist activities. Duh.

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The CBS Television Network, home of Super Bowl XLIV, begins its 50th year broadcasting the NFL with two preseason games during the 2009 season.
The preseason schedule for THE NFL ON CBS begins on Friday, Aug. 28 (8:00 PM, ET) when the New England Patriots take on the Washington Redskins live in prime time from FedEx Field in Landover, Md. on the CBS Television Network. Jim Nantz and Phil Simms call the action. Lance Barrow produces and Mike Arnold directs.
THE NFL ON CBS concludes it two-game preseason schedule the following night as the San Diego Chargers play the Atlanta Falcons live in prime time on Saturday, Aug. 29 (8:00 PM, ET). Greg Gumbel and Dan Fouts call the game from the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Ga. Mark Wolff produces and Bob Fishman directs.
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Center stage beckons for Jason Sudeikis of 'SNL'
NEW YORK (AP) -- As several cameras and a large film crew hover around him, Jason Sudeikis is enjoying the attention.
"Think about how long this lighting would take if I didn't have perfect bone structure," he says, smiling. "Show off God's work."
Sudeikis is shooting promotions for the MTV Movie Awards, which he'll host June 5. As he lists the attendees, he riffs effortlessly ("Blake Lively ... nice guy?") and ponders the Scrabble points in "Shia LaBeouf."
The awards will introduce Sudeikis to millions of viewers just as he's making his largest splash on the big screen. He stars in the upcoming summer comedy "A Good Old Fashioned Orgy," out in September, and plays a supporting role in the star-filled "Horrible Bosses," out in July.
For the veteran "Saturday Night Live" cast member, center stage is a relatively new vantage point. Hosting the MTV Movie Awards (the last two hosts were Andy Samberg and Aziz Ansari) has been a kind of platform for rising comedians on the cusp.
"A platform either to dive beautifully off of or to fall completely off of, but a platform nevertheless," says the 35-year-old Sudeikis.
Though born in Virginia, Sudeikis was raised in suburban Kansas City, Mo., and has a Midwestern aw-shucks candor. But he often uses a cheery façade for arrogant or oblivious characters. Whether playing Vice President Joe Biden or the devil, Sudeikis is usually grinning broadly.
"I always liked smart asses," he says. "I probably wanted to be Axel Foley from age 9 until 38. In three years, I'll probably stop wanting to be Axel Foley. I like people that laugh, smart asses that also laugh, that don't take any of it too seriously. Love Ace Ventura. Love Groucho Marx. Love Bugs Bunny."
Sudeikis didn't sincerely pursue comedy until he came to the famed Chicago improv troupe Second City in 1997. His family had some familiarity with showbiz: Sudeikis' uncle is George Wendt ("Cheers"). Wendt's success, Sudeikis says, pacified his parents in accepting entertainment as a career.
At Second City, he "dove in completely" to improv and helped develop a Las Vegas offshoot. There, he became enamored of the Blue Man Group and even auditioned once (unsuccessfully).
He was hired first as a writer on "SNL," which he did for two years, getting a handful of sketches on the air. Though Sudeikis yearned to be a performer, he learned the "SNL" system and relished the writing process.
"I really enjoyed the re-write table. That was my favorite thing to do," says Sudeikis. "When Tina Fey likes one of your jokes and puts it into the script, you can't help but feel like, 'Maybe I am somehow doing the right thing, the right job.'"
Horatio Sanz overlapped with Sudeikis at Second City and again at "SNL," where he co-wrote Sudeikis' first sketch to air (Jack Black singing "Cats in the Cradle" to his estranged father).
"We all knew there was a performer in him," says Sanz. "Because it's so effortless for him, I think you kind of forget that he's such a good comedic actor. He doesn't go too big too often. A lot of what he plays is a lot like him."
Sudeikis became a cast member in 2006 as part of one of the show's best classes: Kristin Wiig, Bill Hader and Andy Samberg. Sudeikis and Wiig often wrote together and one of their late-night, gum-chewing sessions led to an early recurring hit: "Two A-Holes." In it, the two played an absurdly self-absorbed couple.
"I probably dealt with a lot of people like that -- inflated egos -- through sports and also entertainment," says Sudeikis. "And then again, there might be part of me that's not too dissimilar from that, the worst parts of myself."
Sudeikis says this "SNL" season, which concluded this past weekend, has been one of creeping nostalgia, as he, Wiig, Hader, Samberg realize their time together is waning.
"We all sort of realize that you're not going to do this forever," says Sudeikis, who expects to return next season.
But they all have other projects now, too. For Sudeikis, most notably, there's "A Good Old-Fashioned Orgy," an R-rated comedy in which a group of friends decide to have an orgy. It's a generational kind of film with characters in their late '20s and early '30s -- stuck between the free-love '60s and the sexting '00s -- insisting on their own chance for sexual inhibition.
Writer-directors Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck first met Sudeikis at an "SNL" after-party, where he and Huyck sang a karaoke duet of "Living on a Prayer."
"I have never seen a dude bring more charisma than that guy brought in that moment," says Huyck. "He was one of those guys that you could just see instantly and go, 'He's got that thing.'"
Says Gregory: "We've had those conversations: Is he a young Bill Murray? Is he a young Chevy Chase? What is he? I always think more than anything, he's a young Tom Hanks."
The pair convinced Sudeikis to make "Orgy" -- a risky proposition for a first leading role -- partly by comparing it to Hanks doing 1984's "Bachelor Party" early in his career.
Handsome and confident, Sudeikis has shown leading man appeal, including in a memorable guest arc on "30 Rock." (He was previously married to "30 Rock" writer Kay Cannon, and last year dated "Mad Men" actress January Jones, which attracted tabloid coverage.)
One of Sudeikis' most popular characters is speechless: A tireless -- and surprisingly skilled -- dancer, clad in an Adidas jumpsuit that adorns the background of the "What Up with That?" sketch. Since dancing is often the province of award show hosting, there's a chance Sudeikis may trot the character out at the MTV Movie Awards.
"Very possibly," he says. "You got to dance with the one that brung you. No pun intended."


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Swept underneath the hype of the HTC Evo and Droid X lurks the Droid Incredible. Interest is still, well, incredibly high for this Droid but a growing number of users are concerned about the incomplete Bluetooth stack it shipped with.
The Bluetooth stack that HTC shipped with the Droid Incredible lacks support for Serial Port Profile (SPP) Bluetooth and Human Interface Device (HID) Bluetooth. Which in layman's terms means that a lot of Bluetooth-equipped cars, keyboards and other accessories just don't work with the Incredible.
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HTC did not load the full version of Bluetooth that a person would receive with 2.1 Android. The version on these phones is held over from a previous version of Android either due in part to loading sense ui and not upgrading these key vital component or simply because it conflicted with Sense. Things that probably won't work include HID Bluetooth devices like a wii remote or bluetooth keyboard/mouse. Some other profiles such as SPP may also not work because we simply don't have the most current Android version of Bluetooth installed on these devices. It's not cool that I don't have a complete 2.1 device.
The issue is only really affecting a small subset of users, because let's face it, not everyone is using the Droid Incredible with their BMW's and Bluetooth keyboards. It's just odd that HTC would deliver such an impressive phone with a handcuffed Bluetooth stack. We've seen other reports saying HTC has done this to the Desire as well, so maybe it is a HTC Sense issue. Which in that case, those third party UI's really should just all disappear.
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BAGHDAD - Ramadan this year is shaping up to be the deadliest in Iraq since a bloody insurgency and rampant sectarian killings pushed the country to the edge of civil war in the wake of the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.
Suicide attacks, car bombings and other violence have killed at least 169 Iraqis just seven days into the Islamic holy month. The death toll in the first week of Ramadan hasn't been that high since 2007, intensifying fears that Iraq is slipping back into widespread chaos.
There seems to be little pattern in the range of targets, adding to the sense of unease in what is meant to be a month of spiritual growth and generosity.
Several of those killed over the past week died at a busy northern teashop while playing mehebis, a game where players hope to win sweets by guessing who among their opposing team is hiding a ring in their hands. Others were slain as they swam with friends, or as they shopped for festive evening dinners, or made their way home from mosques after late-night prayers.
Even for Iraqis who have grown used to hearing about random violence, day after day of double-digit death tolls makes for a worrying trend.
Many are choosing to stay home after breaking their dawn-to-dusk fast rather than venture out for festive family get-togethers and late-night cafe sessions, worrying they could be among the next victims.
'Al-Qaida and other terrorist groups ... have a better ability to move around and attack targets whenever it suits them,' said Qais Hameed, an engineer and father of three from eastern Baghdad who quit going to a nearby coffee shop after breaking his daily fast. 'This just shows that these terrorist groups are getting stronger while our security forces are getting weaker.'
The bloodshed during Ramadan is an extension of a surge of attacks that has been roiling Iraq since the spring. It follows months of rallies by Iraq's minority Sunnis against the Shiite-led government over what they contend is second-class treatment and the unfair use of tough anti-terrorism measures against their sect.
The killings significantly picked up after Iraqi security forces launched a heavy-handed crackdown on a Sunni protest camp in the northern town of Hawija on April 23. A ferocious backlash followed the raid, with deadly bomb attacks and the return of sporadic gunbattles between insurgents and soldiers - this time members of the Iraqi security forces rather than U.S. troops.
Ramadan, one of the holiest periods of the Islamic calendar, appears to be following that worrisome trend. It was always a popular period for attacks during the worst days of Iraq's violence as Shiite and Sunni extremists battled each other as well as U.S. forces.
The first Ramadan following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion began with a blistering wave of suicide bombings at police stations and the Red Cross headquarters.
In the years that followed, American military commanders braced for a surge in violence during the holy month. In 2007, 934 people were killed during Ramadan, including 236 the first week, according to an Associated Press count.
But as the war wound down, so did violence during the holy month.
'Ramadan used to be a bad month (for violence), but then over recent years it became a relatively quiet month,' said John Drake, an Iraq specialist for the British-based AKE security consulting firm.
But, Drake added, 'it already looks like this trend is being reversed.'
U.N. figures show more than 2,500 Iraqis killed and many more wounded from April through June of this year.
Another 337 have died in violent attacks so far in July, according to an AP tally.
Among them were at least six people killed in a bomb blast near a Sunni mosque late Tuesday in Muqdadiyah, about 90 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police and hospital officials said. Authorities also reported the deaths of two policemen targeted by gunmen in and around the restive northern city of Mosul. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the information.
In a report released this week, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon described the scale of violence in recent months as alarming and said 'rising inter-sectarian tensions are posing a major threat to stability and security in Iraq.' Ban also warned that the increasingly sectarian-charged civil war raging in neighboring Syria is affecting Iraq's own political stability.
Although Iraq is officially neutral in the conflict, U.S. officials charge that it continues to allow flights suspected of carrying Iranian arms to transit its airspace. Iraqi officials have carried out some spot checks of Iranian planes and say they've found nothing. Iraqi fighters are meanwhile traveling to fight in Syria, with Shiites fighting alongside regime forces and Iraq's al-Qaida arm, now known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, siding with the mostly Sunni rebels.
No one has claimed responsibility for many of the terrorist attacks. But the indiscriminate and often coordinated bombings used in most of the attacks are a favorite tactic of al-Qaida, which hopes to stoke sectarian hatred and undermine Iraq's Shiite-led government.
Al-Qaida and other Sunni fundamentalists consider Shiites to be infidels. In the group's extremist ideology, acts of jihad including suicide bombings that are carried out during Ramadan are seen as more blessed than at other times of the year.
'The attackers believe that to martyr themselves during the holy month guarantees them some sort of benefit in the afterlife,' said Drake, the security expert.
Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan Ibrahim agreed that militants' heightened spiritual fervor during Ramadan is partly to blame, along with the fact that large crowds often gather at soft targets such as mosques and cafes during Ramadan, giving attackers a chance to kill several people at once, he said.
A senior Iraqi intelligence official, who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to journalists, offered a more mundane rationale.
'Security forces tend to speed up the searching process before iftar so they don't delay people who are fasting,' he said, referring to the evening meal that ends the daylong Ramadan fast.
Ramadan last year also got off to a deadly start, with more than 140 killed during the first week. Unlike this year's daily drumbeat of violence, most of those died during a single dark day of attacks claimed by al-Qaida. Some days saw no deaths reported at all - something that has yet to happen this time around.


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WASHINGTON – Inside a sprawling, nondescript garage in Landover, Metro has given a glimpse of its future.
As the garage door was raised, the lights blinked on a mock-up of Metro's newly- designed rail car, wrapped in a red ribbon with a bow.
Richard Sarles, Metro's general manager, says the new 7000-series cars, built in Nebraska by the Japanese company Kawasaki, will provide a new level of safety.
"In terms of crash energy management, it is the latest design for that in transit cars," Sarles says.
Maryland Senator Ben Cardin says the new cars will address problems with the older series cited for structural deficiencies in the 2009 accident on the Red Line.
"These are much safer vehicles not only from the point of view of crash resistance, but also the way people get into the trains and get out of the trains and the way they sit in the trains," Cardin says.
Metro has ordered 428 of the new rail cars at a cost of $1.5 billion. Three hundred new cars will replace the older 1000-series cars involved in the Red Line accident. When the order is complete, Metro will have an additional 128 cars in its fleet.
Inside the stainless steel cars, Metro's brown interior is gone, replaced by a new color scheme favored by customer research.
"In the blue-grey category of color, they felt that it was relaxing and kind of soothing," says Barbara Richardson, Metro's chief of staff.
The new car includes two more seats, more standing room and nearly 25 percent more hand rails than current Metro cars.
The first cars are expected to enter service on Metro's Silver Line in 2014.
WTOP's Dick Uliano contributed to this report. Follow WTOP on Twitter.
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Former British Prime Minister Baroness Margaret Thatcher died from a stroke at the age of 87 Monday.
"It is with great sadness that Mark and Carol Thatcher announced that their mother Baroness Thatcher died peacefully following a stroke this morning," said Thatcher's spokesman Lord Bell.
Thatcher was Britain's first -- and so far only -- female Prime Minister and the longest-serving in the 20th Century.
Although she was elected to three terms, her conservative policies amid recession and her participation in the Falklands War complicate her legacy.
She began her political career as the Member of Parliament for Finchley in 1959, rising to become the Secretary of State for Education and then Conservative Party leader before she got the top job.
Thatcher had several small strokes in 2002 and withdrew from public speaking and other appearances as her health declined.
Her husband, Sir Denis Thatcher, died in 2003. She is survived by her children, Carol and Mark Thatcher.


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Polio vaccine developer Koprowski dies in Pa.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Dr. Hilary Koprowski, a pioneering virologist who developed the first successful oral vaccination for polio, has died. He was 96.
Although not as well-known as fellow researchers Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin, Koprowski in 1950 became the first to show it was possible to vaccinate against polio, the crippling and sometimes fatal disease that's now all but eradicated.
Koprowski's son, Christopher, said Saturday that his father liked the scientific recognition his work received without the celebrity of Salk and Sabin.
"He enjoyed not having his scientific work disrupted," said Christopher Koprowski, chief of radiation oncology at Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Del. "Not that he was a modest individual, mind you."
Christopher Koprowski said his father had been sick for several months before dying Thursday in the same Wynnewood home he'd lived in since 1957.
Hilary Koprowski self-administered the live-virus oral vaccine he developed before the 1950 clinical trial — about two years before Salk's injectable version using a dead form of the virus began testing with the backing of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, now the March of Dimes.
Sabin, who Koprowski's son said sometimes collaborated with his father, was the first to get the more effective oral version, which didn't require boosters, licensed for use in the U.S.
Koprowski went on to be the director of The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia from 1957 to 1991. Under his leadership, the independent research institution developed a rubella vaccine that helped eradicate the disease in much of the world, Wistar officials said. It was during that time the institute also developed a more effective rabies vaccine.
A talented musician, the Poland-born Koprowski was a penniless immigrant in Rio de Janeiro making money teaching piano before hooking up with a lab there and eventually moving to the United States, his son said.
"He was a great dad. He was colorful, charismatic," Christopher Koprowski said. "He's still the most brilliant person I've ever met."


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K-12 Aid Faces Uncertain Future, Despite 'Fiscal Cliff' Deal
Education programs will be spared the prospect of the largest across-the-board cuts in history, but only temporarily, under a bill to avert much of the so-called "fiscal cliff," overwhelmingly approved by Congress on Tuesday.
The measure, which passed the U.S. Senate 89-8 early Tuesday morning and the U.S. House 257-167 Tuesday night, will delay the trigger cuts known as "sequestration," which have been set to hit just about every government agency—including the U.S. Department of Education—on Jan. 2. Under the deal, the cuts will be postponed until March, giving federal lawmakers time to craft a broader budget agreement. The deal was worked out at the 11th hour by Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the Senate minority leader.
In the House, where approval seemed touch-and-go most of Tuesday, nearly every Democrat voted for the bill, while 85 Republicans supported it. Sixteen Democrats, and 151 Republicans voted against the measure.
To help pay for the postponement of the trigger cuts—which would slice 8.2 percent from a wide range of programs, including K-12 education—lawmakers have agreed to $12 billion in revenue increases, plus $12 billion in spending cuts, including $6 billion from domestic programs, according to published reports. It's unclear how, and whether, those cuts would affect education spending.
The deal essentially sets up yet another major fiscal fight later on this year. Congress will need to come up with new legislation to cope with sequestration by March. That could involve a fresh round of domestic-spending cuts, which, in turn, could put education programs on the chopping block.
Plus, the federal government is operating on a temporary budget, called a continuing resolution, which expires at the end of March. Lawmakers will have to figure out a final budget for fiscal year 2013, which began back on Oct. 1, or face the prospect of a government shutdown.
To top it all off, the nation has hit the federal debt ceiling yet again, meaning that the government will need new legislation to be allowed to borrow more money—and keep agencies and programs in business. A measure to deal with that issue will also need to be approved in the next couple of months.
Education advocates fear the result may well be more chaos, since it was the last deal to raise the debt ceiling, back in August of 2011, that put sequestration in place to begin with. Republicans have said they do not want to raise the debt ceiling without reducing spending.
All this adds up to a lot of continued uncertainty for school districts and their advocates.
The fiscal-cliff deal is "sort of like a temporary stay of execution," said Joel Packer, the executive director of the Committee for Education Funding, a lobbying coalition. "We're hoping we get pardoned. .... It just creates sort of another cliff two months from now."
And the next fiscal year, 2014, could prove to be even more difficult, Packer said, in part because of the reduced domestic spending in the budget agreement, and in part because the Pell Grant program, which helps low-income students cover the cost of college, continues to eat up a bigger share of education funding. The program, which is exempt from sequestration, faces a structural deficit, in part because of higher demand for the grants as more students enroll in postsecondary education.
Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, a 1.5 million member union, urged House lawmakers to vote in favor of the fiscal cliff package, while acknowledging that it is "imperfect," in part because schools will continue to face budget uncertainty.
"As important as this relief is right now to the majority of Americans, this is a temporary, Band-Aid solution," said Weingarten in a statement. "Kicking the can down the road for two months means that we still face the possibility of staggering and debilitating cuts to public schools, health care and services that our kids and families count on."
If the sequestration cuts do end up going through in March, most school districts wouldn't feel the pinch until the start of the 2013-14 school year, because of the way that key programs, such as Title I grants for districts and special education aid, are funded. That gives districts a planning window to figure out how to implement the cuts without hurting student achievement—and it gives Congress and the Obama administration more time to work out a deal.
But other programs, such as the Head Start preschool program for low-income children, which is administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, would be cut right away. And the impact-aid program would feel the sequestration sting in April, when districts receive their next payments. That program helps districts with a large federal presence, such as a military base. More on the cuts here.
One thing is almost certain: Congress will be very busy over the next several months trying to figure out solutions to these various fiscal puzzles. That leaves less time for education legislation—meaning that pending renewals of programs governing special education, community and development grants, higher education, career and technical education, and workforce development—not to mention the long-stalled reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (currently known as No Child Left Behind)—could continue to sit for a while.
Still, there's some good news for education programs in the deal. Key tax provisions, including the American Opportunity Tax Credit, which helps families afford college, were extended. And the deal includes an extension of the Qualified Zone Academy Bond program, as well as a tax credit that helps teachers purchase supplies for their classrooms.
Photo: President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden walk away from the podium at the White House after the President thanked Congressional leaders for their role in Tuesday night's passage of the "fiscal cliff" legislation. (Charles Dharapak/AP)


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I am fortunate enough to be speaking to a user group with a really cool name - Atlanta.MDF (Microsoft Database Forum). Although I visit Atlanta often, it usually involves running from one councourse to another and rarely do I get the chance to visit the user group. I have made it to the user group on several occassions in the past, but it has been several years. This will be my first presentation to the group.
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I'm struggling to believe that Day of Archaeology has come around again. This time around I have a confession; I no longer work in Archaeology professionally. I can't even claim a tangible link as I used to. The closest link I can claim is that I work within the museum/tourism industry – I work in tourism at a heritage site (very loosely). I was really struggling to think of what I could discuss for this year's Day of Archaeology; certainly nothing in my day job.
Thankfully, I didn't fully leave archaeology – I've "kept a toe" in the industry. In particular I've become involved in promoting equality in archaeology and advocating wider diversity within the profession. The CIfA's 2012-13's Profiling the Profession showed archaeology was a predominantly white, male orientated discipline. Just over half are male (and most of these hold the more senior positions), 99% are white, and 98% do not consider themselves to have a disability. I've always personally viewed archaeology as a traditionally, "left wing, accepting" discipline however recent realisations have shattered my rose-tinted spectacles. I'm committed to making a change; to improve the industry I originally worked in and still love.
Archaeology and Twitter…
One method of making a difference is communication; raising awareness that there is a problem and discussing ways we can bring about positive change. Whether you like it or loathe it, social media is seemingly here to stay, and it appears as though isn't going away. It's a great way of reaching thousands of people very quickly though regular updates, blogs, and specific social media events using specific hashtags (such as #dayofarch). I'm directly involved with two projects/organisations: the Every DIG Sexism project (based on the Everyday Sexism Project), which aims to highlight sexism in archaeology but also champion good practice. Secondly I'm one of the communications officers for the CIfA's Equality and Diversity Group. We aim to continually assess barriers to equality and diversity within the profession by researching, supporting, and developing best practice strategies for challenging inequality (particularly areas relating to gender, ethnicity, sexuality and disability).
I don't know if whoever is reading this has ever had the displeasure of using multiple twitter accounts simultaneously. If you haven't, it's really tricky.
But sometimes a twitter event arrises, you send a couple of tweets, and before you know it, it's 7pm and you've spent the entire day tweeting so much you've lost all concept of time, and which account you're currently using! A recent example of this was #queermuseum Day – which discussed representation of LGBT+ communities in museum collections. After a few minutes into the day, my work station looked something like this:
I've never been more thrilled to have multiple screens – you need it when you're tweeting from so many accounts…!
Surely this isn't archaeology…?
People still scoff when you say you mainly do archaeology on social media nowadays. After all, archaeology is about the stuff you can see, stuff you touch, stuff that has been dug out of the ground. To me, archaeology is simply; the study of the human past through what is left of material remains. This can come in the form of ceramics, ditches, burials and things traditionally dug out of the ground. It can come in the form of objects that are thousands of years old, that have been newly discovered, that haven't been touched for centuries. This can also mean things that happened a few moments ago; the sweet wrapper on the floor, the remnants and litter of a protest; the stratigraphy of graffiti on a wall, or the tweets and discussions on social media.
Anything that has been used, touched, or changed by humans, regardless of when this happened, is archaeology. The other, perhaps less abstract idea of social media is that it's a great communication tool. It's a great way of reaching people – the #queermuseum hashtag was one of the top trends in the UK, which involved and reached a wide ranging group of people.
So my day in archaeology? This year it was spent on twitter, talking about #QueerMuseums, trying to diversify the heritage industry. It was spent educating people on how diverse our heritage actually is. It was spent trying to improve archaeology as profession. We've got a long way to go, but we're on the right path….
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Happy New Year!December 30, 2010
From Monday's Paper: Lib Con…May 9, 2010
The Third debate – in a little more than 15 seconds…April 30, 2010
The Second Election Debate – in 15 seconds…April 24, 2010
The First Election Debate – in 15 seconds…April 16, 2010
Because of another job, I didn't have time to do an immediate response to the First Election Debate, but here's a belated offering:
Looking forward to the debate…April 15, 2010
A quick pre-debate comment:
Animated Labour Manifesto Response…April 12, 2010
From the Paper: Teed Off…April 12, 2010
New Animation: Straight Talking…April 9, 2010
I've got a new animation on Times Online, in the Election section.
Frighteningly with a readers' comment section below…
I'm scared of those.
Please be kind, please be kind, please be kind…
More Animations…April 7, 2010
I've put a couple more test animations on my website.
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How was your week everyone? More importantly, what have you been clicking on around the web. Here are a few posts that caught our eyes around the web this week.
1. To die for home in San Francisco:
Photo: Winnie Wintemeyer for The Wall Street Journal
2. Great holiday decorating ideas from Real Simple: This article shows us some ways to keep things simple, easy to assemble and beautiful during the holidays, though here at Design Public, most of us still love paper turkeys too!
image by Ditte Isager for Real Simple
3. VisuaLingual goes to the Biltmore Estate: Wowza! $59 for a tour during the time when everything was upended for Christmas at the Biltmore preparations, and the price only goes up from there? Whatever, seeing this place and its Frederick Law Olmsted-designed grounds is still on my bucket list
Photo property of VisuaLingual
4. Oversized Load! The New York Times takes a look at how houses get moved. Preserving a home and moving it is so much better than tearing it down; while you can pick up such houses for a song, moving them is another story!
photo by Caroline Yang for The New York Times
5. I can't believe I had to discover this blog via Oprah magazine: Slaughterhouse 90210. The blog matches literary quotes with the likes of Snooki, Brenda Walsh and George Bluth and it is absolutely hilarious. Not so much a design site, my mind reels with ideas about how to turn these into mixed media creations for my walls.
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What clicks were you enjoying around the web this week? Let us know in the comments section!
Hi, I'm Becky. I live in Atlanta. Besides acting as the Editorial Director here on Hatch, you can find me talking design over at Houzz. Make me happy — leave a comment!


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The '80s-era Video Privacy Protection Act had the unintended consequence of inhibiting consensual sharing of video viewing habits. Attorney Dana Newman weighs in on updated legislation.


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Growing up outside Pittsburgh, Jim Kelly threw his share of snowballs.
"I had five brothers," the Hall of Fame quarterback said earlier this month in his office in suburban Buffalo, N.Y. "That's all we did from November probably until February. We played in the snow."
Ben Roethlisberger was a high school and college quarterback in Ohio.
"It's just part of being a kid in the Midwest," Roethlisberger explained at the Steelers' facility, "knowing that part of the year your football's going to be played in the snow. You loved it because you had fun and you were sliding. You always wore snow pants and the warmest stuff you can find."
None of the Seattle Seahawks or Denver Broncos players will be wearing snow pants in Super Bowl XLVIII at MetLife Stadium, but by game's end they may wish they had. The coldest previous Super Bowl was played 42 years ago at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans when the temperature at kickoff was 39 degrees.
If the forecast is correct, it will be colder than that Sunday in East Rutherford, N.J., probably hovering around freezing. The wind will blow, and snow remains a possibility.
"Fine with me," said Doug Flutie, the former Boston College quarterback and 1984 Heisman Trophy winner. "There's nothing wrong with football and cold weather in the same sentence."
Flutie, it should be noted, is deeply biased. His professional career was played in a succession of places that can be astonishingly cold: Chicago, New England, Calgary, Toronto and Buffalo.
"Yeah," Flutie said, laughing, "didn't get to San Diego until late in the game. My reward near the end of my career for good behavior."
The Super Bowl XLVIII quarterbacks, the Broncos' Peyton Manning and Seahawks' Russell Wilson, have been asked so many weather questions over the past week they might be qualified to forecast.
"Obviously, it's snowing like crazy," Wilson said last week at the Seahawks' facility while the New York metro area was receiving a foot of snow. "I have tons of friends back on the East Coast, and they're letting me know. Hopefully, it will pass. Hopefully that will go away.
"If not, we'll have to play in it."
Back on Dec. 15 at MetLife Stadium, of all places, the Seahawks beat the Giants 23-0 in a game that saw the wind chill dip below freezing. Manning, who has spent the majority of his career playing home games in a dome, and the Broncos are 1-1 in games played in less than 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Denver lost 34-31 in overtime at New England in Week 12 and two weeks later beat the Titans at home 51-28.
Manning's historic inability to function well in cold games has become a leading storyline going into Super Bowl XLVIII.
This season, the Broncos have made it a point to practice outside whenever possible. On several occasions, Manning has prepared for a cold game by soaking his throwing hand in a bucket of ice water.
"Anytime you can have ... a situation that you can simulate during practice that might be in a game," Manning said last week in Denver, "that's always a good thing."
Don't even think about it
Bart Starr grew up in Montgomery, Ala., and missed out on the whole coming-of-age snow scene.
"No," he said, sitting in his office in the Birmingham suburb of Hoover, "never had that opportunity."
He actually sounded sad. The funny thing? Starr, still remarkably spry just past his 80th birthday, helped win the coldest game on record in NFL history, the 1967 league championship game.
Coming out of the University of Alabama in 1956, Starr was a 17th-round pick by the Green Bay Packers.
"It can get very, very, very, very cold," Starr said of that modest Wisconsin city. "This may surprise you, but I really loved it. My wife was of a different nature. She thought I was crazy, and I may have been."
Starr's sparkling résumé includes MVP performances in the first two Super Bowls. Those games were played in Los Angeles and Miami, and the temperatures were recorded at 72 and 68 degrees. But before that, there was a record cold game for the ages -- the ice ages.
The Dallas Cowboys visited Lambeau Field on Dec. 31, 1967, to play for the right to represent the NFL in that second Super Bowl. They were greeted by a temperature of minus-13, the equivalent of minus-46 when the wind was factored in.
The Packers were trailing 17-14 when they got the ball back on their own 32-yard-line with 4:50 left in the game. Starr, completing three passes, took them all the way down to the 1-yard line. Once there, he twice handed the ball to running back Donny Anderson, who slipped on the frozen field and was stopped for no gain. It was third-and-goal with 16 seconds left when Starr took the Packers' last timeout and walked to the sideline to discuss things with Vince Lombardi. The head coach wanted to try Anderson one more time.
"I said, 'Coach, the back is great, but he's hard-pressed to do this,'" Starr said. " 'He's slipping and sliding trying to get to the line of scrimmage. I'm standing upright there. I can shuffle my feet and just lunge in.'"
Lombardi didn't hesitate. "Then run it," he said, "and let's get the hell out of here!"
In the huddle, Starr called Brown Right 31 Wedge, a run by Anderson. But when the ball was snapped, Starr followed right guard Jerry Kramer over the goal line. The Packers won 21-17, in a contest that would famously become known as "The Ice Bowl."
Starr's advice for the Super Bowl quarterbacks?
"Find a way to put that weather factor in the back," he said. "Don't even think about it. Concentrate on what you need to do to get the job done. I think your attitude is the key to your success."
Starr, who won all five of his playoff games played in freezing conditions, said he forced himself to focus on his mechanics even more than usual.
"What you have to overcome is how cold the ball feels in your hand," he said. "I understand they have gloves today that actually you can pass the ball with. I wish we would have had some of those in those days."
A chilly narrative
Ah, the miracle of the passing glove. It changes everything.
Manning, sheltered by a dome for his 14 seasons with the Indianapolis Colts, experimented over the years with a number of models in practice. He will almost certainly be wearing one on his throwing hand in the Super Bowl. Maybe his left hand, too.
Last year, Manning first wore one in Week 16 against the Browns – and threw three touchdown passes, including lasers to Demaryius Thomas and Eric Decker. He tried it again the next week in a win over the Chiefs. The Broncos outscored their opposition 72-15 in those games, and the glove seemed to take the wobble out of Manning's spiral.
He has worn at least one glove in 10 of his games with the Broncos but insists that the move was less predicated on the weather than the goal of achieving a better grip after undergoing neck surgery. Denver is 8-2 in those games, including the two playoff contests that delivered them to the Super Bowl, and Manning's passer rating is a lofty 111.9.
In Week 14, part of the pregame discussion concerned Manning's 3-7 career record in games when the temperature was 32 degrees or below at kickoff. It was 18 degrees at Mile High, and maybe it was a coincidence, but Manning threw for 397 yards and four touchdowns in Denver's blowout victory over the Titans. Maybe not.
"Whoever wrote that narrative," Manning said afterward, "can shove it where the sun don't shine."
Grammar aside, it was a nice moment for Manning, who set a franchise record with 39 completions and tied another with 59 attempts.
"I wasn't trying to answer [the critics] because I didn't give it any validation in the first place," Manning told reporters.
Who wants to play?
When the Cincinnati Bengals hosted the San Diego Chargers in the AFC Championship Game after the 1981 season, they had a powerful home advantage. The temperature at Riverfront Stadium was a bone-chilling minus-9. The wind chill was minus-59 -- the lowest ever recorded for an NFL game.
Ken Anderson, the Bengals' quarterback, had played in cold games before, but this one was different.
"When you woke up Sunday morning and walked outside, it kind of hits you in the face," he told ESPN recently in an interview in Hilton Head, S.C. "You say, 'Oh my gosh, what are we in for today?' Fifty-nine below zero is something you certainly didn't expect."
Bengals head coach Forrest Gregg was not fazed in the least, for he had played with the Packers in the Ice Bowl as an offensive tackle in front of Starr.
"Guys, this is going to be a lot like going to the dentist," he told his team. "You know it's going to hurt but you've got to go anyway. I want to find out not only what guys on their team don't want to play, but what guys on our team don't want to play because of the conditions."
As it turned out, the California team wasn't particularly keen on playing. The Bengals won 27-7 and Anderson, who would go on to win the NFL's Most Valuable Player and Comeback Player of the Year awards, completed 14 of 22 passes, two for touchdowns.
"The first time you get a chance to go to a Super Bowl in franchise history was really, really big for us," Anderson said. "The opportunity to play that game at home was something special."
If Super Bowl XVI had been played outside in the Cincinnati weather, the Bengals might have beaten the San Francisco 49ers. Indeed, it was the first Super Bowl played in a northern city. While Detroit was visited that week by cold and snow, the game was played at a toasty 72 degrees inside the Pontiac Silverdome.
Less is more
It was snowing in Williamsville, N.Y., when the television crew arrived at Kelly's office earlier this month.
The night had seen 5 fresh inches of snow, and a similar number was projected for the rest of the day. And yet, schools were in session and traffic was close to normal. That's because Buffalo and its environs receive close to 100 inches of snow each year -- one of the top 10 averages in the nation.
"No big deal," said Kelly, who played 11 seasons in Buffalo (1986-96). "After a while, you don't really notice it that much."
This seems to be the key factor in overcoming the cold. Denial.
Asked what his coldest games were, Kelly immediately cited two games, against the Los Angeles Raiders in 1988 (the wind chill was minus-14) and at the New York Jets in 1989 (wind chill minus-11).
"You always looked at your schedule at the beginning of the season," Kelly explained. "Who's coming to Buffalo in December? We always hoped it was going to be a dome team or the Miami Dolphins."
Kelly could never bring himself to play with the cumbersome gloves of the 1990s -- he preferred those chemical hand-warmers, tucked away in a pouch wrapped around his waist -- but he always made a critical adjustment in the cold.
"I was one of those guys that loved to grip a football for tight spirals," he said. "But if you really think about it, as the ball gets slicker and slicker, it'll slip out of your hands more often. For me, I always loosened it up a little and tried to follow through a lot more."
A Zen, less-is-more philosophy. Same for clothing. Don't be a hero, Kelly said, by wearing short sleeves. On the other hand, don't dress with too many layers that might restrict the passing action through the shoulders.
Oh, and the most important advice of all:
"It helps to have a good running game," Kelly said. "I was always blessed to have No. 34 behind me, Thurman Thomas. It's crucial when you're playing in frigid temperatures."
Seahawks and Broncos, take note.
Cold = confidence
While Brady has 25 victories in games below freezing, the most of any active quarterback, Roethlisberger is second, with 17. He doesn't like playing in the cold, he said, he's just used to it.
"That's why I have this nice beard," Roethlisberger said, tugging on it, last week at the team's facility in Pittsburgh. "It keeps my face warm for most of the season."
He was dressed in a red T-shirt and gray sweatpants and had the relaxed look of a man just back from a fishing vacation. Let the record show, it was snowing outside.
"I always try and say, 'The other team has to play in the same weather I have to play in," Roethlisberger said. "And maybe they're not used to it, so maybe I have a little advantage."
On cold days, Roethlisberger will wear a glove on his throwing hand. On super-frosty days, he'll wear two.
"It helps you throw a little tighter spiral, spin a little better, cut it through the wind," he said. "I have to constantly remind myself, drive the ball, because you're not going to be able to put too much touch on it.
"If you're not throwing a perfect spiral, it looks real bad."
Playing in Canada in the 1990s, Flutie discovered glass-cutter gloves.
"I have small hands, but it gave me a good grip on the ball," he said. "I loved the cold weather and the wind because, with my athleticism, I felt like it gave me an advantage."
Confidence in the cold: It's a state of mind.
Sunday, after the Broncos touched down in New Jersey, they met the media on a yacht, Cornucopia Majesty, docked at the team's Jersey City hotel. Manning was asked if he feels confident playing in the cold.
"Well, I do," he said. "In my two years [with the Broncos], I think we have seen a lot as far as on-the-field situations -- weather, crowd noise, you name it. So, I do feel comfortable."
So did Kelly, who led the Bills to four consecutive Super Bowls in the early '90s. He'll be in attendance Sunday with all of his snow-loving brothers.
"They should have done it 20 years ago," he said of the cold-weather venue. "We might have won one of them Super Bowls.
"The best part about this Super Bowl being outdoors? I'm sitting in a box. That's where I want to be."
Starr remains impervious to the cold.
When the television crew, all wearing winter jackets, pulled out of his office parking lot, Starr stood outside in a thin, green sweater. One hand tucked behind his back, he waved vigorously with the other. It was a day of record-breaking cold across the South, and the temperature was in the teens -- the kind of day when your breath hangs in the air. You could see the vapors coming out of his mouth.
He was smiling.