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What Happened To Play-Doh?
By Karen Corday/Updated: March 7, 2022 12:36 pm EST
There are few toys that are as instantly evocative of childhood as Play-Doh — the iconic yellow container with the big white font that looks as if it's made from the contents inside; the very specific, salty-plastic Play-Doh smell; and of course, the cool, pliable dough that immediately invites shaping, rolling, and mashing. What's truly amazing about the colorful clay seemingly tailor-made for kids' creative play is the fact that it was invented for an entirely different, decidedly utilitarian purpose.
Per New Jersey Advance Media, what became Play-Doh started out as an invention by Joe McVicker and Bill Rhodenbaugh of Kutol Products, a soap company in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the 1930s, they developed and sold a non-sticky, pliable putty that could be used to remove coal residue from wallpaper and was sold under the name of Kutol, pronounced "cut-all." It was an efficient product that sold well, but it was made obsolete by the 1950s with the invention of vinyl wallpaper, which was easily washable with soap and water.
Play-Doh started out as a wallpaper cleaner
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Kutol was no longer needed for its original purpose, but it was about to enter its second phase thanks to a resourceful New Jersey nursery school teacher. As reported by New Jersey Advance Media, Kay Zufall had read in a magazine that Kutol could be used to create art projects. By that time, Kutol was no longer being produced and marketed, but she found one old can left in stock at a local hardware store in Dover, New Jersey. In a wild coincidence, Joe McVicker — one of the original inventors of Kutol — was Zufall's brother in law, and he reassured her that it was safe for children to handle the putty, as it was made of non-toxic ingredients: flour, salt, water, boric acid, and mineral oil.
Kutol was a hit with the kids in Zufall's class, and she was able to convince McVicker that he should start manufacturing it again, this time marketing it as a children's toy. McVicker and his partner, Bill Rhodenbaugh, set out to rebrand their product as Rainbow Modeling Compound, but Zufall and her husband convinced them to instead use the shorter, more memorable name they'd come up with: Play-Doh.
Play-Doh started out in Cincinnati before going nationwide
According to the Strong National Museum of Play, Joe McVicker established Rainbow Crafts Company, Inc. in 1956 as a subsidiary of Kutol Products and began marketing the rebranded Play-Doh to local schools near the manufacturing plant in Cincinnati, Ohio. Its first iteration was the standard, off-white color of the original Kutol wallpaper cleaner, but by 1957, Play-Doh was available in the three primary colors: red, yellow, and blue.
McVicker wanted Play-Doh to reach a wider audience and be sold in stores for home use as well as distributed to schools but lacked the funds for an advertising campaign that would get the word out. Per Tim Walsh's 2005 book "Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them," McVicker took Play-Doh to a convention for school supply companies, where the Washington, D.C. department store Woodward & Lathrop became Rainbow Crafts' first retail client. Accounts with Macy's in New York and Marshall Field's in Chicago followed, but Play-Doh didn't get nationwide exposure until McVickers came up with a clever partnership that assured Play-Doh would be seen in homes across the United States.
Play-Doh had a fan in Captain Kangaroo
In an interview in "Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them," Rainbow Crafts co-founder Bill Rhodenbaugh said his partner Joe McVicker was a charismatic and gutsy salesperson who talked his way into a meeting with television host Bob Keeshan, better known by the name of his famous character, Captain Kangaroo. Per Rhodenbaugh, "Keeshan liked Play-Doh and wanted it on his show. But Joe told him we didn't have any money for advertising. So Joe offered him 2% of our sales if he would feature it on the show once a week." Play-Doh was such a hit with Keeshan that he started featuring it three times a week, which led to partnerships with more children's television programs, including "Ding Dong School" and "Romper Room."
Being featured on television led to lots of demand, and soon Rainbow Crafts needed 16 months to fill the massive number of backorders for Play-Doh. Furthermore, it was extremely profitable. "We would sell wallpaper cleaner for 34 cents a can, but Play-Doh — same stuff, same can — we'd sell for $1.50," Rhodenbaugh said (per Timeless Toys). Between 1954 and 1958, Rainbow Crafts' Play-Doh sales went from $100,000 to almost $3 million.
The Play-Doh Fun Factory was developed by engineers
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In 1960, as reported by the Strong National Museum of Play, Rainbow Crafts added Play-Doh accessories to their product line and hired engineers to develop what became the Play-Doh Fun Factory. The lever came with different plates that allowed children to create multiple shapes and designs with Play-Doh. By 1964, the company was shipping over a million cans per year, and that same year they began exporting to England, France, and Italy (via "Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them").
One year later, General Mills bought Rainbow Crafts and placed Play-Doh under the brand name Kenner. By 1972, Kenner sold the 500-millionth can of Play-Doh. In 1983, four more colors were added to the Play-Doh palette, and in 1991, Hasbro acquired Play-Doh and continues to manufacture it to this day. The Strong Museum inducted Play-Doh into its National Toy Hall of Fame in 1998 and notes that Hasbro has produced various novelty versions of the classic product, including those that glow in the dark, feature glitter, and smell like shaving cream.
Play-Doh mascots have come and gone
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Per the Strong Museum's National Toy Hall of Fame, children have played with a total of 700 million pounds of Play-Doh since it came onto the market. The mascot has also changed over the years; as recounted by "Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them," the first was the Play-Doh Pixie, who appeared in the mid-1950s and looked like a combination of Elmer Fudd and Peter Pan. The introduction of Play-Doh Pete — a young blond-haired boy wearing an artist's smock and beret – came in 1960, and he kept the first outfit for decades. By the 2000s, Pete was given a spiky hairdo and backward baseball cap until he was retired in 2003. In 2012, Hasbro introduced the Doh-Dohs, the creation of artist Steven Block, who describes them as "Part Three Stooges, part 'South Park,' and all things awesome."
Hasbro's own Play-Doh website encourages users to "shape your imagination" and includes a wide range of products and accessories, including Slime, Foam, and Cloud formulas.

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Can we take a quick look at the adorable pictures from Prince George's Christening? I have never been so in love with a family the way I love the Royals.
There is no one more beautiful, regal and elegant.
Baby George is too cute for words, can I be his nanny?
The Duchess of Cambridge looks perfect in matching cream ensembles with her bouncing baby boy. And can we please talk about Pippa?! She steals the show in the photos with the entire Middleton/Windsor clan.
I'm not even going to touch on Prince Harry, he is an entire other category!


16.5" Black Wire Glitter Pumpkin By: K&K Interiors Inc. for the 2015 Costume season.
A normal pumpkin says, "I'm delicious in a pie." This black wire pumpkin of death says, "You're about to see some messed up stuff when you walk into this party." The black decoration coils around in seemingly endless wires that create a frightening look that could keep any kid away from pumpkin pie for his whole childhood. Seriously, look at this thing. It looks like something out of a farmer's nightmare.


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By Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen Editor
As YouTube Celebrity Enters the Mainstream, VidCon Grows Up
VidCon, the conference for YouTubers organized by John and Hank Green, has grown dramatically, from 1,400 attendees for the inaugural event in 2010 to more than 21,000 this year. Judging from media coverage, this was the year the rest of the entertainment world finally began taking it seriously.
From the standpoint of Streaming Media, it feels a little odd that we're no longer the new kids on the block. While OTT is still an upstart compared to traditional broadcast and cable, the kind of video that's celebrated at VidCon— made by YouTubers and mostly watched on YouTube—is something else entirely.
"It's the future," media pundit Jeff Jarvis told Katie Couric in a terrific wrap-up she did on Yahoo. "There will always be a Game of Thrones, it'll be harder to make, but the point is that there's a future here that has nothing to do with television."
Showbiz bible Variety even got on board this year, devoting a cover story in its July 22 issue to 12 "Famechangers"—from gaming goofball PewDie Pie at No. 1 down to gearheads Mighty Car Mods at No. 12—" who "redefine conventional notions of celebrity."
They've also redefined conventional notions of how video works. There's no fourth wall in most YouTube videos. John Green told Couric that every time he does an interview for television (and he's done plenty, seeing as how he's the author of the books behind blockbuster movies The Fault in Our Stars and Paper Towns), he wants to look at the camera and speak directly to the audience.
YouTube has also redefined the aspirations of the generation growing up watching it, and not necessarily for the better. "When you ask kids what they want to be, they say 'I want to be famous,'" Brian Robbins of Awesomness.tv said in his interview with Couric. "When you ask them 'For what?' they're like, 'It doesn't matter.' "
And though YouTube's biggest stars are raking it in—PewDie Pie grossed $7.4 million in 2014—it's still not exactly a career path you'd want to advise your kids to pursue. But VidCon isn't solely for starry-eyed teenagers. Though more than 14,000 attendees signed up for the "Community Track," which gave them access to presentations and performances by their favorite YouTubers on the first floor of the Anaheim Convention Center, another 3,000 people attended the convention's "Industry Track," where a frequent topic was how YouTubers fit within the larger entertainment ecosystem.
You had Couric interviewing Ze Frank—whom she called the "O.G. of online video," and who has gone from lone vlogger to president of BuzzFeed Motion Pictures—talking about how old media, new media, and even newer media can work together. You had sessions that got deep into how to optimize videos on YouTube and other sites. And you had a whole lot of discussion about the business side of the screaming teens that you could occasionally hear two floors down.
PewDie Pie and Joey Graceffa are the exceptions, rather than the rule, even if they're being posted to the same site where my 9-year-old daughter uploads her bracelet-making videos. And though the pie might be getting bigger, it's actually getting harder for people to get a piece of it, according to AllDigital cofounder and chief strategist Tim Napoleon.
"The very top of the pyramid is making some money but the vast majority of the publishers are seeing fewer dollars," he said in an interview after VidCon. "This is putting pressure on the content creators to find other ways to monetize with product placement and endorsement deals. Google doesn't like this bypass to their ad model, and is clamping down on blatant violators. It is a difficult balance of not starving the ecosystem that makes YouTube so popular with fans while still generating growth and revenue in alignment with sky-high expectations from Wall Street."
Amazingly, VidCon is a place where that kind of sober analysis can coexist with the sheer joy fans get from their YouTube favorites. As long as that keeps up, VidCon will grow up without feeling old.
This article appears in the September 2015 issue of Streaming Media magazine as "VidCon Grows Up."
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For $10 per month, online video fans can watch original content from some of YouTube's biggest stars, view ad-free video, and stream music to a new app. Is that enough to entice subscribers to YouTube Red?
When Viewers Turn to YouTube for Brand Video, Brands Lose Out
There's a vast amount of user-generated brand-related original video on YouTube, but the brands themselves don't get any part of the action.
VidCon 2015: YouTube Announces New Mobile App, More VR, and Diamond Play Button
VidCon's expanded Industry Track ends its first day with YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki with a keynote heavy on the platform's success and achievements, as well as a few new features and diamond play button awards for channels with ten million subscribers
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The annual gathering of video-makers and video-watchers shows that YouTube has a strong community, but perhaps too much passive devotion.


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The Cause Of Terrorism
WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF TERRORISM? Read the short answer here. I've been trying to find an answer to that question since September 11th. I started CitizenWarrior.com shortly after the towers came down. I wanted to create a clearinghouse for information related to the cause of terrorism and have gotten a tremendous amount of help from people all over the world. I've studied everything relevant I could get my hands on. But an enormous clarity arrived when I read the book, The Sword of the Prophet: Islam; History, Theology, Impact on the World, If there is one book that can give you a clear understanding of the cause of terrorism — especially the cause of Islamic terrorism — it is this book.
The author is Serge Trifkovic, PhD, who was a broadcaster and producer with the BBC World Service and the Voice of America. He has seen a lot and gotten inside stories of world events. And then he turned his knowledge, experience, and intelligence to the question: What is the cause of terrorism?
What he discovered is really surprising, or at least it was to me. According to him, the holy book of the Muslims contains explicit directions for its faithful followers to wage unending war against nonbelievers. (This is also something several other writers have said, including an ex-Muslim, which you can read here.) I am not an expert on Islam, but if what these people are saying is true, it explains much of what seems confusing about world events, and would be important for people in the free world to know.
"Killing or, in the case of Jews and Christians, enslaving and robbing them, was not only divinely sanctioned but mandated," reports Trifkovic. But, he says, Muslims will tell you in public this is not true. So who should you believe?
You could read the Koran yourself. Then you wouldn't have to believe anybody. Just read the book and decide for yourself. You can read the Koran online. If Trifkovic is right, the cause of terrorism isn't a secret. The source book is published and available and terrorists have even told us where we can find it. They quote the Koran constantly. You can literally go down to your local bookstore and get one. At my local bookstore they have eleven English versions of the book for sale. These are not anti-Muslim copies. They are for the faithful followers of Allah. I bought one and I've been reading it. I have found no contradictions with Trifkovic. He seems to be telling the truth about the Koran.
According to many writers, not only is Trifkovic correct, but Muslims will tell you otherwise because that is also commanded in the Koran. Deceiving unbelievers about your intentions is fair in war, and Islam is apparently always at war with unbelievers.
One thing I've noticed is that the Koran is not vague. The writings are not couched in metaphors or stories, like many other religious books. It was written by a single author and is very straightforward. And all the English translations are almost identical.
If all this is true, this should be frightening to the free world. Apparently, the reason none of us non-Muslims know this stuff is that a group of dedicated Muslims have carefully manipulated the way Islam is presented by the media in the free world. (Read more about that in the book, The Two Faces of Islam: Saudi Fundamentalism and Its Role in Terrorism, by Stephen Schwartz.) This is apparently one of their tactics of war: Fooling the enemy and misrepresenting Islam's intentions until it is too late.
Islamic terrorists know their enemy very well. They have used the free world's respect for all religions and our belief in freedom of religion against us. They have used our commitment to free speech and human rights against us. They know us very well, but most of us don't know anything about them. In a very real sense, our ignorance is the cause of terrorism. Islamic terrorists have been able to wage their holy war on our soil because of our ignorance of what they're doing. And the most important thing you can do to remove the cause of terrorism is to remove the ignorance — in other words, share what you know with people (and this article).
Obviously, the answer is not to wage war against all Muslims. The majority of Muslims are peace-loving people who ignore and explain away the Koran's commands to make war on unbelievers. According to one Muslim author, Irshad Manji in her book, The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith, what needs to happen is for the majority of these moderate Muslims to publicly admit the Koran isn't perfect. Once that becomes an established fact, the cause of terrorism will be substantially weakened. She says the absolute authority of the Koran is what sustains the terrorists' fervor. That is exactly what sustained the Christians in their Crusades and Inquisitions. As long as nobody says the emperor wears no clothes — as long as people can't admit their holy book is not perfect (not the absolute word of God) — people can kill with holy zeal. It looks like that is the cause of terrorism ultimately.
This doesn't get the West off the hook about other things. We need to stop supporting non-democratic governments, for example. And we need to continue supporting the spread of women's rights and human rights and democratic freedoms around the world. But that is not the cause of terrorism. If the free world remained ignorant of the source of the terrorists' holy zeal (unaware that their religious book is political in nature and recommends doing away with unbelievers), we would still be blind, and all our efforts to satisfy terrorists' "demands" would only strengthen their cause, not weaken it.source of the confusion
You hear the terrorists quoting the Koran so you think the Koran must be about killing unbelievers. Then you hear moderate Muslims quote the Koran and it sounds like the book is about compassion and forgiveness. Why does the Koran offer conflicting quotations? Most Americans, I think, write it off by saying, "Well the Bible contains conflicting quotes too." And that is definitely true. Perhaps it is true of any large collection of writings. But the Koran is different than the Bible in a way I think non-Muslims should be aware of. The Bible was written by many different people at many different times. The Koran, however, was written entirely by a single author.
So the question is, why would a single author put conflicting passages in his book?
Here's how it happened. First understand that the Koran is a collection of the revelations Mohammad received from the angel Gabriel who was giving Mohammad Allah's message. When Mohammad first received his revelations, they were full of compassion and love and peace and goodwill. At that time Mohammad lived in Mecca, a large city. The population of Mecca didn't immediately convert to Islam in large numbers. A few did, but the rulers of Mecca didn't really like any threats to their authority, so they gave Mohammad a lot of trouble. Mohammad eventually moved with a few of his followers to another city. There Mohammad was able to gain a larger following. He eventually ruled that city and then made war on Mecca and eventually ruled Mecca too.
Meanwhile, the revelations kept coming. Until Mohammad died, he would get a revelation every once in awhile. After his death they were all bound into a book. That's the Koran. As Mohammad gained power, the revelations changed in nature. They were more about conquering and ruling and less about tolerance and compassion. That's why in a single book written by one man you find conflicting passages. Ideally, the way believers would handle the conflict is to simply take what is best and leave the rest. That is what most Muslims do, although they probably feel guilty about it since the Koran is supposed to be the undisputed, perfect word of Allah, and it is a sin to think otherwise (that is apparently also written in the Koran, although I haven't gotten to that part yet).
The head religious men of Islam have an official policy for handling the many conflicting passages in the Koran, according to Mark Gabriel (who was a university professor of Islamic history in Egypt). The Islamic religious leaders don't deny that there are conflicting passages in the Koran. They say, "Where two passages conflict, the later one overwrites the earlier one." That is the consensus of the Islamic scholars, according to Mark Gabriel. If this is true, it is bad news because it means that the authorities have said essentially, the intolerant, jihad-oriented passages overwrite the verses you hear quoted by the moderate Muslims in the media. Yes, the Koran says those things. They are quoting accurately, but those quotes are not valid when they are overruled by a later quote that nullifies them.
In the earlier passages, which Mohammad wrote while still in Mecca, you'll find words of tolerance and respect for Jews and Christians (but for nobody else except fellow Muslims). Later passages are, according to these authors, filled with hatred and vengeance on Jews and Christians. Now the Muslims themselves who are waging jihad against the West use those earlier, peaceful, tolerant passages to hide their intentions, to throw our population off their scent, to introduce confusion while secretly committing hate crimes, just as Mohammad did, against Jews especially and Christians secondarily. Or actually first against people who are none of those three religions.
In the book, The Sword of the Prophet, Trifkovic writes about a battle in the city of Medina at the time of Mohammad. The Muslims were victorious and Mohammad offered the men conversion to Islam as an alternative to death; upon their refusal, up to 900 were decapitated at the ditch, in front of their women and children." The revelations in the Koran were changing at this time, and they justified the destruction of the Jews.
I'm not a Jew or a Christian. I have no vested interest in saying one religion is better than another. But I'm an American, and the content of the Koran, at least in the hands of fanatical believers, seems to be dangerous to our freedom and well-being. As long as we remain ignorant of this possibility, we are vulnerable because we won't protect ourselves as they infiltrate our country and pour their oil money into "Muslim public relations." Meanwhile their numbers within our borders grow, and the situation becomes increasingly worrisome.
In the Koran, a later passage says, "When we decide to destroy a population, we send a definite order to them who have the good things in life and yet transgress; so that Allah's word is proved true against them: then we destroy them utterly."
The Koran is considered by many people in the Middle East as the perfect, absolute word of the Creator. What does a true believer do with a clear command like this?
You saw what they will do on September 11th. "Kill the unbelievers wherever you find them." So says the Koran. "So let it be so," say many (but thankfully not all) of its followers.
In his book, Trifkovic gives you the quotes from the Koran and he tells you where you can find the quotes. Each passage of the Koran is numbered, like the Christian Bible, so you can easily verify the quotations. The Koran is available to read online. Here are some quotes from the Koran from some of the chapters I've read online. These sites are not anti-Muslim propaganda. They are simply Muslim sites for regular Muslims. The material is easy enough to read to confirm for yourself. And when you do, please share it with your friends and family. Get the word out.
If your friends are good people, and I have no reason to believe they aren't, they will say something like, "Yes, but Christians have committed atrocities in the name of God too, using the Bible to justify their actions." Defending any religion is a natural, knee-jerk response from the good people of a tolerant society when they hear a religion being criticized. Test this out. Tell some of your friends about the violent passages of the Koran and you'll hear them defend it.
You can respond something like this: "That's true. And now the great majority of people in free countries don't consider the Bible to be the literal Word of God. So the Bible can't be used the same way any more. It takes a high degree of certainty before people are willing to slaughter others. What needs to happen now is for everyone, including Muslims worldwide, to go on a campaign to get everyone to accept the Koran is not perfect either. Then when a child is raised Muslim, he won't give the book as much authority in his life, which will allow him to choose the healthier quotes from that book and ignore the violent ones."
I have found one Muslim who has been willing to do that. It is a start. She needs to be supported so others will find the courage to do so. Here is her web site. By the way, the reason it takes courage, even for someone in a free country is that the Koran apparently orders its believers to kill anyone who criticizes the Koran. Mark Gabriel said that in a predominately Muslim society such as Egypt, it is very dangerous to say anything slightly indicating the Koran may not be perfect.
So a Muslim willing to say publicly the Koran is not perfect is a brave soul who deserves our support and admiration and protection. Help this admission spread around the world until the certainty and finality of the Koran is reduced. The primary cause of Islamic terrorism is that certainty.
If you feel you have no power to alter world events, that is a mistake in your thinking that needs to be corrected. Start here.
muslim propaganda
In researching any topic, I try to read books from all angles, so I've read lots of pro-Muslim books and articles — and probably most of them are by good people. For the most part they completely ignore the violence lurking in the Koran, pretending it isn't there. I don't think that is helpful. That ends up helping terrorists, even if that isn't the author's intention. For example, they say Islam means "peace." But the combination of the letters "slm" means submission, protection, safety, security, peace, and surrender. In most of the Muslim writings I have come across, they most often define Islam as "submission to the will of Allah," and, according to many of the authors I've been talking about, it also means "getting all others in the world to submit to the law of Allah (Sharia)."
It is part of Muslim propaganda in the West to say things like, "Islam is totally against violence. The word Islam itself means 'peace.' Islam is a religion of tolerance and compassion." Haven't you heard this? Yes, the Saudi-funded Muslims within our borders have flooded the airwaves with this stuff. It's part of a huge public relations campaign (read more about that below).
The situation is similar to the publication of Hitler's book, Mein Kampf. The Koran is nothing like Hitler's book and the two cannot be compared, but the free world's response to it is identical. Hitler outlined his plans while he was in jail. He published it as a book, telling the whole world what he intended to do. Hardly anyone in America or England or Poland or France or Russia read it. After he had built his war machine and was invading other countries, then people read it and found out Hitler was doing what he said he would do. The free world has the same situation now with the Koran.
The Koran is available for anyone to read. Have you read it? Do you know anyone who has? Neither do I. And yet people who say they are following its plan have declared war on Western democracies. That's why I think the cause of terrorism is mostly our own ignorance.
"Does our tolerant and democratic way of life contain within itself the seeds of its own destruction?" asks Ambassador James Bissett. "Should organized intolerance be tolerated?" This is from the introduction to The Sword of the Prophet. "This book," writes Bissett, "chastises the 'opinion-forming elite' for its role in pretending that Islam does not present a serious problem." (You can see examples of world leaders doing just that in the DVD, Islam: What the West Needs to Know).
The book makes it perfectly clear that Islam does present a serious problem. Most of us, I think, have had the feeling it did. But we've been encouraged to deny our intuition by the Muslim propaganda machine, and by genuinely peaceful Muslims trying to defend their faith. (Read here a list of the ongoing acts of war committed against the free world in the name of Islam.)
Good people who are not Muslims have accidentally helped the cause of terrorism by giving us the impression terrorists are a few crazy extremists who have distorted or reinterpreted the Koran to suit their bloody ends. According to Trifkovic, Christian and Jewish believers feel that Muslims are also believers and that there is something inherently good about being a believer. Trifkovic writes,Exactly the same sentiment drives President Bush's advisor on Islam, a professor at Cleveland-Marshal College of Law, David Forte. He speaks no Arabic and readily admits that he merely "dabbles" in Islamic jurisprudence. Nevertheless, his conviction that Islamic terrorists and Muslim aggressors are, by definition, heretics and not the "real" Muslims has been fully internalized by the president, whose speeches seem to pluck whole phrases from Forte's writings.
...[Forte's] view, however erroneous, boils down to the conviction that believers, no matter their denomination, are better people than nonbelievers, and that a religious outlook — any religious outlook — is preferable to the nihilistic wastelands of postmodern secularism.
If it is true that Islam is inherently a political danger to democracies, Dave Forte's and President Bush's points of view are dangerous. Consider this: Mohammed said the three most important actions a man could take are:
1. Faith
2. War in the path of Allah
3. A blameless pilgrimage to Mecca
Some of the Muslim propaganda says that jihad is an inner struggle against one's own sins. Trifkovic says this interpretation came about much later in the evolution of Islam, after they were almost finished conquering the known world. There is so much in the Koran about waging war, it is obviously an important act of worship, and the devout — searching for a way to wage jihad but without any enemies to fight at the time — came up with the "inner struggle" interpretation. But you have to really stretch your imagination to make the following passages from the Koran mean anything except killing real people:Kill those who join other gods with Allah wherever you may find them.
I will instill terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, strike off their heads then, and strike off from them every fingertip.
Let those fight in the cause of Allah who barter the life of this world for that which is to come; for whoever fights on Allah's path, whether he is killed or triumphs, we will give him a handsome reward.
Believers! Make war on the unbelievers who dwell around you. Let them find harshness in you.
O Prophet! Exhort the believers to fight. If there are twenty steadfast men among you, they shall vanquish two hundred; and if there are a hundred, they shall rout a thousand unbelievers, for they are devoid of understanding.
When you meet unbelievers in the battlefield, strike off their heads and when you have laid them low, bind your captives firmly.
If you should die or be killed in the cause of Allah, His mercy and forgiveness would surely be better than all the riches that amass. If you should die or be killed, before Him you shall all be gathered.
These are not interpretations from anti-Muslim sources. These are the passages any reader anywhere in the world reads when they read the words of their Prophet. And yet, whenever I hear from a Muslim, they always tell me "Islam is a religion of peace."
The overall message is to make war on unbelievers until the whole world has submitted to Islam. Then there will be peace, I guess. The explicit command is to overthrow man-made governments (read "democracies") and establish Islamic states, and then turn on neighboring countries and make war on them until you turn those countries into Islamic states. Keep going until the world is conquered. That is apparently one's duty as a follower of Muhammad if you read the Koran and take it to heart.
"Between Muhammad's death and the second siege of Vienna," writes Trifkovic, "just over a thousand years later, Islam expanded — at first very rapidly, then intermittently — at the expense of everything and everyone in the way of its warriors. Unleashed as a militant faith of a nomadic war band, Islam turned its boundary with the outside world into a perpetual war zone."
One of the primary barriers to the Islamic takeover of the world has been the Western powers, most specifically, the United States. America supported Egypt in its attempt to keep the terrorists from seizing control of their democratic (man-made) government. America supported Iraq in its fight against the invasion of the Islamic state, Iran. So the "Islamists" (the Muslims who want to carry out the plan in the Koran) have turned their attention to the United States and all its allies, violently attacking U.S. citizens and now the citizens of Iraq who are trying to create a democracy. And perhaps more devastating in the long run, the fanatic Islamists are launching a propaganda campaign to disarm us — emotionally and politically — so we cannot defend ourselves against the relentless push for Islamic domination.
I wish none of this was true. Maybe all these authors are merely fanatics themselves, but since I have started understanding what they are saying, many world events that never made sense before now make complete sense. I have a strong suspicion Trifkovic may be right. Let's explore this together. Talk to your family and friends. Read. Learn. Share web sites and, and write to us here via email, and leave your comments below. The contents of the Koran may be a threat to our survival only as long as we don't know it is.
Editor's Note: If you are a peace-loving Muslim and feel offended by the information above and want to enlighten us about the "true" (and entirely peaceful) nature of Islam, please read this: A Message to Peaceful Muslims.
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Frédéric Damé (n. 1849, Tonnerre; d. 1907, București) a fost un ziarist, istoric, filolog și traducător francez stabilit în România.

Viața
Născut la Tonnerre (Yonne), într-o renumită zonă viticolă din Burgundia, a studiat  dreptul la Paris.
Împreună cu prietenul său român, Bonifaciu Florescu, a înființat un jurnal efemer, l'Avenir litteraire, philosophique, scientifique care a apărut în două rânduri, în noiembrie-decembrie 1868 și in decembrie 1869 - ianuarie 1870. Mai apoi a scris rubrica de critică de teatru și muzică a revistei Revue populaire de Paris a lui Louise Bader.

A mai colaborat, între altele, cu Le Figaro și a fost redactor la Le Corsaire, unde scria și Baudelaire. Ulterior, împreună cu criticul Alfred Sercos, a condus revista La Jeunesse.

Prieten din tinerețe al poetului Lautréamont (1846-1870), acesta i-a dedicat lui și lui Sercos, volumul "Poésies", apărut în 1870.

Sora lui Damé s-a măritat cu avocatul român Polizu, ceea ce a constituit un factor în hotărârea de a veni în România.

În anul 1872 Frédéric Damé s-a stabilit definitiv în România, unde s-a căsătorit, fiind colaborator al publicistului Ulysse de Marsillac.

Activitatea în Romania
În 1873, fondează primul mare jurnal de limbă franceză din București, La Roumanie.
Devenind un bun cunoscător al limbii române, a fost profesor de franceză la Liceul "Sfântul Sava" și fondatorul, la București, a mai multor publicații în română și franceză, ca de pildă Națiunea română, care a apărut doar 7 zile sub direcția lui Ion Luca Caragiale între 37 august-1 septembrie 1877, apoi, tot în 1877 împreună cu Émile Galli L'Independence Roumaine, după aceea Cimpoiul, l'Étoile roumaine, La Roumanie contemporaine , La Politique.

Între anii 1879 - 1891 a scris și sub pseudonimul Carillon (inspirat, poate, de carillonul de sub firma sediului ziarului Indépendance roumaine pe Calea Victoriei). Mai semna uneori și "Fantasio" sau "Lear". Frédéric Damé a scris mai multe cărți de istorie culturală și memorialistică, piese de teatru, precum și un prim dicționar bilingv român-francez.
Idealist și moralizator, nu a gustat uneori umorul lui Caragiale, și a criticat ca "imorală" comedia acestuia, O noapte furtunoasă.

Comentariul făcut în 1879 de către Frédéric Damé privind traducerea piesei "Vârful cu dor" (autoare Carmen Sylva), traducere făcută de Mihai Eminescu:

"Dacă traducătorul, d. E-scu a ținut a fi original, poate să fie sigur că a reușit. Dar este originalitate și originalitate: acea a traducătorului Vârful cu dor a constat în a nimici, prin forme neuzitate și printr-o versificare nemai pomenită, toate grațiile naive ale textului german"

A murit la București în 1907.

Opere
 La résistance, les maires, les députés de Paris et le Comité central du 18 au 26 mars, A.Lemerre, 1871
 cu Nicolae Densusianu -  L'element latin en Orient.Les Roumains du Sud, Macedoine, Epyre, Thrace, Albanie.
 Bucarest en 1906 (neterminată și apărută postum în 1907)
 (Frédéric Damé Bucureștiul în 1906; ediție îngrijită și prefațată de Adrian Majuru; traducere în românește de Lucian Pricop și Sînziana Barangă, Paralela 45, Pitești, 2007)
 Nouvel dictionnaire roumain-français (1893-1895)
 Histoire de la Roumanie contemporaine depuis l'avènement des princes indigènes jusqu'à nos jours (1822-1900), F.Alcan, Paris, 1900
 Grammaire roumaine avec exercices, 2e édition 1920, București.

Vezi și
 Luigi Cazzavillan
 Ulysse de Marsillac

Note

Legături externe
câteva date biografice
N.Iorga Histoire des relations entre la France et les Roumains, wikisource
Ioana Pârvulescu - Acum 100 de ani, în România literară, nr.29, 2007 , accesat la 20 iunie 2011
 Bucureștiul în 1906, 9 feb 2007, Frederic Dame, Ziarul financiar
 Un francez de București, 22 iulie 2007, DAN C.MIHAILESCU, Jurnalul Național

Lectură suplimentară
Dicționar al literaturii române de la origini până la 1900

Jurnaliști români
Lexicografi români
Lexicografi francezi
Români de origine franceză

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Three Incredible Mario Kart Wii Shortcut Glitches Discovered Within 24 Hours
Screenshot: FlaminFunky (YouTube)
Mario Kart Wii remains the best-selling game in the series, and despite being over a decade old, players are still discovering new secrets hidden deep inside its 32 courses. Just last week, three new shortcuts were discovered, continuing the race to try and find one for every course in the game.
Prior to July 11, there were only 18 known Ultra Shortcuts in Mario Kart Wii. While the game is full of all sorts of shortcuts, Ultra Shortcuts are defined by speedrunners as glitches that allow players to skip more than 50 percent of a lap. While Ultra Shortcuts aren't unique to Mario Kart Wii, it has by far the most of them out of any game in the series. New ones are still discovered occasionally—two others were found earlier this year—but the discovery of three new ones within 24 hours is unheard of. FlaminFunky, a Mario Kart Wii enthusiast, recently documented how the new Ultra Shortcuts work on YouTube. All the new shortcuts were found in tool-assisted speedruns (TAS).
The first is on N64 Bowser's Castle and was discovered by a player called speedrunner MKWLuke. It requires the player to move a little bit up the track at the beginning of the race before turning around and using their starting mushroom speed boosts to perform a rapid-fire hop into a rapid-fire hop ejection. A complex maneuver, it requires a pixel-perfect speedboost over the edge as Funky Kong pops a wheelie and is so precise it can only be completed using a TAS.
With this maneuver, it's possible to clip off the right side of the track far enough into the back lava for the game to spawn the racer prior to the start of the race. The player then falls into the laval behind where they respawn to start even further back, at which point the game will register them as having moved forward rather than backward, counting the next time they cross the finish line as one completed lap.
Gif: MKWLuke (YouTube)
The second, found by a player called Catfish, is on GBA Shy Guy Beach. It requires waiting three minutes for a bomb to drop just ahead of the finish line, making it viable only in the final lap. By turning around and speed boosting over top of it right before it explodes, it's possible to get enough air and go far enough into the surrounding ocean to again trick the game into respawning the player behind the finish line. Moving across it then counts as a full lap.
The third Ultra Shortcut was discovered on Koopa Cape by BlazeMSX. This one also requires the combination of a rapid-fire hop and ejection, this time to clear the gap directly in front of the start of Koopa Cape while going in reverse. If they're performed at the right time, it's possible to clip into the side of the track directly behind the gap and ride through it until it gives way to a hidden waterfall. After dropping into the water, the game sends Lakitu to retrieve the player and respawn them back on the track, where crossing the finishing line will be registered as a completed lap.
Gif: BlazeMSX (YouTube)
Both the N64 Bowser's Castle and Koopa Cape Ultra Shortcuts currently rely on glitches that can only be exploited using a TAS, but they do bring the game that much closer to the holy grail of every course having some sort of major skip inside of it.
"I think that the speedrunners and TAS programmers continue to stick with this game because Mario Kart Wii is a game that is unlike all the rest," FlaminFunky told Kotaku in an email. "The unique mechanics and crazy glitches are a trait of Mario Kart Wii that's mostly unique [among] Mario Kart games (although Mario Kart 64 can be similar at times) and it drives them to create and achieve new things over 11 years after the game came out."
According to FlaminFunky, one of the next likeliest candidates for a shortcut breakthrough is GBA Bowser's Castle. A player by the name of TAS Snoop discovered a skip for the first checkpoint on that track, leading other players to search for others that could be exploited to make a 15-second lap possible, at least for computers. Even if humans can't pull it off, though, it'll bring the game closer to its ultimate destiny in the eyes of some of its most hardcore players.
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Off topic, but it's amazing how terrible this game looks visually for only being 10 years old. It honestly looks like a cheap mobile title.


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Vigodàrzere (Vigodàrzare in veneto) è un comune italiano di  abitanti della provincia di Padova in Veneto.

Origini del nome
Il toponimo significa "villaggio sull'argine" (o anche "villaggio fortificato", dal latino agger) con evidente riferimento alla posizione del paese sul fiume Brenta.

Storia
La storia di Vigodarzere è in gran parte legata al suo grande interesse strategico e militare.

L'insediamento fu valorizzato per la prima volta dai Romani, che vi crearono una stazione militare di guardia a Padova (Patavium), protetta da una guarnigione. Il luogo era ideale, poiché difeso naturalmente dai fiumi Brenta e Muson dei Sassi.

"...Un soldato havia preso una bella putta da villa presso Padova e la portava in groppa del cavallo, co la fo in sul ponte di Vigo d'Arzere la detta si butò zo dal cavallo, saltò su del ponte e andò in Brenta e subito s'annegò..."

Buzzaccarini

Monumenti e luoghi di interesse

Architetture religiose

 Certosa: di proprietà di privati del complesso, realizzato nel XV secolo.
 Chiesa parrocchiale di San Martino: sita nel capoluogo comunale e dedicata a San Martino di Tours, l'attuale chiesa venne completata alla fine del XIX secolo in sostituzione della precedente, oramai fatiscente, in stile romanico. La sua costruzione si protrasse per quasi un secolo, veenendo consacrata solo il 27 ottobre 1878, anno in cui l'edificio religioso venne terminato. L'erezione del campanile fu successiva di qualche anno, intorno al 1897.
 Chiesa parrocchiale di Sant'Antonio da Padova: sorge nella frazione Terraglione, realizzata nella prima parte del XX secolo in stile neoromanico dopo che l'abitato, già identificato con il toponimo Salgaro, era rimasto senza un edificio religioso per quasi sessant'anni. Dal 1939 sede parrocchiale, la chiesa fu completata nel 1947.
 Chiesa parrocchiale di San Pietro Apostolo, nella frazione Tavo.

Architetture civili
Fonte: sito magicoveneto.it
 Villa Farini-Brezzo, nella frazione Tavo (XVII secolo)
 Villa Marin-Zusto-Vendramin, (XVI secolo)
 Villa Mussato-Farini-Morosinotto, nella frazione Tavo, (XIV-XVIII secolo) Residenza rurale della famiglia del patriziano veneziano Mussato, fu luogo di nascita dell'umanista e politico Albertino Mussato (1261-1329).
 Villa Nardi
 Villa Trevisan-Pisani-Romanin, nella frazione Saletto (XVI secolo)
 Villa Tron-Giacomelli-Asti, nella frazione Saletto (XVII secolo)

Società

Evoluzione demografica

Geografia antropica
Il comune di Vigodarzere è situato in una vasta zona pianeggiante lambita dal fiume Brenta posta immediatamente a nord della città di Padova. Proprio a causa di questa posizione veniva considerato l'ultimo avamposto a protezione della sottostante città.

Vigodarzere, oltre che con Padova a sud, confina anche a nord con Campodarsego, Curtarolo e San Giorgio delle Pertiche, ad ovest con Limena e ad est con Cadoneghe, quasi tutti appartenenti all'hinterland padovano.

Infrastrutture e trasporti

Strade
La principale arteria stradale che attraversa il territorio comunale è la strada provinciale 46, che prende il nome, dall'intersezione con la strada regionale 307, di via Roma, vis Ca' Pisani e via Vittorio Veneto a Vigodarzere, proseguendo verso nord-ovest in località Saletto e successivamente nella frazione Tavo, attraversando il territorio del comune di Santa Maria di Non e raggiungendo infine Arsego, nel comune di San Giorgio delle Pertiche.

Ciclovie
Lungo gli argini del Brenta a Vigodarzere si può osservare un suggestivo panorama, passando vicino alla Certosa arrivando fino a Limena.
Si può percorrere in bicicletta anche la riva destra del Muson dei Sassi partendo da Pontevigodarzere dove il fiume incontra il Brenta (località Castagnara) fino alla località Anconetta (Comune di San Giorgio delle Pertiche) dopo aver attraversato Terraglione e Campodarsego.

Ferrovie
Il territorio di Vigodarzere è servito dall'omonima stazione ferroviaria posta sulla tratta comune delle ferrovie Padova-Bassano e Calalzo-Padova, gestite da Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI). Classificata da RFI nella categoria "Bronze", offre un servizio  di treni regionali svolti da Trenitalia.

Mobilità urbana
Il territorio è servito dalla linea urbana di Padova U19 gestita da Busitalia - Sita Nord che collega il capoluogo Padova con Vigodarzere fino alla località Saletto raggiungendo anche, solo in orario scolastico, la frazione Tavo.

Amministrazione

Note

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What is the mechanism behind changes in oxidation state (of iron, for example) as magma rises?
From this answer, I learned that rising magma may change oxidation state, which I wasn't aware of.
In [#1], the authors state in the abstract
The conventional view holds that the oxidation state of a mantle-derived degassed magma reflects its source
From other research that has been conducted, the authors discussed that the oxygen fugacity (the partial pressure of the "non-ideal" oxygen in the presence of the high pressures and temperatures, presumably of the magma itself) was controlled by a pair of redox reactions (their equations 11 and 12):
$$\ce{S_{(melt)}^2- + Fe2^3+O3_{(melt)} <=> SO2_{(gas)} + 6Fe^2+O_{(melt)} + O_{(melt)}^2-}$$ $$\ce{SO4_{(melt)}^2- + 2Fe^2+O_{(melt)} <=> SO2_{(gas)} + Fe2^3+O3_{(melt)} + O_{(melt)}^2-}$$
Their claim is that the change in the $\ce{Fe^3+}$ to $\ce{Fe^2+}$ ratio is due to the top reaction being favored during decompression (due to the equilibrium shift from the changes in pressure).
I get all of that so far, I think. My question is a more fundamental one, being, if this equilibrium (#11) governing the changes in oxidation states becomes more prevalent as the pressure decreases rapidly, what are the governing equations for when the magma is deeper in the earth? Do they favor the bottom equation (#12) instead, or are the reactions at that temperature and pressure completely different?
It's possible I'm missing what the "changing oxidation states" aspect really means. A clarification of that would certainly be appreciated.
Moussallam, Y., Oppenheimer, C., Scaillet, B., Gaillard, F., Kyle, P., Peters, N., & Donovan, A. (2014). Tracking the changing oxidation state of Erebus magmas, from mantle to surface, driven by magma ascent and degassing. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 393, 200-209. [DOI]
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My question is a more fundamental one, being, if this equilibrium (#11) governing the changes in oxidation states becomes more prevalent as the pressure decreases rapidly, what are the governing equations for when the magma is deeper in the earth?
My interpretation is that at the volcano being studied, the right side of equation 11 is favored at low pressure, and the left side is favored at high pressure (greater depth). Deep magma there contains sulfide ($\ce{S^2-}$) in accordance with equation 11, rather than sulfate ($\ce{SO4^2-}$) which would involve equation 12. So equation 11 applies to all depths being studied and equation 12 does not apply to this volcano at any depth.
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Dubois: I've Either Got It or I Don't, I Want To Show I Have What It Takes
By Ron Lewis
Published Sat Jun 05, 2021, 02:20 AM EDT
Daniel Dubois had no thoughts about working his way back gently when he started sparring again in April. Having suffered eye damage when losing his unbeaten record to Joe Joyce in November, he went in as a sparring partner to Derek Chisora and Johnny Fisher when he stepped between the ropes again. It felt like he had never been away.
"I didn't even think about the eye," Dubois said. "Just back to normal for me. The eye is ready to go and ready to be punched up again. It is healed and I believe it is stronger now than before.
"It has toughened me up and now I am ready to fight again."
Dubois returns to action in Telford on Saturday when he faces Romania's Bogdan Dinu. For what it is worth, the WBA's interim heavyweight title will be on the line, courtesy of Dinu's completely baffling No 2 ranking with the WBA and that organization's belief that they can't have enough world champions. More importantly it is a return for Dubois at a decent level and a chance to show that the defeat to Joyce did not break him.
The 23-year-old suffered damaged to his orbital bone and cornea when he faced Joe Joyce for the British, Commonwealth and European heavyweight titles in November. He boxed on for six rounds with the injury before taking a knee in the tenth round after Joyce landed a punch smack on the eye.
It led to some labelling Dubois as "a quitter", but Dubois dismisses such accusations.
"They don't know what they are talking about, but some people had motives behind calling me that," he said. "I'm not a quitter, I'm a real warrior and I'm here to fight again.
"If I really was a quitter, I would have packed it in after that fight and said goodbye to everything. I'm ready to move on.
"The toughest part of it was realizing I had lost the opportunities that would have been there. But I have been defeated before as an amateur and had to come back. So that in itself hasn't crushed me or battered my confidence. If anything, it has made me stronger. I'm glad I can come again, and I am still here ready to go."
There have been changes, though, as Dubois split with his trainer Martin Bowers and, after initially agreeing to work with Mark Tibbs, he ended up in Shane McGuigan's growing camp.
"I needed a fresh start after the defeat to Joe," he said. "It's a different outlook, that's the thinking behind it."
But in some ways, stepping into a fight for an interim WBA title, shows that not much momentum has been lost in his career, when some might be looking for some confidence-building knockovers. While Joyce waits to see if he will fight Oleksandr Usyk for the vacant WBO title – which now seems unlikely – Dubois could end up facing Joyce again sooner than some might think.
"I don't think I should take a step back," he said. "I've had enough easy fights, I've had enough learning fights. What's the point of taking a step back now? I've either got it or I don't and I'm out to show that I have what it takes to reach the highest level and being in big fights that people really care about.
"[A Joyce fight] could be built up again and this time make it really epic and bigger than the first time. Whatever happens, it will turn out all right."
The important thing now is that Dubois puts into practice the lesson he was given by Joyce. He is still very young in heavyweight terms, there should be no rush.
"I learnt from that," he said. "I have to time my attacks better, set up my attacks better. I threw a lot of heavy shots, but they were missing and my jab was falling short too. My job right now is to make sure that doesn't happen again.
"I've had a look at [Dinu]. He is decent. He might not do anything great, but he does everything well. This is his opportunity, so he is going to bring a hunger and determination that I really look forward to being up against. That challenge in front of me will only make me fight harder.
"It was good to have some time out, to look back and reflect and to slow things down a bit. Boxing is like a train, it doesn't stop moving for anyone. That's a lesson I have learnt. You have to stay on the wagon as long as you can until you have done everything you need to. I haven't got anywhere near that yet. I'm still at the start of my career."
Ron Lewis is a senior writer for BoxingScene. He was Boxing Correspondent for The Times, where he worked from 2001-2019 - covering four Olympic Games and numerous world title fights across the globe. He has written about boxing for a wide variety of publications worldwide since the 1980s.
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