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Cuz you're a whale you stupid bat.
I don't hold anything against moms who forget that their babies were equally small at birth. I DO understand that compared to their babies – who could now be two or ten months old – Mia does look small. Comments from them are all right because I know there is no stupid comparison-shit happening there.
It is comments from the I-feel-superior mothers – "Yes, she is rather small. My baby was such-and-such size at birth. She is very small, really" – that really piss me off. And yes Mia is small because she's two-bloody-weeks-old. Given that I birthed a human baby and not a troll, she's supposed to be small. Like every other two week old baby.
I also understand that Mia was not the standard 4 kgs-plus-size baby. She was 3 kgs at birth, which by the way is 50 percentile of most babies born. According to my doctor, Mia's a great size given that her mother's size is "only 10 percentile of average women". A 3 kg-48.5 cm-baby from a mother who is petite and 5 feet tall is not "oh so small". It's bloody brilliant. Mia also has a beautifully shaped, small head. A mercy if you ask me. I delivered her naturally with a natural tear that needed two stitches instead of a perineum-to-bloody-belly button tear.
What irritates me (to put it politely) is how some women feel superior because their babies were huge at birth.
If I may point out here, unless a mother was malnourished or was cranked up on heroine or steroids, most mothers do not consciously contribute towards their babies sizes. You eat and rest well and try do everything right and hope the baby is a good size. All babies develop differently – and independently – inside the uterus. You, dear mother, have had nothing to do with your baby being big or small.
Some mothers have big babies because they had gestational diabetes. And that's not a good thing. Again though, it's not as if as the mother wanted to have diabetes. Similarly, no mother wants a premature baby or a small-at-birth baby. It happens. You deal with it and you (and I) love your baby irrespective of size.
Size is also not any guarantee that your baby will be/is healthy. A big baby could have a plethora of problems while a small baby could be fit as a fiddle or vice versa. As I said, you hope for the best for your baby. Mia, like all my friends who've had big babies and the friend who had twins, is a healthy baby and doing well (god bless).
Unlike a lot of babies who were born along with her, she does not cry a lot. She is a happy, content baby and cute as a button (I'm prejudiced, shrug). I don't feel superior about her calm nature because (a) I have nothing to do with her not crying and (b) She could turn into a screamer, who knows?
So I've decided that I've had enough with mothers trying to make me feel bad – so they can feel better about themselves – about Mia's size. Next time a mother comments on her oh-so-smallness I shall have a ready response*. *(Anyone having to deal with similar comments, feel free to use any of the below or if you come up with something better, share here.)
"Ah your baby is too small isn't she? My baby was such-and-such size at birth."
Possible responses:
"Oh really. Must be because I am petite and you are SO huge." (Look her up and down disbelievingly) OR
"It takes a GINORMOUS waist to birth something THAT big." (Spread your arms real wide; however, do follow it up with a, "But isn't s/he cute?") OR
"Your vagina must be a gaping hole you poor thing!" (Look horrified) AND
"And er, what's that on your skin? Not doing too well after the birth, are you?" (Even women with flawless skin will spend at least two days fretting)
(Scowl) If any of the above is mean and nasty, so be it. It's not f*cking nice to go commenting on other peoples' kids. If you don't have anything nice to say – and you don't need to – just f*cking shut up. Stupid cows.
PS: The picture is a hippo and not a whale, in case some of you wondered. ;)
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Yeah I like all your answers ready. Do not be shy using them. People are so retarded...
- August 1, 2010 at 9:44 PM
- Sree said...
:) At 16 etc i used say the 'soo small, choo tiny'comment whenever we went to see some new born and my mom would tell me not to say that.haha..but that was out of amazement.
Oh..this comaparison shit is gonna be there forever.Ive had one mother stop talking to me since I forgot to mention her kid in one dance program along with mine and few others.Followed by silly acts to show me her kid can dance too.How do i tell there is nothing to compete? sigh.
- August 1, 2010 at 11:25 PM
Good answers. Do use them next time!
- August 2, 2010 at 1:15 AM
- Maddie said...
Hey, your baby is perfect. When I saw Mia's pic, my first reaction was, she is so big and healthy. My son was only 2.25 kgs at birth, on the boderline of being underweight. So don't worry. Had you been in India, you would have got questions like, do you have enough milk, don't think your milk is enough her, she keeps crying all the time, have you fed her properly. That's even worse.
- August 2, 2010 at 1:27 AM
- JB said...
@ Maddie: Thanks for sharing that. i know what you're saying...first 3-4 days my boobs were hurt real bad trying to feed her. So I started expressing and feeding through the bottle. Know the constant question? "When are you back on the boob" etc. There ALWAYS seems to be something a mother OUGHT to be doing. Good on you, hope you and bub are doing well.
- August 2, 2010 at 1:29 AM
- JB said...
@ Anonymous: Hope to use...usually I get tongue-tied (yes it happens) and think of all things i COULD have said later.
@ Sree: At 16 is fine and genuine amazement is all right as well. It's the comparing morons...but you know what I'm saying. :)
- August 2, 2010 at 1:30 AM
- sulagna ™ said...
JB congratulations on Mia...sorry was out of blogger for a while..all my love and wishes for the baby and you and partner..ignore such jerks...this is just the beginning..there will be many more, so just bite their heads off and walk proudly with your lil princess :)
- August 2, 2010 at 1:40 AM
- the cowlick said...
Yup.. going through the EXACT same thing already, even when the baby's not even out yet.
My doctor keeps going through fucking notes after notes and stats after stats to confirm what size baby a person of my height and (pre-pregnancy) weight might deliver. He's 2.3kg inside me right now, and by Indian standards THAT's FINE, but they just keep sending me for tests after tests to figure out if everything's okay, even though their next sentence always is, "hmm, he SEEMS to be growing fine.."
The average European woman is 5.5 feet, and bloody 70 kilos! No wonder she will deliver a 4 kilo baby and think it could have been bigger..
Grumble grumble..
- August 2, 2010 at 3:12 AM
- Sankoobaba said...
i liked the "shut up" response much better to such women...
ha ha--on a serious note..why is is necessary for people to say something negative when they see anything...why cant they say ur daughter looks like scarlet johansen..or ur son looks like matt damon..or look he is kicking ..he will become messi..
i love hippo's... ok.. im out of context...
- August 2, 2010 at 7:29 PM
- JB said...
@ Sankoo: you do know that hippos kill more people than crocodiles?
- August 2, 2010 at 7:38 PM
- Espèra said...
"I delivered her naturally with a natural tear that needed two stitches instead of a perineum-to-bloody-belly button tear."
WHAT? People get torn upto their BELLY BUTTONS? *horrified*
- August 4, 2010 at 6:32 AM
- G said...
How about good old "Shut the F*** Up" or better still, "You Smell" :-)
- August 7, 2010 at 11:24 PM
- Eveline said...
HA HA HA spectacular!
I had these aunties coming up to my older sister when she gave birth to her baby and telling her how her the little one was so friggin tiny.
I KNOW!! I hate that! I never know what to do either. Does shaming them help at all? I just don't know. You would think they have to know all the reasons why they shouldn't be doing it, but have chosen to anyway.
We confront them and then, what? Risk a shouting match, a nasty confrontation or a fight?
- August 8, 2010 at 4:54 AM
- Bum said...
Haha, LOVED the "vagine must be a gaping hole" one! xD
Also, are you serious about women having to get stitched upto their belly-buttons?! O_O
- August 11, 2010 at 8:40 AM
- alwayshappykya said...
Not sure if I have commented here earlier. But, hey, am a regular reader :)
Loved this post! I can sooo relate to it being a new mom ( to a 5 month old first one) myself.
Know what, you are extra brilliant when you are fuming angry :D
Keep these fab responses handy, they are gonna come in pretty liberally in all stages with the little one now.
* muah * to the cute button :)
- August 11, 2010 at 5:09 PM
- JB said...
@ Cowlick: Hmm. Had my last scan and test at 34 wks...Mia was 2.31 in the womb and doc said that was fine. Sounds like your docs are worrying unnecessarily...your bub WILL be fine.gotta run, just heard a major YOWL that my presence is demanded.
- August 11, 2010 at 5:15 PM
- Beauty and the BEast said...
First and foremost.. CONGRATULATIONS!!! It must feel wonderful every single time you look at Mia!! Screw the world! I mean honestly I think most women are riding on an insecurity which makes them want to put the other down. And I dont think it restricts itself to babies!! You know the constant reassurance that you have the best deal? That kind of syndrome!! argh!
Anyway!! Enjoy being a new mommy!! And loads and loads of love to Mia...
- August 19, 2010 at 1:10 AM
- eve's lungs said...
sshhh let cows be cows . Mia's a beautiful baby :)
- August 21, 2010 at 10:50 PM
- the mad momma said...
bwahhaaa.. you're turning into a mommy blogger. welcome aboard :)
i got the whole, your baby is so small thing all the time. and i had the same to say - dude, her mother was 43 kilos before she got pregnant. what size baby do you expect that body to produce? both mine were 2.9 kilos and the average weight of an Indian baby - new research - is 2.4 kilos. so tell them to put that in their pipe and smoke it.
- August 24, 2010 at 4:01 AM
- JB said...
@ mad momma: Aha. That should help greatly. People here keep comparing to the size of an average Aussie baby. They are quite big. :) tks for the info!
- August 24, 2010 at 4:40 AM


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The All-Star forward was traded to the Knicks late Monday night in a blockbuster three-team deal after months of speculation, reports ESPN.
The Denver Postfirst broke news of the trade, which will send Anthony, guards Chauncey Billups and Anthony Carter and forwards Shelden Williams and Renaldo Balkman to New York.
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The deal, one of the biggest trades in the NBA in several seasons, revolved around Anthony's desire to land a contract extension in advance of a possible lockout following the current season. Though he would have been the headliner of the free agent class, a new collective bargaining agreement could have cut into his potential contract.
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Endeavour spacewalkers Philippe Perrin and Franklin Chang-Díaz will perform surgery on the International Space Station's robotic arm today, attempting to restore full functionality to the space crane through the replacement of ailing wrist joint.
Canadarm2 experienced an electrical problem in March in one of two redundant power and data channels which command the operation of the seven-jointed apparatus. It was determined that a short created inadvertent commanding in the arm's primary channel which resulted in the unexpected activation of the arm's brakes. The backup commanding channel has functioned perfectly. Even though the arm has continued to operate flawlessly through a software modification, the replacement of the problematic wrist joint was added to the STS-111 mission.
Inside the shuttle, Pilot Paul Lockhart will choreograph the planned seven-hour spacewalk while Commander Ken Cockrell will use the shuttle's robotic arm to provide television views of the spacewalk activity. Inside the station, Endeavour Astronaut Dan Bursch and Expedition Five Commander Valery Korzun will conduct a checkout of the health of the arm once the new joint is installed. Expedition Five Flight Engineers Peggy Whitson and Sergei Treschev will continue cargo transfer activities throughout the day.
Each joint of Canadarm2 is attached to the next joint by six bolts and an additional bolt that disconnects power, data and video connections. The first task for the spacewalkers is to remove the latching end effector (LEE), essentially the hand of Canadarm2, leaving the faulty wrist roll joint exposed. Next they will disconnect the wrist roll joint and Perrin will carry the failed unit to Endeavour's payload bay to temporarily store it next to the new joint. Chang-Díaz will assist in removing the new joint from its launch carrier and Perrin will bring it up to Canadarm2. The spacewalkers will align the new component with the wrist yaw joint at the end of the arm, tighten the six bolts and turn the final bolt to connect power, data and video lines. They will reinstall the LEE and power will be turned back onto Canadarm2.
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HARVARD – Despite temperatures that reached only 61 degrees and overcast skies Sunday, a large crowd of people – many of whom were wearing sweaters or jackets – enjoyed the last day of the annual Milk Days.
Natalie and Xander Page of Harvard did battle at the Water Wars stand, where two people who stand underneath plywood stations launch water balloons at each other using slingshots.
Ten-year-old Xander and 8-year-old Natalie wore ponchos, but still left with wet clothing.
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At one point, Xander landed a water balloon in Natalie's launch bucket.
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Zick brought the Page children and her 7-year-old daughter, Alexis, to the Milk Days carnival on the cool day.
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Why is the NHL's new Winter Classic tradition the league's best move since the salary cap?
This year's outdoor New Year's Day battle between the Boston Bruins and Philadelphia Flyers summed it up: Take a classic venue – Fenway Park – impose an inexplicable image (a hockey rink on Yawkey Way), add some snowflakes and some greasy winter light, and it's an indelible flashback to childhood, at least for those born north of the Mason Dixon line.
Indeed, the Classic accurately defines hockey as a spectacle born of an innocent childhood experience, what Flyer D man Chris Pronger remembered as hitting the pond in the afternoon and finally getting off after many "just 5 more minutes" in a wintery dusk. (Read this Monitor article about hockey's return to its roots.)
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"This is hockey," Bobby Orr (he of the sideways goal) told the Boston Globe's Dan Shaughnessy, who wangled an interview with one of Beantown's all time greatest. "We'd go out in the morning and skate in Georgian Bay or on the Seguin River. All of our skating was outdoors. Sometimes you need to be downwind. Our parents just told us to be home for dinner, or when it got dark.''
But for all its nostalgic and organic pluckiness, the outdoor game also provides a contrast for why the 82-games-per-season indoor game, to an extent, still flounders next to other pro sports.
Fans can argue that the stadium game is too sanitized and showy, too gladiatorial, too impersonal beneath those mono-color helmets. With the game open to the skies, the drama is heightened, and the distance of the crowd and the intimacy of the rink-side cameras make the players seem more human, and each key moment somehow that much more grandiose.
To be sure, the indoor game is far cleaner and more predictable. When the Pittsburgh Penguins played the Sabres in Buffalo two years ago, only three goals were scored, although that could be partly explained by the blizzard bearing down on the Lake Erie shore at game time. Last year's Classic between the Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings, meanwhile, had 10 goals, many of them showy. On Friday, careful defense reigned as the puck bounced around on the outdoor surface, and kept careering unexpectedly out of the corners.
Philadelphia Daily News columnist Sam Donnellon framed the debate about hockey's appeal (or lack of) as a conversation with a fictional hockey novice from San Antonio.
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"Add headwinds, 38-degree weather and an ice surface that chipped up quickly … and it becomes even more of a game of chance."
Arguments about some blown calls aside, the imposition of the hockey gods' will on the outdoor game, of course, is part of the appeal for both players and fans. And if the players who scored will likely never forget their goals, fans also got to see some classic moments. There was Philly enforcer Daniel Carcillo, who revels in his lack of front teeth, and Boston's Shawn Thornton opening up the action with a throwdown, the first fight of the Classics.
Expressive Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas let his emotions get the better of him, pushing a Philly player out of the crease only to let the puck fly by him. And Mark Recchi's' late-game equalizer and Marco Sturm's OT game-winner and subsequent on-ice jubilance (like they'd won the Stanley Cup or something, noted defenseman Zdeno Chara) helped make it a special event that at the very least, as Mr. Shaughnessy writes, reminded Bostonians that "we are, and forever will be, people of ice, blades, laces, and warm breath blowing through cold air."
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Well, it turns out this sort of thing has been measured before. Champoux used a bike with accelerometers attached, either riding on a treadmill with a bump attached, or riding outdoors and letting the cracks on the road provide the bumps. He did further experiments with shakers attached either to the front hub, or to the hub and handlebars.
When this sort of thing is done, unless damping is extreme, you tend to see oscillations occur at near the normal oscillatory modes of the system. For example, one mode is the one I analyzed: the bike bounces up and down on its two tires together. But Champoux identified a number of modes:
I'll deal more with this table next time. But the thing to observe here is that the "vertical motion of rider and bike" mode is at 21.9 Hz. Hey! I calculated 10 Hz for this. What's up with that? When I saw this table I was deeply disturbed for awhile. Until I figured out the problem. (Thanks to Kraig Willett for the hint).
The problem is, of course, that when the bike hits a bump both wheels don't respond together. The bump hits first the front wheel, which bounces, then the rear wheel, which bounces. At first I assumed these would respond the same as if both were hit together. But these are not uncoupled oscillators. They're coupled by the bicycle frame.
And when you have coupled oscillators you can have multiple oscillator modes. With two identical oscillators (not a terrible approximation) you can have an even mode (which I analyzed in this case) and an odd mode. The odd mode in this case is where the front wheel goes up by a certain amount, and the rear wheel goes down by the same amount. A real hit will be some combination of the odd and even mode, getting a bit of each. But for the standpoint of reducing the high frequency components, the vibrational mode with the higher natural frequency will tend to be the limiting factor.
Any sort of oscillation can be considered as a sharing of energy between two reservoirs. For a sping-mass system, you have potential energy (when the spring is fully stretched or compressed), versus kinetic energy (when the spring is in its neutral position, but the object is moving at maximum speed). Each energy varies with time, but the sum is constant (for an undamped oscillator) or decreases smoothly over time (for a damped oscillator). As long as damping is modest, you can get a nice estimate of the oscillation frequency by neglecting the damping.
So consider two cases: (1) both wheels vibrate between ±h, and (2) the front wheel vibrates between ±h while the rear wheel vibrates between ∓ h (opposite sign). In the first case, the bike's center of mass moves back-and-forth, but there is no rotation. In the second case, assuming the bike is symmetric (not too bad an approximation for a bike with equal sized wheels) the center of mass is stationary, but the bike + rider rotates about the center of mass. In the first case, the kinetic energy is determined by the net mass of the system: that's the inertia term. But in the second case, the relevant inertia term is the moment of inertia, which depends on how far mass is located from the center-of-mass. If all the mass is at the center-of-mass, then the moment of inertia is zero.
So the result is that the two modes will have different oscillation frequencies. Consider a simple case: the mass is uniformly distributed in a line segment between the two axles. Then the oscillation frequency will be 73% higher in the odd mode than in the even mode. This is most of the difference between my estimate and Champoux's measurement. In reality, mass is likely clumped a bit closer to the center of mass than this.
Consider another approximation: the human body is a sphere of mass 56 kg, of the same density of sea water (around 1 kg / liter) and the bike has a wheelbase of 1 meter. The radius of the sphere is then around 23.7 cm. Then I add in the bike, which is the line segment I just mentioned, and weighs 6.9 kg (the UCI limit). If I did the calculation right, a very big if, this would result in the odd mode having a natural frequency 5.2 times larger than the even mode.
Reality is obviously somewhere in between. Given this, the factor of two difference with Champoux seems quite reasonable. And even though he failed to identify his "bouncing on the tires" mode as an odd (versus an even) mode, I've got to believe that's what it was.
So to summarize: around 20 Hz.
Next time I'll consider one of those other modes.


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Decadent Chocolate Mousse (for Passover and Year -Round)
Because matzoh meal makes almost anything taste like Passover (but with less taste), I've been recreating and/or collecting recipes that are inherently chametz-free (pronounced HA-metz, these are foods containing leavening or grains prohibited during the 8 days of Passover). Such as this chocolate mousse.
The recipe has taken the internets by storm! Two ingredients! Three if you count the guilt when you eat the entire batch yourself it's so good. It's relatively quick to make (especially if you have a pesadik electric hand mixer). But if you don't, it only takes about 5-10 minutes or so to whip up, depending upon the size of the hand whisk at hand, even if you have to stop in the middle because the dog barfed on the rug (don't ask, but this is still better than last week when Cujo ate something he shouldn't and left land mines all over the living room floor for days ... but I digress). If you don't own a mixer or whisk for Passover because you never needed one before, go out and buy one now, either or both of them, just for this. You and your family will thank me later.
Remember how in the past I warned you not to let any moisture sneak into the chocolate to prevent it from seizing? Neither do I, but you can ignore it. Here, all that whisking creates a suspension (sort of like mayonnaise), encasing the water droplets within the cocoa butter, and along with trapped air bubbles, creates the mousse magic.
Most other recipes recommend the use of bittersweet chocolate, but I think that makes it way too chocolatey, even for me and I am a choco-addict. I use semi-sweet chocolate chips isntead and the result is amazing enough to serve at both your seders. I added an extra tablespoon of chips in order to correct the amount of fat needed for the mousse to set up properly. If for some reason yours doesn't, or conversely hardens too much, simply nuke the bowl a minute or two to remelt the chocolate, then repeat the ice bath/whisking, adding more chocolate or water depending which
Decadent Chocolate Mousse
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ice cubes and cold water
1 cup plus 1 Tbl. parve semi-sweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup water
whipped topping and/or nuts (optional)
Add a cup or two of ice cubes into a large bowl. Place a smaller bowl on top of the cubes. Carefully add water to the larger bowl until the water comes up the sides of the smaller bowl a few inches. Set aside.
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Combine chocolate chips and water in a 1 quart saucepan. Heat over medium heat, stirring constantly. The chocolate will start to clump, then eventually melt. Remove from heat and continue to stir just until the chocolate melts completely.
|Note the teensy-tiny whisk. Still came out good.
Carefully pour the chocolate mixture into the prepared smaller bowl. If using a whisk, whisk like mad for 5 minutes or so, or until the mixture cools, starts to lose its sheen and becomes the consistency of thick sauce. If using an electric mixer, this could happen in a couple of minutes so don't daydream.
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What if the truth is that every MMO that has succeeded under the subscription model has done so because that game - at the time - offered a compelling experience that was not available elsewhere? Looking at MMO history through this model, have games succeeded DESPITE the monthly fee - because players had nowhere else to go to get that particular experience - and not because of it? What portions of the conventional wisdom survive under this alternate model for events, and which fall by the wayside?
Survivors of the Subscription Era
According to MMORPG.com's list of all games by business model, there simply aren't that many MMORPG's with a mandatory subscription fee left on the market. Many are either abandoned veterans that aren't worth the money it would cost to relaunch them or newbies that have yet to prove they can last under a subscription model. Setting aside the 9.1 million subscriber gorilla for a moment, let's look at the highlights:
- Eve Online: Poster child for this model, whether it's space piracy, corporation scheming, hardcore PVP, or fully player-driven wars for galactic domination, Eve always has offered something that no other game on the market attempts.
- Rift: Technically speaking, having a well-produced game that sets and meets achievable goals and therefore delivers the most consistent update schedule in the industry isn't part of the in-game experience.
What I'd suggest is unique - based on my experience playing the game and comparing it to the other quest-based MMO's on the market - is the focus on playing with other people. Soloing in Rift is 100% feasible and supported, but it just feels flavorless compared to all the other solo quest MMO's. By contrast, Trion has made it easier than any other game to join groups, and I've had more fun grouping - including while leveling and even healing PUG's - than any other recent MMO I've played.
(Incidentally, if I'm correct, Guild Wars 2 may be a bigger threat to Rift than WoW, since its content is closer to what Trion does well.)
- Darkfall: I don't know exactly what their state of financial success is, as the game is currently charging a reduced monthly fee and no price to create an account. Again, though, the game offers hardcore sandbox PVP of a kind that "mainstream" games run screaming from.
- FFXI: Another title where I'm not so informed about current success. In the past, though, this game has been the rear-guard of numerous old school mechanics like harsh death penalties, lengthy travel, and grinding mobs to level, but without the PVP focus of other more sandbox-ish games. (FFXIV is harder to gauge because it only began charging a fee recently.)
- Warhammer Online: At the risk of kicking a game that's down, I'd suggest that this demonstrates the flipside of the model. Things like solo quests, group dungeons, and instanced PVP warfronts would NOT have been enough to sustain a subscription game because there were alternatives with these features on the market in 2009. The unique portion that they did attempt to provide - RVR - proved less than compelling due to incentive and population balance issues.
What about WoW?
All of which brings us back to WoW and the conventional wisdom. At its launch, WoW fit the model to a T - it was the only game on the market offering the virtual world experience to players who wanted to solo or otherwise shed the inflexibility inherent in past group-oriented MMO's. Today, though, every game that launches is derided as a "WoW Clone". What is this dinosaur still doing if a subscription game indeed cannot endure viable competition?
I would suggest that modern WoW offers two things that its contemporaries don't:
- Critical Mass. While diminished by years of attrition, Blizzard's game still has the largest playerbase. The success of Facebook does not mean that any competing social network can succeed simply by fielding a better product because the userbase is part of the value of the product. In some ways, Blizzard's game remains an easy consensus choice because they successfully support the major forms of gameplay - solo, group, raid, PVP - under one roof.
- Production Values. No other game has the luxury of two-year expansion cycles with multiple months of non-NDA'ed public testing. Many MMO's struggle for the resources to support all the major playstyles and ultimately end up doing one or more poorly. It's very possible to fault Blizzard's decisions, and the game does still have the occasional bug or rough edge, but it's hard to fault Blizzard's execution in comparison to the rest of the market.
Back to the big picture
If the bottom line is that the game, and not the business model, defines success, how have we arrived at the era of the free to play conversion? Entry barriers and flexibility are almost certainly part of the story - it's hard to be so worthless not to be a bargain at some reduced price. For some games, like DDO, it's possible to have such a low profile that the free to play relaunch is actually many gamers' first chance to make a first impression. Moreover, in the early days of the F2P switchover perhaps payment model flexibility was unique enough to be a selling point.
Today, however, many of the games that appear to have failed to compete at the price-level of the monthly fee have all made the switch. Still charging a fee may or may not be a dealbreaker, but it's harder to spin the lack of a fee as a selling point (especially if the "optional" fee is not so optional). In that case, the real question going forward is: When will we see a major F2P relaunch fold? Perhaps not so soon, since many of these titles are owned by larger developers who can keep the lights on relatively indefinitely, especially propped up with a cash shop. Still, if I'm right this question will begin to loom large in the coming years, because there just aren't that many subscription titles left to fail to sustain the subscription model.


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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
W.H. Robinson's Color Bulls-Eye
What do I mean by that... you ask? I mean, he hit dead center on this one with his color work.
A few months ago while profiling the Calla Fall 11 releases (there's still one Golden Age reprint left to discuss) I posted a selection of William Heath Robinson's (British, 1872-1944) line work from Midsummer Night's Dream. WHR's line in that volume is beautifully clean and balanced, while the characters are intricate and full of personality. It's gorgeous ink work—but I chose not to review the color plates in that volume. I can't say the color work (in MSND) has the same impact on me as the ink work; the color is fine, but the ink work is excellent.
In other internet wanderings, I come across plates for a volume that W. H. Robinson produced in 1909. A Song of the English, by Rudyard Kipling. In this volume, the line work, while plentiful, is rather ordinary, but the color work here absolutely sings. I did some homework, and found that only the earliest copies contained all 30 of the color images... and they fetch quite a price. but good things come to those who wait, and after some time, I came across a nice copy which I can share with you today. Each of these five images is shown with the surrounding piece of line-work frame, printed in a soft color on the text stock, which frames the tipped-in full-color illustration. All of the plates for the volume are visible here, if you have a yearning to see the whole set.
or the whole volume, poem, line work, and all, here
The poem is about the grand Empire of Britain, which was quite extraordinary when Kipling wrote it in 1896. (The poem was originally published as part of the The Seven Seas) The dated qualities of the poem, and the attitudes that may not be universally favorable, may detract a bit from the books value in today's market, but the illustrations are some of W. H. Robinson's best. Subtlety, symbolism, solid figures, beautiful color.
In more current times, if any of you folks are heading off to Illuxcon, in Altoona, PA in a few weeks, (for the Illustration conference that happens there annually) keep an eye out for me—I'll have some of my books along with my own work at the Showcase event on Friday night.
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- Kim Glanville said...
I just found this today and I'm super inspired! I am in love with that lighthouse. Thank you so much for this blog!
- October 31, 2011 at 12:17 PM
- Jeff A. Menges said...
Hooray! Just the kind of thing I set out to do. Thanks for saying so, the silence gets deafening sometimes. It's been an incredibly hectic month. I have a few posts "in waiting"— but they may have to wait until after Illuxcon. Be sure and check in next week (I promise). Thanks again, Kim.
- October 31, 2011 at 6:12 PM
- Kiri said...
Such beautiful illustrations. It makes me want to go back to traditional media again soon. There's just a charm about traditional that digital can never obtain.
- November 6, 2011 at 7:41 PM
I just came across your site for the first time. It's wonderful--I could spend all day every day looking at the Illustrations from the Golden Age. Hopefully you can keep your blog going! Thank you.
- November 9, 2011 at 2:20 PM
- Jeff A. Menges said...
There's plenty more to work with. It's been a month full of opportunities , which often means time off the blog—but stick with it, I'll be back shortly to post some more great images.
- November 9, 2011 at 9:46 PM


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The Interior Department on Wednesday designated the polar bear as threatened with extinction because of shrinking sea ice, making it the first creature added to the endangered species list primarily because of global warming.
The designation under the Endangered Species Act requires the agency to identify critical habitat to be protected and to form a strategy to assist the bear population's recovery.
But the department also issued special rules designed to exempt from the law offshore oil and gas drilling in prime polar bear habitat off Alaska's north coast.
Moreover, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced he was taking a series of steps to short-circuit legal plans by conservation groups to use the polar bear's protected status to block new power plants and other sources of carbon dioxide and other gases that contribute to global warming.
He said listing the polar bear as threatened "should not open the door to use the ESA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles, power plants and other sources. That would be a wholly inappropriate use of the Endangered Species Act. The ESA is not the right tool to set U.S. climate policy."
Dale Hall, director of the Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service, said the law was intended to preserve species and their habitats from localized threats such as filling wetlands, felling trees and development. He cast doubt on whether far-flung conditions, such as emissions from tailpipes, feedlots and smokestacks around the globe, could be directly linked to the shrinking sea ice.
"We have to connect the dots between an action and an impact on a species," Hall said. "We don't have the science to do that."
Conservation groups, however, have been gearing up to test that premise in court.
Kassie Siegel, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, said efforts to limit the reach of the designation and avoid clamping down on greenhouse gas emissions were "illegal and won't hold up in court."
A Supreme Court ruling last year that defined carbon dioxide as a pollutant undermines the Interior Department's position, said Andrew Wetzler, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council. Under Massachusetts vs. EPA, he said, "you don't need to show that you can solve an entire problem by going after a specific source."
Opponents of the designation likewise plan to challenge Kempthorne's decision. The Pacific Legal Foundation, a property rights group, vowed to sue, saying the Interior Department relied on speculative computer models about warming Arctic conditions and vanishing ice.
In announcing his decision, Kempthorne complained about the "inflexibility" of the Endangered Species Act; he said it failed to consider negative economic effects on people or industries. But, he said, he was left with no legal choice.
"You simply must look at the best available science on this species and project it into the future," Kempthorne said. "I have accepted the science. . . . This may not be a popular decision, but it's the right decision."
It was the first time in more than two years that the Interior Department had extended protections to a species under the Endangered Species Act -- the longest hiatus of new listings by the department since President Nixon signed the law in 1973.
It came after a U.S. District Court in Oakland forced Kempthorne's hand by imposing a May 15 deadline following the Interior Department's failure to meet the law's prescribed time schedule. The court order was prompted by conservation groups that sued Kempthorne for missing the law's deadline.
Meanwhile, members of Congress held hearings to demand why Kempthorne was holding up the polar bear decision while allowing his agency on Feb. 6 to sell leases to new offshore oil and gas fields in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska. At the time, Kempthorne ducked those hearings and questions.
On Wednesday, the Interior secretary said he saw no reason to hold up the offshore leases because Fish and Wildlife Service scientists said the projected decline of the polar bear was due to vanishing sea ice, not oil and gas development.
"For me to hold up the lease sale in the Chukchi Sea would have implied a connection," Kempthorne said. "There was not."
In December 2006, Kempthorne announced that there was sufficient scientific evidence of the bear's melting habitat to propose protecting it under the Endangered Species Act. Since then, the future for the top predator at the top of the world has looked increasingly bleak.
Last summer, Arctic sea ice receded to record levels -- a retreat that about half of the climate modelers did not think would happen until 2050.
In September, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey released a nine-volume analysis of how a warming Arctic is affecting sea ice and reached a dire forecast: Two-thirds of the polar bear's habitat would disappear by 2050.
Polar bears are experts at hunting ringed seals and other prey from sea ice. But they are so unsuccessful on land that they spend their summers fasting, losing more than 2 pounds a day.
This forced fast is now about three weeks longer than it was 30 years ago, according to studies in Canada's western Hudson Bay. This gives the bears less time to hunt and build up the fat reserves they need to survive until ice re-forms in the fall and they can resume hunting.
As bears have become thinner, the reproductive rates of females and survival rates of cubs have declined. Overall, the western Hudson Bay population has dropped by 22% since 1987, according to studies.
These bears in Hudson Bay are among the best studied. Scientists don't know if similar trends exist elsewhere in the Arctic, a vast and forbidding place to conduct field studies. Surveys have shown other problems, including bears drowning in open waters and cannibalism among hungry bears.
Scientists think the global population of 20,000 to 25,000 bears remains robust, rebounding from the 1960s, when hunting had driven down the population to about 12,000. But virtually all polar bear experts predict rapid population declines in the Arctic, which is warming faster than anywhere else in the world and changing too rapidly for the bears to adapt and find other food sources.
A group of Canadian scientists last month declared the polar bear a "species of concern" but stopped short of saying it was threatened with extinction -- a designation that could have restricted hunting by Canada's Inuit people.
Canada has about two-thirds of the world's polar bear population. Kempthorne and Canada's environmental minister last week signed an agreement with tribal government to consider "the best available scientific information and aboriginal traditional knowledge."
The Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, which operates in Canada's far north, recently proposed reducing the quota of polar bears hunted in Baffin Bay. But Inuit trappers and hunters opposed the move, saying their traditional knowledge revealed too many bears in the area.
The new protections under U.S. law will not affect the subsistence hunt in Canada, nor preclude native hunters from selling permits for as much as $30,000 to trophy hunters from the United States.
But it will prohibit trophy hunters from importing polar bear skins or heads into the United States. About 70 such trophies have been brought back each year.
"Native hunters claim they'll kill these bears anyway," said Paul Todd of the International Fund for Animal Welfare. "But if they don't need them for subsistence hunting, then, in reality, fewer bears will be killed each year."


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Apple Wants to See Samsung Skewered for Evidence Leak
Aug 3, 2012 5:00 AM PT
Apple has insisted that the judge presiding over its patent trial against Samsung should punish the Galaxy phone maker for its decision to leak to the public evidence excluded from the proceedings.
Samsung tried to enter evidence in its trial with Apple that Samsung claims shows it was working on iPhone-like prototypes before Apple introduced its smartphone. Federal district court judge Lucy Koh, though, excluded the evidence from the proceedings. It was submitted too late in the discovery process, she ruled.
Determined to have the evidence see the light of day, Samsung's attorneys released it to the press.
Even though Apple was allowed to argue to the jury that a the Samsung F700 was an iPhone copy, Samsung was not allowed to tell the jury the full story and show the pre-iPhone design for that and other phones that were in development at Samsung in 2006, before the iPhone was publicly debuted, according to Samsung. Fundamental fairness, the company added, requires that the jury decide the case based on all the evidence.
Severe Sanctions Sought
Following Samsung's action, Apple sent a letter to Judge Koh asking her to impose severe sanctions on the South Korean company for its defiance of the court. "The proper remedy for Samsung's misconduct is judgment that Apple's asserted phone design patents are valid and infringed," Apple wrote to the court.
"Through its extraordinary actions yesterday," it continued, "Samsung sought to sway the jury on the design patent issues, and the proper remedy is to enter judgment against Samsung on those same patents."
"It would be, to be sure, a significant sanction," Apple acknowledged. "But serious misconduct can only be cured through a serious sanction -- and here, Samsung's continuing and escalating misconduct merits a severe penalty that will establish that Samsung is not above the law."
Apple did not respond to our request for further comment.
"Apple's filing is baseless and we will be filing a response," Samsung spokesperson Mira Jang told MacNewsWorld.
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Samsung's reaction to what it sees as bedeviling behavior by Koh is risky conduct, according to intellectual property analyst Florian Mueller. "I strongly suspect that Samsung is venting frustration over various decisions including the two preliminary injunctions Judge Koh recently granted Apple," he told MacNewsWorld.
In May, Koh granted preliminary injunctions requested by Apple to block the sale in the United States of Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Galaxy Nexus smartphone until the case between the two companies is settled.
"But this is also a tactical game," Mueller added. "Samsung is playing with fire and trying to game the system. This may backfire in the end."
While Samsung's frustration is understandable, it may be getting in the way of sound legal strategy, according to Adam L.K. Philipp, an attorney with Aeon Law. "When people get frustrated they sometimes do things against their best interest," he told MacNewsWorld, "or they calculate the risks and say the marginal benefit we might get might outweigh the rage that the judge might have."
Public Relations War
Nevertheless, Philipp recommended that rather than subverting the court, Samsung's legal team should be getting its ducks lined up for an appeal. "It's never good to subvert the court," he said.
"Most patent cases revolve around setting things up for the real court case, which is in the appeal, when the professionals who actually understand the issues and understand the technology get things set up properly."
Samsung's move, however, may have been more calculated than emotional, contends Michael Lasky, a patent attorney for Burr & Forman. "If Samsung wins the public relations war but loses the case, it still wins," he told MacNewsWorld.
"If the public believes Samsung is getting beat up over something it shouldn't -- and they'll draw that conclusion from what they read in the press, not what happens in court -- that's not a good outcome for Apple," he maintained.


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Something went wrong with blogger for a few days, so my last post on "A Speaker's Perspective" appeared, then disappeared, then appeared two times in a row (all without me doing anything), but now appears to be right again.
I have a couple of exciting book news tidbits to share. First, this past weekend the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors had their annual awards banquet which takes place every year at the National Genealogical Society Conference. I was not in attendance this year (this week has already been the busiest one of the year for me....), but I just learned that my book excerpt, which was published in Family Chronicle last December, received first place for articles published in 2010. Hooray!
The excerpt is on my book's website. You can read it here. Just click on "excerpt" from the top. I read part of this excerpt in my book talk too!
I also just got an email from Miriam Robbins Midkiff letting my know that she has reviewed The Journey Takers on her blog, Ancestories. Yuu can read her review here. She concludes her review with this paragraph:
"Family historians will benefit greatly from this title for a variety of reasons. The depth and scope of research required to create a quality history of Huber's ancestors' lives is marked. The careful documentation and source citations are to be applauded. Creating a realistic and sequential narration out of the bare bones of facts is to be commended. To be able to research, analyze and synthesize the details of family historians' ancestors in such an interesting and valid manner is something to which we all should attain. Huber's book is a strong example of a fascinating story married to a quality researched work and as such would be a excellent addition to any genealogist's personal library."
If you're not familiar with Miriam's blog, you should check it out. It has been consistently rated in several places as one of the top genealogy blogs out there.
Finally, I got another exciting email last week about an upcoming book award. However, the banquet for this award hasn't taken place yet, so I'm not allowed to share for a couple weeks...(Is that obnoxious?)
I can't resist just two photos. My third child, Sarah Ann, turned six yesterday. We had her birthday party with 14 kids (counting three of mine - Christian was NOT invited)! Here's her with one of her two butterfly cakes and then one of the whole group (minus one child who preferred not to be in the photo). By the way, I gave three book talks last week and I just want to say that frosting those birthday cakes was WAY more stressful than any of the book talks!
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
An Writing Award, a Review, and more to come....
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Congratulations to you for the writing award (why am I not surprised), and to your daughter on her 6th. Miriam is the best, and I'm glad she reviewed your book. Now to wait for your new award!ReplyDelete
Happy Birthday to Sarah Ann! She looks very happy with your frosting efforts.ReplyDelete
Congrats on the awards! Well deserved!
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In 1864, a small band of Confederate soldiers launched a surprise attack on St. Albans, Vermont, robbing and burning the small town in an attempt to strike terror into defenseless civilians throughout the north.
The incident is one of the lesser-known chapters of the Civil War.
"It's kind of the backwater of Civil War history," James Fouts, a historian of the St. Albans Raid, told Business Insider. "It's the northernmost Confederate land action during the Civil War, but it takes place way the heck up in Vermont, which is 500 or 600 miles away from where the major scene of the action was taking place down in Virginia and farther south. So it catches people a little bit by surprise that the Confederates were active as far north as northern Vermont."
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Twenty-one-year-old Confederate Lieutenant Bennett Young was the leader of the St. Albans Raid. Young claimed that a band of Union troops had raided and plundered his Kentucky town, and committed an "outrageous insult" on the woman he planned to marry, according to Oscar A. Kinchen's book "Daredevils of the Confederate Army: The Story of the St. Albans Raiders."
The young woman allegedly died weeks later as a result of the attack, prompting a vengeance-minded Young to enlist in the Confederate Army.
After two years of service with a Kentucky unit, Union troops captured Young in Ohio in 1863. After he escaped from a military prison, Young presented Confederate authorities with a plan to launch surprise raids along the Union's northern frontier. In order to strike that far north, Young proposed attacking from neutral Canada.
Young and his recruits had official approval from the Confederate government to launch raids against St. Albans and other northern towns, Fouts said.
"Bennett Young was actually encouraged or ordered — if that's the word you want to use — to enlist a group of men, no more than 20, which he did in order to pull off raids across the northern border," said Fouts. "So Bennett Young actually enlisted 23 young men in something called the 5th Company Confederate States of America Retributors. They were officially mustered in as Confederate soldiers with the intent to commit mayhem across the northern border. It was a well-organized conspiracy by the Confederate government."
Young was commissioned as a first lieutenant and sent by ship to Canada to prepare and carry out raids with his Confederate recruits, other escaped prisoners of war mostly in their early-to mid-20s.
In addition to fulfilling a personal desire for revenge, Young hoped to destroy valuable northern resources, seize plunder for the Confederacy, and force the Union to divert soldiers from southern battlefields to protect their northern frontier.
The raiders chose St. Albans for their first attack. Located 15 miles south of the Canadian border, St. Albans was a busy commercial and manufacturing center with a population of 2,000, according to the St. Albans Raid Commemoration Committee, which has helped created a historical website about the incident.
Between 18 and 22 Confederates disguised their identities and arrived in small groups from Canada over the course of 10 days. The soldiers blended in with the local population and scoped out the town's banks and horse stables. Passing himself off as a charming ministry student Young received a guided tour of the Vermont governor's mansion from the first lady herself, according to the St. Albans Raid Commemoration Committee.
The Raid
At 3 p.m. on Oct. 19, 1864, the raiders confronted the townsfolk outside a hotel and announced their true identities and intentions. "I take possession of this town in the name of the Confederate States of America," Young declared, according to the St. Albans Raid Commemoration Committee.
The pistol-wielding Confederates wore civilian clothing during the raid rather than Confederate uniforms, Fouts said.
The raiders divided into groups. One was assigned to take residents hostage on the village green while the others robbed three of the town's banks.
"We are Confederate soldiers detailed from General [Jubal] Earley's army to come north and rob and plunder, the same as your soldiers are doing in the Shenandoah Valley and in other parts of the South," announced one raider to townsfolk at the Bank of St. Albans, according to Kinchen's book. "We'll take your money and if you resist, we'll blow your brains out."
The raiders forced their prisoners to swear an oath "to uphold the Confederacy and its beloved president, Jefferson Davis, and never to do anything to the injury of the Confederate cause, nor to spread alarm of the raid until their captors were well out of town," Kinchen wrote.
At the Franklin County Bank, raiders locked an employee and patron in an airtight vault. A resident who happened to enter the First National Bank tackled one of the raiders to the ground but surrendered when the Confederates drew pistols on him.
"We represent the Confederate States of America," one of the raider's declared. "We have come to retaliate for the acts committed against our people by General [William] Sherman. You have got a very nice village here, and if there is the least resistance, we'll burn it to the ground," according to Kinchen.
While the robberies were taking place, Young and other raiders patrolled the town's main thoroughfare, where they captured all the townspeople they could find. They gathered the hostages on the village green to prevent them from informing nearby factory workers of what was happening.
The Confederates even shot an elderly man who refused to surrender and another man who tried to stop Young from stealing a horse, although neither wound proved fatal.
Before the raiders departed on stolen horses and saddles, Young ordered his men to set fire to various buildings, using a chemical concoction of highly flammable liquid called Greek Fire.
By the time the band of raiders departed, flames were spreading among buildings and frenzied villagers were hurriedly gathering their own firearms to chase after the Confederates.
A crowd of townsfolk, led by recently discharged Union Captain George Conger, succeeded in wounding two or three of the Confederates during their escape.
The Confederates, for their part, shot and killed one civilian. Ironically, the only fatality of the raid was a worker from out of town who had a reputation for sympathizing with the Confederacy, according to Kinchen.
The Greek Fire only destroyed a single woodshed, but a burning bridge helped the Confederates stay ahead of pursuers and escape back into Canada.
The Confederates were estimated to have stolen $208,000, only $87,000 of which was recovered, according to the St. Albans Raid Commemoration Committee. Fouts said that $208,000 would be about $3.2 million today. "It was a considerable sum of money," he said.
The raid also met its goal of sowing widespread panic along the Union's northern border. "This was a terrorist raid, really," Fouts said. "It scared the pants off of people in St. Albans."
Civilians near the Canadian border feared more raids — but they never came. The raid ended up having little impact on the outcome of the war, which the South was losing anyway.
Posses captured 14 of the Confederates within 24 hours, turning them over to Canadian authorities. Although they stood trial in Canada, none were convicted or extradited, since Canadian judges believed the defendants acted as war combatants.
"During his trial ... he never showed any remorse," said Fouts of raid leader Bennett Young. "He was quite proud of what he did."
Young enjoyed taunting his victims in St. Albans in the days following the raid. He sent payment for his St. Albans hotel room, as well as a letter informing residents that they were now permitted to lower their hands.
At the end of the war in 1865, Young was one of the few Confederate officers not immediately pardoned. While his fellow raiders were allowed to return home, Young studied law in Europe.
He was pardoned in 1868, and returned to Kentucky, where he became a successful attorney, entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist, according to Fouts and the St. Albans Raid Commemoration Committee.
"[Young] did not publicly speak about the raid a great deal, unless it was among his Confederate veterans — the guys that would understandably know what he was talking about and certainly know the situation in which he found himself," Fouts said.
Young died in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1919. "Even in the later years I don't believe he had any regrets for what he did," Fouts said.
Young's daughter visited St. Albans in 1964 to attend the unveiling of a memorial plaque, according to the St. Albans Raid Commemoration Committee.
The town will hold a St. Albans Raid 150th Anniversary Commemoration Sept. 18-21, featuring reenactments, walking tours, lectures, and more.


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Khamenei said Iran's population should be closer to 150 million or more.
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After the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran's population doubled within 10 years to almost 60 million as authorities encouraged a baby boom to produce soldiers for the war against Iraq.
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