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Participating in Battle Yum! is like being a Disney theme park creator. They are called imagineers, and I like to look at these challenges as how I can be an imagineer of the ingredients. The next important thought: what can I make that my kids will actually want to eat? If I get the two things right, all works out. Therefore, it came down to the fishsticks. What was I going to do to re-imagine them and turn them into something they are not and what would my kids want for dinner?
No children, including my two, ever get tired of spaghetti and meatballs. But would they eat "fishstick balls?" The first thing to do was to figure out how to turn them into meatballs.
I knew we had a grinder attachment to the mixer, and in they went.
For texture, I added the crushed pretzels. For additional flavor, I found some chicken and fish jerk seasoning. I have to confess that I am not a fan of spinach or many leafy greens for that matter, but I am a fan of garlic. Something passed down from my dad I suppose. So I decided to saute the spinach in garlic and hoped that it wasn't to overpowering for the kids.
I cooked the linguini, and when it was finished, I mixed in the garlic-sauteed spinach and topped it with the broiled fishstick meatballs. The only thing missing was some sort of sauce. I'm not ashamed to say this… I'm terrible with sauces, and just about everything needs a sauce. That's where the wife came in: she saved the meal. She asked what was in the frying pan (garlic and spinach) and she whipped up a garlic butter sauce to help make everything taste that much better.
So what did I learn?
The girl ate the meal without the sauce. She was apprehensive about fish balls but ate all three on her plate and said that they weren't as bad as she imagined they would be. The girl asked for more spinach, but unfortunately I didn't make enough and had no extra.
I think the wife was more apprehensive than the girl (she's not a fan of fish sticks). She was pleasantly surprised that the fishstick balls weren't horrid. And of course, the wife was the one that helped with the garlic sauce, without which the dish was dry and it wouldn't have been as enjoyable.
Fishstick Meatballs over Linguini
Fishstick Meatballs
- 15 fish sticks, warmed to room temperature
- 10 pretzels
- 1 egg
- 1/2 tbsp of Chicken and Fish Jerk spice
Garlic Sauted Spinach
- 4 cloves garlic - crushed
- 2 cups spinach
- 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
- Enough linguini for four
After fishsticks are no longer frozen grind them in a food grinder. Put pretzels into a plastic bag and crush with something heavy, like a rolling pin. Pretzels should broken into small pieces, but not crushed to powder. Add crushed pretzels, egg and jerk spice to ground fishsticks and mix thoroughly. Shape mixture into meatballs. Preheat oven to broil and cook for 2min and then turn meatballs over for another 2min.
Heat olive oil in frying pan and add crushed garlic. Add spinach and saute in garlic oil until soft and pliable.
After pasta has cooked to desired tenderness remove from boiling water. Mix in garlic spinach and add meatballs.

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|Grandson Vincent at his 5th-grade graduation from SEA, School of Engineering and Arts.
|Vincent receiving his graduation certificate.
I've always hesitated to share many photos of our six grandchildren when anyone of questionable nature could be browsing for photos of young children for unsavory reasons.
|Vincent and his friend Rowan giggling after the graduation during this photo op.
|Our Teppanyaki chef who prepared the meals on the grill.
Times have changed. Any opportunity to celebrate is a welcome aspect of life for many throughout the world. That's all good in our minds. And we looked forward to participating in Vincent's special day without hesitation. How fortunate that we are to have been here during this important time for him.
|Tracy and Tom, all smiles.
|A flaming tower of onion rings.
After the commencement exercises ended, we headed to the lunch hall for cake and beverages. I declined the cake while Tom couldn't resist a piece of white cake with lots of frosting.
|In order to avoid contamination from vegetable oils (which I don't eat) my meal was prepared in the kitchen instead of at the table. Seasoned well it was fairly good.
|Tom and I with Vincent.
We'll be back with a few more family photos over the next weeks as we continue to relish each and every moment spent in Minnesota with our family and friends.
|From left to right, beginning at the back row. Tracy and Lynda and Lena (Vincent's two other grandmas), Tom me, Tammy and Vincent. As a graduation gift we gave Vincent a family heirloom chess set including the board on his lap.
Photo from one year ago today, June 3, 2016:
|Hamburger night in Bali Tom had homemade burgers with cheese, fries, veggies, coleslaw while I had everything minus the fries. We've noticed he coughs from acid reflux at night after eating fries. No fries? No cough. Humm...what does that tell him? For more photos, please click here.


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Hi, in this page http://blog.andijahja.com/2012/05/va...oltages-2.html the PL504 headphone amplifier is presented that uses a pl504 and no output transformer.
Can I somehow parallel more than one PL504 to reduce the output impedance so as to be closer to 8 ohms? For example if I parallel two tubes will it be 300R?
How shall I parallel the tube, does each tube need to have it's own resistors or just parallel them pin by pin?
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Re: transform simple low voltage OTL tube amp into lower impedance by paralleling tub
Individual cathode resistors, anode resistor should be scaled down according to # of tubes.
In the Rout >> RL range, output voltage is roughly doubled with two tubes, fourfold output power.
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Re: transform simple low voltage OTL tube amp into lower impedance by paralleling tub
Somehow, having had great experience of using PL504s in TV applications, using such a huge component to drive a 600R headphone seems like massive overkill. The tube heater alone consumes 10W of power and lets say another 1W of anode power and all it does is provide about as much audio as a 741 op-amp! Paralleling them will indeed drop the impedance but even with FvM's quoted fourfold power increase, it will be extremely inefficient. Each PL504 will add about 11W to the PSU load but only a few tens of mW of output power.
To reach 8 Ohms impedance in that schematic you need to parallel 75 tubes so you would be looking at some serious forced air cooling to get any appreciable sound from a speaker.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post5470136167997836562..comments2016-12-23T14:28:28.287-08:00Comments on Girl's Gone Child: a beginning and an endGIRL'S GONE CHILDhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-16318725985840930622012-03-14T18:43:42.315-07:002012-03-14T18:43:42.315-07:00Waaaaaahhhh....!!! Moving. Love the intertwining o...Waaaaaahhhh....!!! Moving. Love the intertwining of the two moments, ever moving forward and making room for new moments, but leaving behind the ones we treasure now. Your perspective as a mom is honoring and I love that you let him show you his world. That is something you will always hold.Risshttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-39530874735216273552012-03-09T22:32:17.579-08:002012-03-09T22:32:17.579-08:00The most beautiful love letter from mother to son ...The most beautiful love letter from mother to son that I have ever read. Archer is a lucky boy to have a momma who loves and appreciates him the way that you do. Such an incredible view from your eyes, watching him grow. Thank you for sharing.Anna email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-29747230578812197592011-06-21T16:46:39.741-07:002011-06-21T16:46:39.741-07:00i came across this post as i was, again, using you...i came across this post as i was, again, using your search tool (hooray! hooray!) to find tattoo posts. for no reason in particular. anyway, i'm trying really hard not to cry now. i'm at work. this post was just so beautiful - to say that archer does not belong to you is beyond wise and wonderful. i hope a can remember that when/if i have children. they are their own. what a lucky boy. xovickichristinehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-25126169501523128662010-10-18T09:52:20.204-07:002010-10-18T09:52:20.204-07:00Okay, now I know I'm going to have to read mor...Okay, now I know I'm going to have to read more of your blog (I came to it for the first time, five minutes ago), because your kid's favorite song is by The Polyphonic Spree.

They are my favorite band, but lately I've felt like maybe I'm one of their last remaining fans.

Come to think of it, if your kid is entering kindergarden, he's been alive for only a fraction of the time that the Spree have been my favorite band. Crazy and awesome!

Some kind of cosmic force made me skim to that part of your blog, and wonder what your kid's favorite song was. It could have been anything! But it was something that is also so dear to me.

:firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-47592507888671822542010-10-17T21:52:50.852-07:002010-10-17T21:52:50.852-07:00I come by here every now and then, and have read y...I come by here every now and then, and have read your book and really love your writing. This post really struck me tonight. I have three boys, and my oldest is just 7, in 1st grade this year. I have been feeling the same way about sharing him publicly as you describe about Archer, and your point about them not being ours is painfully true. I just re-read tonight a post I wrote about my son starting kindergarten last year. It's surprising how powerful these emotions are, isn't it?Elizabeth @claritychaoshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-76699623719526114282010-09-29T14:23:02.629-07:002010-09-29T14:23:02.629-07:00Good Lord, this just about killed me. We'll m...Good Lord, this just about killed me. We'll miss Archer around here, but how wonderful and exciting that he's on to the next phase of his life. You turned out to be such an awesome Mom, he's lucky!Rachaelhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-4118273211008772012010-09-23T18:22:26.189-07:002010-09-23T18:22:26.189-07:00bummer for us, but very respectable and understand...bummer for us, but very respectable and understandable. all the best for firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-69754947016420254882010-09-22T23:18:23.361-07:002010-09-22T23:18:23.361-07:00Thank goodness you are a mom.Thank goodness you are a mom.spicylikegingerhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-88876747145880893832010-09-21T23:25:40.935-07:002010-09-21T23:25:40.935-07:00P.S. I know how you feel about school uniform and ...P.S. I know how you feel about school uniform and I love how you accessorized Archer's uniform with those killer socks and sneakers (plus the book bag). BAD ASS!! =DRayhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-65225392162575172112010-09-21T23:21:49.622-07:002010-09-21T23:21:49.622-07:00Oh, Rebecca! This entry is AMAZING! It made me cry...Oh, Rebecca! This entry is AMAZING! It made me cry. And knowing that this is Archer's last entry makes me want to sob. Thank you so much for sharing your TRULY AMAZING BOY with us. Thank you. This is now one of my all-time favorite entries from you.

Your entries about your children always make me long for a kid of my own. Even when I swear I won't have any.

Once again, thank you. <3 I haven't read you from the beginning, but I can always go back and read about Baby Archer. ;o)Rayhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-9022885162186649872010-09-21T12:59:46.364-07:002010-09-21T12:59:46.364-07:00You are beautiful. And I love you.You are beautiful. And I love firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-44214819414611498252010-09-20T16:27:07.084-07:002010-09-20T16:27:07.084-07:00Oh my God, LOVE THIS. So wonderfully written - I ...Oh my God, LOVE THIS. So wonderfully written - I cannot believe he's already in kindergarten - in some small way, between reading your book and reading this blog, I feel like I've been a part of his life since the beginning too (stupid, I know). We love Archer!Amandahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-8118862931139388232010-09-20T16:07:21.092-07:002010-09-20T16:07:21.092-07:00Beautiful post. Excellent writing. That's all ...Beautiful post. Excellent writing. That's all I can email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-57210591083034398092010-09-20T11:40:29.779-07:002010-09-20T11:40:29.779-07:00Oh man, that one got me! The picture of Archer as...Oh man, that one got me! The picture of Archer as a baby reminds me so much of my baby boy (8 months now) - I can't believe that before I know it he'll be starting kindergarten!
I'm sad to see Archer go from your blog, but I'm excited for him as he begins to write his own adventures . . .Larahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-87739568921483417952010-09-20T09:39:48.479-07:002010-09-20T09:39:48.479-07:00That was so simply beautiful! My daughter just st...That was so simply beautiful! My daughter just started elementary school too and you captured the thoughts and moments perfectly. I will miss hearing about Archer - what a neat kid! Best to you and your family and thank firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-6829224117148398652010-09-20T08:50:45.648-07:002010-09-20T08:50:45.648-07:00Well, that settles it. You'll have to have at...Well, that settles it. You'll have to have at least 1 more baby just to keep your writing material going. Just kidding, people. Seriously, though, you do have a gift with words. It's interesting to me to see where bloggers who write about their children (you, Dooce, others) are going with their content as their kids get older. I totally respect what you're doing, but I will say that it's all a bit tricky, isn't it, because "his story" will often times be your story, too. It's one thing to omit things that he might be embarrassed by later. It will be much harder on you to omit things that are going on with him that are very much at the heart of what is going on in your own life at any given moment, too, you know? Ahhh, so tricky. Especially seeing as how there are plenty of people out there who think we're all bad people/bad moms for writing blogs about our children in the first place. (Obviously, I disagree. My point is just that there's no clear right answer on some of this stuff.)Katehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-19323531779675477172010-09-19T22:55:34.534-07:002010-09-19T22:55:34.534-07:00I'll be sad to hear less of Archer but at leas...I'll be sad to hear less of Archer but at least we'll still have Fable. That should sound like " we'll always have Paris." We'll always have Fabele, at least for a couple of years.GingerBhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-39738415360252649252010-09-19T17:49:04.471-07:002010-09-19T17:49:04.471-07:00This was perfect. Much props to you for honorin...This was perfect.

Much props to you for honoring Archer's story, in every way.

(ps. His shoes? ROCK.)clueless but hopeful mamahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-32846706630245169242010-09-19T17:29:43.669-07:002010-09-19T17:29:43.669-07:00wow, what a great relationship you guys have. I lo...wow, what a great relationship you guys have. I love that shot of the two of you!Chelseahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-89298285238895336182010-09-19T17:04:48.881-07:002010-09-19T17:04:48.881-07:00I love reading you. Love.I love reading you. Love.motherbumperhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-70025348804079712332010-09-19T16:15:32.044-07:002010-09-19T16:15:32.044-07:00Beautiful writing. Beautiful love. -Heidi FerrerBeautiful writing. Beautiful love.

-Heidi FerrerGirltoMomhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-33615367790380214552010-09-19T12:52:42.282-07:002010-09-19T12:52:42.282-07:00OMG I love your writing! I usually scroll down at ...OMG I love your writing! I usually scroll down at pics of other blogs but your blog, I have to read everything!OC wandererhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-22880546116199680642010-09-19T12:51:33.994-07:002010-09-19T12:51:33.994-07:00I feel invested as a long-time reader eventhough I...I feel invested as a long-time reader eventhough I comment rarely. Maybe one day Archer will read your archives and understand how many people(many, like myself, strangers) have believed in him and the places he would go from the very beginning of his life. I hope this skews the curve on his view of humanity in some positive way. I have enjoyed the Archerisms and appreciate you for having shared.Katehttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-75056744612771005962010-09-19T01:15:44.764-07:002010-09-19T01:15:44.764-07:00Wow! Absolutely divine writing. I was breastfeedi...Wow! Absolutely divine writing.

I was breastfeeding my own little boy (11 months) while reading this and cried rivers!

Archer, you are an amazing little man. You and your Mommy are so lucky to have one another.KJ in email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751784.post-49120984665602539082010-09-18T19:52:20.432-07:002010-09-18T19:52:20.432-07:00You're raising an amazing young man. Wishing ...You're raising an amazing young man. Wishing Archer all the best in his future adventures.EdenSkyhttps://email@example.com


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Wanderlei shoots wrestling-inspired promo
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Bellator has released its first promotional video for its first PPV scheduled for Saturday, November 2nd. In the promotion, it features Rampage Jackson, Tito Ortiz, Michael Chandler and Eddie Alvarez.
Payout Perspective:
Interesting move for Bellator to feature Rampage and Tito without real mention of the Bellator promotion. Obviously, its the hope that fans will want to purchase the PPV based on the history of the two fighters. It is good that the promo includes Chandler-Alvarez which most "in-the-know" MMA fans believe is the real reason to purchase this PPV.
Jones appears in latest Nike commercial
August 22, 2013
UFC Champ Jon Jones has a small part in Nike's new "Just Do It" commercial which is narrated by Bradley Cooper and directed by Nicolai Fuglsig. LeBron James and Serena Williams top the list of athletes in the commercial.
In addition to Jones, boxer Andre Ward makes a cameo right after Jones.
Payout Perspective:
If you were wondering when Nike was going to utilize Jones, there he is in the latest commercial. Of course, you have to look fast because you wouldn't recognize him if you weren't watching closely. With Reebok and Adidas dipping its toe into MMA sponsorship, we will see what Nike does with Jones.
Rousey stars in new marketing campaign for Insureon
June 13, 2013
Ronda Rousey stars as "The Insureon Protector" in a YouTube video promoting Insureon – an online company specializing in insuring small businesses. Rousey kicks, punches and uses her trademark armbar in fending off lazy tech support workers.
Payout Perspective:
This is one of the first commercials featuring Rousey since she won the UFC women's bantamweight title. According to the Sports Business Daily, the video is the start of a marketing campaign featuring Rousey in a series of videos (presumably as "The Insureon Protector") as well as an interactive website. We will see if this catches on for Rousey and if this will lead to bigger deals.
Gamma Labs posts 12 Days parody
December 22, 2012
Supplement company Gamma Labs produced a parody of the "12 Days of Christmas" featuring UFC ring attendant Britney Palmer and other notable UFC fighters. The video should help you get in the holiday spirit.
Payout Perspective:
It's a great video and anytime you can get your product next to Brittney Palmer it will immediately attract every young male watching. Of course, the product will be the second thing your target audience will be watching. The one issue with the video is that I would have all the cameos appearing wear Gamma Labs gear just so folks would remember the company putting this together. Overall, it was well done and shows a great sense of humor on the part of the fighters.
Showtime Weekend in Baja
June 21, 2012
Anthony "Showtime" Pettis spent a weekend working for his sponsor Toyo Tires and we get a video as a result. It appears as though "work" was pretty fun.
Payout Perspective:
A nice video capturing Pettis as brand ambassador for Toyo Tires offroading with his sponsor's tires. Pettis is a fighter that could make the leap from fighter to mainstream spokesperson if his career continues to ascend. His backstory has been featured on MTV and a lot of us remember the Showtime Kick which propelled him to ESPN highlights. He's been floating under the radar since coming over to the UFC but hopefully he will be making some noise later this year. It seems like his sponsorship deal with Toyo Tires is the kind of deal every fighter would want. It allows Pettis to work outside the Octagon with the sponsor, doing something he enjoys as well as promoting the brand.
Bones vs. The Rock in ESPN Poll
December 16, 2011
After his win this past Saturday, Jon Jones visited the ESPN campus to do some interviews. In addition, he shot this "informal" video to promote himself in a poll against the WWE's Dwayne Johnson.ESPN SportsNation conducted the poll for its second annual "The Awesomest Dude of 2011."
(H/t: MMA Mania)
Payout Perspective:
Its nice to see that the UFC and ESPN are playing nice once again. Its a silly award but Jones played along with it well. Jones is becoming a regular with ESPN and he is getting much more comfortable in front of the camera. With GSP out and the uncertainty of Brock Lesnar's career, Jones could be the new face of North American MMA (with Anderson Silva being the face for most of South America).
And with the video, we see that the iPad gets some publicity as Jones kicks it but it still works.
UFC offers off-beat promo for 136: "The Great Debate"
October 5, 2011
The UFC offers a unique promo hyping the third meeting between Frankie Edgar vs. Gray Maynard this weekend. Its not the usual fight hype video as it pokes fun of January's draw.
(H/t: MMA Mania)
Payout Perspective:
Perhaps the UFC is trying something new that it may use when it starts promoting for Fox? Its definitely different and actually allows Gray Maynard to do some acting. The other underlying thing about the video is that it does not stereotype the UFC audience. While we saw a guy with sleeve tattoos and sunglasses, he is driving his daughter to gymnastics practice. The UFC is subtle in showing that its audience aren't all young males. Also a nice product plug for the UFC video game.
Payout Perspective: UFC 127
March 1, 2011
Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective! This time we look at UFC 127 which took place at the Acer Arena in Sydney, Australia. The main event saw a draw between Jon Fitch and BJ Penn. In the other featured bout, Michael Bisping defeated Jorge Rivera after an illegal knee and a questionable decision to continue the fight.
Fitch-Penn Draw
Although one judge had Jon Fitch beating BJ Penn, the other two judges scored the fight a draw resulting in a majority draw decision. Two judges scored the fight 10-8 for Fitch in the third which caused the draw. While the draw may not be the most questionable call of the night, it was an interesting matchup with both fighters displaying their strengths. At the end, it had BJ bummed, and contemplating retirement and Fitch uncertain of the direction of his career.
Bisping illegal knee drops Rivera, then KOs Rivera
Michael Bisping is a sensitive guy. At least that's how he started his post-fight interview with Joe Rogan. He certainly displayed this characteristic after his illegal knee put Jorge Rivera on Dream Street. Perhaps the knee was due to the emotion of the trash talk videos Rivera made in ramping up to the matchup. Inexplicably, the ring doctor and ref did not take control and stop the fight. Instead, they asked Rivera if he could continue. What do you think would be the response? Rivera was game enough to hold off Bisping momentarily before the stoppage. After the fight was when the real fireworks began as Bisping spat at Rivera's corner as well as middle fingering the crowd (or someone in the crowd but the camera panned away). Bisping's actions caused a mention on ESPN's Sportsnation.
In recent memory, when most bad blood fights happen (except Rashard-Rampage); the fighters are professional in squashing whatever beef they had after the fight. Bisping looked like he would do the same, but he decided to rub it in. Even Paul Dailey thought the illegal knee was unprofessional. The UFC has decided to punish Bisping for spitting at Rivera's corner, not for the knee.
All of the bad blood stems from the trash talk and videos made between the two. From a fan perspective, the hype is great and it's definitely motivation to watch a fight (which frankly did not look too exciting on paper), but as professional fighters they have to know that what's said to hype the fight can't be taken personal. Yet, both camps (Alchemist-Wolfslair) are still issuing statements calling out the other.
For Bisping, Vito Belfort and Chael Sonnen (assuming his career is thawed out by the UFC) have already requested to fight him. Does anyone else think it should be Bisping calling out Belfort and/or Sonnen?
Last minute fill-in Ebersole becomes feel good story of UFC 127
Self-proclaimed journeyman Brian Ebersole upset Chris Lytle in his debut in the UFC. It was great to see Ebersole's raw emotion on two specific occasions: as Ebersole readied himself to enter the Octagon for the first time and at the end of the fight. The cameras caught Ebersole realizing his dream–good TV. Ebersole was unique as seen with his cartwheel kick, shaved chest and wearing headgear to the ring. Great visibility for Hayabusa-Ebersole's sponsor.
Fight of the Night honors went to Ebersole and Chris Lytle for their fight.
Former TUF cast member, Kyle Noke won Submission of the Night honors with an early choke out of Chris Camozzi.
Mark Hunt won KO of the night with his second round beat down of Chris Tuchscherer. It was also featured on ESPN's Sportsnation.
Each fighter earned an additional $75,000 to their pay. (H/t MMA Junkie)
Attendance and Gate
As previously reported, UFC 127 was a success as it set the record for attendance for UFC events outside of North America. 18,136 fans attended for a gate of $3.5 million.
For the first time, the UFC aired its fights over three platforms: Facebook, TV and PPV. The ION broadcast garnered 714,000 viewers according to MMA Junkie. This is down from the 829,000 viewers of ION's initial broadcast in January. This is a significant downturn from the UFC 126 prelims on Spike TV which garnered an all-time best of 2 million viewers.
Despite the decrease in viewership for UFC 127, fans had the opportunity to watch more fights. The drawback was that you had to switch from your computer, to finding the ION channel (again) and then switching to PPV. Not the most convenient for the casual fan.
Sponsorship Watch
SafeAuto Insurance – This was the first of several times this year where SafeAuto will be on the mat and ring posts for the UFC since it became an official sponsor. It also sponsored Dennis Siver in his upset victory over George Sotiropoulos.
Lids –The hat store, a new sponsor to the UFC, was presenting sponsor of the Tale of the Tape. Interesting to see it becomes involved in MMA sponsorship.
Gamefly.com, the Netflix of video games, and new shooter game Killzone3 were prominent sponsors with the former having its logo on the center of the ring and the latter on the ring posts.
US Marines sponsored the mini-Fitch and Penn Keys to Victory segment. This is a nice segment that they started at 126. It's a new way to get sponsor visibility during the PPV.
Dethrone Royalty – Surprisingly, there were a lot of positive comments about Jon Fitch's walkout shirt which depicted a dog. It definitely was a nice alternative to the usual fare.
Public Relations for 127
Like other places where MMA is trying to penetrate the market, some local newspapers wrote negative pieces (here and here ) about the sport in general. The Herald Sun had an especially ignorant rant on MMA. For the UFC's part, it conducted a PR tour in December. The tour consisted of going out into the community, working out at local gyms and giving interviews to local press. Educating the public on the sport is the key for it to make inroads in new markets.
The UFC contributed to the relief efforts for Tropical Cyclone Yasi which caused widespread flooding in Australia. The UFC held an auction featuring UFC memorabilia with funds going toward flood victims. It also matched the fight purse of James Te Huna, who donated his fight purse to the relief efforts. This was a good move by the UFC in recognizing an opportunity to help the community. It shows that it is more than just flying in, making money and leaving.
In the less serious department, during fight week, the UFC had multiple greet and grin opportunities as UFC fighters visited a rugby team, went surfing at Bondi Beach and the UFC Octagon girls visited the zoo.
Storylines Post-UFC 127
– What now for Fitch and Penn? Is a rematch in the future and does anyone want it? Both sides seemed dejected afterward. Fitch wants a shot at the Shields-GSP winner but that is unlikely. Although Penn wondered about hanging it up, it would be hard to see him going out like this.
– Siver upsets Sotiropoulos. Dennis Siver's win over George Sotiropoulos in front of his homeland crowd stopped Sotiropoulos' march to the top of the 155 contender list.
– Zhang wins. A preliminary bout with potential major implications. Tiequan Zhang dropped down to 145 pounds and submitted Jason Reinhardt. Zhang, coming off an upset loss needed a victory here. It's not too big of a stretch to say that Zhang's success will make it easier for the UFC to create inroads into China. With the global expansion of the company, it would benefit the UFC if Zhang does well at 145. In his post-fight interview he noted that he doesn't feel pressure to grow the Chinese market but believes the UFC will be in China.
– Judges do it again. Not only was there questionable scoring made in the main event and sketchy decision-making by the ring doctor and ref in the Bisping-Rivera fight, the judges got it wrong in the Nick Ring-Riki Fukuda fight. Dana White said as much as he tweeted that Fukuda would receive his win bonus despite the loss.
– Australian crowd. The Aussie crowd showed its knowledge of MMA and was into the fights. The attendance reflects the popularity of the sport down under. It was announced that a possible stadium show in Australia could happen in the future. Australia could be marketed as an annual destination stop for the UFC.
Odds and Ends
– Other than the draw, what received more attention for Jon Fitch: his shirt or his diet?
– Speaking of t-shirts, I thought BJ Penn's shirt/banner, "Aloha Mate" with Mate upside down was pretty clever. Penn was a fan favorite in Sydney.
– Did you know Kyle Noke was "The Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin's bodyguard?
– Sonnen and Belfort use email and twitter to lobby for a potential matchup with Michael Bisping. Doesn't anyone use a cell phone to text anymore?
Form Athletics releases Vegas-inspired video to support new clothing line
February 15, 2011
Form Athletics released a video supporting its Fall 2011 clothing line. With its tagline: "Finally a brand you'll want to wear," it looks to be more than just t-shirt designs.
The video shows the Form stable including Urijah Faber, Mark Munoz, Jon Jones (shooting pool in the shadows), Chad Mendes, Joseph Benavidez, Scott Jorgenson and Anthony Pettis.
Payout Perspective:
A very cool video inspired by Ocean's 11. With its recent signings of Jon Jones, Showtime Pettis as well as its focus on being a lifestyle brand, Form is differentiating itself from other MMA brands. It looks like the style is cleaner with fewer huge logos. One sticking point, may be price. A Jon Jones' hoodie costs $87.99. Will the MMA crowd shell out the money to buy clothes at a higher price point?


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True Love is Generous and Hospitable
Contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality.
–Romans 12:13
In Romans 12, Paul described what genuine love does. He said true love pursues unity, prefers others, persists, and perseveres. There is one more aspect of true love that we will look at today.
Genuine love practices generosity instead of selfishness. Paul wrote in Romans 12:13. "Contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality." Remember, in Paul's day, there was no Social Security, no Medicare. Everybody was on his own. Although there is no command in the New Testament to meet all the material and physical needs of everyone, the Bible says we are to be concerned about the material and physical needs of our brothers and sisters in Christ. James wrote, "If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, 'Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,' and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?" (James 2:15-16). That is, if you see somebody who has a genuine need and you have the capability of meeting that need but say, "Brother, I will pray for you about that," then that is not love. Genuine love meets the needs of other Christians.
Then Paul added this phrase: "Practicing hospitality." That word "hospitality" comes from two Greek words that mean "pursuing strangers." In Paul's day, there were no motels for people to stay in. If somebody was traveling out of town and needed a place to stay, it was usually either too expensive or too dangerous to stay at an inn. So Paul was saying, "You ought to be open to Christians who are traveling through your city and do not have a place to stay. Open your home to them and meet their needs." That is what Paul meant here: pursuing strangers, meeting their legitimate needs, and showing hospitality to brothers and sisters in Christ.
Not long ago, I preached at a pastors' conference in Arizona. Afterward, one of the attendees came up to me and said, "I had the chance to visit your church several years ago. Do you know what impressed me most about your church? It wasn't the preaching or the music. What impressed me was that as I was getting ready to leave after the service, a couple approached me and asked if I had anywhere to go to lunch. I said no. They said, 'Would you come with us? We would like to take you to lunch.' I have never forgotten that." That is the kind of hospitality Paul was talking about.
When people talk about First Baptist Church of Dallas, I hope the first thing they say about us is not, "What a beautiful campus they have." Or, "They know so much about the Bible." Or, "They have such a tremendous outreach." Those are all true, but the best thing they could say about our church–and any church–is this: "Oh, how they love one another." Isn't that what Jesus said? "By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another" (John 13:35).
Today's devotion is excerpted from "True Love Never Waits" by Dr. Robert Jeffress, 2014.
Scripture quotations are taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.


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The result of an unfortunate union between an ogre and a humanoid, the ogrekin (or half-ogre) is cursed with horrific malformations due to its tragic ancestry. Shunned by both parents, ogrekin tend to form unstable clans of their own, often resorting to inbreeding to sustain the collective. While good-natured ogrekin are not entirely unheard of, they are far and few between.
Creating an Ogrekin
"Ogrekin" is an inherited template that can be added to any Medium humanoid (referred to hereafter as the base creature). An ogrekin retains all the base creature's Statistics and Special Abilities except as noted here.
CR: Same as base creature +1 (minimum 2).
Alignment: Usually evil.
Type: The creature's subtype changes to giant.
Armor Class: Natural armor improves by +3.
Ability Scores: Str +6, Con +4, Int –2, Cha –2.
Special Qualities and Defenses: An ogrekin gains low-light vision. In addition, ogrekin receive two random deformities—one beneficial and one disadvantageous.
Beneficial Deformities: The ogrekin gains one of these, chosen randomly.
|Oversized Limb
|The ogrekin can wield weapons one size category larger than normal without any penalty and gains a +2 bonus to its Strength.
|Oversized Maw
|The ogrekin gains a bite attack (1d4).
|Quick Metabolism
|The ogrekin gains a +2 racial bonus on Fortitude saves.
|Thick Skin
|Improve natural armor bonus by +2.
|Vestigial Limb
|A vestigial third arm (which can't be used to use items) grants a +4 racial bonus on grapple checks.
|Vestigial Twin
|A malformed twin's head juts out from the ogrekin, providing the ogrekin with all-around vision.
|Bulging Eye
|The ogrekin gains darkvision 60 feet.
|Enlarged Skull
|The ogrekin takes no penalty to Intelligence from the ogrekin template.
|Gnarled Hands
|The ogrekin gains a claw attack. This attack is considered a primary natural attack that deals 1d6 points of damage. If the ogrekin already possesses a claw attack, it instead gains Improved Natural Attack (claw) as a bonus feat.
|Grotesque Ears
|The ogrekin gains blindsense 10 feet and a +4 racial bonus on Perception checks.
|The ogrekin's natural reach increases by 5 feet.
|The ogrekin gains the scent ability.
|Thick Feet
|The ogrekin gains a +4 racial bonus to its CMD against bull rush, overrun, and trip combat maneuvers, as well as a +2 bonus to its AC against attacks made as part of a charge action.
|Vice Grip
|The ogrekin gains a +2 racial bonus on disarm and grapple combat maneuver checks and a +4 racial bonus to CMD against disarm and grapple maneuvers.
|Warty Knuckles
|The ogrekin gains Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat.
|Webbed Fingers
|The ogrekin gains a swim speed equal to half its land speed.
Disadvantageous Deformities: The ogrekin gains one of these, chosen randomly.
|Deformed Hand
|One hand can't wield weapons; –2 penalty on attack rolls with two-handed weapons.
|The ogrekin is particularly frail and gaunt. It loses its +4 racial bonus to Con.
|Light Sensitive
|The ogrekin gains light sensitivity.
|The ogrekin takes a –2 penalty to Dexterity (minimum score of 1).
|Stunted Legs
|The ogrekin's base speed is reduced by 10 feet (minimum base speed of 5 feet).
|Weak Mind
|The ogrekin's head is huge and misshapen. It gains a –2 penalty on Will saving throws.
|Atrophied Eyes
|The ogrekin gains the light blindness weakness.
|Bad Eyes
|The ogrekin is partially blind. Creatures targeting the ogrekin increase their attack bonuses for flanking to +4, and the ogrekin takes a –2 penalty on all ranged attack rolls against targets more than 30 feet away.
|Brittle Bones
|The ogrekin's bones are malformed and weak. Creatures gain a +4 circumstance bonus on attack rolls to confirm critical hits against the ogrekin.
|Deformed Feet
|The ogrekin can't run and takes a –2 penalty to its CMD against bull rush, overrun, and trip combat maneuvers.
|If the ogrekin rolls a natural 1 on an ability check, attack roll, saving throw, or skill check, it becomes confused until the end of its next turn.
|Flaking Skin
|The ogrekin reduces the bonus to natural armor granted by the ogrekin template to +1 and gains vulnerability to nonlethal damage.
|Massive Girth
|The ogrekin is treated as being one size category larger when attempting Stealth checks.
|Offensive Odor
|Increase the Charisma penalty imposed by the ogrekin template to –4. Creatures with scent can detect the ogrekin from twice the normal distance.
|The ogrekin takes a –2 penalty on Will saves against mind-affecting effects and a –1 penalty on initiative checks.
|Twisted Spine
|The ogrekin takes a –4 penalty on grapple and trip combat maneuver checks. Standing up from prone requires the ogrekin to take a full-round action.
Ogrekin Encounters
Ogrekin are solitary creatures and rarely live in groups of more than six. While not particularly intelligent, ogrekin can plan simple ambushes and tactics but quickly fall back on the savagery of their monstrous parents, aggressively attacking the most physically imposing enemies first and using their deformities and great strength to terrible effect at close range. At their most merciful, ogrekin prefer to take living captives that they treat with widely varied levels of hospitality. Ogrekin are rarely encountered in settlements, though they often prowl close to a town's fence or city's gate, waiting for unsuspecting travelers. This lonely existence leads many ogrekin to tame and train wild animals, a practice ogrekin take to with ease by quickly establishing dominance over beasts with their prodigious physical strength. These pets form resilient bonds with their masters and remain fiercely protective even after their owners' death.
The few ogrekin who have found acceptance into more civilized groups are often used as dispensable tools, sent out as the first lines of defense to deal with potential troublemakers. Though rarely treated with any kindness, these ogrekin strive for approval from their fellows, and can demonstrate great bravery when opportunities present themselves. Among tribes of their own kind, some ogrekin readily take up divine spellcasting. Healers and seers are highly valued for their utility both in battle and when processing new slaves.
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Travelers around the globe awoke on Tuesday to an alarming new development: a new edict from the Transportation Security Administration , the American company that administers security at airports, clamping down on the digital units many jet-setters take with no consideration. Portable computer systems have nevertheless been below elevated scrutiny since a suspected suicide bomber blew a hole within the fuselage of an Airbus A321 flown by Daallo Airlines and compelled it to make an emergency landing in Mogadishu in February 2016. Contact your local municipality or solid waste district to see when they will be sponsoring recycling assortment events for electronics.
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A Salute To Chuck Jones is the seventh release in the Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection series of videos. It was originally released in 1985.
"Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner owe a debt of thanks to Charles M. Jones - better known as Chuck. He was one of the unsung heroes who brought these characters to life—and put his special stamp on each cartoon. (Bugs Bunny may have been the same basic character in every short—but only Jones could get a laugh just by having him wriggle his eyebrow!)
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political geography
POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY IS the study of the ways geographic space is organized within and by political processes. It focuses on the spatial expression of political behavior. Boundaries on land and on the oceans, the role of capital cities, power relationships among nation-states, administrative systems, voter behavior, conflicts over resources, and even matters involving outer space have politicogeographical dimensions.
Contemplating the state of political geography, Richard Muir observed that "political geography is simultaneously one of the most retarded and most undervalued branches of geography and one that offers
the greatest potential for both theoretical and practical advance." Things had not always been so. Many of the early geographers such as Peter Kropotkin, Sir Halford J. MACKINDER, and Isaiah Bowman were explicitly concerned with the relations between politics and geography in both their published work and their public lives.
Mackinder, for example, was a member of parliament, a high commissioner in RUSSIA and chairman of various government committees, and Bowman was an adviser to President Woodrow Wilson at the Versailles Peace Treaty meetings. Sadly, this concern with the very stuff of politics waned after Mackinder and Bowman. Geopolitics became discredited by a Nazi association and political geography became an ossified
subdiscipline of a tired subject, often taught, never researched, a prisoner of outdated theories.
From the disciplinary perspective, political geography may be defined as either geography or political science. In the perspective of political science, political geography appears as "the study of political phenomena in their aerial context," as one geographer put it.
Political geography is the study of relationships among humans, their environment, and their political institutions. The controversy over states' rights, which has been revived again and again in the UNITED STATES, masks geographic problems growing out of the natural environment of the southern states, or out of natural resources of petroleum-producing states, or out of water requirements in dry and semiarid states. All these and more require political accommodation.
The functions of political geography are not confined to one state but embrace the whole globe. It is intriguing to attempt to rank the sovereign states of the world in terms of effective national power, to evaluate the regional importance of one state compared to its neighbors, to range over the world and consider the ever changing power of the (British) Commonwealth of Nations, or the French Community, to analyze the reasons for political tensions between regions in terms of environmental differences—these are the substance of political geography in its broadest terms.
The subject is also dynamic, searching for the effects of change and the rate of such change. Change affects, in every inhabited spot, the elements within the political state that define it, that strengthen or weaken it, that slowly alter the image of a state in the world. The nature of change and its velocity are both little understood, for humans are cursed with a love of the familiar, the usual and ingrained, and their grasp is finite and time bound.
The political requirements of agrarian ARGENTINA altered internally and externally when the Juan Peron government attempted to industrialize the state. The political geography of the (British) Commonwealth of Nations today contrasts in stress and strain with the 19th-century BRITISH EMPIRE. Changing geographic resources and factors buttressed the weapons race between the UNITED STATES and Soviet Union during the Cold War. Political demands for control of French Louisiana in the early 19th century grew out of the MISSISSIPPI RIVER's role as a transport route for farm products. Today, an interstate superhighway system is of more importance to the agriculture areas of the Midwest than southward river routes. The political importance of the differing economic developments of communist CHINA and democratic INDIA causes scholars to question the suitability of one type of government over another.
Yet scholars admit that the political state is in one sense an abstraction, dependent on written records and some degree of respect for possession or ownership. It could not exist in a world without other political states. As an abstraction, it appears at a certain level of culture, marked by written language, sedentary life, and the need for organization. Today, in certain areas of the world, it appears to be only another stage in the search for unity by groups of people. In newly born states it is national unity. The painfully complex path of Western Europe toward federation is a movement toward regional unity. The latter's course contrasts sharply with the turbulent, uneasy history of newly independent nation-states of the former Soviet Union.
Political geography is functional; it studies the degree of unity reached by the environment and man's political institutions. Laws governing the ownership of water rights that were evolved in moist, cool northwest Europe were unsuccessfully transplanted to the American semiarid southwest. In much of Latin America, most of the land is owned by a small wealthy class. The resultant pressure of population on resources is a continuing specter that threatens to menace the productivity of the environment and to conjure up political revolution.
Subordinate political units in the state also clash with man's use of the environment. It can be witnessed in the U.S. urban trading areas that overlap several states; interstate compacts regulating commerce, navigation, and transportation; and overlapping regional requirements for development of natural resources such as river basins. Above all, there is the increasing role of central political power in the modern industrialized states, which has been forced primarily by the interregional complexities of economic and social problems.
Political geography considers different cultural meanings for similar political and geographic functions. Attitudes, frames of reference, habits, and beliefs—all the rationale of political and cultural action—are explored for their agreement or disagreement with the environment. America, in the colonial period, offered the natives hunting and fishing; to the colonists, it offered farms, lumber, cotton, and tobacco. The prairies of the Midwest or of western CANADA, with their thick, deep-rooted grass, have a different meaning to the settler today than what they had before the invention of the steel plow. These lands were first unsuitable, then invaluable, for profitable settlements. The former accommodates to local tribal government by the patriarch; the latter is the agent of highly centralized, democratic government that is over 1,200 miles distant.
The pace of change today is forcing many peoples to reorient their customs and habits. Unfortunately, cultural inertia often produces only a veneer of change. The oil-rich sheiks of the Arabian peninsula gladly accept the costly consumer goods of the West; many a Cadillac has not been uncrated or may have been run dry of gasoline and abandoned. The distrust of the strange, the foreign, and the unusual continue to haunt most of the world's peoples.
Though moderated after centuries of conflict, religion remains contentious over vast areas. The idea of race, expressed in terms of color of skin and physiognomy causes rioting, murder, economic and social discrimination, and political bias in many countries. Despite the general rise in literacy and the construction of educational systems and rapid communications structures, there probably has not been a corresponding increase in the level of understanding and tolerance. Not less important, and among the slowest to change, are those series of conventions that society impresses upon individuals. These force the control or submission of the instinctive impulses, for the most part, for the general social good.
The political geographer is concerned with the homogeneity and heterogeneity in action within and without the political unit. He or she must attempt to analyze the centrifugal and centripetal forces acting and interacting at different rates.
Humans remained a pawn of their environment for thousands of years before they became sedentary. Security lay with the tribe and idol, and fears led to primitive worship. The arrival of sedentary agriculture provided the grounding to develop small groupings, implying an intimate association with a single homogeneous landscape. In river valleys such as the NILE, Tigris-Euphrates, INDUS, and HUANG, these collective groupings evolved political forms that were linked to the physical settings of FLOODPLAINS, the presence of abundant water, the yearly silting of the fields, and the regularity of the sun and the seasons.
The hold of the primeval past remained strong even in the Greek world of Persian invasions, in the lifetimes of Pericles, Plato, and Aristotle. The Greeks were the first known culture to actively explore geography as a science and philosophy, with major contributors including Thales of Miletus, Herodotus, Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Aristotle, Dicaearchus of Messana, Strabo, and Ptolemy. But Greek scholars began to think logically and abstractly about the meaning of the world around them. Both Plato and Aristotle analyzed the political state, its environmental base, and man's relationships with it. They attempted to clarify cause, space and time.
Although the political world of their day became complex, they agreed to find unity among environment, man, and the state. The polis, the city-state, was their political frame of reference. The influence of topography in fragmenting the Greek peninsula into many small river valleys, separated by hills and mountains but facing the sea, has also been commented on many times. Yet, even for the Greeks it was true, as it is increasingly today, that humans are active, intelligent agents, not the pawns of their environment.
Whenever we study the thought of other people in other cultures and at other times, their frame of reference must be considered to explain their limitations and successes. Greek thinkers were no exception. An early comment on the political environment by Aristotle was both nationalistic and deterministic. He asserted that "the people of cold countries generally, particularly those of Europe, are full of spirit but deficient in skill and intelligence; and this is why they remain free, but show no political development and faculty of governing others. Peoples of Asia are endowed with intelligence but are deficient in skills. This is why they continue to be peoples of subjects and slaves." Aristotle's Europeans were those nomadic tribes in south Russia and the Balkans that periodically raided the Mediterranean world and threatened its colonies. He implied that nomadic tribes are not likely to develop a high degree of political organization. His Asians were the peoples of Asia Minor and the Persian Empire. The first of these were his own people, inhabitants of Greek city-states along the fringe of Anatolia—yet he looked down on them.
Today, we would consider the low level of technology at that time as important, one that produced small surpluses but dense populations. The size of these eastern empires contributed to the necessity for a political organization that depended on a highly centralized monarchy buttressed by military power.
When Aristotle wrote that the Greeks were better than barbarians of the north and the Asians of the east, he emphasized the importance of location; he was writing about the known world. In addition, he believed that climate had a strong influence on qualities such as spirit and intelligence, for in the Greek division of climates, the Greek lived in the temperate zones, the nomad in the cold regions, the Asiatic in the hot areas.
Greek thinkers were cautious of their common nationality, but through most of the ancient period they were more impressed by the consciousness of the value of their individual civic life. The 5th century B.C.E. was the period of highest achievement in Greek political life. Greek unity was imposed by Philip and Alexander of the Macedon. The unity of which Plato wrote was sharply limited in dimension. He was certain that the city-state was the ideal political form for humans. Later, in the age of Caesar and Augustus, the geographer Strabo argued that only with a strong central government with one powerful ruler could a continental empire such as Rome survive and flourish. Through the centuries, humans have altered many times their views on the size, structure, and functions of the political state that they continued to require.
These early observations on the nature of interlinkages between people, the environment, and political institutions could not evolve in a coherent subdiscipline of political geography. The surge of new geography of the 1950s and 1960s bypassed political geography. The new geography, with spatial analysis as its theme, neoclassical economics as its accounting frame, and logical positivism as its methodological underpinning, could not accommodate a political geography. The emphasis of neoclassical economics on the economy as a harmonious, self-regulating system, where each factor of production receives its fair reward, ignored questions of conflict and inequitable distribution, and the focus of logical positivism directed attention to verifiable empirical statements in particular, and data analysis in general, and away from the operation of the more incorporeal power relations within society.
A truly political geography could not flourish in such a climate. Moreover, the explicit analysis of politics was taken over by the last social science discipline, political science. This academic assertion was being conducted by a discipline, which according to some scholars was a device for avoiding politics without achieving science. Ignored by its discipline and lacking any theoretical substance from political science, it is little wonder that political geography was a moribund subject.
The origins of political geography are usually traced to Friedrich Ratzel (1844–1904), who was the brilliant yet ambiguous founder of modern political geography. He was strongly influenced by rapid, vigorous developments in the natural sciences in the 19th century and sought to discover the realities of political society.
Ratzel and Karl Marx both thought that there were natural laws that controlled society. Ratzel's critics have often disregarded his fundamental contributions to the elements of political geography, underestimated the attention he gave to the factors of location and space, and fixed their disliking on his attempt to develop an analogy between political state and living biological organism. In his native GERMANY, the concept of natural selection and survival of the fittest became wedded to a geopolitical jurisdiction of national expansion.
A group of German geopoliticians emerged who gradually discredited his reputation as they abandoned rationale and unbiased geographic thought and turned to justifications of war and conquest.
Ratzel thought that states in all stages of development are considered as organisms that stand in a necessary connection with the ground, and hence must be viewed geographically. He linked the state to a mobile body, to an organism subject to the natural laws of growth and decay. His organism was spiritual and moral. Just as an organism is born, grows, matures, and eventually dies, Ratzel argued, states go through stages of birth (around a culture hearth or core area), expansion (perhaps by colonization), maturity (stability), and eventual collapse.
Strongly influenced by Darwinian thinking, he was interested in the relationships between the state and the Earth, between political institutions and their physical environment. His major contribution came with his representation of the state as a organism needing Lebensraum (living space) and the competition between states for that space as a Darwinian contest involving the survival of the fittest. He suggested that only a sporadic absorption of new land and people could stave off the state's decline. In fact, Ratzel proposed a blueprint for imperialism.
He believed the higher the technological and social development of the political state, the farther that state was removed from its organic foundations. In fact, this thought on the analogy of an organism and the state is ambiguous. The true geographic structure of Ratzel's thought suffered because of imperfect distillation from his German and from the rejection by American geographers of any form of determinism. However, the elements of political geography that are thought to be of major importance today were voluminously discussed and analyzed by Ratzel. The state is not an abstraction— it occupies land and water; its size, location, and boundaries are important characteristics.
Ratzel also thought that the surface features of the land together with vegetation and soil were basic to any political analysis. He emphasized the importance of capital in location and function. The beliefs of social groups in the necessity of a political union based on historical, religious, and cultural values; the theory of centrifugal and centripetal forces operative in the state; the idea of the ecumene or heartland; and the vital roles of communication and movement—all these provide the solid substance of his political geography. He lived in an era that saw the growth of colonial empires to their maximum and the partitioning of virtually all the land areas of the world into politically controlled regions. He correctly saw that the increasing ability to overcome space placed a premium on states of large size. Today, we speak of the continental superpowers that have geographic environments that possess varied and immense resources. In addition, Ratzel devoted attention to relationships between states, particularly on the nature and function of boundaries.
Ratzel's ideas were taken up by a number of geographers with political as well as academic interests, notably Rudolf Kjellen, a Swede, and Karl Haushofer, a German who taught and was close to Rudolf Hess,
Adolf Hitler's deputy in the 1930s. They developed a school of geopolitik, whose writings were used to give an intellectual rationale to 1930s German expansionism—not only the desire to occupy adjacent territories with substantial German populations, such as AUSTRIA and Sudetenland, but also Russian areas further east.
Parallel developments in the UNITED KINGDOM were led by another geographer-politician, Sir Halford Mackinder (1904), whose classic paper related state power to location. In an era when movement of heavy goods and large armies was easier by sea than by land, maritime countries would dominate politically, but as land transport was becoming easier, so "land-based powers" were becoming stronger: he argued that whoever controlled the "world island" (the heartland of Euro-Asia) should be able to control the globe—a geopolitical notion that influenced much strategic thinking throughout the century, until air power (and then power in space) came to dominate military strategy.
Elsewhere, political geography merged as the study of states and their impact on the landscape, as exemplified by D. Whittelsey (1939) and by R. Hartshorne's (1950) paper on the functional approach: the latter saw the spatial structuring of the state as a resolution of centrifugal and centripetal forces, focused on its core area and capital city. Many of their writings involved identifying typologies of states and dividing the world into geopolitical regions.
Descriptive analyses of the world political map were continued by a number of scholars who at various times posited bipolar, multipolar, center-periphery, and other structures. Other geographers developed interests in boundary demarcation and disputes, on land and at sea. This continuing strand of work on geopolitics had little impact on the wider discipline, despite its links to strategic thinking. It was almost entirely absent from geography in FRANCE, Germany. and Russia from 1945 onward because of the association of political geography with geopolitics and then geopolitik. The Soviet Union, for example, blocked the establishment of commission on political geography within the International Geographical Union until 1984.
Climatic variations have inspired another set of geopolitical hypotheses and critiques. International political patterns have also been linked with the uneven distribution of the various raw-materials requisites of modern industry. There is some disposition to regard areal differentials in technology as the critical variable, a hypothesis that has been linked with demographic distribution to produce a prediction that international political patterns will ultimately be determined by the latter. The prediction is based on the premise that technological primacy will vary with relative numbers of superior scientists and other gifted individuals varying in the long run with the size of population.
A revival of interests in political geography from the 1970s onward was initially linked to the "quantitative revolution," which the wider discipline experienced in the 1960s and 1970s. Work on ELECTORAL GEOGRAPHY started then and geographers increasingly brought their spatial perspective to bear on a range of subjects broadly defined as "political" and relating in some ways to the operation of the state. Location and conflict (over land uses, public goods, and so forth) became topics considered by political geographers. But a political location theory was not as obvious as an economic, or even a social, one.
New texts in the 1970s also stimulated a broadening of the substantive areas of interests within political geography, with chapters on the geography of law, for example, and on spatial variations in the operation of government programs and government spending. Both depth and breadth were brought to the subdiscipline by this concern with theory, which involved moving away from the treatment of space as a given, as the environment within which states operate, toward a perspective that sees space as produced and reproduced by human action—the world political map is a social production. Two "spatial takes" were particularly relevant in this movement. The first was a treatment of scale. Strongly influenced by world-systems analysis, it was argued that world capitalism is organized globally, mediated and regulated regionally by states, and experienced locally.
The second theoretical perspective was introduced to develop the concept of territoriality to show how bounded spaces (including those of nation states) are crucial to the exercise of political, economic, cultural and military powers. The world is a mosaic of nested containers within which power is exercised and people controlled—with the criterion for whether you are subject to a particular rule of law being whether you are within the territory where it is sovereign. The theory is further analyzed in the light of increased globalization and the consequent changing role of the territorially defined nation state.
The most recent area of expansion has been in the study of critical geopolitics, a further outgrowth of the growing theoretical sophistication within human geography. As John O'Loughlin (1994) illustrates, this involves questioning the assumptions upon which geopolitical strategies are based—not so much the "geographical information" employed as the representations of peoples and places (both "selves" and
"others"). These are involved in the creation of identities: images of "us" and "them" (as in the 1945 to 1990 Cold War in which the two major powers and their allies each created images of the other on which to base their policies and around which to mobilize popular support). Geopolitical practices are subjected to critical scrutiny as opposing views of the world are deconstructed.
Political geography is now a vibrant component of its parent discipline. Its renaissance and expansion were marked by the launch of the journal Political Geography Quarterly in 1983, which is now published eight times a year (as Political Geography) and is the major source for tracking developments.
Unlike its sister disciplines of economics or political science, political geography has a relatively small amount of published research that contains quantitative analysis. The reasons for the relatively paucity of quantitative work in political geography can be traced to dual trends that have been evident for the past 20 years. First, like the rest of human geography, political geography has seen a rise in interest in poststructuralist and humanistic research methodologies as the 1970s heyday of positivism passed.
Some scholars believe that this trend has acquired because words are more persuasive than numbers, though it seems more likely that political geography is returning to the status quo ante, where quantitative methodology is just one of a plethora of options on the research menu. Second, and connected to the first, quantitative geography (and shortly after, geographic information systems, GIS) was promoted as a response to the challenges of the day, especially the economic stagnation in Western countries. By pursuing spatial analysis and GIS, and later merging these approaches, geography could certify its scientific status and show its various uses.
To paraphrase P. Longley and M. Batty (1996), quantitative political geography now stands at a junction. Either it will be integrated more intensively with the rest of political geography (this has to be a twoway street and will only succeed if non-quantitative political geographers accept quantitative approaches and research results) and more generally with other quantitative social science, or it will become further isolated.