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Charles H. Parker
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Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1993;
M.A., Auburn University, 1986;
B.A., Auburn University, 1981.
Throughout my academic career my research interests have focused on the religious and cultural history of early modern Europe with particular emphasis on the Low Countries. The central questions that have informed my work revolve around the complex ways that individuals and communities experienced and appropriated religious belief. My first book, The Reformation of Community: Social Welfare and Calvinist Charity in Holland, 1572-1620, examines conflicts among urban magistrates and Calvinist church leaders over social provision for the poor in the cities of Holland. My second book, Faith on the Margins: Catholics and Catholicism in the Dutch Golden Age, analyzes the revival of a religious minority, Catholic communities in the Calvinist Netherlands, within a pluralistic social environment. Along the way, I have written articles and essays that address topics on social discipline, religious toleration, personal honor, and Protestant interpretations of history.
In recent years, I have become drawn to comparative approaches and global patterns in early modern history. The issues in comparative study have expanded my interests in European religious and cultural history within broad global contexts. I am currently finishing a book that surveys major forms of interaction in early modern world history, which include empire building, long distance trade, migration, biological exchange, missionary endeavor, and cultural diffusion. I am also just getting underway on a comparative study of Calvinist communities planted in Asia, Africa, and along the Atlantic basin.
Honors and Fellowships:
- Eugene A. Hotfelder Professor in the Humanities, 2010 to present
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2010-2011
- Spencer Foundation, Research Grant, 2002
- National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend 1997
- Fulbright Fellowship to the Netherlands, 1990-1991
- FLAS (Foreign Language Area Studies) Fellowship for Dutch Language study, Summer 1988
Recent Courses Taught:
- Europe in the Age of the Reformation
- Plagues and Peoples: Disease and Society in the Pre-Modern World
- The Rise of Merchant Empires
- Daily Life in Early Modern Europe
- Witchcraft and Magic in Early Modern Europe
- Merchants and Missionaries in the Early Modern World
- Readings in Early Modern Europe
- The Reformation (Research Seminar)
- Readings in Catholicism in Protestant Europe
- Religious Conversion and Compulsion (Research Seminar)
- Readings in Social Discipline in Early Modern Europe
- Readings in Martyrs and Martyrdom in Reformation Europe
- Social Discipline in Early Modern Europe (Research Seminar)
Scholarly Publications
- Global Interactions in the Early Modern Age, 1400-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
- Faith on the Margins: Catholics and Catholicism in the Dutch Golden Age (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2008).
- The Reformation of Community: Social Welfare and Calvinist Charity in Holland, 1572-1620 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, hardcover 1998, paperback 2006).
Journal Articles
- "Converting souls across cultural borders: Dutch Calvinism and early modern missionary enterprises," Journal of Global History, (2013): 50-71.
- "Enregister les peches pour favoriser la reconciliation. Les archives des consistoires des Eglise des reformees de Hollande," (trans. Philippe Chareyre) Bulletin de la Societe de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Francais 153-4 (2007): 613-634.
- "Paying for the Privilege: The Management of Public Order and Religious Pluralism in Two Early Modern Societies," Journal of World History 17 (2006): 267-296.
- "Two Generations of Discipline: Moral Reform in Delft before and after the Synod of Dort," Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte 92 (2001): 215-31.
- "Pilgrims' Progress: Narratives of Penitence and Reconciliation in the Dutch Reformed Church," Journal of Early Modern History 5 (2001): 222-40.
- "To the Attentive, Non-partisan Reader: The Appeal to History and National Identity in the Religious Disputes of the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands," Sixteenth Century Journal 28 (1997): 57-78.
- "The Moral Agency and Moral Autonomy of Church Folk in Post-Reformation Delft, 1520-1620," Journal of Ecclesiastical History 48 (1997): 44-70.
- "Moral Supervision and Poor Relief in the Reformed Church of Delft, 1579-1609," Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte 87 (1996): 334-61.
- "Public Church and Household of Faith: Competing Visions of the Church in Post-Reformation Delft, 1572-1617," Journal of Religious History 17 (1993): 418-38.
- "French Calvinists as the Children of Israel: An Old Testament Self-Consciousness in Jean Crespin's Histoire des martyrs Before the Wars of Religion," Sixteenth Century Journal 24 (1993): 227-48.
- "Bourges to Geneva: Methodological LInks Between Legal Humanists and Calvinist Reformers," Comitatus 20 (1989): 59-70.
Edited Volumes
- Between the Middle Ages and Modernity: Individual and Community in the Early Modern World (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). (Co-editor).
- With Us Always: A History of Private Charity and Public Welfare (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998). (Co-editor).
Essays in Edited Volumes
- "The pillars of a new community. Conflicts and cooperation over poor relief in post-Reformation Holland, in Serving the Community: The Rise of Public Facilities in the Low Countries, Martijn van der Burg, Manon van der Heijden, Elise can Nederveen Meerkerk and Griet Vermeesch, eds. (Amsterdam: Aksant Press, 2009), pp. 155-167.
- "Cooperative Confessionalization: Lay-Clerical Collaboration in Dutch
Catholic Communities during the Golden Age," in Catholic Communities
in Protestant States, 1580-1720. Benjamin Kaplan, Bob Moore, H.F.K.
van Nierop, and Judith Pollmann eds. Manchester: Manchester
University Press (2009): 18-32. - "Inpartibus Infidelium: Calvinism and Catholic Identity in the Dutch Republic," in John Calvin and Roman Catholicism.
- "Obedience with an Attitude: Laity and Clergy in the Dutch Catholic Church of the Seventeenth Century," in The Low Countries as a Crossroads of Religious Beliefs, Arie-Jan Gelderbloom, Jan L. de Jong, and Marc van Braeck, eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2004), pp. 177-96.
- "The Rituals of Reconciliation: Admonition, Confession and Community in the Dutch Reformed Church," in Penitence in the Age of Reformations, Katherine Lualdi and Anne Thayer, eds. (St. Andrews: Reformation Studies Institute, 2000), pp. 101-115.
- "Poor Relief and Community in the Early Dutch Republic," in With Us Always: A History of Private Charity and Public Welfare, eds. Donald T. Critchlow and Charles H. Parker (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998).
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text: Home Culture How Race Matters in the Classroom Show Me the Numbers: Do black kids have problems in schools because so few teachers look like them? By: Ivory A. Toldson, Ph.D. Posted: Oct. 22 2012 12:02 AM 0 Thinkstock (The Root) -- Recently, the media reported that Florida and Virginia are attempting to close the "achievement gap" by setting different performance standards for black and white students. These controversial and misguided proposals demonstrate a dreadfully shortsighted assessment of race and achievement in the United States. Instead of dealing with the complicated racial nuances that shape black students' classroom experiences, Florida and Virginia are flirting with the idea of "lowering the bar" for black students, and by association, their teachers. The recently ended Chicago teachers' strike highlighted the challenges of defining teacher effectiveness in the U.S. Although teaching in Chicago involves significant cross-cultural interactions between teachers and students, racial issues in the classroom were rarely discussed in the media or among school leaders. In Chicago, the preschool through 12th-grade student population is only 15 percent white (9 percent in public schools), yet the Chicago teaching force is 53 percent white. Blacks and Hispanics comprise more than 80 percent of Chicago schoolchildren, yet they make up only 40 percent of the teaching force. Black students in Chicago are being suspended and arrested at a rate that greatly exceeds their representation in the student body. Earlier this year, Voices of Youth in Chicago Education estimated that police made 2,546 school-based arrests (75 percent black) between September 2011 and February 2012 in Chicago. According to the Civil Rights Data Collection Report, black students account for 76 percent (pdf) of students who are suspended in Chicago public schools, yet they only represent 45 percent of the student body. In a perfect world, the race of a teacher would matter no more than the race of a physician. However, research evidence suggests that cultural differences between teachers and students may account for key differences between the schooling experiences of black and white students. (Details on that research follow on the next page.) Some school advocates suspect that teachers who lack cultural proficiency may relate to black and Hispanic students in a manner that undermines their potential. After an in-service training on reducing suspensions, a white assistant principal in Chicago told me that the No. 1 reason they suspend students is for coming to school late. He said, "I just don't get it," because no matter how many times they suspend students, students keep coming to school late. He asked me if there was anything he could do about it, and I asked, "Have you ever asked them why they come to school late?" His response was, "No, I never thought of that." This is a typical "suspend first, and ask questions never" approach that many educators take with black students. In many ways, the situation in Chicago is a microcosm of the larger U.S. education landscape, whereby rapid demographic changes appear to be creating fractures in student-teacher relationships, and disrupting black students' learning experience. In this installment of "Show Me the Numbers" I consider the evidence that the stark contrast between the races of teachers and students might explain why black students are subject disproportionately to harsh discipline, which can result in lower school engagement and diminished academic performance. I also consider the impact of having a majority white and female teaching force in a diverse school system, and whether improving the diversity of the teaching population is the answer. Who Makes up the U.S. Teaching Population? Today, of the more than 6 million teachers in the United States, nearly 80 percent are white, 9.3 percent are black, 7.4 percent are Hispanic, 2.3 percent are Asian and 1.2 percent is another race. Eighty percent of all teachers are female. Relative to the composition of preschool through 12th-grade students in the U.S., the current teaching force lacks racial and gender diversity. However, a deeper look at the numbers reveals that it may be harder than it sounds to diversify the ranks of teachers, particularly with black men. Page 1 of 4 NEXT PAGE > Powered by Livefyre


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You know the old one-liner jokes that start with "You know you're in trouble when … ." Now we can add one from the world of finance: You know you're in trouble when the Greek stock market beats your stock market.
From the end of 2012 through the middle of August, all four BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) could claim this dubious distinction. In U.S. dollar terms, Brazil's stock market was down 29.9 percent, Russia's market was down 14 percent, India's market had fallen 21.4 percent and China's market had dropped 7.1 percent.
During that same period, the Greek stock market posted a 1 percent return. The point here is all about the BRICs, the recent darlings of the investment world, and how they have fallen.
In large part, global consumption drove the incredible growth in these four countries — along with many others around the globe — during the past 15 years.
The thirst for energy and gadgets exploded during the late 1990s and early 2000s, giving raw material providers and cheap labor countries an incredible boost to their economies and their markets.
Yes, the 2008 financial crisis briefly hit these emerging countries, but then the central banks of the world took over. As they flooded the world with cheap capital, providers of raw materials and cheap labor got their second wind. It seemed for a couple of years, from 2009 through 2011, these countries would be able to take a pass on the fallout from the greatest financial upheaval since the 1930s. Until now.
The feeling was that a rise of economic activity in these young, developing nations could offset a drop in activity in the aging countries of the world. This view held for a while, but then reality hit. It turns out that, while these youthful economies do have legitimate domestic consumption and growth, most of their outsized gains are reliant on selling to those stodgy, old, Western economies (as well as Japan) that are now limping along.
Without the U.S., the European community and Japan buying more and more, the BRICs had to devise their own plan for creating growth, which typically involved extending a lot of credit on easy terms. We all know how this story ends — with lots of bad loans and questionable assets on bank books.
As the Fed lowered interest rates to basically zero, the hot money went looking around the world for better returns. Money poured into emerging market countries looking for higher rates. This also drove their currencies higher and created challenges as to what to do with all the money. As is often the case, not all of it was deployed wisely.
We are now seeing a preview of what happens when it goes the other way. In the past few months, with just the hint that the Fed "might" begin tapering the amount of QE (bond buying), the hot money has been leaving emerging countries like rats leaving the ship. Currencies in India, Brazil, Indonesia and many others fell like a rock. Of course, the Fed says that is not their problem, but if it spirals out of control it will become our problem.
The same buyers who poured into these emerging market currencies are now quickly rushing out. This leaves developing countries with few options and all of them are bad. They could raise interest rates (attracting more carry trade buyers), but that would slow or choke their economic growth. They could buy their own currencies in bulk to prop up prices, but they'd deplete their currency reserves. Or they could do nothing (allowing the free market to figure it out), which likely would put emerging market currencies into a free fall and create high inflation. This is truly one of those "between a rock-and-a-hard-place" scenarios.
The global economy is teetering in a precarious position. All it will take is one major crisis to trigger a chain of events that spirals out of control. The collapse of emerging market currencies, much like what happened in 1997, could be it. You could call this being hit by a BRIC. Beware. The one positive consequence for us, as I've been saying for a while now, is a bullish outlook for the dollar.
Nick Massey is a financial adviser and columnist for the Edmond Sun in Edmond, Okla. You can reach him through nickmassey.com.
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Audiences NI, Northern Ireland Theatre Association and Theatre Forum joined forces in June 2012 to bring the first ever All-Ireland Arts Conference (#AIAC2012) to Belfast.
The two-day event at the Lyric Theatre saw those working in arts sectors north and south of the border come together to discuss how to forge new links, exchange ideas on best practice and network with contemporaries from across Ireland.
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'Stephen Layton and his superlative choir deliver an inspiring programme of a capella choral works by the Estonian composer. The music springs from the East European folk tradition - rhythmic underlay, biting harmonies, melodies seemingly smoothed by time. The British choristers tackle these alien sounds with conviction, precision, passion, perfect tuning across the octaves and much variety of tone colour and dynamics. Exciting moments abound: the Livonian songs are wittily profound, the final chord of Heather is a golden climax, while Childhood Memory proves that the choir harbours top soloists as well. It's hard to believe that they all have day jobs' (The Times)
'After Arvo Part, Tormis is probably Estonia's most important living composer … Here the Holst Singers under the indefatigable Stephen Layton explore this fascinating legacy, a mixture of arrangements of folk songs and original music inspired by the honesty and freshness of their idiom, in performances of characteristic spirit, atmosphere and incisiveness' (Daily Telegraph)
'These splendid performances highlight the music's elemental aspects (not just evocations of forces of nature but the spirit of the country, long suppressed by occupiers), the Holst Singers' commitment bringing out the ferocity of some passages with a quite scary intensity' (BBC Music Magazine)
'A beautifully prepared and executed compilation. Stephen Layton and his Holst Singers have a well deserved reputation as bold explorers, and their intelligence and dedication are evident here' (Gramophone)
'It is very good news that the music of Veljo Tormis has, in recent years, become the province of choirs from outside Estonia … [Holst Singers] Their musical and linguistic virtuosity is more than proof that this music travels very well indeed … This collection covers quite a wide chronological range, covering Tormis's earlier phase … and his later works, deriving their essence from the folk traditions disappearing around him and herladed here by the unforgettable, incantatory first song of the cycle Liivlaste parandus. It is this kind of writing that elicits of the Holst Singers' best work, totally involved, with a hugely impressive full-throated resonance but also capable of tremendous delicacy and poise' (International Record Review)
'These performances by the Holst Singers under Stephen Layton capture the mustical simplicity of Tormis's choral style, a touching blend of naturally-flowing tonality tinged with splashes of judiciously applied dissonance. Estonian lullabies, game songs, and othe more sulty examples of his mellifluous writing give character and variety to this colourful selection of a cappella part songs' (The Scotsman)
'The singing is nothing short of extraordinary…Stephen Layton summons up the most varied set of fortes and pianissimos…All good conductors work hard to taper their louds and softs, but this guy does it with an expressive flair that's overwhelming…The choral artistry lives up to the music, and that's saying a lot' (American Record Guide)
'This collection of choral songs is full of any number of magical effects that can only be realized by the very best ensembles. The Holst Singers surely fall into that category: In this range of works composed between 1948 and 1989 that range in tone from ambitious to playful, the group encompasses the Estonian earthiness without letting the music-making become too pretty' (Fanfare, USA)
'This wonderful new Hyperion release dedicated to Tormis' music with Stephen Layton and the Holst Singers should, by virtue of its fascinating resuscitation of internationally neglected works, further contribute to the composer's Western emergence … The works presented on this disc cover … almost the whole breadth of the composer's career … The idiomatic and skilful performances on this release present the listener with a clear opportunity to appreciate the development and gradual maturation of a talented composer's folk-inflected voice … This is a fine, fine disc of somewhat neglected choral treasures' (MusicalCriticism.com)
'There's so much here to enjoy - and play over again - and it's remarkable how Stephen Layton and his Holst Singers have so convincingly captured the flavor and character of the music and language - we usually only hear native choirs in this repertoire. The sound, from London's All Hallows Church, Gospel Oak, is just perfect--and Meurig Bowen's excellent notes complete an all-around first-rate release. This immediately joins my "best discs of the year" list!' (ClassicsToday.com)
'No doubt each listener will have favourite moments, but a few of the most distinctive songs include the atmospheric "Singing aboard ship" (1983) – weeping sweethearts left on the shore as their young men are conscripted to fight at sea; the highly evocative "Autumn landscapes" (1964) – rendered with tenderness and subtlety; and the mesmeric "Estonian game songs" (1972), with haunting chants and rich harmonies. The Holst Singers prove to be fine advocates for Tormis, treating his music with the respect it deserves and showing that there is much worth exploring. This release can be warmly recommended' (ClassicalSource.com)
'The Holst Singers are a reputable British choir, and they have shown admirable commitment to recording and performing contemporary and neglected works… there's a great deal of dramatic and dynamic variety under the sure leadership of conductor Stephen Layton, as well as obvious commitment to this exotic material' (Opera News, USA)
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The Holst Singers are acclaimed as one of England's greatest amateur choirs. The talent and commitment of the individual singers and the leadership of their mercurial conductor, Stephen Layton, ensure that their performances are always of the very highest standards. Veljo Tormis is—along with Arvo Pärt—Estonia's most famous living composer, holding an almost mystic status in his home country. He is also the passionate and practical torch-bearer for folk-singing revival, and the integration of an ancient cultural inheritance into thoroughly modern, post-Soviet lives. Interestingly, he trained at the Moscow conservatoire and was steeped in Soviet instruction during his early musical life. His music is almost all written for choirs; few composers have ever been so committed to one genre. Tormis's choral specialism marks him out from Bartók, Kodály, Vaughan Williams and Grainger, whose pioneering interest in folksong was ultimately less purist given their use of the tunes alone in instrumental or orchestral works: for Tormis, the words and the music are inseparable. The Holst Singers have recently been invited to Estonia to perform Tormis's music—a great honour, and a mark of their mastery of the repertoire. |
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Imagine this: a post-war totalitarian Britain, where creative artists are housed in their own discrete, genre-defined communities, looked after by the authorities but subtly contained and controlled too. One tenement, somewhere flanking central London and suburbia, has been for decades the shared address of writers and poetsDrabble, McEwan and Amis Jr occupying one storey, Larkin and Amis Sr two miscreants together on the fifth floor for a while many years back.
A few minutes walk away, in a slightly grubbier block of flats, are the state-housed composers. Harrison Birtwistle shares, somewhat tensely, a landing with Richard Rodney Bennett, and together they tolerate the keyboard vamping, up the stairwell and through prefab ceilings, of Michael Nyman one storey below. It is not the happiest of musical communities, but there have been some good parties there over the years. Hard to imagine, yes; but the bricks-and-mortar reality is a 150-minute plane ride away, just west of St Petersburg and a ferry shuttle across the Gulf of Finland from Helsinki. Tallinns No 7 Lauteri Street is the residential block of the Estonian Composers Union. And here, under one roof, lived for several decades many of the countrys musical eliteat least until the end of Soviet rule in 1991. Neeme Järvi used to live there, and Arvo Pärts first wife still does. Her neighbour, sharing a stark, functional landing of stone floor and iron stair balustrades, is one of Estonias most illustrious figures. Within national boundaries he is widely celebratedthough not in lifestyle a celebrityand in composer-terms he is an Estonian household name in such a way that only one composer can claim in Britain, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. Internationally, Arvo Pärt, an émigré since 1980, may be Estonias most famous living composer. But Veljo Tormisfive years his senior and his one-time teacheris the composer Estonia cherishes most on home turf. In November 2000 no fewer than fifty-five choirs marked his seventieth birthday in a concert in Tallinn; and within a period of two months around his August birthday a further twenty-three concerts were given in his honour across Estonia. 2000 was the year Tormis chose, perhaps unusually for a composer, to retire. He now describes himselfeven on his Tallinn apartments doorbellas Composer Emeritus, but he remains fully engaged with a lifelong evangelism for his countrys folk-song tradition. Alongside an almost mystic, shamanic status in Estonia, he is the passionate and practical torch-bearer for folk-singing revivalfrom kindergarten to pensioner homesand the integration of an ancient cultural inheritance into thoroughly modern, post-Soviet lives. We must stop treating our own song culture as a museum exhibit or as tourist exotica meant for a chosen few, he wrote in his 1972 manifesto Folk Song and Us. That pamphlet, apart from cleverly aligning personal artistic credo with a certain line-towing Soviet political correctness, was above all a love-letter to Estonias ancient runic songs, regilaul. This was the folk heritage Tormis had become interested in during the previous decadeduple-metered, single-voiced songs, with alliterative non-rhyming texts and the call-response pattern of soloist and chorus. Regilaul, Tormis wrote, is our peoples oldest, unique, most highly evolved and complete creation throughout the centuries, an expression of the peoples creative genius ancient folk song can be, and indeed is, independent artprimeval, original and complete. As such, it could serve as the basis for our contemporary national art, not merely as an ornamentation. As important as its aesthetic worth is its ethical value. For regilaul embodies the life values of working people which have evolved over thousands of years. Why should we now abandon this heritage to oblivion or scorn it as archaic? Tormiss father was a Lutheran music teacher and church organist, and from early on he was steeped in Estonias rich, essentially Germanic, song culture. Early twentieth-century folk revivalism was all part of this, stemming from Estonias National Awakening in the nineteenth century and the countrys first United Song Festival in 1869. Composers from the generation before him, such as Cyrillus Kreek and Mart Saar, created a new body of choral folk-song arrangements, more sentimental and rounded than regilauls rugged terrain. Much Estonian folk song collecting went on in the early decades of the twentieth century tooan important ethnographical exercise similar to that of Vaughan Williams, Grainger and Cecil Sharp in Britain, and Bartók and Kodály in Hungary and Romania. So Veljo Tormiss towering achievement has been, in the last four decades, to bring back to life this primeval heritagewhat he calls his musical mother-tonguewithin the broader context of his countrys proud and vibrant singing culture. With means as varied as entry-level school songbooks, articles, lectures and several hundred choral arrangements of great character and sophistication, Tormis approaches his ninth decade optimistic that ancient Estonian song will hold its own in the consciousness of younger generations otherwise bombarded by globally homogenized pop culture. Less than two decades on from gaining independence, Estonias capital is a tourist-friendly place of gentrified lanes, towers, turrets and themed taverns just the right side of tackya medieval fantasy made affordably real for plane-loads of beered-up, low-fare stag-weekenders. But for Veljo Tormis, Tallinn is something much more complex, a city of foreign occupation and influence, of imposed political regimes and cultural dictat. Born in the middle of Estonias twenty-two years of self-rule (191840), Tormis subsequently witnessed as a boy the to-and-fro of wartime annexation (Soviet 194041, German 194144) and then the enforced stability of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1944 to 1991. The central paradox, then, of a man whose lifes work has been almost entirely devoted to defining Estonian musical nationhood is that he is a Soviet artist, the product of a regime dedicated strictly to Russifying its satellite peoples. After teenage studies in organ, conducting and composition in Tallinn, it was the Moscow Conservatoire that gave Tormis his rigorous, formative training in the early 1950s. He was present at Prokofievs funeral in 1953. His teacher was Vissarion Shebalin, and fellow classmates included Rodion Shchedrin, Edison Denisov and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Shostakovich was Chairman of the Jury for his graduation portfolio in 1956. And there are KGB files on Tormis from 1960 to 1989. Tormis the Soviet, Tormis the folk nationalist: the two dont immediately sit well together. But just as Shostakovich famously walked the tightrope of official censure over many decades, Tormis cleverly managed the balancing act too. He learnt early on, in 1948 from his organ teacher Edgar Arro, that a certain kind of nationalism found favour in Moscow, that the right tunes used in the right ways actually fitted with the anti-formalist policies of Socialist Realism. In the same way, the extraordinary phenomenon of Estonian Song Festivalssaid to attract nearly a third of the entire population every five years to Tallinns stadium-like Song Festival Fieldwas enthusiastically adopted in Soviet times. This huge statement of sung nationalism, born in 1869 of German-Swiss origins and the driving force of independence in the late 1980s, became in Soviet Estonia a useful tool of massed cultural (and therefore political) communication. The cultural isolation of Soviet-era Eastern-bloc composers led inevitably to a skewed perspective of recent music history. Tormis recalls how the official textbooks stopped with Grieg, and how as a student in Moscow he obtained access to scores of Debussy and Stravinsky as if they were contraband from the decadent West. Later he flirted unenthusiastically with twelve-tone composition techniquethough it was Arvo Pärt who became the first Soviet composer to out himself as a serialist with Nekrolog in 1959. The turning-point of Tormiss musical discovery was a rare trip beyond Estonian borders to Hungary in 1962. There, he took the opportunity to buy dozens of scores by Bartók and Kodály, and to study the integration of folk material within their own individual musical voices. From this point, Tormis began to specialize more and more in folk-song-derived choral writing. His output to this point included sonatas, overtures, an epic cantata on the story of Kalevipoeg. From the mid-1960s onwards, apart from some film scores and music theatre works, the Tormis catalogue is almost exclusively music for choirs. Few composers have been so committed to one genre, medium or instrumentCorellis writing for violin and Chopins for piano are two such other cases. And Tormiss choral specialism marks him out from Bartók, Kodály, Vaughan Williams and Grainger, whose pioneering interest in folk song was ultimately less purist for their use of only the tunes in instrumental or orchestral works. For Tormis, the words and the music are inseparable. With the exception of the second Ernst Enno setting, which was one of the last pieces Tormis wrote before retirement, the works on this disc divide neatly into two: those written before the mid-sixties are original settings, and those written afterwards are arrangements of folk material. The two settings of Ernst Enno (18751934) effectively bookend Tormiss career. The first was composed when he was only eighteen and is a simple, lilting 6/8 pastoral dedicated to his girlfriend of the time. The second was written in 1998, and is dedicated to his wife of all the intervening decades, Lea. Constructed, superficially, from the same simple materialsthe 6/8 metre, the parallel thirds and triadic harmonythis is a work of infinitely greater scope and sophistication. Free of folk song, but imbued with all its influence, this near-final act of pure creation links back to the start with craftsmanship and control. The first of the three Kalevipoeg songs, O, my gentle tender mother, was written in 1954 as a tribute to Tormiss mother. She had died the year before while he was away studying in Moscow, so his choice of text and musical response to the disturbing, bitter twist near the enda suitably anguished climaxis poignant. The other two settings of texts from Kreutzwalds nineteenth-century national legend, Kalevipoeg (Kalevs Son), were written in 1960. In Daughters of the Meadow Matron, with its rustic calls and charming alto patter, we hear Tormis properly finding his folk-art voice for the first time. With only limited harmonic and melodic range, he creates real character through texture and refined textual essence instead. This is the case, too, with The wave rolls, where a satisfying, dramatic architecture is built on the simple foundation of repeated bass patterns. Autumn landscapes, seven settings of poems by Viivi Luik (born 1946), is the last freely composed work on this disc before Tormiss full folk song conversion. Written two years after his visit to Hungary, there is an indebtedness to Kodály, a wider harmonic and textural palette, and greater confidence with colouristic effects such as glissandi, parlando and feather-light staccato. In 19667 Tormis fully found his way into a distinctive folk-song style with the five-part, twenty-nine-song Calendar Songs cycle. His next large project began with a musical-anthropological visit to north-western Latvia with some students from Tartu University. This expedition, as Tormis calls it, triggered a fascination with tiny, ever-declining populations of kindred Finno-Ugric peoples. The 1969 visit to Livonia was followed the following year by visits to Votia and Izhoria, regions mostly in modern-day Russia near the Estonian border. Eventually, a complete cycle of fifty-one songs Unustatud rahvad (Forgotten peoples), compiled between 1970 and 1989, comprised Livonian heritage, Votic wedding songs, Izhorian epic, Ingrian evenings, Vepsian paths and Karelian destiny. As a vast project of ethnographic, musicological preservation it was noble enough, but the raw material also forged some of Tormiss most imaginative writing. Livonian heritages opening song, Waking the birds, is a five-minute drama of drone-based incantation and atmosphere. The other songs contain much vivid nature depiction, and evocations of something primevally connected to the land. The looping repetitions of the fourth Livonian song, Wee winkie mouse, are heard again in the Ingrian song Singing aboard ship (1983). Here the verses keep on coming from alto soloist and chorus, as they describe the exodus of young men conscripted to fight, while their sweethearts stay behind weeping on the shore. Again, in the Three Estonian game songs (1972), Tormis takes three regilaul melodies of limited melodic range and weaves something mesmeric out of their repetitive, haunting spirit. The 5/8 ostinato of bass paired thirds is a masterly touch in The grindstone gameits nagging, mechanical quality finally overwhelming the dogged tune. Masterly too is the sonorous spacing of Tormiss characteristically parallel chords in The finger-binding game. And with such simple meansthe shifting oscillation of adjacent triadsThe ship game is given a dreamy, swaying character and rich harmonic scope. In complete contrast to the compact, largely unembellished four-part settings of Four Estonian lullabies (1989), Childhood memory (Herding calls) is an expansive, dramatic treatment of Tormiss chosen material. On small ancient Estonian farmsteads, he writes, it was customary to have children herd the cattle. They called out to neighbours children and so kept in touch on woody pastures. Everybody had his or her token melodies which varied according to the time of day, weather and mood. This is Tormiss most honest, even sentimental tribute to a rustic childhoodin memory of his sister, and based on herding motifs by the singer Aino Tamm and composer Miina Härma. Tormis has said that he is more a mediator than a creatorthat it is not I who makes use of folk music, but folk music that makes use of me. It is surely this appealing humility that has enabled the arranger-composers interventions to be judged so wellallowing the musical personality of one not to smother those of nameless millions that came before him and which, through these melodies, still live on. Meurig Bowen © 2008 |


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02 December 2011 , 10:14 AM by Jessica Hinchliffe
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Tom, we have a problem with orange footed scrub fowls, we think a bit like a small scrub turkey. They come through the garden and throw mulch and small plants everywhere. Is there a simple fix besides a shotgun? Pauline and Tony Bucasia.
Posted by: Pauline Southwood | 03 December 2011 at 12:58 PM
Hi Just wondering if Tom has had his 2nd book published now and if he has, where do I get it? I have his first book Äll Your Gardening Questions Answered", which is a great handy reference. Thanks Deidre Jounquay, Taroom
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Hi Tom,
I have a big healthy Pumpkin Vine - however all of the flowers are male. Is there a reason for this, and is there anything I can do to promote female flowers?
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Posted by: Silvia Rogers | 07 December 2011 at 07:32 AM
I have an olive tree in a pot that is six years old. It gets hard love and fruited from year 2 to 4 prolifically but has not even flowered the last two years....Whats up Tom?
Posted by: Nadine Hill | 11 December 2011 at 08:47 PM
Hi Tom, How can I tell a giant grass from bamboo. This one grows from a large type tube just under the ground, it would be about two and a half to three inches through it. Grows probably 20 feet high and is from half inch to one inch thick. the stems are hollow. Gets a flower head something like pampas grass/sugar cane.
Posted by: Noelene Pedersen | 12 December 2011 at 01:45 PM
Hi Tom
I have a 3 metre high manderine tree which has developed a problem around September this year. One side has lost all its leaves with while the other side looks healthy with new fruit appearing. In the middle the leaves are slightly yellow. This tree is in my sewerage waste water area and had fairly wet feet during winter. I also mulched around the tree earlier this year with sugar cane mulch but kept the mulch about 10 cm away from the trunk.
What can I do to save the tree?
Posted by: Gary Holmes | 13 December 2011 at 11:09 AM
Missed the show this morning. Was going to ask about Melaleuca leaves and what they might do to the soil they accumulate on. Do they cause any problems/deficiencies? I always thought that all mulch is good mulch. What should I apply to the leaves to make them good to have?
Posted by: Mike Saunders | 16 December 2011 at 02:00 PM
We have a lovely bushy passionfruit vine and only 1 big passionfruit, lots of buds but not developing flowers, what is our problem?
Posted by: Shirley Scofield | 22 December 2011 at 02:56 PM
Hi Tom , I have a friend who has asked a question. Her pumpkins are splitting from stem to the bottom, right through, like a cut to the centre. Could it be the hot weather, we have been having temps around 35 to 40 degrees.
Not a lot of rain yet, a few mls here and there, and she said they haven't watered them a lot. Be great if you could help.
thanks Noelene
Posted by: Noelene Pedersen | 05 January 2012 at 08:06 PM
Hi Tom. We are wondering why our frangipannis are not flowering much this season. The evergreen Singapore is magnificent as they all seem to be this year around Rocky. but our coloured and plain white plants have only had a few flowers.
Posted by: John Tuxworth | 08 January 2012 at 10:02 AM
Hi Tom.When you get around to it can you tell me how to get rid of a vine called bleeding heart. I have used blackberry killer and it knocks it off in the local area but shoots again about half a meter away just as strong. Hope your new year goes well.
Kind regards Ron
Posted by: Ron Schey | 12 January 2012 at 02:51 PM
Gday Tom,re email: I have an old bathtub that I have filled with potting mix and planted asparagus in. I now find that it is filled with white curl crub. I tried dousing the tub in buckets of soapy water but this only resulted in a few crubs. I dont want to poison my food. I surely don't want to transplant these plants as they are only about 2 yrs old and still only the thickness of a pencil line. What else can I try? Please help.
Asparagus addict.
sapphire,central qld.
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Brown Sugar Oatmeal Pancakes Recipe
My family absolutely loves these pancakes. I make them every Saturday and Sunday. If I don't, they don't believe it's the weekend! My son's friends often spend the night, and I think it's because they like the pancakes so much. They are especially delicious served with molasses and syrup. —Sharon W. Bickett, Chester, South Carolina
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons quick-cooking oats
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 Eggland's Best Egg
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 cup buttermilk
- In a small bowl, combine the oats, flours, baking soda, salt and sugar. In another small bowl, beat the egg, oil and buttermilk. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.
- Pour batter by 1/3 cupful onto a greased hot griddle. Turn when bubbles form on top; cook until the second side is golden brown. Yield: about 10 pancakes.
Originally published as Brown Sugar Oatmeal Pancakes in Country
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Reviewed Nov. 8, 2013
My family loves this recipe, and these fill my kids up faster than traditional pancakes. My kids still insist on syrup, but they are sweet enough to have them plain. I like them with unsweetened applesauce!
Reviewed Nov. 2, 2013
Great! Just read the recipe and threw them together. Delicious. No syrup necessary.
Reviewed Aug. 13, 2013
Fantastic! I added 1/2 tsp each of cinnamon, vanilla, and baking powder. And used melted butter instead of oil. They taste like oatmeal cookies! I got 8 small pancakes out of it and my husband and I ate them all. No need for syrup!
Reviewed Aug. 10, 2013
This is my "go to" pancake recipe - Wednesday morning is "pancake day" at our house!
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The American Association of Community Colleges is sponsoring regional workshops on service learning to be hosted by four community colleges in fall and winter 2010-2011. The workshops will feature hands-on learning and strategies to implement academically based service learning programs on campuses and in communities, with a focus on the Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service.
Community college faculty, staff, administrators, students, and community partners are invited to attend the workshops.
These regional workshops are an annual feature of AACC's national project, Community Colleges Broadening Horizons through Service Learning, funded by the Learn and Serve America program of the Corporation for National and Community Service.


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Let´s hope so..."Old Senile Joe" is just what the Democrats need... a 70 (+) year old white guy as their standard-bearer with early signs of dementia...
Oh Lord help us!
In 2008 he quit with only a couple of hundred votes in the primaries. We can only pray that it is him and not the Hildabeast.
A little late to be "early."
Setting it up for a Moooooochelle run in 2016.... Just sayin´
Joe Biden is so dumb...The jokes just write themselves...
#5, I believe you nailed it. Hildebeast and Slow Joe will get steamrolled by the media and the crown will go to Mooch. So Great Leader will indeed get a 3rd and probably 4th term. And how old will his kids be by then...
I thought running old guys was the sole propriety property of the GOP.
Intellectually challenged Ole Joe is the perfect match for the intellect of the American electorate. Biden would be a shoe-in to win the presidency in 2016. Joe, just keep promising the folks more "free stuff".
The official announcement is scheduled for later this year from the main dining room of Coal Miner Joe´s favorite eating establishment, Katie´s Restaurant in downtown Wilmington, Delaware.
There would have to be far greater vote fraud then in this last election for that to happens.In Florida Allan West lost because of massive vote fraud.
Even Slow Joe ain´t dumb enough to lay down in front of the HILLARY 2016 bus!!!
God, I hope so...
Someone will have to tell Plugs when it´s 2016. I doubt if he´ll know it otherwise.
Aunt Esther will be the next president in 2016. However, that biker chick will probably vote for him.....
Don´t you believe the Dems are going to be looking for the next Obama if the present Obama agrees to get off the the national stage? Big if, however there is no way the young uninformed American Idol voter is going to vote for Biden or Hillary, these two old has beens. The next Dem candidate has got to be hip and cool like Mr. O. otherwise, they all stay home on election day and maybe we get our country back!
He´s got the "stupid" vote locked up. That must be good for 40-45%.
There was a time that I didn´t think the electorate was stupid enough to elect the likes of Crazy Old Joe. Not anymore.
Unless he had a brain transplant to go with the hairplugs and botox, this doddering alcoholic fool wouldn´t get any votes from people who weren´t far left or Obamaphone recipients. The media would exhaust themselves trying to cover up all his gaffes.
Seriously? Well, this could be the start of something new. First is a black muslim, birthed from nowhere and the next is a simple white guy who believes he is a ladies man We are family... "our goals are in sight"Thanks, I´ll pass
somehow I don´t think that the Dem powers that be. will actually let that happen..they do not want to be perceived as a total laughing stock..on the other hand..he can be controlled.


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Matt Schaub's day started with a sack for a safety and ended with him getting X-rays on his aching left shoulder. In between, an illegal hit from linebacker Joe Mays sent both his helmet and a piece of his ear flying.
Despite the blood, bruises and bumps, Schaub said he felt pretty darn good.
He drew a bombardment of praise for his toughness from his teammates, his coaches and even his opponents after withstanding a constant barrage of pass-rushers to lead the Houston Texans past the Denver Broncos and Peyton Manning 31-25 on Sunday.
"It's the ultimate compliment when your teammates feel that way about you," Schaub said. "It's just me being the quarterback. I've got to be out there every play and you're going to get hit in this league and you've got to take it and go."
Actually, Schaub had to miss one play after Mays' brutal third-quarter hit.
He had a towel to his left ear to staunch the bleeding while backup T.J. Yates took one snap and handed the ball off.
"I felt fine. I just lost a piece of my ear," Schaub said. "I was bleeding and my helmet came off so I had to come out for a play, but I was fine."
That toughness inspired his teammates.
"It was awesome to see him do that, come back in after taking a big hit, and keep fighting," teammate J.J. Watt said.
"It shows his character and the type of leader he is, the type of guy that is reliable, that you can count on," guard Wade Smith said. "He made a hell of a lot of plays today. He played a great game and was a big reason why we won."
Mays explained to Schaub after the game that he didn't mean any harm and didn't purposefully hit him with the crown of his helmet.
"After the game we shook hands and talked about it. No hard feelings. It's football. It's a physical, violent game," Schaub said. "He said, `Hey, nothing intentional, nothing personal.' We move on."
Texans coach Gary Kubiak said Schaub didn't even want to come out for that one play.
"His ear was bleeding real bad on the field, to be honest with you," Kubiak said. "That was the biggest reason he even came off the field. But he's fine. Boy, he played like a champ today."
Schaub, who threw for 290 yards, said he had his left shoulder looked at after the game as a precaution but it checked out fine.
Off to a 3-0 start for the first time in their history, the Texans built a 31-11 lead heading into the fourth quarter on the strength of Schaub's four touchdown throws before Manning made it interesting.
Schaub helped seal the win when he hit Andre Johnson for 12 yards on third-and-5 from his 25-yard line with perennial Pro Bowl cornerback Champ Bailey in coverage.
"I was going to go to my guy and `Dre ran a great route against a very good corner and we were able to get it in there and get a first down and use more of the clock," Schaub said.
"I was right there," Bailey lamented. "It was just two good players making a play. His quarterback put it right where I couldn't get it. Once I started following him around, he didn't have a catch. In crunch time, he made it happen. Got to give him credit for that."
The Texans punted away with 20 seconds left, not enough time for Manning, who fell to 1-2 in Denver after getting harassed all day by Watt, who collected 2 1/2 sacks and four tackles for loss.
"He's a great quarterback and you want to put as much pressure on him as you can," Watt said. "You want to put as many guys in his face as you can. He still made a lot of great throws. They're going to have a heck of a year. He's a great quarterback, but we had a good day defensively."
And Schaub had a great day offensively.
Schaub mixed quick scoring strikes of 60 yards to Johnson and 52 to Kevin Walter on play-action that fooled the Broncos' safeties with a methodical 97-yard touchdown drive in the first half that ended with a 3-yard TD toss to running back Arian Foster.
The Broncos jumped out to a 5-0 start on Elvis Dumervil's sack/safety and Matt Prater's 32-yard field goal before Johnson sped past cornerback Tracy Porter at the line of scrimmage and hauled in Schaub's perfectly thrown pass to put the Texans ahead for good with 6:28 left in the first quarter.
"We gave them points early," Schaub said. "We got backed up and we had a play pass there and I just held it a split-second too long. They have good pass rushers and you hate to start the game that way. And then obviously, you're giving them a short field on the kick afterward.


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Nah, **** him.
Nah, **** him.
WWCC - Loyaulte Mi Lie
"People make me happy.. not places.. people"
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." - Samuel Johnson
"Oh my God, there's a castle! A castle!"
WAC. Happy Birthday mate.
Proudly supporting Central Districts
RIP Craig Walsh
Genuine ****.
North Smashing Richmond will be even sweeter when it makes you cry on your birthday weekend.
Parmi | #1 draft pick | Jake King is **** | PM me for my list of CW posters you shouldn't talk cricket with in Cricket ChatCome and Paint Turtle
that we waited 21 hours says it all imo
nice of virat to ton up though
Indians can't bowl - Where has the rumour come from as I myself and many indian friends arwe competent fast bowlers ?
With the English bid I said: Let us be brief. If you give back the Falkland Islands, which belong to us, you will get my vote. They then became sad and left
OP said it best
#7Thompson #SWA
RIP Craigos. A true CW legend. You will be missed.
And smalishah's avatar is the most classy one by far Jan certainly echoes the sentiments of CW
Yeah we don't crap in the first world; most of us would actually have no idea what that was emanating from Ajmal's backside. Why isn't it roses and rainbows like what happens here? PEWS's retort to Ganeshran on Daemon's picture depicting Ajmal's excreta
Good bloke, all things considered. HB.
- As featured in The Independent.
"Even when England lost 5-0 in 2006-07 I don't remember them folding like this. This is as bad as I have seen from an England side."
- Mick Vaughan on the 2013/14 tourists' efforts
hb mate
"The future light cone of the next Indian fast bowler is exactly the same as the past light cone of the previous one"
-My beliefs summarized in words much more eloquent than I could come up with
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Round 1 - Referee Josh Rosenthal in the cage for the evening's first fight. Pierce takes the center early as Alves circles left. Pierce rushes in with a shot and grabs a high single. Alves balances well against the fence and drops to a knee when Pierce tries for a double. Pierce pushing in with a few knees and footstomps before finally elevating and slamming Alves down. Alves calm underneath, and he secures guard. Alves holds the action tight as he scoots up against the cage. Pierce does create some separation and lands once nice heavy shot. Pierce advances to half-mount, and we're halfway in. Alves works to one knee and stands. Pierce stays glued to him and elevates from a high-crotch with another crowd-pleasing slam. Alves grabs guard again, but he's stuck. Alves works to his knees, but Pierce is relentless in his gameplan. Pierce throws a few short punches to the ribs and leg. Alves stands again, but Pierce is attached to him with a bodylock. More footstomps from Pierce. The smothering strategy draws a few boos in the closing seconds, but it wins Pierce the round on the MMAjunkie.com card, 10-9.
Round 2 - Alves bouncing early. He looks to strike, but before he can, Pierce is in again with a single. Alves tries to slip away, but he finds himself on the ground and back in guard. Pierce slides out to the side and lands a forearm as he pushes down. He grabs a front headlock, and as Alves tries to roll free, he secures half-mount. Pierce works in an elbow or two from the top, but he's far more concerned with maintaining the position than unleashing any strikes. Alves with his back to the cage, and he works to his butt. Alves with his back against the cage, and he pushes Pierce away briefly, but he can't work back to his feet. Alves working from a seated position, and Pierce will not allow a moment to breathe. One minute left. Boos come in again. Pierce stands up, but only momentarily. Little in the way of striking in this fight, but Pierce takes another round on the MMAjunkie.com card, 10-9.
Round 3 - Chants of "We want Shaq" between rounds. Pierce smothering Alves so far, but crowd wants action. Alves still light on his feet. He fires a high kick that's blocked. A few low kicks land. Leaping knee misses as Alves was trying too hard to land from a distance. Pierce capitalizes on the opportunity and works to the floor. Pierce into half-mount, and he tries to attack the arm. Crowd more interested in Clay Guida's entrance to the arena, and they start chanting his name. Alves escapes the straight armbar attempt and works back to guard. Pierce passes to half-mount again and tries to break the left arm of his opponent. Alves rolls calmly out of the hold, though Pierce maintains wrist control from half-mount. Pierce tries for the kimura one more time, but he switches back to the straight armbar again. A single tap comes from Alves, as well as a grimace. Mike Pierce def. Amilcar Alves via submission (cross-body armbar) - Round 3, 3:11.
Round 1 - Referee Yves Lavigne steps into the cage for the evening's second preliminary bout. Soto pushes forward early with jabs. Osipczak lands a low kick that spins opponent around. Osipczak with a jab, then a straight. Soto catches a kick and holds it until he can shove Osipczak to the floor. Osipczak pulls guard and works his legs actively. He threatens with a triangle choke and lands a few elbows. Soto stands and dives in with a big punch that scores. Osipczak in guard, and he lands a few short elbows underneath. Two minutes in. Soto stands and just misses a big punch as he pushes back in. Osipczak uses the moment to scramble up and back to his feet. Osipczak pushes Soto up against the cage. Knees traded inside. Osipczak just misses a leaping knee. Downward elbows by both fighters. Soto bleeding from the corner of his left eye. Soto pushes in to avoid the rangy strikes of Osipczak. Osipczak keeps him at bay and remains upright. Nice overhand right scores for Osipczak. Soto again clinches. Soto lands a nice right in the closing seconds, but with the damage and slightly more effective striking on the feet, Osipczak takes the round, 10-9, on the MMAjunkie.com card. Soto had a takedown, but he did little from the top.
Round 2 - Doctor takes a long look at Soto's cut between rounds. It appears fine, but the physician hesitates before allowing the fight to continue. Osipczak with an early jab. Soto shoots in, but to no avail. Osipczak grabs a headlock and scores a nice right hand. He pushes in to his kneeling opponent, but Soto scrambles around to the back and locks in a rear-naked choke attempt. It's on the chin, and Osipczak calmly spins to his back. The inevitable "U-S-A" chants erupt. Osipczak tries for a triangle choke but it slips off. Soto in half-mount, and he nearly gets all the way to mount, but Osipczak pushes him back. Nice action, and the crowd responded well to the transitions. Soto with a few sweeping punches from the top. Osipczak less active from his back than he was in the first. Osipczak does land a few elbows from underneath, but Soto responds with punches to the head and body. Soto tries to pass, but Osipczak defends, though the Brit gets tagged by a few elbows during the series. One minute left. Osipczak tries to scramble up. Soto alertly jumps the back, but he again can't capitalize. On the feet, and Soto looks the more fatigued man, and the eye is bleeding. Final series of strikes from both to end the frame. MMAjunkie.com sees it for Soto, 10-9.
Round 3 - Soto's cut is right above the eye, but it's not bleeding too bad, and round three will commence. Osipczak lands an early jab, but Soto powers into a takedown that drives Osipczak across the cage and onto his back. Soto stands from guard and nearly eats an upkick, but he counters with a diving punch and lands in side control. Soto hooks Osipczak's legs and blasts a few knees into the ribcage. Osipczak regains half-guard, and that quickly turns into full guard. Osipczak works up his long legs for the submission, but Soto feels it and pushes them to the side. Soto advances out to side control. Osipczak covering up on the bottom, but he's eating punches and elbows from the top. Nothing massive, but points are scoring. Knee returns for Soto. Those do hurt. Osipczak rolls and gives up the back. He rolls again to escape, and Soto leaps into an arm-triangle attempt. Osipczak signals that he's fine, but Soto keeps the hold while driving knees into the ribs from a knee-on-belly position. Soto transitions into mount and releases the choke in favor of punches. Osipczak rolls again to escape the damage, and Soto takes the back. A few powerful elbows to the head score. Great round for Soto. Good case for a 10-8, but MMAjunkie.com says Soto, 10-9 in the third and also awards him the fight, 29-28. Greg Soto def. Nick Osipczak via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28).
Round 1 - Referee Mario Yamasaki in charge of the evening's final dark match. Salter with an early crisp left. Southpaw lands with another straight left. Miller rushes in with a combination of his own. Miller works the body, and Salter just misses on the counter. Straights traded, and both guys look content to box for now. One minute in. Miller lands two punches, eats a counter and scores his own shot again. Good series. Salter holds the center and lands a left hook. Miller with a right to the body. Low kick for Miller, and Salter catches the strike and pushes in for the takedown. To minutes in. Miller with an open guard. He closes it up and works the legs very high up the back. Miller spins for the armbar, but Salter feels it and backs away. He pushes back in, and Miller tries to lock up a triangle choke, but the legs slip off. Miller puts his feet on the hips and kicks Salter away before leaping to his feet. Traded punches again, and Salter seems to be landing the better blows. Miller answers back with a straight. Miller shoots in, but Salter defends and pushes away. Salter with another takedown. Miller tries to latch in a guillotine as he falls, but Salter pulls out and takes side control. Might have secured the round in the closing seconds. MMAjunkie.com sees a close one for Salter, 10-9.
Round 2 - Miller works the jab early, but Salter there with the straight counter shots. A left catches Miller flush, and he wobbles briefly. He's not backing down though. Miller pushes forward with his jab and lands to the body. Salter countering with the left straight. Salter shoots in, but this time Miller does have the neck as he sprawls. The right arm is secure, and it's a tight anaconda choke as he grabs hold of his left arm. Miller spins on the move to torque it further, and Salter is done. Dan Miller def. John Salter via submission (anaconda choke) - Round 2, 1:53.
Round 1 - Referee Josh Rosenthal returns as we go live on Spike TV. Winner takes the center early. Lentz tries to shoot in on a single, but winner backs up to the cage and remains upright. Lentz finally does suck him off the cage, but Winner pops right back up. Lentz works to the back, but Winner spins into it. Winner lands a straight punch as Lentz remains attache dot the leg. Stalemate against the cage. Winner pulls away and fires off one punch before Lentz goes immediately back in. Winner again maintains his balance as Lentz spins around with a single-leg attempt. Winner sneaks in one knee strike as Lentz adjust his grip, but there's still no room. Crowd boos with 90 seconds left. Lentz continues to press in. Winner lands a few strikes from the Thai clinch, and Lentz pulls away. It's only momentarily, and he pushes right back against the cage. He ties up the legs and gets Winner to the floor, but the Brit pops back up. Lentz lands a straight, but Winner answers back with a nice left hand. Lentz sticks to him as the round ends. Little to differentiate the two, and MMAjunkie.com sees a 10-10 frame.
Round 2 - Winner tries to jab. Lentz rushes in again. Winner creates room, but Lentz just pushes in again. He's definitely not breaking from his strategy. It's probably smart, but it sure isn't exciting. One minute in. A few knees are traded inside. Winner spins off the cage, but he's quickly back against it. Lentz digs underneath and elevates Winner with a high crotch, but he can't get it to the floor. Winner pulls away. Two strikes are thrown before Lentz is re-attached to the left leg. He does suck Winner to the floor, but he's right back up before anything is done. Winner pushes down on the head and tries to step over Lentz, but he can't pull his leg free. Scramble, and Lentz winds up the back, but Winner returns to the feet. Restless crowd, and it's for good reason. Lentz ducks under Winner and elevates him behind the head. He drops Winner in a near spike, though the Brit turns his head so as not to take the damage. Round ends to boos, and there really wasn't much there to score. MMAjunkie.com gives a reluctant 10-9 to Lentz, though a 10-10 wouldn't be unrealistic.
Round 3 - Winner gets a little room to fire off kicks, but Lentz doesn't stay in that range for long. Lentz pushes back into the legs. Winner hits the floor for a moment but pops right back up. Winner tries to work free, though Lentz grips the back. Two minutes in, and Lentz does get Winner to the floor. As Winner works back to his feet, Lentz takes the back. Winner tries to escape, but he hits the floor, and Lentz is still on his back. Halfway in. Winner spins into his opponent, and Lentz takes half-mount. Winner spins again, and Lentz gets his hooks in on the back. Winner turns again, but Lentz winds up in mount. He throws a few really soft punches from the top. Winner rolls to his knees. Lentz throws a few elbows to the body. They're not damaging at all. Less than a minute, and the boos really coming down now. Winner tries to work to his feet and Lentz works in a choke. He holds it briefly after the bell, and MMAjunkie.com awards Lentz the round, 10-9, and the fight, 30-28 in one of the least eventful fights in recent memory. Nik Lentz def. Andre Winner via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 30-27).
Round 1 - Referee Herb Dean in the cage for the first time tonight. Ruediger booed mercilessly as he's introduced. The hometown Lauzon receives the biggest welcome of the night so far. Ruediger circles to his right early. Lauzon gets the best of an early striking exchange. Takedown for Lauzon, and he moves almost immediately to the back. Ruediger defends the choke well, but Lauzon still all over him. Ruediger tries to secures a left, but Lauzon works out and delivers a big punch from the top. Several elbows, score, and Lauzon goes to side control. Ruediger rolls, and Lauzon nails him with big punches from the back. Lauzon picks up Ruediger and slams him to the floor. Lauzon is a man possessed. Crowd is going insane. Lauzon slide out to the side on an armbar attempt, and it is deep. Ruediger is trapped, and he's forced to tap. Joe Lauzon def. Gabe Ruediger via submission (armbar) - Round 1, 2:01.
Round 1 - Referee Yves Lavigne in charge of the evening's first pay-per-view contest. Southpaw stance by both, and Diaz jabs and waves Davis in. Davis catches him, then comes up short. Diaz taunts, and Davis clips him. Diaz looks like he may be in trouble briefly as he's on the floor with Davis punching. Diaz pops up and taunts him again. Davis ducks under and works the body. Chants of "Diaz sucks" fill the building. Diaz staying busy, but Davis there to answer in the pocket. Davis' right eye bloodied, but he lands a nice left. Davis also bleeding on the right side of his head. Halfway in. Diaz scoring with the long arms, and a knee lands up the middle. Into a clinch, and Diaz pushes Davis against the fence. He squirms free and resets. Diaz looks more comfortable with the pace and range now, and he's scoring with straights. Clinch again, but they back away and trade. Looping shots by both, and it's pretty even on the feet now. One minute. Diaz scores with right hands from range. A high kick lands. Davis' blood really flowing now. Diaz lands the pawing 1-2, but Davis answers. Diaz starting to do his thing with the volume punching. Good first round, and MMAjunkie.com sees it for Diaz, 10-9, in a good round.
Round 2 - Long look at the cut from the doc, but Davis cleared to go. Diaz really comfortable now. He's using the length and scoring. Davis all heart and looking to answer. Diaz shoots in on a single-leg and pushes Davis to the fence. Davis actually scores with a knee, and they reset. Davis leaps with a left that scores. Diaz really staying active, and an uppercut scores. Davis trying to keep away with good head movement, but Diaz just peppering away. Right hand lands for Diaz as Davis stumbles off-balance. Diaz with a jab. Diaz's face marked up, too. Davis lands a stiff left and pushes in, but he pulls away quickly. Diaz really has the distance now. Diaz works the body a bit. Those trademarked Diaz shots landing. Stiff left for Diaz. Jab, too. Davis in the pocket, and he's game to trade, but the punches are adding up. Davis kicks the leg, and Diaz waves him in. Eye getting really bad for Davis, and this might be the last round he gets to work. Lavigne lets him fight it, though. Diaz into the clinch, and he tries to work a late trip. Davis remains standing and gets his own trip in a scramble, but MMAjunkie.com gives Diaz the round, 10-9.
Round 3 - Doctor says we're OK to go. Diaz takes the center. Three-punch combo for Diaz. Crowd cheering on Davis, but he's having trouble with the length. Diaz ducks under a Davis combo but moves away. Brief exchange, and Davis moves into the clinch. Davis defends against the cage as Diaz lands a few short lefts. They break away. Davis fires a crisp left. He's still pushing, but Diaz continues to get the best of the exchanges. Left hand for Diaz, though Davis answers in kind. Diaz rattling off combinations. Right hand scores, and Davis grabs his eye briefly. Lavigne didn't see anything, and we move on. Davis' right eye is badly swollen and bruised, though the bleeding has stopped. Diaz drags Davis to the ground and tries to attack from the top. Diaz shifts out, locks in a guillotine choke and rolls out to the side. Davis is trapped. Diaz squeezes, and Davis appears to be out. Lavigne checks the arm. A little response from Davis, but it looked more like a reflex than action. Lavigne lets it go a little longer before finally saving the napping Davis. Nate Diaz def. Marcus Davis via technical submission (guillotine choke) - Round 3, 4:02.
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