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Sounding Out! Podcast #47: Finding the Lost Sounds of Kaibah
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In the early 1960s Native American women had few opportunities and rights as citizens. During this politically charged era, a young Navajo woman, Kay Bennett, or "Kaibah", defied those restrictions by recording and releasing her own albums. Almost fifty years later, we present this conversation with Rachael Nez, a Navajo scholar and filmmaker, whose research explores "Songs from the Navajo Nation" through Kaibah's records. Kaibah self-published her own albums until she was signed by Canyon records, wrote and published her own books, and traveled the world performing Navajo music everywhere from the Middle East to Europe. Rachael looks at how Kaibah's music acts as a site for the circulation of Indigenous knowledge, oral history, and resistance.
In this podcast Marcella Ernest speaks with Rachael about the scarcity of materials relating to Kaibah's history. Although there is no archive of her work, and no coherent trace of her story in one site, she explains how we can piece together a story of Kaibah based on her albums and songs. This dialogue considers the ways in which Indigenous erasure can be recuperated through sound. The project of finding the lost sounds of Kaibah is a fascinating story of how sound can be used to reconstitute indigeneous identity. What social and cultural norms conspire to obfuscate a Navajo woman of such prestige and talent? Finding the lost sounds of Kaibah is a conversation about (re)searching to find a lost sound.
Marcella Ernest is a Native American (Ojibwe) interdisciplinary video artist and scholar. Her work combines electronic media with sound design with film and photography in a variety of formats; using multi-media installations incorporating large-scale projections and experimental film aesthetics. Currently living in California, Marcella is completing an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of New Mexico. Drawing upon a Critical Indigenous Studies framework to explore how "Indianness" and Indigenity are represented in studies of American and Indigenous visual and popular culture, her primary research is an engagement with contemporary Native art to understand how members of colonized groups use a re-mix of experimental video and sound design as a means for cultural and political expressions of resistance.
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This is Your Body on the Velvet Underground
"Everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band." Brian Eno's remark about the Velvet Underground's brilliant but commercially lackluster 1967 debut album was re-circulated widely last October, when fans and critics mourned the passing of Lou Reed, lead songwriter for the band, and a key cultural figure of the last fifty years, by any metric.
The remark has become trite through overuse, but not the sentiment it captures. A band that has, since even before before Andy Warhol's Factory, been linked to an aesthetic of menace, hysteria and psychosis didn't just "inspire" or "provoke" much of the music, art and sensibilities of the post-1960's. It extruded that era.
At Sounding Out!, we decided that in order to come to grips with Reed's work in general (and the Velvet Underground in particular) from a Sound Studies perspective we'd have to adopt that spirit of provocation. I asked two prominent writers in the field for articles about how this band changed — and continues to change — the experience and history of sound, in a short series Start A Band: Lou Reed and Sound Studies. I'm thrilled to present the first of our articles from returning author Jacob Smith from Northwestern University, a musician and accomplished author of several distinguished books on sound and media history. Stay tuned next week for a second installment from Tim Anderson from Old Dominion University, an award winning writer and co-chair of the Sound Studies SIG at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Lou Reed's recent death has inspired many critics to return to his groundbreaking work with the Velvet Underground (VU). Albums such as "The Velvet Underground and Nico" (1967), "White Light/White Heat" (1968) and "The Velvet Underground" (1969) have the reputation of influencing everyone from David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Roxy Music to the Sex Pistols, Talking Heads, REM and Nirvana. Many recent obituaries describe VU in literary terms, citing Reed's "lyrical honesty," "rock and roll poetry," and touting his songs as "serious writing" and even a kind of "Great American Novel." There is much to be missed by taking such a decidedly literary approach to sound recordings, and there is an alternative approach, thanks to the emergence of Sound Studies as a vibrant academic field. Can what Jonathan Sterne has called the "interdisciplinary ferment" of Sound Studies help us to re-think the work of this seminal rock band (The Sound Studies Reader, 2)? I think it can.
For a start, Sound Studies emboldens us to base our analysis on VU's records, which have often been oddly upstaged by other aspects of their career: Reed's street-level lyrics to be sure; but also the group's role as background music to Andy Warhol's Factory; or their use of drones and feedback, which makes them a footnote in the history of avant-garde music; or their influence on the glam and punk explosions of the 1970s. Sound Studies encourages us to start with VU's records, but the next step is not necessarily a formal musicological analysis.
For some of its proponents, including Steven Connor, Sound Studies is best understood as part of a broader investigation of the "fertility of the relations" between the senses, and VU's albums turn out to be an excellent place to begin an exploration of the multisensory experience of recorded sound ("Edison's Teeth: Touching Hearing," in Hearing Cultures, ed. Viet Erlmann, 54). This essay explores the tactile experience of VU's records, inspired by work on the tactile dimension of the cinema. I borrow the organizational structure of Jennifer M. Barker's book The Tactile Eye, which moves from a discussion of sensations at the surface of the body, to muscular responses, and lastly, to the "the murky recesses of the body, where heart, lungs, pulsing fluids, and firing synapses receive, respond to, and reenact the rhythms of cinema" (2-3). Think of this essay as a body-scan of the VU listening experience ("this is your body on VU") that follows a similar path from the skin, to the musculature, and finally, to the viscera.
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Writing about the tactile experience of movies is concerned with modes of looking that resemble touching, a "haptic visuality" that attends to textures and surfaces, and moves over the image like a caress (See Laura U. Marks The Skin of the Film, 183 and Touch, 117). A form of "haptic listening" has also been commonplace in the culture of popular sound recordings. Much of the recorded popular music of the past century has invested meaning in what Theodore Gracyk calls "very specific sound qualities and their textural combination" (Rhythm and Noise, 61). From Bo Diddley to Aphex Twin, pop recordings have tended to stress evocative timbres, idiosyncratic voices, and signature sounds over structural or lyrical complexity.
VU's records exemplify that tendency because their complexity can be found more on the level of timbre than in musical structure or instrumentation. Moreover, Reed's lyrics often encourage a blurring of listening and touching. On "Venus in Furs," listeners are prompted to hear John Cale's viola stabs as the licks and bites of a mistress's whip. "Sister Ray" cues haptic listening by chugging resolutely on a single chord for seventeen minutes, while a plasmatic organ performance mutates from elegant bass arpeggios to shimmering waves of icy noise. As with "Venus in Furs," Reed's lyrics tie the textural complexity of "Sister Ray" to the surface of the body, through his descriptions of searching the skin of his arm for a "mainline" vein, and a first-person account of receiving oral sex. These examples demonstrate that the poetry of Reed's lyrics is intimately bound up with the sonic texture of VU's recordings, and moreover, that he was adept at liberating the erotic potential of haptic listening.
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Films can produce an empathetic muscular response in the viewer's body, as when we flinch in response to a horror film, or clench our fists while watching a thrilling action movie (Barker, The Tactile Eye 94, 83, 72). Listeners can have similarly empathetic relationships with recorded sound when they move along with the rhythms of a dance record, synchronize their workout or commute to a carefully designed playlist, or embody a recorded performance by miming an air guitar or air drums.
The members of VU had distinctive styles of instrumental performance that made their records evoke powerful muscular responses in listeners. Consider the piano track on "Waiting For the Man," which loses any semblance of melodic content to become the sheer act of pounding on the keyboard by the end of the song. Reed is usually regarded as a lyricist, but he is just as influential as a muscular rhythm guitar player. "What Goes On" has a minimalist arrangement that eschews structural development to become a showcase for Reed's vigorous strumming. The second half of the track lacks vocals or a conventional solo instrument, and so feels like a diagram of the human body that reveals the pulsating musculature beneath the skin.
Reed's jangly rhythm guitar could dominate the mix of VU tracks like "What Goes On" because it occupies a sonic niche that, in a more typical rock arrangement, would be filled by the hi-hat or ride cymbal. In fact, it is Maureen Tucker's distinctive drumming that is the main source of muscle power on VU's records. Standing behind a spare kit consisting of little more than a snare and a bass drum turned on its side, Tucker attacked her instrument with relentless intensity, raising her mallet over her head with each bone-cracking snare hit. A review of a live appearance in 1968 observed that Tucker "beats the shit" out of her drums so that the sound "slams into your bowels and crawls out your asshole" (See Clinton Heylin, All Yesterdays' Parties, 64). Hear (and feel) for yourself, on the VU track "Foggy Notion," a seven-minute drum and guitar workout.
Tucker was a pioneer female instrumentalist in the male-dominated world of rock. "I didn't want to be the one to blow it," she said in an interview. "I wasn't gonna say, 'Well, they'll say she's a girl, she can't do it.' So I was determined, I wasn't gonna stop" (Albin Zak III, The Velvet Underground Companion, 1965). Ironically, her uncompromising and supremely physical performances were so minimal and precise that she was sometimes compared to a machine. A Verve Records press release from 1968 referred to the fact that Tucker had briefly held a job at IBM, and wrote that "her symphonic simplicity is like that of a human computer." One trajectory of VU's influence leads to the electronic austerity of bands like Kraftwerk, but an attention to the tactile dimension of the band's records prevents Tucker, one of rock's most muscular drummers, from disappearing into the circuitry.
The Body Lies Bare
A tactile analysis of VU records can go deeper still, to document their relation to the body's viscera. The experience of the inner body is usually hidden from us, and gains our attention only when organ systems produce an overall effect like nausea (Barker, The Tactile Eye, 125). We lack direct conscious control over most of our visceral responses, but we can stimulate them through the ingestion of drugs, which of course, is the topic of many of VU's most famous tracks. But where other rock bands of the 1960s associated the drug experience with whimsical flights of the imagination, VU's drug references are bluntly visceral.
"Heroin" is a sonic re-enactment of the physical effects of the eponymous drug, conveyed not only via Reed's lyrics, but in the backing track's fluctuations between dreamy bliss and frantic rush. "White Light/White Heat" fuses two sensory metaphors, one visual and one tactile, in order to point to an embodied experience beyond them both. Listen to how the track ends, with surging cymbals and a distorted bass figure whose spasmodic rhythm suggests the dilation of blood vessels, the firing of synapses, and the tightening and release of internal organs that have been kicked into amphetamine overdrive.
The mysterious visceral body can also emerge into our consciousness in moments when the internal rhythms of the heart or lungs are destabilized, as in a sudden heart palpitation or violent case of the hiccups (Barker, The Tactile Eye, 128-29). "Lady Godiva's Operation" provides a vivid demonstration. The first half of the track is run-of-the-mill hippy exotica, with John Cale's lead vocal given the conventional placement in the center of the stereo picture. This calm sonic surface is unsettled when Cale's voice is decentered, shifting first to the left and then the right speaker. The lead vocal fractures even further when Reed begins to finish each of Cale's lines:
Cale: 'Doctor is coming,' the nurse thinks…
Reed: … sweetly.
Cale: Turning on the machines that…
Reed: … neatly pump air.
Cale: The body lies bare.
By integrating these fragmented lines, we learn that a body is lying on an operating table. Listeners are encouraged to inhabit this body through the placement of voices around and above us, as well as the sounds of heartbeats and breathing that enter the mix but are jarringly out of rhythm with the existing backing track. Reed sings that the doctor is making his first incision into the body, and the backing track vanishes, leaving only the heartbeat, breathing, and an eerie whirring vocalization that sonifies some nameless physical process. The scene ends with a dark twist, suitable as a shock tactic from an exploitation film: the anesthetic has malfunctioned, and the patient has regained consciousness in the midst of the procedure.
The track's arrhythmic sound effects overwhelm the coherent flow of the standard musical mix, working in tandem with the lyric's account of the body made manifest in a moment of dysfunction. The fact that VU's "White Light/White Heat" LP contains "Lady Godiva's Operation," as well as the title track and "Sister Ray," makes it a tour de force of tactile phonography. Reed may have been a rock poet, but he and his collaborators were also acoustic engineers who were adept at sonifying tactile experience, producing music worth feeling with our whole bodies.
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Jacob Smith is Associate Professor in the Radio-Television-Film Department at Northwestern University. He has written several books on sound (Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media [2008], and Spoken Word: Postwar American Phonograph Cultures [2011], both from the University of California Press), and published articles on media history, sound, and performance.
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Revising the Future of Music Technology
This is the opening salvo in Sounding Out!'s April Forum on "Sound and Technology." Every Monday this month, you'll be hearing new insights on this age-old pairing from the likes of Sounding Out! veterano Primus Luta, along with new voices Andrew Salvati and Owen Marshall. These fast-forward folks will share their thinking about everything from Auto-tune to productivity algorithms. So, program your presets for Sounding Out! and enjoy today's exhilarating opening think piece from SO! Multimedia Editor Aaron Trammell. —JS, Editor-in-Chief
We drafted a manifesto.
Microsoft Research's New England Division, a collective of top researchers working in and around new media, hosted a one-day symposium on music technology. Organizers Nancy Baym and Jonathan Sterne invited top scholars from a plethora of interdisciplinary fields to discuss the value, affordances, problems, joys, curiosities, pasts, presents, and futures of Music Technology. It was a formal debrief of the weekend's Music Tech Fest, a celebration of innovative technology in music. Our hosts christened the day, "What's Music Tech For?" and told us to make bold, brave statements. A kaleidoscope of kinetic energy and ideas followed. And, at 6PM we crumpled into exhausted chatter over sangria, cocktails, and imported beer at a local tapas restaurant.
The day began with Annette Markham, our timekeeper, offering us some tips on how to best think through what a manifesto is. She went down the list: manifestos are primal, they terminate the past, create new worlds, trigger communities, define us, antagonize others, inspire being, provoke action, crave presence. In short, manifestos are a sort of intellectual world building. They provide a road map toward an imagined future, but in doing so they also work to produce this very future. Annette's list made manifestos seem to be a very focused thing, and perhaps they usually are. But, having now worked through the process of creating a manifesto with a collective, I would add one more point – manifestos are sloppy.
Our draft manifesto is a collective vision about what the blind-spots of music technology are, at present, and what we want the future of music technology to look like. And although there is general synergy around all of the points within it, that synergy is somewhat addled by the polyphonic nature of the contributors. There were a number of discussions over the course of the day that were squelched by the incommensurable perspectives of one or two of the participants. For instance, two scholars argued about whether or not technical platforms have politics. These moments of disagreement, however, only added a brilliant contour to our group jam. Like the distortion cooked into a Replacements single, it only serves to highlight how superb the moments of harmony and agreement are in contrast. This brilliant and ambivalent fuzziness speaks perfectly to the value of radical interdisciplinarity.
These disagreements were exactly the point. Why else would twenty academics from a variety of interdisciplinary fields have been invited to participate? Like a political summit, there were delegates from Biology, Anthropology, Computer Science, Musicology, Science and Technology Studies, and more. Rotating through the room, we did our introductions (see the complete list of participants at the bottom of this paper). Our interests were genuine and stated with earnestness. Nancy Baym declared emphatically that music is, "a productive site for radical interdisciplinarity," while Andrew Dubber, the director of Music Tech Fest, noted the centrality of culture to the dialogue. Both music and technology are culture, he argued. The precarity of musical occupations, the gender divide, and the relationship between algorithm and consumer, all had to take a central role in our conversation, an inspired Georgina Born demanded. Bryan Pardo, a computer scientist, announced that he was listening with an open mind for tips on how to best design the platforms of tomorrow. Though collegial, our introductory remarks were all political, loaded with our ambitions and biases.
The day was an amazing, free-form, brainstorm. An hour and a half long each, the sessions challenged us to answer a big question – first, what are the problems of music technology, then what are some actions and possibilities for its future. Every fifteen or twenty minutes an alarm would ring and tables would exchange members, the new member sharing ideas from the table they came from. At one point I came to a new table telling stories about how music had the power to sculpt social relations, and was immediately confronted with a dialogue about problems of integration in the STEM fields.
In short, the brainstorms were a hodgepodge of ideas. Some spoke about the centrality of music to many cultural practices. Noting the ways in which humans respond to their environments through music, they questioned if tonal schema were ultimately a rationalization of the world. Though music was theorized as a means of social control many questions remained about whether it could or should be operationalized as such. Others considered different conversations entirely. Jocking sustainability and transduction as key factors in an ideal interdisciplinarity and shunning models that either tried to put one discipline in service of another, or simply tried to stack and combine ideas.
Some of the most productive debates centered around the nature of "open" technology. Engineers were challenged on their claim that "open source technology" was an unproblematic good, by Cultural Studies scholars who argued that the barriers to access were still fraught by the invisible lines of race, class, and gender. If open source technology is to be the future of music technology, they argued, much work must still be done to foster a dialogue where many voices can take part in that space.
We also did our best to think up actionable solutions to these problems, but for many it was difficult to dream big when their means were small in comparison. One group wrote, "we demand money," on a whiteboard in capital letters and blue marker. Funding is a recurrent and difficult problem for many scholars in the United States and other, similar, locations, where funding for the arts is particularly scarce. On points like this, we all agreed.
We even considered what new spaces of interactivity should look like. Fostering spaces of interaction with public works of art, music, performance and more, could go a long way in convincing policy makers that these fields are, in fact, worthy of greater funding. Could a university be designed so as to prioritize this public mode of performance and interactivity? Would it have to abandon the cloistered office systems, which often prohibit the serendipitous occasion of interdisciplinary discussion around the arts?
There are still many problems with the dream of our manifesto. To start, although we shared many ideas, the vision of the manifesto is, if anything, disheveled and uneven. And though the radical interdisciplinarity we epitomized as a group led to a million excellent conversations, it is difficult, still, to get a sense of who "we" really are. If anything, our manifesto will be the embodiment of a collective that existed only for a moment and then disbursed, complete with jagged edges and inconsistencies. This gumbo of ideas, for me, is beautiful. Each and every voice included adds a little extra to the overall idea.
Ultimately, "What's Music Tech For?" really got me thinking. Although I remain skeptical about the United States seeing funding for the arts as a worthy endeavor anytime soon, I left the event with a number of provocative questions. Am I, as a scholar, too critical about the value of technology, and blind to the ways it does often function to provoke a social good? How can technological development be set apart from the demands of the market, and then used to kindle social progress? How is music itself a technology, and when is it used as a tool of social coercion? And finally, what should a radical mode of listening be? And how can future listeners be empowered to see themselves in new and exciting ways?
What do you think?
Our team, by order of introduction:
Mary Gray (Microsoft Research), Blake Durham (University of Oxford), Mack Hagood (Miami University), Nick Seaver (University of California – Irvine), Tarleton Gillespie (Cornell University), Trevor Pinch (Cornell University), Jeremy Morris (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Diedre Loughridge (University of California – Berkley), Georgina Born (Oxford University), Aaron Trammell (Rutgers University), Jessa Lingel (Microsoft Research), Victoria Simon (McGill University), Aram Sinnreich (Rutgers University), Andrew Dubber (Birmingham City University), Norbert Schnell (IRCAM – Centre Pompidou), Bryan Pardo (Northwestern University), Josh McDermitt (MIT), Jonathan Sterne (McGill University), Matt Stahl (Western University), Nancy Baym (Microsoft Research), Annette Markham (Aarhus University), and Michela Magas (Music Tech Fest Founder).
Read the Manifesto here and sign on if you dig it. . . http://www.musictechifesto.org/
Aaron Trammell is co-founder and Multimedia Editor of Sounding Out! He is also a Media Studies PhD candidate at Rutgers University. His dissertation explores the fanzines and politics of underground wargame communities in Cold War America. You can learn more about his work at aarontrammell.com.
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France secured their FIFA World Cup™ spot in dramatic fashion with a thrilling 1-1 draw with the Republic of Ireland at the Stade de France.
Giovanni Trapattoni's visitors, beaten 1-0 in Dublin last Saturday in the first leg of their play-off, had taken a shock lead in the 32nd minute through Robbie Keane and the Irish were unlucky not to score more before forcing the match to extra time. In the first additional 15-minute spell, France had an appeal for a penalty correctly turned down after striker Nicolas Anelka tumbled to the turf under pressure in the eighth minute.
Five minutes later, William Gallas bundled the ball home to win the match for Les Bleus after being set up by Thierry Henry, who later admitted that he had handled in the build-up. The goal enabled France to qualify and avoid a repeat of their humiliating failure, at the hands of Bulgaria, to qualify for the 1994 FIFA World Cup finals.
The Republic, especially captain Robbie Keane, had the lion's share of the chances in regulation time, and they will be kicking themselves having last qualified for the 2002 FIFA World Cup, where they reached the Round of 16.
A clearly relieved French coach Raymond Domenech said France had had to scrap to the end. "It was hard, laborious and indeed miraculous," he told French television. "I was sure we would make it though. My forecast was 1-1!"
It was hard, laborious and indeed miraculous. I was sure we would make it though.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy saluted a "gallant Irish" team before praising his countrymen. "It's fabulous - we're really glad to get through. Qualification is important as it's a major event," Sarkozy told TF1.
Domenech was forced to reshuffle after the first leg victory in Dublin last Saturday after injuries to midfielder Jeremy Toulalan and central defender Eric Abidal. After just nine minutes, Abidal's pre-match replacement, Julien Escude, came off injured to be replaced by Sebastian Squillaci.
The unexpected turn of events would set the tone for what was, for them, a frustrating first half from which a more enterprising Republic team emerged with a 1-0 lead. While France looked dangerous in the opening stages, they went on to look exceedingly mediocre up against an astute Irish defence given plenty of protection by the assured Shay Given.
Damien Duff and Liam Lawrence had already shown their ability to carve openings in the French defence and it was Duff's cutback from deep on the left side of the French area that found Keane, who side-footed the ball first time to beat Hugo Lloris in the France goal. In the 39th minute, France striker Nicolas Anelka turned his marker nicely on the edge of the area but his shot was deflected by an Irish body and went for a corner.
A subdued Stade de France welcomed a more hopeful French team for the second half, but Ireland quickly stated their intent as Keane won a free kick on the left flank and Lawrence's kick found John O'Shea unmarked at the back post. However, after controlling the ball the Manchester United defender's shot was struck over the crossbar from four yards out.
France began exploiting Irish weaknesses on the right flank and a Henry free-kick was well turned away by Lawrence and eventually gathered by Given after Gourcuff had driven the ball back in. Just after the hour-mark, the Irish were given another golden opportunity, Duff racing through only for Lloris to block his effort.
Keane, one of the survivors of the 2002 tournament, was left frustrated after he missed a golden chance to put the Republic 2-0 up when he put the ball wide from a tight angle with only Lloris to beat. After struggling all night to overcome a packed Irish defence, France's late stroke of luck finally proved the visitors' downfall.


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Pottsgrove Falcons Youth Lacrosse is now Coventry Lacrosse. On Monday, November 18th 2013 the Boards of both PFYL and Coventry Lacrosse approved a merger of the two clubs. The new version of Coventry Lacrosse will participate in the Chester County Youth Lacrosse Association.
We want to thank all of those who have participated and volunteered in our program over the last decade. We truly believe the combined club offers the best opportunity for existing and future players who live in the Pottsgrove and Pottstown School Districts. We encourage our current players to continue to play as part of the new version of Coventry Lacrosse, and get your friends and neighbors to join the growth of the game.
I personally want to thank all the families who allowed me to work with their sons to teach them the game I love so much. I look forward to seeing everyone as part of Coventry Lacrosse.
Teams and instruction will be offered for the following boys age groups: U7, U9, U11, U13, U15,a nd U18, there is also a girls program. You can visit us at www.coventrylax.com
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Lundin Mining Corp. (TSX: T.LUN, Stock Forum) on Wednesday reported net earnings of $50.1 million or 9 cents a share in the first quarter ended March 31, 2013. That was down from $58.3 million or 10 cents in the same period last year, the company said in a press release.
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Chef Daniel Stern, of R2L, has long been a champion of sourcing local. His sorely missed restaurant, MidAtlantic, was a Philly Homegrown favorite for its celebration of the foods and food traditions from the region.
In honor of his commitment to local foods, Chef Stern will join forces with good folks at Greener Partners to host a Farm to Table Fundraiser on Thursday, May 3rd at the Longview Center for Agriculture in Collegeville.
Greener Partners works tirelessly to build community through sustainable farming and farm-based education. Through their First Generation Farmer Program they are training the next generation of farmers to cultivate a better food system. A cause worthy of support, no doubt.
The menu for this decidedly delicious event will begin with a selection of appetizers like Fresh Ricotta with Beets and Honey, Chicken and Rye Crostini and Mushroom Rilletes with Kale and Garlic served while guests are able to mingle and enjoy the lush setting of the Longview Center.
The complete dinner menu includes:
First Course: Leek, Bean and Crusty Bread Gazpacho
Second Course: Pulled Chicken Salad, Radishes, Dandelion and Local Greens; Butter and Sea Salt Dressing
Main Course: Roast Prime Rib of Beef and Short Ribs with all the trimmings: Lima Bean Polenta and Gravy, Roasted Potatoes and Leeks, Gratin of Greens
Dessert: Rhubarb Tart, Whipped Cream, Berry Preserves and St. Germain Sabayon
The cost to attend is $200 per person, or $1,100 per table of six. All proceeds will benefit Greener partners and its educational programming. To secure your space, visit www.greenerpartners.org/F2T.
Farm-to-Table Fundraiser with Chef Daniel Stern
When: Thursday, May 3rd; Cocktails at 6:30PM, Dinner at 7:30PM
Where: Longview Center for Agriculture, 3215 Stump Hall Road Collegeville, PA
Cost: $200/person; $1,100/table of 6
More Information: www.greenerpartners.org/F2T
Uwishunu has caught a case of Oscar Fever. With all the buzz around Silver Linings Playbook and its eight oscar nominations this Sunday, we couldn't help but get caught up in it all. We've rounded up our top picks for Oscar Viewing parties on Sunday; we've put together a Silver Linings-themed itinerary of Philadelphia; and […]
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There's a chill in the air, which means that the holidays are upon us. That, in turn, means that it's time to start thinking about decorating and gifting. If you're looking to go green — literally and figuratively — this holiday season, check out the annual Holiday Bazaar at Greensgrow Farms. The event runs two […]
If fashion design is up your alley, you won't want to miss this "tailor-made" event. Norman Porter, a local denim, canvas and leather company, will be demonstrating how to construct denim jeans at Art in the Age on Friday, November 2, from 6 to 8 p.m. Learn the fascinating process of denim and leather crafting […]


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The construction of welfare states during the postwar era relied upon many assumptions about gender differences. Originally placing men as breadwinners and women as caregivers, these states have attempted to rebalance gender roles in their programs over the decades. In Gender Equality in the Welfare State? Gillian Pascall questions how successful they have been. Analyzing the male breadwinner model as it operates in the central areas of care, work, time, income, and power, she provides a framework for understanding the policies and practices that have worked toward gender equality. Contextualizing national policies and debates within data and analysis, she offers a new and important approach to an issue of wide concern.
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2. Understanding gender in welfare states
3. Gendered power
4. Gendered employment
5. Gendered care
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7. Gendered time
8. Conclusion
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New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez dropped his lawsuit against Major League Baseball, commissioner Bud Selig and the MLB players' union on Friday.
Jim Baumbach and Steven Marcus of Newsday provided the details.
#AROD BREAKING: Rodriguez dropping suits, accepting his suspension, lawyer Tacopina confirmed in e-mail.—
steven marcus (@newsdaymarcus) February 07, 2014
Today was deadline for A-Rod's side to respond to MLB/MLBPA wanting case tossed. Instead, they've voluntarily dismissed case. Hmm.—
Jim Baumbach (@jimbaumbach) February 07, 2014
A-Rod originally filed the lawsuit to have his 162-game suspension from the MLB for violating the league's drug agreement and labor contract rescinded. He has, at least for right now, decided to serve the suspension. Rodriguez's attorney confirmed that his client will not attend Yankees' spring training later this month, per YES Network.
The league released a statement shortly after the lawsuits were dismissed.
The players' union commended Rodriguez for his decision.
MLBPA: "Alex Rodriguez has done the right thing by withdrawing his lawsuit. His decision to move forward is in everyone's best interest."—
Mark Feinsand (@FeinsandNYDN) February 07, 2014
Rodriguez was originally suspended 211 games by the commissioner in August, but it was decreased to 162 by an arbitrator in January.
The veteran third baseman will not play in 2014, but he has not given any indication that his professional career is over.
Rodriguez's contract with the Yankees doesn't expire until after the 2017 season. He's owed a total of $61 million over the final three years of the deal.
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California is not adequately meeting the health care needs of children living in the state, according to a report by Children Now, the Contra Costa Times reports (Harrington, Contra Costa Times, 1/7).
The report examined indicators for children's health, education and welfare in California.
It ranked children's well-being by grades of A through F. For each of the 27 categories, the report offered a:
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The state scored highest -- a B+ -- for children's health coverage because of the increased availability of public health insurance programs, according to the Times. However, the report notes that 78% of the state's 738,000 children who are eligible for such programs are not enrolled in coverage.
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The report recommends that California streamline eligibility and enrollment systems to make it easier for children in the state to obtain and maintain health coverage.
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Ted Lempert, president of Children Now and a former state Assembly member, said, "The declining status of kids in California is the biggest threat to the health and economy of our state" ("Capitol Alert," Sacramento Bee, 1/7).
Jonathan Kaplan, a senior policy analyst for California Budget Project, said, "California is spending less dollars than other states per student ... [y]et it has more resources than the rest of the U.S., and its students present greater challenges than those in the rest of the U.S.," adding, "[W]e're not rising to the challenge that our population presents."
During an interview in 2013, California Superintendent Tom Torlakson said that making improvements in all of the categories in the report -- including by helping one million students gain coverage through Covered California -- are high priorities for the state in 2014 (Contra Costa Times, 1/7).


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The proposed change asked for by Bell would also put a cap on the small providers who buy up bandwidth from the major providers like Bell and they in turn offer contracts to heavy users. Von Finckenstein said these small providers service only about 550,000 subscribers or 6 per cent of the 9 million subscribers across the country. Von Finckenstein said most Internet users fall well within the caps currently set by the large distributors and would not be charged more unless their monthly usage increased dramatically.
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The £2.5 million theatre in north London, named after 'Top Girls' playwright Caryl Churchill, has been built alongside the Grade II-listed Sutherland House as an extension to the university's drama department.
Replacing the 30-year-old 'black box' studio theatre, the new 1,171m² venue can seat an audience 122 in a flexible fold-out rake with a further 56 seats in the first floor gallery. A second floor gallery contains the control room and is used for technical operation.
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Astana Pro Team's Paolo Tiralongo celebrates on the podium after winning the 205-km seventh stage of the Giro d'Italia from Recanati to Rocca di Cambio, May 12, 2012. (REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo)
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ROCCA DI CAMBIO, Italy, May 12 – A last-minute lunge for the line at the Rocca di Cambio summit finish earned Italian climber Paolo Tiralongo a narrow victory over compatriot Michele Scarponi on the seventh stage of the Giro d'Italia.
Luxembourg's Frank Schleck was third and Ryder Hesjedal, finishing fifth, became the first Canadian to wear the overall leader's pink jersey after overnight leader Adriano Malori of Italy was dropped with 15 kilometres to go.
Tiralongo is second overall, 15 seconds back and Spain's Joaquim Rodriguez third.
Astana rider Tiralongo shot past 2011 Giro winner Scarponi to claim the win as a 50-strong front group of favourites shattered on the shallow but relentlessly rising 19-km climb.
"I shadowed Michele for as long as I dared before making my move," Tiralongo, winner at the Macugnaga summit finish in last year's Giro, told reporters.
"With about 50 metres to go I told myself it was now or never."
The 34-year-old was so exhausted after his last-ditch effort that he lay prostrate on the ground for almost half a minute before race officials helped him to his feet.
"I had to go in very deep but a Giro stage is always worth it," Tiralongo added.
Former mountain bike rider Hesjedal overcame his disappointment in missing out on the race lead on Friday to add to the Garmin-Barracuda squad's spectacular start to the Giro, despite losing sprinter Tyler Farrar through a crash.
"I was only 17 seconds away from getting the lead yesterday and it was very frustrating, I was upset," Hesjedal, a former team mate of seven times Tour winner Lance Armstrong, said. "But today it worked out well."
"The team told me to stay confident and were behind me 100 percent, and (team mate) Christian Vande Velde put me in perfect position for the final part of the climb."
After winning the team time trial and leading the race for two days through Lithuanian Ramunas Navardauskas, the squad have regained the overall classification, are top of the team competition and lead the young riders category with American Peter Stetina.
"The team's been incredible and I hope to try to live off that momentum as long as possible," said Hesjedal whose previous big success was a stage in the 2009 Vuelta a Espana.
"I have no idea how long I'll lead the race. Yesterday we thought we would get it and it was a big opportunity wasted. Today we did get it, so I'm going to take it day by day.
"But I am usually strongest in the third week of Grand Tours, and that's when you can lose or gain a lot," he added.
Sunday's 229-km stage through the mountains of southern Italy from Sulmona to Lago Laceno should provide more answers about the overall contenders.
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Good Monday to you on what's started as a pretty nice day across the mountains. We've seen a mix of sun and clouds and most of the region topped out in the 50s. Tonight we will see a few rounds of rain rolling through Eastern Kentucky as part of a storm system passing by to our north. The rain may be a little heavy at times, and potential we could hear a rumble of thunder or two. The rain could lead to some dense fog for your Tuesday morning commute. You can track the rain below:
After tonight's rain the next few days look dry. Our next chance of rain doesn't roll into Eastern Kentucky until Thursday evening. Here's a look at the 7-Day forecast:
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So let's talk a little about the severe weather threat for Thursday night and Friday morning. A very potent cold front and low pressure system will crash into a warm and humid air mass across the Ohio Valley on Thursday. This is going to lead to some strong thunderstorms across region and we have a chance here in Eastern Kentucky. The Storm Prediction Center already has us highlighted for a risk of severe weather on Thursday.
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As you can see it's bringing a squall line through Eastern Kentucky between 10:00 PM Thursday and 3:00 AM Friday. Being a squall line it looks like our main threats would be strong wind and some heavy rain. However we may have an isolated tornado threat due to the amount of shear and vorticity in the atmosphere.
The threat is low for Tornadoes at this point, but it is something I will keep a very close eye on as we go through out the week. The main limiting factor for these storms will be that they will move in during the night, so they will not be able to feed on as much heat as if they were to hit during the middle of the day. However the wind field with this storm is look quite impressive. Check out the forecast wind speeds one mile up in the atmosphere early Friday morning.
This is showing wind approaching 100 miles per hour just a mile off the ground on Thursday night and Friday morning. If we get some thunderstorms going they would be able to tap into that wind energy and pull at least some of it down.
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Tim Cahill is excited by the new era of the Australia team under coach Holger Osieck as the Socceroos launch their 2014 FIFA World Cup™ campaign against Thailand in Brisbane on Friday.
The Australians have lost only once in 11 matches under German Osieck this year, in a run that includes wins over Germany and Wales, and are vying for their third consecutive finals' appearance in Brazil. Osieck is blending the big-name Socceroo stars with emerging overseas-based talent and the best of the domestic A-League, to be reinforced this season with the return from Europe of senior internationals Harry Kewell and Brett Emerton.
Everton star Cahill, the team's talisman with 23 goals in 52 internationals, believes a new era in Australian football is evolving. "I think our depth is fantastic after seeing players like (Michael) Zullo, James Troisi or (Adam) Sarota come through," Cahill said.
It's fantastic to be a part of the last era and move forward to this era with these players. The transition is perfect.
"I focus on what we have here and the players that bring so much to the team. And I was really impressed with what I saw in (the recent 2-1 friendly win against) Wales. It's fantastic to be a part of the last era and move forward to this era with these players. The transition is perfect."
The Thais, coached by German Winfried Schaefer, are ranked 98 slots below Asia's second-ranked team Australia and face a stiff test in their first outing in Group D. Thailand won through to the group stage after a 3-2 two-legged play-off against Palestine, but Schaefer, who led Cameroon to the 2002 FIFA World Cup™, is confident his team can trouble the fancied Australians.
"Australia play a high standard of football, but I think we can give them a good game," Schaefer said. "I think we have the speed with our short-passing game to upset them, but you must fight, you must run and you must play with courage against Australia."
Australia won 4-0 the last time the two teams met in a 2007 Asian Cup match in Bangkok. Cahill insists there will be no Australian complacency. "It's all about attitude and the way we apply ourselves. Respect to them, they'll be difficult, but hopefully we'll get off to a flying start," he said.


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The top of a massive tree behind our house broke off and fell today after last night's ice storm, crashing in to my nephew's swing set just feet from our home. In Bonney Lake, WA
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July 2006
Silk's Vault Publishing, LLC
204 Pages
Rating: 4 Cups
Saba Duer is her village's headwoman and healer. Against the headman's orders, Saba goes looking for survivors who might need her assistance after a fireball descends from the sky. She finds a wounded Ryder Vaughan, and is instantly attracted to him.
Running for his life on his ancient ship, Ryder discovers the man who was cheating him has poisoned him. Attempting to take an anecdote and fly his ship at the same time, he is shot down and crash-lands on Adena. When he awakens and hears Saba's voice, he thinks an angel has found him. Ryder finally comes to his senses in Saba's hut. It becomes apparent right away that Saba is different from any other woman he has ever met, and he is very attracted to her.
When Tyree, the headman, asks Ryder to use his weapons to kill a creature that also arrived via a fireball, and has been killing the villagers, Ryder is hesitant. Though Tyree makes it clear he wants Ryder to leave Saba alone, Ryder ignores him, quickly falling in love with the gentle healer. Only when Ryder's questions are answered about just who the creature is do resolutions become apparent.
This book is a great read! The world building is realistic and genuine, allowing the reader to feel they are truly there. The characters' personalities, including the secondary ones, are well developed and easy to relate to. I enjoyed the emotional tension between Saba and Ryder as they got to know each other, and the extra stress of Tyree's displeasure as they did so. This book would be a fantastic addition to anyone's personal library!
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Perhaps the most notable thing about Helix is that the product requires no stirring – at least if you pour the water on top of the powder. Eliminating one of the steps of making powdered products seems like a big advantage, especially for people who might be consuming this on the go. Still, the actual mixture that this product makes is quite enjoyable, with a sweet orange flavor (sweetened with ace-k and sucralose) that's very pleasing to the palate. The functional ingredients are pretty typical of standard energy drinks, including caffeine, taurine, ginseng, and B vitamins, to name a few. As for packaging and branding, the Helix name sounds like your stereotypical energy drink name, especially with their visual emphasis on the letter X. Otherwise, the white background and simple color palette are simple and easy to read, but lacks in the personality department. Overall, an enjoyable energy stick pack product, but Helix could do more to stand out.
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The Boy Scouts of America's national decision on gays could save United Way of York County funding for the local Scouts.
In November, the local chapter of the United Way told York area's New Birth of Freedom Council it will give the group until 2016 to either change its policy banning openly gay youth and adults or lose its United Way funding. The conflict arose because United Way has a policy against discrimination for sexual orientation.
While there was little the local council could do in response because it had to obey orders from the national executive board, the national on Monday outlined a proposed change. If adopted, it will allow the religious and civic groups that sponsor troops to decide for themselves whether to continue banning gays or offer them membership. The vote from the scouting board, which has been under fire and losing funding from groups across the country, is expected next week.
A vote to allow troops to accept gays might pass muster with the local United Way board, assuming there would be York-area troops deciding to allow gays, said Robert J. Woods, executive director of United Way of York County.
United Way gives funding to the council, not the local troops, he said. The United Way board would have to decide whether the proposed change, if approved, would be enough to signal inclusion instead of discrimination.
"I don't know for absolute surety, but I don't see that the counsel itself would be discriminating based on sexual orientation in that there would be access to all people because you know in the community there would be some troops open to gay people," Woods said. "We have a community that's diversified, and I can't imagine that there wouldn't be several."
Change would be 'huge': While there could still be local troops that banned gays, Woods said the changes being considered on the national level are "huge" for the Boy Scouts as an organization.
"They're definitely moving in the right direction," he said.
How local troops would make the decision isn't clear.
Asked for comment, New Birth of Freedom executive and CEO Ronald Gardner, Jr. said he couldn't provide details until after next week's vote.
"This is an internal national policy discussion, and no decision has been made," he said. "I can say that local councils agree to support the decisions made by the volunteer national executive board. Our united focus is on working together to deliver the nation's foremost youth program of character development and values based leadership training."
In 2011, the United Way of York's community fund contributed about $165,000 to the local Boy Scouts. A separate fund, through which employees designated their donations to go directly to the local Scouts, totaled about $86,000, Woods said.
The New Birth of Freedom Council covers about 11,400 Scouts in York, Dauphin, Cumberland, Franklin, Perry and Adams counties.
The United Way had to give the Boy Scouts until the end of its current partnership agreement, 2016, before implementing cuts because the agreement didn't prohibit discrimination for sexual orientation.
The provision will be added before a new agreement is signed in 2016, Woods said.
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After seeing his productivity improve only marginally during his last three seasons at North Carolina State, the offensive minded guard needed a string of big performances to get his name back on the map. He came out extremely strong on day one, and while he had a very poor game to close the tournament, very few NBA decision-makers were in attendance to see it. Though hes not much of an NBA prospect, Fells had a nice week and may have made himself some money overseas by standing out on the first day. The biggest factor playing against Fells from an NBA perspective is his lack of elite athleticism. Though he has a strong, lanky, build highlighted by good upper body strength, he doesnt have great speed, quickness, or leaping ability. In projecting his game to the next level, it becomes obvious that his lack of athletic ability doesnt fit well with what NBA teams look for. While his limitations would be apparent in some settings, he looked entirely comfortable at the PIT, and shouldnt have much trouble in the European game either. Fellss best asset is his sweet outside shooting stroke. A gifted catch and shoot player with good range and a smooth release, Fells shot the ball extremely well from the perimeter almost all week. Though he went 0-5 in a blowout on the final day of the Invitational, he went 5-7 in the first two contests, looking very comfortable hitting shots moving to his left and showing good footwork. His 1-14 performance in that last game wasnt a great representation of the week he had, as he was making an obvious effort to get going by forcing some looks. Throughout his career in Raleigh, Fells had his share of ups and downs, and this week was another reminder of what can happen when he is trying too hard to get involved. Fells did shoot the three well for a stretch this week, but the problems hes had inside the arc have plagued him since he left high school. An extremely questionable ball-handler, Fells seemed to dribble into trouble nearly every time he put the ball on the floor. This was especially obvious in the last game, where he repeatedly looked to get to the rim, but failed to create any good looks for himself. Considering hes not blessed with great quickness, his weak handle is holding back the rest of his game rather significantly at this point since he cant create separation when well defended. Fells did knock down a couple of shots off the dribble, seeming rather comfortable pulling up when he had time and space to operate a sign that improved ball-handling could make his midrange game a weapon down the road. That weakness could be viewed as a biggest problem when one considers that Fells isnt a great passer or rebounder. Though he showed good court vision in the first contest of the week, Fells is simply not a playmaker. He did make an impact defensively, compensating for his lack of lateral quickness with consistent intensity. Not a prolific defender statistically, he didnt take many risks this week and could be a very solid defensive presence in the right system. If Fells had sustained his performance for the duration of the week, he very easily could have earned himself some buzz, but the fact that he was less and less effective as the week went on highlighted his weaknesses. Considering the fact that Fells could improve his ball-handling significantly over time, he certainly qualifies as a name to keep tabs on, but hes not going to factor into the draft conversation this summer. [Read Full Article] Portsmouth Invitational Tournament, Day OneApril 9, 2009Courtney Fells had an extremely productive outting in the opening game of this seasons Portsmouth Invitational Tournament, having easily the best showing of any player in attendance. Though he did a lot of good for his stock, he also made his limitations very clear. Fells drained a number of catch and shoot jumpers coming off of screens from three point range, putting his excellent perimeter shooting stroke on full display. He also knocked down two one-dribble jumpers from the outside, seeming unfazed by the fact that he was very well defended on both occasions. Despite his proficiency from the perimeter, Fells had very little success putting the ball on the floor and attacking the basket, showing very underdeveloped ball handling ability and looking very shaky going left. That weakness, coupled with his only average first-step, rendered Fells unable to create separation on a number of his touches today. Moving forward, Fells needs to recognize his limitations off the dribble and make a concerted effort not to force the issue, which was likely an issue during the season at N.C. State as well, judging by his negative assist to turnover ratio. Fellss lack of standout athleticism didnt plague him at the defensive end today, as he was working hard to keep his man out of the lane on most possessions. If he can maintain his defensive intensity and continue to shoot the ball well, Fells should turn heads all weekmaybe making a case for himself as a Keith Bogans type rotation wing player. Though he still has a ton of work to do to hear his name called on draft day, Fells was the standout performer of day one. [Read Full Article] © 2015 DraftExpress LLC All rights reserved.


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Another artistic wotsit. I'm really enjoying this kind of photographic work as it feels more painterly. It's lovely being able to "paint" light accents and make an image .. I can see more of these to come. And I'm a RAW convert too - watch me play! hehe!
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Yay good for finding your Mojo Suzi
I like this, I wonder if there is a little bit of a fight for attention between the out of focus part of the cushion and the wall... it seems to not sit right for me, though if that's your intention then it works
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LOL Mark! Yeah that mojo was cunningly hidden behind the gasworks ..
I'll think about what you've said and thanks for the feedback - to be honest it was intentional because I had this on f/1.8 to throw a lot out of focus, but I'm always interested in other people's reactions.
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The desk model in "Booby Trap" was, in fact, a test shot of the kit from AMT/Ertl, before any of the surface detailing was added. We got a box of smooth styrene model parts in the mail, assembled the ship, and mounted it on a lucite stand built by the prop shop. As I recall, it had no decals, just a basic paint job.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A group that takes care of animals no one else wants, may have to shut their doors.
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- Distributed by: Cartoon Network
- Cartoon Characters: Force Fighter V Rose, Force Fighter V Magenta, Robot, Voltar, Reginald "Red" Menace, Force Fighter V Pennywrinkle, Commander Chaos, Force Fighter V Golden Rod, Kid, Doktor Frogg, Force Fighter V Seafoam Green.
- Voice Actors: Asaph Fipke, Peter Kelamis, Scott McNeil, Colin Murdock.
- Produced By Asaph Fipke, Ken Faier.
- Written By Philippe Ivanusic-Vallee, Davila LeBlanc, Peter Ricq.
- Awards: Nominee, Leo Award, Best Musical Score in an Animation Program or Series, Hal Foxton Beckett and Steffan Andrews, 2010.
- Music: Hal Foxton Beckett, Steffan Andrews.
- First Aired on March 23, 2009.
- Originally Aired on YTV (Canada), Cartoon Network (USA).
- Running Time: 11 minutes.
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After being denied entry to the neighborhood slam-dunk competition for being too short, Voltar returns in a giant Super S Atomic Shuriken Typhoon Robot to win the competition. Meanwhile, when the army finds out a giant Shuriken Robot is terrorizing a suburban... (more)
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