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VOA-CONNECT
[AIR DATE: 02 02 2018]

[FINAL TRANSCRIPT]

OPEN ((VO/NAT))
((Banner))
Reflecting America’s Diversity

((SOT))
I met this woman and she had run for Senate and she said, she said you should run. I have life experience too. I understand what normal people are dealing with.”
((Animation Transition))
((Banner))

Getting Smart

((SOT))

“I think it’s very important to think very hard and long about the decisions and things that we do and what we put in front of our children in the classroom. 25-30 years ago, we were having the same conversation about the television.”
((Animation Transition))

((Banner))
Hiding Underground

((SOT))
“And what we’re really preparing for is major earth changes.”
((Animation Transition))

((Banner))
Feeling the Blues

((NATS))
SOT))

“Blues is emotional music. ((NATS)) And the Blues is political music on top of everything else.” ((NATS))
((Open Animation))


BLOCK A
((Reflecting America))

((ANIMATION W/ GFX, CAPTIONS, PHOTOS))

Out of 535 members of Congress
Less than 20% are women.
Some people want to change that.


((PKG A1)) DIVERSITY IN POLITICS
((Banner:
In Politics))
((Reporter:
Katherine Gypson))
((Camera:
Tom Bagnall, Mike Burke, John Quinn))
((Producer:
Phil Alexiou))
((NATS))
((ALLISON GALBRAITH, US CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE (D)))

“The first day that I was out there protesting in December, you know, I met this woman and she had run for Senate and she said, she said you should run.”
((ALLISON GALBRAITH, US CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE (D)))
“I have life experience too. I understand what normal people are dealing with. Well, you know, I worked in Federal government or with Federal programs for a decade now. So, I understand exactly how the Federal government works. I know how to improve programs. I know how to streamline things and to save money on the part of the Federal government and frankly I’m sick of it not working for people.
I think most of you have probably met me or seen me around or heard me….”
((JENNIFER LAWLESS, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY))
“When women and men have exactly the same resume and they have the objective credentials that we would expect of most candidates, men look in the mirror and say, ‘yeah, I’m qualified to run for office’, and woman are about 20 percentage points more likely to express self-doubt.”
((ALLISON GALBRAITH, US CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE (D)))
“When I was a teenager, I sued an employer over sexual assault.”
((CAPTION: Politicians recently accused of sexual misconduct))
((AL FRANKEN, FORMER US SENATOR, (D) MINNESOTA))

“I will be resigning as a member of the United States Senate.”
((VOICE OF JOHN CONYERS, FORMER REP, (D) MICHIGAN))

“I am retiring today.”
((BEVERLY YOUNG NELSON, MOORE ACCUSER))
“I was terrified. I thought that he was going to rape me.”
((ROY MOORE, FORMER US SENATE CANDIDATE (R) ))
“These allegations are completely false.”
((ALLISON GALBRAITH, US CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE (D)))
“What do these guys have to offer? What have they been doing? What are their qualifications, really?”
((ALLISON GALBRAITH, US CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE (D)))
“It’s sad that it is as prevalent as it is, and we certainly need to do something about it. And I think it’s going to be women leading that charge in Congress to fix it.”
((ALLISON GALBRAITH, US CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE (D)))
“It’s just a fact of life. It’s something that they have to deal with until we can fix it, until society at large takes it seriously. And I don’t mean just women. We need men stepping up and saying, ‘this is absolutely unacceptable.’ I think that if ever there was a time, it’s right now, right now. And women poll better in this district too.”

((PKG A2)) DIVERSITY IN THE MILITARY
((Banner:
In the Military))
((Reporter / Camera:
Carla Babb))
((Producer:
Zdenko Novacki))
((ANIMATION W/ GFX, CAPTIONS, PHOTOS))
Making the military look like America.
Women have been making gains but remain underrepresented.
Transgender troops are fighting to preserve their right to serve.
Ethnic and racial minorities have perhaps the most parity.
((ALFRED KOLLIE, STAFF SERGEANT))

“About 10 years and six months ago, I was in a refugee camp in Ghana. I moved to the United States in 2007”.

((JOSE COLON, MASTER SEARGEANT))

“Where I came from, Fort Walton Beach, Florida. It’s a diverse area, but, you know, I’m used to seeing some things that others may not have. Some people put out Confederate flags. I grew up by seeing that my whole life”.

((SELENE URIBE, SERGEANT))

“I’m coming from very small town, which is Richgrove, California. 99.99 percent Hispanics. It was a culture shock. My first language was Spanish”.

((BAILEY DEPUTY, SPECIALIST))

“My father is Danish. He is a first generation here and my mother is Portuguese and Native American. So I haven’t been treated any different on that. Now as far as being female, I’m one of three in my entire unit that does my job”.

((ALFRED KOLLIE, STAFF SERGEANT))

“I’ve lived most of my life on a refugee camp. I’m from Liberia, west coast Africa. We have a civil war in that country”.

((SELENE URIBE, SERGEANT))

“My first obstacle that I did have to overcome as a female, but I took it in with pride, just not for myself, but for my unit. It’s not about a gender or a race or anything of that nature. It’s more about the pride that we do here in 82nd”.

((VINCE VEST, SPECIALIST))

“I was always aware that diversity is being military in general, I knew that, you know, people come from every walk of life and I was willing for it and with the willingness, like I said I met some very amazing people and it’s opened my eyes to a lot and I’ve gained a lot of wisdom through those people.”

((JOE BUCCINO, COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR))

“One of the threads throughout our one-hundred-year history is the idea that we’ve always represented the broad cultural experience. We’ve always represented the American experience. In 1917, we had to mobilize for a global war for the first time. And this was the first division that was organized with people from all over the country, all 47 states. And this is very unique at the time, this had never happened. And so, we were named the All Americans and that has really been consistent throughout our history. We were the first, many people don’t know this, but we were the first American unit, of any size, that was racially diverse, that was inclusive of all races.

((ALFRED KOLLIE, STAFF SERGEANT))

“Diversity in the United States Army is huge. And because of so many different cultures blending to become one, it has become a unique factor for me because I’m able to interact with people from different countries, different parts of the world and we are able to get along. So, we are able to understand each other”.

((JOSE COLON, MASTER SERGEANT))

“The outside world – I’m kind of concerned. There are folks that are sincere. But racism still exists, I mean there are serious problems out there. I don’t see that in the military, because we just don’t tolerate it, but, you know, all you have to do turn on the TV, turn on social media, you’ll hear about these hate crimes all the time.”

TEASE ((VO/NAT))
Coming up….
((Banner))
Hiding Underground
((SOT))
“We don’t look at how the planets themselves form. We look at how the universe creates the elements that the planets need to form in the first place.”

BREAK ONE
BUMP IN ((ANIM))

BLOCK B:

((ANIMATION W/ GFX, MAP, CAPTIONS, PHOTOS))
((Map + Banner:
South Dakota, what lies beneath….))

((PKG B1)) SOUTH DAKOTA UNDERGROUND LAB
((Pop Up Banner: Sanford Underground Research Facility))
((Reporter:
Lesya Bakalets))
((Camera:
Serge Sokolov))
((Producer:
Martin Secrest))
((NATS))

(Reporter) “Please tell me. How far are we going down now?”
(Lab Worker) “We’re going down a mile, just about. 4850 feet.”
((Pop Up Banner))
At the former gold mine, scientists are studying mysteries of the universe.
((NATS))
“Watch your step!”
((MARK HANHARDT, SCIENTIST))
“Subterranean astronauts. We’re trying to understand stuff that happens deep, deep in space by coming a mile underground. But this is the only place that we can get away from all the radiation and all the cosmic rays that exist on the surface world, so that we can actually study this stuff in radio silence.
((Pop Up Banner))
CASPAR is a low energy particle accelerator.
((MARK HANHARDT, SCIENTIST))
“CASPAR itself is a project to help us understand, how did the universe do all this? how did it put together all the pieces that make the complexity of our current universe possible? We don’t look at how the planets themselves form. We look at how the universe creates the elements that the planets need to form in the first place. So if there were people studying the bricks that build up a house, we’re the guys that study the atoms that make up the bricks. Yeah, we go really, really fundamental.”
((NATS))
((Pop Up Banner))

MAJORANA Demonstrator experiment studies matter and anti-matter.
((CABOT-ANN CHRISTOFFERSON, SCIENTIST))
"So this is the MAJORANA Demonstrator experiment, which is a neutrino-less double-beta decay experiment. We want to understand why we’re here, and here, us being matter. Why is there more matter in the universe than anti-matter? We don’t really understand why there’s this imbalance. And so what we’re looking at is neutrinos.” ((Pop Up Banner))
Neutrinos= a really smart, elementary particle
((CABOT-ANN CHRISTOFFERSON, SCIENTIST))
“We think that neutrinos might have the answer to why the universe is here. And so this is a fundamental science experiment, understanding why matter exists. I’m here in a clean room suit, so that’s keeping me out of the room, keeping me from bringing in any debris that could be radioactive, just dust. We’ve been taking data from the detector from the time we plugged it in. And then as it grew into the experiment that you see here and then as it is now, it plans to take data until May, where we’re going to open it up and do some minor adjustments. And then it should run through 2021. Anytime you have fundamental science, there’s a whole birth of other industries that come out of this information. From understanding how the detectors work, understanding how you put these systems together, it spawns new industries just from the development of these for the first time.”

((PKG B2)) SOUTH DAKOTA BUNKERS
((Banner:
And for the pessimists))
(Courtesy Chyron throughout:
terravivos.com))
((NATS))
((ROBERT VICINO, CEO, Vivos))

“So this is an 18-mile square property. There’s 575 former military bunkers on the south side of the property. On the north side, there’s another 275. And that will be our Phase 2, this is Phase 1. And what we’re really preparing for is major earth changes.”
“We’re looking at just the road that goes from bunker to bunker to bunker. A 100 miles of road within the property. OK?”
“So what we’re doing is we’re starting at this corner and we’re working our way across, one row at a time and leasing them out. And people are buying them for 25-thousand dollars up front and a 1000 dollars a year for 99 years. It’s nothing.”
“The bunker, you can fit enough food in here in any one of the bunkers, plus hygienic products, plus fuel, everything that you need without reopening the door for a minimum of one year. But you know these kind of events we’re preparing for, they’re going to survive the event. They’re going to survive the immediate aftermath in their bunker, but at some point, they’ll be able to open the blast door and go out. But stay here, this becomes a new home base, a new town, and they can farm and grow food and have animals and so on, and start over, right here.”
“And this is the one that we’re building - the showroom unit.
“Pretty cool, huh?”
“Yeah”
About 2200 square feet inside”
“And what will be here?”
“Well, we have a series of rooms. Let me show you. This room here is a theater. So let’s go inside.”
“Theater?”
“Theater. So there will be theater seating here, really comfortable, in reclining leather, and a very large screen TV there, sound system, and also an exercise equipment in here so you could work out. So we’ve thought of everything. It’s going to be a very nice, very cozy place.”
“You know what the name of this place is?”
“Yes, Vivos X Point”
“Vivos X Point. X Point is the point in time when only the prepared will survive.”
((Factoid Banner))
As of January, 2018, 30 of the bunkers have been leased.

TEASE ((VO/NAT))
Coming up….
((Banner))
Getting Smart
((SOT))
“This is a technology that is really, really cool. It actually allows you to scan the contents of your refrigerator and I just click the camera button. You can see that it’s identified artichoke, pineapple, bell pepper, broccoli, orange.”

BREAK TWO
BUMP IN ((ANIM))


BLOCK C:
((Smart Stuff))

((ANIMATION W/ GFX, CAPTIONS, PHOTOS))
((Banner:
Getting Smart))

((PKG C1)) SMART HOME
((Banner:
Smart Home))
((Reporter:
George Putic))
((Producer:
Zdenko Novacki))
((JOHN GUTCH, CENTRICA CONNECTED HOMES))

“Smart homes have been out there for a quite a while now, but customers don’t understand exactly what it is. A smart home isn’t one light bulb you can control from your phone. It’s not one thermostat you can control from your phone. A smart home is the whole range of products working together harmoniously. So we’ve got a range of products that work on different protocols, different connectivity. There is a heart of the home, which is the hub. One of our products can connect to the hub. You can then use your smart phone through our ‘hive app’ wherever you are in the world, as long as you’ve got an Internet connection to control these devices, to schedule these devices. And then we’ve recently launched our feature called ‘hive actions’ which is something that integrates all of the products together”.
((CHANG FENG, RAYER ACOUSTIC TECHNOLOGY))
“You can even check your email here. You can write a note. If you don’t want to use it, you can just slide it down”.
((TARSILA WEY, FIRST ALERT))
“Alexa, play Adele”.
((ALEXA))
“Shuffling songs by Adele”
((TARSILA WEY, FIRST ALERT))
“We are here showcasing the Onelink Safe and Sound. It’s a smoke and carbon monoxide alarm that also has a speaker built-in that leverages your home ceiling as an acoustic backdrop for optimal sound experience. It also has Apple home kit and it will have Airplay II as soon as that becomes available. And it has Alexa inside it, so you just talk to it and you can ask it what the weather is or to play a song or what your schedule’s like – all in one device”.
((KLAYTON ERICKSON, HALL LABS))
“We have the world’s smartest window coverings. Right now, we sell retrofit kits that fit inside of all major brands of roller shades and horizontal blinds. These work directly via Bluetooth, so you don’t need a special hub or anything. You just connect your phone. You can store specific schedules and set custom temperature settings and light settings, so they open and close automatically and also open and close on schedules that you set with your preference in our custom app”.
((PAIGE GREGORY, WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION))
“This is a technology that is really really cool. It actually allows you to scan the contents of your refrigerator using a camera embedded within the Yummly app. So, I’m in the search mode right here and I just click the camera button so I’m actually in the camera itself. And all I’m going to do is just do a quick scan of the ingredients that I have here on the table. You can see that it’s identified artichoke, pineapple, bell pepper, broccoli, orange, maybe even some butternut squash. And then based on those ingredients that I have on hands, I can actually swipe up and Yummly will recommend for me those recipes that involve the ingredients that I have on hands”.

((PKG C2)) SMART STREETS
((Banner:
Smart Streets))
((Reporter:
George Putic))
((Producer:
Zdenko Novacki))
((STEPHEN SMITH, CMU RESEARCH PROFESSOR))

“So this is just an example of our monitoring system. We’re looking at a particular intersection in our north and northern ramp in our Atlanta deployment. So, you’re looking at an intersection from four different approaches here and just watching the approaching traffic and the traffic as it leaves.”
“It’s a real time online planning approach. So, we watch, each intersection watches the approaching traffic through its detection. In some cases it’s video cameras, other cases we’re using radar. We could even use the old induction loops that you think remember from under the ground. And from that information that we take in, the system builds a prediction of when every vehicle it sees through its detection is actually going to arrive at the intersection and based on that prediction we build a what’s called a timing plan, a plan for how the green is going to get distributed to each approach in real time and begin executing that plan.”
“The traffic signal control, particularly in urban environments, hasn’t really changed in 50 years. It’s based on this notion of going out, counting cars for a day or two, you know, getting a snapshot of what traffic patterns are like and then, on the basis of that snapshot, you build some signal timing plans for an intersection or set of intersections and then they run that plan over and over again unfailing it forever.”
“In the longer term, I think, we see that really the opportunities for, as the world becomes more connected, that the intersections really in some sense are going to be a gateway of real time information and we’re collecting all real time information of traffic flows and we’re currently working on technology that will allow us to do real time performance analysis of the network and once we can do that then maybe we can parlay that into being able to do real time incident detection, you know, traffic accidents, maybe even more stable things like a road segment being closed for a week or two, or replacing the sewer pipes or something like that.”

((PKG C3)) SMART KIDS
((Banner:
Smart Kids))
((Reporter:
Michelle Quinn))
((Camera:
Deana Mitchell))
((Producer:
Zdenko Novacki))
((ROBIN RASKIN, LIVING IN DIGITAL TIMES))

“So you know this is an addictive device. But so is a chocolate bar, and so is anything that you do in excess. So is YouTube bad or good? No, but YouTube in moderation is definitely good. I don’t think there’s anything worrisome. I think it’s expensive and sometimes trivial.”
((JASON MCKENNA, VEX ROBOTICS))
“I think it’s very important to think very hard and long about the decisions and things that we do and what we put in front of our children in the classroom. The same questions apply to different formats, right. So, you know, 25, 30 years ago, we were having the same conversation about the television, right? So do you let your daughter watch TV? How much do you let her watch TV? Ten years ago, we were having the same conversation about the internet. Do you have your daughter access the internet? So, I think, as I was mentioning before, what we’re really proud of at Vex is that we’re an education company. Yes, as tech companies, we should be giving teachers more research, more information. Then once we have a better understanding of the tools to meet the needs identified by that research information.
((JOHN SHI, BEYOND SCREEN))
“I’m old fashioned, ok? I don’t think they need to be talking to someone via a sort of three-dimensional projection of reality through some really advanced technology. I cannot believe that’s what they need. I do believe they need social interaction. They need to work with their peers. They need to be learning things in a fun way. However, learning cannot always be fun, right? And most of all, I think, they need to open up to the real world.”
((JASON MCKENNA))
“So from that perspective, the important thing is not so much what the technology is, but it’s the interactions that the technology allows the students to do. So that the technology enables students to have great interactions with their peers. The technology enables students to have great interactions with their teachers. Does it allow the students to collaborate well, both with their peers and with their teachers? So if the technology is accomplishing those goals, while also accomplishing its learning objectives in addition to that, then you really have something that the teachers in the schools can use effectively in their classrooms.


TEASE ((VO/NAT))
Coming up….
((Banner))
Blues Activist
((SOT))
“I am a social activist. I take my music and what I do is I incorporate the stories of my life as a black person in America.” ((NATS))

BREAK THREE
BUMP IN ((ANIM))

BLOCK D:
((Blues Activist))

((PKG D1)) BALTIMORE BLUES ACTIVIST
((Banner: Feeling the Blues))

((Reporter / Camera: Vahe Ohanyan))
((Producer:
Randall Taylor))
((NATS))
((Ursula Ricks, Singer, Activist))

“My name is Ursula Ricks, I am from Baltimore, Maryland. I am a Soul, Funk, and Blues singer. I have been around for about 35 years. I was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and I was raised in Texas. My mother, my grandmother, my aunts were all activists when I was young. So I have always been under the impression that when there is something wrong in our government, you protest. You let people know that it is not something you are willing to vote for.”
((NATS))
((Ursula Ricks, Singer, Activist))

“I have a very eclectic cultural group of people that come and check out the music that I do. I am a social activist. I take my music and, what I do is, I incorporate the stories of my life as a black person in America, and set up a song to why I like that song, what it is about this song that moves me, and what I think will move them.”
((NATS))
((Ursula Ricks, Singer, Activist))

“And the Blues is political music on top of everything else. It is the music that helps groups of people strive forward to make a better community.”
((NATS))
((Ursula Ricks, Singer, Activist))

“We all procreate. We all grow and things change in generation to generation. We owe to the next generation to give them the world that they want. And the world that they want is multicultural.”
((NATS))

CLOSING ((ANIM))
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