VOA – CONNECT
EPISODE 94
AIR DATE 11 01 2019
FULL TRANSCRIPT
OPEN ((VO/NAT))
((Banner))
Renewal
((SOT))
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
That bear wakes up, the spring thunder wakes him up, and
he’ll be looking for something to eat and they say he’ll travel
to community to community.
((Animation Transition))
((Banner))
Rebirth
((SOT))
((Dayna Cooper, Curatorial Director, Butterfly
Wonderland))
And inside that chrysalis, the body completely changes. It’s
is the most amazing process in nature.
((Animation Transition))
((Banner))
Puppies
((SOT))
((Lori Froderman, Dog Breeder))
I want every puppy to run up to every person and be happy.
((Open Animation))
BLOCK A
((PKG)) BEAR DANCE
((Popup Banner: Enduring like a Bear))
((Reporter/Camera: Arturo Martinez))
((Map: White Mesa, Utah))
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
My name is Jack Cantsee. I work for the Ute Mountain Ute
Wildlife Department and I'm a White Mesa Bear Dance
Chief.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
We patrol the exterior boundaries of the tribe and then we
also patrol land owned by the tribe.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
We are down in Cottonwood area, home of the Utes. Like
down there, it's all Ute land, down in the bottom there. No
trespassing, entering Ute Mountain Indian
Reservation. Restricted area. Violators will be subject to
prosecution, search and seizure of property under tribal and
federal law. Now how can you not understand that? It's
telling you, you're not, you’re not welcome here if you're not
tribal member.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
You know, we check for trespassers anywhere within the Ute
Mountain Ute Reservation.
Way back when the first Anglos got here, the Utes were
everywhere in their territory.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
This place was a thriving place way back. You know, people
lived here.
One right here.
This is old, old stuff that you're looking at. Broken pieces of
pottery. Even though they're scattered over here and stuff
like that, that still doesn't give you the right to pick it up and
take it with you. So, you just gotta leave it, look at it and
leave it. Put it back down where you saw it because this
stuff could land you in jail.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
Oh oh, something going on up here. That vehicle is not from
the res(ervation). I don’t recognize it, and it’s out of state,
non-Indians. Did they go this way?
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
I think they went up in that side because I don’t see no
tracks down here.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
I feel really blessed to have this job, to take care of this land,
to keep people that aren't supposed to be here out. That's
how it was a long time ago with all native tribes. But now,
modern days, you know, you can't kill them anymore and
stuff like that, but that's what would have happened a long,
long time ago.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
This cemetery has been here for a long time. It's all
native. It's all Ute people that are buried there. But we are
not on Ute land. We are on BLM land. So, how was this
land taken over by the BLM (Bureau of Land Management)?
Because this is their place, their ancestral homeland.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
The federal government divided this up into three Ute
reservations. How are we supposed to get our food when
you're confined to that one area? I know the ancestors prior
were very upset with it. You know, that’s what a lot of
people back those days drove to alcoholism because there
was no other way to release it.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
I fell into that rut myself at one time. Being around it all the
time, seeing it all the time, and then it was like a way
out. But I was able to climb out of it, what everybody says,
"climbing out of that bottle."
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
There's a bear print right here. He's walking that way. We
say, it's going home from the Bear Dance. Maybe, he's
gonna go find himself a den, get ready for the winter, walking
away from White Mesa, going back to the mountain to where
he lives at.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
Well, Bear Dance is coming and this time I thought about it
and I said, I want this to be one of my best ones because my
journey, as a law enforcement officer, is going to come to an
end, and I’m ready to move on. I want to have time for
myself, for my wife, for my kids. I’m ready to hang out my
gun belt and give it over to somebody else, and I want to
have something to bless me, as far as coming back into
civilian life, you know, not having to wear the uniform and the
badge anymore and just coming into a new life.
((NATS))
((Aldean Ketchum, Bear Dance Chief))
Hey, Ute people, come here everyone. Right now is the
Bear Dance. Right now we’re cutting the line. Come here
everyone, come on out, Ute people. So, hope you guys can
hear us out there. So, come on out. Hey, Ute people, come
here everyone.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
This dance has been here for many, many years. It happens
here in this community once a year, and that’s the fall
time. That bear wakes up, the spring thunder wakes him up,
and he’ll be looking for something to eat and they say he’ll
travel to community to community. They’ll have a Bear
Dance for him and then, but the time he gets over here, it’s
fall time.
((NATS))
((Erik Wells, Bear Dance Chief))
This is one of the oldest dances in the United States. It's
been here with the Ute people for generations and
generations. It's not written down. It’s all handed down
verbally. This is the last one every year. We end up putting
a bear back to sleep.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
With this here, you're making a growling sound, like how that
bear would growl. The Bear Dance singers are in charge of
providing the music. There's four of us in our band to
represent each family that's out there, different family that's
out there. However, we invite other groups to this ceremony
over here.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
The Ute language that they sing, they sing about the
animals, the female bear. It was all about nature, how to
take care of it, how to survive. And so, with those teachings,
we as Indian people, we survived. You know, we survived
and it's still here. That's what this place is about, is living, is
life.
((NATS))
((Singers))
John, you can sound like him.
Take it easy.
((NATS))
((Ute member speaking on microphone))
Wherever you’re hurt, come out and dance, participate,
enjoy it. It does many to make you feel good. Your health,
your hurt, come on out, dance. Come on out. Thank you.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
We've got ancestors that used to dance in here that used to
do this Bear Dance over here. We pray, we pray for them,
that they watch over us, that they take care of us, they guide
us, they do all these things for us. We can't do it ourselves,
we can't do it ourselves. And if you see it, sometimes, you
know, the bear, he stands like this, and if you see them,
some of those dancers go like that too. Their hands are like
this when they are going back and forth doing the line dance.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
We also allow non-tribal members to come here and dance,
you know, like, we don’t care what color you are. You’re
welcome to dance in here and participate as long as you
adhere to the rules. The female is the one that does the
choosing. She’ll choose who she wants to dance. She has
to understand that she can’t dance with anybody that’s
related to her.
((NATS))
((Sarah Cuch, Northern Ute dancer))
The guidance of the song is learning who you are. A woman
needs to learn who she is, by herself, taking care of herself,
have respect for all of the men. That’s why I can dance with
all of the men, you know? Can’t dance with relatives. You
can dance with exes. The men are the wisdom that help out
a lot and support the women. And right now, they are
sharing their wisdom of their songs and their energy, to help
the women keep going and going. It’s a ceremony of love.
((NATS))
((Erik Wells, Bear Dance Chief))
So, we'll go Friday all day and Saturday all day. We end on
a Monday, after four days. We end up having a feast and
feed everybody that came to dance and participate here, and
then we’ll have the end dance, which is endurance between
the dancers and the singers, kind of a contest, if you will.
And a lot of these people will dance for four days straight.
((NATS))
((Erik Wells, Bear Dance Chief))
You come in here with the problems out there in the world
and you come in here. As soon as you come through this
door and sit in here, just like the ceremony here, you know,
by the time it's all done and you leave, all that negative
energy will be gone. You feel renewed and a lot better when
you leave here.
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
Being part of the Bear Dance ceremony, it helped me in that
way, to lift my spirits. It showed me a way to confront my
problems, without having to go consume alcohol.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
You feel that power, the energy that's built up in here, can
heal them, can make them happy and make them go on with
life.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
Our ancestors fought for this thing to keep going, for the
young ones, for the little ones. We were the little ones back
then, and now we'll fight for our little ones too, you know,
when they grow up. Maybe, some of these little guys that
are going to be over here, that's going to be sitting amongst
us, they're going to pick it up, they're going to catch on. We
don't want it to go. We don't want it to die off, you know,
because it's our life. It's our life blood.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
After all these years, after many, many millennial years, of
our people surviving, we are here. We're still here. We're
not going nowhere. No one's going to take us anywhere.
((NATS))
TEASE ((VO/NAT))
Coming up…..
((Banner))
Immersive Aquariums
((SOT))
((NATS))
((Jerry Schubel, President, Aquarium of the Pacific))
It's done with the use of technology and media to tell these
global stories and to get people involved.
BREAK ONE
BUMP IN ((ANIM))
BLOCK B
((PKG)) PIA – BUTTERFLY WONDERLAND
((Banner: Butterfly Wonderland))
((Executive Producer: Marsha James))
((Camera: Kaveh Rezaei))
((Map: Scottsdale, Arizona))
((Pop-Up Banner: Butterflies from around the world are
gathered at a conservatory in Arizona))
((NATS))
((Dayna Cooper, Curatorial Director, Butterfly
Wonderland))
It's a bright and sunny morning in Scottsdale, Arizona, here
at Butterfly Wonderland. So, Butterfly Wonderland
conservatory is 10,000 square feet (3048 square meters) of
tropical paradise in the middle of the Sonoran Desert. We
always have at least 70 different species of butterflies from
all over the world. They come from tropical Africa,
Southeast Asia, Central and South America, and we get the
North American butterflies from Florida.
I appreciate even the smallest of creatures and their role in
the ecosystem overall. When you watch butterflies in action,
they just always look like they're having so much fun, with
not a care in the world. And really they don't, because their
brains, well, are very small, and they say the average
lifespan for a butterfly is two weeks. The lifespan in here is
extended because the conditions are perfect. There's plenty
of sunshine, the weather is always good, there's lots of food
and no predators.
The UV light that we get here is so intense and it really
drives the activity of the butterflies and it supports all of the
plants. And what it does is it creates an environment that is
so inspiring and so beautiful that people are literally
awestruck when they first come in here. But then, it makes
them very receptive to learning about this ecosystem and
how it, kind of, represents areas of our tropical world.
((NATS))
((Dayna: Good morning ladies.))
((Visitor: Hi. What are they doing there?))
((Dayna Cooper, Curatorial Director, Butterfly
Wonderland))
So, those butterflies are actually feeding on a very special
concoction we call “banana brew.” And we make it here out
of overripe bananas and dark beer and sugar. That’s a real
butterfly party. And we do also have two chickens. They’re
really important for pest control inside the conservatory.
((NATS))
((Visitor: Okay.))
((Dayna Cooper, Curatorial Director, Butterfly
Wonderland))
Well, butterflies are pollinators. They are now studying the
structure of the scales on the wings. So, without any scales
at all, a butterfly's wings are transparent, totally clear. The
way the light hits it and is reflected, is what gives them their
color. So, those blue butterflies that just flew past here, are
not really blue at all.
((NATS))
((Dayna Cooper, Curatorial Director, Butterfly
Wonderland))
Ooh, there's some fun behavior. I don't know if you can get
that. When you get a number of them together, that swirling
around and chasing each other, that's actually two males.
So, it kind of looks like a courtship dance, but it's really more
of a territorial display. To maintain a conservatory like this in
the middle of the desert takes a lot of monitoring. I spend a
lot of my day making sure that the temperature is right, the
humidity is right, the evaporative coolers are working, the
mist system is coming on when it should. Every day that I
come into work is a pleasure for me. I feel like one of the
luckiest people in the world, and people mention this every
day. They say, ‘Oh, you have such a great job.’ And I say,
‘Yeah, yeah, I really do,’ because I do. I'm so lucky.
((NATS))
((PKG)) HIGH TECH AQUARIUM
((Banner: Nature and Technology))
((Reporter/Camera: Elizabeth Lee))
((Adapted by: Philip Alexiou))
((Map: Del Mar, California))
((NATS))
((Jerry Schubel, President, Aquarium of the Pacific))
This new wing is called Pacific Visions and the whole idea is
it focuses on the one animal that is putting all the other
animals on the planet at risk. So, it focuses on us. And
these big problems, they’re global in scope: climate change,
habitat destruction and deterioration.
((NATS))
((Jerry Schubel, President, Aquarium of the Pacific))
It's done with the use of technology and media to tell these
global stories and to get people involved. And we want also,
using technology, to make the wonder, the majesty, the
beauty of the world ocean and the importance of this story
accessible to all people.
((NATS))
((Alex Driskill-Smith, President, Ultrahaptics))
This is a truly leading-edge experience in theater. There’s a
bunch of new technology in here, not just the screen itself
which is 180 degrees surround screen. There’s a 36-foot
(10 meter) projection disk at the bottom, which adds to that
sense of immersion.
((NATS))
((Alex Driskill-Smith, President, Ultrahaptics))
So, visually you see all these effects surrounding you and
you feel somewhat completely immersed in that. And then,
plus there are a number of other effects. The seats will
rumble at appropriate times during the experience. There
are strobe light effects. There’s wind effects, smoke and fog
effects, and then our technology that also adds this haptic
effect, the sense of touch for the experience. And what
we’re targeting in particular, deaf and blind people, so when
they come in to experience the film, because they’re going to
be missing some parts of the film because they are deaf or
blind, and what we’re trying to do with the midair haptics is to
deliver that additional sense of touch, to sort of, fill in the
experience.
((Alex Driskill-Smith, President, Ultrahaptics))
Ultrahaptics is the technology that enables you to feel things
in midair. You literally put out your hand in free space like
this, and we project sensations onto your hand using
ultrasounds. So, these are sound waves that you can't hear,
but we project them onto your hand, so you can literally feel
effects on your hand. You can feel shapes, control buttons,
3D objects and even experiences, which is more what we’re
doing here.
((Alex Driskill-Smith, President, Ultrahaptics))
What’s actually happening, it is an array of ultrasonic
speakers in the device, and these are emitting ultrasound
waves at slightly different times, each of them, and they're
calculated to arrive at your hand at a focal point, at a single
point, that we can then scan across your hand, create
different shapes on your hand.
((Alex Driskill-Smith, President, Ultrahaptics))
There’s a media computer that runs the device and then
that’s connected through wireless control to the show
management system.
((NATS))
((Alex Driskill-Smith, President, Ultrahaptics))
And so, it’s synchronized with all the effects throughout the
movie. This is actually the first permanent installation in an
aquarium or museum or zoo in a film environment.
((NATS))
((Alex Driskill-Smith, President, Ultrahaptics))
In the future, it will become a consumer device as well as the
size of the device scales down and the cost as well. And
then, you’ll start to see it over the next couple of years in
consumer devices, in the home, in the office, in the car as
well.
((NATS))
((Alex Driskill-Smith, President, Ultrahaptics))
Applications will be around control of various aspects of the
car, whether it’s the windows or the media player or the
navigation systems. You put your hand out, you feel the
button come to you, and as you depress the button, you feel
it actuate and you feel this sense of pressing the button and
getting that feedback that you’ve actuated something,
whether it’s the playback on the audio or of a movie. We
want to put the pieces in place now by incorporating our
technology into the car, into the office, into the home, even
into medical environments. So that when those future
augmented reality or spatial computing glasses come out in
a large-scale way, then the haptics is already there in the
environment, people are familiar with it and we can tie into
that.
((NATS))
TEASE ((VO/NAT))
Coming up…..
((Banner))
Responsible Breeding
((SOT))
((Lori Froderman, Dog Breeder))
Well, I started when I was a kid. I guess I was, like, fourteen
or fifteen.
BREAK TWO
BUMP IN ((ANIM))
BLOCK C
((PKG)) DOG BREEDER
((Banner: Responsible Breeding))
((Reporters: Claire Wacziarg, Carley Wilson))
((Camera: Philip Alexiou))
((Adapted by: Martin Secrest))
((Map: Pasadena, Maryland))
((Popup Banner: Lori Froderman, a former Medical
Technician, breeds and births Golden Retrievers at her
property))
((NATS - house))
((Lori: Hi Maisie, I saw you already. I know, I love you.))
((Lori Froderman, Dog Breeder))
I just love dogs. They're like your best friend, and you can't
go wrong with a Golden (retriever). They are so sweet.
They really are. They love everybody.
((NATS - dogs in yard))
((Lori Froderman, Dog Breeder))
Loving animals, that's one thing that inspired me, and a lot of
it has to do with being in the medical field and liking to help
people. I like to help dogs too.
((NATS - kennel))
((Lori Froderman, Dog Breeder))
If the dogs are too closely related, they shouldn’t be bred.
We screen hips, elbows, thyroid, eyes and genetics. So, we
connect the dogs correctly together, so we’re not putting in
different types of disease in the dog.
((NATS - kennel))
((Lori Froderman, Dog Breeder))
I breed most of my females until they’re seven, and then we
fix (spay) them. We keep them in guardian homes. That
means I would place a dog with you at eight weeks, grows
up, stays with you for its lifetime. When it retires and I fix it,
you're still going to keep the female because you are the
parents of that dog.
((NATS - house))
((Lori: I don’t know. Where’s Beckett? Beckett? Beckett!
Yeah. He’s from Ukraine, and he’s a good guy. He passed
all his clearances, got a great temperament. He’s a good
male, yes he was.))
((Lori Froderman, Dog Breeder))
I don't want to sell you a dog, let's just say, that in six months
to seven months old, you have to have a hip replacement.
((NATS - kennel))
((Lori Froderman, Dog Breeder))
I think there are different kinds of breeders. I don't tend to
like breeders who get rid of their dogs at six and seven.
Why not use a guardian home? If that dog didn't work out in
your breeding program, spay it, leave it with the family.
They're still going to love it.
((NATS - kennel))
((Lori: Yes, because you my babies. And actually, I hold
them and sing to them sometimes when they’re little too, so
they get to know my voice. Dilly dilly! Come back, thank
you. Don’t take a walk. Yes, you’re back, thank you. Now
down. I love you too.))
((NATS))
CLOSING ((ANIM))
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((Banner))
Coming Soon……
A Question of Identity
((SOT))
My life is like a mystery to me. One minute I was born and I
was with one family, and then the next minute I was with a
different one. So, sometimes it can feel like why did this
happen and I don’t know how it happened. And I want some
of those questions to be answered.
What other question would help you feel, like, more
complete if you knew the answer?
Well, were sad when you had to give me up?
CLOSING ((ANIM))
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((NATS))
((Popup captions over B Roll))
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SHOW ENDS
EPISODE 94
AIR DATE 11 01 2019
FULL TRANSCRIPT
OPEN ((VO/NAT))
((Banner))
Renewal
((SOT))
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
That bear wakes up, the spring thunder wakes him up, and
he’ll be looking for something to eat and they say he’ll travel
to community to community.
((Animation Transition))
((Banner))
Rebirth
((SOT))
((Dayna Cooper, Curatorial Director, Butterfly
Wonderland))
And inside that chrysalis, the body completely changes. It’s
is the most amazing process in nature.
((Animation Transition))
((Banner))
Puppies
((SOT))
((Lori Froderman, Dog Breeder))
I want every puppy to run up to every person and be happy.
((Open Animation))
BLOCK A
((PKG)) BEAR DANCE
((Popup Banner: Enduring like a Bear))
((Reporter/Camera: Arturo Martinez))
((Map: White Mesa, Utah))
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
My name is Jack Cantsee. I work for the Ute Mountain Ute
Wildlife Department and I'm a White Mesa Bear Dance
Chief.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
We patrol the exterior boundaries of the tribe and then we
also patrol land owned by the tribe.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
We are down in Cottonwood area, home of the Utes. Like
down there, it's all Ute land, down in the bottom there. No
trespassing, entering Ute Mountain Indian
Reservation. Restricted area. Violators will be subject to
prosecution, search and seizure of property under tribal and
federal law. Now how can you not understand that? It's
telling you, you're not, you’re not welcome here if you're not
tribal member.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
You know, we check for trespassers anywhere within the Ute
Mountain Ute Reservation.
Way back when the first Anglos got here, the Utes were
everywhere in their territory.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
This place was a thriving place way back. You know, people
lived here.
One right here.
This is old, old stuff that you're looking at. Broken pieces of
pottery. Even though they're scattered over here and stuff
like that, that still doesn't give you the right to pick it up and
take it with you. So, you just gotta leave it, look at it and
leave it. Put it back down where you saw it because this
stuff could land you in jail.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
Oh oh, something going on up here. That vehicle is not from
the res(ervation). I don’t recognize it, and it’s out of state,
non-Indians. Did they go this way?
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
I think they went up in that side because I don’t see no
tracks down here.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
I feel really blessed to have this job, to take care of this land,
to keep people that aren't supposed to be here out. That's
how it was a long time ago with all native tribes. But now,
modern days, you know, you can't kill them anymore and
stuff like that, but that's what would have happened a long,
long time ago.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
This cemetery has been here for a long time. It's all
native. It's all Ute people that are buried there. But we are
not on Ute land. We are on BLM land. So, how was this
land taken over by the BLM (Bureau of Land Management)?
Because this is their place, their ancestral homeland.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
The federal government divided this up into three Ute
reservations. How are we supposed to get our food when
you're confined to that one area? I know the ancestors prior
were very upset with it. You know, that’s what a lot of
people back those days drove to alcoholism because there
was no other way to release it.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
I fell into that rut myself at one time. Being around it all the
time, seeing it all the time, and then it was like a way
out. But I was able to climb out of it, what everybody says,
"climbing out of that bottle."
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
There's a bear print right here. He's walking that way. We
say, it's going home from the Bear Dance. Maybe, he's
gonna go find himself a den, get ready for the winter, walking
away from White Mesa, going back to the mountain to where
he lives at.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
Well, Bear Dance is coming and this time I thought about it
and I said, I want this to be one of my best ones because my
journey, as a law enforcement officer, is going to come to an
end, and I’m ready to move on. I want to have time for
myself, for my wife, for my kids. I’m ready to hang out my
gun belt and give it over to somebody else, and I want to
have something to bless me, as far as coming back into
civilian life, you know, not having to wear the uniform and the
badge anymore and just coming into a new life.
((NATS))
((Aldean Ketchum, Bear Dance Chief))
Hey, Ute people, come here everyone. Right now is the
Bear Dance. Right now we’re cutting the line. Come here
everyone, come on out, Ute people. So, hope you guys can
hear us out there. So, come on out. Hey, Ute people, come
here everyone.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
This dance has been here for many, many years. It happens
here in this community once a year, and that’s the fall
time. That bear wakes up, the spring thunder wakes him up,
and he’ll be looking for something to eat and they say he’ll
travel to community to community. They’ll have a Bear
Dance for him and then, but the time he gets over here, it’s
fall time.
((NATS))
((Erik Wells, Bear Dance Chief))
This is one of the oldest dances in the United States. It's
been here with the Ute people for generations and
generations. It's not written down. It’s all handed down
verbally. This is the last one every year. We end up putting
a bear back to sleep.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
With this here, you're making a growling sound, like how that
bear would growl. The Bear Dance singers are in charge of
providing the music. There's four of us in our band to
represent each family that's out there, different family that's
out there. However, we invite other groups to this ceremony
over here.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
The Ute language that they sing, they sing about the
animals, the female bear. It was all about nature, how to
take care of it, how to survive. And so, with those teachings,
we as Indian people, we survived. You know, we survived
and it's still here. That's what this place is about, is living, is
life.
((NATS))
((Singers))
John, you can sound like him.
Take it easy.
((NATS))
((Ute member speaking on microphone))
Wherever you’re hurt, come out and dance, participate,
enjoy it. It does many to make you feel good. Your health,
your hurt, come on out, dance. Come on out. Thank you.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
We've got ancestors that used to dance in here that used to
do this Bear Dance over here. We pray, we pray for them,
that they watch over us, that they take care of us, they guide
us, they do all these things for us. We can't do it ourselves,
we can't do it ourselves. And if you see it, sometimes, you
know, the bear, he stands like this, and if you see them,
some of those dancers go like that too. Their hands are like
this when they are going back and forth doing the line dance.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
We also allow non-tribal members to come here and dance,
you know, like, we don’t care what color you are. You’re
welcome to dance in here and participate as long as you
adhere to the rules. The female is the one that does the
choosing. She’ll choose who she wants to dance. She has
to understand that she can’t dance with anybody that’s
related to her.
((NATS))
((Sarah Cuch, Northern Ute dancer))
The guidance of the song is learning who you are. A woman
needs to learn who she is, by herself, taking care of herself,
have respect for all of the men. That’s why I can dance with
all of the men, you know? Can’t dance with relatives. You
can dance with exes. The men are the wisdom that help out
a lot and support the women. And right now, they are
sharing their wisdom of their songs and their energy, to help
the women keep going and going. It’s a ceremony of love.
((NATS))
((Erik Wells, Bear Dance Chief))
So, we'll go Friday all day and Saturday all day. We end on
a Monday, after four days. We end up having a feast and
feed everybody that came to dance and participate here, and
then we’ll have the end dance, which is endurance between
the dancers and the singers, kind of a contest, if you will.
And a lot of these people will dance for four days straight.
((NATS))
((Erik Wells, Bear Dance Chief))
You come in here with the problems out there in the world
and you come in here. As soon as you come through this
door and sit in here, just like the ceremony here, you know,
by the time it's all done and you leave, all that negative
energy will be gone. You feel renewed and a lot better when
you leave here.
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
Being part of the Bear Dance ceremony, it helped me in that
way, to lift my spirits. It showed me a way to confront my
problems, without having to go consume alcohol.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
You feel that power, the energy that's built up in here, can
heal them, can make them happy and make them go on with
life.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
Our ancestors fought for this thing to keep going, for the
young ones, for the little ones. We were the little ones back
then, and now we'll fight for our little ones too, you know,
when they grow up. Maybe, some of these little guys that
are going to be over here, that's going to be sitting amongst
us, they're going to pick it up, they're going to catch on. We
don't want it to go. We don't want it to die off, you know,
because it's our life. It's our life blood.
((NATS))
((Jack Cantsee, Bear Dance Chief))
After all these years, after many, many millennial years, of
our people surviving, we are here. We're still here. We're
not going nowhere. No one's going to take us anywhere.
((NATS))
TEASE ((VO/NAT))
Coming up…..
((Banner))
Immersive Aquariums
((SOT))
((NATS))
((Jerry Schubel, President, Aquarium of the Pacific))
It's done with the use of technology and media to tell these
global stories and to get people involved.
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((PKG)) PIA – BUTTERFLY WONDERLAND
((Banner: Butterfly Wonderland))
((Executive Producer: Marsha James))
((Camera: Kaveh Rezaei))
((Map: Scottsdale, Arizona))
((Pop-Up Banner: Butterflies from around the world are
gathered at a conservatory in Arizona))
((NATS))
((Dayna Cooper, Curatorial Director, Butterfly
Wonderland))
It's a bright and sunny morning in Scottsdale, Arizona, here
at Butterfly Wonderland. So, Butterfly Wonderland
conservatory is 10,000 square feet (3048 square meters) of
tropical paradise in the middle of the Sonoran Desert. We
always have at least 70 different species of butterflies from
all over the world. They come from tropical Africa,
Southeast Asia, Central and South America, and we get the
North American butterflies from Florida.
I appreciate even the smallest of creatures and their role in
the ecosystem overall. When you watch butterflies in action,
they just always look like they're having so much fun, with
not a care in the world. And really they don't, because their
brains, well, are very small, and they say the average
lifespan for a butterfly is two weeks. The lifespan in here is
extended because the conditions are perfect. There's plenty
of sunshine, the weather is always good, there's lots of food
and no predators.
The UV light that we get here is so intense and it really
drives the activity of the butterflies and it supports all of the
plants. And what it does is it creates an environment that is
so inspiring and so beautiful that people are literally
awestruck when they first come in here. But then, it makes
them very receptive to learning about this ecosystem and
how it, kind of, represents areas of our tropical world.
((NATS))
((Dayna: Good morning ladies.))
((Visitor: Hi. What are they doing there?))
((Dayna Cooper, Curatorial Director, Butterfly
Wonderland))
So, those butterflies are actually feeding on a very special
concoction we call “banana brew.” And we make it here out
of overripe bananas and dark beer and sugar. That’s a real
butterfly party. And we do also have two chickens. They’re
really important for pest control inside the conservatory.
((NATS))
((Visitor: Okay.))
((Dayna Cooper, Curatorial Director, Butterfly
Wonderland))
Well, butterflies are pollinators. They are now studying the
structure of the scales on the wings. So, without any scales
at all, a butterfly's wings are transparent, totally clear. The
way the light hits it and is reflected, is what gives them their
color. So, those blue butterflies that just flew past here, are
not really blue at all.
((NATS))
((Dayna Cooper, Curatorial Director, Butterfly
Wonderland))
Ooh, there's some fun behavior. I don't know if you can get
that. When you get a number of them together, that swirling
around and chasing each other, that's actually two males.
So, it kind of looks like a courtship dance, but it's really more
of a territorial display. To maintain a conservatory like this in
the middle of the desert takes a lot of monitoring. I spend a
lot of my day making sure that the temperature is right, the
humidity is right, the evaporative coolers are working, the
mist system is coming on when it should. Every day that I
come into work is a pleasure for me. I feel like one of the
luckiest people in the world, and people mention this every
day. They say, ‘Oh, you have such a great job.’ And I say,
‘Yeah, yeah, I really do,’ because I do. I'm so lucky.
((NATS))
((PKG)) HIGH TECH AQUARIUM
((Banner: Nature and Technology))
((Reporter/Camera: Elizabeth Lee))
((Adapted by: Philip Alexiou))
((Map: Del Mar, California))
((NATS))
((Jerry Schubel, President, Aquarium of the Pacific))
This new wing is called Pacific Visions and the whole idea is
it focuses on the one animal that is putting all the other
animals on the planet at risk. So, it focuses on us. And
these big problems, they’re global in scope: climate change,
habitat destruction and deterioration.
((NATS))
((Jerry Schubel, President, Aquarium of the Pacific))
It's done with the use of technology and media to tell these
global stories and to get people involved. And we want also,
using technology, to make the wonder, the majesty, the
beauty of the world ocean and the importance of this story
accessible to all people.
((NATS))
((Alex Driskill-Smith, President, Ultrahaptics))
This is a truly leading-edge experience in theater. There’s a
bunch of new technology in here, not just the screen itself
which is 180 degrees surround screen. There’s a 36-foot
(10 meter) projection disk at the bottom, which adds to that
sense of immersion.
((NATS))
((Alex Driskill-Smith, President, Ultrahaptics))
So, visually you see all these effects surrounding you and
you feel somewhat completely immersed in that. And then,
plus there are a number of other effects. The seats will
rumble at appropriate times during the experience. There
are strobe light effects. There’s wind effects, smoke and fog
effects, and then our technology that also adds this haptic
effect, the sense of touch for the experience. And what
we’re targeting in particular, deaf and blind people, so when
they come in to experience the film, because they’re going to
be missing some parts of the film because they are deaf or
blind, and what we’re trying to do with the midair haptics is to
deliver that additional sense of touch, to sort of, fill in the
experience.
((Alex Driskill-Smith, President, Ultrahaptics))
Ultrahaptics is the technology that enables you to feel things
in midair. You literally put out your hand in free space like
this, and we project sensations onto your hand using
ultrasounds. So, these are sound waves that you can't hear,
but we project them onto your hand, so you can literally feel
effects on your hand. You can feel shapes, control buttons,
3D objects and even experiences, which is more what we’re
doing here.
((Alex Driskill-Smith, President, Ultrahaptics))
What’s actually happening, it is an array of ultrasonic
speakers in the device, and these are emitting ultrasound
waves at slightly different times, each of them, and they're
calculated to arrive at your hand at a focal point, at a single
point, that we can then scan across your hand, create
different shapes on your hand.
((Alex Driskill-Smith, President, Ultrahaptics))
There’s a media computer that runs the device and then
that’s connected through wireless control to the show
management system.
((NATS))
((Alex Driskill-Smith, President, Ultrahaptics))
And so, it’s synchronized with all the effects throughout the
movie. This is actually the first permanent installation in an
aquarium or museum or zoo in a film environment.
((NATS))
((Alex Driskill-Smith, President, Ultrahaptics))
In the future, it will become a consumer device as well as the
size of the device scales down and the cost as well. And
then, you’ll start to see it over the next couple of years in
consumer devices, in the home, in the office, in the car as
well.
((NATS))
((Alex Driskill-Smith, President, Ultrahaptics))
Applications will be around control of various aspects of the
car, whether it’s the windows or the media player or the
navigation systems. You put your hand out, you feel the
button come to you, and as you depress the button, you feel
it actuate and you feel this sense of pressing the button and
getting that feedback that you’ve actuated something,
whether it’s the playback on the audio or of a movie. We
want to put the pieces in place now by incorporating our
technology into the car, into the office, into the home, even
into medical environments. So that when those future
augmented reality or spatial computing glasses come out in
a large-scale way, then the haptics is already there in the
environment, people are familiar with it and we can tie into
that.
((NATS))
TEASE ((VO/NAT))
Coming up…..
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Responsible Breeding
((SOT))
((Lori Froderman, Dog Breeder))
Well, I started when I was a kid. I guess I was, like, fourteen
or fifteen.
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((PKG)) DOG BREEDER
((Banner: Responsible Breeding))
((Reporters: Claire Wacziarg, Carley Wilson))
((Camera: Philip Alexiou))
((Adapted by: Martin Secrest))
((Map: Pasadena, Maryland))
((Popup Banner: Lori Froderman, a former Medical
Technician, breeds and births Golden Retrievers at her
property))
((NATS - house))
((Lori: Hi Maisie, I saw you already. I know, I love you.))
((Lori Froderman, Dog Breeder))
I just love dogs. They're like your best friend, and you can't
go wrong with a Golden (retriever). They are so sweet.
They really are. They love everybody.
((NATS - dogs in yard))
((Lori Froderman, Dog Breeder))
Loving animals, that's one thing that inspired me, and a lot of
it has to do with being in the medical field and liking to help
people. I like to help dogs too.
((NATS - kennel))
((Lori Froderman, Dog Breeder))
If the dogs are too closely related, they shouldn’t be bred.
We screen hips, elbows, thyroid, eyes and genetics. So, we
connect the dogs correctly together, so we’re not putting in
different types of disease in the dog.
((NATS - kennel))
((Lori Froderman, Dog Breeder))
I breed most of my females until they’re seven, and then we
fix (spay) them. We keep them in guardian homes. That
means I would place a dog with you at eight weeks, grows
up, stays with you for its lifetime. When it retires and I fix it,
you're still going to keep the female because you are the
parents of that dog.
((NATS - house))
((Lori: I don’t know. Where’s Beckett? Beckett? Beckett!
Yeah. He’s from Ukraine, and he’s a good guy. He passed
all his clearances, got a great temperament. He’s a good
male, yes he was.))
((Lori Froderman, Dog Breeder))
I don't want to sell you a dog, let's just say, that in six months
to seven months old, you have to have a hip replacement.
((NATS - kennel))
((Lori Froderman, Dog Breeder))
I think there are different kinds of breeders. I don't tend to
like breeders who get rid of their dogs at six and seven.
Why not use a guardian home? If that dog didn't work out in
your breeding program, spay it, leave it with the family.
They're still going to love it.
((NATS - kennel))
((Lori: Yes, because you my babies. And actually, I hold
them and sing to them sometimes when they’re little too, so
they get to know my voice. Dilly dilly! Come back, thank
you. Don’t take a walk. Yes, you’re back, thank you. Now
down. I love you too.))
((NATS))
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A Question of Identity
((SOT))
My life is like a mystery to me. One minute I was born and I
was with one family, and then the next minute I was with a
different one. So, sometimes it can feel like why did this
happen and I don’t know how it happened. And I want some
of those questions to be answered.
What other question would help you feel, like, more
complete if you knew the answer?
Well, were sad when you had to give me up?
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