VOA – CONNECT
EPISODE 104
AIR DATE 01 10 2020
TRANSCRIPT
OPEN ((VO/NAT))
((Banner))
Tasting Good
((SOT))
((Jennifer Smith, Ecologist, Scripps Institution of
Oceanography))
Seaweeds basically contain more vitamins and minerals
than any leafy green vegetable that you can eat, including
kale and while they’re incredibly low in calories, they
represent a type of nutritional resource that we really should
be taking more advantage of.
((Animation Transition))
((Banner))
Feeling Good
((SOT))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Many peoples want to know if you do healings but when you
give people some creative thoughts and it bring inspiration
into their soul, that takes on toward healing.
((Animation Transition))
((Banner))
Looking Good
((NATS))
((SOT))
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator))
It's not a museum or something, gallery or anything. It's just
an art house.
((NATS))
((Open Animation))
BLOCK A
((PKG)) FARMING SEAWEED
((VOA Persian))
((Banner: Farming Seaweed))
((Reporter: Crystal Dilworth))
((Camera: Austin Harris, Cody Troxell))
((Adapted by: Martin Secrest))
((Map: Thimble Islands, Connecticut))
((NATS: Various))
((Locater: Thimble Islands, Long Island Sound, off the
coast of Connecticut))
((Popup Banner: GreenWave Company is developing
techniques for seaweed and other ocean farming))
((NATS: Various))
((Popup Banner: Seaweed is started in a hatchery and
moved to ocean farms))
((NATS: Various))
((Bren Smith, Co-Founder, GreenWave))
OK, so these are the spools that we took from the hatchery
and what we’re going to do now is we’re going to take out
the spools. We have to be really careful with them because
they’re sensitive and we’re going to seed the lines. So here
we go.
((NATS: Boat))
((Bren Smith, Co-Founder, GreenWave))
We’ve got floating long lines and from there we grow our
mussels, our scallops and our seaweeds. And then below
that we’ve got cages where we have our oysters and clams.
((NATS: Lab))
((Locater: Seaweed Lab, Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, La Jolla, California))
((Jennifer Smith, Ecologist, Scripps Institution of
Oceanography))
One of the more popular things that seaweeds have become
known for is their use as a super food. And when I say
super food, that basically means that they have a really high
concentration of vitamins and minerals. They have very low
digestible carbohydrates. So, seaweeds basically contain an
order of magnitude more vitamins and minerals than any
leafy green vegetable that you can eat, including kale and
you know, any other super food. While they’re incredibly low
in calories and incredibly healthy, they also produce omega-
3 fatty acids, which is something a lot of people are trying to
increase in their diets. And so, they just represent a type of
nutritional resource we really should be taking more
advantage of. The uses for seaweeds are kind of
insurmountable in terms of the things that they can do. A lot
of people don’t realize that you probably consumed
something that has seaweed in it today. Most of the non-
dairy or low-fat, non-fat products ranging from yogurt to ice
cream to alternative dairy milk, you know, rice milk, almond
milk, coconut milk - anything that has kind of creamy
consistency that’s silky. Even toothpaste, shaving cream,
whipped cream, all of those things have some sort of
emulsifier in them and one of the most common types of
emulsifiers is a group of compounds produced by red
seaweeds known as carrageenan.
((NATS: Boat))
((Popup Banner: Ocean seaweed farming could hold
potential environmental benefits))
((Professor Matthew Edwards, Biologist, San Diego
State University))
We can use farms in the ocean to clean polluted waters. We
can clean carbon out of the water to help with ocean
acidification, but we can also clean pollutants out of the
water and heavy metals out of the water, using farming in
the ocean to help as a natural way of cleaning the water
without having to spend tens or hundreds of millions of
dollars to invent new machinery, new chemistry, to go out
there and to try to do this with us, you know. The seaweeds
are out there 24/7 doing their job.
((NATS))
((PKG)) ZERO WASTE LIVING
((Banner: Zero Waste))
((Reporter: Nina Vishneva))
((Camera: Alexander Barash, Vladimir Badikov))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: New York City, New York))
((Popup Banner: New York City is leading a campaign to
contribute zero waste to landfills by 2030))
((NATS))
((Nicole Grossberg, Co-Founder, Zero Waste NYC
Workshop Series))
Start with small things: changing over your water bottle to
reusable, then do maybe your coffee cup, then work on
weaning yourself off paper towels. And there’s different
ways, you know. Then maybe you want to start buying local
food and eating less meat. I mean, don't think that you have
to do everything at one time, to take one step at a time and
then it's not as insurmountable or scary.
((NATS))
((Molly Barverman, Director, Broadway Green Alliance))
This is our semi-annual textile drive. So, we run two a year.
We also run two e-waste drives, so electronic waste drives,
four drives a year. And this one, for this one we partner with
Wearable Collections to properly recycle all of the unwanted
textiles so that they don't wind up in the waste stream.
The goal is that 50 percent of it will be reused, so it will be
upcycled and worn again either here in the United States or
in other countries where it may be needed.
((NATS))
((Julie Raskin, Director, Foundation for New York’s
Strongest))
It's one of our zero waste workshops. It's part of a new
series that we're partnering with as you met Nicole and
Sandra who lead the New York City Zero Waste Meetup.
And it's basically a workshop for everyday New Yorkers to
come and learn how they can live a more, as we call it, zero
waste but a lifestyle in which they're throwing fewer things
into landfill and doing more recycling, composting and
actually being mindful of the products they purchase so that
they can purchase items that have a beneficial reuse.
((NATS))
((Joann Lee, Tourist))
Hi, people. I don't need my coat. Is this OK to leave it here
with you people? Thank you very much! I'm from Australia
and I've had the coat for too long. It's summer over there.
We're already swimming.
((NATS))
((Erica Sweany, Actress))
Everybody brings in all of the clothes that they’re not using
anymore, a lot of their partners' clothes, kids' clothes. And
we all trade and switch and people end up with new items
and then everything else gets donated.
((NATS))
((Molly Barverman, Director, Broadway Green Alliance))
We've had a huge number of people coming from all
different Broadway shows and from the neighborhood and
offices in the community to bring their textiles. So, we've
had people coming from Wicked, from Aladdin, from Harry
Potter.
((NATS))
((Julie Raskin, Director, Foundation for New York’s
Strongest))
I think the more we bring the public into our work and the
more efficient it will be, the more kind of amicable that
relationship and just the larger strides we can make. You
know, the more people that participate in our compost and
recycling, that builds on itself. We can expand the program.
We can start to do kind of the next big thing.
((NATS))
TEASE ((VO/NAT))
Coming up…..
((Banner))
American Voodoo
((SOT))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
You don’t find Voodoo. Voodoo finds you. The word
Voodoo is God.
BREAK ONE
BUMP IN ((ANIM))
BLOCK B
((PKG)) NEW ORLEANS VOODOO
((Banner: American Voodoo))
((Reporter/Camera: Jeff Swicord))
((Producer: Jacquelyn DePhillips))
((Map: New Orleans, Louisiana))
((MUSIC))
((NATS: Shots around New Orleans, exterior of Voodoo
Spiritual Temple, Miriam putting sign out in front))
((Popup Banner: Mississippi Valley Voodoo is a spiritual
practice with roots in West and Central Africa))
((NATS))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
I have been a Voodoo priestess for thirty years in New
Orleans. I was born in the countryside of Mississippi. I was
baptized under the Baptist order and I was ordained in my
ministry in Chicago in 1982.
((NATS: Inside Miriam’s shop, tourists looking at things for
sale))
((SOTs: Miriam talks to customers))
((Man))
How long have you been here?
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
In this spot, three years.
((Man))
Oh really?
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Yeah, but in New Orleans, 30 years.
((Man))
Wow!
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
You don’t find Voodoo. Voodoo finds you. The word
Voodoo is God.
((SOTs: Gina and Miriam in shop))
((Gina Marie, Mystical Reader))
Yeah, I’m getting ready to write a book now.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Gina was born in New Orleans. Her family is native New
Orleans. The curator at the Voodoo Museum brought her to
me.
((SOTs: Gina and Miriam in shop))
((Gina Marie, Mystical Reader))
This is a story.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
He thought I could be a conduit for her to ground herself.
((SOT: Looking at cat gift))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Oh my God, look it there. Pharaoh.
((SOT: Priestess Miriam and Gina Talk about the false
perceptions of Voodoo))
((Gina Marie, Mystical Reader))
I noticed that every time they come here, the first question
people have when they walk through the door is ‘what is
Voodoo?’ So, I can't imagine what that's like trying to
answer that every single day, all day.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Well, it's a word that is somewhere with a lot of distraction or
an abstract synonym floating in the air today. It’s like this
word just keeps floating. Voodoo is like this big ship with a
lot of sails but no foundation to anchor the sails on.
((Gina Marie, Mystical Reader))
With the wind.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Yeah.
((Gina Marie, Mystical Reader))
I want your opinion on something.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Yeah.
((Gina Marie, Mystical Reader))
You see people dancing. They hear Voodoo. They hear
party. They want…it’s very hedonistic. It’s drumming and all
of that. What could we do or what needs to take place for
people to become more aware of the medicinal and the
healing aspect of it?
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Voodoo is empowering yourself to become more of an
enhanceable person, to rise beyond an impoverished
situation. The Voodoo God is the will of every man and if
your willpower is searched, then you're not going come
suppressed to those circumstance. You see ways to work
beyond it.
((SOTs: Nancy and her husband shopping and talking to
Miriam))
((Nancy))
Have you been making your dolls?
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
No, I keep dreaming that I would.
((Nancy))
Yeah, I’ll take this too.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Nancy has been coming to me for over what 20 years. She
were interested in getting a private consultation just to get
some clarity with her experience in life. I provide counseling
and guidance. That is the base of what you can do.
((NATS, SOTs: Bone reading; Tosses bones on table))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Okay, young lady. So, as Clint Eastwood said, ‘There's
sometimes always a little unsettled things get into the good
of things’ and that mean that there could have been
someone in your family that went through some health
issues or…..
((Nancy))
Just recently, yeah.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Some losses or…
((Nancy))
Um, not major, but she was ill.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
The bones is a tool that you have to offset the client that he
can hear clear.
((SOT: Bone reading))
((Nancy))
That’s a great feeling.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
It’s helped me to see the person and the person's thoughts
his emotion and that helped me to bring thoughts, ideas to
help bring the person over his situation.
((NATS, SOTs: Bone toss, bone reading))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
So now, I’ll let you ask the questions.
((Nancy))
I guess, most importantly is health for the coming year.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Oh, yeah, health. You're not a victim of circumstance.
((NATS: Bone toss))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Many peoples want to know if you do healings but when you
give people some creative thoughts and it bring inspiration
into their soul, that takes on toward healing.
((SOTs: Bone reading))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
And created opportunities for you and David. And he’s going
to make enough money for the two of you.
((Nancy))
That’s great.
((NATS, MUSIC: Mariam holding python))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
There's a really diverse measurement of humanity that
comes through my shop. People who really is in dire
struggle for their well-being. I have different tour guides that
bring peoples that come from every country pretty much.
((SOT: Mariam talking to tour group))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
You get back to the personal insight, maybe that’s what God
is. So, if you don’t have that personal insight, to see how to
create a wellness in the human body….
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Voodoo called me to New Orleans to have an establishment,
a house to assemble the greater thought-pattern in.
((SOT: Mariam talking to tour group))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
I graduated and I worked 11 years in surgery.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani. Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
I don't have any set thing that I would want a person to learn.
I want them to be more observant of what has come to be. I
want peoples to see a soul that has risen from the cotton
fields of Mississippi with my families. And that through all of
that time that people look back and say, ‘it’s inferior.’ Inferior
energy brings about a more greater complexity of a mind to
rise and become more assimilated. And never to sit and feel
years of drifting in complaints and weariness of their self.
Whatever I have obtained over my years is to be a legacy to
the humanity that can find it, not so much about me.
((SOT: Mariam talking to tour group))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Bye. Okay, bye bye.
((NATS))
TEASE ((VO/NAT))
Coming up…..
((Banner))
Creator of Voices
((SOT))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
From the time I was a young child, I always wanted to be a
voice-over artist.
No way, you want to go to the studio to learn about how I do
voice-overs?
My mom made these amazing kitchen tools.
What do I say, I’m so silly.
They have yellow and green and like better other stuff with
them.
Uh…..yeah.
BREAK TWO
BUMP IN ((ANIM))
BLOCK C
((PKG)) SCRAP HOUSE ART
((VOA Russian))
((Banner: House Made of Scraps))
((Reporter: Maxim Moskalkov))
((Camera: Andrey Degtyarev))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: Hyattsville, Maryland))
((NATS))
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator))
Find something you like, and it's usually because of the
shapes and the age, and eventually that thing will be
something. It's like the object tells you what to do with it.
((NATS))
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer))
Oh my gosh, they're beautiful. I'm going to pull up and look
at the other one too. I might get out and take pictures. Is
that OK?
((NATS))
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer))
This is amazing. And somebody just takes time and put all
this together like this.
((Man))
That man right there.
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer))
Him?
((Man))
Yeah.
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer))
Are you the artist?
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator))
I’m the old man now.
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer))
Oh, the old woman is impressed.
((NATS))
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator))
A really good question, an interesting question that can't be
answered is, why somebody is drawn to a certain form? But
for whatever reason, this is the thing that I want to do. It's
sort of Victorian. It's the little towers and spires. It's junk
which I like.
((NATS))
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator))
This front is put together from probably a 40s sled and this
part is a 30s truck front, cut way down. These are 1940s
headlamps from a Buick. It’s got moose horns and more
statues and another helmet over here and a deer and all this
stuff. This used to be a lamp. It has a bunch of these
statues. This is Middle Eastern, a lamp. This is a bird cage
holder.
((NATS))
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator))
Cars can't go into the back. There is no access. So, they're
on the street which means they all are legal. They all can be
driven. They're all licensed. They're all insured. It's
incredibly expensive to keep them on the road but that's how
it is.
((NATS))
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator))
Police have never said, you know, “What do you think you're
doing?” because it has legal plates. I've been pulled over by
police who wanted to talk, like, “Oh, what made you do
that?” You know, because they were bored.
((NATS))
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator))
I mean, it's just my house. I mean, it's not formal in any kind
of way. So, I've actually been asleep in the living room and
had the door open and people say, “Hello, are you open?”.
It's not a museum or something, gallery or anything. It's just
an art house. It's an art house, you know. Art cars and an
art house.
((NATS))
((PKG)) ANIMATION CONTENT CREATOR AND VOICE-
PUPPETEER
((Banner: Giving Voice to All))
((Reporter/Camera: Lisa Vohra))
((Map: Silver Spring, Maryland))
((NATS))
((Courtesy: Siggy and the Bullies))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
Hink felt very sad. He thought to himself: That sure looks
like fun. Maybe, if I ask again, everyone will let me help.
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
From the time I was a young child, I always wanted to be a
voice-over artist.
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
No way, you want to go to the studio to learn about how I do
voice-overs?
My mom made these amazing kitchen tools.
What do I say, I’m so silly.
They have yellow and green and like better other stuff with
them.
Uh…..yeah.
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
I thought it was just the most fun thing you could possibly do,
to give voices to characters, to commercials, to anything. I
would take out the spices in my house after dinner and I
would do commercials with them. I thought that all cars
looked like characters. I thought that the mirrors looked like
ears and I thought the front of the car looked like a nose. I
would call up the local radio stations and I would ask them if
I could be on their show. They pretty much hung up on me.
((Courtesy: Marci Heit))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
I ended up moving out to California. I was able to get an
agent and they started sending me on auditions. So really, a
lifetime of giving voices to cars and inanimate objects really
paid off.
((NATS, SOT: Marci in recording booth))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
We have a reservation but we’re a little early.
Our bridge is being remodeled and we couldn’t stay another
minute with all the racket.
Aww.....has anyone ever told you that you have a very nice
smile?
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
So I started doing voice-overs for commercials and some
film shorts. My favorite thing to really do was animated
characters though.
((NATS))
((Courtesy: Kids on the Block))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
Siggy said, “Uh, Hink’s right. It’s not fair to like shut him out.”
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
I was a volunteer for a puppet show program called “Kids on
the Block”, which is a disability awareness puppet show
program. And the puppets were big and colorful and the
message of the puppet show program was that kids are
different but inside they’re the same. And the message was
so wonderful that I actually contacted the people who
created the “Kids on the Bloc” program, to see if they wanted
to do something for television. I ended up writing a show.
The “Kids on the Block” people wanted to keep their show
exactly the way it was, but it, sort of, sent me on a path to
create content.
((NATS))
((Courtesy: It’s Real Entertainment))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
Is that the right design for your financial reporting?
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
And so, I ended up creating a company called, “It’s Real
Entertainment”, which creates and develops original
animated content. I created a character for a show called,
“Q.D. Foodie”, which is about a girl named Quinn Daisy
who’s blind and loves to make things with food.
((NATS))
((Courtesy: It’s Real Entertainment))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
My friends call me Q.D. We’re foodies and we have so
much fun because of our web show.
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
When I was involved in this puppet show program, “Kids on
the Block”, there was a rotation of disabled speakers that
would come and speak to the kids after every performance.
I had the privilege of getting to know one of the disabled
speakers really well because she lived not that far from me.
((Courtesy: Marci Heit))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
Her name was Elda and Elda lost her sight at age 70. I met
Elda when she was 90. One of the things that Elda loved to
do was to bake. Elda took me into her home and she
showed me how she made grocery lists and how she cooked
and her personality was infectious and I was inspired by her.
Quinn Daisy is loosely based on Elda.
((Courtesy: Q.D. Foodie))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
So, we were creating some props for the characters in Q.D.
Foodie to use and we designed these kitchen tools that were
really just supposed to be fun for the characters. I decided
that they should be real.
((NATS))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
So, I set out to make kitchen tools and we created these
fabulous kitchen tools that are designed to be inclusive.
Because our character Quinn Daisy is blind, we included
Braille in the measuring cups, Braille in the measuring
spoon. The tools have easy grip handles. They’re very
sensory friendly. The idea is that we really just want to get
kids excited and engaged.
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
From the time I was a kid, I really enjoyed spending time in
the kitchen. So, that’s really something that I’m enjoying
passing along to my child as well. We cook together, we
bake together and just have lots of fun and learn so many
other life skills.
((NATS: Marci and her daughter))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
What’s Braille for one teaspoon?
One dot.
It’s that one dot and you know the Braille is in, there’s six.....
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
I never wanted to make my shows about the differences.
((NATS))
((Courtesy: It’s Real Entertainment))
Hi there. I’m Lulu Square.
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
I just wanted to make them about different kids who have all
different parts of their personalities and they come together
and are able to use their strengths. And that idea has
filtered into every property that I’ve created, every show that
I’ve created, every character, ensemble that I’ve created.
The message of the puppet show was that kids are different
but inside they’re the same. And that is true universally.
((NATS))
((Courtesy: Siggy and the Bullies))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
Being a friend is a lot more fun than being a bully.....anyday!
((NATS))
CLOSING ((ANIM))
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((PKG)) FREE PRESS MATTERS
((NATS))
((Popup captions over B Roll))
We make a difference
When we unmask terror
When we explain the impossible
When we confront an uncertain future
When we give voice to the voiceless
The difference is Freedom of the Press
We are the Voice of America where
A Free Press Matters
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BUMP IN ((ANIM))
((PKG)) FREE PRESS MATTERS
((NATS))
((Popup captions over B Roll))
Near the Turkish Embassy
Washington, D.C.
May 16, 2017
President Erdogan’s bodyguard attacks peaceful protesters
“Those terrorists deserved to be beaten”
“They should not be protesting our president”
“They got what they asked for”
While some people may turn away from the news
We cover it
reliably
accurately
objectively
comprehensively
wherever the news matters
VOA
A Free Press Matters
SHOW ENDS
EPISODE 104
AIR DATE 01 10 2020
TRANSCRIPT
OPEN ((VO/NAT))
((Banner))
Tasting Good
((SOT))
((Jennifer Smith, Ecologist, Scripps Institution of
Oceanography))
Seaweeds basically contain more vitamins and minerals
than any leafy green vegetable that you can eat, including
kale and while they’re incredibly low in calories, they
represent a type of nutritional resource that we really should
be taking more advantage of.
((Animation Transition))
((Banner))
Feeling Good
((SOT))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Many peoples want to know if you do healings but when you
give people some creative thoughts and it bring inspiration
into their soul, that takes on toward healing.
((Animation Transition))
((Banner))
Looking Good
((NATS))
((SOT))
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator))
It's not a museum or something, gallery or anything. It's just
an art house.
((NATS))
((Open Animation))
BLOCK A
((PKG)) FARMING SEAWEED
((VOA Persian))
((Banner: Farming Seaweed))
((Reporter: Crystal Dilworth))
((Camera: Austin Harris, Cody Troxell))
((Adapted by: Martin Secrest))
((Map: Thimble Islands, Connecticut))
((NATS: Various))
((Locater: Thimble Islands, Long Island Sound, off the
coast of Connecticut))
((Popup Banner: GreenWave Company is developing
techniques for seaweed and other ocean farming))
((NATS: Various))
((Popup Banner: Seaweed is started in a hatchery and
moved to ocean farms))
((NATS: Various))
((Bren Smith, Co-Founder, GreenWave))
OK, so these are the spools that we took from the hatchery
and what we’re going to do now is we’re going to take out
the spools. We have to be really careful with them because
they’re sensitive and we’re going to seed the lines. So here
we go.
((NATS: Boat))
((Bren Smith, Co-Founder, GreenWave))
We’ve got floating long lines and from there we grow our
mussels, our scallops and our seaweeds. And then below
that we’ve got cages where we have our oysters and clams.
((NATS: Lab))
((Locater: Seaweed Lab, Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, La Jolla, California))
((Jennifer Smith, Ecologist, Scripps Institution of
Oceanography))
One of the more popular things that seaweeds have become
known for is their use as a super food. And when I say
super food, that basically means that they have a really high
concentration of vitamins and minerals. They have very low
digestible carbohydrates. So, seaweeds basically contain an
order of magnitude more vitamins and minerals than any
leafy green vegetable that you can eat, including kale and
you know, any other super food. While they’re incredibly low
in calories and incredibly healthy, they also produce omega-
3 fatty acids, which is something a lot of people are trying to
increase in their diets. And so, they just represent a type of
nutritional resource we really should be taking more
advantage of. The uses for seaweeds are kind of
insurmountable in terms of the things that they can do. A lot
of people don’t realize that you probably consumed
something that has seaweed in it today. Most of the non-
dairy or low-fat, non-fat products ranging from yogurt to ice
cream to alternative dairy milk, you know, rice milk, almond
milk, coconut milk - anything that has kind of creamy
consistency that’s silky. Even toothpaste, shaving cream,
whipped cream, all of those things have some sort of
emulsifier in them and one of the most common types of
emulsifiers is a group of compounds produced by red
seaweeds known as carrageenan.
((NATS: Boat))
((Popup Banner: Ocean seaweed farming could hold
potential environmental benefits))
((Professor Matthew Edwards, Biologist, San Diego
State University))
We can use farms in the ocean to clean polluted waters. We
can clean carbon out of the water to help with ocean
acidification, but we can also clean pollutants out of the
water and heavy metals out of the water, using farming in
the ocean to help as a natural way of cleaning the water
without having to spend tens or hundreds of millions of
dollars to invent new machinery, new chemistry, to go out
there and to try to do this with us, you know. The seaweeds
are out there 24/7 doing their job.
((NATS))
((PKG)) ZERO WASTE LIVING
((Banner: Zero Waste))
((Reporter: Nina Vishneva))
((Camera: Alexander Barash, Vladimir Badikov))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: New York City, New York))
((Popup Banner: New York City is leading a campaign to
contribute zero waste to landfills by 2030))
((NATS))
((Nicole Grossberg, Co-Founder, Zero Waste NYC
Workshop Series))
Start with small things: changing over your water bottle to
reusable, then do maybe your coffee cup, then work on
weaning yourself off paper towels. And there’s different
ways, you know. Then maybe you want to start buying local
food and eating less meat. I mean, don't think that you have
to do everything at one time, to take one step at a time and
then it's not as insurmountable or scary.
((NATS))
((Molly Barverman, Director, Broadway Green Alliance))
This is our semi-annual textile drive. So, we run two a year.
We also run two e-waste drives, so electronic waste drives,
four drives a year. And this one, for this one we partner with
Wearable Collections to properly recycle all of the unwanted
textiles so that they don't wind up in the waste stream.
The goal is that 50 percent of it will be reused, so it will be
upcycled and worn again either here in the United States or
in other countries where it may be needed.
((NATS))
((Julie Raskin, Director, Foundation for New York’s
Strongest))
It's one of our zero waste workshops. It's part of a new
series that we're partnering with as you met Nicole and
Sandra who lead the New York City Zero Waste Meetup.
And it's basically a workshop for everyday New Yorkers to
come and learn how they can live a more, as we call it, zero
waste but a lifestyle in which they're throwing fewer things
into landfill and doing more recycling, composting and
actually being mindful of the products they purchase so that
they can purchase items that have a beneficial reuse.
((NATS))
((Joann Lee, Tourist))
Hi, people. I don't need my coat. Is this OK to leave it here
with you people? Thank you very much! I'm from Australia
and I've had the coat for too long. It's summer over there.
We're already swimming.
((NATS))
((Erica Sweany, Actress))
Everybody brings in all of the clothes that they’re not using
anymore, a lot of their partners' clothes, kids' clothes. And
we all trade and switch and people end up with new items
and then everything else gets donated.
((NATS))
((Molly Barverman, Director, Broadway Green Alliance))
We've had a huge number of people coming from all
different Broadway shows and from the neighborhood and
offices in the community to bring their textiles. So, we've
had people coming from Wicked, from Aladdin, from Harry
Potter.
((NATS))
((Julie Raskin, Director, Foundation for New York’s
Strongest))
I think the more we bring the public into our work and the
more efficient it will be, the more kind of amicable that
relationship and just the larger strides we can make. You
know, the more people that participate in our compost and
recycling, that builds on itself. We can expand the program.
We can start to do kind of the next big thing.
((NATS))
TEASE ((VO/NAT))
Coming up…..
((Banner))
American Voodoo
((SOT))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
You don’t find Voodoo. Voodoo finds you. The word
Voodoo is God.
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BLOCK B
((PKG)) NEW ORLEANS VOODOO
((Banner: American Voodoo))
((Reporter/Camera: Jeff Swicord))
((Producer: Jacquelyn DePhillips))
((Map: New Orleans, Louisiana))
((MUSIC))
((NATS: Shots around New Orleans, exterior of Voodoo
Spiritual Temple, Miriam putting sign out in front))
((Popup Banner: Mississippi Valley Voodoo is a spiritual
practice with roots in West and Central Africa))
((NATS))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
I have been a Voodoo priestess for thirty years in New
Orleans. I was born in the countryside of Mississippi. I was
baptized under the Baptist order and I was ordained in my
ministry in Chicago in 1982.
((NATS: Inside Miriam’s shop, tourists looking at things for
sale))
((SOTs: Miriam talks to customers))
((Man))
How long have you been here?
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
In this spot, three years.
((Man))
Oh really?
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Yeah, but in New Orleans, 30 years.
((Man))
Wow!
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
You don’t find Voodoo. Voodoo finds you. The word
Voodoo is God.
((SOTs: Gina and Miriam in shop))
((Gina Marie, Mystical Reader))
Yeah, I’m getting ready to write a book now.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Gina was born in New Orleans. Her family is native New
Orleans. The curator at the Voodoo Museum brought her to
me.
((SOTs: Gina and Miriam in shop))
((Gina Marie, Mystical Reader))
This is a story.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
He thought I could be a conduit for her to ground herself.
((SOT: Looking at cat gift))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Oh my God, look it there. Pharaoh.
((SOT: Priestess Miriam and Gina Talk about the false
perceptions of Voodoo))
((Gina Marie, Mystical Reader))
I noticed that every time they come here, the first question
people have when they walk through the door is ‘what is
Voodoo?’ So, I can't imagine what that's like trying to
answer that every single day, all day.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Well, it's a word that is somewhere with a lot of distraction or
an abstract synonym floating in the air today. It’s like this
word just keeps floating. Voodoo is like this big ship with a
lot of sails but no foundation to anchor the sails on.
((Gina Marie, Mystical Reader))
With the wind.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Yeah.
((Gina Marie, Mystical Reader))
I want your opinion on something.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Yeah.
((Gina Marie, Mystical Reader))
You see people dancing. They hear Voodoo. They hear
party. They want…it’s very hedonistic. It’s drumming and all
of that. What could we do or what needs to take place for
people to become more aware of the medicinal and the
healing aspect of it?
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Voodoo is empowering yourself to become more of an
enhanceable person, to rise beyond an impoverished
situation. The Voodoo God is the will of every man and if
your willpower is searched, then you're not going come
suppressed to those circumstance. You see ways to work
beyond it.
((SOTs: Nancy and her husband shopping and talking to
Miriam))
((Nancy))
Have you been making your dolls?
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
No, I keep dreaming that I would.
((Nancy))
Yeah, I’ll take this too.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Nancy has been coming to me for over what 20 years. She
were interested in getting a private consultation just to get
some clarity with her experience in life. I provide counseling
and guidance. That is the base of what you can do.
((NATS, SOTs: Bone reading; Tosses bones on table))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Okay, young lady. So, as Clint Eastwood said, ‘There's
sometimes always a little unsettled things get into the good
of things’ and that mean that there could have been
someone in your family that went through some health
issues or…..
((Nancy))
Just recently, yeah.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Some losses or…
((Nancy))
Um, not major, but she was ill.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
The bones is a tool that you have to offset the client that he
can hear clear.
((SOT: Bone reading))
((Nancy))
That’s a great feeling.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
It’s helped me to see the person and the person's thoughts
his emotion and that helped me to bring thoughts, ideas to
help bring the person over his situation.
((NATS, SOTs: Bone toss, bone reading))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
So now, I’ll let you ask the questions.
((Nancy))
I guess, most importantly is health for the coming year.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Oh, yeah, health. You're not a victim of circumstance.
((NATS: Bone toss))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Many peoples want to know if you do healings but when you
give people some creative thoughts and it bring inspiration
into their soul, that takes on toward healing.
((SOTs: Bone reading))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
And created opportunities for you and David. And he’s going
to make enough money for the two of you.
((Nancy))
That’s great.
((NATS, MUSIC: Mariam holding python))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
There's a really diverse measurement of humanity that
comes through my shop. People who really is in dire
struggle for their well-being. I have different tour guides that
bring peoples that come from every country pretty much.
((SOT: Mariam talking to tour group))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
You get back to the personal insight, maybe that’s what God
is. So, if you don’t have that personal insight, to see how to
create a wellness in the human body….
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Voodoo called me to New Orleans to have an establishment,
a house to assemble the greater thought-pattern in.
((SOT: Mariam talking to tour group))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
I graduated and I worked 11 years in surgery.
((Priestess Miriam Chamani. Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
I don't have any set thing that I would want a person to learn.
I want them to be more observant of what has come to be. I
want peoples to see a soul that has risen from the cotton
fields of Mississippi with my families. And that through all of
that time that people look back and say, ‘it’s inferior.’ Inferior
energy brings about a more greater complexity of a mind to
rise and become more assimilated. And never to sit and feel
years of drifting in complaints and weariness of their self.
Whatever I have obtained over my years is to be a legacy to
the humanity that can find it, not so much about me.
((SOT: Mariam talking to tour group))
((Priestess Miriam Chamani, Voodoo Spiritual Temple))
Bye. Okay, bye bye.
((NATS))
TEASE ((VO/NAT))
Coming up…..
((Banner))
Creator of Voices
((SOT))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
From the time I was a young child, I always wanted to be a
voice-over artist.
No way, you want to go to the studio to learn about how I do
voice-overs?
My mom made these amazing kitchen tools.
What do I say, I’m so silly.
They have yellow and green and like better other stuff with
them.
Uh…..yeah.
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((PKG)) SCRAP HOUSE ART
((VOA Russian))
((Banner: House Made of Scraps))
((Reporter: Maxim Moskalkov))
((Camera: Andrey Degtyarev))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: Hyattsville, Maryland))
((NATS))
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator))
Find something you like, and it's usually because of the
shapes and the age, and eventually that thing will be
something. It's like the object tells you what to do with it.
((NATS))
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer))
Oh my gosh, they're beautiful. I'm going to pull up and look
at the other one too. I might get out and take pictures. Is
that OK?
((NATS))
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer))
This is amazing. And somebody just takes time and put all
this together like this.
((Man))
That man right there.
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer))
Him?
((Man))
Yeah.
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer))
Are you the artist?
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator))
I’m the old man now.
((Malinda Miles, Mayor, Mount Rainer))
Oh, the old woman is impressed.
((NATS))
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator))
A really good question, an interesting question that can't be
answered is, why somebody is drawn to a certain form? But
for whatever reason, this is the thing that I want to do. It's
sort of Victorian. It's the little towers and spires. It's junk
which I like.
((NATS))
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator))
This front is put together from probably a 40s sled and this
part is a 30s truck front, cut way down. These are 1940s
headlamps from a Buick. It’s got moose horns and more
statues and another helmet over here and a deer and all this
stuff. This used to be a lamp. It has a bunch of these
statues. This is Middle Eastern, a lamp. This is a bird cage
holder.
((NATS))
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator))
Cars can't go into the back. There is no access. So, they're
on the street which means they all are legal. They all can be
driven. They're all licensed. They're all insured. It's
incredibly expensive to keep them on the road but that's how
it is.
((NATS))
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator))
Police have never said, you know, “What do you think you're
doing?” because it has legal plates. I've been pulled over by
police who wanted to talk, like, “Oh, what made you do
that?” You know, because they were bored.
((NATS))
((Clarke Bedford, Museum Conservator))
I mean, it's just my house. I mean, it's not formal in any kind
of way. So, I've actually been asleep in the living room and
had the door open and people say, “Hello, are you open?”.
It's not a museum or something, gallery or anything. It's just
an art house. It's an art house, you know. Art cars and an
art house.
((NATS))
((PKG)) ANIMATION CONTENT CREATOR AND VOICE-
PUPPETEER
((Banner: Giving Voice to All))
((Reporter/Camera: Lisa Vohra))
((Map: Silver Spring, Maryland))
((NATS))
((Courtesy: Siggy and the Bullies))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
Hink felt very sad. He thought to himself: That sure looks
like fun. Maybe, if I ask again, everyone will let me help.
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
From the time I was a young child, I always wanted to be a
voice-over artist.
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
No way, you want to go to the studio to learn about how I do
voice-overs?
My mom made these amazing kitchen tools.
What do I say, I’m so silly.
They have yellow and green and like better other stuff with
them.
Uh…..yeah.
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
I thought it was just the most fun thing you could possibly do,
to give voices to characters, to commercials, to anything. I
would take out the spices in my house after dinner and I
would do commercials with them. I thought that all cars
looked like characters. I thought that the mirrors looked like
ears and I thought the front of the car looked like a nose. I
would call up the local radio stations and I would ask them if
I could be on their show. They pretty much hung up on me.
((Courtesy: Marci Heit))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
I ended up moving out to California. I was able to get an
agent and they started sending me on auditions. So really, a
lifetime of giving voices to cars and inanimate objects really
paid off.
((NATS, SOT: Marci in recording booth))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
We have a reservation but we’re a little early.
Our bridge is being remodeled and we couldn’t stay another
minute with all the racket.
Aww.....has anyone ever told you that you have a very nice
smile?
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
So I started doing voice-overs for commercials and some
film shorts. My favorite thing to really do was animated
characters though.
((NATS))
((Courtesy: Kids on the Block))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
Siggy said, “Uh, Hink’s right. It’s not fair to like shut him out.”
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
I was a volunteer for a puppet show program called “Kids on
the Block”, which is a disability awareness puppet show
program. And the puppets were big and colorful and the
message of the puppet show program was that kids are
different but inside they’re the same. And the message was
so wonderful that I actually contacted the people who
created the “Kids on the Bloc” program, to see if they wanted
to do something for television. I ended up writing a show.
The “Kids on the Block” people wanted to keep their show
exactly the way it was, but it, sort of, sent me on a path to
create content.
((NATS))
((Courtesy: It’s Real Entertainment))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
Is that the right design for your financial reporting?
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
And so, I ended up creating a company called, “It’s Real
Entertainment”, which creates and develops original
animated content. I created a character for a show called,
“Q.D. Foodie”, which is about a girl named Quinn Daisy
who’s blind and loves to make things with food.
((NATS))
((Courtesy: It’s Real Entertainment))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
My friends call me Q.D. We’re foodies and we have so
much fun because of our web show.
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
When I was involved in this puppet show program, “Kids on
the Block”, there was a rotation of disabled speakers that
would come and speak to the kids after every performance.
I had the privilege of getting to know one of the disabled
speakers really well because she lived not that far from me.
((Courtesy: Marci Heit))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
Her name was Elda and Elda lost her sight at age 70. I met
Elda when she was 90. One of the things that Elda loved to
do was to bake. Elda took me into her home and she
showed me how she made grocery lists and how she cooked
and her personality was infectious and I was inspired by her.
Quinn Daisy is loosely based on Elda.
((Courtesy: Q.D. Foodie))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
So, we were creating some props for the characters in Q.D.
Foodie to use and we designed these kitchen tools that were
really just supposed to be fun for the characters. I decided
that they should be real.
((NATS))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
So, I set out to make kitchen tools and we created these
fabulous kitchen tools that are designed to be inclusive.
Because our character Quinn Daisy is blind, we included
Braille in the measuring cups, Braille in the measuring
spoon. The tools have easy grip handles. They’re very
sensory friendly. The idea is that we really just want to get
kids excited and engaged.
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
From the time I was a kid, I really enjoyed spending time in
the kitchen. So, that’s really something that I’m enjoying
passing along to my child as well. We cook together, we
bake together and just have lots of fun and learn so many
other life skills.
((NATS: Marci and her daughter))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
What’s Braille for one teaspoon?
One dot.
It’s that one dot and you know the Braille is in, there’s six.....
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
I never wanted to make my shows about the differences.
((NATS))
((Courtesy: It’s Real Entertainment))
Hi there. I’m Lulu Square.
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
I just wanted to make them about different kids who have all
different parts of their personalities and they come together
and are able to use their strengths. And that idea has
filtered into every property that I’ve created, every show that
I’ve created, every character, ensemble that I’ve created.
The message of the puppet show was that kids are different
but inside they’re the same. And that is true universally.
((NATS))
((Courtesy: Siggy and the Bullies))
((Marci Heit, Content Creator and Voice-Over Artist))
Being a friend is a lot more fun than being a bully.....anyday!
((NATS))
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