{"id":431,"date":"2005-02-02T13:37:39","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T22:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/stebbins-native-dance-festival\/"},"modified":"2005-02-02T13:37:39","modified_gmt":"2005-02-02T22:37:39","slug":"stebbins-native-dance-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/2005\/02\/02\/stebbins-native-dance-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Stebbins Native Dance Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe it’s been a week since my last post.\u00a0 Time does go fast.\u00a0 As I left you I was flying to Stebbins to aid in broadcasting the native dance festival.\u00a0 Stebbins has a very nice school, and a great gym for broadcasting from.\u00a0 They have a massena kind of like a balcony that goes around 3\/4 of the gym.\u00a0 We set up our equipment up there.\u00a0 It was a perfect vantage point.\u00a0 We were unfortunately running into some compression problems with live channel (the software we broadcast with) so we decided not to use it at all.\u00a0 We had two cameras set up.\u00a0 A Canon GL2, and an s-video camera that John Concilus let us borrow.\u00a0 Randy brought a 50 foot s-video cable, so we positioned the s-video camera on one end of the gym, and had the GL2 at half court.\u00a0 All up in the massena.\u00a0 We had both cameras plugged into a switch allowing us to switch between the video feeds.\u00a0 The kids ran the cameras and the switch, broadcasting the signal to the rest of the schools in the district.\u00a0 Since the signal was being sent through the video conferencing system, we were able to see one other site on our TV.\u00a0 On Thursday it happened to be Shaktoolik.\u00a0 While we were broadcasting the dancing.\u00a0 I noticed there was a lady in Shaktoolik dancing along with the music and video she was getting from us in Stebbins.\u00a0As we were getting settled in on Wednesday, I noticed that I forgot my sleeping pad.\u00a0 We were sleeping in a classroom at the school, and the floor is really hard.\u00a0 I started getting a headache that evening, and wasn’t able to sleep until sometime after 3:30 A.M.\u00a0 So I was pretty tired the next day.\u00a0 Thursday night I pulled out my parka and snow pants, and slept on top of those. With my parka, it’s like sleeping on a down feather bed.\u00a0 Pretty comfy compared to the night before.\u00a0 So I slept a lot better.\u00a0 During the day the kids were practicing Native Youth Olympics.\u00a0 They have some pretty cool competitions.\u00a0 One of them they have a wiffle ball hanging from the basketball hoop.\u00a0 You have to jump up and kick it with your foot.\u00a0 The hard part is you have to land on the same foot you kicked it with.\u00a0 The amazing thing is there are kids that can kick really high.\u00a0 The world record is over 10 feet high, that\u2019s above the rim.\u00a0 One of the kids in Stebbins was kicking about a foot below the rim.\u00a0 I wish I had some video to post on here.\u00a0 Another one is set up the same way, but they have to jump up and kick the ball with both feet at the same time.\u00a0 There is the wrist carry.\u00a0 To people hold a stick between them, and a third hooks their wrist over the bar.\u00a0 The two people pick the person up and carry them around the gym until they fall off.\u00a0 There are many others.\u00a0 I’ll see if I can find some video to show it off.I got my PHP and MySQL books in.\u00a0 They are pretty big.\u00a0 I am still in the very beginning right now, learning about the origins of PHP.\u00a0 Apparently it was created by a Canadian who wanted a counter on his website to see how many people viewed his resume.\u00a0 It is now the most widely used web-scripting program in the world.\u00a0 I am hoping that it won’t be to far above my head.\u00a0The exciting news for the week is the crab pot.\u00a0 Erin, C.O. and myself went out last Sunday and cut a hole in the ocean ice to drop a crab pot down.\u00a0 We borrowed a chainsaw from Henry, one of the elders in Brevig.\u00a0 When we started cutting through the ice we didn’t hit water on our fist cut.\u00a0 We cut out a big square, and cut it into a grid.\u00a0 Then we used a chisel that C.O. made, and popped out the ice blocks.\u00a0 On the second level we broke through.\u00a0 Unfortunately the hole filled up with water, and we couldn’t use the chainsaw anymore.\u00a0 It would have been under water.\u00a0 So we had to use the chisel and there was still about 8 – 10 inches to go.\u00a0 It was tough work. We chipped away a hole big enough to slide the pot in sideways and called it quits.\u00a0 We were tired.\u00a0 We went back out Monday and about 3 -4 inches had formed over the night.\u00a0 We chiseled through that since it was at the surface.\u00a0 There was still the layer of ice under water that we had left the day before.\u00a0 So we chiseled that a little bigger and pulled up the pot to see.\u00a0 One day isn’t near enough time, but we had caught a couple of starfish.\u00a0 We are going to pull it again on Saturday.\u00a0 If we don’t have anything again, I think we’ll move it further down the coast.\u00a0 Rumor has it that people used to do some crabbing, but they would go a long ways down the coast towards Nome.\u00a0 I’m hoping that we can do it closer.\u00a0 One thing we have on our side now, is a little knowledge of how to get a hole cut in the ice.\u00a0 It should go a little fast next time.<\/font><\/p>\n

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I can’t believe it’s been a week since my last post.\u00a0 Time does go fast.\u00a0 As I left you I was flying to Stebbins to aid in broadcasting the native dance festival.\u00a0 Stebbins has a very nice school, and a great gym for broadcasting from.\u00a0 They have a massena kind of like a balcony that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bbryson.com\/bill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}