#deion broxton

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#bison #yellowstone national park #deion broxton

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The bison reporter, Deion Broxton, won a journalism award!! He struggled as a news reporter because people didn’t want to hire him because of his Baltimore accent, but he got a job in Iowa and then won an Iowa journalism award! <3

#bison #lol #funny #state park #yellowstone

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YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A bison gored a 25-year-old woman in Yellowstone National Park.

The bison was walking near a boardwalk at Black Sand Basin, just north of Old Faithful, when the woman approached it on Monday, according to a park statement. She got within 10 feet before the animal gored her and tossed her 10 feet into the air.

The woman from Grove City, Ohio, suffered a puncture wound and other injuries.

Park emergency medical providers responded and transported her via ambulance to a hospital in Idaho.

Park officials say it’s the first reported bison goring this year. The park statement said bison are unpredictable, have injured more people in Yellowstone than any other animal, and can run three times faster than humans.

Park regulations require visitors to remain more than 25 yards away from bison. The park statement said two other people were also within 25 yards of the same bison.

The incident was under investigation. ______________________________

Don't be like this woman be like Deion Broxton instead

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Poor Deion did not want to deal with Freddy Krueger, but what can he do? XD

#kapwing #Deion Broxton #Memes #Dank Memes #Freddy Krueger #A Nightmare on Elm Street

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Viral Video Of Reporter Fleeing Bison Herd Inspires Funniest Memes Deion Broxton's reaction to a bison herd has been turned into a meme. A video going massively viral online shows the moment a TV reporter was forced to cut short the segment he was filming and run to safety as a herd of bison began approaching him.

#Deion Broxton #Live TV blooper #Viral video

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Deion Broxton - NBC Montana Journalist

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I Ain't Messing With You

I Ain’t Messing With You

https://radiopublic.com/the-vocal-fries-GOoXdO/s1!19bb8 Carrie and Megan talk with Deion Broxton about his Baltimore accent, his career and speech therapy, and going viral.

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Newsman Deion Broxton, while getting ready to do a report at Yellowstone, sees a herd of bison walking his way.... he said nah 🤣🤣🤣

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#bison #yellowstone national park #deion broxton #not messin wichu

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With Humans Away, Animals in National Parks Are Having a Ball

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With Humans Away, Animals in National Parks Are Having a Ball

As people stay home, animals have national parks almost entirely to themselves.

At the end of April, the Yosemite National Park Facebook page shared a video sharing the events of the last month. The video shows foxes, deer, bears and a bobcat wandering the park. Some were unusually close to the roads and other infrastructure that are usually populated with visitors. The appearance of animals in usually busy areas might prompt changes in how the space is used when the park reopens.

“As you get people off trails and reduce the amount of human activity and movement in some of these rural-urban areas, wildlife really seem to key into that,” says Montana State University wildlife researcher Tony Clevenger to Discover magazine’s Leslie Nemo.

Elk have been spotted using sidewalks in Canadian towns like Banff, near Banff National Park, CBC reports. In South Africa’s Kruger National Park, park ranger Richard Sowry spotted lions napping along the road, per the BBC. And bear sightings have increased near Yosemite’s Ahwahnee Hotel.

“It’s not like they aren’t usually here,” Dane Peterson, who works at the hotel, told the Los Angeles Times in April. “It’s that they usually hang back at the edges, or move in the shadows.”

The presence of humans can impact animal behavior in substantial ways, Kaitlyn Gaynor, a wildlife ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, tells Discover magazine. Her research shows that human activity, including hiking, seems to have pushed mammals, including coyotes and deer, to become more nocturnal than they are when humans aren’t around. And roads, when used frequently, cut up national park habitats, so without traffic, animals can safely cross the road to reach food, shelter and mates.

The change could be especially beneficial to bears that are now emerging from winter hibernation and looking for food. In Banff National Park, bears forage south-facing hillsides for snacks, which often leads to conflicts with tourists on the same sunny hillsides, Discover reports.

“Probably the wildlife are really rapidly getting used to having a place to themselves and using areas closer to where people would normally occur but are not found now,” University of Alberta biologist Colleen Cassady St. Clair tells CBC. “So I think the big surprises are going to come when those areas reopen.”

Gaynor tells Discover that human-wildlife conflicts will probably increase once shelter-in-place orders are lifted and people return to the parks. People are supposed to give national park wildlife a wide berth, exemplified by television reporter Deion Broxton’s reaction to an approaching herd of bison in Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone normally opens on the first Friday in May, but this year the park remains closed with plans for a staged opening, Ruffin Prevost reports for the Billings Gazette.

Clevenger tells Discover that visitors are the primary conservation concern for the protected habitats—the National Park Service saw record numbers of visitors in total in 2016, with 330 million visits across the United States national parks. Wildlife cameras and GPS collars that were already in use before shelter-in-place orders were declared may reveal new parts of the parks that need added protection, Gaynor tells Discover.

“A lot of the animals that are known to be urban exploiters, as they’re sometimes called, are really tremendously flexible in their behavior,” St. Clair tells CBC. “They’re masters of observing changes in their environment and they respond to them really quickly.”

When parks open up again, St. Clair says, “We should be ready to cut [the animals] some slack and to use extra precautions and just double down on all the things we know we should do.”

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Current mood:

Source: Deion Broxton, KTVM, upon noticing a herd of bison was walking straight toward him. :) The video’s hilarious.

#reaction gifs #i think i'd get the hell outta yellowstone too

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Julia Wohl, RAD intern

I came across a clip from a September 1979 episode of All Things Considered featuring NPR reporter Steve Proffitt. He explores the mechanisms behind the computer-generated voice of the Speak & Spell, a device from Texas Instruments with synthetic speech capabilities that quizzes its user on their spelling ability. I thought Proffitt’s piece offered an opportunity to dissect how the TI team defined a “normal” voice, how the TI team’s choice resonates with news broadcasting pronunciation standards, and how these similar standards have a bearing on the present.  

The team of TI engineers is regarded as the first to implement speech synthesis capabilities into a small and affordable computational device. Within two years of the introduction of the Speak & Spell, both Bell Labs and Intel introduced similar devices that used digital signal processing. These advancements paved the way for smartphones and smart speakers. 

Gene Frantz, interviewed by Proffitt for the story, and his team of engineers found the broadcaster’s vocal tract to be a viable model for the Speak & Spell. Alice Helton, a linguist with whom TI engineers worked closely, chose the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language to govern the standard of pronunciation. Helton chose the voice, too. She recalled they decided to use the Dallas-area radio announcer Mitch Carr, who reported for NPR and is currently a radio broadcaster for KRLD in Texas. 

NPR journalists have continued to examine why and how the voices of news broadcasters and AI assistants alike reinforce ideas of how people in certain roles are supposed to sound. 

In a 2018 Code Switch episode, hosts Shereen Marisol Meraji and Gene Demby draw the same conclusion as Frantz: the meaning of “normal” is subjective. Meraji and Demby offer important context to the first formal academic definition of the “normal” American dialect. They explain that in 1924, linguist John Kenyon of Hiram College surveyed accents of the people surrounding him and developed a set of pronunciation standards. Kenyon published his standards in dictionary form in 1944, and by 1951 the National Broadcasting Company (now NBC) had adopted it to guide their news broadcasters towards clarity in their communication. A regional standard for communication became a national one. 

The multitude of dialects spoken, heard and understood across the nation complicates Kenyon’s and NBC’s standards for clear communication. Speakers and listeners, including machines that are programmed to detect a voice and emit one, perceive specific dialects as more normal and clearer than others for a number of reasons. Sometimes, people’s accents or native language can impede their ability to communicate with each other, depending on who the speaker and listener are, and can result in discrimination. 

In the same 2018 Code Switch episode, Meraji and Demby interview an aspiring broadcast journalist from Baltimore named Deion Broxton. Listen to Broxton recall how he visited a speech therapist to adjust his accent, starting at 00:13:33.

In other instances, a listener’s perception depends on the gender of the speaker. The Speak & Spell’s male-sounding voice stands in contrast to today’s familiar chorus of female-sounding voices, which guide users on smartphones, smart speakers and public transit. 

I called Frantz to learn more about why the engineers chose the voice of a man and a news broadcaster in particular. He explained to me that higher frequency voices, or voices often associated with being female, went above a threshold the device could capture. Additionally, the higher the frequency that is sampled, the more storage required in the device. Confined by their budget, the initial device did not have sufficient storage capacity for a higher frequency voice. So engineers were forced to model a lower frequency voice, one generally associated with men, which would take up less storage space on the device.

As Scott Simon found in a 2011 radio essay, there are several other explanations for the decision to assign a female-sounding voice to a computer. Rebecca Zorach, director of the Social Media Project at the University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality shared with CNN, “Most such decisions are probably the result of market research, so they may be reflecting gender stereotypes that already exist in the general public.” 

Robert LoCascio, a leader of the Equal AI initiative, offered an alternative explanation to NPR’s Laura Sydell in 2018. He told her, “The male-dominated AI industry brings its own unconscious bias to the decision of what gender to make a virtual assistant.” 

Since 1979, computer-generated speech has transformed from the glitchy and grating to the welcoming and warm. The techniques to approximate human inflection and intonation with computers have advanced and voice-assistive devices have proliferated. Despite these innovations, digital technologies have retained the vestiges of traditional gender roles and a specific type of pronunciation. 

#npr #nprinterns #npr code switch #npr all things considered

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I saw the meme of Deion Broxton feeling uncomfortable with whatever he was encountering, so I made him encounter Jason Voorhees as he was making a report about Camp Crystal Lake.

#kapwing #Memes #Dank Memes #Deion Broxton #Jason Takes Manhattan #Jason Voorhees #Friday the 13th

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Deion Broxton is a Reporter / Multimedia Journalist (MMJ) at NBC Montana. He is trending in a viral video where he spots a herd of bison coming toward him while setting up for his shot. Broxton was doing a story at Yellowstone Park when he spotted the bison.

There was a herd of bison walking right toward me at @YellowstoneNPS today! pi…

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