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The Rose Parade is an all-American New Year's celebration but most of the flowers come from South America. This year, a float built by students from California Polytechnic Universities had 94 percent of their flowers grown in the Golden State. (Dec. 31)
The Rose Parade is an all-American New Year's celebration. But most of the flowers that volunteers carefully place on the colorful floats come all the way from South America.
The California Cut Flower Commission is highlighting the float...
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A rescued Siamese cat with a flowers and hearts scissored and colored into her hair and a Poodle trimmed to a Wild West theme won grooming competitions Monday. (April 7)
SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH): Cindy Oliver, Dog Groomer
"It takes like 20 to 30 hours in two hour sessions."
SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH): Angela Kumpe, Pet Groomer
"What I do is I cut her down and then I draw on the pattern with a marker and then the...
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Flowers prepared for wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton
Windsor Great Park, London
1. Wide of flowers at Windsor Great Park, from where the majority of flowers for the royal wedding will come
2. Close up of white flowers
3. Wide of purple flowers
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Emma Sampson,...
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The 1985 Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears got their trip to the White House Friday. President Barack Obama welcomed his favorite team in the Rose Garden. The Bears original trip was cancelled after the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded.
HEADLINE: 1985 champs finally get White House visit
CAPTION: The 1985 Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears got their trip to the White House Friday. President Barack Obama welcomed his favorite team in the Rose Garden. The Bears original...
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MEXICO: DAY OF THE DEAD COMMEMORATIONS
Spanish/Nat
Mexicans across the country on Thursday celebrated their centuries-old commemoration of Dia de Los Muertos - the Day of the Dead.
The ceremonies mix Roman Catholic beliefs with pre-Hispanic customs of offering food and...
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UK: LONDON: FLOWERS AND TRIBUTES TO PRINCESS DIANA ARE CLEARED
English/Nat
Volunteers gathered outside St. James's Palace in London on Thursday to help clear the mountains of flowers and tributes left to Diana, Princess of Wales.
Boy scouts, girl guides, cab drivers and dozens of members of...
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Funerals for two victims of deadly nightclub fire, deputy sports minister comments
Rio de Janeiro
1. Wide of hearse carrying coffin of Santa Maria fire victim Daniele Dias de Mattos
2. Tracking shot of Mattos' 14-year-old daughter crying as she follows the hearse, zoom out to wide of funeral cortege
3. Wide of...
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Vigil to mark 28th anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Ukrainians on Saturday marked the 28th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster with a vigil in capital Kiev.
The blast from the reactor in Unit Four spewed radioactivity across Europe after the accident on 26 April 1986.
30 people...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: 11TH ANNIVERSARY OF CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR DISASTER
Moscow, Russia, April 26, 1997 and file
April 26, 1997:
1. Meeting at Moscow cemetery for Chernobyl victims
2. Mourners lay flowers at grave of Chernobyl victims
3. Flowers being planted at grave
4. Russian Orthodox service for...
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Boy scouts attempt to create the world's biggest fleur-de-lis
1. Wide top shot of big lily-flower (or fleur-de-lis) made out of drink cans in Zocalo Square
2. Pan of flower
3. Tilt down from Mexican flag to giant flower
4. Close up of a star pattern in the flower
5. Wide of members of the Boy...
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Despite the economic boom in the urban areas of Myanmar, the rural countryside and mountains are still plagued with poverty and a drug problem that is open and out of control. (March 17)
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SOUNDBITE (Kachin) Daw Li, mother who lost two sons to overdose:
"They used to be secretive. Everyone used to hide in their houses. But for the last seven or eight years dealers have been...
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President Barack Obama said Monday there is "no excuse" for the cascade of computer problems that have marred the rollout of his health care law, but declared he was confident the administration would be able to fix the issues. (Oct. 21)
President Barack Obama said Monday there was "no excuse" for the cascade of computer problems that have marred the rollout of key elements in his health care law, but declared he was confident the administration would be able to fix the...
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Families ask Pakistan govt for help in freeing hostages
1. Pan of relatives of South Korean hostages getting off bus outside Pakistan Embassy and lining up with signs calling for the hostages' release and red roses
2. Tilt-down from relative of one of the hostages to sign reading: (English)...
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Opium growing continues in Afghanistan.
0.00 Wide of opium field with farmers praying
0.08 Wide of field with farmer tending young crop
0.12 Mid shot of farmer tending crop
0.18 Close shot of hands tending poppy sprouts
0.24 Opium shop with men sitting around stove with...
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USA: CUBAN BOY CUSTODY BATTLE UPDATE
Span/Eng/Nat
Relatives of six-year-old Elian Gonzalez in Miami say they're only willing to let his father visit the boy in their home.
Juan Migel Gonzalez, father of Elian, arrived in Washington D-C Thursday morning with his wife and...
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UN says that opium production has increased for the 3rd year in a row
Bawri village, Helmand province - 8 April 2013
1. Various of farmers harvesting opium in poppy fields
2. Close of farmer's hands harvesting opium
3. Mid of boy harvesting opium
4. Close of boy's hands
5. Mid of farmers putting opium in...
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Karzai comments after UN development meeting
1. Pan across meeting
2. Various of delegates
3. Wide shot, Hamid Karzai, Interim Leader, Afghanistan
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Hamid Karzai, Interim Leader, Afghanistan:
"I mentioned earlier that we were working on the eradication of...
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Margaret Thatcher Resignation - Leaves Number 10
Margaret Thatcher Resignation - Leaves Number 10
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WRAP Funeral for Russian dissident author; mourners voxpops
1. Wide exterior of Donskoi Monastery
2. Wide of people carrying large wreaths, crowd outside monastery
3. Close-up body of Alexander Solzhenitsyn in open casket
4. Close-up of candles being lit
5. Solzhenitsyn's widow, Natalia, kissing...
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Blooming orchids in Paris hothouse exhibition
AP Television
Paris - 27 February, 2013
1. Close of purple orchid
2. Close of pink orchid
3. Mid of yellow orchids
4. Wide of visitors walking through gardens
5. Mid of visitors
6. Close of flowers
7. Close of white flowers
8. Close of...
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Russia/Japan- Growing popularity of Valentines Day
Russia has come a long way from the days of cold communist austerity to embrace the western capitalist tradition of Valentine's Day, which was celebrated on Friday (14/2).
Until recently Valentine's Day was frowned upon by the Soviet...
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CHINA: BEIJING: CARTIER FOUNDATION UNVEIL CURIOUS MODERN ART OBJECT
Mandarin/Nat
The argument over what constitutes art is not limited to intellectuals in the hot-house environment of the Paris and New York art world.
In Beijing, the question was raised by the Cartier Foundation, an institute...
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Saffron farmers' livelihoods under threat from low yields and foreign competition
Saffron is said to be one of the world's most expensive spices , sold at more than 250,000 rupees per kg or about 4165 US dollars.
Pampore, in north Kashmir, is the region's saffron district , accounting for nearly 90 percent of the...
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Bouquets of flowers from grieving residents piled up at a growing memorial in front of the Oakland police department after three officers were killed following a pair of Saturday shootouts. A fourth officer is in grave condition.
HEADLINE: Oakland, Calif. mourns slain officers
CAPTION: Bouquets of flowers from grieving residents piled up at a growing memorial in front of the Oakland police department after three officers were killed following a pair of...