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For more than a century, the elite cadre of 60 San Francisco Bar Pilots have enjoyed monopoly control over guiding ships around the San Francisco Bay. After a massive oil spill, shipping companies are contesting the pilots' rising fees with the Legislature.
HEADLINE: Bay Ship Pilots' Salaries Questioned
CAPTION: For more than a century, the elite cadre of 60 San Francisco Bar Pilots have enjoyed monopoly control over guiding ships around the San Francisco Bay. After a massive oil spill,...
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Blair on Iraq, North Korea & Middle East in speech to ambassadors
1. Pan of British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, walking to stage
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:
"We should remain the closest ally of the United States and as allies, influence them to continue broadening their...
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JAPAN: KYOTO: UN CLIMATE CHANGE CONVENTION: DEMONSTRATIONS
Eng/Ger/Nat
Hundreds of environmentalists brought their anger to the streets on Sunday in Kyoto.
The demonstration took place as world leaders prepared for Monday's summit aimed at achieving an agreement on combating global...
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4th C40 Large Cities Climate summit opens
1. Wide of mayors walking past media at the C-40 largest cities climate change summit
2. Cutaway of media
3. Mid of mayors unveiling banner
4. Cutaway of officials
5. Various of mayors during photo opportunity
6. Sao Paulo Mayor Gilberto...
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South Africa - Red panda twins
Johannesburg Zoo is celebrating the birth of Red Panda twins on December 28th 1996. The cubs are the second set of twins born to parents Jamie and Mishra, who have been with the Zoo for more than five years.
Johannesburg Zoo is...
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Many people say the recent toxic alumina spill in Hungary is unlikely to happen in the U.S., but there are three alumina refineries in the U.S., including one at Point Comfort, Texas that are a constant source of pollution.
HEADLINE: Toxic spill in Hungary hits home in Texas
CAPTION: Many people say the recent toxic alumina spill in Hungary is unlikely to happen in the U.S., but there are three alumina refineries in the U.S., including one at Point Comfort,...
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Technology 2006
Amsterdam, Netherlands - 17 September 2006
1. Architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars unveiling model of floating bed
2. SOUNDBITE (Dutch) Janjaap Ruijssenaars, architect:
"The basic principal of the floating bed is the principal of two...
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BP predicts at least one of the two relief wells now being drilled to remedy the spill in the Gulf of Mexico will be completed by the end of July or in August.
HEADLINE: BP opens drilling rig to cameras
CAPTION: BP predicts at least one of the two relief wells now being drilled to remedy the spill in the Gulf of Mexico will be completed by the end of July or in August. It allowed a camera on...
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Experts say last week's chemical spill in West Virginia's Elk River affecting more than 300,000 people is a powerful reminder about the vulnerability of U.S. waterways to toxic spills. (Jan. 15)
Bill Price, Sierra Club
"I think water is something people assume they can just go to their sink and get here in Charleston at least but that assumption isn't safe anymore."
Margaret Kosal, Georgia Institute of Technology
"What we...
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WRAP Family photo; Steinmeier on climate, Kyoto; FM's board train
1. Wide of building where summit is being held
2. Wide shot of ministers at news conference
3. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, and German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier
4. SOUNDBITE: (German) Frank-Walter Steinmeier,...
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INDIA: ACCUSATIONS THAT US TOXIC WASTE IS SENT TO INDIA
Hindi/English/Nat
Environmentalists are accusing the United States and the Indian government of conspiring to drown South Asia in toxic waste.
Greenpeace claims the U-S is sending ships loaded with asbestos and other dangerous toxins to...
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EU leaders meet ASEAN delegation to discuss Myanmar
1. Current EU President and Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso being greeted by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong; Socrates shakes hands with Lee
2. Close-up of Socrates,...
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Celebrations for Knut the polar bear
1. Wide of Knut's enclosure at Berlin zoo
2. Various of people watching
3. Mid shot of Knut rising and shaking his paws
4. Wide of Knut in his enclosure
5. Mid shot of Knut waiting
6. Wide of Knut's keeper Thomas Doerflein and...
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Inauguration of conservation facility for one of rarest freshwater turtles
1. Various of Cantor's giant soft-shell turtle being measured
2. Local officials cutting red ribbon to inaugurate the turtle conservation centre
3. Giant turtle being held prior to release into pond
4. Wide of Buddhist monk blessing...
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Industrial pollution an issue in Romanian elections
1. Wide of Copsa Mica plant
2. Heavy smoke coming out of plant chimneys
3. Various of electoral posters
4. Smoke coming out of plant chimneys
5. Wide of railway worker checking cargo
6. SOUNDBITE: (Romanian) name not given, railway...
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The friendship between a white rhino and a ranger
Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya, 26 September 2008,
1. Pan from rangers to rhino (Max) grazing.
2. Mid shot of rhino (Max) grazing.
3. Close up of rhino feet (Max) walking as he grazes.
4. Mid shot of rhino (Max).
5. Mid shot of Patrick...
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Indonesia - Forest fires continue to devastate
Fires continued their advance across Indonesia's charred East Kalimantan province on Thursday (26/3) razing ancient forests and threatening rare wildlife, including the orangutan population - the area's popular symbol.
The latest fires...
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WRAP Police clash with anti-globalisation marchers ahead of G8 summit
1. Various, protesters with rainbow banners and flags bearing anti-G-8 messages
2. Mid of protest banner and poster featuring face of George W. Bush with a swastika painted on his forehead
3. Various of protesters assembling with...
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Sweltering temperatures in Latin America on Wednesday are posing problems for animals across the region.
Sweltering temperatures in Latin America on Wednesday are posing problems for animals across the region.
Brazil is sizzling, and with the heat index sometimes soaring above 120 degrees Fahrenheit (49 degrees Celsius), keepers at a Rio de...
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Designer makes environmental statement with menswear preview
AP Entertainment
London, 8 January 2013
1. Wide shot interior of venue
2. Various of static presentation - models preview designs from the Vivienne Westwood MAN Autumn-Winter 2013/14 collection
3. Close up Vivienne Westwood and husband...
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WRAP Latest on fires set by farmers which caused smog cloud, Uruguay
Montevideo, Uruguay
1. Various aerials of thick clouds of smoke
Buenos Aires, Argentina
2. Wide of busy street, obelisk in background shrouded in smog
3. Mid of obelisk
4. Traffic driving along road in thick smog
5. Mid of traffic in...
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One red squirrel population is facing extinction
Dorset - 1 November, 2007
1. Various of healthy red squirrels
Formby, Merseyside - 21 October, 2008
2. Wide of car entering Formby Red Squirrel Reserve at Formby
3. People at information post
4. Various of woodland forest
5. SOUNDBITE...
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Locally produced food becomes popular with consumers
London - March 2007
1. Various shots of market stalls at farmer's market
3. Close up of Brussels sprouts
4. Wide shot stall holder putting up an umbrella with 'Homebase' store in background
5. Wide shot cheese stall
6. Close up jar...
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Volunteer divers help monitor marine life
Miller''s Point, Cape Town, South Africa - 10 October 2009
1. Wide mountains and ocean (MUTE)
2. Wide rocks and ocean (MUTE)
3. Medium Oyster Catcher birds on rock (MUTE)
4. Close up mussels with water sweeping over them
5. Wide scuba...