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Image of front page, Teno's cliff (island of Tenerife) Nationalism and ideology in the Basque press during the Falklands War Jes�s Canga-Larequi, Ph.D. [C.V] Professor of Journalism at the School of Social and Communication Sciences of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Spain. jes�firstname.lastname@example.com Abstract: This research article presents the results of the classification and analysis of the news items and subjective information (opinion articles and editorials) published by five of the most important newspapers in the Basque Autonomous Community about the war between Great Britain and Argentina over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, during the 68 days that this conflict lasted. The study is based on the analysis of 309 issues published from 3 April to 22 June, 1982, which provided a total of 799 pages. Keywords: Basque Press; nationalism; ideology; manipulation of information. Summary: 1. Introduction. 2. Objectives. 3. Hypotheses. 4. Object of study and time delimitation. 5. Methods. 6. Two points of agreement. 7. The nationalist issue. 8. Basque nationalism. 9. Spanish nationalism. 10. Conclusions. 11. References. 12. Notes. 13. Annexes. Translation by Cruz-Alberto Mart�nez-Arcos, M.A. � University of London 1. Introduction On 2 April, 1982, Argentinas armed forces took possession of the Falkland Islands and proclaimed sovereignty over these territories. This action triggered Great Britains dispatch of its naval task force and the start of a never-officially-declared war against Argentina. The commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War this year has motivated this research on the representation of this conflict by the Basque press. However, the analysis and classification of the news items and, particularly, the subjective information (opinion articles and editorials) published by the Basque press about and during the conflict over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, in order to establish their ideological positions, is not an easy task. In this analysis we must keep in mind that both adversaries in the Falklands War had positive and negative features and that this made very difficult for people to choose which one was right. Given its institutional regime, Great Britain should have been, in theory, supported by all the self-considered democratic governments and people, regardless of their position towards Mrs Thatchers Government, because it was fighting against a military dictatorship that was responsible for thousands of http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/956_Bilbao/12_CangaEN.html Page 268 assassinations and had used its armed forces to attack the archipelago. However, Great Britain also had a point against it: the fact that in this war it was not acting as a guarantor of freedoms but as a colonial power that ignored the international resolutions set by the UN General Assembly (2065/XX) to resolve peacefully its dispute with Argentina over the sovereignty of the archipelago. Argentina, whose military junta was, at least in theory, reviled worldwide, had in its favour the fact that it was fighting to recover a territory that was recognised as Argentinean by all nations, with the exception of Great Britain. Therefore it was very difficult to support any of the contenders without incurring in a contradiction: people could either support a democracy with colonialist purposes or a dictatorship that, in that case, was fighting for independence. 2. Objectives The main objective of this research is to identify the positions taken by the different daily newspapers from the Basque Country towards the conflict that in 1982 led to the war in the South Atlantic, between Great Britain and the Argentine Republic over the possession and sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, and to determine whether these positions were conditioned by the newspapers ideologies or based exclusively on the events that were taking place. There are also more specific goals derived from this central objective: 1. To analyse the perspective used by newspapers to present this news event and establish their, true or false, neutrality or support towards the adversaries, based on the subjective pieces (opinion articles and editorials) published by each newspaper. 2. To classify the information in qualitative and quantitative terms. 3. Hypotheses The hypotheses that we intend to verify at the end of the research are: 1. The ideology of each newspaper was decisive in their approach towards the conflict. 2. The most important thing for all newspapers was to show their readers a clear position, of support, opposition, or neutrality, towards the adversaries. 3. Newspapers used this foreign conflict that had no apparent connections to Spain or the Basque Country, to maintain and reinforce their own ideological positions, which would constitute a manipulation of the information. 4. The 'nationalist issue' (Basque or Spanish) is the central core on which the position of each newspaper revolves. 4. Object of study and time delimitation The study is based on reliable data extracted from the analysis of the information published by the Basque newspapers during the development of the conflict. The period under analysis covers from 3 April, when the Argentine military occupation of the Islands started, to 22 June, 1982, when the new President of Argentina, the former Page 269 http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/956_Bilbao/12_CangaEN.html general Reynaldo Bignone, was elected. It is important to mention that although the hostilities actually ceased on 14 June and the Basque newspapers actually continued to publish information on the event after 22 June, the day of the designation of the new President was chosen as the date to close the analysis of the war based on its significance. The newspapers selected for the study are: 1) Deia ("Call"); 2) Tribuna Vasca (Basque Tribune); 3) Egin ("To make"); 4) La Gaceta del Norte ("The Northern Gazette"); and 5) El Correo Espa�ol�El Pueblo Vasco ("The Spanish Mail-The Basque People"), which from now on will be referred only as El Correo Espa�ol. In the case of Tribuna Vasca, the period of analysis started in 9 May, 1982, as the newspaper was launched this day. Despite this newspaper lacks five weeks of information on the subject, its inclusion in the study was considered necessary as it was the only Basque newspaper that during that time exhibited an ideological stance that was different from those exhibited by other papers. The material used for the study consisted of a total of 309 issues of the five selected newspapers -all published between 3 April and 22 June, 1982. Deia, El Correo Espa�ol and Egin reported daily on the subject during the 68 days, except on Mondays, when they were not published due to the then exclusive circulation of the Hoja del Lunes ("Mondays Paper") and on 10 April, when Good Friday was celebrated and newspapers were not published. La Gaceta del Norte only failed to report on the conflict on 17 April. For its part, Tribuna Vasca reported on the conflict only from 9 May onwards, and thus provided 38 relevant issues. The 309 analysed issues contained a total of 799 pages dedicated, totally or partially, to the subject of study, including the front and back pages, the opinion and editorial pages, and the international and breaking news sections. The selected newspapers had the following number of pages: In order to make the study more plural and objective, the five chosen newspapers have different and perfectly delimited ideological tendencies. In fact, four of them were clearly linked to specific political parties. This is the case of Deia (linked to the Basque Nationalist Party), Tribuna Vasca (to the Spanish Socialist Workers Party), Egin (to Herri Batasuna) and La Gaceta del Norte (to Alianza Popular, although not as notoriously as the other three). The fifth newspaper, El Correo Espa�ol did not seem http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/956_Bilbao/12_CangaEN.html Page 270 to have any links to any party at that time, but its political views can certainly be placed in the centre-right of the political spectrum of the time. Thus, the sample of newspapers had the following ideological frameworks: In addition to being the most representative newspapers in the Basque Country at the time of the Falklands War, they also had the largest circulation. It is important to mention that the circulation of San Sebastians Diario Vasco ("Basque Newspaper") also was one of the largest but was excluded from the study because it was owned by the same company publishing El Correo Espa�ol and, therefore, followed the same ideology and position as the latter newspaper. As mentioned, the main objective of this research is to determine the position of the aforementioned newspapers towards the conflict in the South Atlantic, whether they supported one side and, if so, whether this support was conditioned by their institutional ideology. Therefore, other aspects that were reported about the war were not taken into account in this study, as they are not relevant to the main objective. Thus, for example, the study will not address such issues as: the impact of the war on NATO, the Common Market, the United Nations; the role played by the two superpowers, mainly the USA, whose final decision to unconditionally support Britain shocked its relations with Latin America; or (from the military point of view) the importance acquired by the Falklands War when it led many countries to test the tactics and weapons of their armed forces. Thus, while all these issues were covered at one time or another by the sample of newspapers, they will not be addressed in this work, unless it is strictly necessary. 5. Methods The research method used for this analysis is the case study, which can allow us to understand the event and the specific context in which it unfolded. The information published about the conflict by the selected newspapers will be analysed from qualitative and quantitative perspectives, in order to be able to establish a complete image of the ideology and ideas reflected by the newspapers. Two categories were established for the qualitative analysis, which include all the pieces of information suitable for analysis: editorials and opinion articles. Both types of information have traditionally defined the ideological line and position of a Page 271 http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/956_Bilbao/12_CangaEN.html newspaper towards a specific event. What was said and how it was said were the only aspects examined to determine what, in our opinion, "was really meant". We have to recognise that we do not have a very broad starting point because the editorials devoted to the subject are rather scarce and, in some cases, non-existent. However, we firmly believe that the editorials and the opinion articles will provide sufficient evidence to clarify which of the three possible positions was taken by each newspaper (support for Argentina, support for Great Britain, or neutrality). Opinion articles will also help us to complete the final outline. Although many of these articles were written by prestigious commentators, the analysis was not influenced by the authors fame and possible or known ideology, but was solely based on their content. Our first assumption was that, in theory, most articles agreed with the position taken by their newspaper. Regardless of their ideological alignment, these opinion articles will serve to draw the final conclusions. There are some important and recurrent terms used in the reporting of this event and they must be defined before presenting the analysis of the selected texts. These terms are nationalism, colonialism, and imperialism. Nationalism refers to an ideology that involves a strong identification of a group of people with a nation and its independence. Colonialism is understood as the "domination and administration of a territory by a foreign power. This domination can be political, military, informative, cultural, economic or ethnic" (RAE 23rd edition). Finally, imperialism would be the "attitude and doctrine of those who advocate or practice the expansion of a countrys dominance over others by military, economic, or political force" (Ibid.). The common connection of the three terms is the ,,territorial claim, as it happened in the Falklands conflict. On the other hand, the quantitative analysis was used for the quantification and classification of all the pieces of information provided by the newspapers. For instance: How much space was devoted to cover the event? How many news items were merely noticeable, objective, or subjective? How many editorials and opinion pieces were published on the subject? For this task, the most viable choice was a hemerographic study focused on measuring the space occupied by the pieces of information on the subject, not their number. The space was measured in square millimetres. This hemerographic study is focused on establishing two things: each newspapers total volume of information and volume of international news. The analysis of the total volume of the newspaper will help us to obtain accurate data because the number of pages is usually very uniform. In fact, the days when supplements or booklets were inserted in the newspapers, they constituted additional content to the newspapers usual volume of information. Establishing the volume of the international information will not be a problem. The front and back pages and the subjective pieces placed outside the international section (for example, in the opinion section) will be treated separately. http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/956_Bilbao/12_CangaEN.html Page 272 Given the difficulties to retain the original copies of the newspapers for a prolonged time, the analysis has been conducted on reduced photocopies. Therefore, the resulting measures do not correspond to the actual size of the newspapers. However, this does not invalidate the study because the proportions of the pages are the same when measuring spaces, and thus the resulting percentages are real. The photocopy is 46% smaller than the actual size. Thus, the space considered per page in each newspaper in relation to its original format is as follows: In order to establish the space dedicated by each newspaper in a particular day to the Falkland Islands, we counted all the items published that day on the subject. In other words, we counted the space dedicated to the subject in the front and back pages, in the international section, in the opinion and latest news sections, and in any other section of the newspaper. This count provided what we call "the total space dedicated to the Falklands". The "total international" space was obtained from the international news section and the international news items published on the front page. The back and the third pages, depending on each newspaper, were counted when they were dedicated to the Falklands or another international subject (like the Lebanon War), as part of the international section. For example, if a given day one newspaper had three pages in the international section and dedicated the last or third page to the Falklands or other content of the section, the section will be considered as having 4 pages that day. The analysis did not considered as part of the international section those international news items that appeared in other pages (economy, society, sports, etc.). That is why there may be some cases where the "total international space" is less than the total space dedicated to the Falklands, because the latter includes other spaces. However, we also calculated how much information on the Falklands appeared exclusively in the international section and this was classified as the "Falklands space in the international section". Based on these data, the percentages will be presented in a summarised and comparative table [1]. 6. Two points of agreement The analysis of all the subjective information, editorials and opinion articles, published by the five Basque newspapers about the conflict indicates that all of these Page 273 http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/956_Bilbao/12_CangaEN.html newspapers agreed in two points, which were not distorted by the newspapers different ideological position. http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/956_Bilbao/12_CangaEN.html Page 274 These agreed points are that: 1. The Falkland Islands belonged without a doubt to Argentina. 2. The war was "stupid and colonial" and, whatever the outcome, all the parties involved would lose, directly or indirectly. The following table lists some of the most significant texts that put forward these two points, their publishers, their authors, their original titles (with English translation), their genre, their publication date, and the pages in which they appeared. 7. The issue of nationalism In our view, the most important aspect within the context of the Basque press, which constitutes the core of this work, is the issue of nationalism, which is the central part of the ideology that underpins each of the analysed newspapers. In the context of this research, Basque nationalism is, in short, an ideology that advocates for the formation of a politically and culturally independent nation, Euskadi or Euskal Herria, as this territory is currently part of the Spanish and French States. The modern incarnation of this ideology emerged in the 19th century with the principles promoted by the founder of the EuzkoAlderdiJeltzalea (Basque Nationalist Party), Sabino de Arana y Goiri, in 1895. Regarding the Spanish nationalism, two fundamental subjects were put forward by the five newspapers to assimilate the Falklands War with Spanish interests: Great Britains return of the Rock of Gibraltar to Spain and the situation of the cities of Ceuta and Melilla, located in Africa. Gibraltar was integrated to the Kingdom of Castile in the late 15th century and ceded by Spain to the British Crown after the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession. However, since the mid-1950s Spain has tried to regain sovereignty over Gibraltar by appealing to the UN Decolonisation Committee. For its part, Spains rejection of the Moroccan claim over Ceuta and Melilla is based on the fact that when these cities were established the Kingdom of Morocco did not exist and therefore there was no territorial plundering or appropriation. These situations are antagonistic as they cannot be defended and attacked simultaneously. In other words, if the possession of Gibraltar was a colonial act, the possession of Ceuta and Melilla was a colonial act too. This is why we can sense the 'informative manipulation' conducted by some newspapers when trying to justify opposing interests at the same time. However, the analysis has revealed that the newspapers approached, conceptualised and interpreted these subjects from very different perspectives. The only newspaper from that did not touch this issue was Tribuna Vasca. Page 275 http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/956_Bilbao/12_CangaEN.html The other four newspapers form two clearly differentiated groups: the Basque nationalist group, formed by Egin and Deia, and the Spanish nationalist group, by La Gaceta del Norte and El Correo Espa�ol. The analysis of this issue clearly shows the weight of the newspapers ideology on their news treatment and their different positions towards the same event. The analysis also detected how an internationally news event like the Falklands War, which had no apparent relation to the Basque context, was treated and even manipulated by the Basque newspaper to serve their different purposes. 8. Basque nationalism Deia and Egin tried to connect the Falklands War with the "reality" of the Basque Country and even compared the colonial situation of the Falkland Islands with the situation of the Basque Provinces. However, even within a similar type of nationalism, there are some significant differences. Thus, for Deia the colonial problem of the Falkland Islands is similar to that of the Basque Country and the common point in both cases lies in the occupation of the territory. Both the Falkland Islands and the Basque Country had already experienced past military occupations that had been consolidated and maintained, by the English and Spanish governments, respectively. For Egin, however, it was more important to emphasise the identity oppression, repression and suppression faced by some nations subjugated by force by other countries. In this context, Egin used the Falklands War to remind people about the damages and injustices committed by the Spanish colonialism in the Americas and Euskadi. But although the approach of these two newspapers was different, both had the same goal: to clearly differentiate the existence of two races and cultures, the "euskaldun" and the "Spanish", and to emphasize the Basque peoples desire for independence and inalienable right to achieve their freedom. Perhaps the two clearest examples in this regard are the articles written by Jos� de Abasolo Mendibil and Xabier Kintana for Deia and Egin, respectively: Coloniaje y soberan�a (Colonialism and sovereignty) and Falklandsirlengerraz (The war in the Falkland Islands), which were published on the 20th and 30th of May, respectively. In the first of these articles, Abasolo narrates a story that in his view is related to the problem derived from colonialism. He describes how on 25 May, 1902 (80 years before the Falklands War), Sabino Arana Goiri, the founder of the Basque Nationalist Party, wrote a cablegram to the then President of the USA, Theodore Roosevelt, to congratulate him on the independence of Cuba and five days later was imprisoned for this insolence, even though the message was never sent. Meanwhile, in his long article, Xabier Kintana defends the indigenous cultures of the Americas and affirms that the territories belong to the people who live there and contribute to their prosperity. He criticises the Spanish colonisation of the Americas and the "arrogant Spaniard ideology" that some Basque people who settled there have http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/956_Bilbao/12_CangaEN.html Page 276 suddenly revealed when showing unreserved support for the Argentine people. For him, it is difficult to understand how these Basque people criticise the Spanish oppression on Euskadi when they had lived here and then dismissed the rights of the primitive peoples of the Americas, by adopting there a neo-colonialist attitude of arrogance towards these native cultures. None of these ,,Basque nationalist newspapers showed clear support for one of the adversaries. However, Deia showed some sympathy for the Argentine side, but always by connecting its ideas to the Basque dimension and from the political perspective of the Basque Nationalist Party. It never connected its arguments to the ties between Spain and Latin America. Thus, for example, J. Antonio Ayestaran Lecuona affirmed that "If there is any country where the Basque blood floods and fertilizes a society and a history with greater ardour and passion, that country is Argentina" (Salve Argentina, May 6, p. 2). Egins postulates were much more populist, just like the political scheme of Herri Batasuna at that time, and were constantly based on the concepts of "colonialism" and "imperialism". These postulates prevented this newspaper from supporting one side or another, because while it attacked harshly the "British colonialism" and the "American imperialism" (,,the greatest enemy of humanity, according to Jon Agirre, the international politics commentator in this newspaper), its rejection of the dictatorial regime of Buenos Aires did not allow it to support the Argentinean people. But the fact that Argentina used its armed forces in the Falkland Islands was not what prevented this newspaper from supporting this country, because both Herri Batasuna and the newspaper itself defended "the armed fight for liberation" not only in the Basque Country but also in other cases like the Salvadoran guerrillas. The only thing that prevented the newspaper from supporting Argentina was the Military Junta, which was the antithesis of the Government that supported the newspapers ideology. Regarding the situations of Gibraltar or Ceuta and Melilla, they were ignored by the two Basque nationalist newspapers because they were perceived as unrelated to them and as Spanish problems. 9. Spanish nationalism Opposing this conception of Basque nationalism, La Gaceta del Norte and El Correo Espa�ol offered their own version of another type of nationalism: the Spanish one. They used the argument that, according to their ideological position, connected the Spanish reality to the Falklands War the most: the situation of Gibraltar. For these newspapers, the situation of the Falkland Islands and Gibraltar were identical, particularly because the author of the offenses to the sovereignty of these countries was the same: the British Empire. Some of the texts that clearly reflected this opinion are: Page 277 http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/956_Bilbao/12_CangaEN.html These articles revealed the unquestionable parallelism that, for these newspapers, existed between the conflicts over the Falklands and Gibraltar, and put forward their ideas of what the Spanish nationalism was or should be, and the relationship between the "Motherland" and the "sister nations" in Latin America, without ever disguising their support for Argentina in the conflict. The opinion articles published by El Correo Espa�ol also supported unreservedly the Argentine claim. Words of affection, like "gayego", "flesh of our flesh", and "muchachada" (youth), were used by this newspapers columnists to refer to the Argentines to tighten their ties with them even more and to show their sympathy for their "beloved and fraternal country". The references to "the parallelisms" with Gibraltar were also continuous in this paper. It criticised "the two historical injustices (Gibraltar and Falklands) caused by the armed forces of Great Britain" and defended the alignment of their "diplomacy with Buenos Aires towards London" as it "responded to the wishes and expectations of the majority of the Spanish public opinion". For its part, La Gaceta del Norte was very consistent with its ideology and put more emphasis on the defence of the Spanish nationalist tenets, and even suggested that it would not be so unreasonable for the Spanish government to consider using the armed forces to recover Gibraltar. This idea was reinforced by the use of typical nationalist concepts like "national unity" and "territorial integrity" in its first editorial http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/956_Bilbao/12_CangaEN.html Page 278 on the conflict (4 April). However, despite the markedly anti-colonialist criticism of these texts, this newspaper showed some contradictions. Thus, in clear opposition to the statements of Xabier Kintana in Egin, La Gaceta del Norte defended the Spanish conquest of the Americas. An article by Gilberto Freyre (Un colonizador simbi�tico: el ib�rico - A symbiotic coloniser: the Iberian, 4 May) praised the Iberian coloniser by making a subtle difference between ,,colonisation and ,,colonialism. Freyres defence, which is diametrically opposed to Kintanas theory of the identity suppression suffered by the American indigenous cultures during the Spanish conquest, clearly reaffirms the support of La Gaceta del Norte towards the Spanish nationalism. For this newspaper, the Spanish colonisation was never similar to the colonialism of other countries, particularly that of Great Britain, because although it had some flaws, the Spanish colonisation was much more human. These two newspapers naturally made the obliged references to Ceuta and Melilla, a transcendental subject in the Spanish nationalism. However, these references were motivated by reasons that were completely opposed to the situation of Gibraltar. In other words, they fell into a clear contradiction. Perhaps for this reason, the subject was addressed very marginally, but both newspapers agreed on keeping the Spanish claim, one way or another, on these territories. Thus, in La Gaceta del Norte, Abel Hern�ndez claimed that "any similitude with what is happening in the South Atlantic [and Ceuta and Melilla] is irritating to the Spaniards" (El juego de las sutilezas - The game of the subtle differences, 28 April, p. 18). For his part, Francisco L. De Sep�lveda commented in El Correo Espa�ol that he believed that "the lessons" learnt from the Falklands "point to another direction: towards North Africa. We fully know about the negotiations with NATO and the USA, and we must not forget where Ceuta and Melilla are. Spain should demand certain rewards in compensation to what it will contribute to the Atlantic Alliance" (El riesgo de una guerra anacr�nica - The risk of an anachronistic war, 13 April, p. 16). In both quotes the columnists used some arguments to defend the Spanish position on Ceuta and Melilla, but do not accepted the use of those same arguments by Great Britain to assert its sovereignty over the Falklands and Gibraltar. Thus, the first quote argued that "any parallelism [with Ceuta and Melilla] is irritating" but assumed as valid the parallelisms between the Falklands and Gibraltar. The second quote approves the request for help made by Spain to NATO and the USA to win its claim over Morocco, but rejected and criticised the use of the same requests by Great Britain in relation to Argentina. 10. Conclusions The conclusions on the analysis of the information extracted from the sample of newspaper are divided in two major sections: 1) the conclusions on the analysis of the subjective information (editorials and opinion articles), which is the most important type of information as it reflects the real position adopted by the newspapers during the conflict; and 2) the conclusions on the quantitative and hemerographic analysis. Page 279 http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/956_Bilbao/12_CangaEN.html The conclusions on the subjective information are: 1. The ideology of each newspaper did have a crucial influence in the approach used to address the conflict. In our view, there was a clear ideological manipulation in the presentation of the events that took place during the conflict. From this we can deduce that the manipulation of information occurred in a continuous basis when the reported events affected the line of thought of the newspapers. 2. The Basque and Spanish nationalist positions were crucial in establishment of these ideological stances and manipulations. The Falklands War had all the conditions that allowed all newspapers to approach its coverage from the point of view that suited them the most. The Falklands had been already occupied and colonised by force in the past, which allowed Deia to compare this situation with Euskadi. In another sense, it was a very clear situation of colonialism, which was exploited by La Gaceta del Norte and El Correo Espa�ol to claim the Spanish sovereignty over Gibraltar and to show their Spanish nationalist sentiment. As a situation of colonialism, the conflict also allowed Egin to attack ,,imperialism, "the greatest enemy of humanity", and to simultaneously confirm the existence of the Spanish imperialism in Euskadi. In other words, the same event allowed all newspapers and their analysts to defend their own positions and to draw diametrically opposed conclusions based on a theoretically identical event: the occupation of a territory by military forces. 3. The previous conclusion objectively reveals something that was already known: the Basque society, even more so at that time, was divided into two sectors, "Basque nationalists" and "Spanish nationalists". Something that seemed so obvious was demonstrated consistently by the examination of the newspapers subjective pieces. The references and comparisons between Euskadi and the Falklands, and Gibraltar and the Falklands revealed the dividing line between these two sectors, which had their own media of information and propaganda, and their way of understanding the Basque reality of that time. 4. The second research hypothesis was inverted after the study. The most important thing for the newspapers was not to show a clear position towards the conflict (support for one of the contenders or neutrality), but to take advantage of the events generated by the conflict to strengthen their ideological stances. The important aspect for the newspapers was not to clarify which adversary was right, if that was possible, nor to clarify their position for or against one of them, but to use the war, the news event, as an excuse to perpetuate their own ideas. 5. However, the previous conclusion does not exclude the alliance of some newspapers with one of the adversaries. Thus, La Gaceta del Norte and El Correo Espa�ol showed some support for Argentina, motivated by the historic ties that united Spain with the Latin American countries. Terms such as "sister nations", "flesh of our flesh" and "people of our lineage", among others, were abundant in both newspapers. Deia also sympathised with Argentina, but not for the same reasons. Its support was not motivated by the fraternal ties of the Spanish conquest of the Americas. Its http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/956_Bilbao/12_CangaEN.html Page 280 sympathy was based on the 'asylum' that the nationalists of the Basque Nationalist Party found in Argentina since the early days of the partys foundation. In contrast, Tribuna Vasca was the only newspaper that openly criticised Argentinas actions over the Falkland Islands and the regime of Buenos Aires. In El Folio, the newspapers opinion article that sometimes acted as editorial space, Eduardo Sotillos, the director, attacked the dictatorship in Argentina on the 1st of June, and then showed support for Great Britains positions on the 16th of the same month. Paradoxically, the supposedly most radical newspaper, Egin, was the one that maintained the most neutral attitude towards the conflict. Its criticism towards Argentinas military dictatorship and the English colonialism were equal and never showed support towards only one side. Neither the English or Argentine governments were aligned with Egins revolutionary ideology, and for this reason, once it established the similitudes between the Falklands and Euskadi, it did not show preference for any side. The conclusions on the hemerographic analysis of the news items published during the almost three months that the war lasted are: 1. In terms of space, Egin was the newspaper that dedicated the largest space to the conflict, in comparison to the total space provided by its pages: a daily average of 4.74%. In contrast, Egin also ranked penultimate in the space dedicated to the war in the international section. This apparent contradiction is explained by the fact that Egin is the newspaper that dedicated the largest space to international news (a daily average of 10.57% of its pages, during the analysed period) but, however, within that total volume, the Falklands War was not the news event that received the largest space/coverage (see annexes about the percentages). The newspaper that dedicated the largest space to the Falklands War in the international section was La Gaceta del Norte, with a daily average of 53.97%. However, in May, Deia dedicated the highest percentage of space to the Falklands War: a daily average of 6.36% of the all the information and 65.81% of all the news in the international section. 2. Regarding the importance granted to the opinion articles, El Correo Espa�ol stood out remarkably above the others, as it dedicated a daily average of 11.13% of the subjective information to the war. On the contrary, Deia barely exceeded 1% in this sense. In terms of the editorials devoted to the war, La Gaceta del Norte broke all records, with 10; followed by Tribuna Vasca with 3 (all pieces were Eduardo Sotilloss opinions in its Folio column, which as mentioned also acted as editorial space in several occasions). Egin only dedicated one editorial, but this may be due to the fact that the use of the editorials in this newspaper was very rare at the time. A stranger fact is that neither Deia nor El Correo Espa�ol, which used to regularly publish editorials on important events, dedicated any editorial to the Falklands War. This circumstance may indicate that none of these newspapers wanted to manifest clearly their position on the war, although their opinion articles were sufficiently significant in this regard. Page 281 http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/956_Bilbao/12_CangaEN.html The following table presents the quantitative part of the study. It shows, by months, the total space dedicated by each newspaper to the war; the space devoted to the war in the news sections, and in the opinion sections; and the percentages that the opinion pieces dedicated to the war constitute within the total space dedicated to the war. 11. References Given the specificity of the object of study of this research, the treatment given by the Basque press to the Falklands War in 1982, the list of references includes two types of documents. On the one hand, it includes academic articles that have analysed the treatment given by the national and regional daily press to specific topics (immigration, terrorism, elections, etc.) and have used quantitative and qualitative methods like this study. On the other hand, it includes books and academic articles that, from different perspectives, contextualise the situation of the Falkland Islands before, during and after the war, and provide sources that allow readers to form their own opinions on this matter. Berganza Conde, M. R. (2008): "Medios de comunicaci�n, ,,espiral del cinismo y desconfianza pol�tica. Estudio de caso de la cobertura medi�tica de los comicios electorales europeos". Zer, volume 13, n� 25, pp. 121-139. Leioa, Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad del Pa�s Vasco. Bicheno, Hugh (2006): The Unofficial History of the Falklands War. London: Ed. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Bologana, Alfredo Bruno (1983): "Los derechos de Inglaterra sobre las islas Malvinas". Revista de Estudios Internacionales, volume 4, n� 4, OctoberDecember, p. 775 et seq. http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/956_Bilbao/12_CangaEN.html Page 282 Caillet Bois, Ricardo (1952): Una tierra argentina: Las Islas Malvinas. Buenos Aires: Ed. Peuser. Camacho Markina, I. (2009): "La ,,gripe A, en la prensa espa�ola". Revista Latina de Comunicaci�n Social, n� 64, pp. 827-843. Universidad de La Laguna, ULL (Tenerife), available at: http://www.revistalatinacs.org/09/art/865_Bilbao/66_92_Idoia_Camacho.html DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-64-2009-865-827-843 / CrossRef link Canga Larequi, J. et al. (2010): "Terrorismo y pol�tica dominan las portadas de la prensa vasca. An�lisis de contenido y superficie de las primeras p�ginas de los diarios auton�micos". Revista Latina de Comunicaci�n Social, n�65, pp. 61-70. Universidad de La Laguna, ULL (Tenerife), available at: http://www.revistalatinacs.org/10/art/883_UPV/05_J_Canga_et_al.html DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-65-2010-883-061-070 / CrossRef link Carratal� Sim�n, A. (2010): "El editorial como generador de campa�as de agitaci�n: intervenci�n social de ABC y La Raz�n ante Educaci�n para la Ciudadan�a". Estudios sobre el Mensaje Period�stico, volume 16, pp. 107-129. Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Editorial Complutense. Carvajal, J. (2008): "Productividad informativa en situaciones de crisis social: los casos de Abc, El Pa�s y La Raz�n durante el 11-M".Estudios sobre el Mensaje Period�stico, volume 14, pp. 99-109. Madrid: Universidad Complutense. Casero Ripoll�s, A. (2009): "El control pol�tico de la informaci�n period�stica". Revista Latina de Comunicaci�n Social, n� 64, pp. 354-366. Universidad de La Laguna, ULL (Tenerife), available at: http://www.revistalatinacs.org/09/art/29_828_47_ULEPICC_08/Andreu_Casero .html DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-64-2009-828-354-366 / CrossRef link Cer�n, Sergio (1984):"Malvinas: Gesta heroica o derrota vergonzosa?". Buenos Aires: Ed. Sudamericana. Chant, Chistopher (2001). Air War in the Falklands 1982 (Osprey Combat Aircraft). London: Ed. Paperback. Cheng, Lifen (2009): "Aversi�n VS aceptaci�n, dos caras de la misma moneda: un estudio emp�rico de encuadres noticiosos sobre inmigraci�n en la prensa regional de Castilla y Le�n". Zer, volume 14, n� 26, pp. 35-57. Leioa: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad del Pa�s Vasco. Costa S�nchez, C. (2008): "Medicina y salud en la prensa. Las noticias de salud en los principales diarios de Galicia". Revista Latina de Comunicaci�n Social, n� 63, pp.15-21. Universidad de La Laguna, ULL (Tenerife), available at: http://www.revistalatinacs.org/_2008/03/Costa_Sanchez.html Page 283 http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/956_Bilbao/12_CangaEN.html DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-63-2008-750-015-021 / CrossRef link Cuadernos Sociol�gicos Vascos (2009): "Percepciones de la Ciencia y la Tecnolog�a en el Pa�s Vasco. Su tratamiento en la Prensa Diaria". n� 26. Vitoria: Servicio Central de Publicaciones del Gobierno Vasco. De Pablos Coello, J.M.; Ard�vol Abreu, A. (2009): "Prensa espa�ola, ante la condena de la ONU a Israel por la invasi�n a Gaza". Estudios sobre el Mensaje Period�stico, volume 15, pp. 189-206. Madrid: Universidad Complutense. Del Carril, Bonifacio (1982): La cuesti�n de Malvinas. Buenos Aires: Emec� Editores. Destefani, Laurio (1982): The Malvinas, the South Georgias and the South Sandwich Islands; the conflict with Britain. Buenos Aires: Edipress. Ely, Nigel (2003): For Queen and Country. London: Blake Publishing. Fern�ndez Barrero, M. A. (2003): El editorial: un g�nero period�stico abierto al debate. Seville: Comunicaci�n Social Ediciones y Publicaciones. Freedman, Lawrence (1982): "The war of the Falkland Islands". Foreign Affairs, pp. 196-210. Goebel, Julius (1927): The struggle for the Falkland Islands. New Haven: Yale University Press. Haffa, A.; Werz, N. (1983): "The Falkland conflict and inter-American relations". Aussen Politik, volume 34, n� 2, pp. 185-201. Hernando Cuadrado, L. A. (2001): "Lengua y estilo del editorial". Estudios sobre el Mensaje Period�stico, volume 7, pp. 279-293. Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Editorial Complutense. Hidalgo Nieto, Manuel (1947): La cuesti�n de Malvinas . Madrid: Consejo de Investigaciones Cient�ficas. Instituto Gonz�lez Fern�ndez de Oviedo. Informe (1982): "Islas Falkland: b�squeda de un acuerdo negociado por parte de Gran Breta�a". Reference Services Central Office of Information. N� 170/82/Sp. July. London. Informe (1982): "Las islas Falkland y sus dependencias". Reference Services Central Office of Information. N� 152/82/Sp. March. London. Kaufman Purcell, Susan (1982): "War and debt in South America". Foreign Affairs, America and the World, pp. 660-674. L�pez-Ornelas, M. (2010): "Estudio cuantitativo de los procesos de comunicaci�n de la Revista Latina de Comunicaci�n Social (RLCS), 1998-2009". Revista Latina de Comunicaci�n Social, n� 65, pp. 538-552. Universidad de La Laguna, ULL (Tenerife), available at: http://www.revistalatinacs.org/10/art3/917_Mexico/39_Maricela.html DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-65-2010-917-538-552 / CrossRef link http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/956_Bilbao/12_CangaEN.html Page 284 Moreno Espinosa, P. (2003): "G�neros para la persuasi�n en prensa: los editoriales del diario El Pa�s". �mbitos, n� 9-10, pp. 225-23. Universidad de Sevilla. Moro, Ren� (1985): Historia del conflicto del Atl�ntico Sur; La Guerra Inaudita. Buenos Aires: Ed. Escuela Superior de Guerra A�rea, F.A.A. Mu�oz-Torres, J.R. (2007): "Underlying Epistemological conceptions in Journalism. The case of three leading Spanish newspaper' style books". Journalism Studies, volume 8, pp. 224-247. S�nchez-Gal�n, J. R. (2011): "An�lisis cualitativo de la credibilidad de la informaci�n period�stica burs�til para la toma de decisiones de inversi�n entre los particulares". Estudios del Mensaje Period�stico, volume 17, pp. 631-645. Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Editorial Complutense. Santamar�a Su�rez, L. & Casals Carro, M.J. (2000): La opini�n period�stica: argumentos y g�neros para la persuasi�n. Madrid: Ed. Fragua. Sotelo Gonz�lez, J. (2008): "El tratamiento period�stico de la implantaci�n del euro en Espa�a". Revista Latina de Comunicaci�n Social, n� 63, pp. 368-381. Universidad de La Laguna, ULL (Tenerife), available at: http://www.revistalatinacs.org/08/30_44_UCM/Joaquin_Sotelo.html DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-63-2008-774-368-381 / CrossRef link The Sunday Times (Research team) (1983): The Falklands War (La guerra de Malvinas). Traducci�n Horacio Gonz�lez Trejo. Barcelona: Ed. Argos Vergara. Zurutuza-Mu�oz, C. & Garc�a-Ortega, C. (2011): "Las elecciones Europeas de 2009 en la prensa Aragonesa". Revista Latina de Comunicaci�n Social, n�67. Universidad de La Laguna, ULL (Tenerife), available at: http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/945_Zaragoza/01_Cristina.html DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-067-945-001-022 / CrossRef link 12. Notes 1. All the statistical tables derived from this research are available in the annexes. 13. Annexes 1. La Gaceta del Norte, data on surfaces, April 2. La Gaceta del Norte, data on surfaces, May 3. La Gaceta del Norte, data on surfaces, June 4. El Correo Espa�ol-El Pueblo Vasco, data on surfaces, April 5. El Correo Espa�ol-El Pueblo Vasco, data on surfaces, May 6. El Correo Espa�ol-El Pueblo Vasco, data on surfaces, June 7. Deia, data on surfaces, April Page 285 http://www.revistalatinacs.org/067/art/956_Bilbao/12_CangaEN.html 8. Deia, data on surfaces, May 9. Deia, data on surfaces, June 10. Egin, data on surfaces, April 11. Egin, data on surfaces, May 12. Egin, data on surfaces, June 13. Tribuna Vasca, data on surfaces, April 14. Tribuna Vasca, data on surfaces, May 15. Tribuna Vasca, data on surfaces, June 16. La Gaceta del Norte, data on surfaces, April 17. La Gaceta del Norte, data on surfaces, May 18. La Gaceta del Norte, data on surfaces, June 19. El Correo Espa�ol-El Pueblo Vasco, percentages, April 20. El Correo Espa�ol-El Pueblo Vasco, percentages, May 21. El Correo Espa�ol-El Pueblo Vasco, percentages, June 22. Deia, percentages, April 23. Deia, percentages, May 24. Deia, percentages, June 25. 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The Hydroponic Farm and Organic Gardens at Cuisinart Resort and Spa, AnguillaSeptember 14, 2009By: Mary Winston Nicklin
As if we needed another reason to love this Caribbean resort of whitewashed villas and turquoise infinity pools... Cuisinart Resort and Spa boasts the world's only hydroponic resort farm- saving water through the use of recirculation systems and drip irrigation, recycling the drainage from the greenhouse to feed the outdoor landscape plants. This soil-free growing process produces fresh, quality vegetables and edible flowers that are harvested daily and used in the resort's kitchen by Executive Chef Daniel Orr and his team. What's more-- the plants and flowers also serve as ingredients in treatments at the newly-expanded spa. Guests can tour the farm with the manager on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 11:00 am. See the greenhouse (built to withstand winds of up to 110 mph), lettuce ponds, and raised beds containing herbs and peppers. The organic garden is likewise brimming with colorful produce all year round-- Caribbean callaloo, black-eyed peas, peppers, pumpkins, okra, soybeans, Chinese long beans, and melons-- while fruit-bearing trees in the orchards produce avocados, guavas, tamarinds, limes, oranges, and star fruit.
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MUMBAI, March 1 (Reuters) – A dramatised Bollywood account
of the Mumbai attacks of 2008, when 166 people died in a
three-day rampage, opened in Indian cinemas on Friday to present
an unusually emotive tale told from the perspective of a police
"The Attacks of 26/11″ chronicles the events that began on
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Just before the intermission in Ram Gopal Varma's "The Attacks of 26/11", a police constable stumbles around with a rifle, searching for the two gunmen who had just wreaked havoc at Mumbai's busiest train station. He slumps to his feet on the blood-stained floor and lets out a cry of anguish.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) – Soha Ali Khan was born to be a celebrity. Her father was one of India's finest cricket captains; her mother, an award-winning actress; and her brother Saif, one of Bollywood's leading actors.
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I have to confess I haven't read Chetan Bhagat's "The 3 Mistakes of my Life", the novel on which Abhishek Kapoor's film "Kai Po Che" is based. Opinion is divided on the novel, but if it had the material to make a film such as this one, it can't be bad.
Friendship, politics and sports come together in this two-hour film, and despite the assured acting, the sparkling cinematography (Anay Goswami) and Amit Trivedi's lilting music score, it is Kapoor and his control over this film and the obvious affection he has for these characters that shines through.
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Middle East Program
Sayed Mohammid Amin Fatimie, Afghanistan Minister of Public Health, highlights improvements to Afghanistan's healthcare system that have transpired during the U.S. presence, but adds that more time is needed to repair the problems and rebuild the system into one of transparency and efficacy.
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The new report from the U.S. National Academies' National Research Council and Institute of Medicine shows that despite dramatic progress in certain areas, many young people still lack adequate schooling and good health.
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Environmental Advocacy and the Movement for Nuclear Safety in Kazakhstan
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At the launch of the 'Mardaani' anthem on Monday, Rani Mukherji clearly opened up about the recent comparisons that are been drawn between her upcoming 'Mardaani' and the Ajay Devgn-Kareena Kapoor starrer 'Singham Returns'
"'Singham Returns' is a very big film. Ajay Devgn is a superstar. So comparing 'Mardaani' to 'Singham Returns' will be really unfair. Ours is a very small film whereas Singham is a popular franchise. I myself enjoyed a lot while watching Singham and I am sure I will love this film too.", Rani clarified.
Very recently, contemporary actor and friend Kareena Kapoor praised Rani for her 'Mardaani' avatar and even went on to confess that she would love to do something similar on screen. On this context, Rani smiled and said, "That is really sweet of her to say that she liked me in the promos. I love Kareena. She is a fantastic actress and I am sure if she does a film like this, it will be a great film. I myself will watch that film."
Rani, who recently got married, confessed that Aditya Chopra also gets to see her mardaani avatar on a regular basis. "I have been a Mardaani from day one. 'Mardaani' does not refer to a woman who is like a boy. It refers to the bravura of a warrior. Log kehte hai, 'Khub ladhi Mardaani, woh toh Jhansi wali Rani thi' (Rani of Jhansi fought like a warrior). That is the way we wanted to describe my character in the film. And coming to my mardaani side in real life, you can ask my college friends. They will tell you how mardaani I was in college. And for now, Adi gets to see my mardaani avatar a lot at home", she laughed it off.
Another revelation which our lovely 'Hum-Tum' actress made at the event was about her habit of arguing. "Had I not been an actress, I would have been a lawyer", confessed Rani who feels she 'can argue on anything and everything".
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George made four 3-pointers to get the best of his matchup with LeBron James. David West added 14 points and 11 rebounds, and Lance Stephenson chipped in with 13 points for the Pacers (21-14), who have won 11 of their last 13 games.
Dwyane Wade scored 30 points and James had 22 points and 10 rebounds for Miami (23-10), which still has the best record in the Eastern Conference.
It was the first time the teams had met since Miami beat the Pacers in six games in the conference semifinals last year.
Miami entered the game leading the NBA in field goal percentage, while Indiana led the league in field goal percentage defense. The matchup resulted in the Heat scoring only 35 points in the second half, their lowest-scoring half of the season.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Reggie Evans had a career-high 23 rebounds, Deron Williams scored 22 points and Brooklyn improved to 6-1 under interim coach P.J. Carlesimo with a win over Philadelphia.
Evans outrebounded the undersized Sixers 23-22 through three quarters.
Andray Blatche scored 20 points for the Nets, hours after he was questioned by Philadelphia police as part of a sexual assault investigation at an upscale hotel. Blatche was not charged.
He wrote about the incident on Twitter, saying, ``Im ok and I didn't do anything jus was n the area when it happened,'' Blatche tweeted. He later took down the tweet.
Jrue Holiday scored 19 points and Spencer Hawes had 14 for the Sixers.


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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- The only passes from Christian Ponder that didn't sail over a receiver's head or bounce harmlessly out of bounds seemed to land in the arms of a Green Bay defender just as the Minnesota Vikings were approaching the end zone.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — DeMarcus Cousins did something Sunday he's not usually known for: lots of smiling.
The often-scowling Cousins had 32 points and 12 rebounds, and Isaiah Thomas had 30 points and eight assists in the Kings' 124-107 victory that sent the Milwaukee Bucks to their seventh straight loss.
Cousins has shown increasing maturity over the last 13 games since he was called for technical fouls Nos. 14 and 15 of the season and ejected in a Feb. 25 loss at home to Houston. That left Cousins one technical from a mandatory one-game suspension.
But the emotional Cousins has put a halt to complaining to referees and hasn't drawn another technical. Against the Bucks, he was clearly enjoying a big margin of victory, a rarity this season for the Kings.
"It's always fun to win," said Cousins, who dodged a question about any new-found approach to the game. "My focus is going out and winning."
Different approach or not, Cousins clearly had his way with the Bucks. Scoring in a variety of ways, he had 14 points in the first quarter and 21 by halftime. The Bucks were never able to contain the talented Kings center.
Cousins made 14 of 19 shots, four of six free throws and added four assists and two steals.
"Now I see where he is bringing it more (upcourt) on the dribble after the rebound," Bucks coach Larry Drew said. "I was mad at my guys for not getting in his way, but you can see he looks comfortable doing it. It's just the matter of him being under control and it looks like he is and making the right plays out of it."
The Kings demonstrated early they would not be overlooking the struggling Bucks. Sacramento led by 23 points after one quarter, took a 70-44 lead into halftime, and were ahead by 34 points after three quarters.
"We can't go out there and lay down. I'm not saying we did that tonight," Drew said. "This is one of the few games we came out and laid an egg at the very beginning. We've actually been playing some pretty good basketball."
Rudy Gay had 24 points and eight rebounds and Ben McLemore scored 15 points for the Kings, who had dropped four of their past five home games against the Bucks.
O.J. Mayo scored 13 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter for Milwaukee. Mayo consistently connected from the outside and the Bucks shot 75 percent in the fourth quarter in outscoring the Kings 37-20.
"I told our guys that any win in the NBA is something to be happy about, but I just didn't like how we played in the second half," Kings coach Michael Malone said. "We gave up 63 points, they shot 64 percent from the field in the second half. We had no discipline."
Ersan Ilyasova had 14 points and Jeff Adrien and Ramon Sessions each added 13 for Milwaukee.
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Fast-tracking Green Patent Applications: An Empirical Analysis
SummaryIn recent years, innovation has topped the agenda of policymakers worldwide as they seek to promote green growth and advance sustainable development. As a result, several countries - including Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States - have put in place green patent fast-tracking programmes with the aim of accelerating the development and diffusion of environment-friendly technologies. Most recently, China and Brazil have also adopted such measures.
This study by Antoine Dechezleprêtre, a Research Fellow at the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics (LSE), is the first empirical analysis of these programmes. Fast-tracking procedures - which allow applications to be examined and granted at a faster pace than regular patent applications - enable applicants to start licensing their technologies sooner and reach the market more rapidly.
Green fast-tracking programmes can reduce the time from application to the grant of a patent by 42-75 percent, the study finds. Climate change-related technologies - particularly renewable energy technologies - represent the vast majority of patents in these programmes.
The study also finds that there is a clear demand for these procedures, especially from small start-up companies in the green technology sector. Fast-tracked patents are also of significantly higher commercial value than other green patents not requesting accelerated examination. Finally, the study shows that - in the short run - fast-tracking programmes have accelerated the diffusion of knowledge regarding green technologies.
Addressing climate change requires the large-scale development and diffusion of technologies to bring about the required changes to our patterns of production, consumption and energy use.
In 2010, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established a Technology Mechanism to accelerate the development and transfer of technologies for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Efforts are now underway to make this Technology Mechanism fully operational.
However, the issue of intellectual property rights (IPRs) has remained one of the most contested in this arena. While it continues to be raised in the meetings of UNFCCC bodies, there has been no agreement on how to address it. Discussions too often tend to pit those who believe that IPRs are inherently a significant barrier to the transfer of climate change technologies against those who can only conceive them as incentives for climate technology innovation and as a sine qua non condition for any subsequent technology transfer and diffusion.
In September 2012, the Technology Executive Committee (TEC) – the policy arm of the Technology Mechanism – forwarded a report on its activities and deliberations to the 18th UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP), held in Doha, which identified IPRs "as an area for which clarity would be needed on its role in the development and transfer of climate technologies based upon evidence on a case by case basis."
A similar approach has, in fact, guided the work of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) in this area since the publication of the seminal paper by the late John Barton on Intellectual Property and Access to Clean Technologies in Developing Countries (2007) and the report on Patents and Clean Energy published with the European Patent Office (EPO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), which became important milestones in the policy research on these issues. Since then, we have strived to address knowledge gaps, in particular at the level of empirical research and analysis, and clarify policy options that would help governments and other stakeholders better grasp the complexities and nuances of a multi-faceted issue that defies simplistic categorizations.
It is with this spirit in mind that we thought it would be timely to have a closer look at the measures taken by a number of countries, in recent years, to fast-track "green" patent applications. These measures allow applications to be examined and granted at a faster pace than regular patent applications.
In effect, starting 2009, a number of mainly industrialised countries – including the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Korea, Japan, Israel and Canada – have implemented fast-tracking measures and were more recently joined by emerging economies, such as Brazil and China. However, to date, no in-depth empirical analysis has examined these measures and their effects.
How many patents have been filed under the various fast-tracking schemes? Which technologies are mostly concerned? Do the programmes significantly reduce the time from filing the patent to it being granted, compared to regular examination procedures? What type of company is most likely to make use of the fast-tracking procedure? Do the programmes encourage the diffusion of green technological knowledge? These were some of the questions identified for the research project undertaken by Antoine Dechezleprêtre, a Research Fellow at the Grantham Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), with previous experience in collecting and studying patent data in relation to renewable energies. For this paper, the analysis of patent data was complemented by interviews with a number of patent attorneys and intellectual property professionals carried out by the author.
This paper is thus the first study to empirically analyse green patent fast-tracking programmes and to examine whether these programmes may help the diffusion of green technologies. After pointing out the main differences among the approaches made by different countries, in particular the different definitions of what constitutes a "green" patent application, the paper presents several key findings.
First, despite a low participation in the programmes, which reflects the strong incentive for patent applicants to keep their patents in the examination process for as long as possible, there is a clear demand for fast-tracking procedures, in particular from small but fast-growing start-up companies in the green technology sector. Second, climate change-related technologies (in particular renewable energy technologies) represent the vast majority of patents in the fast-tracking programmes. Third, the time from application to grant has been effectively reduced by up to 75% for patents entering the accelerated procedure. Fourth, fast-track patents are of higher commercial value than other green patents that were filed at the same time but did not request accelerated examination.
Finally, the analysis of patent citation data shows that fast-tracking programmes have accelerated the diffusion of knowledge in green technologies in the short run (during the first years following the publication of the patents), but whether this effect will be the same in the long run remains an open question.
In addition to these important findings, the author highlights a number of questions that could be addressed by future research. In particular, he underlines the need for more information about the licensing practices of companies using fast-tracking programmes, as this would enable a better understanding of the extent to which these programmes accelerate the diffusion of green-patented technologies through licensing, in particular to firms and institutions in developing countries.
Given the urgency of addressing environmental challenges, including climate change, the effects of fast- tracking programmes appear encouraging, particularly with regard to accelerating technology diffusion in the short run, though, as it has been mentioned, further research is needed to understand the longer-term effects and licensing practices.
More importantly, the fast-tracking programmes for "green" patent applications raise broader questions about the overall coherence and unity of the patent system. Are these programmes the start of a parallel patent system for green technologies? Should they be applied across the board and not be restricted to "green" technologies – as suggested by the author of the paper – as is the case for the EPO, which has an accelerated examination procedure that any applicant can request? Can the patent system remain technologically "neutral" or does it run the risk of greater fragmentation when faced with multiple demands for the differentiated treatment of specific sectors and technologies? Are these fast-tracking programmes ultimately a reflection of the capacity of the system to respond to new public policy challenges? Wouldn't such a capacity of adaptation also require further consideration of specific measures in the context of the system to promote the transfer and dissemination of technological knowledge? All these are open questions that an increasingly globalized patent system has to tackle.
I hope that the findings of this study on fast-tracking programmes for green patent applications will be useful for global and national efforts seeking to encourage green innovation as well as the transfer and diffusion of green technologies.
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The Bruins have signed winger Shawn Thornton, set to become a free agent on July 1, to a two-year extension that will run through 2012, according to a Bruins press release.
Thornton has racked up 338 regular season penalty minutes in his three years as a Bruin, with 141 of them coming last season. He has totaled 28 regular season points in his tenure in Boston. The 2009-2010 season saw him record a career-high nine assists while finishing fifth in the NHL with 21 fighting majors.
While financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed, the Boston Globe is reporting that the deal is worth $1.625 million. Thornton and GM Peter Chiarelli will speak with the media this afternoon, so check back here throughout the day.
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Robert Meyler
August 9, 1920 - February 5, 2013
Bob was a 6th generation Californian. He attended Cornell University for his degree in Engineering. He met Barbara Broatch in Sequoia National Park, and they married 2 years later, eventually having 5 children. They were married 60 years before Barbara's passing in 2010.
He fought in WWII and the Korean War, retiring as a full bird Colonel. He worked for Lockheed from 1958 until 1988, and then became an enrolled agent and business consultant. He earned a Doctorate in Philosophy for original research in Business Administration.
He was an active member of the Wine & Food Society, Military Order of the World Wars, Reserve Officers Association, and a Founding Member of the Legion of the Dawn Patrol and many others. He was President of the Board of Enrolled Agents from 2002-2006 and President of the San Fernando Valley United Chambers of Commerce ( a coalition of some 23 Chambers.)
Bob is survived by his brother, James (Dorothy) Meyler; his four children, Gay (deceased) (Bob) Dawson, Robert III (Kathie), Nikki (James) Miller, Helen (Michael) Ramos, and Patrick; 17 grandchildren, Christy Fuquay, Kimberly (Corey) Lee, Heather (Marc) Salazar, Matthew Dawson, Rick (Claire) Meyler, Andrew and Heather Lynn, Bob, Jaimie, Garrett, Dakota and Haily Miller, Patrick and Christopher Dettmar, Stephanie (Randy) Welton, Adrien and Nikolas Ramos; and five great-grandchildren, Maganda Meyler, Addison and Jordyn Lee, Clayton Salazar and Landon Miller.
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A Ron Paul Candidate Losing My Vote? Ken CuccinelliSubmitted by Benjamin Vander Jagt on Thu, 10/11/2012 - 22:58
Ken Cuccinelli was endorsed by Ron Paul himself. His term as Virginia's attorney general has been exemplary. Why, now, is he acting like Mitt Romney is the second coming of Ron Paul?
Rand Paul lost my respect when he "happily" endorsed Mitt Romney, and I said that I would be the first one to welcome him back when he un-endorses him. Now we have Rand Paul, Mitt Romney's surrogate, criticizing his foreign policy. At the same time, we have Ken Cuccinelli praising the country's savior, Mitt Wrongly.
With what I've heard from Ken, my current position is that I will abstain from the gubernatorial race. (Ken's trying for that spot, and I would nominate him above MacDumass.) With what I've heard from Gary Johnson, I'm going to be voting for him. With what I've heard from Rand Paul, I'm starting to think he's feeling dirty and wants to clean up.
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Politics, as we call it, is never a clean sport
if you want to call it a "sport" with people's lives and labors at stake.
But it really is a strange collection of shadowy tongue in cheek public pronouncements while wishing for a different outcome.
Just look at Cuccinelli's record as VAAG. What does it say? How consistent to more limited government is it? That's what we should look at. Little else except where he gets the bulk of his campaign money.
The Dem. Gov. Assn. has just yesterday announced their opposition to his election:
This just received from the Democratic Governors Association:
"Breaking news: Virginia's Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling has dropped out of the race for governor, leaving Tea Party Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli as the likely Republican nominee.
Cuccinelli would be the most extreme major party nominee for governor Virginia has ever seen. The Washington Post calls Cuccinelli "the most overtly partisan Attorney General in Virginia history" who "has waged war on Obamacare, harassed climate-change scientists, sanctioned discrimination against homosexuals and embraced Arizona's (now mostly gutted) immigration law."
We spent this year working hard to re-elect President Obama and defend Democratic governorships. We cannot let our hard fought gains slip away."
Well my friends, if this is how they feel about Cuccinelli, imagine how they'd feel about you!!! I really don't know if all this ballyhoo is warranted or not. Perhaps my FB friends in Virginia can tell us the story on Cuccinelli? I'd love to get the straight "scoop"!!!
O U R P L A N = R O N P U A L (Coinsidence? I think not.)
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I agree with you re. Cuccinelli...
I've had problems all along with Cuccinelli becsuse he makes a big deal about unfurling Gadsen flags, etc., received an endorsement from Dr. Paul, and NEVER endorsed Dr. Paul. Pretty bad imo!
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So how would a 4.5 male do against those 5.5 Girls.....?
I used to play a lot of mixed doubles leagues and usually a 4.5 female is roughly comparable to a 4.0 male.
To try and answer your question Govnor, I'm a computer rated 4.5 player and a former D1 walk on over 10 years ago and I have coached a girl since she was 10 and now she has a full ride to a D1 school here in SoCal and was inside the top 100 G18s nationally and has beaten a few top 50 girls as well. I personally don't know if she WOULD be considered a 5.5 tho because I don't think I've actually seen a 5.5 woman that would admit that she was rated at that level and I'm terrible at rating people at that high a level lol.
Anyways we played 2 sets last week and on the 1st set I got belted 3-6. I think I only held serve twice and I felt I was serving pretty well lol :/. I was getting pressured on my FH side and making a lot of UEs and that is currently my go to wing. 2nd set I won 6-4 but I made several adjustments and lowered my UEs considerably. If it was an actual best 2 out of 3 set match I don't think I had enough left to take the 3rd set and could easily have lost it 2 or 3.
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Champ Bailey finally reaches first Super Bowl
Bailey started just three games this season, and he finished just one of those, against Jacksonville on Oct. 13. After aggravating his foot injury in his two other starts, he was relegated to slot duty by the time he finally got healthy in mid-December.
That changed when Harris got hurt in the Broncos' playoff win over San Diego and Bailey started Sunday opposite Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, then moved into the slot on passing downs to thwart the heart of the Patriots' offense.
"I knew I'd be back at some point," Bailey said. "My coaches, teammates, they never gave up on me. They knew I'd be back to 100 percent at some point. Here I am, I'm playing probably my best football of the year — because I haven't played much. I'm just looking forward to the next one, making sure my body is right for the next game."
And don't count on him getting caught up in the comparisons at the Super Bowl between him and Sherman, who represents this new breed of cornerback, the bigger, athletic DBs who trash talk as well as any of the receivers they cover.
About the only trash-talking that came out of Bailey's mouth Sunday was when he was asked about how the Broncos shut down the Patriots' ground game.
The Broncos held LeGarrette Blount to 6 yards on five carries a week after scoring four TDs against Indianapolis.
"Well," Bailey said matter-of-factly, "they didn't play the Broncos last week."
Notes: Fox said RB Knowshon Moreno is day to day after X-rays on his ribs were negative and CB Tony Carter has a pinched nerve but no concussion. ... The Broncos return to work Thursday.
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