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It is why Vince Cable, the Lib Dem Business Secretary, calls it a graduate contribution. It is, however, not an open-ended graduate tax as it has a cap. The cap works in such a way that graduates with higher earnings get to a point at which they have paid more than the original cost of their education. So to that extent the adage "if it quacks, it's a duck" seem appropriate. It is also worth looking at the other changes that have been made since the Browne review. There is more in the proposals that makes the system fairer. Huge list of free classics on the Amazon Kindle store by fonerbooks.com via reddit.com. Millets The North Face Men's Strive Shoes. Lenegatif's Profile. YWFT Knit on the Behance Network. Photo : yfrog.com/71ktrej - Shared by robertpopper. Adam Curtis Blog: LADA'S THEME. Most Exciting Hand At The WSOP 2010 Main Event / Matt Jarvis Eliminated By Michael Mizrachi - HD. Johann Hari slices and dices Richard Littlejohn - the full version.
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Her work carries echoes of all three traditions, but it evades categorisation. As a young woman, she photographed herself obsessively but often she appears as a blur of movement or a half-hidden figure, someone constantly trying to escape or hide. The end result is not self-portraiture, but a series of stills from a continuous performance in which she plays with the notion of the self, disguising, transforming and defacing her own body. At Victoria Miro, around 50 of Woodman's photographs – small, old-fashioned-looking prints that seem to belong to a much earlier time – pay testament to a short, but creatively productive life. It ended, while still in full flow, when she threw herself off a building in New York in January 1981, following a long bout of depression. She was just 22, but left an archive of some 800 images, many of which have still not been seen. One in three South African men admit to rape, survey finds | World news.
More than one in three South African men questioned in a survey admitted to rape, the latest evidence in the country of a violent culture of patriarchy. Researchers found that more than three in four men said they had perpetrated violence against women. Nearly nine in 10 men believe that a woman should obey her husband – and almost six in 10 women also agreed with the statement. South Africa has one of the highest rates of rape in the world. Last year a survey by the Medical Research Council (MRC) found that 28% of men in Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces said they had raped a woman or girl. A new MRC study in Gauteng, the country's wealthiest province, found that 37.4% of men admitted having committed a rape, while 25.3% of women said they had been raped.
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Mr Blair also told the 2,700-strong audience in Toronto, Canada, the invasion of Iraq was "not about religious faith" but decisions on the war were "based on policy". He said it was "futile" to try to "drive religion out" and it was more important to concentrate on how to get people of different faiths to work together, particularly in the Middle East where the conflict would only be resolved if people worked across the "faith divide". Sceptic Mr Hitchens, who has terminal cancer, likened God to a "celestial dictatorship, a kind of divine North Korea".
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Student protesters say they will occupy schools as well as universities. Students in Newcastle entered the council chamber on Tuesday afternoon. 'Strength of feeling' Among their demands was for the council leader to lobby MPs against the plan to raise tuition fees. Mr Faulkner, the council leader, said he was sympathetic to the students' views and said that if he had been an MP he would vote against the fees proposals. Protecting access. UK snow cover viewed from space. Faisal Islam on Economics - Scrap the EMA and give the winter fuel allowance to someone on a cruise: welcome to the gerontocracy. Today thousands of teenagers will be protesting about the scrapping of their means-tested £30 a week Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) for regularly-attending college students in low-earning households. It is poorly-targeted, “a deadweight cost” say the government, in that it is paid to many teenagers who would have attended anyway.
It promises an as yet unspecified replacement. By happy coincidence today, HM Treasury cheques for £250 were being dropped in to the letterboxes and electronic bank transfers of 460,000 high rate taxpayers, and two-thirds of the House of Lords, for being over 60, and it being cold. Note that you don’t actually need to have been made cold in order to claim. For good measure, over 60,000 British winter expats, sunning themselves in warmer climes, are also receiving the Winter Fuel Allowance for apparently not enduring Britain’s savage winter. Well welcome to the gerontocracy. Forgemasters report is a humiliation for Nick Clegg | The Labour Party. Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us? [Update: Yes] For a couple of days now, we’ve been hearing rumors that the Yahoo layoffs included the entire Delicious team.
Now Former Yahoo employee and Upcoming founder Andy Baio has tweeted out the above Yahoo! Product team meeting slide that seems to show that Yahoo! Is either closing or merging the social bookmarking service as well as Upcoming, Fire Eagle, MyBlogLog and others. In some kind of weird founder solidarity, the slide was originally posted on Twitter by MyBlogLog founder Eric Marcoullier. Listed under the ominous “Sunset” are: Delicious, Altavista, MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Bookmarks, Yahoo! Picks Under “Merge” are: Upcoming, FoxyTunes, Sideline, FireEagle, Yahoo Events and Yahoo People Search. It also looks like sundry Yahoo properties like Yahoo Deals and Yahoo Calendar will be made into features. I have emailed Yahoo for more information and verification and will update this post when I hear back. The official response from Yahoo: For the few of you unaware this is PR speak for, “We confirm.”
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Thanks again. Best wishes, Richard Collins. Petition Background (Preamble): Late in 2010, the British Film Institute’s (BFI) senior management proposed splitting the BFI’s collection of printed works (books, journals and the like) and establishing “digital delivery” to users at the BFI site on the London Southbank with much of the collection physically to be held at the BFI’s Berkhamsted site – about 30 miles north of London and with more than a mile walk (no public transport) between the BFI site and the nearest railway station.
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The offer also included a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem. Here’s the map on the Guardian’s site: Click to Enlarge Further, additional Guardian documents show that former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was prepared to give the Golan Heights back to Syria in the context of an overall peace agreement. Like this: Like Loading... Concern that Britain’s economic recovery has ground to a halt | The Labour Party. Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, in response to today's GDP figures, said: “It is clearly a matter of great concern that Britain’s economic recovery has now ground to a halt.
As the independent Office of National Statistics has confirmed, even after the effects of December’s bad weather, the UK economy saw no economic growth in the final quarter of 2010. “With families and businesses already facing both rising unemployment and rising inflation, the fact that the economy is now shrinking means the Conservative-led Government’s claims to have saved the economy and secured the recovery will ring very hollow indeed. “With consumer confidence low and public spending starting to be cut at the end of last year, it is no surprise that construction and services are the sector s hit hardest in these figures. But they are all the more worrying because they cover the period before the Government’s VAT rise and sharp public spending cuts have even begun.
BBC iPlayer to lose radio content as part of online overhaul. The BBC has revealed the iPlayer will no longer include radio content as part of its restructuring of BBC Online. It has also pledged not to use the iPlayer as an aggregator or to launch its own social network. It will, however, continue to work with third parties to integrate further social functions into the iPlayer. “Radio and music will come out of BBC iPlayer, and we’ll develop a new stand-alone product,” said Erik Huggers, outgoing director of Future Media & Technology. ” All radio station sites, music events, podcasts and programme pages will be integrated to focus on interactive live radio, quick and seamless access to programming, support for new music and personalisation - on whatever internet-connected device you happen to have,” he said.
The broadcaster revealed the changes as it confirmed it’s to slash 400 top domains as part of its cost-cutting strategy, which will see its service licence budget cut by £34m to £103m by 2013/14. New Tory MP: ‘There can’t be widespread discrimination if gays earn more than straights’ - Pink News. A new Tory MP who made headlines with his attack on “feminist bigots” has also questioned how the country can be “riddled with discrimination” if gay people earn more than their straight counterparts. Dominic Raab, the 37-year-old MP for Esher and Walton in Surrey, claimed that men should start “burning their briefs” in protest at the “raw deal” they get compared to women. In an article for PoliticsHome, he argued that men are discriminated against from birth to death and are disadvantaged in a range of areas, including education, parental rights and the fact that they die younger than women and work longer hours.
Mr Raab also questioned the prevalence of discrimination in the UK by citing research which he said suggests that gay men and lesbians earn more than straight people. He wrote: “Gay men earn more than straight men, lesbian women more than heterosexual women. Does that sound like a society riddled with discrimination?” He wrote: “Then there is the more subtle sexism. 'Undercover police officer' filmed in clown costume - Channel4 News.
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