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Entries by Ellee Seymour from 02/2012

Irish Election Faces Quotas for Women - Or Funding Cuts for Political Parties

| Posted 02.01.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Nan Sloane, Irish Election, The Centre for Women and Democracy, Women Quotas, Ivana Bacik, UK Politics News

The next general election could see quotas for women candidates introduced in the Republic of Ireland - and political parties have been warned they could lose half of their state funding if they fail to comply.

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The Ministry of Justice and the Big Paperclip Question

| Posted 02.03.2012 | UK Politics
Read More: Ministry of Justice, UK Politics News

My heart bleeds for families who have to deal with the Ministry of Justice, if my experience is anything to go by.

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To Patent or Not to Patent, That is the Question

| Posted 02.09.2012 | UK Tech
Read More: Spacex, Space Travel, Patents, Elon Musk, UK Tech, Nasa, International Space Station, Patrick Fraser, Space, UK Tech News

I wonder how many other inventors would dare to follow Musk's lead. I guess as space travel is such a small and specialised market, it's a risk which Musk can take, though ultimately extremely lucrative.

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The Day Olivetti Stitched up Acorn Computers

| Posted 02.28.2012 | UK Tech
Read More: Acorn Computers, Chris Curry, Olivetti, Hermann Hauser, UK Tech, Cambridge, UK Tech News

I bumped into Chris Curry recently, a Cambridge legend and visionary innovator who, along with Hermann Hauser, founded Acorn Computers in 1978, an era...

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