Written by Travis Robinson on July 14, 2010.
Pulse Insurance has announced that it is to offer life cover to individuals who are HIV positive. Many life insurance providers are reticent to provide cover to people with diagnosed conditions or viruses, but the insurance provider has announced it is to offer a policy which offers up to 200,000 of accidental death cover and either 10,000 or 25,000 life cover without the need for a medical examination or doctors report.
Furthermore, the life cover policy can be activated within a few days, rather than the several months which may forms of life cover take to put in place. The cover, named Harbour, runs for ten years and is available to all UK citizens, meaning many of the estimated 83,000 people currently living with HIV in the UK will be covered by life plans something not previously available from most insurance providers.
Managing Director of Pulse, Paul Sandilands, commented that individuals with HIV should not be required to conduct rigorous medical examinations in order to be eligible for life insurance, insisting that they should enjoy the same rights as any UK citizen. Read more…
Written by Jeremy Martin on July 14, 2010.
The Chinese government is clamping down on Twitter-like microblogging services in a bid censor political opposition, according to sources quoted by the Reuters news agency.
Twitter itself has been banned for a year. This week, a number of alternative services from sites including NetEase.com and Sohu.com were also shut down.
The companies themselves deny the outages are due to government intervention. “NetEase’s micro-blog is very popular and growing fast, so we had to perform maintenance to upgrade features,” a spokesman for NetEase told Reuters.
But the agency quotes unnamed sources saying the closures are the result of a major campaign to tighten Internet controls, although “nobody will publicly announce the reason”. China’s Oriental Morning Post has made similar claims.
Earlier this month, the Associated Press profiled Chinese dissident Yu Jie, who uses Twitter to share his thoughts and experience with sympathisers around the world.
Jie uses a web proxy to access the site. “In China, you have to get around the Great Firewall, so those who use Twitter are usually interested in politics,” he says. “For
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Written by Jeremy Martin on July 11, 2010.
The UK government is preparing to launch an online campaign inviting citizens to submit ideas on how to cut public sector expenditure, and to vote on those ideas they support.
The Spending Challenge campaign comprises a website and a Facebook page where citizens can submit their ideas and describe how they could be implemented. Other visitors can rate these ideas out of five.
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“Our central department ‘champions’ team in Cabinet Office/Treasury will take forward the most promising ideas with departments and Treasury spending teams to be worked up and the results will be reviewed by Ministers, who take the final decisions,” the website says.
The website is based on the same template as the Your Freedom site, which invited citizens to suggest ways in which civil liberties could be enhanced and regulation cut. On
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Written by Michael Harris on July 10, 2010.
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Written by Jeremy Martin on July 10, 2010.
A system being developed in the US to protect critical infrastructure by inspecting networks for evidence of cyber attacks was described as “Big Brother” by the defense contractor that is building it, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The comparison was made in an internal email from within Raytheon the newspaper claims to have seen.
The system, dubbed “Perfect Citizen”, is designed to allow the country’s National Security Agency to detect early warnings of a cyber attack on such key infrastructure as the electricity grid or power stations, it is reported. It will work by inserting sensors into the computer networks supporting this infrastructure.
Written by Michael Harris on July 9, 2010.
Residential building land-efficient housing construction in China’s future direction, and the development of steel structure residential building is to solve a high-energy building effective way. Green building materials and energy saving facilities, maximizing the use of available space, are the advantages of steel structure residential building. Implementation of factory production, and promote the industrialization of residential steel buildings, has a broad market prospect.
Housing construction in the energy, land, water and materials is so important that it not only to the issue of domestic energy consumption is also related to the earth rational use of limited resources. At present, China nearly 40 billion square meters of existing buildings, 99% are high-energy buildings; each year nearly 2 billion square meters new building in 95% of building energy consumption is still high, its energy consumption per unit area of about 28%, plus materials production of energy, the energy consumption for building energy consumption accounts for 40% of the total community.
Not difficult to see from these data, the construction industry is a high energy consumption industries.
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Written by Travis Robinson on July 7, 2010.
A worrying lack of interest in long-term savings products such as pensions has been exposed in Britons.
Research conducted by Standard Life found that just 46 per cent of consumers “care” about their pension.
Meanwhile, 23 per cent of those with a pension said they didn’t care about the savings they had made for their retirement and 32 per cent revealed they had little idea of how much they actually had invested.
With the study also finding that men care for their cars and women for their jewellery more than they do their pensions, Mark Polson, head of customer management at Standard Life, called for a reassessment of the way Britons view their finances .
“Our car and the jewellery we have at home are some of the most important assets we possess. However, these assets are often less valuable than those that aim to secure our financial future,” he commented.
“By taking an active interest in your finances, such as investing in long term savings products and staying engaged, your money can work harder for your future. Read more…
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