03-Dec-2013 12:13

'Baltic hub' fuels Russian trade :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/63IHJb2ZPIw/spc-gateway-ust-luga-port.cnn.html

Excess winter deaths rose by a third last winter :: Conclusion
If you are 65 or over, it is important to spend most of your time in a warm environment during the winter months. There are a number of things you can do to cope in cold weather.
Keep your main living room at around 18-21°C (65-70°F) and the rest of the house at least 16°C (61°F). If you can't heat all the rooms you use, heat the living room during the day and the bedroom just before you go to sleep.
Make sure you are receiving any benefits you are entitled to, such as the Winter Fuel Payment and Cold Weather Payment.
Regular hot drinks and eating at least one hot meal a day will help keep energy levels up during winter and keep your body warm. 
Finally, make sure you get the seasonal flu jab. While not 100% guaranteed, it should reduce your vulnerability to infection...
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Euro or pound for Scotland? :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/LIP3JeR9ls8/qmb-scotland-independence-economy-humza-yousaf-intv.cnn.html

Pope slams market 'tyranny' :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/upYmBwUsGX4/qmb-pope-market-tyranny-beck-intv.cnn.html

France downgraded to AA rating :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/4J5mA4MKXd0/qmb-france-economy-downgraded-philippe-gudin-intv.cnn.html

'We police it ourselves': Group processes in the escalation and regulation of violence in the night‐time economy :: Abstract
The attempt to regenerate city centres has led to the creation of a 'night‐time economy' (NTE) based around alcohol‐led entertainment. This has been accompanied by an increase of violence. Using insights from social identity research on collective action, we argue that NTE violence can be viewed as a group‐level phenomenon. Twenty focus groups were conducted with participants who socialise together (total number of participants = 53). Participants discussed their experiences of the NTE, including violence. A thematic analysis of the transcripts drew out four ways in which NTE violence is discussed in group terms: intergroup violence, intragroup violence, intragroup intervention (escalation) and intragroup intervention (regulation). The analysis reveals that groups ca...
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Highlights from this issue :: Warning systems and ethics I can't remember an issue of Archives with greater breadth in every sense: geographical; biomedical and philosophical. Once assimilated, though, two distinct themes became clear; warning systems and ethics within child health which share similar uncertainties. Screening systems for adverse outcomes invariably entail difficult decisions; the trade off between over ‘identification’ of pathology, poorer specificity and greater economy with the risk of missing real cases, poorer sensitivity. Three papers demonstrate the tension in different ways. Three further papers, examine ethical equipoise from different angles: new techniques for previously incurable disease; the legal nuances of parental responsibility and the unique vulnerability of adolescents. Fi...
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Speech therapy could help save NHS cash :: INVESTMENT in speech and language therapy could help boost the Edinburgh economy by more than £10 million a year, a report has found. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)
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Youth hostels grow up :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/wMV-JAbfqZs/index.html

With food safety bill, U.S. government will spend nearly $1 million per person to prevent food-borne illness deaths :: (NaturalNews) The recently-passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which was passed in order to prevent food-borne illness deaths in the USA, will cost $1.4 billion over the first five years. But nobody thinks about the economics of the issue. How many people are we going to save by spending this $1.4 billion, even assuming it works?To answer that question, let's look at the food illness fatality figures offered by the CDC:&bull; Out of the 5,000 food-borne illness deaths each year in the United States, only 1,809 are "attributable to foodborne transmission" according to the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol5no5/mead.htm#Table%203).&bull; E.coli, which is often quoted in the big scare stories about food safety, only kills 78 people a year through food-borne transmission (52 plus 26, fro...<div id="medworm"><p><b><i>MedWorm Message:</i></b> Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm <b><a href="http://www.medworm.com/rss/search.php?qu=%2Bswine+%2B%28influenza+flu%29&t=Swine+Flu&f=infectiousdiseases&r=Any&o=d" target ="_self">Swine Flu RSS news feed</a></b> - updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.</p></div>
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She'll change how you watch TV :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/ikAcLeQw0Yk/index.html

13 tips on building a coalition to tackle climate change :: How do you foster effective cross-sectoral cooperation to end climate change? Our expert panel suggests you might want to start by watching your languageTerry Townshend, deputy secretary general: policy, The Global Legislators Organisation (Globe International), Beijing, China. @terrytownshendIf you want to get the political establishment on board, watch your language: I think the biggest obstacle to effective climate action has been political, largely driven by ideology and the power of rich corporations over politicians. Political campaign finance reform is absolutely necessary but, until that happens, climate change objectives need to be expressed in language that is not politically divisive. Speak in terms of energy security, risk, air pollution, health and not climate change, green, o...
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Albemarle & Bond hit by sale news :: Shares in pawnbroker Albemarle & Bond fall 22% as the firm puts itself up for sale amid financial troubles and high-level resignations.
url: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25197266#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

OpenNebula 4.4 is out, featuring better storage load-balancing and more scalable monitoring :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/s9tpQz2tJZU/

Black Friday iPad Sales: Android Users Accounted For Nearly 40% Of Sales, Report Says :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>During last week's Black Friday sales, the loyalty of Android users was sorely tested when about four out of every 10 iPads sold during the one of busiest shopping days in the year, were bought by users of Android-powered smartphones, according to a new report.</p>
<p>InfoScout, a retail analytics firm in San Francisco, said in a blog post that it tracked more than 90,000 shopping trip receipts during Black Friday, and found that roughly 40 percent of iPad purchases were attributed to existing Android smartphone users.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/black-friday-ipad-sales-android-users-accounted-nearly-40-sales-report-says-1492444

RBS to compensate users after fault :: Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) promises to compensate those left "out of pocket" after its customers were unable to make online and card payments.
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London Market Report :: Mining firms drag the London market lower in morning trade after metals prices fall.
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Rdio taps former Amazon exec Anthony Bay as new CEO :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/XqEElUXwgpA/

H&M wins India investment approval :: One of the world's biggest fashion retailers, Hennes & Mauritz (H&M), has won final approval from India's government to open stores in the country.
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The Pacific Leaping Blenny: A Creature Of Peculiar Habits, This Fish Prefers Land Over Water, Hops Like A Frog, And Uses Camouflage To Surprise Prey, Confuse Predators :: <div class="field field-name-field-images field-type-entityreference field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A strange fish that lives on land and leaps like a frog, has been found to use camouflage to evade predators such as crabs, lizards and birds, a new study says, and according to the researchers, this peculiar type of fish, called the Pacific leaping blenny, can provide a glimpse into each stage of the creature's adaptability to land.</p>
<p>Terry Ord and Courtney Morgans, researchers at the University of New South Wales, studied five-color varieties of the blennies (Alticus arnoldorum) in their natural habitat on the tropical island of Guam.</p></div></div></div>
url: http://www.ibtimes.com/pacific-leaping-blenny-creature-peculiar-habits-fish-prefers-land-over-water-hops-frog-uses-1492406