06-Dec-2013 16:28

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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'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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OPEC holds oil price firm, welcomes back Iran :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/A4tyfQhLzts/

EU Commission hits banks with record fine for rate fixing :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/IAlOzE882xc/

The trouble with Apple's Touch ID :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/1B-JdXQhn8I/index.html

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These emeralds will make you mad :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/3tt90dZbEZA/index.html

NZ unveils ode to "The Hobbit" :: url: http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_business/~3/Q_zIB6dP0Oc/index.html

Football club asks crowd for funds :: East Fife Football Club becomes the first club in Scotland to turn to crowdfunding to raise finance to develop its grounds.
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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:• 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).• 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...
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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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Economy Ukrainian revolution's most pressing task :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/X1jVNhTgC64/

European markets at close: 03.12.2013 :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/Kz-TzPR16yI/

Transparency International warns 2/3rds of states "corrupt" :: url: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/euronews/en/business/~3/cAt7rw067fw/