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Chinese police use teargas to break up deadly protests flare in Urumqi – guardian.co.uk

Times Online

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Will Your Kids Be Watching Obama’s Back-to-School Speech? – ABC News

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Hunt for Kandahar blast survivors – BBC News

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Kennedy ‘made Massachusetts larger th… – USA Today

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Am I immune to H1N1 flu if I’ve alrea… – CNN

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White House Sharply Increases Projections of Future Deficits Washington Post The $787 billion economic stimulus package President Obama signed earlier this year is likely to cost "tens of billions of dollars" more than expected, helping to drive projections for next year's budget deficit to $1.5 trillion, … SCENARIOS: Impact of US budget reportsReuters Deficit Projection Goes Through RoofFOXNews White House, Congress projects record deficitsThe Associated Press Wall Street Journal -MiamiHerald.com -Bizjournals.com all 1,619 news articles »

Most recent SAT scores show dispariti… – USA Today

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Palestinian PM seeks aid for embryo s… – Reuters

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Obama appears to be serious about hav… – Los Angeles Times

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Lutheran denomination to allow gays and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as clergy – Duluth News Tribune
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H1N1 flu decreasing, but may ‘explode’ – United Press International
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Master Hacker Albert Gonzalez – Time
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Research by the University of Warwick and University College London has found that levels of inflammatory markers vary significantly with sleep duration in women, but not men.

The study, published in the American journal SLEEP, found levels of Interleukin-6 (IL-6), a marker related to coronary heart disease, were significantly lower in women who reported sleeping eight hours as compared with 7hours.

A second marker, High-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), is predictive of future cardiovascular morbidity. Levels of hs-CRP were significantly higher in women who reported sleeping five hours or less.

Lead author of the study, Associate Professor of Biochemical Medicine at Warwick Medical School Michelle Miller said short-term sleep deprivation studies have shown that inflammatory markers are elevated in sleep-deprived individuals, suggesting that inflammatory mechanisms may play a role in the cardiovascular risk associated with sleep deprivation.

She said: “Our study may provide some insight into a potential mechanism for the observation in previous studies which indicates an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease in individuals who have less than five hours sleep per night.”

The study involved more than 4,600 white participants from the University College London-based Whitehall II cohort study; 73% were men. Participants between the ages of 35 and 55 years were recruited between 1985 and 1988 from 20 London-based civil service departments. Data for this study is from the phase 3 follow-up (1991-1993). Sleep duration was determined by subjective questionnaires, and general health was assessed during a screening examination.

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Health Challenge to find Croydon’s Top Healthy Offices, Restaurants and Shops
Health Challenge to find Croydon’s Top Healthy Offices, Restaurants and Shops

Is there any hope for the health of a town whose Hospital boasts Burger King provides the catering? A town that despite having one of the UK’s original Vegetarian groups (est 1886)still doesn’t have a vegetarian restaurant.

A town that has 3 McDonalds in the centre and deep fried chicken opportunities at every tram stop, Croydon with it’s high rised buildings has been likened to Manhatten.

London Nutritionist Yvonne Bishop-Weston hopes there is hope and is determined to try to make a difference to Croydon’s worker’s health.

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Reaching out to the wider community

A Church of England book has recommended that overweight or bald people should be regarded as worshippers with ‘special needs’ alongside the blind, the deaf, very short people, and readers of tabloid newspapers. The advice is part of an initiative to make churches more friendly. It says that bald people could be “in trouble from those overhead radiant heaters some churches have unwittingly installed” and that special arrangements might need to be made for people who are overweight. “Some pew spaces and chairs are embarrassingly inadequate for what is known in church circles as ‘the wider community’

Claims that Fuller was getting WINZ assistance illegally

Natasha Fuller is the beneficiary who is getting $715.00 a week on the dpb to spend most of her day on message boards complaining she cant get the Training Incentive Allowance, despite boasting as being a fully trained private investigator..

She posts as the happy hocker – surely a spelling mistake – on message boards, as well as justyns.

There are claims on the message boards that Fuller was unlawfully collecting a benefit while living with her partner. If so, she should be taken to task for it because she would not have been entitled to it. Her high income partner didn’t give her much money. It is claimed that Fuller was on the benefit while living with her partner. I have not been able to verify that claim, as WINZ won’t tell me (I didn’t ask either). She got pregnant in June 2007, around about the time she was described as a sole mother who used a WINZ enterprise allowance to run a small business that failed. She also allegedly got a 10K WINZ grant to buy a car and have it signwritten for her business before crashing it and getting another one.

In addition she was given $200 a week to buy food when she lived with a partner. Her partner [ whom you can see here just before they split up ] paid for the mortgage because it was under his and his mums name. Now Fuller says she is “ over men so over being hurt and have decided that u just can’t beat a good vibrator:)”

One poster warned

You have stated on the forum board that you have been living with someone and collecting DPB, that is FRAUD. All of us that are paying taxes are paying for you to live the high life and boast about it.

She told the media she got $400 hair extensions around three months after her daughter was born. Apprently her daughter was born 3 February 2008. But on 4 February 2009, on a message board where she writes up to 10 messages a day, she said she had hair extensions for more than a year – if so, she may have been pregnant when she got the extensions.

Fuller says her partner left in December 2008 and that was when she said she applied for the dpb again. She says she doesn’t want to work more than 20 hours. That’s because she may lose the benefit and the In Work Payment is less than the benefit, and you can’t get both.

You can see Fuller on You Tube right here living the high life doing karaoke. She’s drunk. On her Facebook site she gloats that she spent more than $200 on CDs last month.

It is clear that on the dpb you can get up to $1000 a week: Domestic purposes benefit of $272,an accommodation supplement of $225 – ( Fuller gets $110 and a disability allowance of around $35 a week) , tax credits of $200, childcare assistance of up to $181 for one child, and out-of-school care and recreation assistance of $72 a week.

Fuller doesn’t deserve a training incentive allowance. But she should be able to lobby on government policies without ministerial meddling. However Labour shouldn’t moan about it as it released Fuller’s benefit details in Parliament in 2007. Hypocrites. **Further updates here**

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