Flash Gordons saves have Black Cats purring

Another dual goals for Darren Bent yesterday, but his was far from the wilful grant in a feat that carried Sunderland towards safety; this was a diversion won by the heroics of Craig Gordon in goal. A run of 4 home games has yielded eight points to leave Sunderland 10 transparent of the relegation zone, but this was far from the gentle win it looked similar to being after Bent had them 2-0 up in eleven minutes.

The win was usually hermetic dual mins from time as Fraizer Campbell slid in Jordan Hendersons cross. Sunderland had endured a half of determined vigour but Birmingham usually had Cameron Jeromes peculiarity finish to show for it. "It was a conspicuous game," pronounced the Birmingham manager, Alex McLeish. "Remarkably hideous from us in the initial half, but after the second half we could be going afar from here with a win."

Six times prior to in the League this season, Sunderland had consumed leads, and it was usually the luminosity of Gordon, who had been glorious opposite Manchester City last week, that prevented them adding to that pattern. Many questioned either he was value the �9 million Roy Keane outlayed bringing him from Hearts; on this form, he positively is.

The catalog of saves yesterday seems preposterously long: dual diving to his left to keep out Keith Fahey drives; a open to his right to pull a close-range Christian Benitez header on to the bar; an outstretched right leg to obstruct far-reaching Jeromes bid after he had been sent by one on one; a automatic retard to his left to repudiate Benitez, followed by a full-length dive to his right to spin afar Stephen Carrs follow-up; and a back-pedalling scratch to keep out Liam Ridgewells header.

"He was outstanding," pronounced McLeish, who managed him at general level. "He looked each in. an general goalkeeper today, as did Joe Hart in the initial half."

On an additional day Harts saves from Campbell, low to his right, and Kieran Richardson, pawed afar from the tip corner, to forestall Sunderland going in 3-0 up at half-time would have held the eye, but yesterday was all about Gordon. Marton Fulop, who has consistently challenged Gordon for the first-team jersey, pronounced last week that he would find a summer move carrying supposed he will usually ever be the back-up; that right away looks an uncommonly essential decision.

"We indispensable the goalkeeper to furnish a illusory display," pronounced the Sunderland manager, Steve Bruce. "He was personification unequivocally well when he pennyless his arm opposite Tottenham mentally to get over that, the child deserves good credit."

The alternative good certain for Sunderland was the form of the 19-year-old Irish midfielder David Meyler, creation his fifth Premier League begin given signing from Cork City for �160,000. With his endless forehead, Meyler has the see of a immature Kevin Ball, but he is a far some-more accurate passer than the former Sunderland captain ever was. The opener stemmed from his quick mind and ambition, as he squeezed a pass by the narrowest of spaces to Campbell. He found Benjani, and when his shot was half-blocked Bent lashed in his 19th of the season.

No twenty came 6 mins later, and again Meyler was the instigator. This time he was far some-more Ball-like, crunching in to a challenge. Steed Malbranque, most softened given his switch to the left, gathered, drifted infield and made a undiluted round to Bent, who incited inside Scott Dann and shot low in to the bottom dilemma to turn the initial Sunderland player to strike twenty in a deteriorate in the tip moody given Kevin Phillips won the European Golden Boot 10 years ago. More importantly, it should safety Sunderlands Premier League status.

Attendance: 37,962

Referee: Peter Walton

Man of the match: Gordon

Match rating: 8/10

Mothers attraction might assistance denunciation expansion in young kids with autism spectrum disorder

The investigate is published online this month and will crop up in an arriving issue of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Language problems are between the majority critical areas to residence for immature kids with autism, since they paint a poignant spoil in every day vital and communication, says Daniel Messinger, join forces with highbrow in the dialect of psychology at the University of Miami (UM) College of Arts and Sciences and principal questioner of a incomparable investigate of infants at-risk for autism, that includes this study.

Maternal attraction is tangible in the investigate as a multiple of warmth, responsiveness to the childneeds, apply oneself for his or her rising independence, sure courtesy for the child, and motherly structuring, that refers to the approach in that a mom engages and teaches her kid in a supportive manner. For example, if a kid is personification with colored rings, the mom competence say, This is the immature ring, to illustrate training the kid about his environment, says Messinger.

In this study, motherly attraction (and primarily, supportive structuring) was some-more predictive of denunciation expansion between toddlers building autism than between immature kids who did not go on to an autism diagnosis. One probable reason is that immature kids with autism might be some-more contingent on their sourroundings to sense sure skills that appear to come some-more of course to alternative children.

Parenting might have a disproportion even some-more for immature kids with developmental problems such as autism since sure things that lend towards to rise simply in immature kids with standard neurological development, similar to amicable communication, don"t come as of course for kids with autism, so these skills need to be taught, says Jason K. Baker, a postdoctoral associate at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, who conducted the investigate with Messinger whilst at UM.

For the study, 33 immature kids were assessed in the lab at 18, 24, thirty and 36 months of age. Some of the immature kids had an comparison kin diagnosed with autism and were deliberate high risk for autism.

At the 18-month assessment, the researchers videotaped a five notation duration of mom and kid free fool around in that the mothers were asked to fool around as they would at home. Aspects of motherly attraction were scored on seven-point beam trimming from deficiency of supportive function to intensely supportive behavior. Childrenlanguage was assessed at 2 and 3 years. At the 3 year visit, when the immature kids were old sufficient to be evaluated, twelve of immature kids from the high risk organisation perceived an autism-spectrum diagnosis.

The investigate was saved by the National Institutes of Health. Its commentary together prior diagnosis investigate indicating that when immature kids with autism enlarge their tie to the sourroundings they do most better, Baker says. Understanding the benefits of supportive structuring in the growth of denunciation between immature young kids with emergent autism provides systematic await for early involvement programs that concentration on parent-child interactions. We know that parenting doesn"t means autism. The summary here is that relatives can have a disproportion in assisting their immature kids quarrel opposite autism, Baker says.

iTunes Sells 10 Billionth Song LiveScience

Apples iTunes strain store noted the 10 billionth strain download currently the same day that Apple CEO Steve Jobs turns 55.

As predicted,the countdown scale on the iTunesWeb site strike 10 billion only prior to 5 p.m. ET today.

The chairman who downloaded the 10 billionth strain will embrace a $10,000 iTunes present card, pleasantness of Apple. Neither the propitious downloadernor the miracle strain has been suggested yet.

It has been only underneath 7 years given the iTunes store proposed offered music. Since that time, the iPod and iTunes have overtaken and revolutionized the unstable strain commercial operation and sole a boatload of songs.

iTunes has done Applean unimaginable volume of money. If each strain purchased cost $1, that is a low guess deliberation there are most that cost more, Apple has done $10 billion off of this one piece of the commercial operation make up in 7 years. And thats not receiving in to care the songs that cost some-more than $1 as well as all the TV shows and alternative media that are purchased by the iTunes Store.

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NYC prepares for lapse of King Tuts treasures

March 23, 2010, 1:00 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City is removing ready to acquire Egypt"s child pharaoh behind to the city he wowed in 1979.

An vaunt of artifacts from King Tutankhamun"s burial ground will have the last stop in New York starting Apr 23. It is right away at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

The New York vaunt will take place at the Discovery Times Square Exposition.

To symbol the initial day of sheet sales Tuesday, a 25-foot statue of the jackal-headed God Anubis (uh-NOO"-bihs) arrived by boat at South Street Seaport.

Former Mayor Ed Koch welcomed the deity and pronounced he looked brazen to saying Tut"s treasures again.

The 1979 King Tut vaunt captivated 1.8 million visitors at New York"s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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U.S. man arrested in Yemen worked in chief plants

Mohamed Sudam and Scott DiSavino SANAA/NEW YORK Fri Mar 12, 2010 6:17pm EST Related News Gunfire at Yemen hospital, clashes in southSun, Mar 7 2010

SANAA/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yemen said on Friday it was holding a U.S. citizen suspected of being an al Qaeda militant who killed a hospital guard last week, and a U.S. firm said the suspect had worked at nuclear reactors in New Jersey.

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Sharif Mobley was among 11 al Qaeda suspects arrested in the Yemeni capital in early March, a Yemeni government source told Reuters. Another Yemen official said authorities had "unconfirmed suspicions" he had links to a Nigerian man who was behind a December 25 bomb attempt on a U.S.-bound plane.

A U.S. company which owns several nuclear power plants said Mobley, 26, worked at the Salem and Hope Creek nuclear reactors in New Jersey and other reactors in the area.

The company, Public Service Enterprise Group Inc, said in a report to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission that Mobley worked as a laborer from 2002 to 2008, mainly during refueling outages for several weeks at a time.

He did routine labor work carrying supplies and assisting maintenance activities. U.S. officials were in the process of reviewing his activities in the United States, one law enforcement official said.

"At this time, we are not aware of any security-related concerns or incidents related to Mr. Mobley"s employment at these locations. However we continue to review his past activities," said the official, who did not want to be named.

The official said that the U.S. government had been aware of him "for some time."

The Yemeni government source told Reuters that Mobley was the al Qaeda suspect who started a gunbattle at a hospital in Sanaa last week in a bid to escape detention.

He was recaptured, but not before killing one person and wounding several others.

IN YEMEN FOR AT LEAST A YEAR

Yemen became a major Western security concern after the Yemen-based regional arm of al Qaeda claimed responsibility for a failed attempt to bomb a U.S.-bound plane in December.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man suspected of being behind the attack, had visited Yemen to study Arabic and Islam and had had contact with radical U.S.-born Muslim preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, who is based in the impoverished Arab country.

Awlaki was also linked to a U.S. Army psychiatrist who shot dead 13 people at the Fort Hood base in Texas in November.

In February, U.S. counterterrorism officials said U.S. spy agencies believed Awlaki to have played a bigger role than first thought in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula"s decision to start launching attacks against U.S. targets.

Mobley had been in Yemen for at least a year, an official told Reuters, first studying Arabic at a language institute in the capital before attending Al-Eman University, which is run by prominent hardline cleric Sheikh Abdul-Majid al-Zindani.

Western allies and neighboring Saudi Arabia fear al Qaeda is exploiting instability in Yemen on many fronts to recruit and train militants for attacks in the region and beyond.

In addition to fighting al Qaeda, Yemen is also struggling to contain separatist tensions in the south where violence has escalated in recent weeks.

Sanaa is also bringing an end to a northern Shi"ite insurgency. Last month, facing international pressure to turn its sights to al Qaeda, Sanaa declared a truce in the long-running northern conflict.

U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said: "We have contacted the Yemeni authorities to set up a consular visit to verify the citizenship of a person being detained in Sanaa, but we haven"t had that meeting yet."

(Additional reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky in Washington, Writing by Raissa Kasolowsky in Dubai)

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New Zealands Madoff locked up for $13 million rascal

WELLINGTON Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:01am EDT Related News New Zealand"s "Madoff" jailed for $13 mln fraudFri, Mar 19 2010

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand banker defrauded clients of $13 million to fund a lavish lifestyle of prostitutes, property and wine, local media reported on Friday.

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Stephen Gerard Versalko, 52, was convicted of stealing NZ$17.8 million from the clients of his employer, ASB Bank, and jailed for six years, the Dominion Post newspaper reported.

Court officials could not be reached for comment.

The biggest single employee fraud case in New Zealand came to an end after one of Versalko"s clients saw a documentary on U.S. fraudster Bernard Madoff and saw similarities in behavior.

Between 2000 and 2009 Versalko spent at least NZ$3.3 million on prostitutes, NZ$4 million on luxury properties, as well as more than NZ$300,000 on wine, along with cars and a boat.

One prostitute received NZ$2.5 million over that time, and the bank is taking legal action to get property she bought with the money, media reported.

Like the high-profile Madoff, Versalko ran a so-called ponzi scheme using NZ$4.6 million of the defrauded money from new clients to pay off earlier investors.

Versalko"s victims were largely elderly women, living outside of New Zealand, who were led to believe their money was in high-return, government guaranteed investments.

The bank has repaid all the investors not only the amounts involved but also the interest they were promised.

($1=NZ$1.41) (Reporting by Adrian Bathgate; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)

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What DO the singer the bishop and John Humphrys get up to underneath the duvet?

Our grannies may tell us that we need less sleep as we get older - but it seems they are wrong.

Apparently, as we age, we cope better with our sleep being interrupted, but our need for shut-eye never diminishes.

We asked some of Britain"s most successful writers, thinkers, politicians and personalities about their bedtime habits ...

Sweet dreams: Our need to sleep does not diminish with age

6 hours: Carol Vorderman

CAROL VORDERMAN, 49, TV personality

My idea of heaven is grabbing an hour"s nap in the afternoon - but, sadly, that happens only about once a year.

My ideal seven-hours-a-night went out the window when I became a mum. Today, I"m lucky to get six.

I try to get to sleep before midnight, then I"m up at 6am for the school runs. I could happily survive on that amount of sleep if I never touched alcohol, but when I do have a drink during the week I feel the full effects of my busy lifestyle.

I find summer the hardest, as I"m very sensitive to light. I"m awake at 5am even if the curtains are closed. I"m not a dreamer and I certainly don"t believe any of that rubbish about interpreting dreams.

For me, waking up is done with purpose during the week. I"m straight up with an alarm and out of bed. But at the weekends, my ultimate treat is breakfast in bed.

6 hours: Clive Anderson

CLIVE ANDERSON, 57, TV presenter

I can get by on very little sleep, and frequently do. This can be very useful if I have a writing deadline to meet, but usually it just means that I have more time to fritter away during the day! I seldom get to bed before 1am, but I can stay up much later if the occasion demands.

I quite often have dreams, but I don"t think that dreams are particularly interesting to anyone other than the dreamer. I wake myself up at 7am and listen to the Today programme: it"s very invigorating to hear John Humphrys laying into some hapless minister before breakfast.

My body clock usually wakes me up - but failing that my wife gives me a jolly good nudge.

8 hours: Fiona Fullerton

FIONA FULLERTON 53, former actress turned writer

I dream a lot, and my most recurring dream is a throwback to when I was an actress. I"m in a musical or show and I"m not prepared. I haven"t had enough time to learn the words, my costume doesn"t fit and I can"t find the stage.

I haven"t been on the stage for 15 years, so I think it must just be anxiety-related. When I was younger, I used to be able to go out partying and go to work the next day, but now I need nine hours" sleep a night - though I usually get eight due to my early start.

I"m in bed by 10pm, but have to be up at 6am to take my daughter Lucy, who"s 14, to school in Cheltenham at 7am. It"s very different to when I was an actress and would either have very early starts for filming or late ones for the theatre.

I wake every day to music on the radio - Classic FM or Radio 2. It"s always such chaos in the morning, but music eases me into the day. It"s less severe than an alarm clock.

9 hours: Jeanette Winterson

JEANETTE WINTERSON, 50, novelist

When I come to London, I sleep far too little and turn into a grumpyperson. If I lived in London all the time, I would be a wreck. I needat least nine hours" sleep, always.

When I am at home in the country, I go to bed at 11pm and get up at8am - unless it is Sunday, when I go back to bed and relax with a book.I am a seasonal creature, as I live primarily in the country.

Insummer, I have a different routine: I get up at 7am and go to bed atmidnight, but sleep in the afternoon for a couple of hours. The onlything that wakes me during the night is my cat - not even my girlfriendhas a chance of waking me.

I always dream. I love mydreams, but I can"t always remember them. I never use a clock, butwithout fail I wake within five minutes of the summer or winter hour. Ican rely on my body clock.

7 hours: John Humphries

JOHN HUMPHRYS, 66, Radio 4"s Today programme presenter

My recurring nightmare is that one day every politician will answerevery question totally frankly and honestly - and I"ll be out of a job!I do dream, and I have the occasional nightmare.

If I ampresenting the Today programme, then I am in bed by 9pm. My body hasgot so used to this that 11pm feels very late. I like to get at leastseven hours" sleep a night. I am up at 4am when I am presenting.

IfI"m not, then I wake between 6 and 7am. I"m a very light sleeper andthe slightest noise will wake me, but I live in a very quiet square, sothat"s not a problem. I wake to the radio, but I am toying with one ofthose alarms that light up gradually to make you think dawn hasarrived.

I"m very good at cat-napping. Half an hour after lunch, or even 20 minutes, is very restorative and good for the brain, too.

6 hours: Alain De Botton

ALAIN DE BOTTON, 41, philosopher and writer

I need at least eight hours" sleep but rarely get more than six, due to having young children and an anxious temperament.

I go to bed every night precisely at 11.40pm and wake every morning at 5.50am. My routines are extremely precise.

Unfortunately, my capacity to think is hugely dependent on how much sleep I have had, so at night I"m often nervous.

I lie in bed worrying about sleep, and that stops me sleeping. When I do drop off, I am often woken by my youngest son, who is three, for whom the night is just another period of day for him to continue to explore.

When I am finally asleep, I have wonderful fantasy dreams: enemies who meet a sticky end, alienated friends with whom I"m reunited, misunderstandings cleared up.

I have some nightmares, too, usually involving - of course - not having revised for my Cambridge History Tripos exams. I now regularly go back to bed at about 9am if I still feel tired, which makes me feel very, very guilty.

4-5 hours: David Starkey

DAVID STARKEY, 65, historian

If I am filming or performing in public, then I can get by with very little sleep indeed - between four and five hours.

I wake very early, at about 5am, then go out filming all morning. Then I"ll have a few glasses of wine at lunchtime, go back to bed and sleep for two or three hours, before getting up to work all night.

If I am writing, I go to bed about midnight then invariably wake at about 4am. I find that writing is a continuous thought process, and it"s very hard to switch off your brain. So I get up and potter about. I make a cup of strong camomile tea, and either sit and think - I have some of my best ideas at this time in the morning - or make some notes.

Then I go back to bed and can sleep until eleven. I rarely remember my dreams. My only nightmare is about losing my luggage.

6 hours: Dr. John Sentamu

DR JOHN SENTAMU, 60, Archbishop of York

My days vary a lot - I am often in meetings in London - but I will be in bed no later than 11.15pm.

I believe in unwinding properly before going to sleep, but not by reading in bed. The only book at my bedside is my Bible, which my wife Margaret gave to me when I was 22 and we had just got engaged.

I usually sleep very well, but if I do wake up, then I know it is there. I get up early and go into utter silence for about 30 minutes, when I remember all the people who are waking up in pain or in prison.

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7 hours: Ann Widdecombe

ANN WIDDECOMBE, 63, Tory MP

I used to have a recurring nightmare: there was a nameless horror in the room and, try as I might, I could not switch on my bedside light. I had this nightmare for several years, and then, just as mysteriously as it arrived, it went.

I"ve never had the dream analysed, as I am far too hardheaded for that.

I need at least seven hours" sleep a night - less than that, and I am not at my best. I used to hate the all-night sittings in the House, and am sure this is to blame for the high death rate of elderly MPs.

I go to bed every night at about midnight, and read for half an hour to wind down. I nearly always wake at 7am, to my alarm. I am also a great advocate of the "cat-nap". I curl up on a sofa every day for half an hour for a snooze, and then my staff wake me.

5 hours: Jean-Christophe Novelli

JEAN-CHRISTOPHE NOVELLI, 48, chef

I"ve always survived on very little sleep. When I was a kid, I was hyperactive and would never sleep until very, very late. At 14, I started work as a baker, which meant working through the night.

Then the non-stop hours of a chef kicked in, so my sleep cycle has never been normal.

One problem is that I don"t switch off easily. I get so involved in my work that I can"t just go straight to bed. And I can only turn in for the day when everything is done.

Nowadays, if I get five hours of sleep, that"s enough for me. If I spend too long in bed, it actually makes me feel like a zombie.

The one thing that does wake me up in the night is my dogs. I have ten, and I"m sure that at least three of them are always awake, barking at rabbits in the garden.

What gets me up every morning is my stomach rumbling; and I can"t live without a cup of coffee first thing.

4-6 hours: Diane Abbott

DIANE ABBOTT, 56, Labour MP

Farming Today on Radio Four at 5.45am is what gets me out of bed in the morning. I have been listening to it for years and I find it very calming - perhaps because it"s somewhat removed from my urban life in Hackney.

Sleep is a precious commodity for me. When I get enough sleep I feel great - so much better. But the demands of my job mean that I usually only get between four and six hours in bed, when I think I need eight.

Not surprisingly, when I do sleep it"s very soundly. I nod off quite easily anywhere at all. I have been known to catch 40 winks in my office.

6-8 hours: Shami Chakrabarti

SHAMI CHAKRABARTI, 41, director of human rights charity Liberty

I am embarrassed to admit that my husband and I have a TV in our bedroom, and when we go to bed at about 11pm we watch something fluffy, like Glee or ER.

I ought to say I watch a programme like Newsnight, but when you have been dealing with serious issues all day, then you want something light and entertaining.

I"d love to be one of those people who can get by on very little sleep, but I need between six and eight hours. I am blessed in that I am a good sleeper, as is my son. He slept through the night from eight weeks, which was fantastic.

I have wonderful, creative dreams which take reality and blur it around the edges.

We all get up between 6am and 6.30am, have breakfast together and then leave the house precisely at 7.50am.

7 hours: Aggie Mackenzie

AGGIE MacKENZIE, 54, TV presenter and author

I am going on a run for Sports Relief in March, and I"m terrified, so at the moment I"m up at 7.10am every day to run a mile around the local park.

I"m not very strict with bedtime, but I do like to be in bed by midnight, so I can get a good seven hours before my alarm forces me awake. I sleep soundly and tend to dream - and the ones I remember are very odd.

I dreamt last week about being driven past a tearoom where everything in it was blue and purple. There were old women sitting outside eating blue ice cream, but when I stopped to ask for some, they gave me a pink cone. I was really annoyed. Maybe I need a dreams analyst.

HOW TO GET A GOOD NIGHT"S SHUT EYE...

Kevin Morgan is professor of gerontology at Loughborough University"s Sleep Research Unit. He says:

Each of us needs an amount of sleep that refreshes and allows us to take on the day. If youre in the 10 per cent of Britons who have shallow, fragile or unpredictable sleep, try these three tips.

Go to bed when you"re sleepy. Often those with trouble sleeping spend more time in bed than most. Aim to spend as little time awake, in bed, as possible.Never try to fall asleep. Sleeping is an automatic psychological task, like walking. If you have ever tried to think about walking down stairs, it"s normally a sure way to trip over. So try not to over-think it.The guardian of good sleep is regularity. Regularity in the time you go to bed and get up and the amount of exercise you take, as well as your diet. It won"t make you very exciting, but it"s worth it. Wake yourself in the same way, on time, each day in whatever way works be it a blaring alarm, a gentle nudge or your children jumping on the bed.

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