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Sbragia called in local lad Tony Jeffries, who won bronze in last summer’s Olympics, for a chat with the players in an effort to pull his team off the canvas.
Sunderland had all the chances and if this had been a boxing match it would have been stopped in the visitors’ favour.
Bolton barely laid a glove on Sbragia’s side with unpopular boss Gary Megson copping another earful from the dissatisfied Reebok customers.
At least they don’t have any worries about which division they will be in next season – Sunderland do.
Their cause would have been eased if Manchester United old boy Kieran Richardson had taken the opportunities which came his way, especially in a first-half completely bossed by Sunderland.
But it still needed a brilliant save from keeper Marton Fulop to prevent Bolton mugging Sunderland in added time through Gary Cahill.
Any point is vital for Sunderland now and Sbragia confessed that he will be too nervous to watch tomorrow night’s relegation shoot- out between neighbours Newcastle United and Middlesbrough.
He said: “I won’t be watching. I’ll be in the pub, otherwise I would only end up pulling my hair out.
“This was a good point considering the way we’ve been playing recently. We said after the defeat against Everton last weekend not to be frightened and to try things.
Sbragia dumped Djibril Cisse on the bench and Kenwyne Jones was forced to go it alone up front with the Sunderland boss banking on his five- man midfield winning the big battles.
They certainly did just that in a confident opening which belied their league position.
Only the lack of an end product prevented them from cashing in on their sprightly dominance.
Jones was a willing foil and it was his knockdown which had presented Richardson with a golden opportunity, the former Old Trafford player firing over the bar from close range.
He also dragged his next effort wide and sent another spinning into the Reebok skyline.
The Bolton fans just had to sit and bear it in the knowledge that their side has already virtually guaranteed Premier League safety.
Still, it would have been nice to have interrupted the one-way traffic towards their goal. And it was Richardson, thanks to another unselfish lay-off by Jones, who came closest to opening the scoring.
This time a right-footer was just inches too high with keeper Jussi Jaaskelainen unable to react.
The Bolton boss earned a ticking off by referee Rob Styles just before the break.
Maybe Megson had just been warming up for a bigger blast at his under-performing players during the half-time interval.
The home fans, who have been on his back most of the season, also let him know what they thought of the abject first-half performance with a chorus of boos.
Amazingly, Bolton almost snatched a win they didn’t deserve at the end when Fulop, who could have brought out a deckchair for most of the game, brilliantly clawed away Gary Cahill’s close-range effort as Bolton finally emerged from their slumbers.
Megson said: “Considering the first-half performance it was an undeserved point because we were battered – but the second half was a different story.
There's nothing '90s kids like more than remembering how much better life was in the '90s.
That's the feeling actor/director Ben Giroux and indie hip-hop artist Jensen Reed tapped into with their new music video, "Back to the '90s"—a musical love letter to everyone's favorite decade.
...to this iconic and magical quick fix we all did with our Nintendo games.
There’s still two weeks to go until the official sales bonanza, but the early Black Friday deals keep on coming. Newegg just released its Early Black Friday sale round 2Remove non-product link, which lasts until just before midnight on Sunday evening Pacific time. The retailer says that the prices on these early Black ...
Newegg’s current sale offers deals on motherboards, RAM, hard drives, processors, monitors, and pretty much anything else a PC fanatic needs. Here are some of our favorite picks.
Intel’s six-core Core i5-8600K is on sale for $240Remove non-product link. That’s about $20 off the usual price and not an uncommon sale price. It’s not the best we’ve seen–that’s $215–but it’s still a great price for a killer gaming CPU with solid productivity chops. The downside? This processor doesn’t come with a CP...
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COLUMBIA - Arguing that waste-contaminated water is spreading to the groundwater, environmental groups are challenging the state permit that allows low-level radioactive waste to be buried at the Barnwell site.
The South Carolina Environmental Law Project will represent the Sierra Club before the S.C. Court of Appeals on February 5.They are challenging an Administrative Law Court decision that affirmed the license renewal, pitting them against the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control and the site operator, Chem...
The environmentalists are concerned about tritium flowing from the facility to Mary's Branch Creek. Court records state Chem-Nuclear's disposal practice of pumping contaminated water out of a trench into lined ponds and other areas caused radioactive material to the contaminate nearby church property in 1999. The appea...
"The (disposal) vaults have holes in the bottoms, are not grouted and sealed at the top, have no cover or roof, and thus rain can fall directly into the vault during the (waste) loading period," argues the environmental groups in their 2012 filings.
"The design allows rainfall that accumulates in the trenches to percolate into the soil, and drive the groundwater movement that is carrying tritium and other radioactive materials into Mary's Branch Creek."
It was revealed in October before the Atlantic Compact Commission that of 27 locations that had been tested recently, tritium levels at six sites were trending upward. Tritium is a radioactive form of hydrogen.
DHEC spokeswoman Lindsey Evans said in an email after the October meeting that the findings were "not unexpected." The tritiumplume and the six locations were located in the town of Snelling, S.C., between the town of Barnwell and the Savannah River Site.
The plume begins under the disposal facility and flows southeast toward Mary's Branch Creek about a half a mile away, where it enters the creek at the surface.
Meanwhile, the volume of waste entering the site is tapering off.
In 2009, the site received 34,500 cubic feet of waste. The next year saw a drop to 10,000 cubic feet, and then decreased to slightly less than 9,000 cubic feet.
Because of an agreement, fewer states are sending their waste to the South Carolina facility.
In 2008 the number of states was cut to only three: South Carolina, New Jersey and Connecticut. The landfill already stands at more than 90 percent full. Facility costs are paid by five power companies that operate 13 reactors. They are: Dominion,Duke Energy, Exelon, PSEG and SCANA.
Regulators first became aware of tritium in groundwater monitoring wells at the site in 1978. The facility began its use as a waste receptacle in 1971 and Chem-Nuclear System has been the only operator. Since then, Chem-Nuclear's license has been amended 48 times, including seven renewals.
Tritium found at the site today is expected to decay to "negligible amounts of radioactive material" in 120 years, according to a 2005 order.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) - About 100 runners enjoyed ideal weather conditions for the third annual, Heroes on Both Sides - Autism 5K Run on Saturday morning.
Individual runners and running teams from local police departments lined up at the start line by the Public Safety Training Facility, off of Scottsville Road.
Matt Spinner of the Autism Council of Rochester said the event raised $1000 in contributions.
The Bills announced Saturday that rookie quarterback Josh Allen was ruled out after being limited in practice all week. He hasn't played since suffering an elbow sprain during a 20-13 loss at Houston on Oct. 14.
Buffalo decided to give Barkley a shot after Nathan Peterman was ineffective in last week's 41-9 loss versus Chicago. Derek Anderson, who played in losses at Indianapolis 37-5 on Oct. 21 and to New England 25-6 on Oct. 29, is in concussion protocol.
Barkley, who starred at USC, was a fourth-round pick by Philadelphia in the 2013 draft. He appeared in four games with the Eagles. He didn't play while with Arizona in 2015 and 2017 and appeared in seven games (six starts) with Chicago in 2016, last starting a game in that season's finale.
Barkley played with Cincinnati this preseason but was beat out for the back-up job by Jeff Driskel. For his career, Barkley has completed 58.6 percent of his 266 pass attempts with eight touchdowns and 18 interceptions.
Barkley faces a big challenge in jump-starting an offense that has scored a total of 20 points in the last three games and 33 during a four-game losing streak in which the Bills have allowed 123 points. Buffalo has the worst offense in the NFL at 10.7 points per game and its average of 248.3 total yards is better than ...
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – The Ninth Circuit ruled Monday that federal agencies acted reasonably when they denied petitions by animal-rights groups to label egg cartons based on how hens are raised.
The ruling affirmed the District of Northern California’s 2014 grant of summary judgment in favor of the Food and Drug Administration, the Federal Trade Commission, the Food Safety Inspection Service and the Agricultural Marketing Service.
Animal Legal Defense Fund attorney Kelsey Eberly expressed disappointment with Monday’s decision.
“The court’s decision leaves the public in the dark regarding the cruel confinement of egg-laying hens and consumers at the mercy of dishonest egg marketers,” she said in an interview.
The groups said the government acted in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, which governs the way federal agencies propose and establish regulations, when it rejected their petitions.
They argued that egg carton labels featuring images or phrases that suggest hens are raised outdoors with space to move freely are misleading when the hens are in fact raised in restrictive cages.
According to the groups, approximately 95 percent of hens spend their lives in cages with four or five other birds. The tight space prevents the hens from stretching their wings and raising their heads, and osteoporosis from lack of movement is common.
A federal judge ruled in 2014 that courts must defer to an agency’s decision not to initiate rulemaking, and that the four agencies had acted reasonably when they denied the groups’ petitions.
In affirming the district court on Monday, the Ninth Circuit also deferred to agency discretion, siding with the FDA’s decision to go after individual egg producers instead of issuing new egg-labeling regulations.
It also said the FDA possesses discretionary authority to issue regulations to enforce the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which prohibits the sale of misbranded food items.
“The decision to take enforcement action against misbranded eggs on a case-by-case basis, as opposed to promulgating regulations that would apply to all egg producers, is left to the broad discretion of the FDA,” wrote U.S. Circuit Judge Mary Murguia in the court’s 14-page opinion.
“The FDA could have better addressed plaintiffs’ evidence of misleading representations that appear on egg cartons to demonstrate that the agency fully appreciated one of the primary bases for plaintiffs’ rulemaking petition—that information concerning egg-laying hens’ living conditions is necessary in order to correct...
However, the panel said that the FDA’s denial letter to the plaintiffs did show that the agency had considered their evidence.
“Because the FDA is generally free to choose its procedural mode of administration and prioritize agency goals, we see no reason to remand the matter to the FDA to reconsider plaintiffs’ petition in this case,” Murguia wrote.
Similarly, the court held that the Federal Trade Commission had reasonably denied the plaintiffs’ petition based on its discretion to remediate misleading egg labels through ad hoc enforcement proceedings.
In addition, the Food Safety and Inspection Service and the Agricultural Marketing Service had correctly concluded that they couldn’t issue the groups’ proposed regulations because they lacked the authority to do so under the Egg Products Inspection Act and the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, according to the panel...
Eberly said the plaintiffs are assessing their next move, including going to the Supreme Court. In the meantime, she said they’re currently litigating similar cases over egg industry transparency and intend to file new ones.
The plaintiffs were also represented by Monte Cooper with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in Menlo Park.
The government was represented by Justice Department attorney Jeffrey Sandberg in Washington.
Both Sandberg and a Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment on the decision Monday.
Circuit Judges Marsha Berzon and Michael Hawkins also sat on the panel.
JAKARTA, Indonesia — President Joko Widodo of Indonesia led by a comfortable margin in unofficial returns in his reelection bid Wednesday, as he appeared to fend off a challenge by a four-time presidential candidate supported by hard-line Islamists.
LIMA, Peru — A former president of Peru died Wednesday after shooting himself in the head when authorities tried to arrest him in connection with one of the biggest corruption scandals in Latin American history.
The Korean Central News Agency says Chairman Kim Jong Un observed the firing of the weapon Wednesday by the Academy of Defense Science.
PARIS — Days after a fire tore through Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France on Wednesday started to focus on reconstruction, with President Emmanuel Macron having set the ambitious goal of rebuilding the Gothic landmark within five years and donations pouring in from around the world.
More than 9,500 prisoners were ordered released Wednesday in Myanmar under a presidential amnesty, but they did not include two Pulitzer Prize-winning Reuters reporters.
The Good The Panasonic RP-HTX7s are affordable entry-level over-the ear headphones that fit comfortably, are relatively lightweight, and sound very good for the money. They also don't leak sound, and their retro styling is more hit than miss.
The Bad They're slightly brash; there's no integrated microphone for making cell phone calls.
The Bottom Line While their sound and design may not appeal to everyone, the Panasonic RP-HTX7s are excellent entry-level over-the-ear headphones that are a good bargain.
Panasonic probably isn't one of the brands you associate with value electronics, but when it comes to headphones, the company has shown that it has several models that deliver excellent bang for the buck, including the Panasonic RP-HTX7 monitor headphones reviewed here.
These guys have been around for a few years (I'm sorry I didn't review them sooner) and can be had for anywhere from $30 to $50 online. They come in several different colors and are distinguished by what Panasonic calls "retro styling."
That styling may not appeal to some people, but I thought they looked pretty good and, more importantly, they fit comfortably, were relatively lightweight for over-the-ear headphones, and created a tight seal -- not only did they passively block out a lot of sound, but they didn't leak any sound, making them suitable f...
True to their "monitor" roots, the RP-HTX7s have a single, fairly thick 3.9-foot cord and somewhat reinforced straight plug. The cord isn't as thick as the unwieldy one on the Audio-Technica ATH-M30, another excellent budget monitor headphone set. The Panasonic's cord is shorter and more suited to mobile use. However, ...
The headphones feature a "retro" design and come in multiple colors.
In terms of features, there are no real extras, and this model doesn't have a built-in microphone for making cell phone calls. What you get is a sturdily built closed-back headphone set that looks more expensive than its price might indicate -- even if it isn't luxurious. For instance, the earcups are well-padded but a...
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will cut coal consumption, boost electric vehicle sales and shut more outdated steel and coke capacity in the coming three years, the State Council said in a long-awaited 2018 to 2020 pollution action plan published on Tuesday.
China is in the fifth year of a “war on pollution” aimed at reversing the damage done to the country’s environment since the economy was opened up in 1978, with President Xi Jinping promising to use the full might of the Chinese Communist Party to meet the country’s goals.
The new 2018 to 2020 action plan, released on the country’s official government website, will expand the fight to 82 cities across China, and confirmed that the major coal-producing provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi have been added to the list of “key” pollution control regions.
The new plan will also cover the heavily industrialized province of Henan in central China, as well as the Yangtze river delta, which includes the provinces of Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and the region around Shanghai.
The document said the regions of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong and Henan will be required to cut coal consumption by 10 percent over the 2016 to 2020 period, while the Yangtze delta region will have to cut coal use by 5 percent over the period.
It also said no new capacity for steel, coke and primary aluminum production will be allowed in the regions through to 2020, the State Council, or China’s cabinet, said. It will cap steel capacity in Hebei, the country’s largest steelmaking province, at 200 million tonnes by 2020, down from 286 million tonnes in 2013.
China will also take more action to tackle small-scale “scattered” pollution sources, and will work to cut off water, electricity and raw material supplies to firms that violate rules.
To meet its politically important smog targets in northern China last year, the government curbed traffic and coal use, and also imposed “one size fits all” restrictions on industries like steel, aluminum and cement throughout 28 northern cities from October 2017 to March this year.
The cabinet said special anti-smog measures would still be introduced over autumn and winter, but each of the 82 cities would now draw up its own bespoke plan. It also said it would raise gas storage capacity to ensure supplies were sufficient during winter.
The cabinet also set an annual production and sales target for new energy vehicles at around 2 million vehicles a year by 2020 in order to reduce road emissions.
Latin rock tour also includes Los Amigos Invisibles, La Ley, Dover.
The Watcha tour, a Latin rock spectacular featuring artists from nine countries and three continents, has announced the dates and venues for its third outing, kicking off August 15 in Denver.

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