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West Ham produced the perfect away performance as goals from Tomas Soucek and Aaron Wan-Bissaka secured a 2-0 victory over Newcastle to ease the pressure on head coach Julen Lopetegui. It is a win that Lopetegui will hope kickstarts his Hammers reign, having warned his side could not use a congested fixture schedule as an excuse for failing to ignite their season. The Irons headed to Newcastle for Monday Night Football having lost two of their last four Premier League games. The spotlight was firmly on Spanish coach Lopetegui and the direction of his team - with home fans having vented their frustrations on the back of a frustrating goalless draw against Everton before the international break. Player ratings Newcastle: Pope (6), Livramento (6), Schar (6), Kelly (5), Hall (7), Longstaff (5), Guimaraes (5), Willock (5), Gordon (5), Isak (6), Joelinton (6). Subs: Trippier (n/a), Tonali (6), Wilson (6), Barnes (6), Jacob Murphy (6). West Ham: Fabianski (8), Wan-Bissaka (8), Todibo (6), Kilman (8), Emerson Palmieri (7), Soucek (7), Bowen (7), Soler (7), Lucas Paqueta (9), Summerville (7), Antonio (8). Subs: Coufal (6), Mavropanos (6), Ings (n/a), Rodriguez (n/a), Irving (n/a). Player of the Match: Lucas Paqueta. Lopetegui, who took over from David Moyes in the summer, continues to shut out all the noise, and throughout the encounter on Tyneside his players showed their best face. Soucek's well-placed header after 10 minutes was protected at large by Lukasz Fabianski between the posts at the other end, with the veteran goalkeeper denying Anthony Gordon from point-blank range. Trending Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Newcastle - who drop a place to 10th on goal difference - had started well, denied the opener when Alexander Isak was fractionally ruled offside before producing a composed finish. The Sweden international then blasted wide, while Gordon flashed another opportunity off target after the restart when fed by substitute Harvey Barnes. It would prove a costly miss as, just two minutes later, Wan-Bissaka collected Jarrod Bowen's pass inside to arrow his low shot beyond Nick Pope via the far post. Also See: Stream the Premier League with NOW Watch Premier League highlights Live Premier League table Premier League fixtures A resurgent Arsenal are the next visitors to the London Stadium on November 30, which is swiftly followed by a midweek trip to Leicester and then successive Monday night fixtures against Wolves and at Bournemouth. With his side now six points clear of the relegation zone, Lopetegui will hope this is just the start of better things to come. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Carragher: Big result for Lopetegui Sky Sports' Jamie Carragher speaking on Monday Night Football: "It's a brilliant result for West Ham - but for any team going away to Newcastle on a Monday night, you know how tough it's going to be. "That would be a tough game for Man City and for Liverpool. The odds were stacked against them to win this game, but they've won it. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player "They've now got to use this as a springboard going forward. It's more important for the manager than for West Ham. "There's no doubt had they lost and then again against Arsenal, they'd have been closer to the bottom three. "There's no doubt about it, the situation with the crowd and the owners, it would have got very twitchy for the manager." West Ham lethal with Paqueta patrolling midfield Sky Sports' Ben Grounds: Crisis? What crisis? This is what West Ham fans have been crying out for this season: a team full of fight, grit and a cutting edge going forward. Soucek and Wan-Bissaka combined to burst Newcastle's bubble to hand Lopetegui breathing space with a priceless Premier League away win. Team news Eddie Howe's men were culpable for both goals, but also guilty of not using the wealth of possession they enjoyed effectively enough on a night when chances went begging and with it their hopes of climbing into the top six. By contrast, the visitors were lethal on the break and produced the most fluent passages of play. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Joe Willock whipped a shot just wide of Fabianski's left post but, with Carlos Soler linking well with player-of-the-match Lucas Paqueta in the centre of midfield and Bowen and Crysencio Summerville taking a direct approach from the flanks, the Hammers were a constant threat on the counter. The hosts were in disarray at the back and it took a series of blocks and Pope's saves from Soucek and Soler to preserve their hopes of a fightback. Callum Wilson's penalty appeals, to his astonishment, were waved away on his first appearance of the season following a clumsy challenge by fellow substitute Konstantinos Mavropanos. It was the slice of good fortune West Ham's performance deserved. Bowen: Big turning point in our season West Ham's Jarrod Bowen speaking to Sky Sports: "I said we needed a performance and we did that. Newcastle always score at home so to keep a clean sheet and score twice, it's a tough place to come to. "We did that perfectly. You always play to win the games. It was down to us to get the second goal, if you settle on a lead it can come back to haunt you. "That was the level it takes to play for this club. The desire, work rate and quality shown from everyone. It is important that we rest up. It's a massive game on Saturday [vs Arsenal]. "They are a top, top side. We can take a lot from this game. The group we have had are so good. There is a real togetherness but sometimes you can fall off with new players. "It's down to me to show what it means to play for this club. Every one understood the assignment. We have been disappointed with our standards this season but that was more like it. "We should be pushing for European football every season." Why West Ham love Mondays - Opta stats Story of the match in stats... What's coming up in the Premier League? Tom from Southampton became a millionaire for free with Super 6! Could you be the next jackpot winner? Play for free!US coach Emma Hayes admits to anthem uncertainty ahead of England stalemate

The FAI still has “work to do” before the Government accepts their €8m-per-annum plea for Academy funding, according to sports minister Thomas Byrne. Premier Sports hosted a pre-election panel debate ahead of Friday’s polling day, with the topic of grants for national league clubs prominent. Since Brexit stopped players leaving Ireland until they reach 18, the traditional flow to UK clubs has halted, placing the onus on a domestic system unfit for purpose. The FAI’s academy manager Will Clarke in April quantified the investment required to fund the 24 club academies at €10m – more than double the current spend. “We haven’t rejected the proposal,” said Fianna Fáil TD from Meath East, Byrne, about why the expected funding announcement hasn’t materialised. “The FAI’s fully-fleshed out proposal came to us in September, when we were running up to the budget and general election. “It wasn’t the first iteration; there was a lot of discussion before then. To be fair to the department and the FAI, a lot of work was done previously. Fianna Fáil wants to fund academies – we’ve said that in our manifesto. “The FAI have an ask of €8m and we’ll be happy to support that. There’s still a bit to work to do on the proposal, to ensure it works for football, the taxpayer and our participation levels. It’s something we want to do, is necessary and is badly needed.” Mr Byrne rejected claims by Labour councillor, election candidate Darragh Moriarty, that the blame for this chronic underinvestment lay with the State. “It was neglected for many years and is not the fault of the Government. A skill drain from this country was allowed to happen because people in the previous FAI regime were not watching this. “The current FAI regime has recognised it and we will fund football academies – full stop.” Uefa’s increased solidarity grants will help men’s Premier Division clubs. The standard payout under the enhanced TV deal sees the standard €65,000 per club mushroom to €350,000 for the top-flight but reduces to €45,000 for the other 10 clubs in the second tier.Concerned over the recent surge in inter-state liquor smuggling cases, the UT excise and taxation department has stepped up enforcement efforts. On Wednesday, excise and taxation secretary Ajay Chagti chaired a meeting with officers concerned and directed vend owners to maintain a liquor stock and conduct sale strictly as per the “track and trace” system. He warned the liquor vend owners of strict action in case of non-compliance. On November 9, Moga police registered a case against two individuals for supplying 200 bottles of liquor in the district that were meant for sale in Chandigarh. Similarly, on November 12, Chandigarh Police seized 200 boxes of liquor from a Bolero pickup, en route to Himachal Pradesh. Earlier, on October 27, the excise department of Rupnagar confiscated 175 boxes of Indian-made foreign liquor, worth around ₹ 5 lakh, being smuggled from Chandigarh. During the meeting, Chagti emphasised the need for proper implementation of the track and trace system for liquor sold in Chandigarh. Additionally, excise officials were instructed to intensify inspections of liquor vends, bottling plants, and wholesale godowns. These measures were particularly prompted by recent cases of interstate smuggling where liquor manufactured in Chandigarh was found without proper tracking. Since alcohol is priced lower in the UT, smuggling into Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Gujarat has been a persistent issue. What is track and trace system With an aim to curb smuggling, the UT excise and taxation department introduced the track and trace system to monitor the entire supply chain of liquor production, distribution, and retail, in September this year. “The system promotes transparency and accountability among stakeholders,” Chagti said. The system begins at the production stage, where each liquor bottle is assigned a unique identification code, much similar to a QR code. Each bottle and its case carry unique QRs and barcodes which can be scanned to verify the source and trace the flow of liquor.

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The pair rocketed into orbit on June 5 , the first to ride Boeing's new Starliner crew capsule on what was supposed to be a weeklong test flight. They arrived at the International Space Station the next day, only after overcoming a cascade of thruster failures and helium leaks . NASA deemed the capsule too risky for a return flight, so it will be February before their long and trying mission comes to a close. While NASA managers bristle at calling them stuck or stranded, the two retired Navy captains shrug off the description of their plight. They insist they're fine and accepting of their fate. Wilmore views it as a detour of sorts: "We're just on a different path." "I like everything about being up here," Williams told students Wednesday from an elementary school named for her in Needham, Massachusetts, her hometown. "Just living in space is super fun." Both astronauts lived up there before, so they quickly became full-fledged members of the crew, helping with science experiments and chores like fixing a broken toilet, vacuuming the air vents and watering the plants. Williams took over as station commander in September. "Mindset does go a long way," Wilmore said in response to a question from Nashville first graders in October. He's from Mount Juliet, Tennessee. "I don't look at these situations in life as being downers." Boeing flew its Starliner capsule home empty in September, and NASA moved Wilmore and Williams to a SpaceX flight not due back until late February. Two other astronauts were bumped to make room and to keep to a six-month schedule for crew rotations. Like other station crews, Wilmore and Williams trained for spacewalks and any unexpected situations that might arise. "When the crews go up, they know they could be there for up to a year," NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free said. NASA astronaut Frank Rubio found that out the hard way when the Russian Space Agency had to rush up a replacement capsule for him and two cosmonauts in 2023, pushing their six-month mission to just past a year. Boeing said this week that input from Wilmore and Williams was "invaluable" in the ongoing inquiry of what went wrong. The company said it is preparing for Starliner's next flight but declined to comment on when it might launch again. NASA also has high praise for the pair. "Whether it was luck or whether it was selection, they were great folks to have for this mission," NASA's chief health and medical officer, Dr. JD Polk, said during an interview with The Associated Press. On top of everything else, Williams, 59, had to deal with "rumors," as she calls them, of serious weight loss. She insists her weight is the same as it was on launch day, which Polk confirms. During Wednesday's student chat, Williams said she didn't have much of an appetite when she first arrived in space. But now she's "super hungry" and eating three meals a day plus snacks, while logging the required two hours of daily exercise. Williams, a distance runner, uses the space station treadmill to support races in her home state. She competed in Cape Cod's 7-mile Falmouth Road Race in August. She ran the 2007 Boston Marathon up there as well. She has a New England Patriots shirt with her for game days, as well as a Red Sox spring training shirt. "Hopefully I'll be home before that happens — but you never know," she said in November. Husband Michael Williams, a retired federal marshal and former Navy aviator, is caring for their dogs back home in Houston. As for Wilmore, 61, he's missing his younger daughter's senior year in high school and his older daughter's theater productions in college. "We can't deny that being unexpectedly separated, especially during the holidays when the entire family gets together, brings increased yearnings to share the time and events together," his wife, Deanna Wilmore, told the AP in a text this week. Her husband "has it worse than us" since he's confined to the space station and can only connect via video for short periods. "We are certainly looking forward to February!!" she wrote.Tottenham keeping close tabs on Black Cats sensation amidst sensational Championship campaign

An American map showing the rapid increase in average winter temperatures across the United States published last week showed us by doing the numbers what we gardeners know in our bones: It’s getting toastier out there. Not always toasty. There is still cold. Just a lot toastier than before. Thirty-five years ago, when I bought my Pasadena garden (and a little cottage sitting on its edge), there were three or four regular overnight frosts, morning ice glistening on the rose bushes and the irises, every winter, and seven or eight in the different microclimate just down the hill, the floor of the Arroyo Seco canyon where the Rose Bowl is. It’s been well over a decade since we have seen any frost at all. The map published by Climate Central shows that our coastal zone of Southern California is an area that has seen average winter temps rise between 2 and 3 degrees Fahrenheit since 1970. That’s not nearly as major a change as back East, where all of New England is in a zone where the winter lows are on average 5 degrees higher than 54 years ago. This is not an issue of opinion. It doesn’t matter to the real world if a politician such as Donald Trump finds it convenient to pretend that “climate change is a hoax.” This winter numbers are just a small piece of the data pie showing this year to be the hottest ever. “The global mean surface air temperature from January to September 2024 was 1.54°C above the pre-industrial average. This is the first time the world has exceeded 1.5°C warming,” the World Meteorological Organization reports. King Canute can command the tides to recede all he likes, but the rising tide pays no attention to his royal wishes. But the perhaps apocryphal story of the actual ancient English king, crowned in 1027, as told by his chronicler, Henry of Huntingdon, was meant to tell the opposite of how the story is now understood. After the tide kept coming up and dampened his shoes despite the command, Canute stepped back and declared, “Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings, for there is none worthy of the name, but He whom heaven, earth, and sea obey by eternal laws.” A king, or a president, can have no effect on global warming and other examples of climate change by commanding the atmosphere and the oceans to stop heating up. The laws of chemistry, and of physics, are eternal laws. But the president can, out of a desire to seem populist, or whatever reality-denying motive is at play here, once again withdraw our nation from The Paris Agreement, negotiated by 196 countries in 2015 “to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping a global temperature rise this century well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.” And surely once in office Trump will do just that. It’s a national embarrassment, yet another one; it’s anti-human, as well as anti-Earth. For those of us who favor the Earth over, say, Mars, and who don’t want to leave our great-grandchildren an inhospitable home planet, it’s a disgusting political maneuver. But that doesn’t mean that smart, everyday Americans will give up on our own fight against climate change, absurd as it is that the president’s likely action will see us join only a tiny group of countries, including Libya, Iran and Yemen, in the denialism. We do contribute 13% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and American scientists, engineers and politicians of goodwill will continue to work to bring that number down, waiting out the Trump administration’s colossal error. As Max Boykoff, professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado says, yes, there will be “a loss of trust and a loss of opportunity for the U.S. to be in a position of leadership in a clean energy economy, and more generally on other global issues as well.” But: “The renewable energy sector has grown to a point where it actually makes great financial sense to continue to benefit from these market trends. With the way the economy has been moving, the Trump administration’s withdrawal ... may carry more symbolic significance than actual functional significance.” Keep up the good fight, even if this president is unlikely to attain the wisdom of the old king. Larry Wilson is on the Southern California News Group editorial board. lwilson@scng.com.

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