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NoneCHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Bryce Thompson scored 17 points, Marchelus Avery had 15 points and eight rebounds, and Oklahoma State beat Miami 80-74 on Friday in the consolation bracket of the Charleston Classic. Oklahoma State (4-1) will play in the fifth-place game on Sunday, while Miami (3-2) will try to avoid going winless in the tournament. Javascript is required for you to be able to read premium content. Please enable it in your browser settings.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A fight broke out at midfield after Michigan stunned No. 2 Ohio State 13-10 on Saturday as Wolverines players attempted to plant their flag and were met by Buckeyes who confronted them. Police had to use pepper spray to break up the players, who threw punches and shoves in the melee that overshadowed the rivalry game. Ohio State police said in a statement “multiple officers representing Ohio and Michigan deployed pepper spray.” Ohio State police will investigate the fight, according to the statement. After the Ohio State players confronted their bitter rivals at midfield, defensive end Jack Sawyer grabbed the top of the Wolverines' flag and ripped it off the pole as the brawl moved toward the Michigan bench. Eventually, police officers rushed into the ugly scene. Ohio State coach Ryan Day said he understood the actions of his players. “There are some prideful guys on our team who weren't going to sit back and let that happen,” Day said. The two Ohio State players made available after the game brushed off questions about it. Michigan running back Kalel Mullings, who rushed for 116 yards and a touchdown, didn't like how the Buckeyes players involved themselves in the Wolverines' postgame celebration. He called it “classless.” “For such a great game, you hate to see stuff like that after the game," he said in an on-field interview with Fox Sports. “It’s just bad for the sport, bad for college football. But at the end of the day, you know some people got to — they got to learn how to lose, man. ... We had 60 minutes, we had four quarters, to do all that fighting.” Michigan coach Sherrone Moore said everybody needs to do better. “So much emotions on both sides," he said. "Rivalry games get heated, especially this one. It’s the biggest one in the country, so we got to handle that better.” Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-footballRare earths: another reason we mustn’t allow Russia to win in Ukraine | LettersMichigan, Ohio State fight broken up with police pepper spray after Wolverines stun Buckeyes 13-10
New 2025 laws hit hot topics from AI in movies to rapid-fire gunsClothing retailer Quiz has issued a warning that it will run out of cash by early 2025 unless it secures additional funding. The company reported "disappointing" sales over the Christmas trading period, with cash reserves falling short of expectations. The poor performance was attributed to inflationary pressures impacting consumer confidence and spending, as well as "subdued consumer demand for the brand". "As a result, the board anticipates that additional funding will be required by the group in early 2025," the company announced on Friday. The Glasgow-based fashion retailer, which has been facing difficulties for several months, recently revealed plans to delist from the London Stock Exchange as a cost-cutting measure. Quiz operates 62 stores and 47 concessions across the UK and employs approximately 1,500 staff according to its website. Earlier this month, the company reported a poor trading period in November and sought advice as it neared depletion of its cash reserves. However, there have been "signs of improvement" in December, with online revenues on par with the previous year. In-store sales, however, have caused significant issues, trending lower than last year's figures. Chairman Peter Cowgill stated that the company needs to "substantially reduce" costs, which may result in parts of the business closing down. He further noted, "there exists substantial risks associated with the group’s ability to continue as a going concern", indicating the possibility of the company going bust. Quiz highlighted potential additional annual costs of £1.7 million due to increases in the minimum wage and employer national insurance contributions. These government-announced policies are set to come into effect in April, by which time Quiz requires fresh funding. Looking for more from MyLondon? Subscribe to our daily newsletters here for the latest and greatest updates from across London.
Wolfe encouraged by Panthers easy winScientists pinpoint just how fast Santa would have to travel to visit every child on the planet... and reveal why, at this speed, Rudolf's nose wouldn't be red READ MORE: Follow the 2024 NORAD Santa Tracker LIVE By WILIAM HUNTER Published: 16:27 GMT, 24 December 2024 | Updated: 16:30 GMT, 24 December 2024 e-mail 4 View comments As Christmas approaches, children around the world will be eagerly awaiting a visit from Santa and his reindeer. But with around two billion children on the planet, Santa really has his work cut out for him tonight. Scientists have calculated that Santa would need to travel 89 million miles (144 million kilometres) to deliver presents to all the good girls and boys around the world. That is the equivalent of flying his sleigh all the way from Earth to the sun in a single night. In order to leave some time for delivering presents, this means Santa would need to travel at 5.1 million miles per hour (8.2 million kmph), or 0.8 per cent of the speed of light. That incredible speed might also explain why Joly Saint Nick is able to fit his belly down a narrow chimney. According to Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity, objects travelling with Santa's sleigh will become compressed in size as they near the speed of light. But most strange of all, scientists say that, at this speed, Rudolf's famous nose wouldn't appear red at all. Scientists have calculated that Santa would need to cover 89 million miles (144 million kilometres) to deliver presents to all the children who celebrate Christmas. This is the equivalent of travelling almost all the way to the sun in a single night (stock image) Dr Laura Nicole Driessen, a radio astronomer from the University of Sydney, made these festive calculations based on a formula created by particle physicists from Fermilab in the 1980s. First Dr Driessen estimated the number of children that Santa would need to deliver presents to. There are approximately two billion children on Earth, but Christmas is only celebrated in some way in 93 per cent of countries we can assume that seven per cent of children don’t need presents. But, of course, even among those who celebrate Christmas not every child is good enough to warrant a visit from the man himself. Writing for the Conversation, Dr Driessen says: 'We know Father Christmas only delivers presents to those who truly believe. 'If we assume the same percentage of believers by age as found in the United States, that leaves us with approximately 690 million children.' And with about 2.3 children per household worldwide, Santa will need to stop at a minimum of 300 million homes tonight. 'Spreading those households evenly across 69 million square kilometres of habitable land area on Earth,' says Dr Driessen. In order to make that journey, Santa would need to travel at a minimum speed of 5.1 million miles per hour (8.2 million kmph), or 0.8 per cent of the speed of light. Pictured: The NORAD Santa Tracker 'Father Christmas has to travel 144 million kilometres on Christmas Eve. That’s nearly the same as the distance from Earth to the Sun.' That would be a very tall order if Father Christmas only had the 10 hours between 20:00 and 06:00 the next day when children in the UK are sleeping. Thankfully, he gets a few extra hours thanks to Earth’s rotation. If the children are evenly distributed around the globe, then Sata has at least 24 hours to travel from the make his way all around the planet. And, with the 11-hour difference in time zones between one side of the world and the other, Santa has a total of 35 hours from the first child falling asleep to the last waking up. Dr Driessen says: 'Let’s say Father Christmas uses half his time to zip in and out of each household, which gives him 17.5 hours total or 0.2 milliseconds per household. He uses the other 17.5 hours for travelling between households. 'My hypothesis is that he needs to travel at a whopping 8.2 million kilometres per hour, or 0.8 per cent of the speed of light, to drop off all the presents.' But if Santa wants some time to eat a mince pie and put his feet up and the end of the evening, Dr Driessen suggests he might have to travel significantly faster. Some of the strangest effects would occur when looking at the bright nose of Rudolf the reindeer. At this speed, scientists say it might not appear red at all (stock image) To deliver everything nice and fast, Santa could travel 10 per cent of the speed of light - or 66.5 million miles per hour (107 million kmph). However, at these speeds, things would start to get very weird for Father Christmas. Thanks to the theory of special relativity, from our perspective Santa and anything travelling with him would appear to be much skinnier than usual. Even though Einstein predicts that Santa would gain more mass as he gets faster, as he nears the speed of light he would get compressed in the direction he’s travelling – letting him slip down a chimney with ease. Dr Katy Sheen, a physicist in the geography department at the University of Exeter, has previously suggested this could also be why Santa always looks the same age. As objects near the speed of light, time moves slower from their frame of reference than in ours which means that Santa would age slower while travelling. Yet, thanks to something called the Dopler Effect, the strangest effects would occur if we were to look out for the bright light of Rudolf's nose. This is the same effect which means that an oncoming ambulance’s siren sounds higher pitched than it does once it has passed. The Dopler effect means that motion changes the frequency of the sound wave based on the direction of motion of its source. This is why ambulance sirens sound lower after they've passed us Due to the Dopler Effect, Rudolf would appear to have a bright orange nose as he flies towards you and a dark black nose as he flies away As the object races towards us, the waves are compressed making the pitch higher and as it moves away the waves stretch out to produce a lower tone. The faster something is moving the more pronounced this effect becomes which means that Rudolf’s breakneck flight will create an extraordinarily strong Dopler effect. Red-coloured light has a wavelength, the distance between one peak to the next, of 694.3 nanometres when its source is at rest. Flying at 10 per cent of the speed of light, we would see this light shift radically in either direction. Read More How to spot 'Santa' in the sky tomorrow as the International Space Station passes over the UK Dr Driessen says: 'At this speed, Rudolph’s nose would be blueshifted to bright orange (624 nanometres) as he was flying towards your home. 'And it would be redshifted to a very dark red (763 nanometres) as he was moving away. 'The darkest red human eyes can see is around 780 nanometres. At these speeds, Rudolph’s nose would be almost black.' That means no one on Earth would ever really get to see Rudolf's famous red nose. WHAT IS THE DOPPLER EFFECT? The Doppler Effect is a well-understood physical phenomenon which is also seen in astrophysics as the universe expands and creates 'redshifting' but is more commonly seen in sirens. For example, when a blaring ambulance or police car shoots past with its sirens on, they seem high-pitched as they approach you and then lower-pitched as they speed past. This is due to the compression of sound waves as they come closer, and they then stretch out as they grow more distant. A stretched-out sound wave has a greater wavelength, and therefore a lower frequency, resulting in an increasingly lower pitch. In astronomy, scientists use this effect to measure the speed of distant stars and planets. When light sources in space move away from us, their wavelengths are stretched out into the red end of the spectrum. Likewise, when something is moving towards us the light wave is compressed and the light shifts towards the blue part of the spectrum. By looking at this red and blue shift, we are able to work out how something is moving relative to Earth. For example, by measuring the red-shift of distant supernovae the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope have helped to calculate how fast the universe is expanding. Astronomers have also used this effect to work out whether a star is orbiting another. The Doppler effect, or Doppler shift, describes the changes in frequency of any kind of sound or light wave produced by a moving source with respect to an observer Christmas Earth Share or comment on this article: Scientists pinpoint just how fast Santa would have to travel to visit every child on the planet... and reveal why, at this speed, Rudolf's nose wouldn't be red e-mail Add commentIran has lifted the ban on Meta's messaging platform WhatsApp and Google Play , a first step to scale back internet restrictions, Reuters quoted the Iranian state media on Tuesday. Tehran has some of the strictest internet controls in the world. However, tech-savvy Iranians using virtual private networks (VPN) routinely bypass blocks on social platforms like Facebook, X and YouTube. "A positive majority vote has been reached to lift limitations on access to some popular foreign platforms such as WhatsApp and Google Play", Iran's official IRNA news agency said on Tuesday, referring to a meeting on the matter headed by President Masoud Pezeshkian. "Today the first step in removing internet limitations... has been taken," IRNA quoted the Islamic Republic's minister of information and communications technology Sattar Hashemi as saying. Social media platforms were widely used in anti-government protests in Iran. In September the United States called on Big Tech to help evade online censorship in countries that heavily censor the internet, including Iran. Iran stays new, stricter hijab law On December 18, Iran paused the process of implementing a new and stricter law on women's hijab , AP reported. The law approved by the Iranian parliament in September last year will not be sent to the government. The law levies harsher punishments for women who refuse to wear the hijab and for businesses that serve them, penalties previously rejected by Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian as he tries to restart talks with the West over sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear program. “According to the discussions held, it was decided that this law will not be referred to the government by the parliament for now,” Shahram Dabiri, the vice president in charge of parliamentary affairs, was quoted as saying by the agency. Had the bill passed to the government, Iran's president would have had little room to maneuver. By law, he’s required to endorse the bill within five days, after which it would have taken effect in 15 days. The president has no authority to veto it. Pezeshkian could try to convince Iran’s 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all matters of state, to halt the bill. (With Reuters, AP inputs)
Camara 8-13 0-0 21, Jones 2-3 0-0 4, Kelly 10-18 0-0 20, Berry 1-7 4-4 7, R.Johnson 8-14 4-6 23, Gibson 1-2 0-1 2, Oden 2-6 0-0 6. Totals 32-63 8-11 83. B.Johnson 7-13 3-5 23, Kidd 4-8 1-1 9, Bethea 3-8 0-0 6, Blackmon 4-11 0-0 9, Staton-McCray 4-8 3-4 13, Swartz 4-6 4-4 15, Cleveland 1-2 0-0 2, Djobet 1-2 0-0 2, Ugochukwu 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 28-59 11-14 79. Halftime_Charleston Southern 45-37. 3-Point Goals_Charleston Southern 11-24 (Camara 5-10, R.Johnson 3-6, Oden 2-4, Berry 1-3, Kelly 0-1), Miami 12-33 (B.Johnson 6-12, Swartz 3-4, Staton-McCray 2-4, Blackmon 1-8, Cleveland 0-1, Djobet 0-1, Ugochukwu 0-1, Bethea 0-2). Rebounds_Charleston Southern 31 (Kelly 11), Miami 27 (B.Johnson 8). Assists_Charleston Southern 15 (Kelly 6), Miami 16 (Kidd, Djobet 4). Total Fouls_Charleston Southern 14, Miami 13.
The College Football Playoff committee took SMU’s wins over Alabama’s strength of schedule, picking the Mustangs for the final at-large spot Sunday after a furious public debate and days of lobbying and arguing over which teams should make the 12-team field. SMU (11-2) showed it could compete against a traditional power, losing to Clemson, 34-31, on a 56-yard field goal on the final play of the ACC championship game. The late-game rally probably did the trick. “I just think America saw SMU belongs,” Mustangs coach Rhett Lashlee told ESPN on Sunday after his team got in. “We’re a team that has a chance to compete for this championship. And to some degree, I think we’re a little bit America’s team after last night.” The Mustangs, seeded 11th, will visit No. 6 seed Penn State in the first round. The bracket was expanded from four teams this season, but that didn’t help Alabama or save the committee from controversy that began over the past two weeks as the CFP rankings — and “data points” — were parsed and criticized. The squabbling wasn’t limited to who should be in the field but also who should get consideration for first-round byes. The Crimson Tide (9-3) had quality wins against Georgia and South Carolina in their first season under coach Kalen DeBoer. Losses at Vanderbilt, Tennessee and Oklahoma proved costly. The 24-3 loss to Oklahoma was too much to overcome. The Sooners, who finished 6-6, rushed for 250 yards against the Crimson Tide and dominated despite having several key injuries. Alabama athletic director Greg Byrne said the committee’s decision was not good for college football. “Disappointed with the outcome and felt we were one of the 12 best teams in the country,” Byrne said in a social media post. “We had an extremely challenging schedule and recognize there were two games in particular that we did not perform as well as we should have.” All of Alabama’s losses came in conference play. Still, Byrne said he now will reconsider how his program schedules nonconference games. For now, the Crimson Tide will settle for playing Michigan in the ReliaQuest Bowl on Dec. 31. Several teams with strong seasons were left out besides the Crimson Tide, including Miami (two losses), South Carolina and Mississippi (three losses each). Committee chairman Warde Manuel explained that strength of schedule was valued — a comment that didn’t sit well with Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin. “Is this fake news??? he didn’t actually really say that ....” Kiffin wrote on a social media post, tagging both the Alabama and SMU football accounts. SMU actually increased its strength of schedule from the previous season by switching from the American Athletic Conference to the ACC. The Mustangs’ only regular-season loss this year was a nonconference game at home to 10-win BYU in the third game of the season. The Mustangs won nine straight before the loss to Clemson. That didn’t make the waiting easier Sunday. SMU was the last qualifier announced. “Until we saw SMU up there, you know, you’re just hanging, hanging on the edge,” Lashlee said. There was more controversy. Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark said he didn’t believe any Group of Five team should get the bye over a Power Four champion, citing strength of schedule. Mountain West commissioner Gloria Nevarez pushed back hours ahead of the bracket announcement. “Participation in the College Football Playoff isn’t about entitlement,” she wrote on social media. “It should not be contingent upon a conference patch or the logo on the helmet. ... Boise State’s body of work this season, including an 11-game win streak, has earned it one of the top four seeds ahead of the Big 12 champion.” In the end, Boise State of the Mountain West got the No. 3 seed ahead of Big 12 champion Arizona State, which was seeded fourth. But both got first-round byes.Push a pole, watch the birds, grasp opportunity in 2025
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