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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork said Thursday that he is "absolutely" confident that Ryan Day will be back as football coach in 2025. Calls to fire the sixth-year coach rose among Ohio State fans after the Buckeyes lost to Michigan for the fourth straight year. Bjork, in an interview on 97.1 The Fan, said Day is the man for the job, regardless of how the Buckeyes perform in the College Football Playoff. They host Tennessee in a first-round game Dec. 21. "Coach Day is awesome," said Bjork, who came from Texas A&M to replace the retiring Gene Smith last summer. "He's great to work with. He totally gets it. He loves being a Buckeye. So, we're going to support him at the highest level." The 13-10 loss to Michigan followed by an ugly melee between the teams put the coach in a precarious spot. He and his team were booed off the field by the home fans. Bjork ended up releasing a statement expressing his support for the coach. "The reason we had to say something after (the Michigan) game is, we're still breathing, we're still alive," Bjork said. "The season's not over. The book is not closed." Thanks to the playoff, Day has a chance to redeem himself with Ohio State's huge fanbase with a win against the Volunteers — and perhaps more in the 12-team tournament. Regardless of what happens, Day will be back next year, according to Bjork. "Coach Day and I just hit it off so well," Bjork said. "I've been really, really impressed. Every single time I talked to him, I learn something. He's innovative. He recruits at the highest level. He's got a great staff." Day wouldn't directly address his job status last weekend. "When you first come off those types of things, there's a lot of emotion," he said, referring to the Michigan loss. "And then as time goes on, you've got to get refocused because you know what you've done in the past does not affect what's going on moving forward. Everything is out in front of us." Failing to consistently beat Michigan is one of the few flaws in Day's coaching record. Hired as a member of coach Urban Meyer's staff in 2017, Day was the hand-picked successor when Meyer retired after the 2018 season. Compiling an overall 66-10 record, he is widely admired in the coaching community. "Great respect for what he's done in his coaching career, what he's done there at Ohio State and the success that they've had year-in and year-out," Tennessee coach Josh Heupel said. Day is in trouble now because losing The Game is considered an unforgiveable sin by Buckeyes fans. "What we have to do is this whole 'championship or bust' mentality, you want that as the goal, but it has to be about the process," Bjork said. "To me, we've got to maybe change some conversations a little bit. I think we need to maybe just approach things a little bit differently." Get local news delivered to your inbox!Gophers coach P.J. Fleck explains trick play call on game-defining drive in Penn State loss
The Times view on housebuilding: New BuildAsus ROG Phone 9 Pro You’d expect a smartphone with top of the line silicon designed to get the most out of both gaming and everyday use will come with a significant price tag. The Asus ROG Phone 9 starts at $999, and climbs up to $1499 for the Pro edition reviewed here.. You wouldn’t expect it to come with just two years of Android updates and an additional two years of security updates. The ROG Phone 9 faces this huge issue straight out of the gate. For many, that minimal support window is going to be a dealbreaker. I'll put that aside for the rest of the review and look at the hardware, but I’m already thinking that Asus should up this to five years of Android for the ROG Phone 9 to feel viable. Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro Asus’ previous gaming phone, the Asus ROG Phone 8 started the ROG Phone series down a new path; rather than go all out and focus purely on gamers, the ROG Phone 8 opened up to a more mainstream user base, which in turn diluted some of the gaming aspects of the phone. The handset's design was more conservative, offered less thermal management hardware than previous handsets, and the garish bright colors and cyber-glow had been moved out of the phone and into a clip-on gaming peripheral. I wondered at the time if Asus’ gamble to move away from focusing on gamers to welcome a wider audience would be the right decision. The comparison now would be with the likes of the Samsung Galaxies and Honor Magics of the world, as opposed to the more niche gaming phones from the likes of Nubia. The 85 Best Black Friday Deals So Far, According To Our Editors 60+ Early Black Friday Deals Worth Shopping Right Now The Mainstream Ambitions Of The ROG Phone 9 With the ROG Phone 9 building on that mainstream direction, I’d have to presume that the feedback from the Phone 8 pointed to a continuation of the ethos within the Phone 9. This means that the two sides of the ROG Phone is still present. Is this a gaming phone that wants to join in with the mainstream, or is it a mainstream phone looking to get some street cred with the gamers? Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro I think it’s the former. In part, that's because the ROG Phone 8 feels more like an “S” update to the phone 8 rather than a new phone. It’s more than just a change of the chipset, although the inclusion of the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite processor means this is one of the fastest Android smartphones on the market today. That comes with another advantage... the ROG Phone 9 benefits from the power management of the 8 Elite. Coupled with Asus adding a 5800 mAh battery in the case, you are going to get some excellent battery life. In regular use, the phone will go for two days and partly into a third day before needing to be charged—which can use the bundled 65W fast charger o 15W wireless charging. This is, of course, is going to get cut down when you switch to gaming, but you have proportionately more endurance than the previous ROG Phone 8. What’s Been Bumped Up In The ROG Phone 9 Spec Sheet? Two key areas that have been improved are an increase in RAM, which helps performance in gaming but also allows for smoother task switching and app usage when the phone is just a phone. Perhaps most important is the increased passive cooling capacity. Top performance on any device, especially a smartphone, generates a lot of heat. If that heat is not drawn away from the chipset fast enough, the handset will have to throttle back, so this is a much-needed design decision. Asus has added “a little bit more” to many areas of the phone. You have more battery (up to 5800 mAh from 5500 mAh on the ROG Phone 8), the screen refresh upper limit is now 185 MHz (although not many titles will support this, put it down as future proofing), the rear camera picks up improvements to the gimballed stabilisation... again this all feels like a point upgrade to the ROG Phone 8 rather than a brand new handset. Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro The more subtle design language of the Phone 8 continues here. It’s an angular design with a decent chamfer on the edges, which makes it blocky but not harsh. The camera island touches on a 45-degree language with a sliced-off corner—emphasised by the diagonal slash on the rear of the handset. You’ll also find the AniMe display on the back of the phone. It’s not a traditional display. Instead, there are 648 LED lights embedded in the surface, which only appear when in use. It brings a bit of life to notifications; you can leave the phone face down but still get nudged when something’s up. Asus has also included some straightforward games you could play on the screen, such as the classic Pong bat’n’ball but these feel more proof of concept than something to sell someone on the device. Especially since you can turn the phone over and get some games with slightly higher definitions. The Gaming Side Of The ROG Phone 9 So, how does it perform as a gaming handset? It’s probably worth picking out the impact that some of the compromises have made to the experience. The bezels around the screen have been reduced in size to feel more in line with consumer expectations of a premium phone, which has a knock-on effect that reduces the audio and visual impact of the experience. The first is the lack of forward-firing speakers. Without the extra space afforded by bezels, the speakers point out of the handset but to the sides. That’s wildly different to two stereo speakers astride a landscape screen, putting you into the gaming world. The ROG Phone 9 does have a headphone jack, that gives that stereo experience as well as no-lag audio, but the vanilla option is focused less on the gaming mode of the phone than general use. Then you have the selfie camera. It’s one of those features every phone needs, but manufacturers can decide how to implement it. Asus chose to have a punch-out camera and obscure part of the screen rather than mount it in a larger bezel, which shows how form has come ahead of function. To finish this triple, I want to call out the USB port. Like previous ROG Phones, the ROG Phone 9 has two USB-C ports. You have a secondary port on the long left-hand side, which might sound unusual until you shift the phone into landscape mode for gaming and realise that your hand covers the standard port and this secondary port is not at the base of the screen. You can have a charging cable here without interfering with your play. Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro Yet the main USB port feels awkward in another way. It’s not centred in the way that many smartphones are. Critically, the vast majority of third-party controllers expect the USB port to be in the middle of the phone. The off-centre port on the ROG Phone 9 forces it to sit awkwardly high on some controlers and is incompatible with others that wrap around the base. ROG’s own Tessen controller doesn’t have any side walls that stop the higher mounting of the ROG Phone 9, and certainly, the marketing suggests that this is the look that the Tessen/Phono combo was looking for, but the off-centre USB means that ROG is taking a lot of the choice away from users. Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro There’s one element to the ROG Phone 9 that boosts the gaming nature of the smartphone: the AeroActive Cooler X Pro. This is available as a separate purchase as an accessory for the hardened gamer. Clipping around the back of the ROG Phone 9, it includes a hefty cooling fan to draw hot air away from the rear to keep the operating temperature way down. It also offers two additional physical trigger buttons that complements the air-trgger based shoulder buttons to give a more console-controller experience. The weight distribution does feel top-heavy when the AeroActive is attached. Reaching for the air-trigger shoulder buttons and the rear triggers and placing your thumbs on the screen for an FPS control system does not feel super-secure in my hands. It’s fine if developers allow you to place your thumbs high up on the screen for the virtual joysticks, but that’s not always the case. Given where the cooling fan needs to be, and the physical connection that the Tensor controller requires, there is unfortnatly no way that you can use both accessories at the same time which feels like the ultimate combination to get the full experience. Alas, not to be. Which is a shame because switching to a bluetooth controller with the AeroActive attached is a nice compact gaming solution. Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro The final piece of the gaming puzzle is the software. Asus continues to use Armoury Crate to tailor the gaming experience. It allows you to tweak the performance settings for each app or game individually. You can turn up the graphical power on some games, cut it back, lean into procesing power on another, and mix and match on a per-title basis. In here you can also define your controls, so if a game does not support the air-trigger shoulder buttons or the AeroActive triggers natively (which, let’s face it, is likely), you can map these to keypresses or actions in Armoury Crate, again on a per-title basis. A quick sweep down from the corner of the screen brings it up; a tap sends it away. Armoury Crate has been present in the ROG Phone family for many years and is mature now. There’s an online database of controller and configuration files for the vast majority of gaming titles that can act as a starting point for your setups. Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro Taking all of these pros and cons together, how does it perform as a gaming handset? Some of the most demanding games on Android, think the likes of Genshin Impact, which have pushed the limits of gaming smartphones sit comfortably at the 60fps mark with the graphics turned all the way up. The power of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite comes into play here, but so do Asus' engineering decisions that focus on gaming; cooling both from the internal design and the AeroActive allow not only peak performance but enables you to keep playing for significantly longer sessions without the need to throttle everything back. Going thirty minutes is not a problem with the ROG Phone 9, especially with the AeroAcive offering the extra heat dissipation. Control-wise, the touchscreen's responsiveness helps with your ‘twitchy’ games, so you can do a quick sweep of a crosshair, jump to a distant platform, or just snapping a quick look behind you. There are also some subtle advantages when you play less intensive games. Balatro has recently arrived on Android, and the rouge-like card game is tearing up the charts. It doesn’t need all the graphical horsepower and high frame rates... which means that Armoury Crate software can be set up to turn everything down when Balatro is started, offering you more battery life and endurance when titles requiring less power are run. Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro I still feel that the ROG Phone 7 was Asus’ peak design for a gaming phone because the compromises were all in favour of the gaming experience. Gaming phones remain a niche product line but one that has many players. As the baseline of performance and graphical power of a ‘standard’ smartphone (albeit at flagship levels) continues to rise, the pure gaming phone is losing part of its identity. There remains a market for the ultra-focused device, but I don’t think this is the Asus ROG Phone 9. The ROG Phone 8 has taken the line down a different direction, and the ROG Phone 9 has tweaked that. Asus has put together a "Gaming Smartphone... For Everyone Else.” The graphics have enough power, and the computing needs to deliver a great experience. There’s also a feeling that this can be used as your regular smartphone without too many complications. I can’t decide if this is a niche on a niche (coming from the gaming side) or a niche on a widely popular site (coming from the premium everyday regular handsets). Given this is the second handset going in the latter direction, it’s probably a safe assumption that Asus has been able to find a market in this space, a market that isn’t an identikit phone although the ROG Phone 9 does try to hide the gaming prowess in something a little more subtle than the average gaming smartphone. The package works... but I can’t get past it coming with only two years of software updates. Given the high price of the ROG Phone 9, that one fact makes it incredibly difficult to recommend. Disclaimer: Asus supplied an Asus ROG Phone 9 Pro and accessories for review purposes...
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Warning of “serious issues that put children at risk,” Auditor Diana DiZoglio’s office said the state Department of Early Education and Care fell short on a series of important oversight and investigatory steps. DiZoglio’s office on Monday published an audit of the department covering Jan. 1, 2021 through Dec. 31, 2022, outlining several concerns about how the department handled reports of suspected abuse and neglect, high-risk complaints, licensing visits and more. EEC officials responded by saying many of the areas highlighted have been improved since the audit period ended. Auditors examined 60 so-called 51A reports, which are allegations of abuse or neglect filed by mandated reporters or the public. They found that in two cases, the response involved “internal investigations performed by the programs where the 51A Report incident occurred, rather than EEC investigations.” The report said the department also “compromised high-risk investigations” by assigning licensors, not EEC investigators, to examine some cases, which DiZoglio’s office said “puts children at risk because EEC licensors may lack the specialized skills and training necessary.” Other issues the audit flagged included a lack of licensing visits to programs within required timeframes; insufficient training about signs of abduction, sexual exploitation and human trafficking; and several employees who had not undergone all required background checks. “Our Early Education and Care audit has identified serious issues that put children at risk,” DiZoglio said in a statement. “These concerns must be immediately addressed so children are protected. We urge the Administration to respond with the urgency that this matter requires and look forward to our post-audit review in six months to track progress on our recommendations,” DiZoglio said. A department spokesperson said the audit period covered “a period of time when many federal and state operations were temporarily modified in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.” “Since 2022, EEC has made significant progress in addressing the areas of recommendation, including initiating a comprehensive review and revision to the regulations governing residential programs, modernizing and improving the background record check process, revamping and updating the agency’s approach to language access, and hiring its first Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,” the spokesperson said. More political news‘Soft as cashmere’ cry shoppers as they run to Sainsbury’s for £45 winter coat that’s so in demand it comes in 5 colours
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The Israeli security cabinet approved an American-mediated ceasefire proposal aimed at de-escalating tensions with Hezbollah on Tuesday evening. The agreement, brokered by US Special Envoy Amos Hochstein, stipulates that Hezbollah will retreat north of the Litani River in southern Lebanon, Israeli troops will withdraw from the region, and Lebanese army forces will be deployed in their place. The plan outlines a 60-day period for both sides to withdraw and for the Lebanese army to establish its presence. As part of the agreement, a control mechanism will be established to monitor and prevent violations, with the United States taking the lead and France and the United Kingdom also participating. While the ceasefire approval is seen as a significant step toward reducing hostilities, concerns remain over the terms and their implementation. The ongoing negotiations reflect the complexity of achieving lasting peace in the region, with the international community closely watching the outcome of this arrangement. The approval of the ceasefire comes amid escalated violence, with Israeli airstrikes targeting key sites in Lebanon, including Beirut’s southern suburbs, the Bekaa Valley, and other southern regions. A raid struck the Nuwairi area in Beirut, with other attacks hitting the southern suburbs, threatening over 20 buildings. Meanwhile, resistance operations by Palestinian groups continued, particularly in the northern Gaza Strip, with the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, claiming responsibility for detonating a booby-trapped building east of the Jabalia camp, killing and injuring several Israeli soldiers. They also reported targeting two Israeli “Merkava” tanks with “Yassin 105” shells and explosives. The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad, announced that it had launched 107 missiles at Israeli artillery positions at the Fajja military site, east of Gaza. As the fighting continues, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens, with the arrival of winter exacerbating conditions. Rain has flooded hundreds of displaced Palestinians’ tents, particularly in Gaza City’s western areas, which are overcrowded with refugees. The entire population of Gaza faces extreme hardship due to the ongoing conflict. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) reported that Palestinians in Gaza lack sufficient food and clean water. Louise Waterridge, the agency’s spokesperson, noted that many people in Gaza are living without shelter and face severe shortages of basic necessities. In the latest update from Gaza’s Ministry of Health, Israeli attacks over the past 24 hours resulted in three massacres, with at least 14 people killed and 108 injured. The death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression, which started on 7 October 2023, has now risen to 44,249 deaths and over 100,000 injuries. Many victims remain trapped under rubble, with emergency crews unable to reach them due to the ongoing hostilities.
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma appears to have borrowed from the past to cure its recent offensive ills. The Sooners , best known this century for a passing prowess that has produced four Heisman Trophy-winning quarterbacks, took it back to the 20th century against then-No. 7 Alabama. Oklahoma ran 50 times for 257 yards while only throwing 12 times in a 24-3 win over the Crimson Tide that took coach Brent Venables off the hot seat. The Sooners more resembled Barry Switzer’s squads that dominated the old Big 8 with the wishbone offense in the 1970s and ’80s than the more recent Air Raid teams. Venables said the change was a matter of necessity for a unit that has been besieged by injuries at receiver and offensive line. “I think this staff has done a really good job with trying to figure that out, get better every week, put together a great gameplan but also figure out, ‘OK, what does this group of guys, what does this team — what do we need to do?'” Venables said. To make it work, Oklahoma needed to trust that such a change would work in the modern Southeastern Conference. They had to implement it with an interim play-caller in Joe Jon Finley, who stepped in after the Sooners fired Seth Littrell last month. Oklahoma (6-5, 2-5 SEC) pulled it off, and LSU coach Brian Kelly has taken notice ahead of their game on Saturday. “This is now much more about controlling the football, running the football, playing with physicality," Kelly said. "They've got perimeter skill, but I think it's centered around much more of a run-centric, quarterback run and take care of the football." The Sooners started to see success on the ground against Maine. They ran 52 times for 381 yards in a 59-14 win that got the wheels turning. Jovantae Barnes ran for career highs of 203 yards and three touchdowns that day. Venables said the timing of the opportunity to play that non-conference game against Maine in early November and figure some things out was perfect. “Everybody has some degree of vulnerability and maybe some self-doubt,” he said. “And just developing some confidence and putting something on tape other than practice, like, ‘Man, look, see what you’re capable of?’ And executing against, again, a well-coached team — certainly, we played off of that in all the right ways like you would expect us to. And so there’s a real place for that.” After a bye week, the Sooners tried the same approach against Missouri. It wasn't as successful — they ran 36 times for 122 yards — but they hung tough before losing 30-23 . The Sooners went all in against Alabama. Jackson Arnold — the same guy who threw 45 times in the Alamo Bowl last year, ran 25 times for 131 yards and threw just 11 passes. The Sooners found something in running back Xavier Robinson. With Barnes out with an injury, Robinson carried 18 times for career highs of 107 yards and two touchdowns. Suddenly, a team that had been forcing the pass and getting sacked at an alarming rate was moving the line of scrimmage and controlling the tempo. Oklahoma had the ball for more than 34 minutes against the Crimson Tide, lending support to a talented defense that had been spending way too much time on the field. The new approach could be helpful on Saturday — LSU (7-4, 4-3) ranks 14th out of 16 conference teams against the run. Venables said the Sooners still need to throw the ball well to win, but he's glad to know his squad can run with force when necessary. “I think that’s the art of having a system that’s adjustable, flexible, adaptable, week in and week out, but also has an identity — toughness, physicality," he said. "You’ve got to be able to run the ball at every level of football, but you do have to throw it. You can’t just do one thing. But we need to be efficient.” 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-footballEco Wave Power Announces Closing of $3.0 Million Registered Direct Offering to Accelerate Commercial-Scale Wave Energy Deployment