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For anyone who dreams of a career in engineering that involves pushing the envelope, a post-secondary institution with an innovative approach to engineering education is essential. It prepares the next generation with the knowledge and skills to excel in fields such as sustainable building, IT systems, and mechatronics. Enrolment is now open at Humber Polytechnic where students can take advantage of three engineering degree programs that blend classroom theory with project-based learning. Humber’s Bachelor of Engineering degrees in Mechatronics Engineering, Information Systems Engineering, and Sustainable Building Engineering are set in cutting-edge labs, state-of-the-art facilities and specialized learning spaces including The Barrett Centre for Technology Innovation. Students also complete mandatory 12-month co-op work placements. "Today’s challenges need innovative solutions from engineering teams that are multi-disciplinary, diverse and able to adapt to a rapidly changing world,” says Dr. Shaun Ghafari, P.Eng. Dean of Engineering, Humber Polytechnic. "Humber’s engineering degrees blend classroom theory with project-based learning providing students with the critical-thinking and practical training needed to prepare the next generation of engineering leaders.” Courtesy of Humber Polytechnic This approach ensures that Humber students, like Samara Ocansey, a third-year Bachelor of Engineering in Sustainable Building Engineering student and founder of the Women in Engineering club, can be confident their education will prepare them for employability with relevant skills in an ever-changing industry. “What attracted me to Humber Polytechnic was its future-focused curriculum, which demonstrates a clear understanding of the evolving demands of the profession,” she says. "At Humber, we solve real-world problems in small classes and work in state-of-the-art labs, gaining hands-on experience with advanced technology.” Courtesy of Humber Polytechnic Here are three engineering programs at Humber Polytechnic currently accepting applications, with graduates ready to step into future-focused careers: Information Systems Engineering : Get career-oriented training in an interdisciplinary field that brings together computer science, software engineering, cyber security and more. Mechatronics Engineering : Build the machines of tomorrow with this program, which gives students comprehensive training in mechanical, electrical, electronics, computer engineering, and more. Sustainable Building Engineering : This timely program equips students with the skills and knowledge to work in sustainable building design, construction management, energy modelling and environmental assessment. So, where is your future taking you? To learn more about Humber Polytechnic's Engineering courses, visit their website or follow them on Instagram , Facebook and LinkedIn .
Aotearoa has highest reported rate of family violence against women in the developed world, with between a half to a third of all women experiencing abuse in their lifetime, and experts worry that budget cuts in the family violence sector are going to make the fight against abuse a lot harder. Family violence numbers have remained stagnant for decades, even as evidence shows the vast majority are never reported. The fight for legal support Not long after their whirlwind romance, Christchurch woman Shannon Williams' new partner needed somewhere to live. Given he had been hanging out at her place a lot anyhow, he soon moved in with her and young son. She said things were good for less than a week. "I felt like I was walking on eggshells, having to hold myself to an unrealistic standard to avoid him getting angry. The anger wasn't always directed at me, but it was enough to make me feel quite uncomfortable in my own home." But things would get much worse, when a few drinks at home with friends turned into a violent rage. "Everything was good, we were all having a really good night. I don't know what happened, but he kicked off - he ended up quite violent, he started smashing up the house. "He caused about $20,000 of damage to my property." Police were called, and her ex-partner spent a night in custody, but apologetic and embarrassed, he eventually convinced her to give him another chance. Eventually he would be charged and convicted following another incident. As a solicitor, she had an advantage when applying for the protection order, which she had within 24 hours, but acknowledged getting legal support is an issue for many women. University of Auckland associate professor Carrie Leonetti calls this the privatisation of victim safety - placing the onus on the victim to protect themselves from revictimisation - which she notes violates New Zealand's obligations under several international human rights conventions. "The Convention against Torture and Inhumane Treatment, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the United Nations Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child - all of these international human rights conventions put obligations on state parties to protect victims from violence and not to make victims grab a torch and a pitchfork and protect themselves." The restraining orders people get under the Harassment Act in many other countries would be handled by the police, she said. "We still largely leave the job of protecting themselves to victims in New Zealand and they're already victims of domestic violence. The last thing they need is to have to get lawyers and go to court to get restraining orders, to get Protection Orders, to get child support, to get occupancy orders from the house." Leonetti said most countries treated those procedures as a police prosecution function, where they would facilitate securing occupancy of the house and getting a protection order. And while they did not arrange child support, they will enforce an order if a parent did not pay. "In New Zealand, we still largely have a self help regime." Instead of protecting victims from revictimisation, "we push it on to victims and make them do it through old clunky, expensive, inefficient civil procedures". Police changes Despite the stubborn statistics of shame, there are fears a recent policy shift by police could lead to less family violence incidents being attended, investigated or prosecuted. Earlier this year, Police Commissioner Andrew Coster said police attendance to family harm callouts had increased 80 percent in 10 years and was "not sustainable" , but that the proposed changes, which had been trailed for six months in 2023 , were under consideration. University of Auckland associate professor Carrie Leonetti said she had grave concerns about the impact of the changes. She said the problem stemmed from the decision - dating back several years - to include family violence under the more amorphous term of family harm, which conflated criminal and non-criminal offences. Police say they will still respond to crimes, making a decision based on the 111 call as to whether the harm is criminal family violence, non criminal forms of family violence - such as coercive controlling behaviour, financial and emotional abuse - or other issues such as mental health problems, substance use or people arguing. But Leonetti said she was "baffled" police believe they can accurately distinguish between family violence from non-family violent family harm, without showing up on the doorstep and reading between the lines. "If somebody makes a 111 call and the perpetrator is standing in the room, they are not at liberty to disclose everything they need to. Or if the neighbour calls, how would the police figure out talking to the next door neighbour whether they need to respond to that home or not?" In the absence of coding those things differently when the calls are taken and triaged, there is no data to know if the police position - that they are only avoiding non-criminal non-family violence forms of family harm - is true, she said. "There is evidence from around the world, including Aotearoa New Zealand, that police are getting called out to cases that involve crimes and family violence, and not treating them as such." Leonetti also warned that the non-response could make a victim's situation substantially worse, destroying trust in authorities and emboldening the perpetrator. "The thing that keeps me up at night is, very few people call the police for family violence. On average, intimate partner violence victims call the police after the seventh or eighth occurrence. "So this is a person who hasn't called, hasn't called, hasn't called, and if - when they finally call - don't get a good response, they'll never try again. "That we're missing those opportunities is a tragedy, and it's a tragedy of the creation of our own policy." She said it was particularly frustrating given Aotearoa actually had strong laws, but family violence remained "under-reported, under-prosecuted and under-identified". "New Zealand has some of the best family violence legislation on paper that I've seen, but some of the worst rates of family violence, and some of the worst systemic responses." Overseas models University of Auckland professor in social and community health Janet Fanslow said there were overseas models that had shown huge promise in dramatically lowering family violence rates. Much of what New Zealand has been doing in the past two decades has been about increasing recognition of violence, often targeted at the victims of family violence, encouraging them to leave the relationship and seek help. While that's an important message, Fanslow wanted to see more investment in evidence-based strategies. "There are evidence-based prevention strategies that have been used elsewhere in the world which have seen dramatic decreases in intimate partner violence - I'm talking a 50 percent decrease in four years." While she acknowledged the importance of New Zealand developing "home grown solutions", Fanslow said we could learn a lot from successful international models. "Some of the successful strategies seen overseas are more community based, involving both men and women, exploring power and the use of power in relationships. "It's a great way to flip the discussion so violence becomes seen as a manifestation of power, which can be used in ways that go over the top of other people to suppress them, or you can think about power not as a zero-sum game. "It's been a transformational strategy elsewhere, because it brings men on board into the conversation, and it gives everyone a positive thing to move to." She said other well-evaluated programmes included those working with men, especially when they become new fathers. "That's a great entry, because men are interested in being good fathers, in being good parents and good partners, but we need to have the conversation with people about what that looks like, and how do you negotiate and do things like conflict resolution in ways that aren't about getting your own way at the expense of other people." Fanslow said funding cuts to the sector were counterproductive, especially cuts to parenting programmes . She said there was strong evidence showing the programmes' ability to engage parents and benefit children, and their cost effectiveness. "By supporting people to develop safe, stable and nurturing relationships with their children and giving people the skills and resources for that, it has long term benefits for the kids, and for society. "It's across all of those domains we say we're interested in - we say we're interested in better educational outcomes, we say we're interested in less crime, we say we're interested in better health - actually our relationships, and the quality of those relationships, influence all of those domains." A 2014 economic estimate - which put the cost of family violence at $4-7 billion a year - is likely a significant underestimate given increased costs, and what researchers were now learning about the long term health impacts of abuse, she said. Shannon Williams said the help she and her son received from Barnados was invaluable. She found the group meetings for the women's safety programme were important for her journey. "Before then, I don't think I realised that some of the things I experienced were abuse. It was really empowering to just sit in a room with a group of other ladies who had a similar experience - that was really healing, just to know I'm not alone and I'm not crazy. "We tend to internalise it and think there's something wrong with us, especially when you have someone constantly degrading you and devaluing you, you start to think, this is me, I'm the one causing this anger - but you can start to step back and say I wasn't doing anything wrong, this is their problem to figure out. That was really empowering."
Nico Iamaleava passed for four touchdowns and Dylan Sampson rushed for 77 yards and set a school-record for TDs as No. 11 Tennessee rolled to a 56-0 victory over UTEP on Saturday afternoon in Knoxville, Tenn. Sampson scored on a 14-yard TD run early in the second quarter for the game's first points to deliver his 22nd TD of tje season to break the Tennessee single-season mark set by Gene McEvers in 1929. Iamaleava was 15 of 20 for 173 yards for Tennessee (9-2), while Bru McCoy caught a pair of TD passes and Squirrel White and Ethan Davis each had a TD reception. Tennessee moved its all-time record to 2-0 against the Miners, also having blanked the Conference USA school 24-0 in 2018. Jermod McCoy and John Slaughter had interceptions for the Volunteers, while Dominic Bailey recovered a fumble to set up a score. Skyler Locklear was 10-of-19 passing for 50 yards with an interception for UTEP (2-9), while rushing for 37 yards on eight carries. JP Pickles also had a turn at QB for the Miners and was 10 of 15 for 72 yards. Kenny Odom had eight receptions for 70 yards. Both defenses set the tone in the first quarter. The UTEP defense allowed just one first down to the Southeastern Conference team in three ugly series in the opening quarter and only 22 yards. In the second quarter, Sampson ended a 68-yard drive by dashing up the middle for 14 yards for the record-setting score to take a 7-0 lead with 13:22 remaining before halftime. After Bailey's fumble recovery, Iamaleava flipped a screen pass that White took 9 yards to the end zone nearly six minutes later. Davis put the Volunteers up 21-0 when he grabbed a short pass for a 1-yard TD. Iamaleava then found Bru McCoy from 18 yards with eight seconds left in the second quarter for a 28-0 halftime lead. McCoy caught his second TD and Peyton Lewis rushed for a pair for a 49-0 lead in the third quarter, but the biggest roar from Volunteers fans came when it was announced Florida beat No. 9 Ole Miss 24-17, to enhance the Volunteers' College Football Playoff hopes. Cameron Seldon's 3-yard run capped the scoring as the Volunteers finished the season undefeated at home for the second time in four years. --Field Level MediaAaron Rodgers on his Jets future: ‘You should ask Woody’
Christopher Nolan's next film after "Oppenheimer" adapts a Greek epic, Homer's "Odyssey." "The Odyssey" stars Tom Holland, Matt Damon, Zendaya, and Anne Hathaway. Here's what to know about the upcoming film's plot, release date, and cast. Advertisement After his box-office hit, award-sweeping "Oppenheimer" movie, Christopher Nolan is next adapting "The Odyssey" for his next film. "Oppenheimer" was the biggest film of Nolan's career, winning seven Oscars , including Nolan's first best director award. Advertisement After being set as a double feature with "Barbie," the film also grossed $975 million, Nolan's third-biggest ticket sales for a movie. On Monday, Universal Pictures announced that Nolan's next film would adapt Homer's Greek epic poem and will be shot "across the world using brand new Imax film technology." The film will arrive in theaters on July 17, 2026.
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After a rough start to the 2024-25 season, the Kings part ways with 2023 Coach Of The Year Mike Brown , ESPN reported. The Kings are currently 13-18 and have a four game losing streak. After being the 3rd seed in the Western Conference just two seasons ago, the Kings have failed to reach those heights again. Currently, Sacramento has the longest championship drought in the NBA at 73 years. They are likely to miss the playoffs again this year, and a championship looks very far away. What Is Going On In Sacramento? The Kings signed DeMar DeRozan in the offseason, looking to make a splash in the competitive Western Conference. Since then, the signing hasn’t looked as great as it sounded. DeRozan has had his worst season in years, only averaging 21 points and lower shooting splits. De’Aaron Fox has been involved in trade rumors recently, as he may want out from Sacramento. Fox was drafted there in 2017 and has only been involved in one playoff appearance. The All-Star has been the bright spot for the poor franchise, and his time there may be coming to an end. What To Expect Next Sacramento is likely to miss the playoffs again, and firing Brown is honestly a questionable move. He led them to their first playoff appearance since 2006 and genuinely shifted the culture in the city. The blame should be placed more on the front office than Brown, as they haven’t made significant moves to fight for a championship. They will likely select a new head coach in the next few hours, and Mike Brown will be looking for a new home. This move will give De’Aaron Fox more leeway to request a trade, as their relationship was close. The Kings will have to find some type of rhythm for the rest of the season to push for a playoff spot. 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Diego Simeone said he is "calm and at peace" at Atletico Madrid after his side edged Deportivo Alaves 2-1 in LaLiga in his 700th game in charge of the club. ( More Sports News ) Atletico went behind through a Jon Guridi penalty in the seventh minute, but Antoine Griezmann drew them level from the spot in the 76th minute. The winner came via Alexander Sorloth in the 86th minute as Atletico moved four points behind leaders Barcelona. Simeone, who has been in charge of Atletico since 2011, is the first coach to manage 700 matches with the same LaLiga club. "I live in the present, we are having a good time, the boys are working very responsibly," Simeone told DAZN. "I am calm and at peace. I love where I am and that's it." He managed Atletico to LaLiga title triumphs in 2014 and 2021 and also helped Los Rojiblancos win two Europa League titles in 2012 and 2018. The game against Alaves was Simeone's 492nd LaLiga match in charge, and the Argentine has also managed the third-most games with a single club in the Champions League (109), after Alex Ferguson with Manchester United and Arsene Wenger at Arsenal. Simene pic.twitter.com/YjhdZUBKug Atleti's fifth straight win across all competitions, courtesy of a late fightback on Saturday, was also the 54-year-old's 300th in the Spanish top flight. Javi Galan had conceded a penalty for a handball inside the box and Guridi sent Jan Oblak the wrong way to put Atleti on the backfoot. "The first half started with a penalty that made it difficult for us to progress in the match. The opponent scored and sat back, the spaces became smaller," Simeone said after the game. "The team looked cold. In the second half we warmed up. The lads who came on did well, they gave us speed in the final stretch and strength in the box." After registering an xG of just 0.25 in the first half, Atletico were a much-improved outfit after the break, attempting four shots and finishing the half with an xG of 1.39 and three points. "In the second half we created more chances and we got the reward of an important victory," Simeone said. His side, who have the best defensive record in the league having conceded just eight goals in 14 matches, will face Real Valladolid in their next LaLiga game on 30 November.