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Saskatchewan Polytechnic partnering with Lighthouse Labs to offer new tech programs
Saskatchewan Polytechnic will begin offering brand new technology courses this fall in collaboration with Lighthouse Labs, a move some hope will mean more workers for the province's growing tech sector.
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Saskatchewan Polytechnic is partnering with Lighthouse Labs to offer new courses in web development, data science and data analytics this fall. Photo by Lighthouse Labs
Saskatchewan Polytechnic will begin offering brand new technology courses this fall in collaboration with Lighthouse Labs, a move some hope will mean more workers for the province's growing tech sector.
Polytechnic announced its partnership with the private education institution in a news release this week. Students will take virtual programming offered by Lighthouse Labs, while also having all the benefits Sask. Polytechnic usually offers, such as mentorship and career counselling.
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"I think this is an outstanding collaboration. It provides workers facing economic uncertainty with a path to acquiring the skills that are necessary for a rewarding career in technology," said Paul Carter, dean for Saskatchewan Polytechnic's school of continuing education.
The institutions will offer 12-week bootcamp courses and six-week introductory courses in web development, data science and data analytics.
"The intense boot camps are intended to take people with skills in technology and really ratchet up their skills and ability in that tech space, and the introductory programs are more of a slower, part-time based program that gives people the introductory skills to get a career started," said Carter.
To gain admission to the boot camps, prospective students will need to complete a technical skills test and interview. No prior experience is required for the introductory programs. While the programming will be offered remotely to start, Carter said the school will look at options for in-person classes once the COVID-19 pandemic has passed.
Saskatchewan's growing tech sector has been facing a labour shortage for some time, and Carter is hoping the new programs can alleviate the need for workers.
"We need top tech talent in this in this province in order to help our tech industry really start to flourish and grow. They're starving for talent in the industry," said Carter.
Aaron Genest, the chair of the advocacy organization Sask. Tech, said Lighthouse has had a successful track record of preparing students to enter the technology industry. While the COVID-19 pandemic put a pause on hiring, Genest said many companies are starting to aggressively recruit once again.
"We have an enormous amount of investment from venture capital into startup companies. Some of those companies are being successful, and ramping very quickly," said Genest.
Genest said nearly every industry in the province is also looking to digitize itself, creating another source of tech jobs that need to be filled. These sectors include economic staples such as agriculture, mining, oil and gas and energy.
Genest said there's also an urgency to recruit people with a combination of technology experience and knowledge in other backgrounds. For example, there currently aren't enough computer scientists who also have a background in agriculture. Genest said Polytechnic's partnership with Lighthouse is the solution to that problem, and a boon for students who fit that profile.
"It's going to provide them the opportunity to not just remain in their field of expertise, but in fact to be leaders in that field," said Genest.
Founded in 2013, Lighthouse Labs offers technology training in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec. The partnership between Sask. Polytechnic and Lighthouse was co-ordinated by the provincial government agency Innovation Saskatchewan.
More information on the programs can be found at saskpoytech.ca/coding.
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BBC World Service in a jam as China blocks broadcasts
The BBC has claimed China is blocking shortwave radio broadcasts of its World Service, in what could be retaliation for its attempts to cover the recent hacking allegations against the People's Liberation Army (PLA). In a no-nonsense statement, the Beeb said it "strongly condemns" the behaviour, "which is designed to disrupt …
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Tuesday 26th February 2013 12:39 GMT Nifty
Suspect news, frankly
Every time I have been in China, there was simply no practical English language short wave signal anywhere be it city or province. So I no longer carry a SW radio on travels as there is no UK originated content audible on it.
I doubt anyone owns a SW receiver in China these days either.
All in all I find it unbelievable that China jams these non-existent (English language??) broadcasts to a non-existent audience.
And to seal the demise of AM long distance broadcasting, the BBC itself closed down its flagship MW transmitter to Europe that used to allow all Eurocrats to listen in their standard car radios all day any day.
If the UK wants to get a good PR message out to Chinese citizens, how about ceasing with the humiliating hoops they have to jump through to get a simple visitors' visa to the UK?
Tuesday 26th February 2013 15:36 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Suspect news, frankly
Agreed. And using «no-nonsense» to describe that news is equally suspect. Where's critical sense?
It's absurd. It's like claiming they have just forbidden to distribute British news on clay tablets, while still authorizing newspapers.
Tuesday 26th February 2013 12:46 GMT BongoJoe
I remember living in Belgium in the 80s and the only transmission from the Word Service that we could get was almost entirely in German.
There was the American Forces Network and there's no need for me to tell how appalling that was.
Tuesday 26th February 2013 12:57 GMT Loyal Commenter
"Impartial and Accurate"
The BBC used to have a reputation for being independent of the UK government in their broadcasts, but in the last couple of decades have sadly had themselves dragged down to the politicians' level. These days, their 'independence' is largely a myth and UK news reporting has a definite pro-government bias to it (whoever the current lot happen to be on a given day).
Tuesday 26th February 2013 15:02 GMT Psyx
Re: "Impartial and Accurate"
That's odd, because not twenty posts above you someone is whining that it's pro-labour...
Tuesday 26th February 2013 13:28 GMT TeeCee
Just out of interest.
I wonder what would happen were an unidentified camera team to turn up outside GCHQ unnanounced and equipped with a telephoto lens....
Tuesday 26th February 2013 13:59 GMT amanfromMars 1
Re: Just out of interest.
I wonder what would happen were an unidentified camera team to turn up outside GCHQ unnanounced and equipped with a telephoto lens.... ..... TeeCee Posted Tuesday 26th February 2013 13:28 GMT
What's good for the goose is good for the gander, TeeCee? ..... http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2013/02/21/us_revamped_cyber_strategy/#c_1738557
Or as Corporal Jones would say .... "They don't like it up 'em, Sir. They do not like it up 'em"
Yeah like complaining that kids keep walking over your little picket fence to steal low hanging apples
Tuesday 26th February 2013 22:33 GMT All names Taken
Dear BBC and ultimately
Dear Whitehall mandarins
Please don't try a fight with PRC.
You will lose and in losing also lose what little influence of the diminishing same you presently have, no?
And when I writ "lose" I mean not in contest of force or armed struggle. Verily thou wilt lose there the same
No, I mean losses in financial influence and that matters a whole lot more than lives lost yes?
They had better stop jamming by this summer...
...or I'll be pissed off. We're heading to a tropical beach in SE Asia for a month this year and I'd like to tune into BBC WS on my trusty shortwave radio from the comfort of my hammock without interference.
亲爱的中国。请你检点一些,并根据正义的原则。Thank you. Peace.
Wednesday 27th February 2013 11:21 GMT Sirius Lee
China adding fire to the Mandiant smoke
The world over we can rely on those in government being a dumb as posts. What moron would provide the appearance of confirmation of a finger-in-the-air story such as the one by Mandiant in such a crude way? Now the world has reason to believe the Mandiant line to be accurate even if it's complete fiction.
Or maybe, Chinese the government employs genii and this is a double-bluff to get focus on some non-descript building labelled by Mandiant while the serious work takes place elsewhere.
Or maybe...
Wednesday 27th February 2013 13:21 GMT Stretch
impartial?
Wednesday 27th February 2013 16:24 GMT JeffyPooh
Re: impartial?
BBC WS uses "credibility pieces" (*) that are gently critical of (for example) the Government of the Day to support trust in their gentle propaganda based on an assumption that the Western/UK way of life is better **.
* That's the official name of the slightly-critical items; BBC WS had a whole radio show on the topic (amazingly recursive if you think about it).
** A mostly true statement anyway (except the teeth that tend to look like a direction sign at the North Pole).

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Robert Dorse (center) holds his Newton County Veterans Treatment Court certificate with Judge Horace Johnson (left) and NCVTC Coordinator Richard Kringer (right).
Updated: April 5, 2019, 4:57 p.m.
COVINGTON, Ga. - The Newton County Veterans Treatment Court celebrated its first graduation Thursday, April 4, with Robert T. Dorsey completing the program.
Richard Kringer presents Robert Dorsey with the Veterans Treatment Court Challenge Coin.
Under the guidance of Newton County Superior Court Judge Horace Johnson, the Newton County Veterans Treatment Court began on Jan. 1, 2017, and currently has six participants. The mission of the NCVTC is to promote public safety and support and assist veterans and their families. This is accomplished by responding, coordinating and advocating for integration to community resources and providing a path to wellness recovery and rehabilitation; thereby, ending future involvement as a criminal defendant with the criminal justice system.
Dorsey is the first graduate of this program, which is coordinated by Richard Kringer and operated with a team of others to help facilitate treatment rather than incarceration for local veterans who meet certain qualifications. The program, which lasts a minimum of 18-24 months, also consists of support from three veteran mentors — David Norman, James Johnson and Gil Baca.
Norman was a mentor to Dorsey, helping lead him through the program with the experience of a fellow veteran of the United States Armed Forces.
The court provides some of that compassion by substituting a treatment problem-solving model for traditional court processing. After being identified through evidence based screening and assessments, the veterans voluntarily participate in the judicially supervised treatment plan, which is overseen by a team of court staff, veteran health care professionals, veteran peer mentors and health care professionals.
Dorsey, like all of the NCVTC participants, was referred to the program by a Newton County judge. He now stands as an example to other veterans who find themselves in a Newton County courtroom with options for a path other than prison.
The Newton County Veterans Treatment Court team and graduate Robert Dorsey in the Newton County Judicial Center.


Being a resident of Charleston, South Carolina, there are two things I can say for certain that this city lacks by no means what so ever. The first being humidity, and the second being water. Rivers, lakes, ocean, reservoirs, you name it and it's here. I consider myself an extremely lucky girl for being able to experience life living so close to them all too.
Growing up, I automatically had, in my opinion, the only two things you need to become a fisherman, which include a boat and a dad who loves to fish. For as long as I can remember, fishing has been one of the many bonds that we share. In all of our photo albums, there are plenty of pictures of me not only holding, but kissing these little 'me sized' fish and an occasional picture of me struggling to hold a big one.
I started out with a small push button rod and a bobber, and I never wanted to move to anything else. Unfortunately, as you grow up, you're expected to start using spinning rods and spnning real rigs, not bobbers, which believe it or not makes it a lot harder to tell if you actually have a fish on your line or not. You go from the excited idea that you've got one to realizing that you're just stuck on a tree again or dragging your worm across the bottom. The bobber's sudden disappearance was a much more reliable method, but I enjoy the unpredictability and the challenge of the 'grown' way that I have adapted to.
When I was little my dad had to cast for me and that may or may not still happen, but let's just say that I might forget to flip the bail sometimes and 'cast' my worm two feet in front of me. I will just continue to pretend that it's a ploy to get some laughs, strictly comical purposes. I said that I liked to fish, not that I was good at it. Besides remembering to flip the bail, the other lesson that my dad has taught me is that when you're fishing and you are sure that you have one on the line there is a three-step process.
Let the fish pull a little bit without putting too much tension on the line to make sure that he is there.
Quickly pull your rod back, point it toward the sky and start reeling. Step three, yell 'SON!' pretty loudly so that everyone around knows that you're a fishing master.
This step is a real commitment though, and you better be sure that you've got one beforehand because it's kind of embarrassing to have yelled 'son' five times and only have one fish in the live well.
The other thing that I haven't really mastered is netting the big ones that my dad catches quick enough. One time he gave me an 'award' he named after someone from his younger days who made him lose a big one because he went to slow and it broke the line because, as you'd probably guess, I did that very same thing. If you can't tell by now, I'll let you know, I am the greatest fishing pro that there is.
Okay, but really, I am not the best, but I have fun. I am not at all a morning person, but something gets me up at five in the morning to go fishing with my dad, and still at eighteen years old you can catch me kissing the fish as the sun rises behind me. It's the bond that fishing has created between us. That is the best part.


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Allah says in the Qur'an:
"O you who believe, keep your duty to Allah, and seek means of nearness to Him, and strive hard in His way that you may be successful " [Al-Maidah:35]
A large number of scholars and mufassir have explained the Arabic word "wasila" as a method to get closer to Allah by doing good deeds. In "Tafsir Ibn Kathir", ibn Kathir writes that no Mufassir has disregarded the above meaning and all of them agree upon it.
Moreover in Sahih Bukhari we find a hadith Qudsi which explains that one gets closer to Allah (tawasil) and is loved by Him when he offers his compulsory and optional prayers.
In the collection of hadith in Sahih Muslim we come across a hadith narrated on the authority of Rabia b.Kaab, in which he said:
"I was with Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) one night, and I brought him water and what he required. He said to me: 'Ask (anything you like)'. I said: 'I ask for your company in Paradise.' He (the Holy Prophet) said: 'or anything else besides it.' I said: 'That is all (what I require)'. He said: 'Then help me to achieve this for you by devoting yourself often to prostration' " [Sahih Muslim]
It is repeatedly stated in The Quran that along with accepting Islamic faith one is expected to do good deeds. From the above mentioned hadith we come to know that the meaning of finding a Wasila towards Allah is to do good deeds. In fact the verse in itself suggests a form of Wasila, that is Jihad. Dua or calling upon Allah is one of the most prestigious act which one can do. That's why our Prophet told us that calling upon Allah is a prayer and if we don't ask from Allah then He gets angry with us. Similarly in Quran we have:
"And your Lord says: Call on Me, I will answer your (prayer). But Those who are too arrogant to serve Me will surely find themselves in hell, in humiliation " [Ghafir:60]
"When My servants ask you concerning Me, I am indeed close (to them). I listen to the prayer of every suppliant when he calls on Me' let them also, with a will, listen to My call, and believe in Me, that they may walk in the right way " [Al-Baqarah:186]
When we look in The Quran and the Sahih ahadith, we find many supplications. Important thing about them is that they reflect a direct relationship between the suppliant and Allah. There is no third person or a source involved between the two. No Prophet associated any pious person or a senior Prophet (before him) in his supplication as an intercessor while calling Allah. If this is the case, then what permits anyone to use pious people or Prophets as intercessors while calling Allah. If we can't find our Prophet or his companions do such a thing then how can we do it on our own. It is certainly not a good deed, in fact it is lethal. There are some narrations which are commonly presented as evidence to intimate wasila regarding rank or status of a dead Person, but the truth is that they are either unauthentic or misunderstood. Please read the article Intimating Wasila Regarding Rank or Status of a Dead Person for details.
BIG MISTAKE - Calling on others instead of Allah
If one makes a pious dead person an intercessor of his supplications to Allah, then he is indulging himself in innovations which may lead to shirk (Polytheism).
Today we find a large number of people calling the dead and thinking that they have the ability to convey their message to Allah. They say like:
"O' Jesus, O' Ali, O' Muhammad, O' Ghaus, O' Abdul Qadir, O' Daata, please help us convey our message to Allah as He cannot say no to you and we don't feel confident that He (Allah) will listen to us."
They make these persons as intercessors or associates with Allah, and do not fear about the biggest of all sins, called shirk (Polytheism). If one commits shirk then he earns Hell forever. Polytheists of Makkah also had these sort of believes, and Allah mentions in the Quran:
"And they serve besides Allah that which can neither harm them nor profit them and they say, These are our intercessors with Allah. Say, Would you inform Allah of what He knows not in the heavens and the earth? Glory be to Him, and supremely exalted is He above what they set up! (with Him)." [Yunus:18]
"Now surely sincere obedience is due to Allah (alone). And those who choose protectors besides Him (say), we serve them only that they may bring us nearer to Allah. Surely Allah will judge between them in that in which they differ. Surely Allah guides not him who is a liar, ungrateful." [Al Zumar:3]
A hadith in Sahih Muslim also throws light upon the faith of the polytheists of Makkah. Ibn Abbas (Allah be pleased with him) reported that the polytheists recited thetalbiyah[uttering loudly (at the time of pilgrimage) to Allah that one is obedient to Him] as:
"Labaik Allahumma, Labaik! Labaika laa shareeka lakal labaik." (Here I am at your service, there is no associate with You). But they added this, "Only one associate with You, You possess mastery over him, but he does not possess mastery (over You). They used to say this and go around the Kaaba (House of Allah in Makkah). Because of their adding this statement to the talbiyah, the prophet, peace be upon him, sayyid "Woe to them, because they have said, 'But one associate with You, You possess mastery over him, but he does not possess mastery (over You). [recorded in Sahih Muslim]
So when Allah never made anyone His partner then how can people associate partners or intercessors with Him. Some people argue that these verses are for idols and not human beings, as the polytheists used to worship idols and not human beings. Well its very simple to answer this, just open the most authentic book of ahadith The Sahih Bukhari, and you will find in the chapter of Tafsir that the idols worshipped in Prophet Noah's time were actually reminders of Pious people before them. Second evidence is provided by the conquest of Makkah. When the Prophet took charge of The Kaaba he threw away all the idols and amongst them found idols of the Prophet Ibrahim and Ismael (Bukhari Kitab Al-Maghazi). So all these idols were reminders of human beings and the following Quranic verse makes it clear to understand this fact:
"Those whom you call on besides Allah are slaves like yourselves, so call on them, then let them answer you, if you are truthful." [Al Araf:194]
"Those whom they call upon desire, (for themselves) means of access to their Lord (Allah), as to which of them should be the nearest. And they hope for His Mercy and fear His Torment. Verily the Torment of your Lord is (something) to be afraid of!" [Al Isra:57]
No one merely worshipped an idol of wood or stone. Worshipping of idols by Hindus and Fire by Majusis (fire worshippers) is based on the fact that they used idols and fire as a source or media to worship God. It's a pity that many Muslims today have the same believes like these Hindus and think that these dead or alive pious people would get them closer to God. Some say that God is in them and everything is God. Some say that Muhammad (peace be upon him) can save them from Allah but if Muhammad (peace be upon him) gets hold of anyone then no one can help. These concepts of polytheism came only because Quran was not read and understood properly. By looking up in the Quran, we find that if Allah decides to punish someone then that person cannot be helped by anyone, even the Prophets of Allah become helpless at that moment.
The story of the Prophet Noah and His son is a very good example to explain the point. When Noah (peace be upon him) saw his son drowning, he cried to his Lord and said: My Lord, surely my son is of my family, and Your promise is true and You are the Most Just of the Judges. Allah replied:
O Noah, he is not of your family; he is (an embodiment of ) unrighteous conduct. So ask not of Me that of which you have no knowledge. I admonish you lest you be of the ignorant. [Hud:45-46]
Now an honest look at the above mentioned Quranic verse clearly explains that even the Prophet of Allah could not save his own son, although he had been preaching Allah's religion for 950 years. In Quran Allah told His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him):
"Surely you cannot guide whom you love, but Allah guides whom He pleases, and He knows best those who walk aright " [Al Qasas:56]
Moreover in ahadith of Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim we find Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) advising his relatives to do good deeds. He clearly told them that it was not possible for him to save them from Allah's anger. He specifically made it very clear to his own daughter Fatimah (may Allah be pleased with her), that he would be unable do anything for her, once in front of Allah on the day of judgment. He advised her to do good deeds in order to save her self from Allah's wrath. Now these examples from Sahih Ahadith clearly explain the true concept of Wasila.
O yes! The supplication of the Prophet was definitely a wasila for his companions. They used to come to him for their problems and asked him to pray for them. The prophet used to pray for them and Allah solved their problems. But this was when he was alive. After he died, his companions never went to his grave to use him as an intercessor between Allah and themselves. They were very clear that once someone dies, he breaks his links with this world and is not aware of what happens behind him. This was the reason that during the need for rain (after Prophet's death) they (Prophet's companions) never went to his grave, they used to go to his uncle Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him), to invoke Allah for the rain. Anas (radiallahu anhu) narrated:
" Whenever drought threatened them, Umar bin Al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) used to ask Abbas bin Abdul Muttalib to invoke Allah for rain. He used to say, 'O Allah! We used to ask our Prophet (peace be upon him) to invoke You for rain, and You would bless us with rain, and now we ask his uncle to invoke You for rain. O Allah! Bless us with rain'. And so it would rain." [Bukhari - Chapter Al-Istisqa (Invoking Allah for rain)]
It is of great importance to notice that it is permissible for one to request a living religious person to invoke Allah on his behalf but if you ask Allah through a dead or an absent (person etc) then it is not allowed. Moreover we find in this hadith the Umar (may Allah be pleased with him) also prayed to Allah himself. Thus praying to Allah by oneself is also essential, apart from requesting someone else to pray on behalf of someone.
So it is very obvious now that the companions of the Prophet never went to his grave to solve their problems. This was because they were trained that way. The following hadith taken from Sahih Muslim would explain the teachings of the Prophet about graves:
"Ayesha (may Allah be pleased with her) reported: As the messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) was about to breathe his last, he drew his sheet upon his face and when he felt uneasy, he uncovered his face and said in this very state: Let there be curse upon the Jews and the Christians that they have taken the graves of their Apostles as places of worship. He in fact warned (his followers) against what they (the Jews and the Christians) did." [Sahih Muslim]
"Narrated by Ayesha (may Allah be pleased with her), she said: The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said during his illness from which he never recovered: Allah cursed the Jews and the Christians that they took the graves of their Prophets as mosques. She (Ayesha) reported: Had it not been so, his (Prophet) grave would have been in an open place, but it could not be, due to the fear that it may not be taken as a mosque." [Sahih Muslim]
So dear brothers! Call upon Allah ONLY. Call on Him, without making anyone as an intercessor or associating anyone with Him. Allah knows what we have in our hearts. Surely He listens to His people and fulfils their needs.
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