After eight years representing the Halifax Regional Municipality's District 8, Jennifer Watts declined to run in this year's municipal election. Watts said she wants to let new voices and perspectives be heard in council.
By running for council, Lindell Smith wants to set the example that stigma and stereotypes don't have to determine your future.
Smith has set out to prove this point from the age of 13, when he first started volunteering in his community.
He grew up on Gottingen Street, near Uniake Square, "a community that was stigmatized as negative and young people were stigmatized as bad people," says Smith in an interview at Humani-T Cafe.
But, Smith knows his community is more than this stereotype.
Through a long path of community work, Smith has earned board member positions on the North End Business Association, the Provincial Council on African Canadian Education, the Halifax Community Investment Fund and Hope Blooms, a youth-led community garden.
Smith also works with teens as a library assistant for the Halifax North branch of the Halifax Public Libraries and is the founder and engineer of Centreline Studio – an award-winning recording studio for young people in the North End.
"I know the people; the people are confident in me and I have the confidence of professional experience too," says Smith.
Smith says he takes Halifax's development and land-use issues seriously.
"We have to stop letting developers and old rules control our neighbourhood growth," he says, noting that he also sees a need for strong, community recreation facilities.
Brenden Sommerhalder is sharp and quick with statistics and has researched plans for the future of Halifax's District 8.
"The issues that have emerged as the most important also happen to be the issues that I've been most involved in," says Sommerhalder about development in HRM.
Sommerhalder is director of communications for the Downtown Halifax Business Commission. He also served as chair of the Planning and Advisory Committee of districts 7 and 8 for the past three years.
He has a master's degree in psychology specializing in topics like employee and team motivation, and leadership. He has a background in research and statistics and he is a founder of Halifax Bloggers – an online platform for people to share stories about Halifax.
Through his work, Sommerhalder has chaired and listened at many public meetings where the appropriateness of new development was discussed.
Sommerhalder wants council to take responsibility for housing by mandating developers to provide affordably priced housing, where the affordable part is determined by a process called inclusionary zoning.
Sommerhalder also knows what he will do with District 8's discretionary funds, which are funds from the city's budget of about $94,000 that each councillor can spend on community projects.
Sommerhalder says he will allow the people of District 8 to vote on the community group projects they want to fund. He also promises to reserve 30 per cent of funds for projects related to Indigenous people and 30 per cent to projects related to African Nova Scotians.
"This gives the majority of the funds to these two groups who have historically gotten the least of anything," says Sommerhalder.
Patrick Murphy might be a sports minded, former athlete and current coach, but he is also familiar with business and politics.
He's been the executive director of Investment Property Owners Association of Nova Scotia; communications representative for the Nova Scotia Restaurant and Food Service Association; served as an assistant to a provincial cabinet minister, Gerald O'Malley, from 1995 to 1998 and was the District 11 councillor from 2004 to 2008.
Murphy supported bus services for veterans, beautification and playground projects around the North End and projects that helped preserve Halifax's history during his time as councillor.
He is particularly interested in development issues in Halifax. He wants to keep tall buildings in the centre of Halifax, not in the North End.
Murphy sees affordable housing as a provincial or federal issue, but he wants more partnerships with provincial and federal governments to solve these issues.
"There could potentially be income supplements that people could apply for," and he says, before mentioning that everyone should either make donations to non-profit organizations or volunteer to help solve these problems.
Murphy says his biggest challenge will be working with councillors who mostly represent rural and suburban areas, but finds his previous experience in council will help him get past this challenge.
For the past 20 years, 63-year-old, Martin Farrell has dedicated his time to caring for his aging parents, one of whom suffered from Alzheimer's and needed constant care in order to stay at home -he no longer has this responsibility.
"I think it's now time for me to express some of my opinions," says Farrell in his candidate introduction on his campaign website.
Farrell has a diploma in applied photography, worked selling industrial photography equipment, and sold insurance door-to-door before working in real-estate.
Like most candidates, Farrell prioritizes development in his campaign. He believes Halifax doesn't need the Centre Plan, a plan that council has been creating for Halifax's future development. He says there are already enough privately owned properties in Halifax that are just waiting to be developed. He identified some of these in brown on a map of District 8.
Farrell does not support more bike lanes or rapid transit in Halifax. He says that they wouldn't be practical or safe. He calls for 1,000 more parking spots on the peninsula.
If elected to council, Chris Poole says he will remain focused on his community, its people and their wants and needs.
"A councillor shouldn't be someone who goes and voices their own opinion," says Poole.
He promises to present the voices of various communities by continuing to listen to, and be involved with, the people of the North End.
Poole is on the Mulgrave Park Caring and Learning Centre Board, a community space for meetings and classes ranging from crafting to taekwondo. He is also on the board of the North End Daycare and was a founding board member for the Centre for Creative Learning, which works with kids at risk of dropping out of school.
He was also elected to the Halifax Regional School Board in 2008. He ran in the school board election again in 2012 and in the provincial election for the Liberal Party in 2013 — almost winning both elections.
With his wife, Poole owns ArtWorkable Interiors, a small business that assesses and provides work spaces and gives recommendations for healthier, more ergonomically positive places to work.
Poole wants affordable housing to be made part of development agreements.
"Developers have to have a certain percentage of units that are priced affordably and affordable is where you can actually live after you pay your bills," he says.
Poole says that his biggest challenge will be that councillors don't always know how policies can affect various HRM districts, but he'll work against this disconnect by staying involved in the community himself. He'll encourage other councillors to take the time to get out into the city to hear people's voices.
Longtime North End resident Irvine Carvery says his community is what motivates him most.
He has a history in politics and sought the NDP nomination during the 2008 federal election. He ran for the provincial Progressive Conservative party in 2013 and for the federal Conservative Party in 2015. He lost all three times.
Carvery was elected chairman of the Halifax Regional School Board in 2008. He ran in the school board elections again in 2012, but he lost to Melinda Daye.
Carvery has also served as the president of the Africville Genealogy Society and as chair of the Council on African Canadian Education. From these experiences, he is proud to have chaired collaborative meetings that involved representatives of all three levels of government.
Carvery is very active in sports and recreation, having worked with the YMCA and he coached basketball at the former St. Patrick's High School.
He finds his biggest challenge will be getting other councillors to understand the impact of council decisions on District 8. He says that his experience working collaboratively with others will help him to do this.
Anthony Kawalski may be new to Canada, but he believes he can make a difference if elected the District 8 councillor.
"I came into Canada running," says Kawalski explaining he got involved in business, politics and art projects as soon as he immigrated.
Kawalski is an artist, originally from London, but he isn't shy about being political with his work. He mostly works on paintings and interior design, but he also managed Bronski Beat – an internationally acclaimed pop band from London. With tracks like "Smalltown Boy," Bronski Beat helped stretch social boundaries of publicly discussing homosexuality in England and around the globe.
With his partner, he opened the Old Parsonage Bed and Breakfast in Maitland, on the Bay of Fundy coast.
Within months, Kawalski became president of the Maitland and District Development Association. This led him to be involved in various community and tourism boards, where he gained experience uniting rural communities and dealing with Canadian politics.
Eventually Kawalski and his partner wanted a change so they moved to Halifax, a city they came to know since moving to Nova Scotia.
Kawalski is interested in many issues that are typically considered provincial or federal jurisdiction, including civil rights policies and education policies. He says he is running in this election because he thinks grassroots politics are the most important and the basis for change.
He's most interested in ensuring there is greater partnership between all three levels of government and that people always remain at the heart of decisions.
Kawalski wants to find and make decisions that both rural and urban communities can support.


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According to Medical Blunders by Robert Youngson and Ian Schott (a must for any self-respecting hypochondriac), the treatment at his spa in Graefenberg was simple, but highly popular .
The catalyst here was Dr James Wilson, whose visit to Graefenberg in Silesia (home of Vincent Priessnitz) had convinced him of the power of water to cure all known ills.
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Harry Lockett Ayers commissioned the design of this suitably grand residence with a large ballroom facing East Terrace. It was built in 1882, and as almost certainly designed by William McMinn.
Harry Ayers, foundation member of the Adelaide Club, was born in South Australia and educated at St Peter's College. He and his brother Arthur Ernest carried on their father's business as H.L. & A.E. Ayers. The brothers enjoyed the reflected glory of their father, Sir Henry, five times Premier of South Australia and were part of Adelaide's social and financial elite. Harry married Ada, a daughter of Sir John Morphett, consolidating through marriage connection within the 'Adelaide establishment'.
When he died in 1905 his wife commissioned the world-renowned Tiffany Company to design windows (formerly at St Paul's) as her memorial to him. By 1867, Harry Ayers owned the land on which Dimora was built. This extended from East Terrace to Hutt Street. It included Bray House, in which Ayers and his family lived during the 1870s. In 1878 the property was subdivided and John Bray bought the western half.
Dimora is one of the most highly developed examples of the bay-windowed villa, a popular style in boom-period mansions. The building has been renovated and subdivided for multiple occupancy. The renovators have shown high regard for the fittings and detailing of the well-finished and mostly original interior.
Externally the use of stuccoed detail, combined with simple cast iron enrichment, is typical of McMinn's work. This large house of 20 main rooms maintains a prominent place amongst the imposing late-Victorian residences of East Terrace.
"Dimora," Adelaide City Explorer, accessed April 26, 2019, https://adelaidecityexplorer.com.au/items/show/221.


Thousands have taken to the streets of Glasgow to march for Scottish independence, as political uncertainty looms over the upcoming UK general election.
According to All Under One Banner, the group which organized the march, over 17,000 people have gathered, with almost 9,000 people confirming their attendance on the event's Facebook page. Police estimate around 15,000 attendees.
The procession started from Kelvingrove Park in the city's west end at around 10:30am, before making its way to the historic Glasgow Green park on the north bank of the River Clyde.
The marchers want a second referendum on Scottish independence in light of last year's Brexit vote, which took the UK out of the EU. In the Brexit referendum, 62 percent of Scottish voters voted to remain in the EU, compared to only 48 percent for the rest of the UK. Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon has often argued that Scotland should be able to choose whether to stay in the EU or follow the rest of the UK.
"The powers Brussels would have over us, over Scotland, would be minimal compared to the power that Westminster has over us," one woman at the march told RT.
"The European Union's a collective of independent nations, whereas under Westminster control, we don't really get the representation we require, and there's a democratic deficit," one man said.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has repeatedly said "now is not the time" for a debate about Scottish independence, which should wait until the end of the Brexit process. But a recent YouGov poll shows the possibility of a hung parliament, with the ruling Conservatives losing many of their seats to Labour, thus giving the SNP an advantage.
The last Scottish independence referendum, held in 2014, saw 55 percent of the voters reject independence from the United Kingdom.


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A Potted History
The origins of the RHF date back to 1678 and the raising of the Earl of Mar's Regiment of Foot. The Royal Highland Fusiliers was formed in 1959 following the amalgamation of the Royal Scots Fusiliers (21st) and the Highland Light Infantry (73rd [renumbered 71st in 1786] and 74th).
The RHF became 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland, The Royal Highland Fusiliers ( 2 SCOTS) in 2006. Currently based in Edinburgh.
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Fearless in battle, and in bars worldwide, renowned for their prowess in the black arts (thievery, piracy, smuggling and general lawlessness). They see themselves as fun-sized shock troops, Stormtroopers in miniature. Terry Pratchett's "Nac Mac Feegle" are loosely based on the RHF. They love nothing more than to fight and steal, if no OPFOR is available will turn on neighbouring troops, if that fails they will turn on each other.
NEVER discuss football, or religion - the unit is made up of Celtic/Rangers/Catholic/Protestant fundamentalists.
NEVER leave kit unattended around them - even attended kit has been known to be spirited away.
NEVER loan any of them money.
Tartan: In 1881 the RSF adopted the Government tartan and in 1901 added a further blue line to it. In 1928 RSF pipers were permitted to wear Hunting Erskine tartan. From 1777 the 71st wore Government tartan until buff and red stripes were included to form MacKenzie tartan. The 74th wore Government tartan kilts from 1797 to 1809. The 74th were re-designated 'Highland' after 1845 and wore the Government tartan with a white stripe (Lamont tartan).
In 1881 the 74th joined the 71st and became the 2nd Battalion, HLI and adopted the Mackenzie tartan trews. In 1947 the Mackenzie kilt was by the HLI. From 1959 the RHF have worn MacKenzie tartan trews and their Pipers have worn dress Erskine kilts.
There have been twenty VC winners: the Indian Mutiny, Egypt, Sudan, South Africa, World War One and World War Two.
The RHF webpage at army.mod.uk
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Sandia manager Sean Hearne (1132), who served as acting co-director of the Center of Integrated Nanotechnology (CINT), has been elected president of the Materials Research Society. MRS is an international organization that promotes interdisciplinary materials research with 15,000 members from academia, industry, and national labs.
Sean will serve as vice president beginning in January 2017, transition to president in 2018, and wrap up his three-year term as past president in 2019. Sean concludes his second three-year term as MRS secretary this December.
As the society's 43rd president, Sean will be the fifth MRS president from Sandia — the most from any national lab. Julia Phillips, who served as an acting vice president and chief technology officer for the Labs, was MRS president in 1995.
After being trained as a commercial pilot, Sean went back to school to study physics. While working on his doctorate in solid state physics at Arizona State University, he started at Sandia as a student intern.
Over the years he progressed from a postdoc, LTE, staff member, manager, and earlier this year to acting co-director and senior manager of CINT, which provides free access to world-leading equipment and scientists for researchers advancing the scientific understanding of how to fabricate, characterize, and model nanoscale materials. It is a DOE Office of Basic Energy Science-funded user facility jointly operated with Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Though Sean no longer flies, he spends his weekends racing Spec Miata and vintage formula cars and won the 2014 SouthWest MotorSport Spec Miata series championship.


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In the 'Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah, famously known as Dr. Hathi, has died of the Heart Attack. The famous poet Kumar Azad. Dr. Hathi had been associated in this show for a long time. His character was very much liked in the show. According to the information, he passed away at Heart Attack in Mira Road Wockhardt Hospital in Maharashtra.
Sources linked to the show said that the poet K. Azad's call came to the producer this morning, and he had said that his health is not good, so he will not be able to come to the show today. But after a while, these bad news came. Sources linked to the show say that despite the health problems, they also came to the show.
They loved the show a lot. 'Tarak Mehta's Reverse Chashma' is going to complete 10 years, so there was a meeting on this set today. But before that, this bad news came.
The time he suffered a heart attack, he was at home. The demise of the TV industry has been a big setback. As soon as the news of Dr. Hathi's death was reported, the shooting of Tarak Mehta show was canceled. According to the media reports, in the year 2010, Kavi Kumar Azad alias Dr. Hathi had reduced his 80 kg weight to surgery. After this surgery, he became very comfortable in his daily life.
Dr. Hathi has also worked in Bollywood. He was seen in Aamir Khan's 'Mela' in the year 2000. Apart from this, Dr. Hathi had worked with Paresh Rawal in films such as 'Fontusch'.
'Tarak Mehta's Reverse Chashma' has been completed for 10 years. This is the fifth longest running show in the history of serial television, starting July 2008. So far around 2.5 million episodes have been telecasted.


What African Fashion Can Learn from "Adele's 25" success?
By now, I am sure that you may have heard the groundbreaking music "Hello" by Adele that has gone viral even with sketches by Saturday Night Life and one or two text message pranks from people you know. If the sales of her record breaking new "25" album are any indication, then it's also more apt to say that there is no one in music right now quite like Adele. According to Ben Sisario of the New York Times, "while stars are now expected to live their lives in full self-promotion mode online, Adele barely touches her social media accounts. She is also revered by her fans for seeming approachable as well as for her vocal prowess. What's even more, she is selling more albums, (yes we can still say albums), than anyone in the struggling music business thought was still possible… When official sales numbers are announced by Nielsen this Monday, they are expected to show that Adele's new album, "25," which went on sale Nov. 20, will have sold at least 3.2 million copies in the United States in its first week. That smashes an opening-week sales record that has stood since 'N Sync sold 2.4 million copies of "No Strings Attached" in 2000. " So what then can African Fashion learn from Adele's success?
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Review: Christine (2016)
Directed by: Antonio Campos
Premise: A drama about Christine Chubbuck (Rebecca Hall), a reporter for a small Florida television station in the 1970s. She struggles with depression and clashes with a news director who wants more salacious material for the newscast.
What Works: Christine is a character study of a woman working in media at a time when the nature of television news was changing. Previous to the 1970s, it was taken for granted that television news divisions did not generate revenue. They operated at a financial loss that was made up by the rest of a station's programming and good reporting was a source of pride that gave prestige to a station and a network. That all began to change in the 1970s and reporters were pressured to devise stories that would increase ratings and thereby generate revenue. This naturally led to a race to the bottom as sensationalism overtook news media. The film Christine picks up in the midst of this conflict. As she is depicted in the film, Christine Chubbuck was a television reporter who primarily worked on human interest stories and did a lot of work in the community as a reporter and as a volunteer, highlighting causes and stories she thought were important and worthy of coverage. She runs into conflict with her coworkers and particularly her boss (Tracy Letts) who has embraced the "if it bleeds, it leads" philosophy. Christine is about a woman who struggles to adapt to that new matrix and is, at partially, destroyed by it. The film is led by Rebecca Hall in the title role and Hall gives a tremendous performance. Christine is an exceptional portrayal of mental illness. The real life Chubbuck suffered from depression and possibly bipolar disorder and that appears to be the case in the film. When movies portray the mentally ill they tend to either demonize these people or turn them into pathetic saints. The title character of Christine is an authentic and complex character. She is a competent employee and a good reporter but she's also socially brusque and has trouble coping with stress. Rebecca Hall's performance captures the full dimension of this woman's interior and exterior life. The story of Christine does an excellent job of complicating the action so that Chubbuck's personal challenges intertwine with her professional struggles, leading her toward the climax of the film. At the same time, the filmmakers manage to avoid the feeling of inevitability that tends to hamper reality-based dramas. As a period picture, Christine captures its era especially well; the costumes and sets look organically of their time without appearing obviously art directed.
What Doesn't: Christine may be perceived very differently depending upon the viewer's foreknowledge of the movie's subject matter. Christine Chubbuck's on air suicide was a major cultural touchstone of the 1970s but enough time has passed that contemporary viewers may not know who she was and what the film is leading toward. For those who do know where the story is going, Christine may play too obvious. The story sets up several challenges in Chubbuck's life and then allows each of those pressures to steer her toward suicide. For those who are not familiar with the background of this story, Christine may play too obliquely. The film is a character study of a woman suffering from mental illness that is complicated by the drama in her personal and professional life but the significance of her death might be lost on unfamiliar viewers. In its own way, the conclusion actually works for Christine in that the film stays focused on Chubback as a person rather than a headline or a cultural footnote but the story ends abruptly and so it doesn't unpack those ideas for the audience.
DVD extras: Commentary track, deleted scenes, news footage.
Bottom Line: Christine is an absorbing character study. The film provides a nuanced and compassionate portrait of Christine Chubbuck and of mental illness and it has a great performance by Rebecca Hall. It's also a provocative movie with its implicit suggestion that a sensationalist media environment might lead people to devalue their own lives.
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I am loving all the recipes that are out there for Bliss Balls or truffles depending what you call them! But I realise that sometimes they contain so many ingredients, or unusual ingredients that we don't always have these on hand in the cupboard.
So with that in mind I thought I would play with the most basic of ingredients and see how I got on – in fact I used only 3 ingredients and they are pretty tasty! If you want an even more flavourful Apricot Bliss Ball check out my recipe for an Apricot, Nut & Coconut Bliss Balls Here .
And this recipe can easily be made with the kids, I used a food processor, but if you do not have one or a mixer simply chop the soaked apricots as finely as you can!
So here is the recipe – it is simple as. Feel free to add to it if you want, with a bit of honey, or chocolate chips or cover it in white chocolate to be extra fancy, only limited by your pantry ingredients!
Drain well, discard the water and add apricots to a food mixer or chop finely with sharp knife.
Squeeze orange, some for recipe some for drinking!
Add the orange and coconut to chopped apricots and mix well until combined, should come together and be sticky enough to roll into balls, you may need to add a little more orange juice.
Take a teaspoon sized amount and roll into a ball, then roll the bliss ball in coconut.
Pop the balls in the freezer for 20 minutes to set.
They last really well in the fridge.
And it is as easy as that! I hope you enjoy this simple variation to a Bliss Ball Recipe. You can find the link to the delicious Cranberry, Date & Cashew Bliss Ball Here plus of course check out my Sweet Treat tab for more deliciousness than you can imagine!
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Retail logistics software platform Shippit has announced a partnership with supply chain optimisation leader Manhattan Associates.
The deal, will see clients across Manhattan Associates' portfolio, including Cotton On and DHL gain access to Shippit, which powers the critical last mile delivery experience for retailers. It will be available to all Manhattan Associates' client base, enabling them to scale into new locations and markets at a rate which would previously have been unattainable.
In addition to this, Manhattan Associates' international presence will be a strategic factor in Shippit's expansion globally.
The partnership comes following Shippit's most recent announcement of its onboarding of the Cotton On Group. The global deal will account for a substantial lift in online transactions powered by the platform across its portfolio of retail brands including Cotton On, Cotton On Body, Cotton On Kids,Factorie and Supre, managed from the Group's new state-of-the-art warehouse in Avalon, Victoria.
Raghav Sibal, Manhattan Associates Managing Director for Australia and New Zealand said the partnership with Shippit would enable its customers, to accelerate their growth and compete on a global level.
"Manhattan Associates and Shippit empower enterprise retailers like Cotton On to fulfil orders faster, more accurately and with greater process efficiency through simultaneous processing of ecommerce, wholesale and store orders from a single DC.
"Manhattan Associates being a global technology leader in supply chain and Shippit being a leader in multicarrier solutions for retailers together we will allow our customers to derive operational and functional uniformity that will improve the effectiveness of its omni-channel fulfilment approach and ultimately enhance its service proposition and improve customer lifetime value," he said.
Shippit joint CEO and co-founder Rob Hango-Zada, said: "Manhattan Associates are the undisputed leader in their field and our partnership represents a significant endorsement of our technology. The partnership also means we can now fully empower the largest names in Australian & New Zealand retail to compete in the global ecommerce landscape.
"The rise of low-cost online-only retail models has placed pressure on traditional retailers. Collectively, our solution provides retailers with total visibility of inventory across their fleet of stores or warehouses and improved last mile delivery experiences for customers through better carrier matching.
"We're putting an end to terrible fulfilment and delivery experiences. It's now time for more retailers to capitalise on the eCommerce boom with better control over their supply chain and logistics operations," he said.
Having raised just over $3 million since its inception, Shippit has grown from its startup roots to become a notable promising tech venture. In the last 12 months, Shippit has received recognition with awards, including the 2018 Westpac Business of Tomorrow and the 2018 Retail Fulfilment Award for the Best Fulfilment Solution.
Shippit is now gearing up for its next phase of growth, which includes introducing a number of additional technology products to streamline the friction in last mile delivery logistics and continued expansion into new markets, with a keen eye on Asia where it is said over 50 per cent of the world's eCommerce transactions will be generated by the year 2025.
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Singulex Expands Clinical Evaluation of Sgx Clarity System in Europe
Mar 24, 2017 | staff reporter
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Singulex announced yesterday that it is expanding the clinical testing of its Sgx Clarity automated immunodiagnostics system at four European clinical research sites in order to evaluate its utility in cardiac care.
Sgx Clarity is based on Singulex's single molecule counting technology, which enables the detection of single molecules such as proteins and metabolites in complex biological samples. The company aims to launch the system as a CE-marked in vitro diagnostic in Europe and submit it for US Food and Drug Administration approval this year.
According to Singulex, multiple clinical research studies of Sgx Clarity are underway at sites in Spain and in the UK, which will be expanded to further test the system.
At Hospital de Sant Pau in Barcelona, researchers have been using the Sgx Clarity cardiac troponin I (cTnl) assay to determine cardiac status in individuals with chest pain to avoid additional testing. Additional studies are now planned to examine using the system to rule out the presence of cardiovascular disease in patients and guide the use of supplementary procedures. Investigators at this hospital are also using the cTnl assay as part of a multimarker strategy for prognosis of readmissions in acute heart failure patients.
At St. George's University in London, researchers have completed an analytical evaluation of Sgx Clarity and are planning to evaluate cardiac troponin assays to rule out the presence of coronary disease in patients that present with suspected acute coronary syndrome. And at the University of Manchester, investigators are examining whether the Sgx Clarity cTnI assay can rule out acute coronary syndrome from a single blood test.
Singulex added that it is in discussions with researchers at other sites in Europe about Sgx Clarity installation and evaluation, including ones in Italy, Germany, and Norway.
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Northern Superior Initiates Core Drill Program To Test Potential Extensions Of The Nelligan Gold Project Onto The Lac Surprise Gold Property, West-Central Québec
Sudbury, Ontario (September 8, 2020) Northern Superior Resources ("Northern Superior" or the "Company")(TSXV: SUP; OCTQB: NSUPF) is pleased to announce that it has initiated a 5,000 metre ("m"), 14-hole core drill program on its 100% owned Lac Surprise gold property situated in one of Québec's more established and historic mining camps, Chapais-Chibougamau. This program represents Phase I of II, and is designed to test as many as three possible extensions of the Nelligan gold deposit (see IAMGOLD/Vanstar press releases, October 22, 2019) onto the Lac Surprise property. The budget for this phase of drilling is approximately $800,000. $2MM of Québec charitable flow through was raised earlier in the year (see Northern Superior press release, June 3, 2020).
The Lac Surprise property is comprised 275 mineral claims encompassing over 15,000 hectares. The Company has identified three target areas in the northeast part of the property (Figure 1).
Target Area 1
This area consists of two components, Targets 1 and 1b. Drilling in this area will test for, and hopefully better define the extent and commercial potential of the gold-bearing hydrothermal zone which extends onto the property from the neighboring Nelligan gold deposit (see Northern Superior Resources press release, October 23, 2019). This target area is particularly compelling as geologic controls observed from geophysical inversion modelling of the Nelligan gold deposit (from publicly available data) also appear to occur within this target area (see Northern Superior corporate presentation (slides 39-42), on the Company's website www.nsuperior.com).
Key controls that may have played a pivotal role in gold mineralization at the Nelligan gold deposit include:
destruction of magnetism associated with an intrusion likely responsible for driving gold-bearing fluids into the system;
60° angle faults which may have accommodated and concentrated flow of gold-bearing materials (Figures 2a and 2b).
Target Area 1, encompassing an area of approximately 1,100m x 500m, will be tested with seven drill holes ranging in length between 350-450m (Figure 3). This area includes what was formally referred to as the Èpervier zone (or south limb)(discovery hole of 1.54 g/t gold over 15.15m), the north limb and the eastern part of the North trend (see Northern Superior press release August 18, 2020).
Target Area 1b may be the southwest extension of Target Area 1 (Figure 4). It is characterized by an ellipsoid shape magnetic low, bracketed by two 60° angled faults, encompassing an area of approximately 1,000m x 575m. This target will be tested by three holes, each 400m long.
Target Area 2 encompasses an area of approximately 1,400 x 600m and will be tested with three drill holes ranging in length between 350m-400m. Drilling in this area will test for the western extent of the proposed "North Trend" (seeNorthern Superior press release, August 18, 2020) of the gold-bearing hydrothermal system associated with the Nelligan deposit. Target Area 2 is also the area where the Roi gold showing was discovered (see Northern Superior Resources press release, October 23, 2019)(Figure 5). This target may help us to define a possible western extension of the gold-bearing hydrothermal system associated with the Nelligan gold deposit. Alternatively, or in addition to defining the western extension of the Nelligan system, as a porphyry was intersected in connection with the Roi gold showing a very different style of mineralization may be encountered.
Target Area 3 encompasses an area of approximately 2,280m x 350m and will be tested with one 500m drill hole. Drilling in this area will test a prominent, elongated magnetic low abutting a ridge of highly magnetic, iron-bearing volcanics for gold (Figure 6). The geophysical signature of prominent north-northwest to south-southeast dyke is destroyed as it passes through this magnetic low. This has the potential to be an ideal setting for encountering a gold-bearing altered, highly silicified material.
Dr. T.F. Morris, President and CEO states: "The geophysical inversion modelling of the Nelligan gold deposit provided Northern Superior with a great deal additional information about the Lac Surprise property. Geophysical features identified from this modelling associated with the various Nelligan gold zones on the Lac Surprise property, are most encouraging for potential discovery of similar gold zones on Lac Suprise. We look forward to sharing the results of this program with our shareholders as they become available."
Thomas F. Morris (PhD., FGAC, P.Geo., ICD.D.) is a Qualified Person ("QP") within the meaning of National Instrument 43-101. Dr. Morris has reviewed, and approved information disclosed in this press release. Michael Leblanc, who is also a Qualified Person ("QP") will be overseeing the core drill program.
Note to readers: Mineralization hosted on adjacent and/or nearby properties is not necessarily indicative of mineralization hosted on the Company's property.
The Lac Surprise gold property is one of three key mineral properties 100% owned by Northern Superior Resources. The other two properties (TPK and Croteau Est) also represent regional scale exploration opportunities (see Northern Superior Corporate Presentation, www.nsuperior.com).
Northern Superior's Primary Ontario Based Projects
The TPK property is located in northwestern Ontario and is large (20kms x 30kms), containing two regional scale mineralized systems. The first system is primarily gold bearing, stretching 35kms across the Big Dam and New Growth areas of the property. The Big Dam area contains the largest gold grain-in-till dispersal aprons in North America stretching 6kms by 11kms, with as many as 1262 gold grains most of which are pristine (92%). Embedded within this apron are numerous high-grade gold mineralized boulders assaying as high as 94 g/t gold. A discovery hole of 25.87 g/t gold over 13.45m has already been intersected. The second system within the Annex area of the property is defined by a gold grain-in-till dispersal corridor 3.5kms x 13.5kms wide with gold grain counts as high as 1263, mostly pristine in shape. Embedded within this corridor are boulders assaying as high as 727g/t gold, 111g/t silver and 4.05% copper.
A drill program for the Big Dam and Annex areas of the property has been developed and ready to be initiated as soon as First Nations concerns associated with COVID-19 are at an acceptable level. The program is fully funded with a budget of $3.7million. This property is 100% Northern Superior's and is operated under an Ealy Exploration Benefits Agreement with Neskantaga First Nation.
The Croteau Est property is located within the prolific Chapais- Chibougamou gold camp of Québec and is large (30kms x 15kms). The property has a 43-101 compliant gold resource defined and several gold showings discovered across the property. The resource is defined as consisting of 11.6 million tonnes, grade 1.7g/t gold, yielding 640,000 ounces of gold. Assays associated with this deposit includes intersections of: 11.06 g/t gold over 9.10m including 43.75 g/t gold over 2.00m, 61.24 g/t gold over 5.95 m including 705 g/t gold over 0.5 m, 7.50 g/t gold over 7.95m including 56.40 g/t gold over 1.00m, 1.99 g/t gold over 34.65m including 9.46 g/t gold over 2m). The resource is defined from only 64, shallow holes most of which are only 350m deep. The system is open along strike in both directions and at depth. A core drill program and budget has been set for this project to expand the resource and test several of the showings.
Northern Superior is a reporting issuer in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Québec, and trades on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol SUP, and the OTCQB Venture Market under the symbol NSUPF.
Please refer to Northern Superior news available on the Company's website (www.nsuperior.com) and on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) or contact:
Thomas F. Morris P.Geo., PhD., FGAC
This Press Release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual results to differ materially from the statements made. When used in this document, the words "may", "would", "could", "will", "intend", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect" and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are subject to such risks and uncertainties. Many factors could cause our actual results to differ materially from the statements made, including those factors discussed in filings made by us with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities. Should one or more of these risks and uncertainties, such actual results of current exploration programs, the general risks associated with the mining industry, the price of gold and other metals, currency and interest rate fluctuations, increased competition and general economic and market factors, occur or should assumptions underlying the forward looking statements prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as intended, planned, anticipated, or expected. We do not intend and do not assume any obligation to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by law. Shareholders are cautioned not to put undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.
Figure 1. Drill target areas, Lac Surprise drill program.
Figure 2a. Geophysical inversion model illustrating the destruction of magnetite and association of 60° angle faults to the various gold zones associated with the Nelligan deposit. The same attributes have been identified on the Northeastern part of the Lac Surprise property. Coincidently, a series of drill holes completed in 2019 defined the extension of a gold-bearing hydrothermal system from the Nelligan deposit onto the Lac Surprise property, including an intersection of 1.54g/t gold over 15.54m (LCS-19-008, see text for details).
Figure 2b. Geophysical inversion model looking at the system from below and to the south. The intrusion (possibly gabbro) that is driving the system is clearly illustrated and extends under the Lac Surprise property. Magnetic destruction observed with the Nelligan gold deposit and also observed on Lac Surprise (Figure 1a) is associated with this intrusion.
Note: Collar locations and trace directions illustrated in the following set of diagrams may vary for each area depending on site conditions and drill core observations. For additional information regarding each target location the reader is encouraged to review the Company's Corporate presentation on its website (www.nsuperior.com).
Figure 3. Drill target plan, Target Area 1.
Figure 4. Drill target plan, Target Area 1b.
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Gallery / Artists / Richard Whadcock
Richard Whadcock, A Star Fall is Seen
Size: 150 x 150 cms
Categories: Paintings, Richard Whadcock Tags: landscape, oil, star fall
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Richard Whadcock
www.richardwhadcock.com Based in Lancing, West Sussex, Richard studied fine art painting/ printmaking firstly at Bristol Polytechnic and then went on to do his Masters at the Royal College of Art in 1989-91. He set up Chartwell Road Studios in Lancing in 2017. His works deal with the South Downs landscape, trying to capture its ever-changing dramatic atmosphere from silent stillness to squally days. Work has been collected by people such as Eric Clapton, Anthony Howell, Howard Donald of Take That and the Rothchild family. All the works are oil on canvas or panel and studies in charcoal. Richard is also represented by the Northcote gallery in London where he has had solo exhibitions and has work represented in various national and international collections. Richard specialises in atmospheric landscape paintings. His contemporary landscape paintings explore the South Downs and East Sussex coast.
Still Life with Figs
Underfoot, Cuckmere Valley
Sunlight Through the Window
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Microsoft to finally shut down to-do list app Wunderlist on May 6, 2020
Sarah Perez	@sarahintampa / 1 month
Microsoft has for years promised it would eventually shut down to-do list app Wunderlist, which it acquired in 2015, in favor of its own app, To Do — after it felt the latter was able to offer a competitive experience that included Wunderlist's best features. Today, Microsoft is finally announcing a shut-down date for Wunderlist of May 6, 2020. After this date, Wunderlist to-dos will no longer sync, but users will still be able to import their content into Microsoft's own To Do app.
Some Wunderlist users may be disappointed but, to be fair, Microsoft allowed Wunderlist to operate far longer than expected, compared with how most acquisitions of this nature tend to go. And the company prepared Wunderlist users for the app's inevitable closure as far back as April 2017.
In the meantime, Microsoft has been working to ensure that users' favorite features — like list groups (folders), steps (subtasks), file attachments, sharing and task assignments — made their way over to Microsoft To Do.
In September, Microsoft unveiled another upgrade for To Do which hinted the Wunderlist shut down could be nearing, with the addition of new backgrounds, smart lists and a personalized daily planner offering smart suggestions of tasks to be accomplished. It also integrated To Do with other Microsoft apps like Outlook, Microsoft Planner, Cortana and Microsoft Launcher on Android.
At the same time, Wunderlist's creator Christian Reber took to Twitter to express remorse over Wunderlist's coming closure, and even suggested he would buy the app back if allowed. Reber wasn't expressing sour grapes, necessarily, but rather a desire to fulfill his original vision for the app, which included building out features like shared folders and cross-team collaboration, for example. (Reber is currently involved with a new content collaboration startup, Pitch, which he co-founded. So returning to Wunderlist never really seemed feasible.)
Microsoft says it decided to now move to close down Wunderlist because it has stopped releasing new features for the app and, as the app ages, it will become more difficult to maintain. In addition, it wants to at last focus its full energies on making its To Do app the best alternative to Wunderlist.
While Wunderlist to-dos will no longer sync after May 6, 2020, the app will be supported until that time. As time goes on, Microsoft will make no guarantees that everything will continue to work properly after the end date.
Microsoft also says that, as of today, it's no longer accepting new sign-ups for Wunderlist in preparation for the app's closure.
To make the switch, To Do users can access the iOS, Android, Mac, PC or web app to use the Wunderlist importer. (A link to the importer is in the Settings.) You also can choose to export lists from Wunderlist to To Do from the Wunderlist app, if you prefer.
Once your content is properly imported, users can switch over to To Do, which now features a similar design following the fall update, but introduces new features as well, like the personalized My Day home screen. In addition, Microsoft Outlook emails and Planner tasks can now be sent to To Do. Meanwhile, a Planned Smart List will show everything with a due date, and this can be configured to only show today's tasks, if you prefer.
"Some of you have been on this journey with us since the very beginning," said Microsoft, in an announcement. "You, our users, mean everything to us, and we hope that you continue to share our vision and join us on this next step of our journey. You helped us make Wunderlist what it is, and we'd love for you to help us do the same with To Do. Tell us what you love and what you'd like to see added or updated. With our latest additions – printing, smart due dates, and dark mode – you can be sure that we always take your feedback into consideration when building new features," the company said.
Wunderlist had 26 million installs globally across iOS and Android platforms since January 1, 2014, according to data from Sensor Tower. Downloads since the app was acquired by Microsoft on June 1, 2015 stand at approximately 18.6 million. And in 2019, the app has been installed by 3 million users, down from 4 million during the same period in 2018.


1. Great job at the Belmont Shore Christmas Parade!! The band and guard looked and sounded great and you learned it in a VERY short amount of time. Thank you to all the parents that made the incredible instrument decorations and helped out with the parade!!
2. All members of Concert Band, Wind Ensemble, and Jazz Band need to have all black attire for our upcoming holiday concert. Let Mr. Loney know if you have any questions.
3. A Hawaii Payment of $290 was due this past Friday, December 5th directly to MusicAmerica. Please visit the Hawaii section on our website for more information. This is going to be an exciting and life-changing performance opportunity and trip! DON'T MISS OUT!!!
We will be performing this Friday at Disney's California Adventure! Call time is 7:25AM in the Band Room. Attend zero period if you have a class. Bring $25-30 for lunch & dinner at Disneyland, warm clothes and a jacket (rain is in the forecast), and everything you need for full marching uniform and the parade. Thursday's parade rehearsal is mandatory from 3-5 p.m. to participate in the Disneyland Community Arts Showcase Parade (12/12). Students must also have a minimum 2.0 GPA to be eligible.
Congratulations to the members of the 2015 Gahr High School Winter Guard! Rehearsals are Mondays 5-9 p.m. and Wednesdays 3-6 p.m. Please see your info sheet for the full rehearsal and performance schedule.
Winter Drumline auditions are tomorrow, Wednesday (12/10) from 3-5 p.m. There is a parent meeting from 5:30-6:15 p.m. following auditions.
Concert attire is all black. Black, long sleeve, button-up, collared dress shirt. Black slacks (no jeans or stripes). Black belt for pants. Black dress shoes and socks. Girls have the option of wearing an all black dress that goes past the knees. Black school concert dresses are available. Girls wear dress shoes (i.e. no sneakers or flip-flops). Students that do not have the correct attire will not be allowed to perform at concerts and will not receive credit. For the holiday concert you have the option to wear a festive hat (Santa, antlers, etc.).
Jazz Band also wears all black with the jazz band tie. Both guys and girls wear black slacks (dress pants) and a black, button-up, collared dress shirt. All members of the Jazz Band must purchase a solid, shiny necktie available from Mr. Loney for $10.
The next Hawaii payment of $290 was due Friday, December 5th. Please send all Hawaii payments DIRECTLY to MusicAmerica. Pay online at MusicAmericaEvents.com, by phone (800) 553-4723 ext. 133, or by mail: 218 West Water Street, Suite 400, Charlottesville, VA 22902. Make sure you've turned in the Registration Form & Optional Travel Insurance along with the $50 deposit. If you have any specific questions about the trip, please contact Dean McDowell at deanm@goworldpass.com.
7:00 p.m. Mr. Loney accepts certificate at City Hall of Artesia from Mayor Canales to honor the Gahr Marching Gladiator's achievement of being the California State Band Grand Champions!
6:44 a.m. Full Jazz Band - Finish "All I Want for Christmas"
*Go to zero period class.
6:44 a.m. Full Jazz Band - "Big Band Holiday"
*We will go to Disneyland rain or shine!!
10:00 a.m. Free time GROUPS OF 4 OR MORE. YOU MAY NOT LEAVE CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE.
Have fun! Remember you're representing Gahr. Eat lunch by 1:30 p.m.
6:15 p.m. Free time GROUPS OF 4 OR MORE. YOU MAY NOT LEAVE CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE.
Have fun! Remember you're representing Gahr. Eat dinner.
9:45 p.m. Meet for "World of Color"


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Dr. Walter Bortz (and I looked up the research that supported his statement) has said that the biggest predictor of whether a person will end up in a nursing home is NOT the strength of the heart, but instead the strength of the legs. Makes perfect sense: your legs can help make the heart stronger, but the heart will never help make your legs stronger. Therefore, I disagree with your statement above that CV exercise will always be more important than strength training (ST) throughout one's life. In my view, ST is as important as CV exercise for all adults, but even more so for older adults. You've mentioned many of the reasons: standing up from chairs or toilets without arms helping, preventing catastrophic falls, climbing stairs, carrying groceries, etc. Stronger muscles overall will make it easier for older adults to perform CV exercise regularly.


A real show stopper all in original mint condition. From c.1900 the fine claw work typical of Edwardian rings is couple with the beautiful engraved gold gallery and shoulders which are more typical of the Victorian Era. This ring seamlessly and beautifully matches the two together.
This ring has a central diamond of an est. 2cts and side stones which are estimated as 0.86cts each. These are round brilliant cut diamonds, est. G/H in colour and VS in clarity.


The steel used in the Titanic was somewhat more brittle than modern steel.
The I-beams on that skyscraper are all made of steel.
We enjoyed listening to the steel band.
Bob has a steel plate in his head.
Use some steel wool to clean that screen.
The duelists flashed their steels at each other.
The knight drove his steel into the heart of his enemy.
I found a steel in a drawer to sharpen the kitchen knives with.
The steel hangs on a hook next to the copper pots.
Some cities never recovered economically after their steel mills went overseas.
The auto makers are at odds with big steel over the rising costs.
The steel industry supports the regulatory trade measures.
He has a third of his stock in steel.
My broker's advice was to sell steel and buy gold.
Shares of United Steel were up 15 and a quarter today.
Sally has nerves of steel.
He exhibited a will of steel when it came to his training for the marathon.


Last November I offered to make some bits for Di at Tando Creative to help her have some samples for a Hochanda show she was planning for. This was the first of three of this new sized tag. It is 26 cms long and 6 1/2 cms wide. I wasn't sure when I first saw them if I'd like the size but I found them so easy to create designs on I soon fell in love with them. She has also designed some new stencils which fit exactly over these tags and are perfect for creating the backgrounds.
1. Seal substrate with white gesso.
2. Dip, drip and dry washes of media fluid acrylics.
3, Stamp some text using treebranch archival ink.
4. Tear some used and dried teabags and add to the background.
5. Seal with matte medium or decoupage sealer.
6. Stencil numbers with white modeling paste coloured up separately with raw umber and quinacridone gold paint paint. Leave to dry.
7. Sand the edges to remove excess tea bags and distress the edges with ground espresso distress ink.
a. Pounce over some raw umber, payes grey and cobalt teal hue over the stars, blending the together as you go.
b. With a piece of wet and dry foam blend some carbon black media acrylic round the edges of the star letting some blend over the top. Dry.
c. Spritz the stars with water and paint over a coat of neat quinacridone gold media acrylic and leave to stand so that the pigment pools in various random areas and heat dry.
d. Repeat again if you want a more rusty look than you have already achieved. Also use some neat paint over the pooled areas to rust it even further.
"The beauty is in the detail"
This is a saying I often use when teaching my workshops and to me it is so true, I always think about the details whether they be large and important ones or small finishing touches.
Just like these stars that had a lovely mat patina on them but I thought a little bit of metallic lustre would lift and brighten them some more.
Words are always so important and I have loads of stamps with phrases and sayings on them but I also have a huge A4 file with my own computer generated ones. Then I get something unique to my project and the right size for placing them on.
By stamping in a lighter ink you can get some lovely subtle details in the background.
So there we have the first of my trio and I was able to use the stars I designed for Di to use on a Ministry of Mixology make and take earlier in the year. Bonus!


PostgreSQL has native support for using SSL connections to encrypt client/server communications for increased security. See Section 18.9 for details about the server-side SSL functionality.
libpq reads the system-wide OpenSSL configuration file. By default, this file is named openssl.cnf and is located in the directory reported by openssl version -d. This default can be overridden by setting environment variable OPENSSL_CONF to the name of the desired configuration file.
By default, PostgreSQL will not perform any verification of the server certificate. This means that it is possible to spoof the server identity (for example by modifying a DNS record or by taking over the server IP address) without the client knowing. In order to prevent spoofing, the client must be able to verify the server's identity via a chain of trust. A chain of trust is established by placing a root (self-signed) certificate authority (CA) certificate on one computer and a leaf certificate signed by the root certificate on another computer. It is also possible to use an "intermediate" certificate which is signed by the root certificate and signs leaf certificates.
To allow the client to verify the identity of the server, place a root certificate on the client and a leaf certificate signed by the root certificate on the server. To allow the server to verify the identity of the client, place a root certificate on the server and a leaf certificate signed by the root certificate on the client. One or more intermediate certificates (usually stored with the leaf certificate) can also be used to link the leaf certificate to the root certificate.
Once a chain of trust has been established, there are two ways for the client to validate the leaf certificate sent by the server. If the parameter sslmode is set to verify-ca, libpq will verify that the server is trustworthy by checking the certificate chain up to the root certificate stored on the client. If sslmode is set to verify-full, libpq will also verify that the server host name matches the name stored in the server certificate. The SSL connection will fail if the server certificate cannot be verified. verify-full is recommended in most security-sensitive environments.
In verify-full mode, the host name is matched against the certificate's Subject Alternative Name attribute(s), or against the Common Name attribute if no Subject Alternative Name of type dNSName is present. If the certificate's name attribute starts with an asterisk (*), the asterisk will be treated as a wildcard, which will match all characters except a dot (.). This means the certificate will not match subdomains. If the connection is made using an IP address instead of a host name, the IP address will be matched (without doing any DNS lookups).
To allow server certificate verification, one or more root certificates must be placed in the file ~/.postgresql/root.crt in the user's home directory. (On Microsoft Windows the file is named %APPDATA%\postgresql\root.crt.) Intermediate certificates should also be added to the file if they are needed to link the certificate chain sent by the server to the root certificates stored on the client.
Certificate Revocation List (CRL) entries are also checked if the file ~/.postgresql/root.crl exists (%APPDATA%\postgresql\root.crl on Microsoft Windows).
The location of the root certificate file and the CRL can be changed by setting the connection parameters sslrootcert and sslcrl or the environment variables PGSSLROOTCERT and PGSSLCRL.
For backwards compatibility with earlier versions of PostgreSQL, if a root CA file exists, the behavior of sslmode=require will be the same as that of verify-ca, meaning the server certificate is validated against the CA. Relying on this behavior is discouraged, and applications that need certificate validation should always use verify-ca or verify-full.
If the server attempts to verify the identity of the client by requesting the client's leaf certificate, libpq will send the certificates stored in file ~/.postgresql/postgresql.crt in the user's home directory. The certificates must chain to the root certificate trusted by the server. A matching private key file ~/.postgresql/postgresql.key must also be present. The private key file must not allow any access to world or group; achieve this by the command chmod 0600 ~/.postgresql/postgresql.key. On Microsoft Windows these files are named %APPDATA%\postgresql\postgresql.crt and %APPDATA%\postgresql\postgresql.key, and there is no special permissions check since the directory is presumed secure. The location of the certificate and key files can be overridden by the connection parameters sslcert and sslkey or the environment variables PGSSLCERT and PGSSLKEY.
The first certificate in postgresql.crt must be the client's certificate because it must match the client's private key. "Intermediate" certificates can be optionally appended to the file — doing so avoids requiring storage of intermediate certificates on the server (ssl_ca_file).
For instructions on creating certificates, see Section 18.9.5.
If a third party can examine the network traffic between the client and the server, it can read both connection information (including the user name and password) and the data that is passed. SSL uses encryption to prevent this.
If a third party can modify the data while passing between the client and server, it can pretend to be the server and therefore see and modify data even if it is encrypted. The third party can then forward the connection information and data to the original server, making it impossible to detect this attack. Common vectors to do this include DNS poisoning and address hijacking, whereby the client is directed to a different server than intended. There are also several other attack methods that can accomplish this. SSL uses certificate verification to prevent this, by authenticating the server to the client.
If a third party can pretend to be an authorized client, it can simply access data it should not have access to. Typically this can happen through insecure password management. SSL uses client certificates to prevent this, by making sure that only holders of valid certificates can access the server.
For a connection to be known secure, SSL usage must be configured on both the client and the server before the connection is made. If it is only configured on the server, the client may end up sending sensitive information (e.g. passwords) before it knows that the server requires high security. In libpq, secure connections can be ensured by setting the sslmode parameter to verify-full or verify-ca, and providing the system with a root certificate to verify against. This is analogous to using an https URL for encrypted web browsing.
Once the server has been authenticated, the client can pass sensitive data. This means that up until this point, the client does not need to know if certificates will be used for authentication, making it safe to specify that only in the server configuration.
All SSL options carry overhead in the form of encryption and key-exchange, so there is a trade-off that has to be made between performance and security. Table 34.1 illustrates the risks the different sslmode values protect against, and what statement they make about security and overhead.
disable No No I don't care about security, and I don't want to pay the overhead of encryption.
allow Maybe No I don't care about security, but I will pay the overhead of encryption if the server insists on it.
prefer Maybe No I don't care about encryption, but I wish to pay the overhead of encryption if the server supports it.
require Yes No I want my data to be encrypted, and I accept the overhead. I trust that the network will make sure I always connect to the server I want.
verify-ca Yes Depends on CA-policy I want my data encrypted, and I accept the overhead. I want to be sure that I connect to a server that I trust.
verify-full Yes Yes I want my data encrypted, and I accept the overhead. I want to be sure that I connect to a server I trust, and that it's the one I specify.
The difference between verify-ca and verify-full depends on the policy of the root CA. If a public CA is used, verify-ca allows connections to a server that somebody else may have registered with the CA. In this case, verify-full should always be used. If a local CA is used, or even a self-signed certificate, using verify-ca often provides enough protection.
The default value for sslmode is prefer. As is shown in the table, this makes no sense from a security point of view, and it only promises performance overhead if possible. It is only provided as the default for backward compatibility, and is not recommended in secure deployments.
Table 34.2 summarizes the files that are relevant to the SSL setup on the client.
If your application initializes libssl and/or libcrypto libraries and libpq is built with SSL support, you should call PQinitOpenSSL to tell libpq that the libssl and/or libcrypto libraries have been initialized by your application, so that libpq will not also initialize those libraries. See http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/doc/83final/ba554_90007/ch04.html for details on the SSL API.
Allows applications to select which security libraries to initialize.
When do_ssl is non-zero, libpq will initialize the OpenSSL library before first opening a database connection. When do_crypto is non-zero, the libcrypto library will be initialized. By default (if PQinitOpenSSL is not called), both libraries are initialized. When SSL support is not compiled in, this function is present but does nothing.
If your application uses and initializes either OpenSSL or its underlying libcrypto library, you must call this function with zeroes for the appropriate parameter(s) before first opening a database connection. Also be sure that you have done that initialization before opening a database connection.
This function is equivalent to PQinitOpenSSL(do_ssl, do_ssl). It is sufficient for applications that initialize both or neither of OpenSSL and libcrypto.
PQinitSSL has been present since PostgreSQL 8.0, while PQinitOpenSSL was added in PostgreSQL 8.4, so PQinitSSL might be preferable for applications that need to work with older versions of libpq.


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Text: Renamed size prop values.
Grid: Grid component, replaced columnAutoFit prop with autoFitWidthMax and autoFitWidthMin props. Replaced gutter prop with gap prop.
Toolbar: Toolbar now doesn't require a targetRef but does require to be wrapped in Placement components. See example.
Button: Buttons - to retain same joined behaviour, add the "joined" prop.