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Q: gRPC authorization approach I work on go grpc service and implementing authorization. Literally, have to allow or forbid access to gprc methods base on JWT claims.
I do JWT parsing on grpc.UnaryServerInterceptor level - extracting claims and populate context with value, unauthenticated if there is no jwt or it is incorrect.
func (s *Server) GetSomething(ctx context.Context, req *GetSomething Request) (*GetSomething Response, error) {
    if hasAccessTo(ctx, req.ID) {
        //some work here
    }
}

func hasAccessTo(ctx context.Context, string id) {
    value := ctx.Value(ctxKey).(MyStruct)
    //some work here

}

So I wonder if there is some common practice for authorization/authentication to avoid boilerplate code in each grpc server method?

A: You can call a to a UnaryInterceptor like so if you want to verify the jwt on every request
// middleware for each rpc request. This function verifies the client has the correct "jwt".
func authInterceptor(ctx context.Context, req interface{}, _ *grpc.UnaryServerInfo, handler grpc.UnaryHandler) (interface{}, error) {
    meta, ok := metadata.FromIncomingContext(ctx)
    if !ok {
        return nil, status.Error(codes.Unauthenticated, "INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR")
    }
    if len(meta["jwt"]) != 1 {
        return nil, status.Error(codes.Unauthenticated, "INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR")
    }

    // if code here to verify jwt is correct. if not return nil and error by accessing meta["jwt"][0]

    return handler(ctx, req) // go to function.
}

In your context from the client use the metadata to pass the jwt string and verify.
In Your main function remember to register it like so
// register server
myService := grpc.NewServer(
    grpc.UnaryInterceptor(authInterceptor), // use auth interceptor middleware
)
pb.RegisterTheServiceServer(myService, &s)
reflection.Register(myService)

Your client would need to call your server like this:
// create context with token and timeout
ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(metadata.NewOutgoingContext(context.Background(), metadata.New(map[string]string{"jwt": "myjwtstring"})), time.Second*1)
defer cancel()

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Huehuecuetzpalli mixtecus — вимерлий ящір ранньокрейдового періоду (зокрема від середнього до пізнього аптського етапу) формації Тлаюа в Тепексі-де-Родрігес, Центральна Мексика. Хоча це не найстаріша з відомих ящірок, Huehuecuetzpalli може бути одним із найосновніших представників Squamata, що робить його важливим таксоном для розуміння походження Squamata.

Родова назва походить від науатльських слів huehuetl («стародавній») і cuetzpalli («ящірка»), тоді як видова назва стосується регіону Ла Мікстека.

Опис
Унікальні характеристики (автапоморфії) Huehuecuetzpalli включають довгу пару передщелепних кісток на кінчику верхньої щелепи, що сприяє подовженій морді та очевидному втягненню зовнішніх носових або ніздрів. У верхній частині черепа невеликий округлий задній відділ і отвір, який називається тім'яним отвором між з'єднанням лобової та тім'яної кісток (лобно-тім'яний шов), припускають спорідненість з ігуанами, але збереження розділених передщелепних, амфікоельних хребців (хребців). увігнуті з обох кінців), міжцентрові грудо-поперекові (кістки між хребцями спини), ентепікондилярний отвір у плечовій кістці (верхня кістка плеча) та друга дистальна кістка плесна в стопі підтверджує гіпотезу про те, що Huehuecuetzpalli є базальною Squamata. Дослідження 2021 року показало, що Huehuecuetzpalli був двоногим.

Таксономія
Було припущено, що Huehuecuetzpalli є чи базальним Squamata (показано нижче на кладограмі) чи ігуаноморфом'':

Примітки

Фауна крейдяного періоду

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What sport is India known for?
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What is the correct definition for recovery heart rate
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What is another name for non-traditional sports
Q: What sport is India known for?
What sport is India most known for?
Which is the famous sport of India?
i think the most famous sport in India is cricket
What is the most played sport in India?
the most played sport in India is........ CRICKET!!!!!
Is India's main sport something to do with gymnastics?
India's main sport is cricket.
What is India is sport?
india'sFav sport is Cricket
Is India's most played sport hockey?
No, the most played sport as well as the most popular sport in India is Cricket.
Is kabbadi the national sport of India?
Yes, Kabbadi is the national sport of India, I do not understand how you have mentioned field hockey as the national sport
What sport is Italy known for?
The sport Italy is known for is Soccer
What is India's national sport?
India has no official national sport according to the ministry of sports. However, as noted by Wikipedia, the de facto (unofficial) national sport is Field Hockey.
What is the Indias national sport?
The India's national sport is cricket.
What sport did India invent?
India invented chess. It was for kings.
What is India's official sport?
It is assumed to be Field hockey. Most popular is cricket. The truth is, India has no national sport.
Is cricket the national sport of India?
No, Sport in India includes cricket, chess, badminton, field hockey, lawn tennis, football, golf. Though field hockey is the national sport of India, cricket is the most popular sport in the country.
What is the natinal sport of India?
Which is the national sport of India?
the answer is hockey
Which sport originated in India?
CHESS:)
What is a favorite sport in India?
What is the official sport in India?
What is India's favorite sport?
Cricket is.
Which is national sport of India?
What is the oldest sport in India?
Wrestling.
The national sport of India is?
Kabbadi
What is India's most popular sport?
cricket is most popular sport
What is the Great Khali most known for?
The Great Khali is known for being a WWE wrestler. He is one of the biggest wrestlers to ever play the sport. He is originally from India. Before becoming a professional wrestler, he was a police officer in his native India.
What sport is also known as the sport of kings?
The sport of horse racing.
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Order a coffee without opening your mouth, with one hand and without having to hold a device like a smartphone in your hands; the experience developed by a Quebec artificial intelligence company did not go unnoticed at South by Southwest (SXSW).
After almost three months of work, Stradigi AI is here to demonstrate the progress of its system to facilitate communication for hearing-impaired people at this technology and innovation festival in Austin, Texas. or become deaf.
The goal is simple: to show that there are not really any limits to trading, even when it's time to place an order.
The algorithm developed by Stradigi AI, which is in a computer, allows to interpret the movements of sign language and, conversely, precisely explains to anyone how to be understood in this language.
In just a few days, the interactive café, where it is impossible to be served verbally, has served over 1500 hot drinks, according to Mr. Thibault. The company is clearly visible at SXSW, as the location is in one of the main hotels where many conferences are held where the theme of artificial intelligence is on the menu.
In addition, Stradigi AI says it has had discussions with the University of Texas, which is interested in this technology, since according to the latest data from the State Department of Health and Social Services, which date from 2005, there are more than 3.8 million people who are hard of hearing or deafened in the state.
In the fall, the American coffee giant had also opened a first establishment, in the Washington area, where we communicated with the American language signs, thanks to various technological tools.
Mr. Thibault also indicated that we should be able to test this technology in Quebec soon in the premises of Lune Rouge, since Stradigi AI will be part of this new initiative deployed by the founder of Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberté.
This interactive café is a business card for the Quebec company that has existed since 2005 and is present in several sectors, such as customer-specific recommendation systems, anomaly detection and image interpretation – especially in the field of sports, where she joined the German leAD, founded by the grandsons of the founder of the brand Adidas.
Stradigi AI currently has nearly 115 employees in Montreal and six others in Toronto, but its workforce is expected to grow rapidly.
The Quebec company was not the only representative of the artificial intelligence sector at SXSW. Other players in the sector – Workland, the Front Row Ventures venture capital fund and District 3 Innovation Center, a startup accelerator – participated in a roundtable organized by the Quebec delegation to celebrate the merits of Montreal as a place of development.
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Precious Ezinna Achiuwa (* 19. September 1999 in Port Harcourt) ist ein nigerianischer Basketballspieler.

Laufbahn
Der in der nigerianischen Millionenstadt Port Harcourt geborene Achiuwa spielte als Jugendlicher in seinem Heimatland Fußball und wie sein älterer Bruder God'sgift Basketball. Sein Bruder ging in die Vereinigten Staaten, um dort Basketball auf Hochschulniveau zu spielen. Precious Achiuwa machte ebenfalls den Schritt in die USA, spielte als Schüler an der St. Benedict's Preparatory School in Newark (Bundesstaat New Jersey) und ab 2018 an der Montverde Academy in Florida.

Zur Saison 2019/20 wechselte der auf beiden Flügelpositionen und bei einer kleinen Aufstellung auch als Innenspieler einsetzbare Nigerianer an die University of Memphis. Achiuwa wurde als bester Spieler der Saison in der American Athletic Conference ausgezeichnet, nachdem er je Einsatz im Durchschnitt 15,8 Punkte und 10,8 Rebounds erzielt hatte. Er verließ die Hochschule nach einem Jahr, um seine Laufbahn im Profigeschäft fortzuführen und schrieb sich zur Teilnahme am Draftverfahren der NBA im November 2020 ein. Dabei wurde er an 20. Stelle von den Miami Heat ausgewählt. In 61 Spielen der Saison 2020/21 erzielte er im Schnitt 5 Punkte und 3,4 Rebounds. Im Sommer 2021 kam er gemeinsam mit seinem Mannschaftskollegen Goran Dragić zu den Toronto Raptors, die im Gegenzug Kyle Lowry an Miami abgaben.

Nationalmannschaft
Achiuwa nahm mit der nigerianischen Nationalmannschaft an den 2021 ausgetragenen Olympischen Spielen 2020 teil und erzielte in drei Turnierspielen im Durchschnitt 8 Punkte sowie 4,7 Rebounds.

Statistiken

NBA

Reguläre Saison

Play-offs

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Olympiateilnehmer (Nigeria)
Teilnehmer der Olympischen Sommerspiele 2020
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Cambodia Population: 15,957,223
Most Cambodians consider themselves to be Khmers, descendants of the Angkor Empire that extended over much of Southeast Asia and reached its zenith between the 10th and 13th centuries. Attacks by the Thai and Cham (from present-day Vietnam) weakened the empire, ushering in a long period of decline. The king placed the country under French protection in 1863, and it became part of French Indochina in 1887. Following Japanese occupation in World War II, Cambodia gained full independence from France in 1953. In April 1975, after a seven-year struggle, communist Khmer Rouge forces captured Phnom Penh and evacuated all cities and towns. At least 1.5 million Cambodians died from execution, forced hardships, or starvation during the Khmer Rouge regime under POL POT. A December 1978 Vietnamese invasion drove the Khmer Rouge into the countryside, began a 10-year Vietnamese occupation, and touched off almost 13 years of civil war. The 1991 Paris Peace Accords mandated democratic elections and a cease-fire, which was not fully respected by the Khmer Rouge. UN-sponsored elections in 1993 helped restore some semblance of normalcy under a coalition government. Factional fighting in 1997 ended the first coalition government, but a second round of national elections in 1998 led to the formation of another coalition government and renewed political stability. The remaining elements of the Khmer Rouge surrendered in early 1999. Some of the surviving Khmer Rouge leaders have been tried or are awaiting trial for crimes against humanity by a hybrid UN-Cambodian tribunal supported by international assistance. Elections in July 2003 were relatively peaceful, but it took one year of negotiations between contending political parties before a coalition government was formed. In October 2004, King Norodom SIHANOUK abdicated the throne and his son, Prince Norodom SIHAMONI, was selected to succeed him. The most recent local (Commune Council) elections were held in Cambodia in 2012, with little of the preelection violence that preceded prior elections. National elections in July 2013 were disputed, with the opposition - the Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) - boycotting the National Assembly. The political impasse was ended nearly a year later, with the CNRP agreeing to enter parliament in exchange for ruling party commitments to electoral and legislative reforms.
A land of paddies and forests dominated by the Mekong River and Tonle Sap (Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake)
Location: Southeastern Asia, bordering the Gulf of Thailand, between Thailand, Vietnam, and Laos
Geographic coordinates: 13 00 N, 105 00 E
water: 4,520 sq km
Size comparison: slightly smaller than Oklahoma
Land Boundaries: total: 2,530 km border countries (3): Laos 555 km, Thailand 817 km, Vietnam 1,158 km
Coastline: 443 km
Climate: tropical; rainy, monsoon season (May to November); dry season (December to April); little seasonal temperature variation
Terrain: mostly low, flat plains; mountains in southwest and north
Natural resources: oil and gas, timber, gemstones, iron ore, manganese, phosphates, hydropower potential, arable land
Land use: agricultural land: 32.1% arable land 22.7%; permanent crops 0.9%; permanent pasture 8.5% forest: 56.5%
Irrigated land: 3,540 sq km (2012)
Natural hazards: monsoonal rains (June to November); flooding; occasional droughts
Current Environment Issues: illegal logging activities throughout the country and strip mining for gems in the western region along the border with Thailand have resulted in habitat loss and declining biodiversity (in particular, destruction of mangrove swamps threatens natural fisheries); soil erosion; in rural areas, most of the population does not have access to potable water; declining fish stocks because of illegal fishing and overfishing
International Environment Agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: Law of the Sea
Nationality: noun: Cambodian(s)
adjective: Cambodian
Ethnic groups: Khmer 97.6%, Cham 1.2%, Chinese 0.1%, Vietnamese 0.1%, other 0.9% (2013 est.)
Languages: Khmer (official) 96.3%, other 3.7% (2008 est.)
Religions: Buddhist (official) 96.9%, Muslim 1.9%, Christian 0.4%, other 0.8% (2008 est.)
Population: 15,957,223 note: estimates for this country take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2016 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 31.24% (male 2,515,435/female 2,468,855)
55-64 years: 5.43% (male 342,063/female 524,114)
65 years and over: 4.14% (male 248,454/female 412,804) (2016 est.)
elderly dependency ratio: 6.4%
potential support ratio: 15.6% (2015 est.)
Net migration rate: -0.3 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.)
Major urban areas - population: PHNOM PENH (capital) 1.731 million (2015)
65 years and over: 0.6 male(s)/female
Mother's mean age at first birth: 22.9 note: median age at first birth among women 25-29 (2014 est.)
Maternal mortality rate: 161 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
Infant mortality rate: total: 48.7 deaths/1,000 live births male: 55.2 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 41.9 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.)
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 64.5 years male: 62 years
Contraceptive prevalence rate: 50.5% (2010/11)
total: 24.5% of population (2015 est.)
urban: 88.1% of population
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 74,100 (2015 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 2,000 (2015 est.)
Obesity - adult prevalence rate: 2.9% (2014)
Children under the age of 5 years underweight: 23.9% (2014)
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 77.2%
male: 84.5%
female: 70.5% (2015 est.)
female: 0.4% note: according to official statistics (2010 est.)
Country name: conventional long form: Kingdom of Cambodia
conventional short form: Cambodia
local long form: Preahreacheanachakr Kampuchea (phonetic transliteration)
local short form: Kampuchea Kampuchea
former: Khmer Republic, Democratic Kampuchea, People's Republic of Kampuchea, State of Cambodia
etymology: the English name Cambodia is an anglicization of the French Cambodge, which is the French transliteration of the native name Kampuchea
Capital: name: Phnom Penh
time difference: UTC+7 (12 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
Administrative divisions: 24 provinces (khett, singular and plural) and 1 municipality (krong, singular and plural) provinces: Banteay Meanchey, Battambang, Kampong Cham, Kampong Chhnang, Kampong Speu, Kampong Thom, Kampot, Kandal, Kep, Koh Kong, Kratie, Mondolkiri, Oddar Meanchey, Pailin, Preah Vihear, Prey Veng, Pursat, Ratanakiri, Siem Reap, Sihanoukville, Stung Treng, Svay Rieng, Takeo, Tbong Khmum municipalities: Phnom Penh (Phnum Penh)
Independence: 9 November 1953 (from France)
National holiday: Independence Day, 9 November (1953)
Constitution: previous 1947; latest promulgated 21 September 1993; amended 1999, 2008, 2014 (2016)
Legal system: civil law system (influenced by the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia) customary law, Communist legal theory, and common law
Executive branch: chief of state: King Norodom SIHAMONI (since 29 October 2004)
head of government: Prime Minister HUN SEN (since 14 January 1985); Permanent Deputy Prime Minister MEN SAM AN (since 25 September 2008); Deputy Prime Ministers SAR KHENG (since 3 February 1992), SOK AN, TEA BANH, HOR NAMHONG (all since 16 July 2004), BIN CHHIN (since 5 September 2007), KEAT CHHON, YIM CHHAI LY (since 24 September 2008), KE KIMYAN (since 12 March 2009)
cabinet: Council of Ministers named by the prime minister and appointed by the monarch elections/appointments: monarch chosen by the 9-member, Royal Council of the Throne from among all eligible males of royal descent; following legislative elections, a member of the majority party or majority coalition named prime minister by the Chairman of the National Assembly and appointed by the monarch
Legislative branch: description: bicameral Parliament of Cambodia consists of the Senate (61 seats; 57 indirectly elected by parliamentarians and commune councils, 2 indirectly elected by the National Assembly, and 2 appointed by the monarch; members serve 6-year terms) and the National Assembly (123 seats; members directly elected in multi-seat constituencies by proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms) note: two seats will be added to the National Assembly in 2018, for a total of 125
elections: Senate - last held on 4 February 2012 (next to be held in 2018); National Assembly - last held on 28 July 2013 (next to be held in July 2018)
election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - CPP 77.8%, SRP 22.2%; seats by party - CPP 46, SRP 11; National Assembly - percent of vote by party - CPP 48.8%, CNRP 44.5%, other 6.7%; seats by party - CPP 68, CNRP 55
Judicial branch: highest court(s): Supreme Council (organized into 5- and 9-judge panels and includes a court chief and deputy chief); Constitutional Court (consists of 9 members); note - in 1997, the Cambodian Government requested UN assistance in establishing trials to prosecute former Khmer Rouge senior leaders for crimes against humanity committed during the 1975-1979 Khmer Rouge regime; the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts in Cambodia (also called the Khmer Rouge Tribunal) were established and began hearings for the first case in 2009; court proceeding were ongoing in 2016 judge selection and term of office: Supreme Court and Constitutional Council judge candidates recommended by the Supreme Council of Magistracy, a 17-member body chaired by the monarch and includes other high-level judicial officers; judges of both courts appointed by the monarch; Supreme Court judges appointed for life; Constitutional Council judges appointed for 9-year terms with one-third of the court renewed every 3 years
subordinate courts: Appellate Court; provincial and municipal courts; Military Court
Political parties and leaders: Cambodian National Rescue Party or CNRP [SAM RANGSI, also spelled SAM RAINSY] (a July 2012 merger between the Sam Rangsi Party or SRP and the former Human Rights Party or HRP [KHEM SOKHA, also spelled KEM SOKHA]) Cambodian People's Party or CPP [HUN SEN]
Political pressure groups and leaders: Partnership for Transparency Fund or PTF (anti-corruption organization) Students Movement for Democracy The Committee for Free and Fair Elections or Comfrel other: human rights organizations; labor unions; youth groups
International organization participation: ADB, ARF, ASEAN, CICA, CICA (observer), EAS, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITU, MINUSMA, MIGA, NAM, OIF, OPCW, PCA, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNISFA, UNMISS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
National symbol(s): Angkor Wat temple, kouprey (wild ox); national colors: red, blue
National anthem: name: "Nokoreach" (Royal Kingdom)
lyrics/music: CHUON NAT/F. PERRUCHOT and J. JEKYLL
note: adopted 1941, restored 1993; the anthem, based on a Cambodian folk tune, was restored after the defeat of the Communist regime
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador CHUM BUN RONG (since 3 August 2015)
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador William A. HEIDT (since 2 December 2015)
embassy:
mailing address: Unit 8166, Box P, APO AP 96546
telephone: [855] (23) 728-000
FAX: [855] (23) 728-600
Cambodia has experienced strong economic growth over the last decade; GDP grew at an average annual rate of over 8% between 2000 and 2010 and at least 7% since 2011. The tourism, garment, construction and real estate, and agriculture sectors accounted for the bulk of growth. Around 600,000 people, the majority of whom are women, are employed in the garment and footwear sector. An additional 500,000 Cambodians are employed in the tourism sector, and a further 50,000 people in construction. Tourism has continued to grow rapidly with foreign arrivals exceeding 2 million per year since 2007 and reaching around 4.5 million visitors in 2014. Mining also is attracting some investor interest and the government has touted opportunities for mining bauxite, gold, iron and gems. Cambodia remains one of the poorest countries in Asia and long-term economic development remains a daunting challenge, inhibited by endemic corruption, limited human resources, high income inequality, and poor job prospects. As of 2012, approximately 2.66 million people live on less than $1.20 per day, and 37% of Cambodian children under the age of 5 suffer from chronic malnutrition. More than 50% of the population is less than 25 years old. The population lacks education and productive skills, particularly in the impoverished countryside, which also lacks basic infrastructure. The Cambodian Government has been working with bilateral and multilateral donors, including the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank and IMF, to address the country's many pressing needs; more than 30% of the government budget comes from donor assistance. A major economic challenge for Cambodia over the next decade will be fashioning an economic environment in which the private sector can create enough jobs to handle Cambodia's demographic imbalance.
GDP (purchasing power parity): GDP (purchasing power parity): $58.94 billion (2016 est.) $55.09 billion (2015 est.) $51.47 billion (2014 est.)
GDP (official exchange rate): GDP (official exchange rate): $19.37 billion (2015 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 7% (2016 est.) 7% (2015 est.) 7.1% (2014 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP): GDP - per capita (PPP): $3,700 (2016 est.) $3,500 (2015 est.) $3,400 (2014 est.)
GDP - composition, by end use: household consumption: 78.5%
government consumption: 5.4%
investment in fixed capital: 21%
GDP - composition, by sector of origin: household consumption: 78.5%
Agriculture - products: rice, rubber, corn, vegetables, cashews, cassava (manioc, tapioca), silk
Industries: tourism, garments, construction, rice milling, fishing, wood and wood products, rubber, cement, gem mining, textiles
Industrial production growth rate: 8.3% (2016 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 48.7%
services: 31.5% (2013 est.)
Unemployment rate: 0.3% (2013 est.) 0.2% (2012 est.) note: according to official statistics; underemployment is high
Population below poverty line: 17.7% (2012 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2%
highest 10%: 28% (2013 est.)
Distribution of family income - Gini index: 37.9 (2008 est.) 41.9 (2004 est.)
Budget: revenues: $3.388 billion
expenditures: $3.562 billion (2016 est.)
Current account balance: -$1.969 billion (2016 est.) -$1.889 billion (2015 est.)
Exports: $8.762 billion (2016 est.) $8.453 billion (2015 est.)
Exports - commodities: clothing, timber, rubber, rice, fish, tobacco, footwear
Exports - partners: US 23.1%, UK 8.8%, Germany 8.2%, Japan 7.4%, Canada 6.7%, China 5.1%, Vietnam 5%, Thailand 4.9%, Netherlands 4.1% (2015)
Imports - commodities: petroleum products, cigarettes, gold, construction materials, machinery, motor vehicles, pharmaceutical products
Imports - partners: Thailand 28.7%, China 22.2%, Vietnam 16.4%, Hong Kong 6.1%, Singapore 5.7% (2015)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $8.477 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $7.376 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Debt - external: $8.46 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $7.483 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: $29.17 billion (2014 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares: $NA
Exchange rates: riels (KHR) per US dollar - 4,066 (2016 est.) 4,067.8 (2015 est.) 4,067.8 (2014 est.) 4,037.5 (2013 est.) 4,033 (2012 est.)
Electricity - production: 3 billion kWh (2014 est.)
Electricity - consumption: 4.1 billion kWh (2014 est.)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2013 est.)
Electricity - installed generating capacity: 1.4 million kW (2014 est.)
Electricity - from fossil fuels: 32.7% of total installed capacity (2013 est.)
Electricity - from other renewable sources: 10% of total installed capacity (2013 est.)
Crude oil - production: 0 bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - exports: 0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
Crude oil - imports: 0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
Crude oil - proved reserves: 0 bbl (1 January 2016 es)
Refined petroleum products - production: 0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
Refined petroleum products - consumption: 36,000 bbl/day (2014 est.)
Refined petroleum products - exports: 0 bbl/day (2013 est.)
Natural gas - production: 0 cu m (2013 est.)
Natural gas - consumption: 0 cu m (2013 est.)
Natural gas - exports: 0 cu m (2013 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves: 0 cu m (1 January 2014 es)
Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy: 6.5 million Mt (2013 est.)
Cellular Phones in use: total: 20.851 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 133 (July 2015 est.)
Telephone system: general assessment: adequate fixed-line and/or cellular service in Phnom Penh and other provincial cities; mobile-cellular phone systems are widely used in urban areas to bypass deficiencies in the fixed-line network; mobile-phone coverage is rapidly expanding in rural areas
domestic: fixed-line connections stand at about 2 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular usage, aided by competition among service providers, has increased to over 130 per 100 persons
international: country code - 855; adequate but expensive landline and cellular service available to all countries from Phnom Penh and major provincial cities; satellite earth station - 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region) (2015)
Broadcast media: mixture of state-owned, joint public-private, and privately owned broadcast media; 9 TV broadcast stations with most operating on multiple channels, including 1 state-operated station broadcasting from multiple locations, 6 stations either jointly operate (2009)
Internet country code: .kh
Internet users: total: 2.985 million percent of population: 19% (July 2015 est.)
914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2013)
Railways: total 642 km
narrow gauge: 642 km 1.000-m gauge
note: under restoration (2014)
paved: 3,607 km
Waterways: 3,700 km (mainly on Mekong River) (2012)
by type: bulk carrier 38, cargo 459, carrier 7, chemical tanker 4, container 4, liquefied gas 1, passenger 1, passenger/cargo 6, petroleum tanker 8, refrigerated cargo 11, roll on/roll off 4, vehicle carrier 1
foreign-owned: 352 (Belgium 1, Canada 2, China 177, Cyprus 4, Egypt 4, Estonia 1, French Polynesia 1, Gabon 1, Greece 2, Hong Kong 10, Indonesia 2, Ireland 1, Japan 1, Lebanon 5, Russia 50, Singapore 3, South Korea 10, Syria 22, Taiwan 1, Turkey 15, UAE 2, UK 1, Ukraine 35, (2010)
Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Sihanoukville (Kampong Saom)
river port(s): Phnom Penh (Mekong)
Military branches: Royal Cambodian Armed Forces: Royal Cambodian Army, Royal Khmer Navy, Royal Cambodian Air Force; the Royal Cambodian Gendarmerie is the military police force responsible for internal security; the National Committee for Maritime Security performs Coast Guard functions and has representation from military and civilian agencies (2016)
Military service age and obligation: 18 is the legal minimum age for compulsory and voluntary military service (2012)
Military expenditures: 2% of GDP (2015 est.) 1.8% of GDP (2014) 1.58% of GDP (2013) 1.54% of GDP (2012) 1.5% of GDP (2011)
Disputes - International: Cambodia is concerned about Laos' extensive upstream dam construction; Cambodia and Thailand dispute sections of boundary; in 2011 Thailand and Cambodia resorted to arms in the dispute over the location of the boundary on the precipice surmounted by Preah Vihear Temple ruins, awarded to Cambodia by ICJ decision in 1962 and part of a UN World Heritage site; Cambodia accuses Vietnam of a wide variety of illicit cross-border activities; progress on a joint development area with Vietnam is hampered by an unresolved dispute over sovereignty of offshore islands
Illicit drugs: narcotics-related corruption reportedly involving some in the government, military, and police; limited methamphetamine production; vulnerable to money laundering due to its cash-based economy and porous borders
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The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) regulates the use of nuclear energy and materials to protect the health, safety and security of Canadians and the environment, and to respect Canada's international commitments on the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
The licensees are responsible for ensuring that their nuclear facilities and activities are designed, constructed, operated, decommissioned and abandoned in a manner that protects health, safety, security and the environment, while respecting Canada's international obligations. This responsibility includes making appropriate plans, as part of corporate business planning, for the termination of licensed activities, including the termination of operations, the short- and long-term management of radioactive waste, and the disposition of all nuclear substances and prescribed equipment.
A financial guarantee is a tangible commitment by a licensee that funds will be available to safely terminate activities and to leave a licensed site or activity in a safe state whether the termination is planned or unplanned. The CNSC has required financial guarantees of major nuclear facilities for many years. Currently, all Class I nuclear facilities and all uranium mines and mills have financial guarantees in place to cover the costs of terminating their licensed activities.
The CNSC has determined that the use of financial guarantees should be expanded, with few exceptions, to all licensees. Through expansion of the program, the CNSC is not imposing a new financial burden on licensees. Rather, the CNSC is ensuring that licensees take into consideration the end-of-life activities associated with termination of their licensed activities and that they set aside sufficient funds to cover the associated costs. The nature of the end-of-life activities and the degree of planning for those activities would be risk-informed – that is, they would be commensurate with the potential risk to the environment and to the health and safety of persons.
This discussion paper is intended to facilitate discussion with licensees and stakeholders on implementing the expanded use of financial guarantees, by providing information on the CNSC's financial guarantees program and on the plans to expand it to cover the use of nuclear substances in industry, academia and medicine. The CNSC is seeking feedback on the implementation of its plans for expanding this program.
Following the consultation process, CNSC staff will consider improvements to the implementation proposal and submit recommendations to the Commission Tribunal for consideration at its April 2012 public hearing. A final decision by the Commission Tribunal will follow. Affected licensees will be provided an opportunity to be heard, in accordance with the provisions of the Nuclear Safety and Control Act and the CNSC Rules of Procedures.
The CNSC will be contacting licensees and stakeholders shortly to arrange consultation sessions and to provide information on the proposed implementation of the expansion of the financial guarantees program.
The Nuclear Safety and Control Act (NSCA), promulgated in 2000, gives the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) authority to require licensees to provide financial guarantees in a form that is acceptable to the CNSC. Through this legislation, the Canadian government has determined that licensees should be required to meet their regulatory obligations at all times, including the safe restoration of their licensed activities and the disposal of any remaining nuclear substances.
The use of a financial guarantee is broadly stated in the NSCA and may cover all licences and conditions imposed by the CNSC in a licence. In this regard, subsection 24(5) of the NSCA states that the licence may include a condition that the applicant provides a financial guarantee in a form that is acceptable to the CNSC.
In general, CNSC staff have regarded financial guarantees as a means of ensuring that the licensee will have sufficient funds available to ensure the completion of activities required to remediate the licensed location, including decommissioning costs and the costs associated with the disposal of any associated nuclear substances.
The application of financial guarantees is consistent with the purpose of the NSCA, as specified in section 3 of the NSCA, to prevent unreasonable risk to the health and safety of persons and to the environment – risks that are associated with a licensee who is unable to complete termination of the licensed activity.
Since 2000, the CNSC has implemented financial guarantees for all major nuclear facilities and uranium mines and mills across Canada. The financial guarantees have been considered by the Commission Tribunal and are included as part of the licensing basis for each applicable nuclear facility, mine or mill. This includes research reactors and waste management facilities situated on university campuses.
For the remaining facilities and activities licensed by the CNSC that do not currently have financial guarantees in place, the CNSC has determined that, with few exceptions, the financial guarantees will be extended, so that all of the approximately 2,500 CNSC licensees will be required to implement financial guarantees. This would include licences for the use of nuclear substances and prescribed equipment in medical, industrial, and academic applications.
This document outlines the financial guarantees policy of the CNSC in respect of all licences issued by the Commission Tribunal or a person acting on its behalf, unless otherwise directed by the Commission Tribunal.
This document is intended to facilitate discussion with licensees during the consultation period that will be conducted to discuss implementing the financial guarantees policy. Licensees and other stakeholders can use this document to focus discussion for ensuring the smooth implementation of this policy. Following the consultation process, CNSC staff will consider the comments and suggestions received to improve the implementation of the policy.
It is the policy of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) that a financial guarantee be required of licensees for all facilities and activities licensed by the CNSC, unless in the opinion of the Commission Tribunal a financial guarantee is not required.
Through the implementation of this policy, CNSC staff will broaden the scope for the requirement of financial guarantees to cover, with few exceptions, all other sites and activities licensed by the CNSC in addition to those nuclear facilities that already have financial guarantees in place. The CNSC will ensure that there are sufficient financial provisions in place for licensees who are expected to incur end-of-life costs for the safe remediation of their licensed locations and the safe disposal of any remaining nuclear substances on their sites.
The intention of implementing this policy is to ensure that the CNSC – and by extension the public – is protected from significant costs following the termination of a licensed activity by any licensee.
This policy will not be used for the purposes of additional cost recovery by the CNSC. Any surplus monies or other securities that remain, following the termination of licensed activities to the satisfaction of the CNSC, must be returned to the former licensee or person acting on their behalf, as required in accordance with subsection 24(7) of the NSCA. However, no interest will be paid by the CNSC on any monies or other securities segregated or otherwise set aside by the licensee to meet the requirements of a financial guarantee.
Financial guarantees are needed for those CNSC licensees who could have significant costs associated with the termination of the licence. This includes costs for the transfer or disposal of any nuclear substances and prescribed equipment and CNSC staff costs associated with licence termination activities (for example, compliance verification by CNSC staff of site remediation and disposal of nuclear substances, final radiation survey by CNSC staff of the remediated location, processing of licence revocation).
In all of these cases, the licensee does not normally possess any nuclear substance or prescribed equipment at the site of the licensed activity. Therefore, CNSC staff would recommend to the Commission Tribunal that a financial guarantee is not required for these licences.
However, if the licensee holds another CNSC licence for a different licensed activity involving nuclear substances or prescribed equipment, then a financial guarantee would apply to that other licence. For example, a person would not be required to provide a financial guarantee for licensed dosimetry services, but if the same person was also licensed to provide calibration services, a financial guarantee would apply to the calibration services licence.
CNSC staff evaluated the operational, commercial and financial risks associated with licensed activities and facilities to determine the a priori risk of each licence "use-type" (that is, purpose for which the licence is issued) with respect to the need for a financial guarantee. Operational risks were evaluated for the potential effects on health and safety, the environment and the mobility of the nuclear substances. Commercial risks were assessed according to the use-type for nuclear substances and prescribed equipment, the size of the licensee's operations, the history of bankruptcies for different use-types and whether the licensee is a public or private entity. Financial risks were evaluated by examining the costs associated with clean-up and disposal against the likelihood of a licensee having the resources to complete the remediation.
Through the evaluation of these three key risk areas above, CNSC staff have determined that private companies using sealed sources or radiation devices represent the highest overall risk.
The high-risk group comprises licensees conducting industrial radiography, licensees conducting radiation device servicing operations and those licensees who operate either fixed or portable nuclear gauges. Collectively, these use-types (radiography, servicing, and fixed and portable gauges) represent approximately 43% of all licences not currently covered by financial guarantees. CNSC licences for these use-types are generally issued to private companies that have sealed sources in radiation devices in either fixed or mobile configurations. Many are small companies or single locations of use.
The medium-risk group is mainly composed of large institutional users of nuclear substances and prescribed equipment in medical and academic settings. Licensees represented in this group are generally hospitals, medical clinics, universities and government departments. Most of the licensees at this risk level are public institutions which are backed by either a municipal, provincial/territorial government or the federal government. These users may have complex uses of open source nuclear substances. However, the public institutions have been in place for a long time and it is very unlikely that they will be unable to meet the financial obligations associated with termination of the licensed activities. In most cases, the use of nuclear substances and prescribed equipment is a small part of the overall service provided by the institution. For example, the diagnostic nuclear medicine clinic in a hospital represents only a small part of the services provided in that institution, even for larger regional centres. These institutions, then, represent a lower financial risk given the governmental backing and the nature of the use. This medium-risk group represents approximately 33% of the CNSC licences not currently covered by financial guarantees.
The low-risk group consists of small companies and sole proprietorships that use predominantly low-risk nuclear substances and prescribed equipment, such as in the case of x-ray analyzers which contain only a small amount of nuclear substances for metal identification. This group represents approximately 24% of the CNSC licences not currently covered by financial guarantees. While this group also uses nuclear substances in mobile radiation devices, the quantities involved are very small and pose a low radiological risk. This reduced radiological risk is also reflected in the approach used for licensing and compliance of this low-risk group, with fewer on-site compliance inspections and annual reporting of activities by the licensees.
Due to the number of licensees (approximately 2,500) and their varying degrees of operational complexity, it would be resource-intensive for the CNSC to review and assess a financial guarantee from each licensee. Therefore, a more practical implementation of financial guarantees has been considered, based on the method used to assess cost-recovery fees1, with which applicants and licensees are very familiar.
Based on consultations with contractors who provide remediation services, CNSC staff have determined the maximum expenditure required for the remediation of a laboratory or room where nuclear substances are used or stored to be $4,000. For the disposal of sealed sources and radiation devices, the maximum cost has been determined to be $3,000 per unit, including all costs for interim storage and final disposal.
These numbers will be based on the maximum anticipated numbers of each laboratory, room, sealed source and radiation device that each licensee expects to have in possession at any point during the year.
A fixed administrative fee, currently determined to be $10,000 by the CNSC, is also to be applied to all licensees required to have a financial guarantee. This fee is intended to cover the administrative costs incurred by the CNSC in conducting compliance verification activities during site restoration (including final radiation survey and ensuring that any remaining nuclear substances have been disposed of safely or transferred to another authorized licensee), and other costs associated with the licence termination (for example, licence revocation). This amount of $10,000 is based on the average annual licensing fee, as per the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Cost Recovery Fees Regulations, (CRF Regs), and accounts for the time, effort and expenses that staff would incur in conducting compliance verification and licence termination activities, including any legal proceedings associated with federal court orders.
The provision of this fee will have to be implemented in the same manner as the overall financial guarantee and is simply added to the estimated value obtained above to arrive at the total financial guarantee required by a licensee.
1 Cost recovery fees are set out in the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Cost Recovery Fees Regulations, SOR/2003-212.
Within this financial guarantees framework and in accordance with international practice, CNSC staff have determined that a threshold value could be established, below which the actual requirement to provide a financial guarantee would not be required in the form of a specific fund.
This threshold value is determined according to the administrative costs associated with managing a large number of financial guarantees versus the costs relieved by having the financial guarantees in place. At some point, the administrative costs outweigh the potential financial risk associated with the licensed activity.
The CNSC has estimated the threshold value could be set at $75,000. Below this value, licensees would only have to acknowledge their financial obligations and assure the CNSC that sufficient funds would be available, if needed, to fund site remediation activities. Licensees requiring a financial guarantee in excess of the threshold value would have to provide the funds, in an acceptable form, to the CNSC. The acceptable form of a financial guarantee would be based on the established principles of liquidity, certainty of value, adequacy of value and continuity of value, as already provided in CNSC regulatory guide G-206, Financial Guarantees for the Decommissioning of Licensed Activities.
A financial guarantee is intended to ensure that funds are available for timely site remediation, decommissioning, and licence termination activities, in the event that the original licensee is unable to pay for these costs. In accordance with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Cost Recovery Fees Regulations, the CNSC recognizes that the financial risk is different with government-based, non-profit or other public institutions, because they are likely to be able to pay a significant portion, if not all, of the costs. In those cases where all costs can be paid, section 2 of the CRF Regs exempts these institutions from licensing fees, and the same principle may be considered regarding the application of a financial guarantee. However, the CNSC proposes that a financial guarantee be required for all nuclear facilities located at public institutions where the cost of the safe remediation of the nuclear facility exceeds $500,000. To ensure transparency of process, and that public officials understand the liability that could exist, licensees who meet the test of section 2 of the CRF Regs will still be required to acknowledge the financial commitment needed to terminate licensed activities.
CNSC staff will prepare a simple form-based acknowledgement of this liability using the values outlined in section 3c above. Licensees would be required to indicate the number of laboratories or rooms, sealed sources and radiation devices in possession under the terms of the CNSC licence issued to their agency or institution and provide a total of the estimated remediation costs. This form would require the signature of the Applicant Authority2 person designated by the licensee, who has authority to act on behalf of the licensee for that agency or institution.
2 The Applicant Authority person must also have authority from the licensee to act on behalf of the licensee with respect to financial guarantees in addition to the normal operational activities for which the person is designated as the Applicant Authority for the licence.
Although the formula described above will usually be the preferred method for determining the appropriate amount for a financial guarantee, in certain situations this may not be practical or even possible. In these situations, the licensee will be required to provide a costed remediation plan that will establish the value of the financial guarantee to be applied.
This option will also be available to licensees who can justify another value for the proposed financial guarantee that may more accurately reflect their unique operation. In doing so, the CNSC will be providing flexibility to each licensee to propose a value for a financial guarantee that is more appropriate, while still meeting the needs of the CNSC.
Following the implementation of financial guarantees, the CNSC will continue to monitor the application of the financial guarantee with licensees to ensure that the financial guarantee remains accurate and sufficient for the purposes, and that the inventory of radiation devices or sealed sources authorized under the licence is within the basis of calculation of the financial guarantee. This is particularly important for those licensees whose inventory changes dramatically over the course of a year.
The CNSC will also have a process in place to ensure that the financial guarantee instrument proposed by a licensee continues to meet the requirements of the CNSC.
The implementation of the financial guarantees program is not a source of revenue for the CNSC. Pursuant to subsection 24(7) of the Nuclear Safety and Control Act, the CNSC must grant a refund of any proceeds of the financial guarantee that have not been spent. However, the CNSC will not implement the discretionary option of providing interest on any monies held in trust or otherwise segregated.
Once a licensee has declared the intention to terminate licensed activities, the licensee or another person acting on their behalf must take measures to remove any contamination from any rooms, areas or locations where unsealed nuclear substances were used or stored. Any prescribed equipment, including sealed sources and radiation devices, and any materials contaminated with nuclear substances must be transferred to another CNSC licensee authorized to possess these materials. The licensee or other person acting on their behalf would be required to conduct necessary radiation and contamination surveys so as to verify the absence of nuclear substances and prescribed equipment in the remediated room, area or location.
In some cases, where a licensee has deposited money or other securities into a segregated fund to comply with the requirement of the financial guarantees program, the licensee may require access to funds to carry out the termination of licensed activities. Upon receipt of a written request by the licensee to remove these funds for such activities, the CNSC may approve the withdrawal of funds from the financial guarantee account if the licensee supplies another form of financial guarantee for the equivalent funds and this form is acceptable to the CNSC. The licensee may use these funds only for activities associated with terminating licensed activities and not in conjunction with routine operational requirements.
If a licensee reduces the quantity or locations of storage and use of nuclear substances and prescribed equipment, the licensee could request that the CNSC reduce the financial guarantee accordingly.
The key principle is that the financial guarantee must remain in place and be sufficient at all times to cover the expected costs associated with the termination of licensed activities in accordance with the formula in section 3.c or the costed remediation plan. The financial guarantee must remain valid and in place until the CNSC is satisfied that the licensed activities have been properly terminated.
The CNSC will conduct a communication and consultation program with licensees and other stakeholders to identify concerns related to the implementation of the financial guarantees policy and framework described above and to the timelines that applicants and licensees must follow to respect its implementation. CNSC staff will gather and consider feedback from applicants and licensees to ensure that the implementation of the policy and framework is fair, open and transparent and meets the needs of all stakeholders.
The CNSC will use existing communication tools, including its external Web site, newsletters and presentations at meetings and conferences to introduce the proposed requirement for financial guarantees to licensees and solicit feedback.
The CNSC will schedule regional meetings throughout Canada to provide a forum for discussion and the exchange of ideas on the implementation of financial guarantees as per the policy and framework above. Targeted messaging will go to those licensees who will be identified as potentially having to set aside funds for a financial guarantee.
The CNSC will develop additional documentation to support the implementation of financial guarantees for all licensees. As a minimum, this will include, using information gathered through the consultation phase, documentation to establish the criteria for financial guarantees that are acceptable to the CNSC.
All proposed financial guarantees will be required to meet the criteria – certainty of value, adequacy of value, liquidity and continuity – currently set out in section 5 of CNSC regulatory guide G-206, Financial Guarantees for Decommissioning of Licensed Activities.
The CNSC will clarify the process for determining the numbers of sealed sources, radiation devices, laboratories and rooms, as these numbers will have an impact on the calculation for the financial guarantee using the formula-based approach described in section 3.c of this document. Licensees will have to agree on a process for establishing the applicable inventory; however, it is important to note that the financial guarantee must be sufficient at all times and that licensees will be required to demonstrate this to the CNSC as needed.
Finally, as part of the consultation phase, practical matters regarding implementation will be identified and addressed to smooth the transition to financial guarantees. Issues that have to be managed include minimum sealed source size for inclusion in the financial guarantees formula, or costed remediation plan, and handling of material exempted under the CNSC regulations that may be located at sites of licensed activity.
Following the consultation phase, CNSC staff will review all comments and incorporate those changes which allow the financial guarantees policy and framework to respect the purpose of the NSCA, as specified in section 3 of the NSCA, and the direction of the Commission Tribunal. Furthermore, as much as possible, CNSC staff will implement suggested changes so as to meet licensee needs for implementing the financial guarantees framework.
CNSC staff will present the revised implementation process and timeline to the Commission Tribunal in April 2012 at a public hearing. Licensees and other stakeholders wishing to contribute to the proceedings will be able to do so via oral or written submissions.
Should the Commission Tribunal agree to implement the financial guarantees framework, it would amend, on its own motion, all affected licences to include the requirement for a financial guarantee that is acceptable to the Commission Tribunal or a person authorized by it.
The CNSC recognizes that all affected licensees will need time to demonstrate a full financial guarantee.
Therefore, CNSC staff will propose to the Commission Tribunal, as part of the presentation at the public hearing in April 2012, that the financial guarantees be established over a 24-month period, allowing licensees the opportunity to accrue funds sufficient to satisfy the required financial guarantee. Licensees will be provided an opportunity at the public hearing to present their case to the Commission Tribunal to request a longer period to satisfy the required financial guarantee.
Once fully implemented, the CNSC will monitor the application of the financial guarantees for all licensees to ensure that the process has been established according to the financial guarantees policy and framework and that the process is working as the CNSC intended.
The CNSC will also monitor the application of financial guarantees for continued adherence to the intent of the financial guarantees policy and framework and to ensure that the program remains effective, efficient and responsive.


Dreams give us the ability as souls to traverse the many landscapes and levels of consciousness.
When we sleep, our body releases a paralyzing substance called GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) so that we can move around in dreams and our bodies will stay still. Our physical bodies are in the location of our beds while we sleep, yet our consciousness lives on the edge of physics, at the very reach of our understanding.
The locations of your dreamtime are like a canvas that a dream is being painted on. As we navigate the dreamtime in sleep, in lucidity, and in wake, we can simply notice and pay attention to the space the dream is contained in, or the 'map' that the trail is being shown upon.
What is a dream location made of? Is it only a reflection of ego and the mind? Or is it more than that, somehow divinely designed to hold and contain us. What is this web of reality?
We truly live in an inner sanctum of infinite space.
What is my relationship to the location in my dream? Am i comfortable there? Tune in with your senses in the dream. What does the location feel like?
If you're soul feels at peace in a dream setting, take action to honor that by creating a similar space in waking life. If you're soul feels uncomfortable, ask yourself why that is, and make adjustments to become more aligned with your soul's wish in the dream.
Play with how you choose to bridge back the medicine of these locations into your waking life. Perhaps there is a place you go in your dreams that bears a resemblance to a place here on earth. Perhaps the dream place is more of a feeling you could aim for. Go there.
Be creative as to how you set the environment for your dreamtime by creating a sacred sleep space. Clean your blankets, make a dream pillow, dream catcher, or bring your favorite dream totem to bed. When the location of our physical body during sleep is purified and consecrated, we make the space for dream visions to be coherently contained.
May we become aware of how our inner environment reflects our outer environment and vica versa, so we can begin to navigate through the symbolic landscapes and locations in dreamtime.
May these keys invite us to become trailblazers, trackers, and dreamwalkers as we tune in with our dreams as the landscape of the soul.


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Trends in Productivity Growth in Canada
Bank of Canada Review - Spring 2002 Allan Crawford
This article describes the major trends in the growth of labour productivity in Canada since the early 1960s and summarizes our current knowledge about the causes of the historical patterns. Particular attention is given to the period since the mid-1990s during which productivity growth has been significantly higher in the United States than in Canada. The author reviews the empirical evidence on the contribution of information and communication technology to the recent difference between Canadian and U.S. rates of productivity growth. Other determinants of a country's productivity performance, such as human capital formation and openness to international trade, are also examined. The article concludes with an assessment of the prospects for an increase in the trend rate of productivity growth in Canada over the coming years.
Content Type(s): Publications, Bank of Canada Review Article Topic(s): Productivity
Restructuring in the Canadian Economy: A Survey of Firms
Staff Working Paper 2002-8 Carolyn Kwan
The regional offices of the Bank conducted a survey of 140 Canadian companies (representing all non-government sectors of the economy) to study the effects of restructuring (defined as a major change in the way firms do business).
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Labour markets, Productivity, Regional economic developments JEL Code(s): O, O5, O51
Contribution of ICT Use to Output and Labour-Productivity Growth in Canada
Staff Working Paper 2002-7 Hashmat Khan, Marjorie Santos
There is ample evidence that information and communication technologies (ICT) contributed significantly to the surge in output and labour-productivity growth in the United States in the late 1990s.
Content Type(s): Staff Research, Staff Working Papers Topic(s): Productivity JEL Code(s): O, O4, O5


You want to know if CertCapture accepts non-US addresses and certificates.
CertCapture stores all addresses for bill-to customer records, but only supports US and CA addresses for ship-to customer records.
Can CertCapture request emails be customized?


There were some bugs in the older mod_ttf or something; well at least the one I and some others had. So I packaged a new one with freetype 2.3.5 and it actually works.
I have changed the examples of the wiki, updating they to the new format.
Upload new version ( http://wiki.bennugd.org/images/2/29/Mod_ttf.zip ).
Good job on the examples.
And 32bit in 32bit mode is also fixed now.
Yeah, now runs well in all modes.
Sorry for my english but... I think you are talking about .ttf fonts support for Bennu.
.ttf is an "almost" vectorial format, and curves can estabish the correct alpha in ALL pixels... The curvature is PERFECT. A .ttf is a TRUE font... I have just downloaded the new DLL, I'm very excited.
Dudes, I have just installed mod_ttf (copy+paste), but I don't know how to use a .ttf file.
I hope there was a FUNCTION load_ttf ( string ) and I can use write ( ) as always using the load_ttf identifier as first parameter.
That is how it works, yes.
They both return a fontID of a newly generated font, using the TTF file and other settings.
Yes, I tested the examples of the wiki with the president ttf file and they work well.
Ok, I'm testing it now... Sandman, if it works well I'll invite all Bennu comunity to give you a Karma.
Is possible to do that the background were a little bigger or it could be configurable?
Is possible to do an offset in x and y to the background, similar to fntedit do currently?
There's no such thing as a background actually. The 'bg' color is used to perform anti-aliasing, nothing more. It cannot be moved. Of course you can build this functionality, but that would be a new functionality.
I should note that TTF_LoadX() is a new function. I actually wanted to add more parameters, but then I got fed up with the write_in_map() issue.
Then I discovered a strange thing. If you try the example with depth=16 it work well (or it is that I think), but if you try the example with depth=32, the id_ttfs and the id_ttfs get the same result instead of a different result.
Try a different font, because they are different here.


Arles (French pronunciation: [aʁl]; Occitan: Arle [ˈaʀle] in both classical and Mistralian norms; Arelate in ancient Latin) is a city and commune in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the former province of Provence.
Arles Amphitheatre, a Roman arena.
Church of St. Trophime and its cloister.
The city reached a peak of influence during the 4th and 5th centuries, when Roman Emperors frequently used it as their headquarters during military campaigns. In 395, it became the seat of the Praetorian Prefecture of the Gauls, governing the western part of the Western Empire: Gaul proper plus Hispania (Spain) and Armorica (Brittany). At that time, the city were perhaps home to 75,000 - 100,000 people.
Arles became renowned as a cultural and religious centre during the late Roman Empire. It was the birthplace of the sceptical philosopher Favorinus. It was also a key location for Roman Christianity and an important base for the Christianization of Gaul. The city's bishopric was held by a series of outstanding clerics, beginning with Saint Trophimus around 225 and continuing with Saint Honoré, then Saint Hilary in the first half of the 5th century. The political tension between the Catholic bishops of Arles and the Visigothic kings is epitomized in the career of the Frankish St. Caesarius, bishop of Arles 503–542, who was suspected by the Arian Visigoth Alaric II of conspiring with the Burgundians to turn over the Arelate to Burgundy, and was exiled for a year to Bordeaux in Aquitaine, and again in 512, when Arles held out against Theodoric the Great, Caesarius was imprisoned and sent to Ravenna to explain his actions before the Ostrogothic king.
AC Arles-Avignon is a professional French football team. They compete in Ligue 2. They play at the Parc des Sports, which has a capacity of just over 17,000.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). "Archdiocese of Aix". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.
^ "Ville d'Histoire et de Patrimoine". Patrimoine.ville-arles.fr. http://www.patrimoine.ville-arles.fr/arles/ville.cfm?action=edifice_histoire&id=95. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
^ "La meunerie de Barbegal". Etab.ac-caen.fr. http://www.etab.ac-caen.fr/lescourtils/provence/barbegal.htm. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
^ Fisher, R, ed (2011). Fodor's France 2011. Toronto and New York: Fodor's Travel, division of Random House. p. 563 ISBN 978-1-4000-0473-7.
^ "Espace Van Gogh". Visiter, Places of Interest. Arles Office de Tourisme. Retrieved 2011-04-29.
^ E.g. "Divers find marble bust of Caesar that may date to 46 B.C.", CNN-Online et al.
^ A different approach was presented by Mary Beard, in that members of a military Caesarian colony would not have discarded portraits of Caesar, whom they worshipped as god, although statues were in fact destroyed by the Anti-Caesarians in the city of Rome after Caesar's assassination (Appian, BC III.1.9).
^ Konrat Ziegler & Walther Sontheimer (eds.), "Arelate", in Der Kleine Pauly: Lexikon der Antike, Vol. 1, col. 525, Munich 1979; in 46 BC, Caesar himself was campaigning in Africa, before later returning to Rome.
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Mazda teases new CX-5 ahead of 2016 LA auto show
Kirk Bell October 27, 2016 Comment Now!
Mazda today shared a teaser shot of the new CX-5 crossover SUV it will reveal at the Los Angeles auto show on November 16.
The shot shows a darkly lit silhouette of the next CX-5, which we've already spied in prototype form.
Mazda has shared very little, but says that the vehicle features the next evolution of its "Kodo, Soul of Motion" design language, as well as updated technology.
The CX-5 made its debut for the 2013 model year, so in Mazda tradition this new one should arrive as a 2018 model.
2018 Mazda CX-5 spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
Also scheduled to be on display on the company's stand are a world premier of a Mazda Prototype race car, as well three engines: 2.0- and 2.5-liter naturally aspirated inline-4s and a turbocharged 2.5-liter inline-4. These engines may or may not be updated. So far, the 2.5 turbo has only shown up in the larger, three-row CX-9 crossover SUV, where it produces 250 horsepower and 310 pound-feet of torque. We're hoping this engine will also be used in the next CX-5, as well as in a potential Mazdaspeed 3, though with even more horsepower.
The current Cx-5 uses just the 2.0- and 2.5-liter naturally aspirated engines, which put out 155 and 184 horsepower, respectively.
What else will be new in the next CX-5? Just like you, we'll have to wait until November 16 to find out.
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Taliban Dismissive of Four-Nation Afghan Peace Talks in Oman
11th October, 2017 · admin
VOA News / October 10, 2017
ISLAMABAD — The Taliban's stance of not engaging in peace talks with the current Afghan government "remains unchanged" and the insurgent group has "nothing to do" with next week's four-nation dialogue in Oman aimed at seeking a politically negotiated end to the war, a senior insurgent official said Tuesday.
Negotiators from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States are scheduled to meet in the Gulf state on October 16 to revive discussions on encouraging the Taliban to come to the negotiating table and enhance regional anti-terrorism cooperation.
"Nobody has contacted us, nor are we participating in this meeting," a senior Taliban official told VOA when asked whether the Islamist insurgency intends to join or approve the so-called Quadrilateral Cooperation Group, or QCG. He requested anonymity as he was not authorized to publicly discuss Taliban political matters.
"Our stance on talks with the Kabul government remains unchanged. We have nothing to do with this meeting. It is their [member nations] own affair," the official said.
The Taliban has long refused to engage in any Afghan peace talks until U.S. and NATO forces completely withdraw from Afghanistan. The insurgents have also been calling for, among other demands, recognition for their so-called political office in Qatar.
The QCG was launched in January 2016, but the peace process broke down after a fifth session in May of that year, when a U.S. drone attack killed the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, while he was traveling through the Pakistani province of Baluchistan.
QCG members were supposed to use their respective influence on parties to the Afghan conflict to nudge the Taliban to the negotiating table; however, the Taliban's reluctance to engage in peace talks, along with Kabul-Islamabad relations marred by mistrust, have been blamed for preventing any progress in previous QCG sessions.
Pakistan Foreign Ministry spokesman Nafees Zakaria says that as a member of QCG, his country has always played the role of a facilitator along with China and the U.S to promote Afghan peace and reconciliation.
"Pakistan supports negotiated settlement of issues and national reconciliation in Afghanistan. We do not believe that military approach can bring peace in Afghanistan," he told VOA when asked about Islamabad's expectations from the upcoming QCG meeting.
Pakistani officials blamed Washington for scuttling the four-way process by eliminating Mansoor. Afghan and U.S. officials have long complained the Taliban uses sanctuaries on Pakistani soil to orchestrate insurgent attacks on the other side of the border.
The QCG process is being revived at a time when the U.S. military has stepped up counter-Taliban operations in Afghanistan in a bid to halt resurgent Taliban advances and pressure them to engage in peace talks.
The latest official data shows U.S. forces dropped 751 bombs in September against the Taliban and militants linked to the Afghan branch of the Islamic State terrorist group, the largest number of weapons employed in a single month since 2012.
"This increase can be attributed to the president's strategy to more proactively target extremist groups that threaten the stability and security of the Afghan people," according to a U.S. airpower monthly summary.
In August, U.S. President Donald Trump announced his "new strategy" for the Afghan war, America's longest overseas military engagement, promising intensification in military efforts and asking Pakistan to end "safe havens" on its territory. Islamabad rejected the charges as an attempt to "scapegoat" Pakistan for U.S. failures in Afghanistan.
Skeptics are unsure whether the latest QCG process will produce results in the wake of growing contacts Russia and Iran have established with the Taliban.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif said last week that Moscow's influence on the Taliban may have increased to the point that Moscow would be better able than Islamabad to coax the insurgents into peace talks.
"At least for our influence on Taliban today, there is a mistrust… perhaps they have more influence from other countries in that region than in our Pakistan," Asif told VOA when asked whether he was referring to Russia.
The Pakistani foreign minister, however, appeared upbeat about the coming QCG meeting in Oman's capital, Muscat. "The quadrilateral arrangement will again be in operation. So, that is something we still hope will… still work," Asif said.
Islamabad, Moscow, Beijing and Tehran are pushing for a political solution to the Afghan war, saying 16-year of military efforts have failed to achieve peace in Afghanistan.
Analysts like former U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Olson, at a recent public talk in Washington, also emphasized the need for making a political settlement with the Taliban a central element of the U.S. policy.
"I would say that the first step in a modality, that is to say the first step in getting a peace process going, would be to… open formally the Taliban office in Doha for the purposes of discussing peace with the Afghan government in a publicly recognized way," Olson said.
The former U.S. envoy also noted that regional countries would have to be involved in Afghan peace building efforts because of an increase in the "hedging strategies" by countries around Afghanistan.
"Russia and Iran have been building their relationships with the Taliban despite a lack of ideological religious affinity, especially on the part of Iran. Pakistan has never really abandoned a hedging strategy with regard to Afghanistan," said Olson, who also served as Washington's ambassador to Kabul and Islamabad.
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Dr Phil Trevail (m)
BM Southampton 1986 DRCOG MRCGP DFFP
Phil has been a full time partner since 1992. Cornish born and bred he trained at medical school in Southampton then returned following spells in Hampshire and Australia for hospital jobs at Truro and Penzance. He was formerly involved with running KernowDoc, the Out of Hours service - and is still active with the Local Medical Committee in Cornwall. He enjoys all aspects of primary care and gets involved with medical training along with other partners. In his spare time he enjoys sailing, his dog, and trying to keep up with where his far travelling children are!
Dr Tim Baker (m)
MB ChB Bristol ,DA, DCH, DRACOG, MRCGP
Tim graduated from Bristol in 1985, and after training posts in Cornwall and Australia, became a partner at Pool in 1994. He is a GP trainer and has an interest in musculo-skeletal conditions.
Dr Mark Danielsen (m)
BM Southampton 1992 BSc MRCP DRCOG DFFP
Mark has been a full time partner at Pool since October 2003 but says it feels a lot longer! He has a background in general/respiratory medicine and has an interest in undergraduate medical education. He holds a lecturing post at the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry and frequently has medical students working alongside him in surgery.
Dr Julie Boissonade (f)
MB ChB Manchester 1983
Julie graduated from Manchester in 1983 and worked in hospital posts in the north west and south west for 5 yrs before working in a mission hospital in South India. She then worked in the north east before coming to settle in Cornwall in 1996. She has worked at Pool Health Centre since 1997. She is a GP Trainer and enjoys all aspects of Primary care. In her spare time she enjoys sailing and mountain biking.
Dr Jon Smith (m)
MBBS London 2001, BSc, DRCOG, MRCGP
Jon qualified from Bart's in 2001, and after house jobs in London and Essex moved to Cornwall to work at Treliske. After 5 years of A+E, adult medicine, paediatrics, gynaecology and psychiatry, he started as a GP at Pool in 2008 and became a partner in 2012.
Dr Mike Carter (m)
Mike was previously at Pool Health Centre as a GP Registrar in 2013. Upon qualifying Mike took up a post on the Isles of Scilly for two years before making a welcome return to the practice in February 2016. Mike works three days a week.
Dr E Marcus Sharp (m)
Dr Matt Whiteley (m)
Dr Manisha Cooper (f)
Dr Andrew Sharp (m)
Dr Libby Prenton (f)
Dr Rose Abbott (f)
Dr Caroline Wiltshire (f)
Nurse Practitioners are able to diagnose and prescribe illness in a similar way to doctors and can care for patients with most acute illnesses. A large proportion of the practice's appointments which are available to book on the day will be with a nurse practitioner. Such appointments are ideal for patients with recent onset of symptoms and doctors are always on hand should their advice be needed.
Helen Scott (f)
Helen is a highly experienced Nurse Practitioner who joined the practice in 2007.
Caroline Dunstan (f)
Karen Jenkin (f)
Karen is a Nurse Practitioner with many years experience as an ambulance paramedic, minor injury unit nurse and out-of-hours Nurse Practitioner. Karen joined the practice in 2015, initially to help cover the sabbatical absence of our Acute Illness Nurse, and has continued to work with us ever since. Karen helps to look after patients requiring an appointment that day, either face-to-face or on the telephone.
Mavis Kirby (f)
Ms Justine Smith (f)
Justine joined the practice in August 2017 with many prior years' experience as a Nurse Practitioner and Minor Injury Unit Nurse. Justine also works for the out of hours service.
Liz Cousins (f)
Sarah Ford (f)
Stephanie Whyte (f)
Trudy Matthews (f)
Carrie Patrick (f)
Gina Smith (f)
Practice nurses are qualified and registered nurses. Some can also consult patients with day to day illnesses and prescribe certain medications. Sarah Ford sees patients in our Acute Illness clinic. Practice Nurses can help with health issues such as family planning, healthy living advice, vaccinations, blood pressure checks and dressings. The practice nurses run clinics for long-term health conditions such as asthma or diabetes, minor ailment clinics and carry out cervical smears.
Alex Bray (f)
Tanya Adams (f)
Melissa Yeomans (f)
Assistant Practitioners support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as dressings and pressure bandaging, diabetic checks, spirometry, some injections, phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.
Leila da Silva (f)
Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as diabetic checks, spirometry, some injections, phlebotomy (drawing blood), blood pressure measurement and new patient checks. They may act as a chaperone when a patient or doctor requests one.
Ann Curtis (f)
Carol Whitham (f)
Ciconne Tellam (f)
Phlebotomists primarily see patients requiring blood tests, but some also undertake specialist INR tests for patients on warfarin or other blood thinning drugs. Phlebotomists are also trained to undertake ECGs and support the nursing team with other clinical tasks such as urine testing.
Stephen Holby
Practice Strategic Manager
Wendy George
Mrs Anne Hewitt
Stephen Holby is the Practice Strategic Manager. He is involved in managing all of the business aspects of the practice including new initiatives proposed by NHS England and extended services for patients.
Wendy George/Susannah Green/Anne Hewitt - Practice Managers
The rest of the Practice Management Team helps to make sure that the right systems are in place to provide a high quality of patient care, human resources, finance, patient safety, premises and equipment and information technology. They supports the GPs and other medical professionals with delivering patient services and also helps to put processes in place to deliver extended services identified to enhance patient care. Given the size of our organisation we have three Practice Managers (not all full-time) who have specific areas of specialism as well as providing cross-cover for each other.
Gina George
Administration Manager - Gina is responsible for the management and training of all our reception and administration team
Clare Bennett
Finance Officer - Clare is responsible for all financial accounting, ordering and stock control.
Cath Bawden
Practice Support Officer - Cath is responsible for supporting communication with our patient participation group, helping patients with and investigating complaints, processing patients' access to their online records, supporting investigations into various practice issues and significant events as well as supporting the whole practice team with other key responsibilities in the management of appointments and support to staff meetings.
Sarah Priest
Prescriptions Manager - The processing of patients' repeat prescriptions and some medication queries are primarily undertaken by Sarah with support from the Administration team.
Nicole Glanville
Systems Officer - Nicole is responsible for the day-to-day support of our many IT systems, data searches and appropriate medical coding for patient care and practice reimbursement as well as other ad hoc clinical systems projects and data collections.
We have a very dedicated and hard working team of administrative staff whose responsibilities include dealing with all patient first contacts whether that be by telephone, electronically or face-to-face; summarisation of new patients' notes; handling of insurance and other medical claims paperwork and medicals; recall of patients for specific healthchecks, monitoring tests and medication reviews; medical typing and processing of patient referrals. Sometimes our staff may need to telephone patients to confirm certain details on behalf of the clinicians, such as prior to a referral being sent, or to pass on the response to an enquiry.
Our Front Desk Receptionists provide a very important link for patients with the practice and are your initial face-to-face contact point for general enquiries. They pride themselves in providing a welcome to all patients and a responsive service to their enquiries. They can assist new patients in registering with the practice and help book follow-up investigations and appointments.
If you are a patient of this practice, you can contact your midwife for non-urgent reasons by getting in touch with any of our sites. The receptionist will pass the details onto the midwives working with this practice. (For patients not registered with Carn to Coast Health Centres, please contact your own surgery who will also pass on your message to the midwives working with that practice). Messages are normally responded to by the midwives the same working day. For emergency midwifery support patients should contact the on call midwife via details on their care record pack.
Community Matron - Our community matron is able to support patients with complex medical needs who are predominantly housebound by ensuring appropriate care plans are in place and that patients' medical conditions are appropriately monitored, involving the district nursing team as appropriate.
The team is split into two geographical areas. To contact a health visitor telephone the most geographically appropriate team:-
Redruth: 01209 881850
Camborne: 01209 318525
Psychological therapies are available and can be provided in the practice or at other sites. Please ask at/telephone Reception for a self-referral form. You can also go direct to the website of the provider, Outlook South West at http://www.outlooksw.co.uk/ where there is a wealth of self-help resources as well as the ability to refer yourself for support.
Corinne Barrowcliffe
Louisa Pollock
Our dispensing team are based at Homecroft and St Day sites, ensuring that patient who live more than a mile from a pharmacy can receive their medication from our dispensaries at those two sites. They need at least three working days between requesting medication and patients expecting to be able to pick up their dispensed items please.


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