42 days ago

Cleaner needed Kay Rd-about 3 hours a week

Pat from Flagstaff

We had a wonderful lady who used to clean our house but unfortunately she had an accident and so now I am looking for a new cleaner-for about 3hours a week.

Can anyone recommend someone?

Thank you

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A Glimpse into the Future. Food for thought

Paul from Pukete

A Glimpse into the Future.
In a recent interview, the Head of Daimler Benz (Mercedes Benz) said their competitors are no longer other car companies, but Tesla (obviously), and now, Google, Apple, Amazon 'et al' are……
Forbes says that people whose minds are stuck in 20th Century thinking and believe that the world will resemble what it is in 2018, will become redundant, bankrupt and largely unemployable.
Artificial Intelligence: Computers become exponentially better in
player in the world, 10 years earlier than expected.
In the U.S., young lawyers already can't get jobs. Because of IBM Watson, you can get legal advice (so far for more or less basic stuff)within seconds, with 90% accuracy compared with 70% accuracy when done by humans.
lawyers in the future, only specialists will remain.
Watson already helps nurses diagnosing cancer, 4 times more accurate than human nurses. Facebook now has a pattern recognition software that can recognise faces better than humans. In 2030, computers will become more intelligent than humans.
Autonomous cars: In 2019 the first self-driving cars will appear for
disrupted. You don't want to own a car anymore. You will call a car with your phone, it will show up at your location and drive you toyour destination. You will not need to park it, you only pay for the driven distance and you can be productive while driving.
Our kids will never get a driver's license and will never own a car.It will change the cities, because we will need 90-95% less cars forthat. We can transform former parking spaces into parks.
Most car companies will probably go bankrupt. Traditional car
companies are now trying the traditional approach to build a better car with an electric motor, while tech companies (Tesla, Apple, Google) take the revolutionary approach and build a computer on wheels. Many engineers from Volkswagen and Audi are completely terrified of Tesla. People who are part of the anti-Tesla brigade are unwittingly announcing to the world that they will soon be broke and are unable to comprehend the dramatic changes now happening in everything.
If you own a petrol car with a large engine, dump it now.
Auto Insurance companies will have massive trouble because without accidents, car insurance will become much cheaper Their car insurance business model will slowly disappear.
Electric cars will start to become mainstream about 2020. Cities will be less noisy because all new cars will run on electricity. Electricity will become incredibly cheap and clean: Solar production has been on an exponential curve for 30 years, and now you can now see the burgeoning impact.
In 2017, more solar energy was installed worldwide than fossil.
With cheap electricity comes cheap and abundant water. Desalination of salt water now only needs 2 kwh per cubic meter (@ 0.25 cents). We don't have scarce water in most places, we only have scarce drinking water. Imagine what will be possible if anyone can have as much clean water as they want, for nearly no cost.
Health innovations: The Tricorder X price will be announced this
year. There are companies who will build a medical device (called the"Tricorder" from Star Trek) that works with your phone, which takes your retina scan, your blood sample, and you can breathe into it.It then analyses 54 biomarkers that will identify nearly any disease.
Goodbye,medical establishments.
Some common spare air plane parts are already 3D printed in remote airports. The space station now has a printer that eliminates the need for the large amount of spare parts they used to keep in the past.
possibilities. You can then 3D scan your feet and print your perfect shoes at home.
ask yourself: "In the future, do you think we will have that?", and
If it doesn't work with your phone, forget the idea.
And any idea
21st century.
Aeroponics will need much less water. The first Petri dish that
Longevity: Right now, the average life span increases by 3 months per year. Four years ago, the life span used to be 79 years, now it's 80 years. The increase itself is increasing and by 2036, there will be more than one year increase per year. So, we all might live for a long time, probably way more than 100.
Education: The cheapest smart phones are already at $10 in Africa and Asia. By 2020, 70% of all humans will own a smart phone.That means,everyone has the same access to world class education.
Every child can use Khan academy for everything a child needs tolearn at school in First World countries. There have already been releases of software in Indonesia and soon there will be releases in Arabic, Swahili, and Chinese this summer. I can see enormous potential if we give the English app for free, so that children in Africa andeverywhere else can become fluent in English. And that could happenwithin half a year.
People whose minds are stuck in 20th Century thinking and believe that the world will resemble what it is in 2018, will become redundant and largely unemployable.