 The ten lepers were not cleansed of their leprosy until they turned to go to the priests.{Luke 17:11-19] The lady with the bleeding malady was not healed till she reached out and touched the hem of Christ's garment. {Mark 5:25-29] Faith led the way. Again and again through Scripture, in the Old Testament and through the New Testament, we see the faith that results in the power of God to act and overcome all situations.
Before I believed that God would change me, I had to recognize I could not change myself or my circumstances, and then believe He could. I had no idea how He would do that, but the step of faith I took carried me forward into His everlasting presence and unfailing strength. When God quickens the spirit within a spiritually dead person who turns to Him in faith, He fills each with His Holy Spirit and empowers each to believe His promises, and know His Son in a personal way. The more we grow in our faith, we more we are able to overcome what seems impossible to endure. And the greater the peace we have in our lives.
Great post. Very comforting.
Voters in Switzerland soundly rejected a referendum that would have given a basic income to every citizen. The plan needs to be tried in a greedier country.
The idea of a universal basic income—money given to everyone each month to cover minimal living expenses—is having something of a utopian intellectual moment across the political spectrum. But the idea does have two obvious potential pitfalls.
In a bid to cut labor costs, Wendy’s plans to make “self-service ordering kiosks” available to all of its franchises this year. The process of robots taking our jobs has begun. Where is our universal basic income?
The idea of granting every citizen a no-strings-attached universal basic income is still treated as a utopian idea in America. In Switzerland, they’re a month away from voting on it.
Without meaning to, the CEO of a restaurant corporation that is busily trying to automate employees out of existence is becoming one of the best spokesmen for the idea of providing all Americans with a universal basic income.
The economy, both at home and abroad, needs stimulating. Governments have been trying to do this since the 2008 recession, without full success. Is it time to just... give everyone some money?
The working poor need more money. “But retail stores can’t raise wages very much—their profit margins are too small,” say conservatives. Aha—but there is a solution!You walk into a store, put products in the bag, and walk out. It is as simple. Until a few years ago, it was only a vision of the future. Today Amazon opened such store to the public. So far it is in beta. If clients love new form of shopping, e-commerce giant could change grocery and whole retail industry.
On client’s side, it’s easy. You need to have dedicated Amazon Go app. QR code inside the app serves as an identifier scanned at a gate. After that, all products packed in the bag goes to the digital basket. There is no checkout and cashiers as you walk out. You are billed for products you’re taking out of the store, directly and automatically through your Amazon account. And that’s it. You have done your shopping, without a line and cashiers. That is user experience, whereas what works out of the reach for customers is technology using the same advances as autonomous vehicles. That means computer vision, deep learning and sensor fusion.
Amazon said that it does not use face recognition technology. In practice, the system uses computer vision that enables machines to see what product is in front of them and recognize when it has been taken from a shelf and by whom. If you put the product back on the shelf, the system will automatically remove it from your digital cart. And there is no need to use any chips on products. Barcode is enough. The store tracks customers all over it using numerous cameras under the ceiling, in the alleyways, and on shelves. They enable the system to identify customers and products that he or she collects in the bag. What happens in the back-end, behind machines eyes are advances of machine learning. That, in short, enables the system to draw conclusions from databases using patterns.
As of yet, a store without checkout lines is only in Seattle, where Amazon has its headquarter. The company didn’t say if it plans to apply this technology on a large scale, and if it is going to develop it further. Amazon, however, has been investing a lot over the past few years in developing products and technology that will make shopping no longer be a source of frustration. A store without lines and checkouts would eliminate it for sure. The only stress that could remain would be that related to overspending.
Global Sourcebook for International Data Management
by Graham Rhind
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Guernsey consists of the Channel Islands of Guernsey, Alderney
, Sark
and Herm
(along with some other, uninhabited, islands). It is a Crown Dependency, and therefore not part of the United Kingdom.
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Guernsey: 65 sq. km (25 sq. miles); Alderney: 7.9 sq. km (3 sq. miles); Sark: 5.5 sq. km (2.1 sq. miles); Herm: 2 sq. km. (0.8 sq. miles)
is the official language. A Norman patois, which has no written form, is spoken in some parishes.
These company types exist in Guernsey
Branch of an overseas’ company Company limited by guarantee Exempt insurance company Exempt investment scheme Exempt private company General partnership International company International trust Limited partnership Private company limited by shares Trust
Comprehensive tables of these strings can be acquired – see http:
To a great extent, the same rules and formats apply as in the United Kingdom. The settlement name used is usually that of the parish
. These parishes are:
Castel
ForestForest
St Andrew’sSt Andrew’s
St Martin’sSt Martin’s
St Peters in the WoodSt Peters in the Wood
St Peter PortSt Peter Port
St Sampson’sSt Sampson’s
St Saviour’sSt Saviour’s
TortevalTorteval
ValeVale
The name of the island (Guernsey, Alderney, Herm or Sark) is also written. The address is therefore structured as follows:
Contact name {Job Title} Company Name number[ ]Thoroughfare name[ ]Thoroughfare type PARISH Island POSTAL CODE
Street name boards in St Peter Port. Source: Wikipedia
A table containing information about the relevant position of elements within address blocks can be acquired
A postal code (known locally as Postcode) system was introduced into Guernsey only in June 1993. Each postal code begins with the letters GY. The format of the code is:
[GY]9[ ]9AA
or
[GY]99[ ]9AA
For example:
GY2 2BT
GY9 codes cover Alderney and GY10 Sark.
Metadata containing postal code formatting rules, exceptions and regular expressions can be acquired
\A((GY)[0-9]( )[0-9][A-Z][A-Z]|(GY)[0-9][0-9]( )[0-9][A-Z][A-Z])\Z
Refer to Exonyms in Guernsey for full lists of place names in Guernsey in other languages.
Guernsey has 10 parishes, used in addresses. Please refer to the section “Company names, Personal names, addresses, post office box, place names” above for a list of these parishes.
Every effort is made to keep this resource updated. If you find any errors, or have any questions or requests, please don't hesitate to contact the author.
All information copyright Graham Rhind 2017. Any information used should be acknowledged and referenced.Demornay has written us a blog about her experiences of this year’s Catalyst Bootcamp.
My name is Demornay and I am 20 years old. I live in Birmingham and have recently moved into student housing. I am a third year student of pharmacy at the University of Birmingham. My current hobbies include sketching, listening to music and playing sports (particularly badminton).
My dream job is not something that is set in stone, but I know it revolves around making a difference to people’s lives through social sustainability, which links with my degree in many ways. I have thought about a career in the United Nations as something that would be amazing.
Why did you come on the Catalyst Bootcamp?
I came to the Catalyst Bootcamp because I felt that my involvement in it would definitely improve me and my outlook on the future – in terms of sustainability – and my purpose in life.
The program came at a very beneficial time for me going forward. While I was there I woke up excited for what each day would bring and to hear the ideas of the amazingly determined young women around me. I learnt more about myself, my values, got closer to my purpose and felt more confident in the strengths that others see in me, which was a lovely thing. It encouraged me to stay aware of what is around us, the environment, and not to doubt the impact young women can make in this field.
The three things I enjoyed most were; the workshop on purpose that led into an afternoon focusing on mindfulness in the woods, the African