"On financial services we took some early decisions, led by the premier, who runs that part of government, to secure the industry and keep that going, and work out how that can operate from different locations but still have BVI as the hub for it.
In order to estimate the staff time required to deliver different services, we took a mixed methods approach in observation of staff time during endline data collection; this included key informant interviews with staff, followed by one week of direct observation by researchers to time consultations and concurrent time sheets completed by facility staff members.
We pay for the amenities and services we take for granted.
Many of the gadgets and online services we take for granted today, like Web search, voice recognition, and image tagging, make use of some form of machine learning.
But there would still be the services we take for granted, the tools we need to benchmark our days: the information sources we can't do without when the best things in life can't be free.
"Power Trip," Paul Devlin's superbly balanced and organized documentary about the politics of electricity in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, offers a cautionary reminder that the basic services we take for granted in the United States are often luxuries elsewhere.
The Council of Europe's Dosta campaign against Roma discrimination highlights the continued prejudices and barriers faced by Roma across Europe – prejudices that have a fundamental impact on their lives, denying them access to services we take for granted such as education and healthcare, and perpetuating their position at the lowest end of the socioeconomic scale.
When the former attorney general Dominic Grieve tells Sky News that no deal will cast us into "a state of emergency – basic services we take for granted might not be available", Cassandra-like, he is ignored as Project Fear mark two.
Would our cities thrive without transportation, water, power, garbage collection and all the other services we take for granted?
She added: "Sodexo delivers a range of public services, we take this responsibility very seriously and have sought and received consistently good feedback from government about the quality of the services we deliver, and our working relationship with them.
And yet, they don't have a bank account, a formal education or access to most of the services we take for granted in the U.S. Imagine the possibilities… imagine how you can change the lives of billions of people".
