While technically correct, sconces seem to generally refer to indoor lighting.
While you're generally right about triage, it's absolutely believable that she could have been prioritised by Palestinian staff over patients with a similar level of urgency, in spite of them waiting longer. However she definitely shouldn't go around saying that - it reflects badly on the staff.
Apparently it's more than just wording, it requires the employer to give a valid reason for refusing.
FYI archive.md and all those others are not affiliated with archive.org, run by Internet Archive.
Yeah but those archive sites are a bit dodgy, they poison DNS requests and it cannot be resolved with many privacy-focused DNS providers.
archive.md, archive.ph, archive.today should not be confused with archive.org, aka The Way Back Machine, run by Internet Archive. The former are basically impersonating them (although they do at least get around paywalls better).
Great stuff, bikes are fun. You really need to look out for yourself though, it's very easy to get hurt on them (I know from experience, and I'm a lucky sod). Helmet is also mandatory, but gloves are essential also (your hands naturally reach out when you fall) and really you should wear full clothing and boots that cover your ankles. Dress for the slide, not the ride.
Advanced training is really useful, also. Knowing how to countersteer and swerve at speed could save your life one day. It also teaches you much better road craft than the standard test does. However at least with bikinig people tend to be more passionate about it, so you can learn a lot from other people generally.
People absolutely do choose trains over cars, when the train is actually viable. Just because that isn't a thing in the UK doesn't mean it couldn't be.
Also, in my view the EU is quite undemocratic. The separate Council, Commission and Parliament are an affront. Especially the fact that the Parliament, which represents the electorate, does not have the power to introduce legislation.
You do realise that the entire structure of the EU was primarily dreamt up by British legal experts? It's quite literally one of the best, most robust and most competent systems of governance in the world.
Yes, Parliament can't introduce legislation by themselves, but that's because we don't want populists like Farage, Boris or Trump to do that. They're charismatic, but not actually competent. That's why talented legal experts in the European Commission (who are each appointed by elected governments of member states, the UK had 6 iirc), people who actually know how law works, write the laws. The elected MEP's vote on the laws.
However even here we're missing the fact that the European Parliament (EP) do have a say in the legislation. The EC writes an "Impact Assessment" with rough draft of the law they're thinking of writing (which anyone can comment on), then this is presented before Parliament who propose and discuss amendments. So it's completely disingenuous to imply that the elected EP is somehow beholden to the "unelected" (but chosen for competency by elected member governments) EC bureaucrats.
And all that skips around what starts the EC's initial proposal. Aside from occassionally writing laws off their own backs, the EC responds to requests from:
- The European Council (heads of state or government of each EU country)
- The Council of the European Union (government ministers from each EU country)
- The European Parliament (directly elected by EU citizens)
- Citizens themselves, following a successful European Citizens’ Initiative
That's right, not only can Parliament demand new legislation (they just have to get the big boy lawyers to write it for them), but individual citizens can directly!
Parliament has the final say in whether or not legislation is implemented. That's completely democratic. What you call "an affront" is actually competent people writing effective legislation. Rather than bullshit like the Rwanda deal which states the UK will accept vulnerable refugees from Rwanda in exchange for the small boat migrants to Rwanda (all paid for by the UK taxpayer), or the general ineptitude of no legislation at all and a Hard Brexit causing issues like sewage being dumped in our rivers since water companies now face restrictions on importing treatment chemicals from the EU.
William Rees-Mogg wrote 3 books in the 90s, I forget the 3rd one but the other two were called "(The Best Time To Buy Is When There Is) Blood In The Streets" and "The Sovereign Individual". The latter describes a Sovereign as someone who earns more than $200k per year (90s money, so more like £500k today) and uses their wealth and influence to live above the laws of any nation. This is the kind of "sovereignty" his son Jacob Rees-Mogg campaigned for, he's literally laughing at all his supporters while he's doing it.
This makes me want to sing the Tetris theme.
Yeah, I mean apparently this is being driven by charities for the blind, but you can even see in the main image for the article that there is a defined crossing over the cycle lane with different texture pavement tiles. The blind are far from being ignored here.
Special relationship at risk if UK bans arms sales to Israel, if Trump wins the election.