DIY Deco: Independent events ready to put on a show in Napier
18 Feb, 2021 01:19 AM
7 minutes to read
While official Art Deco Festival events have been canned, independent musical events including The Dave Atkin Group gig are still going ahead. Photo / Supplied
While official Art Deco Festival events have been canned, independent musical events including The Dave Atkin Group gig are still going ahead. Photo / Supplied
Indie Deco, DIY Deco, Prohibition Weekend - whatever you want to call it, the unofficial party in Napier is still on for masses of festival fans.
The Art Deco Festival - and its near 300 events - will stay officially cancelled, but the trust that runs it is now throwing its support behind a raft of unofficial events that can go ahead under alert level 1 rules.
PatnaDaily
Disclaimer:
This bit of writing is humour (the quality of being amusing or comic, especially as expressed in literature or speech) and therefore, it need not be taken seriously.
The name of Gandhi occurs once or twice in the writing but he is not the butt of any joke. My respect for him is no less than any other person on this planet. The joke is on me, poor voter. I do not intend to mock, insult, ridicule, deride, or make fun of or otherwise show in poor light any person dead, living, or yet unborn. I respect the rights of human beings. I uphold the rights of animals as well. In short I give no offence; I am not capable of giving any offence. It is not my purpose to cast any aspersion on any religion, superstition, fad, fashion, trend, custom, movement, hair style, style of dress, or rail against any ideology, philosophy, scientific theory, and hypothesis. I have firm faith in democracy, I am not an enemy of Marxism; capitalism does not bother me because I d
Building a Wall Between Pain Patients and Their Doctors SHARE
The Associated Press reported recently about doctors being threatened by patients who are in desperate pain and have been abruptly cut off from their opioid pain medications. This is not common, but not surprising, given the tendency of policymakers and many health care practitioners to misinterpret and misapply the 2016 CDC
Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain. The misinterpretation of the guidelines and the lack of policymakers’ appreciation for nuance causes many doctors to be intimidated by law enforcement overseeing Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, leading them to undertreat or even abruptly stop medicating patients with chronic, severe pain. Compassionate physicians who want to help their patients read horror stories in the press about doctors like them being arrested or having their licenses suspended. As a result, many doctors are giving up treating pain altogether, refusing to see
Kumar, who chaired a meeting to review the functioning of department for prohibition and excise, underscored the role of the police in ensuring effective implementation of the ban on alcohol, which he announced nearly five years ago.