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Diarycast - June to November Roundup (2021-11-14) - Covid continues, COP26, field recordings, lots of storage, heating on, Twitter peer review. #podcast #lockdown - https://www.earth.org.uk/diarycast-20211114.html

Mit der #Pandemie und ihren #Lockdowns, ihren #Teilschließungen und dem #Wechselunterricht habe sich #verstetigt, dass man sich nicht mehr auf Institutionen #verlassen könne.

#Systemvertrauen // #Personenvertrauen; #Vertrauen in #Institutionen

SZ, 4.8.23, S.4 #Meinung, Meredith #Haaf - #Väter sind nur #stille #Reserve

KINDERBETREUUNG
Väter sind nur stille Reserve
Artikel von Meredith Haaf über Kinderbetreuungsprobleme: Mehr als die Hälfte aller Eltern musste in den letzten drei Monaten ihren Betreuungsalltag ändern, weil Kitas oder Tagespflege kurzfristig geschlossen blieben oder Öffnungszeiten reduzierten. Eine Studie des Hans-Böckler-Instituts belegt diese Belastung mit Daten.
Eltern erhalten Nachrichten wie: "Liebe Eltern, auf Grund von Personalmangel kann die Sicherheit Ihrer Kinder in der Kekse-Gruppe morgen nicht gewährleistet werden. Wir bitten Sie, Ihr Kind nicht in unsere Betreuung zu bringen."
Beruf und Familie zu vereinbaren bedeutet ständige Habachtstellung: Alltag kurzfristig umplanen, Kollegen im Stich lassen oder das eigene Kind hinhalten. Ein Pandemie-Trend setzt sich fort - vor allem Mütter schultern die Ausfälle. Sie springen überwiegend ein, holen Kinder früher ab, nehmen sich frei oder melden sich krank. Viele reduzieren ihre Arbeitsstunden. 33 Prozent der befragten Mütter gaben an, der Partner habe in den letzten drei Monaten das Kind außerplanmäßig betreut.
Dies zeigt eine massive Belastungsunwucht zwischen den Geschlechtern. Ursache ist Fachkräftemangel im pädagogischen Bereich, der seit März 2020 verfestigt ist. Die stille Reserve in der Kinderbetreuungskrise bleiben die Väter.

Sunday #DailyTracks: So Circa 2021 and > 42 million active cases the #Covid #Pandemic was no gift. But it did gift us with a ton of #Music, #Art and #Instruction that continue to inform and inspire-
The #Yellowjackets #BobMintzer and #RusselFerrante #Lockdown
#Masterclass
#MusicEducation
#MusicTheory
#AllLevels

Masterclass with Bob Mintzer and Russell Ferrante
https://youtu.be/EdJIbJrY7RQ?feature=shared

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DAVID ELLEFSON Doesn't Rule Out Full Album Of Original KINGS OF THRASH Material: 'I'm Certainly Not Gonna Say No To It'

https://blabbermouth.net/news/david-ellefson-doesnt-rule-out-full-album-of-original-kings-of-thrash-material-im-certainly-not-gonna-say-no-to-it

#DavidEllefson #KingsOfThrash #Megadeth #Lockdown #ThrashMetal #JeffYoung #ChrisPoland #ChazLeon #FredAching #CleopatraRecords

Community lockdown and patrols to continue in Lower Post, B.C.
A new lockdown protocol in Lower Post, B.C., that's aimed at reducing violence and keeping drug dealers out of the community will continue, residents heard at a community meeting on Tuesday.
#community #lockdown #patrols #violence #LowerPost #BC
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/community-lockdown-and-patrols-to-continue-in-lower-post-b-c-1.7540360?cmp=rss

If you live in the #USA, you have maybe 3-4 months to get out safety before the #lockdown happens.

The US is facing its greatest enemy to-date: Itself.

As a nation, the US has never been able to function without the use of #Slave #Labor. From indentured servants, to #African Slaves, to #Child #Labour, to foreign child labour, the #American #Dream is built on the backs of the #poor.

The coming #Federal #Government programs for the poor are a trap to #enslave another generation.

Information Commissioner orders EHRC to provide answers over Covid breach by former chief executive Rebecca Hilsenrath

Rebecca Hilsenrath

NEW: Since this post was published I have learned that Rebecca Hilsenrath has been awarded an honorary KC and been appointed a member of the Civil Justice Council, chaired by the Master of the Rolls,Sir Geoffrey Vos. She is responsible for advising the judiciary on the use of alternative dispute resolution, where disputes are settled outside the courts. Ironically this would include the demand from CEDAWinLAW to solve the dispute over compensation for 50swomen pensioners which ministers oppose. She was and still is chief executive of the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s Office when the former ombudsman ,Robert Behrens, recommended compensation for partial maladministration by the DWP. It would be curious to know what her position will be on this if this ever came up.

John Edwards, the Information commissioner, has ruled that the Equality and Human Rights Commission must answer what action it took when it was revealed that its former chief executive, breached Covid rules at the height of the pandemic by driving from north London to her holiday cottage in Wales for a family Christmas in 2020.

The decision is a partial victory for Mark Benny, a dogged campaigner, who sought answers to what action it took when it became publicly known through an article in The Times that she had driven hundreds of miles when there was a ban on any long distance travel as part of the national lockdown.

But the information commissioner has decided not to release a report of an EHRC investigation or correspondence from her because it goes into her private life and might cause unwanted distress.

Rebecca Hilsenrath’s Welsh holiday cottage

However his ruling is significant for a number of reasons. He has had to weigh up public interest in this case versus a person’s right to privacy. And he has come down very firmly that there is a public interest case about how senior public figures conducted themselves during the pandemic. He also ruled that public bodies cannot, as the EHRC did, impose a blanket ban under the privacy section of the Freedom of Information Act, to refuse to confirm or deny anything because it involves personal data.

This could have wider implications since public bodies use this technique where there are controversial appointments or resignations to refuse to provide information because itinvolves personal data

John Edwards, Information Commissioner

Rebecca Hilsenrath’s case was particularly controversial because she resigned her chief executive’s job at EHRC only to be parachuted into a top position at the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s Office where since became Interim Ombudsman and chief executive, an equivalent or even better status than she had at the EHRC.

Extraordinarily when Mark Benny pressed the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s Office on what they knew or whether they took into account of her Covid breach during her appointment, the office said it had lost the papers on her appointment process.

So now the EHRC will have to answer his questions within 30 days or as the Commissioner says in his report “failure to comply may result in the Commissioner making written certification of this fact to the High Court pursuant to section 54 of the Act and may be dealt with as a contempt of court.”
The questions he has asked include whether there was a proper investigation into the breach, whether it was completed and what was the outcome. He also wants to know whether she was suspended by the EHRC or put on gardening leave and whether she was dismissed or decided to resign.

All the public had at the time was a terse statement by the EHRC to the press. It said:

“The Equality and Human Rights Commission said they will consider whether further action against its chief executive is needed.
“She has apologised for this error of judgement,” said EHRC chair Baroness Kishwer Falkner.
“I will establish all the facts before deciding if any further action is
required.”

Nothing has been heard of this since and it is now known whether it came up again when she was interviewed to be Interim Ombudsman last year.

What the ruling by the Information Commissioner does is say that Mark Benney’s request was legitimate and it was necessary for the information to be released. But he thought this could be done through his questions and it was not a legitimate interest to release the full report because it contained details of her private life.

Interestingly he thought it might throw some more light on what happened at the Parliamentary Ombudsman’s Office. He said “he considers that disclosure of the requested
information would allow further scrutiny of that process.”

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#covid19 #equalityAndHumanRightsCommisison #informationCommisisoner #lockdown #news #ParliamentaryOmbudsman #RebeccaHilsenraft

The bird flu chicken lock down is now over. So nice seeing our hens out enjoying the garden. #lockdown #flockdown #chicken #chickens

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KINGS OF THRASH (Ex-MEGADETH) Stays Thrashy With New Single "Lockdown"

https://metalinjection.net/video/kings-of-thrash-ex-megadeth-stays-thrashy-with-new-single-lockdown

#KingsOfThrash #Megadeth #DavidEllefson #ChrisPoland #JeffYoung #Lockdown #ThrashMetal #MusicVideo #GregKennelty #Youthenasia

20201023 Twee dagen terug heeft minister Schouten een landelijke ophokplicht voor pluimvee ingelast. Dit was in navolging van de vondst van het hoog pathogene vogelgriepvirus H5N8. Er wordt gevreest voor een nieuwe zoönose uitbraak. De dierindustrie is een broedplaats voor ziektes. Deze brandhaard vormt een gevaar en beïnvloed ons allemaal, zoals we duidelijk zien met de huidige pandemie. Kippen en eenden zijn nu al in lockdown. Het is een kwestie van tijd totdat wij weer aan de beurt zijn. Twee Animal Rebels hebben gister actie gevoerd om hier aandacht voor te vragen. Tijd dat dieren verdwijnen uit ons voedselsysteem. Tijd voor een plantaardig voedselsysteem! #zoonosen #corona #covid #covid19 #pandemie #vogelgriep #veehouderij #lockdown

OH MY GOOOOHHH!!!
...i swear i wish i still had the report i did...but i said it cos its logic and proven grooved pattern now....and now the announcement...

i/we said after a police state succeeds a military state is established to secure control.

...queue national guard...

now, after that is a #media #blackout and a #lockdown/#curfew

....sure keep humming to drown us out tho, but this is gonna beyond suck......i wish i was in after already cos i never wanted to see this much history irl.

“On the second Friday of March 2020, before the first UK lockdown had begun… I was listening to the BBC news & boiling pasta for my children’s tea when a line of verse ran through my head…”

—Jeremy Noel-Tod on Edwin Muir’s “The Horses”

4/8

https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/we-would-not-have-it-again

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thCentury #EdwinMuir #Orkney #apocalypse #lockdown

New post from A Head Full of Wishes
'From the archive' on Substack Dean and Britta's COVID shows
In to-day’s ‘from the archive’ post on Substack on the fifth anniversary of the first full online show that Dean... #Substack #Covid #Lockdown #DeanAndBritta #News

https://www.fullofwishes.co.uk/2025/05/13/from-the-archive-on-substack-dean-and-brittas-covid-shows-1/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ifttt

so, due to #trump visit to #saudiarabia , half of the city of #riyadh is practically in #lockdown. schools are off, working from home ...etc. as a result, city #airquality is significantly better as very few cars are allowed on the road. yay