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yourreddancer · 2 years

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HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

August 16, 2022 (Tuesday)

This afternoon, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. Almost immediately, it will produce results. A 30% tax credit for energy-efficient windows, heat pumps, or newer models of appliances will lower people’s energy costs; the cost of drugs will be capped at $2,000 per year for people on Medicare; and health care premiums will fall for certain Americans. In the longer term, it will be easier for the country to switch to renewable energy, and wealthy Americans and corporations will bear more of the tax burden than they have paid since the 2017 Trump tax cuts.

“The Inflation Reduction Act is now law,” Biden tweeted, “Giving Medicare the power to negotiate lower prescription drug prices. Ensuring wealthy corporations pay their fair share in taxes. And taking the biggest step forward on climate in our history.”“

This is a BFD,” former President Barack Obama tweeted.

“Thanks, Obama,” Biden responded.

They can be forgiven their irreverence because this act is indeed a big deal. It is an astonishing cap to the legislation the Democrats have passed with their squeaky thin majority in Congress. They have passed the American Rescue Plan, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act, and now this, the Inflation Reduction Act.

Since President Ronald Reagan told Americans, “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem,” Republicans have focused on proving that private enterprise is more efficient than government at providing the things Americans need. That argument has depended on preventing the government from legislating or addressing the things that people care about.

In his year and a half in office, Biden has demonstrated the opposite: that government can work. The measures that Democrats, and those Republicans who are willing to work across the aisle, have passed are enormously popular: lower medical costs, including a provision finalized today for over-the-counter hearing aids; bridge repair; broadband access; and investment in science.

“I feel like the media is having a hard time metabolizing the fact that this congress has been historically productive,” Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) mused. “And acknowledging the size of these accomplishments, and the degree of difficulty,—it’s just hard to do accurately without sounding a bit left leaning.”

Democrats are demonstrating that the government is working, but for their ideology to make sense, the current-day Republican Party needs chaos. Chaos is what it is currently delivering.

Trump has continued to throw out more excuses for his theft of classified documents, recently suggesting his former chief of staff Mark Meadows is at fault for failing to organize a system to send documents to the National Archives and Records Administration and then suggesting that he had withheld the documents because he didn’t trust the “partisan Democrat appointees” who were “releasing thousands of his White House documents to the January 6 Committee in spite of his lawyers’ claims of executive privilege.”

Maggie Haberman at the New York Times broke the news today that Trump’s White House counsel and deputy White House counsel, Pat A. Cipollone and Patrick F. Philbin, have talked to the FBI in the last few months about the stolen documents. According to two witnesses, when Philbin tried to get him to return documents to the National Archives and Records Administration, Trump said, “It’s not theirs, it’s mine.”

Josh Campbell, CNN’s national security and law enforcement correspondent, said that Trump loyalists’ attacks on the FBI for its role in searching Mar-a-Lago for the classified documents Trump stole have taken a toll. “The head of the FBI Agents Association tells me threats against the bureau are ‘real’ and ‘imminent,’” Campbell tweeted. “The organization is demanding political leaders unequivocally denounce these attacks, insisting: ‘There is NO justification for targeting law enforcement in the United States.’"

In the search to figure out how and why the text messages from Secret Service members from the time around January 6, 2021, were purged, Inspector General Joseph Cuffari, who hid the destruction from Congress for more than a year, today refused to step down from the investigation. He also said that he would not provide the documents lawmakers wanted to see, or permit House committees to interview his colleagues.

And yet, Trump’s hold on the Republican Party is strong enough that his chosen candidate defeated Representative Liz Cheney in today’s Wyoming primary by about 34 points. Cheney voted with Trump more than 90% of the time during his term, but she took a stand against him after his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election. In a concession speech tonight, she told her supporters that two years ago she won the primary with 73% of the vote, and “could easily have done the same again. The path was clear.

But it would have required that I go along with President Trump's lie about the 2020 election. It would have required that I enable his ongoing efforts to unravel a democratic system and attack the foundations of our Republic. That was a path I could not and would not take.” She vowed to “do whatever it takes to ensure Donald Trump is never again anywhere near the Oval Office.”

Observers noted that the defeat of Cheney marks the passage of another establishment name from the ranks of Republican Party lawmakers. The Lincoln Project tweeted, "Tonight, the nation marks the end of the Republican Party. What remains shares the name and branding of the traditional GOP, but is in fact an authoritarian nationalist cult dedicated only to Donald Trump."

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abovegroundpodcast · 2 years

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It's Coming My Moment w/Amber Hall

People are called to a profession or passion for a number of reasons. Those who are led into the mental health field either have their own or witness someone else’s experiences. Take Amber Star Hall. Amber was called to help. Amber wanted to be the one who never gives up on others.

Amber Star Hall believes at the end of the day it’s all about the peace within. Constant stress leads to burnout. It leads to financial pressure. Often forcing professionals to limit services, limit their availability and not being able to meet the needs of their clients or themselves.

Amber credits mental health workers in college as the reason she is still here. Amber has been in and out of counseling since she was five years old. Amber has experienced it on both the mental health and substance use sides. This lived experience is a driving force that propels Amber onward.

Amber found herself calm on the outside and screaming on the inside. Much like many of us are experiencing collectively now. Amber has an undying drive to give back and ask deeper questions. Amber wants to have your back. Amber is open and willing to dive deeper.

A lack of time, staff and an overwhelming of our health care system has led to under served patients and clients. We have also experienced a drive to minimize education, devalue professionals and a distrust of all our systems from the top down.

We are interconnected no matter which side of the sun you revolve. That connection has becoming frayed and misrepresented in culture as a whole. In no time have we collectively lived through the same worldwide events, like we’ve done the last two plus years. Amber knows that allowing herself the balance within provides her the power to provide it outwardly. Amber is a giver but recognizes the need to not forget about Amber.

Amber holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Louisiana State University. She has first-hand knowledge of various mental health difficulties from her own experiences and witnessing family members. Amber currently works for a mental health app and as an emergency room tech. She is going to a local community college to become a registered nurse. Amber has spent most of her career working in various positions at the intersection of education, healthcare, mental health, and human services. She has found her most valuable learning to come from a continued pursuit of knowledge and personalized path that has led her to interact with a multitude of cultures, beliefs, and individuals in addition to her connection with nature. Amber aspires to take the knowledge and experiences she has gained throughout her life and work towards her most important goal in life - to show compassion, help others with their personalized paths, and leave the world a better place. In her free time she enjoys reading, creating art, gardening, and attending mindfulness/meditative events and retreats. She can be found on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/itscomingmymoment/

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. - Joseph Campbell

Amber Hall, M.Ed.(She/her)

Thanks for listening. Please continue to share and spread the message.

Until next week, get well, be safe and stay ABOVE

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 2 years

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“Used Wrong Names To Place Advertising,” Toronto Star. March 4, 1932. Page 2. ---- Used Wrong Names To Place Advertising ---- Man Didn’t Pay Account, Got More Credit on Aliases ---- ‘I want you to make it clear that this sort of thing has got to stop,’ said Crown Attorney Eric Armour, K. C., in police court to-day after Lorne Lennox, a well-dressed, smart-looking young man had pleaded guilty to obtaining $9.75 by false pretenses and with intent to defraud.

Credit Manager J. Groves of the Telegram newspaper explained that for the convenience of the public advertisements were accepted over the telephone and charged. The accused had sent in such advertisements and had failed to pay for them and had been blacklisted as a result. Later under the name of Campbell, he had telephoned further advertisements and had again been blacklisted and then when the name of Scott he had repeated the same manouevres his arrest had followed a third black-listing.

‘Had you known that the Campbell and Scott who telephoned advertisements was Lorne Lennox you would not have given him credit?’ inquired the crown. ‘Certainly not.’

‘He was hard up; he had to advertise,’ said his counsel.

‘It has to stop,’ countered the crown. ‘I suggest there is no bail in this case and that he be held for a week for further investigation.’

The bench remanded the accused in custody till March 11 for sentence.

‘He was jumping around shouting out and acting like a lunatic at the door of the restaurant,’ said Officer Maxwell, 564, when Donald Haldam stood up to answer a vagrancy charge. Haldam said he always took his meals in the restaurant in question paying for them a week in advance. On the occasion complained of his dinner had seriously disagreed with him.

‘You don’t help stomach trouble that way,’ said Magistrate Tinker sagely, as he handed accused over to the Salvation Army.

George Parliament, called next, was committed as a lunatic.

‘Where can I go and beg and not run up against you?’ inquired James Murray in injured accents of Officer Donaldson who recently has been very active in ‘cleaning up’ the vagrants in down town Toronto. Murray who accosted four citizens at the door of a restaurant was fined $10 and costs or 40 days.

‘I had no need to beg, I had $4 in my pocket at the time,’ said William Clarke, when charged with begging on Bay St. Officer Donaldson, who arrested Clarke, said accused had stated at the police station he had $1,400 in the bank.

‘Citizens complained you were begging on Bay St.,’ decided the bench; ‘you are fined $10 and costs or 30 days.’

Walter Small, Indian, said to have escaped from an Indian home, four years ago, and since resident in St. Catharines, was handed over to the Salvation Army.

Four drunks were fined in early court to-day. They were William Dane, $50 or two months and William Frazer, William Coulter and William Berry $50 or one month. The remainder of a list of nine were remanded for sentence.

Michael Horgan, Edward Coleman and Patrick Rooney, pleaded not guilty of conspiring to steal the payroll at St. Michael’s hospital. They were remanded until March 11.

On an additional charge, breach of probation, Horgan pleaded guilty and Magistrate Jones recommended that he be brought before Judge Coatsworth immediately.

One Half As Bad ‘His reward is worse than mine,’ protested Joseph Bennett, when the magistrate suggested two months in jail, the same sentence he had passed on Bennett’s pal, Harry Ward, a few minutes earlier.

‘Make it half. I am only half as bad as he is.’ The bench was not in a mood to compromise, however, and the original sentence stod.

They were found guilty of theft of two rolls of roofing paper.

Pays $50 Fine For a breach of the Inland Revenue Act, Edward Sundell paid a fine of $50 without costs.

The right of the police to seize the car of Maxwell McEvoy, charged with reckless driving and a breach of the Liquro Control Act was warmly debated by his counsel, E. J. Murphy, M.P.P. McEvoy was remanded for one week and Mr. Murphy asked the bench to sign a release for the car.

Ready to Eat Car ‘The police have no more right to hold the car than they have to hold a Chinaman’s head without his legs,’ argued Mr. Murphy.

‘If the police can hold the car without a conviction, then I will eat it.’

‘It would be pretty tough eating,’ observed Magistrate Jones.

‘No doubt it would leave a lot of gas on the stomach,’ remarked counsel with a smile.

‘I didn’t seize it,’ retorted the bench.

‘All piffle,’ said Mr. Murphy, with a remark to the effect that ‘somebody would be sued some of these days for seizing a car.’

Found Foxes a Myth On the prospect of securing the proceeds from the sale of four pairs of silver foxes represented to her as being raised by the Agnew Fox Fur Co. at New Hamburg, Ont., Miss E. Scott turned over $2,4000 to John J. Thompson, only to find that the foxes were a myth, according to evidence given by her when Thompson appeared on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences.

‘He told told me they belonged to a woman that had lost her money in the stock market,’ plaintiff testified.

Thompson was committed for trial.

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My son the global pop star? Olly Alexander's mum Vicki Thornton talks about growing up gay in Gloucestershire, Gogglebox and Glastonbury

Olly Alexander's mum speaks candidly about being mother of the flamboyant Years and Years frontman

Watching Vicki Thornton on the Celebrity Gogglebox sofa it would be easy to imagine that having a famous child is an easy passport to the good life.

Every Friday night for weeks the Forest of Dean mum-of-two has been on TV sipping Prosecco while commenting on TV programmes with son Olly Alexander, the flamboyant frontman with the chart-topping band Years & Years.

On the face of it it’s been a charmed motherhood. First she watched the talented young man leave college to succeed as an actor, treading the boards as Peter Pan in a play with Judi Dench and appearing in movies such as Gulliver’s Travels, The Riot Club and Great Expectations.

Within a few years he appeared to seamlessly achieve global musical success with a chart-topping band and which led to a much applauded appearance on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury Festival 2019. This weekend he is appearing on the same stage as Ariana Grande at Manchester Pride.

Yet anybody who follows Olly knows it’s not all been red carpet premieres, backstage passes and Gogglebox for Vicky, it’s also been about hearing uncomfortable truths about a son who has used his growing success as a platform to publicly campaign for LGBT rights.

Growing Up Gay

Not only has she had to listen to how he secretly self-harmed and developed bulimia as a closet gay teenager growing up in the Forest of Dean, but in 2017 she also bravely agreed to appear in an an emotional BBC Three documentary about how it can lead to mental health issues.

In Growing Up Gay Olly admitted that just driving home back to sleepy Coleford with the film crew stirred up such painful memories that it made him feel physically sick.

If that wasn’t difficult enough to hear, Vicki learned that Olly, who attended St John’s Cof E Primary School in Coleford and Monmouth Comprehensive, had been unable to tell anyone that he was being bullied from a young age because he had long hair and seemed gay.

“When he asked if I would do the documentary, it was a bit of a decision to make because I knew it would mean digging up the past and going further into the reasons for the problem,” said community artist Vicki.

“ I knew that having to face up to issues I was not aware of at the time was going to be a very difficult process, but if it was going to help Olly and other people in similar situations I had to do it.

“I had to be open and honest about everything which meant confronting my own feelings of guilt. You have to openly accept that you may have made some bad choices and decisions but you are human. It’s not about making excuses, it’s about learning from your mistakes.”

The documentary was so painful that the producers had Vicki assessed psychologically to make sure she could deal with the deeply personal issues it raised and arranged for her to have counselling beforehand.

Still a much watched video on iPlayer, it shows them sifting through photographs and videos of what his mum thought was a happy, innocent childhood on a beautiful part of the world.

“Going through the family history you see all these little happy, innocent little faces” said Vicky who also has an older son who has aspergers syndrome. “It’s terrible to think somebody could be hurting them.

“I think the bullying was mostly mental but when someone is full of joy and happiness and somebody else comes along and closes that down, it is the saddest thing.

“As parents you think you know what’s going on, you think that they are safe, they are happy, they are fed, all the boxes are ticked. But you don’t know the half of it.

“The little things I heard about what happened to Olly that he and his brother have talked about, are awful.”

Everyone thinks their child is amazing but I knew Olly was special

Community artist Vicki said she knew “in her bones” even before Olly, 29, was born that he would go on do great things.

“Every mother thinks that, and every child is amazing, but I knew that this child was different, there was something there,” she said.

“Olly was always a bright, funny, happy child, full of life. He was such a bouncy, lovely little cherub that I could never get cross with him, ever.

“On the rare occasion that he would throw a tantrum I would find it funny and just laugh at him. He would just stand and scream blue murder and it was just hilarious.”

Life in the Forest of Dean

Their early days were spent living near theme parks that his father promoted but in 1997 the family moved to the Forest of Dean where his parents set about creating a model village tourist attraction.

It was a musical, creative, left leaning household and although he loves Rihanna, and famously met the singer on the Graham Norton show, Olly, credits much of his influences to listening to his mother’s tapes of Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder. She was one of the founders of the local music festival where Olly cut his teeth.

“I used to be a puppeteer actor in an education travelling theatre company in the late 1980s," said Vicky when asked about her bohemian background.

“When I was younger I was also a backing singer in a band called Innamanna. We played the Marquee in London and did some recording but when we had to decide ‘do we stick with this or carry on with our careers?’ it folded.

"But I couldn’t stand on a stage in front of thousands of people like Olly does. I would die.”

Olly as a boy

It was clear that Olly had inherited her artistic streak and although a talented gymnast and able academic, he concentrated on music and drama, later saying it was because he felt at home with the weird kids.

Vicki remembers him being very driven, open minded and very focussed.

“Olly taught himself to play the piano and to sing and there was always a healthy competition with his best friend Joe to get the best parts in the school plays,” recalled Vicki

“He was always singing all over the house. He loved Disney and he would get old song books full of the classics and teach himself on the piano.

“He did not want to be in musicals but loved the singing and performance side of it.”

I did not realise there was so much pain going on inside.

In the documentary the talented singer songwriter says that he did not have the vocabulary to put how he was feeling into words and felt too ashamed to admit it anybody he was gay. Even his mother. He desperately wanted to be straight so he never admitted it.

“On the surface he was a real high achiever so I had no idea there was so much starting to bubble up as a young teenager,” said Vicki.

“I thought the sky was the limit for him. I thought he could do anything he could put his mind to but I did not realise there was so much pain going on inside.”

“Because he was always fun happy, smiley, lovely child achieving lots of things at school, I thought things were fine.

“Probably my eye was off the ball because I was going through a lot of life changes at the time and maybe I was in denial that there was something going wrong.”

Marriage split

In an interview last year with the former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell, Olly says his diaries show a clear link between his father leaving and creating a “family implosion” and his mental health health issues developing around he age of 13.

They are estranged but met up when his father contacted Olly through Twitter and in subsequent interviews it’s clear the singer was less than impressed with the reality as opposed to the imagined version of an aspiring musician father who he had always wanted to impress.

“Splitting up with their dad made life a lot harder, definitely financially, and so life was a big struggle,” said Vicki.

“That’s probably part of the reason why I had my eye off the ball. I was distracted doing other things, so we were a bit dysfunctional or a while, which I feel guilty about.

“But I don’t feel guilty about that relationship ending at all, both for the boys and myself.”

Coming out

She says although from the outside it looked like Olly was enjoying a glittering lifestyle after leaving sixth form college to travel abroad filming the movie Summerhill, he was often penniless and had to take jobs such as selling hot dogs on the South Bank in between the contracts. She wasn’t in a position to help pay the rent either.

He was 18 or 19 and involved in the gay party scene in London when he plucked up the courage to pick up the phone and tell her outright that he was gay.

Vicki said: “He had said to me once ‘I don’t think you are going to have any grandchildren’. Not taking the hint, I said ‘well never say never’.

“He obviously got to the point where he thought ‘I’d better actually say it to mum because she doesn’t get it’.

“He phoned me up and said ‘you do know I am gay don’t you?’ . I said ‘Are you? OK’ and that was it really. I suppose I had a feeling he might be but maybe I didn’t want to confirm that because of fear about what his life might become because of all the homophobia out there.”

Vicky told told her elderly mother, who sang on Broadway with the D’ Oyly opera company before cutting her career short to get married and have a family.

“Her immediate reaction was ‘but he will not be able to go to Africa, it’s illegal in Africa’, laughed Vicky about her 89-year-old mother who follows her grandson avidly on social media and has even seen Years & Years in concert.

“Like me, she doesn’t want to see him marginalised because marginalised sections of society can attract a lot of negative behaviour. Nobody wants to see their nearest and dearest suffer from that.”

I just hope kids today aren’t going through the same thing

From that moment on Vicky has worried about her son being the victim of homophobia and although she is intensely proud, she still fears that being a figurehead for equality could make him a target.

“I wish he felt he could have talked to me and maybe I could have prevented all of that, but I understand that is very difficult for young people,” she said.

“I remember that feeling of not being able to talk to my parents and I just hope kids today aren’t going through the same thing. They get more support at school than they did 15 years ago but bullying and social media trolling still happens.

“I do worry about him being exposed to bigotry and homophobia. it’s not nice to think about your child living in fear.”

In an interview last year Olly was asked if he ever wanted to confront the bullies who made his life miserable growing up but he said he doesn’t think about it much any more because his life had changed so much.

He said he still takes anti-depressants, has weekly therapy sessions and works out a lot to keep his mental and physical health on track.

While campaigning for more to be done to prevent male suicide after being named as GQ Man of the Year, he admitted he still has occasional days when he doesn’t want to get out of bed because his life does not feel worth living and can be too frightened to go on stage, or cries when he comes off. He hides behind outlandish costumes and make up.

The fun side of having a famous son

It's clear that there is a close bond between mother and son and Olly likes her to share in his successes.

For instance in the early days the pop star arranged for her to wear an expensive diamond necklace to the red carpet premiere of Great Expectations in which he played Herbert Pocket.

“It was insane,” said Vicki. “ We had taxi from where he lived to the red carpet and there was all these people at the barriers.

“I thought they are going to be so disappointed when I get out because I’m no-one. Somebody took me to one side while Olly went off to meet the paparazzi and because it was raining they put a brolly over my head.

“Then we went in and watched the film which was mind-blowing because I was sat next to some of the actor’s. When it was finished we went to the after-party which was all very very glam.”

Naturally shy, Vicky was overawed to meet the likes of Jeremy Irvine, who starred in War Horse.

“I was quite overwhelmed by it all at first but I have got more relaxed about being in that kind of environment,” she said.

“The whole thing is a bit surreal really. It’s a bit like a film in itself. Once I was this close to Helen Bonham Carter who I think is fantastic, but you don’t want to go up to people saying ‘I love you’.

“Olly told me once, that when they started filming he actually said to her ‘I love you Helen Bonham Carter’ and and she said ‘I would love you too if I knew who you were’, but she later came to the stage door to congratulate him after Alice and Peter.”

More recently Vicky was overwhelmed when she was introduced the men from one of her favourite TV programmes, the Netflix series Queer Eye, at Radio One’s Big Weekend in Swansea.

“I love watching them but when Olly introduced me I didn’t know what to say and was stuck for words because I get so tongue tied,” she admitted.

Gogglebox

The star is protective of Vickyi who does not even like speaking on the stage at Coleford Music Festival but told her it was time for her to come out of her shell for Gogglebox.

“It’s different because there isn’t anybody else in the room and it’s all about Olly because that’s who they are interested in,” she said of the TV show.

“It feels really nice sitting there together eating snacks, drinking Prosecco and enjoying each other’s company, but I don’t think I have anything really interesting to say.

“You are thinking ‘should I be on my best behaviour because I’m on tele or should I be like I am at home?’. There is a little conflict going on in your head but it’s really good fun.

“It’s weird watching yourself back, seeing what you do, what you sound like and the faces you pull. I didn’t realise I pulled so many weird faces.”

Every week she has to decide on a comfortable top for sitting on the sofa and says they did initially consider getting matching onesies and really mad slippers but decided against it.

She shares TV tastes with her son who loves programmes such as Killing Eve and Stranger Things and Fleabag. They also love Gogglebox, especially Rylan Clark Neal and his mother and Chris Eubank and his son. She was delighted when Rylan sent a lovely message to Olly about her.

“If Olly likes something I will give it a go because I know I will probably like it,” she says. “I would never have watched Love Island if Olly hadn’t watched it. “

Staying true to yourself

Before the Years and Years single Communion catapulted the band into into the charts, Vicky had another important phone call from the Shine singer.

“He said they didn’t want him to say he was gay and he was really cross about it because didn’t want to pretend to be something he wasn’t” she said.

“I told him to stick to his guns, that you have to be true to yourself for anything to be real. I have taught them that if they are kind, truthful and respectful to other people, everything else will follow.”

Olly took her advice and when she first went to Glastonbury to see him burst onto the John Peel stage in 2015 wearing a rainbow, Pride suit he was involved in a very public relationship with Neil Milan from Clean Bandit who were playing the Pyramid stage.

Although in pop star mode he is happy to speak openly about his own sexuality and ongoing struggles with anxiety, Olly also admits that the fairytale of fame and fortune has not proved the antidote to depression and he remains a leading advocate for mental health issues.

In fact Gay Times described him as one of the most influential gay pop stars of this generation and added: "All hail the King!”

Glastonbury 2019

Vicky was astounded by how big it has become since the days she used to go and got lost for hours on the first night after deciding to camp for the weekend.

On Sunday Olly arranged for Vicky, her partner Kev and Coleford Mayor Nick Penny to go backstage and then watch from the Pyramid Stage balcony as he gave a widely-applauded, eloquent moving speech marking the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

Many say the speech appealing for compassion and a society that does not leave anybody behind was the highlight of the festival.

“It’s not the best view because you cannot see what’s happening from the front, but just to be there looking out from the stage and seeing all those thousands and thousands of people who are all there to see Years and Years and Olly, well it was just mesmerising,” she said.

“That whole feeling of emotion, the pride, It’s like when you see your child in a nativity play but a million times over.

“I knew he was going to make a speech and I knew that knowing Olly it was going to be special, but I did not did not know the content or when he was going to say it.

“I was just so proud and when I got home I had to watch it over and over again.”

“I cannot believe how brave and strong Olly is about what he believes in. I admire that in him so much and have so much respect for him to be able to do that.”

The feeling is mutual and Olly has repeatedly spoken about how proud he was of his mum to speak so openly about his childhood in the documentary even though she is not to blame for his troubles.

Olly takes care of his family

Although he spends long periods touring with the band, when he is in London Olly has a small set of friends from home who he has known since primary school which Vickis believes it is good for his sanity.

He recently spoke about how good it has been going from being too skint to go out to be able to help his family out financially and pay for the drinks on a night out.

Thanks to Olly buying her a new house Vicky has moved from the small cottage in the centre of Coleford where she would get the odd knock on the door from Years and Years fans pretending to be looking for a non existent neighbour.

Speaking to her it’s clear that have a famous child is not too much different than having any other. You always feel guilty, you are very proud of their achievements, you want them to happy, you worry about them being safe and you lose your name. At one festival she spotted a flag saying “Olly’s Mum”, something parents all over the world can identify with.

“As a parent I think you always feel guilty, but I’m proud that Olly has grown into this amazing human being,” says Vicki who has been on a journey alongside her famous son.

“It’s such an amazing thing to have happened that to try and get your head around it all is impossible, so you don’t bother.

“Lots of people ask about him and say things like – ‘your boy’s doing well’ and I think ‘just a bit’. On the whole though, life just carries on as normal.”

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ktlsyrtis · 5 years

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@incandescent-justice poked at me about what my thoughts were on Bernie and Serena’s MBTI personality types, and since she’s apparently dying of consumption I figured it was the least I could do. 😉

These are my best guesses , but I’d love to hear what other people think! (Did I actually take the MBTI test as each character? Who can say?)

Bernie Wolfe: ISTP The Mechanic Quiet and reserved, interested in how and why things work. Excellent skills with mechanical things. Risk-takers who they live for the moment. Usually interested in and talented at extreme sports. Uncomplicated in their desires. Loyal to their peers and to their internal value systems, but not overly concerned with respecting laws and rules if they get in the way of getting something done. Detached and analytical, they excel at finding solutions to practical problems

ISTPs have an adventuresome spirit. They thrive on action, and are usually fearless. ISTPs are fiercely independent, needing to have the space to make their own decisions about their next step. They do not believe in or follow rules and regulations, as this would prohibit their ability to "do their own thing"

ISTPs are loyal to their causes and beliefs, and are firm believers that people should be treated with equity and fairness. ISTPs are extremely loyal and faithful to their "brothers"

ISTPs are action-oriented people. They like to be up and about, doing things. They are not people to sit behind a desk all day and do long-range planning. Adaptable and spontaneous, they respond to what is immediately before them. They usually have strong technical skills, and can be effective technical leaders. They focus on details and practical things. They have an excellent sense of expediency and grasp of the details which enables them to make quick, effective decisions

ISTPs are excellent in a crisis situations. They are usually patient individuals, although they may be prone to occasional emotional outbursts due to their inattention to their own feelings

ISTPs are optimistic, full of good cheer, loyal to their equals, uncomplicated in their desires, generous, trusting and receptive people who want no part in confining commitments

Strengths:

Good listeners

Usually self-confident

Generally optimistic and fun to be with

Practical and realistic, they handle daily concerns

Are not threatened by conflict or criticism

Able to leave a relationship with relative ease once it is over

Likely to respect other's needs for space and privacy

Weaknesses:

Living entirely in the present, they have difficulty with long-term commitments

Not naturally good at expressing feelings and emotions

Not tuned in to what others are feeling, they may be insensitive at times

Tendency to be overly private and hold back part of themselves

Need a lot of personal space, which they don't like to have invaded

They thrive on action and excitement

Serena Campbell: ENFJ The Giver Popular and sensitive, with outstanding people skills. Externally focused, with real concern for how others think and feel. Usually dislike being alone. They see everything from the human angle, and dislike impersonal analysis. Very effective at managing people issues, and leading group discussions. Interested in serving others, and probably place the needs of others over their own needs

ENFJs are people-focused individuals. They live in the world of people possibilities. More so than any other type, they have excellent people skills. They understand and care about people, and have a special talent for bringing out the best in others. ENFJ's main interest in life is giving love, support, and a good time to other people. They are focused on understanding, supporting, and encouraging others. They make things happen for people, and get their best personal satisfaction from this

Because ENFJ's people skills are so extraordinary, they have the ability to make people do exactly what they want them to do. They get under people's skins and get the reactions that they are seeking. ENFJ's motives are usually unselfish, but ENFJs who have developed less than ideally have been known to use their power over people to manipulate them

ENFJ's are so externally focused that it's especially important for them to spend time alone. This can be difficult for some ENFJs, because they have the tendency to be hard on themselves and turn to dark thoughts when alone. Consequently, ENFJs might avoid being alone, and fill their lives with activities involving other people. ENFJs tend to define their life's direction and priorities according to other people's needs, and may not be aware of their own needs. It's natural to their personality type that they will tend to place other people's needs above their own, but they need to stay aware of their own needs so that they don't sacrifice themselves in their drive to help others

The ENFJ may feel quite lonely even when surrounded by people. This feeling of aloneness may be exacerbated by the tendency to not reveal their true selves

ENFJs like for things to be well-organized, and will work hard at maintaining structure and resolving ambiguity. They have a tendency to be fussy, especially with their home environments

In the work place, ENFJs do well in positions where they deal with people. They are naturals for the social committee. Their uncanny ability to understand people and say just what needs to be said to make them happy makes them naturals for counseling. They enjoy being the center of attention, and do very well in situations where they can inspire and lead others, such as teaching

ENFJs have a strong need for close, intimate relationships

An ENFJ who has not developed their Feeling side may have difficulty making good decisions, and may rely heavily on other people in decision-making processes. If they have not developed their Intuition, they may not be able to see possibilities, and will judge things too quickly based on established value systems or social rules, without really understanding the current situation. An ENFJ who has not found their place in the world is likely to be extremely sensitive to criticism, and to have the tendency to worry excessively and feel guilty. They are also likely to be very manipulative and controlling with others

In general, ENFJs are charming, warm, gracious, creative and diverse individuals with richly developed insights into what makes other people tick. This special ability to see growth potential in others combined with a genuine drive to help people makes the ENFJ a truly valued individual. As giving and caring as the ENFJ is, they need to remember to value their own needs as well as the needs of others

Strengths:

Good verbal communication skills

Very perceptive about people's thoughts and motives

Motivational, inspirational; bring out the best in others

Warmly affectionate and affirming

Fun to be with - lively sense of humor, dramatic, energetic, optimistic

Able to "move on" after a love relationship has failed (although they blame themselves)

Strive for "win-win" situations

Driven to meet other's needs

Weaknesses:

Tendency to be smothering and over-protective

Tendency to be controlling and/or manipulative

Don't pay enough attention to their own needs

Tend to be critical of opinions and attitudes which don't match their own

Extremely sensitive to conflict, with a tendency to sweep things under the rug as an avoidance tactic

Tendency to blame themselves when things go wrong, and not give themselves credit when things go right

Their sharply defined value systems make them unbending in some areas

ENFJ and ISTP Compatibility

One important thing to keep in mind is that the two communicate very differently. ENFJs are very verbal and expressive about their feelings while ISTPs feel like their partners should “just know” they are loved. ISTPs would rather show their feelings through actions, such as small gifts and physical affection.

Both the ENFJ and the ISTP never discuss their problems. ENFJs avoid direct confrontations for the sake of the relationship while ISTPs simply never discuss how they feel about their relationships with anyone, including their partners. This lack of communication may make the relationship less satisfying for both. The good thing is that both don’t give up on their relationship easily. The ISTP won’t dump his or her partner unless there are very serious reasons to do so, and the ENFJ won’t break up with someone who did nothing wrong

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One of the most famous female networks credited with playing a direct part in early sixteenth century revolts was Agnes Campbell and her daughter Finola O'Donnell. Lady Agnes was the sister of the Earl of Argyll, and came to Ireland to marry Turlough Luineach O'Neill in 1569, after the death of her first husband James MacDonnell, Lord of the Isles of Scotland. When Agnes arrived in Ireland, she brought with her a dowry of twelve hundred Scottish mercenary troops. So did her daughter who married the other Ulster chief Hugh O'Donnell. This in itself was a typical if frightening prospect for the colonial authorities, as they feared the Scottish mercenaries as much as they feared Irish rebels. What was perhaps more significant was that Agnes was swiftly credited with ruling and directing her chieftain husband and 'making herself strong in Ireland'. Agnes' role in the Desmond rebellion of 1579 to 1583 was to make a new Scotland of Ulster. It was Agnes who was commissioned to raise munitions from Scottish supporters. Agnes was recorded as highly educated and intelligent and it was she with whom the English negotiated in 1579 when she met with Sir Henry Sidney. They recorded that her husband was, by contrast, a 'rude, wild savage'. It was also recorded that O'Neill 'accepts the lewd counsel of his wife'. Agnes claimed that the 'the Scots would be the only hope the Irish had to sustain them'. Agnes visited Scotland during the summer of 1583 in order to raise financial aid. The Irish looked to O'Neill for a lead against the English. When Agnes returned to Ireland, she was questioned by English officials and is recorded as having reassured them that her visit was 'for no disloyal purpose'. The Lord Justice who questioned Agnes recorded that she replied to him in Latin. Scottish and Irish women were renowned for their education and linguistic abilities. . (...) . It was Agnes and Finola who united the O'Neills and the O'Donnells who then banded together against the English in the north of Ireladn. This was a result which the women had facilitated. Previously the O'Neills and the O'Donnells had been sworn enemies. Agnes and Finola were central to training the Scottish mercenaries in Ireland, and worked as go-betweens and negotiators. The redshanks employed by the O'Neill sept were joined by some of the Campbell clan. The unity of these two powerful groups intensified the fears of the English, although these alliances were not ultimately strong enough to repel the colonial forces. Nevertheless, these two women were at the centre of the Irish-Scottish network. They worked to keep Ulster independent from Dublin. Both women worked together, and under their own direction. Lord Malbie recorded that Agnes and Finola worked in the north with other rebels in order to control Connaught. Ireland saw the arrival of a large number of Scottish mercenaries in the summer of 1592. The English feared an Ulster rebellion. In 1592 a captured Catholic priest reported that the King of Spain was intending to send ships and money and to transport Scottish mercenaries to Ireland. As widespread fear increased, Lord Burghley recorded that the whole of Ulster was open to Scottish support. Agnes and Finola had plans in 1590 to overthrow the English sheriff of Donegal; however by 1600 the rebellion was weakening against superior English numbers. After the flight of the Earls the O'Donnells left Ireland for Spain. The eventual defeat also marked the end of a period when Ireland could call upon Scottish military aid through appeal to a shared Gaelic identity.

“‘Barbarous and Pestiferous Women’: Female Criminality, Violence and Aggression in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Scotland and Ireland” by Andrea Knox, in ‘Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime and Deviance in Scotland since 1400′, edited by Yvonne Galloway Brown and Rona Ferguson.

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MVP Kamala's schedule for July 8th

So sorry for the late posts, I had been sick and took a short break on here to mend myself. So I am back to updating.

Because July 4th was on a Sunday, Monday July 5th was a public day. There wasn't much on the 6th and 7th that is publicly known except for the statement, the Office of the Vice President release on the occasion of the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse and the attack on First Lady Martine Moïse of the Republic of Haiti.

On July 8th, she began the day by joining President Biden in the Oval Office where they met with the White House National Security Team to receive a periodic update on the progress of our military drawdown from Afghanistan.

2) Then she departed for her first visit to her alma mater Howard University since Inauguration Day where she spoke a powerful defense of voting rights and the need to ensure that all American voices are heard in the political process and also launch the DNCs “I Will Vote” initiative.

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Madam Vice President is an alumna of the university where she addressed the Howard community, local community organizers and volunteers for civil rights organizations at the Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library. She spoke about the DNC party’s efforts to combat voter suppression and protect voting rights nationwide. At the campus event, Vice President Harris then unveiled a $25 million expansion of the Democratic National Committee’s “I Will Vote” initiative to address and overcome efforts across the country to make voting more difficult and burdensome.

3) Then she returned to White House where she joined President Biden in the Roosevelt Room where they met with leaders of Top Legacy Black civil rights Organizations in the country.

According to the White House's statement, "The group discussed the wave of anti-voter legislation that has recently passed or is pending in state legislatures across the country and the path forward to protect the right to vote. The group also discussed steps the Administration recently announced to address the rise in gun violence and the status of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act that is currently being negotiated in the Senate. The President and Vice President reiterated that they will continue to push for Congress to pass critical legislation that protects the right to vote and combats subversion of the election process, while continuing to utilize all existing authorities in an all-of-government effort to ensure full voter participation and elections that reflect the will of the people.

The civil rights leaders provided an update on the work their organizations are doing, both nationally and in the states, to protect the right to vote. They also provided the President and Vice President with their ideas on ways to engage the public on civil rights issues."

The meeting participants included:

Melanie Campbell, President and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation

Dr. Johnnetta Cole, National Chair and President of the National Council of Negro Women

Wade Henderson, Interim President of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human

Damon Hewitt, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP (virtual)

Marc Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League

Reverend Al Sharpton, President of the National Action Network

From the White House:

Danielle Conley, Deputy Counsel to the President

Tina Flournoy, Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the Vice President

Catherine Lhamon, Deputy Assistant to the President for Racial Justice and Equity

Dana Remus, Assistant to the President and White House Counsel

Susan Rice, Assistant to the President and Domestic Policy Advisor

Cedric Richmond, Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor and Director of the Office of Public Engagement

4) Later in the evening Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff hosted members of their staff for a post 4th of July party and barbecue at their official resident Naval Observatory.

Photo Credit: Opal Vadhan 46/Twitter

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For the day, Vice President Harris was wearing her go to Altuzarra but she wore the Kenton Jacket paired with her usual Serge Pants. Inside her jacket, she had on the Lafayette 148 New York Luxe Charmeuse Reversible Perla Blouse. For shoes she had on her Manolo Blahnik.

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#Altuzarra #Howard University #Joe Biden #Kamala Harris #LaFayette 148 New York #Manolo Blahnik #Nava

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