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usafphantom2 · 3 months ago

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How I Missed the D*mn War – Part 1

Monday, August 5th, 1990, my buddies phone rang and it’s his Aircraft Commander (AC) telling him he is now in crew rest, to pack a bag for 90 days, report to the squadron in 12 hours, and no, he didn’t know where they were going.

Fifteen minutes later, my AC called me. I was needed at the squadron to help load and preflight aircraft that were deploying in 12 hours. We still didn’t know where we were going or how long we’d be there, but the news was hitting the airwaves that the United States was reacting to Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait.

Twenty-four hours later, in KC-135R 58-0059, I was sitting in my cockpit seat, right behind the AC, taking off out of Loring AFB ME headed to Lajes Field in the Azores, a small island in the eastern Atlantic. We had an airplane full of support gear for the 9-hour sortie. I can’t recall for sure if we dragged any fighters on that first flight, but judging on the flight duration, I think we did.

An Air Bridge was being put in place to get Air Force fighters, sometimes referred to as chicks, from the East Coast all the way to Saudia Arabia, or Down Range as it was known to us. Our job flying from the Lajes was to meet up with tankers flying east from the east coast, take their fighters and escort them to the Strait of Gibraltar where other tankers would be waiting to take them through the Mediterranean Sea.

It would be one tanker with anywhere between two and six fighters, depending on the fighter type. A-10s tended to be flights of six aircraft, whereas F-15s usually came in groups of four. For F-4s, the thirstiest of the fighters, there were usually only two. It wasn’t a hard and fast rule, but rather determined by many factors including weather, location and availability of divert airfields, the fighter’s fuel requirements, and the tanker’s available offload.

I always had great respect for the schedulers and planners who put all this together. The amount of coordination needed was enormous. Tankers on the east coast, supported by many bases, tankers in the Atlantic at the Azores, tankers the Mediterranean, all had to be able to meet at their rendezvous points without fail or somebody was going to end up in the drink. Nobody wanted that.

For us, at the Azores, life was good. The weather was absolutely stunning with the sun shining and the temperatures in the 80s. I had never been there before, and wrongly assumed it was like that all the time. Everything we needed (food, beer, pool, gym) was within walking distance except heading to the temporary squadron that was hastily set up. If we were flying, we’d wake up late in the morning and head over to the gym, then off to the chow hall for lunch and then report to the squadron for a sortie. If we weren’t flying, then it would be the pool and the NCO club.

The formations from the East Coast came in waves about an hour apart. That worked well, until one evening mother nature intervened. The diversion for weather caused some serious confusion, and we had tankers stacking up in an orbit waiting for their receivers. One AC who didn’t get the memo decided not to coordinate with the other holding tankers, who were stacking up in altitude, and entered the orbit at the planned altitude, which was already occupied by a tanker that had taken off a couple of hours earlier. Both aircraft circled around the orbit for a while until eventually, they crossed paths and almost collided. One of the pilots said they he was able to see the map light in the cockpit of the offending aircraft and reported that they were easily within fifty feet of each other. TCAS, or Traffic Collision Avoidance System, did not exist in those days, so there was no safety net. The funny part, not that it was that funny, was that the offending pilot was actually the head of Stan/Eval or Standards and Evaluations, the people who gave Check Rides and made sure everybody was doing things correctly.

At the Strait of Gibraltar, we’d often meet up with a KC-10. They could carry more fuel for offloading and could be refueled themselves providing even more flexibility. If we had extra gas when we met up with the KC-10, we’d refuel them, giving them the extra so they’d have it if needed.

After sorties or on days we weren’t flying, the NCO club was the place to go. C-141s were landing everyday to refuel, there were no tankers available for direct flights, and they often spent the night. There airplanes were filled with ground pounders making their way down range.

One evening, we ran into some KC-130 enlisted Marines crew dogs who were bragging about how they were the “tip of the sword.” One of our older, more experienced, and more inebriated booms started yelling at them, “Tip of the Sword my ass, we’ve been here for two effing weeks.” Fortunately, we managed to avoid getting our asses handed to us by buying them all a round of drinks and doing carrier landings on a table.

By the way, we drank the base dry. They literally ran out of beer. For a few days you couldn’t find a six pack of beer anywhere on base, but eventually we were resupplied, and all was well again.

And then, all of the sudden, that little piece of heaven melted away like a chocolate bar in the sun. Aircraft and crews started moving around again. Some of our guys went Down Range, some went home. The Down Range guys went to France, Spain, Italy, Egypt, Saudia Arabia, Doha, and Deigo Garcia.

I was on a crew that was sent back home, back to good old SAC Alert watching the continuing buildup on Headline News wanting to get back to. A few weeks later, I returned to the Azores and the difference was startling. The weather had gotten cold and rainy, all the tankers were gone, the C-141s landing was reduced to a trickle, the NCO club was empty, and there were no missions to fly. All the fighters that needed to be moved had been moved.

My crew was headed down range…

(stay tuned for How I Missed the D*mn War – Part 2)

Photos: Lajes Field runway, the parking ramp, my AC and copilot, an A-10 receiver during one of the missions

@tcamp202 via X

#kc 135 #tanker #boeing aviation #aircraft #sac #aviation #usaf #cold war aircraft #boom operator #passin gas ⛽️

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lol-jackles · 9 months ago

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Idle curiousity: Is it negotiations that determine who gets a picture featured where in convention promotions? Because in Burbank, for example, Mark Sheppard has been in much more SPN and I've met him frequently at cons. He was frequently featured in the show's promotions. Yet I see that JDM is in the banner in a more prominent spot than everyone, plus Mark is not given a picture at all. To SPN outsiders, JDM might be more widely known (based on imdb stats) but Mark also brings multi franchises.

My experience is the promotional pictures are entirely up to the convention owners/organizers based on what they think will bring them money.

Remember the Jensen & Misha banner debacle for the upcoming Chicago con in 2015? Let me remind you....

05/15/2015 - Jared breaks down and goes social media dark. Six weeks later....

06/29/2015 - Misha and Creation Entertainment registers Stands LLC .

08/16/2015 - Jensen and Misha “wins” TCA for best chemistry and tweet their first and only boat ride.

10/16/2015 - Creation Entertainment advertises the upcoming Chicago con with Jensen and Misha and the AKF tagline in their main banner. Fandom’s outrage forced them to take down the Jensen/Misha banner three days later and replaced it with a Jared/Jensen banner.

02/11/2016 - Jensen and Misha launch the YANA campaign with series of videos filmed on SPN set and lines written by SPN writers.

Conclusion: YANA was a bust and memory holed.

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serendertothesquad · 6 months ago

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The Ultimate Serendipity-Odd Squad Lore Post

Because you people keep asking for my entire story.

No, no, not my life story. Christ sakes, we'd be here until Gen Z'ers died off if I had to reiterate my whole life story.

No, I'm talking about my entire Odd Squad story. You know, how I got here to begin with, how I rose to fame, and how I am objectively still a god without a religion, a cult, or a religious cult. That story. You all want to hear that story.

If you're an oldie, you've probably already heard my tale at least once. If you're new here to the funny kids STEM show fandom, then damn boy howdy are you in for a wild ride.

Get a snack and a drink, pop below the break, and let's begin.

Allow me to take you back to the year 2014. I was the ripe young age of 15, finishing up my sophomore year of high school, and suffering from undiagnosed depression of the "I'm trapped in my own home" variety. We didn't have cable, and so stuff like PBS Kids, NBC Kids, and 4Kids were the only things I watched on a regular basis. In the online space, I was largely chronline to the tenth degree (and note the "largely", because, y'know...school). The Internet, and spaces like Tumblr, served as escapism, and I spent a lot of time particularly in the Wild Kratts side of things.

I had first heard of Odd Squad through PBS's own upfront, the PBS Annual Meeting, that was held in May (though the show was, as I would find out much later, officially announced back in January at that year's TCA Winter Press Tour). It was the network's first live-action show since The Electric Company reboot in 2009 that got swiftly cancelled, which was already enough to get me interested because PBS hadn't taken a chance on live-action stuff since. The premise, as well, was charming and incredibly interesting -- a secret organization that solves problems using math sounded a little saccharine and thus perfect for PBS Kids, but since it was live-action, I figured it could bring a little spice to the network in a way that not other kids shows of the modern network era (read: 2013 onwards, past the network redesign) did. The fact that PBS was willing to go all-in on the show, up to teasers, previews, even having two new games available for fans to play before its premiere, was practically the cherry on top.

Fast-forward to around September. By this point, teasers and promos were already coming out for the show that showcased Olive, Otto, Oprah and Oscar in action. And by this point, I was absolutely invested. On a whim, I decided to take my Sony camera and record a reaction video of me watching it. Was it weird? Yes, but I had no money for a laptop that wasn't a decade old and didn't run about as well as a computer from the days of yore. You make do with what you have.

Needless to say, when the first episode "Zero Effect" premiered, I was having a whale of a time. That's...pretty much all I remember. Aside from the swearing. Lots and lots of swearing.

(...Look, it was 10 years ago. My brain can only go on a decline after being fully developed. And the depression has been eating away at me for that long. When astrophysicists perfect the art of the time machine, call me.)

I uploaded it to my YouTube channel the day after the show premiered. No editing, just a straight-cut video of my reactions laid on the table. I figured, "Okay, so this would be nice to look back on and laugh, maybe."

And then, a month later, I got a PM from Joshua Kilimnik, the actor who plays Season 1's big bad Odd Todd.

Before I get into that, though, a bit of backstory for my channel is necessary.

I had made my channel in 2011, when Wild Kratts premiered. At the time, it was mostly hosting Wild Kratts content, mainly Top 10 countdowns of fan videos I stumbled across on Tumblr or elsewhere as well as Sparta Remix-related stuff. (Yeah, remember that old meme? That isn't as dead as you think it is? Yeeeeeeah.) Around the middle of 2015, it unfortunately got struck down pretty hard when PBS began to go Nintendo on it, viewed fanworks as threats to their IPs, and decided to rip down my videos from the 'Net in three easy strikes -- and with it, my entire channel. It stung, to see my relatively hard work go down the drain. I'd be lying if I said I had wanted the channel to stay up just so I can look back on it in 5 years and cringe at how juvenile it was. Christ sakes, I even had MLP stuff up there at one point. Why? Don't ask me. I wasn't even watching the show at the time. I truly got into it when Season 5 began airing.

But back to the PM. You know, back when YouTube gave you the option to PM people.

Getting the PM from Joshua, I was, naturally, suspect. Celebrity impersonators are all too common, and as I would later come to find out, Odd Squad was not exempt. I had to laugh, because an autistic nobody like me getting a PM from a child actor who was in the industry long before Odd Squad was like Ariana Grande up and inviting me to have dinner with her because I made a few comments about her diction. It's a miracle, people. Miracles that only happen to those with life-threatening illnesses or those who have done good for the community. I had neither of those. Unless you count me going to high school as doing the community a service, in which case I have one of those things.

I read the PM again. And again. And again. And something in me thought, "Maybe...just maybe...this guy is actually legitimate. Maybe he's telling the truth about the entire Season 1 cast and the show's crew members, creators included, seeing my video. I mean it's 2014, what creator wouldn't look to the Internet for first reactions on their show?"

Fuck it. iBalled. I went for it. I reached out to Joshua.

And by God's oddness-laden utopia, am I so happy I did.

We immediately hit it off, taking our conversation from YouTube DMs to Twitter DMs (no, my current Twitter is not that ancient -- my time on birdsite-now-saltyman-hellhole is a whole different story) and discussing our hobbies and what we did. Joshua confided in me that he helped disabled kids, which, honestly, is a green flag in my book off the bat as someone who is, in fact, disabled. I told him about my animal shelter work and how I loved the show.

At the same time, I had posted on Tumblr about the show. Don't ask me what the post was about -- I honestly couldn't tell you, and combing through the tag is something I'd need a hell of a lot of motivation for -- but it somehow, by some astronomical means, took off. People came in like a small trickle. It was small, but over time, we built a strong community. I didn't exactly know how big my impact on people was until I read "how I got into Odd Squad" stories and saw my name pop up enough times to the point where I could safely say I was an inspiration to more than one person.

At some point in 2015, I had created a Wiki for the show. Fandom -- or Wikia, as it was called back then -- wasn't exactly new territory for me, as I had visited other show Wikis before. However, my Odd Squad Wiki didn't take off, and someone else ended up making another one that became far more successful.

...Yeah, you're surprised, aren't you? Figures. But not even I can lay claim to everything.

When the other Wiki took off, Joshua decided to dive right into the fire and engage with the fandom directly. Now, for any big-name fandom, this is everyday normalcy. The My Little Pony fandom has fans directly engage with cast and crew members who answer their questions, for example. But for small fandoms of niche IPs -- and oh believe you me, Odd Squad was incredibly niche back then -- a cast member interacting with fans was a huge deal. The hype only increased when Joshua was named an administrator, along with a few others, myself included.

Needless to say, Joshua being involved boosted the fandom's activity exponentially, and not just due to his spectacular acting on the show. Fanfics, fanart, fan videos...it was a bustling time of fan content. I can recall some of the most notable works just off the top of my head. The fandom got to be so busy that I made a news blog just to cover every bit of news, shifting away from my Wild Kratts news coverage to focus on a different show instead. I enlisted a few old friends to help me out, converted them to be oddballs (which, I will say, was a stroke of luck), and put them on the "staff team". My aim was to create something akin to Equestria Daily, but on a smaller scale. We did editorials, episode followups, and scoured the Internet for any and every bit of Odd Squad news we could find. It became a reliable source for many, especially considering PBS's horrible track record with even the most basic of news -- cancellations, renewals, and other such announcements. Not to brag, but I like to think I did a better job than them at actually giving news to fans who deserve it. (Hell, I still do. My hunger for even small crumbs of news is very strong indeed.)

I can easily recall when Season 2 was announced. Me and my friends were ecstatic. For me, I never thought Odd Squad would get a Season 2, and the Season 1 finale -- affectionately named OINFO (don't confuse it with "O is Not For Old", that's a different rodeo; this is "O is Not For Over") -- made sure of that. Originally, it was set to air in May, before it got shifted to June to coincide with Season 2's premiere.

And even long before that, the movie being announced blew our minds. I genuinely couldn't believe this niche little IP, birthed only several months ago, was getting a movie. And not even one of those specials that PBS markets as a movie as a ratings stunt. No, no, this was a full-blown theatrical movie. With A-listers to boot! And it was a damn good movie!

(...Okay, unrelated, but man, I'm reading through all my old posts and comments on the Wiki and cringing. God, did I really type like a 10-year-old back then when I was in high school? Egh gross cringe. The "let her say fuck" was strong with me back then.)

Of course, as most actors do, Joshua largely moved on from the show as the years went on. Most long-timer fans stuck around until the end of Season 2 before either other interests caught their eye or real life just got in the way too much. A majority of these fans dropped off the face of the Earth like an introvert who suddenly disappears mid-conversation, though they still popped into the Discord server a few times and I reconnected with one or two on Twitter. Hell, some of them even made a "hey, I'm back, and here's what's up" post on Fandom that made me ask if their accounts got hacked.

As a result, when Season 3 premiered, the fandom had slowed down to a crawl. Anyone who's bore witness to it, whether an episode or a nugget of criticism, can probably guess why. (And anyone who hasn't can feel the wrath of my "trust me bro" card, thank you.) It was like I willingly leapt off of the boat, it sped away without me, and I was trapped in the middle of fuck-all nowhere with sharks. So, you know, like Open Water if it was actually good. But the point stands in that I was pretty much all alone. I couldn't crawl to anyone for the sweet release of death after seeing just how hard S&P tried to avoid The Shadow's very obvious murder attempt by way of hacking into a car to make it fall into a lake of green goo. All I could do was scream and cry into a mic, edit, upload to YouTube, and let all the unsupervised kids looking for free episodes come to me in droves.

Oh, and post to Odd News. Until I accidentally deleted the account.

By that point in time, my old friends had all left due to real life commitments, and only one, Angelica, remained. But even she drifted away, and I was stuck running it all alone. So, I made the difficult decision to let it rot, and frankly...I haven't touched it since. Largely because I left Tumblr entirely and only just now came back. On the news front, I expanded my coverage to PBS Kids as a whole network, just as I do on Twitter.

It wasn't until the back half of Season 3 premiered that the fandom slowly but surely began to grow from planted roots, and I could connect with people again. Seeing people flood the Discord server and Tumblr, sharing art and news and theories, was amazing. Not for Season 3, though -- it was because of the past two seasons. Honestly, to say there's been more talk about Otis and Odd Todd than about any other character in the entire franchise is a hell of an understatement, because it dominated pretty much 98% of the fandom.

From there, new fanworks, fanart, and other pieces of fan-created media were created, and many still continue to be created to this day. Though hyperfixations can be yoted off the cliff and die in an instant (with deepest apologies to Shroom), it's great to see a burst of activity in such a small fandom. Hell, it even got big enough to where we had a Secret Valentine's exchange a couple months back, which was a real joy because it gave me a chance to flex my writing chops even if it did leave me on the verge of a third panic attack. And...the fandom being revived did land me a solid interview for a college assignment. Which, to me, is my own equivalent of getting a dedicated panel at a convention.

But this isn't a whole entire story about fandom lore. It's a story about me.

And honestly...I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little tired with Odd Squad myself.

Between the choking responsibilities of adult life (yay work), the state of my mental and physical health (yay depression and anxiety), and the franchise being fucked over sideways to Pluto and back by numerous entities (yay TV industry), I really can't just focus on Odd Squad anymore. Now, I'll give a fair warning to you and tell you to make no mistake -- my enjoyment of the franchise will die with me and my entire bloodline if the franchise itself doesn't die first. But I've found other special interests and hyperfixations that have grabbed me more than the funny kid agent franchise has. I derive more joy from binging the 90s Frasier series, Pretty Cure, and Neighborhood Wars than I do with the funny kid agent franchise.

Now, does this mean I'm leaving the fandom? God no. To do it on the verge of the franchise's 10th anniversary would be utter blasphemy. And I do plan on weaponizing this blog for more Seren's Studies, including episode reviews and character analyses I can't do with the limited resources I have. But the drive for Odd Squad is just...no longer there for me. I did not, unfortunately, get the "Odd Squad forever" autism. I got the "childhood is hell, but okay, sure, I'll make you a functioning competent adult to a certain degree" autism.

Maybe one of these days, amidst the countless new pieces of media that keep releasing, I'll be able to rewatch Odd Squad. It's worn out its welcome nostalgia-wise, but I find it to be a pretty enjoyable view when I take off those glasses and put on the "my God is an awesome God and that's why I try to attend church every Sunday" ones. I'm still making crossover fan projects to other IPs like MLP, Super Monkey Ball, and Precure. And of course, I'll be seated for Odd Squad UK to see if it's good or not -- I'm more than happy to take the bullet for people who don't want to see it for whatever reason, just as I did for the back half of Season 3. But for now, the drive is pretty much gone.

I will admit, I'm likely missing some stuff. My memory is absolutely terrible, and I had to go fishing for a lot of stuff to refresh it (one of the reasons why this took so long to release in the first place). But this is what I can dredge up.

I'm honestly proud of the little fandom I birthed. I could work a hundred jobs in my lifetime and still say that founding the Odd Squad fandom is by far my greatest accomplishment. I've met so many amazing people, seen so many amazing things, and really, I'm hoping to see more people in the years to come. If the aim is to introduce Odd Squad to new generations of kids, teens, young adults, and adults alike, then I'm all for it. Expose them to goodness. None of that Cocomelon shit.

Thank you for reading, and to all of the people in the fandom both old and new, thank you for touching my life in ways I never thought of. If you've got any further questions about my story, send 'em my way; I'll be glad to answer 'em.

See you all in the next Seren's Studies, whenever that may be.

#odd squad #odd squad pbs kids #seren speaks

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heroinuser88 · 7 months ago

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Did you know that long term alcohol use is worse for your brain & organs than long term clean diacetylmorphine use? Or most opioids in general? Did you know that alcohol kills more people annually than any other drug? So why is it that the former is legal, socially acceptable & advertised on every street corner & the latter is unfairly stigmatized, criminalized & demonized? Did you know opioids use to make great antidepressants & were once legal & used for such in the early 1900s? There are many legal & commonly available things that are addictive & more destructive on your physical health. Yet the masses have been conditioned to believe opiates/opioids are some of the most "dangerous" drugs. Swiss study showing 15 years of daily heroin use resulted in no adverse health complications - https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12954-020-00412-0 "No serious heroin-related medical complication occurred during the 15-year window of observation among inmates with heroin-assisted treatment. Their work performance was comparable to that of the reference group." Opioids as antidepressants - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5189718/ " Historically, MOR agonists have also been applied in the treatment of mood disorders, notably including major depressive disorder (MDD). Indeed, until the mid-20th century, low doses of opium itself were used to treat depression, and the so called “opium cure” was purportedly quite effective.9 With the advent of tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) in the 1950s however, the psychiatric use of opioids rapidly fell out of favor and has been largely dormant since, likely due to negative medical and societal perceptions stemming from their abuse potential. However, there have been scattered clinical reports (both case studies and small controlled trials) since the 1970s indicating the effectiveness of MOR agonists in treating depression. The endogenous opioid peptide β-endorphin, as well as a number of small molecules, have all been reported to rapidly and robustly improve the symptoms of MDD and/or anxiety disorders in the clinical setting, even in treatment resistant patients.10–17 These results have been recapitulated in rodent models, where a variety of MOR agonists show antidepressant effects.18–21 " One of the reasons heroin even became so heavily criminalized originally was so that they could target anti-war hippies & black communities - https://www.vera.org/reimagining-prison-webumentary/the-past-is-never-dead/drug-war-confessional “You want to know what this [war on drugs] was really all about? The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying?

We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.

Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” - Nixon's Adviser The fact that you can drink yourself to death with alcohol or consume various toxic chemicals pushed by big names, but using opioids to enhance your life (be it pain or depression or both) makes you a "junkie" and a "criminal" who "needs help". This is a total hypocritical violation of people's right to bodily autonomy & their right to pursuit of happiness. END THE DRUG WAR

#End the drug war #Reality check #Opiates #Opioids #Drug War #Drugs #Medicine #Heroin

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ernestinee · 7 months ago

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C'est le troisième jour qu'il dort et tousse. Il se réveille pour grignoter ce qui veut bien rentrer dans son estomac et en profiter pour prendre les médicaments qui font passer la fièvre et la toux.

Et moi je prépare des petites assiettes dès les signes de réveil. 1/4 de steak, une pomme en compote, une poignée de macaronis, des salades de fruits, du beurre de cacahuète, des noix, des yaourts... On a acheté des chips pour faire monter sa tension et des bonbons pour blinder ses glucides car il a perdu presque deux kilos depuis mercredi soir.

Je me revois faire pareil il y a 15 ans et quelques mois. Les nuits blanches à scruter les signes de réveil. "Un bébé ne se laisse pas mourir de faim" (spoiler: si, ça arrive) "vous ne savez pas le nourrir, on va devoir le garder". Les journées à cuisiner ce qu'il aime, tester des recettes, des associations, des textures. "On doit le gaver" "Faire des examens supplémentaires".

On n'en n'est plus là, mais les vieux démons ressurgissent. Hier, le médecin a posé des questions d'anamnèse sur son passé d'alimentation. Elle a parlé d'examens supplémentaires. De vérifier les globules blancs. De trouver pourquoi sa tension baisse à ce point.

Des nouvelles peurs s'installent aussi, en particulier sur les tca. Comment lui permettre un développement sain alors qu'il part d'une "anorexie du nourrisson" (dixit pédiatres), comment le rassurer quand il met des semaines à prendre 2kg et quelques jours pour les perdre.

Il est censé rentrer à l'école après-demain, il lui reste 3 semaines de cours avant le blocus et les examens, et il ne tient pas debout plus de 3 minutes.

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disneytva · 11 months ago

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TCA Sets Dates For Winter Tour 2024 - Disney Attending The Event With Disney Branded Television Panel TBD.

TCA has set its Winter 2024 return for February 5 at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena with the tour ending on the 15. The live event returns following the Summer Tour cancellation due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

Disney is set to attend on February 9-10 with FX Networks and ABC, surprisingly Hulu and Disney Branded Television are nowhere to be found however according to TCA participating shows, units and panelists will be released at a later time. So expect on the upcoming month to get more updates on the panelist and units attending the press tour.

As you may know previous TCA Press Tours have unveiled many announcements, this year's edition unveiled the Phineas And Ferb revival, renewals for Pupstruction, SuperKitties and Firebuds, 2022 unveiled greenlight orders for SuperFudge and Tiny Trailblazers and 2021 edition unveiled greenlight orders for Pupstruction, Mickey's Tales of Two Witches, Mickey and Minnie's Wish Upon A Christmas.

Based on this here's our SPECULATION on what MIGHT be announced:

-Cookies & Milk key art and Guest Cast List

-Key Arts for "RoboGobo", "Hey A.J!" and "Kindergarten: The Musical"

-Key Art, Synopsis,Director and Writters for Disney TVAs films "SuperFudge" & "The School For Sensitive Souls"

-Greenlight orders for Jose Zelaya, Dave Pressler and Harland Williams - Disney Junior shows

-Greenlight orders for Latoya Raveneau, Nic Smal, Lucy Heavens, Noah Z Jones, Ryan W. Quincy, Thurop Van Orman, C.H. Greenblatt - Disney Channel shows

-Information on recently revealed series "Sam Witch", "Fantasy Sports", "Neon Galaxy", Johnny Guitar Rock Star" and "La Familia Avenúñez" who got revealed via trademark sites

-Big City Greens: The Movie synopsis, key art and date.

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notodoestanfacil · 1 year ago

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Allá por 2018 decidi dejar atrás esta cuenta porque sólo me traía malos recuerdos, me generaba muchísimo rechazo ver lo mal que estaba y que casi nada había cambiado. Me genera muchísima nostalgia ver lo que escribía, lo que compartía y cómo me sentía. Esta red social me ayudó muchísimo como así también me destrozó la psiquis y me hundió de todas las formas posibles.

Hoy, después de muuucho tiempo decidí volver porque esa nostalgia y esos recuerdos se apoderaron de mí y me hacen creer que nada va a mejorar. No soy esa misma persona que hace 8 años compartía cosas sobre suicidio, tca y ya se imaginan cuantas cosas más, claramente sigo en la mierda pero ya no tanto como antes. Tengo días buenos, días donde me creo la persona mas fuerte de este mundo y otros donde la tristeza se apodera de mi y se niega a dejarme tranquila. A pesar de todo eso estoy casi a punto de terminar mi carrera universitaria, fueron años MUY difíciles. Mi papá se enfermó, creí que se moría y yo no podía hacer nada porque estaba lejos, en plena pandemia, encerrada y sola. Recaí, aparecieron las autolesiones y los problemas alimenticios volvieron a asomarse para hacerme sentir como a mis 15 años. Volví a casa, papá mejoró, pero otros familiares enfermaron y hoy ya no están mas a nuestro lado. Llanto, dolor, shock, logré decirle a mi vieja lo que me estaba pasando, fue duro pero lo logré. Intente mejorar pero la vida a veces se pone de acuerdo para que tooodo salga mal, problemas de acá, problemas de allá. Recaí de nuevo y así hasta no hace mucho.

En el amor todo sigue igual, me separe, llore, aprendí y entendí que era lo mejor para mi. Trato de convencerme de que estoy bien sola pero a veces solo me gustaría tener a ese "alguien" para charlar, salir, reírme y no sentirme tan sola esos domingos que tanto me abruman.

No mejore al 100%, ojalá pudiera decir que si. Hace unos meses se fue mi padrino, era como mi segundo papá. Por suerte pude estar en casa y despedirlo como se lo merecía. Me pude contener en los brazos de mamá y refugiarme en las risas con mis amigos. Mi mayor miedo de estar lejos es no estar cerca de mi familia ante situaciones como estas. Hace unas semanas visité su casa, fue raro. Lo extraño. El lunes pasado fue mi cumpleaños, no estaba él pero estuve rodeada de personas que sabían lo triste y doloroso que era para mí ese día. Mi prima es mi salvación, se lo dije muchas veces y hoy lo vuelvo a afirmar. Estoy agradecida de la gente que me rodea, me costó muchísimo tiempo, muchísimos años entender que no estoy sola. Tengo que permitirme sanar, superar y ser feliz. Ya no quiero preguntarme ¿Y si nunca voy a dejar de sentirme así?.

Lo necesito, me lo merezco.

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thebusylilbee · 3 months ago

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A noter qu'une question sur la vente d'armes par la France à la colonie sioniste a été posée en février 2024 dans le Journal Officiel des Questions du Sénat, et que personne au sein du Ministère de l'Europe et des affaires étrangères n'a pris le temps de répondre depuis... Voici le contenu de la question :

Question de M. GAY Fabien (Seine-Saint-Denis - CRCE-K) publiée le 15/02/2024

M. Fabien Gay interroge M. le ministre de l'Europe et des affaires étrangères sur les ventes d'armes opérées par la France à Israël en 2023 et 2024. Le rapport annuel sur les exportations d'armes, présenté par le ministère des armées en juillet 2023, établit que depuis 10 ans, la France a vendu pour 208 millions d'euros de matériel militaire à Israël, dont 25,6 millions en 2022, auxquels s'ajoutent près de 9 millions d'euros d'autorisations d'exports d'armes de catégorie militaire ML4. Ces ventes intervenaient dans un contexte où l'organisation des Nations unies (ONU) formulait des alertes répétées sur les atteintes aux droits perpétrées par les colons et l'armée israélienne à l'encontre des Palestiniens dans la bande de Gaza et en Cisjordanie. Pourtant, la France est signataire depuis 2013 du traité des Nations unies sur le commerce des armes (TCA), qui interdit aux États la vente d'armes s'ils ont « connaissance [...] que ces armes ou ces biens pourraient servir à commettre un génocide, des crimes contre l'humanité, des violations graves des conventions de Genève de 1949, des attaques dirigées contre des civils ou des biens de caractère civil et protégés comme tels, ou d'autres crimes de guerre ». La situation géopolitique s'est encore dégradée par suite de l'attaque du Hamas perpétrée à l'encontre de civils israéliens le 7/10/2023. Depuis, l'offensive militaire menée par le Gouvernement israélien dans la bande de Gaza a engendré la mort de plus de 27 000 Palestiniens et provoqué au moins 66 000 blessés ; 10 000 personnes sont toujours portées disparues sous les décombres liés aux bombardements incessants, au moins 1,8 million de Gazaouis ont été déplacés. Concernant la Cisjordanie occupée, les exactions commises par les colons et l'armée israélienne se multiplient. Le 26/01/2024, la Cour internationale de justice a ordonné à l'État israélien de s'abstenir de commettre des actes entrant dans le champ d'application de la convention sur le génocide et de « prévenir et punir » toute incitation au génocide des populations palestiniennes. Le Premier ministre israélien a qualifié cette décision de « fausse » et « scandaleuse » et a ajouté que son pays continuera à se « défendre ». De plus, douze de ses ministres, dont celui en charge de la sécurité nationale, ont participé le 28/01/2024 à un grand rassemblement appelant à l'installation de colonies à Gaza et au transfert de la population palestinienne hors de ce territoire. L'existence d'un risque génocidaire plausible à Gaza, reconnu par une haute instance internationale, oblige désormais expressément l'ensemble des États, qui sont notamment tenus de cesser tout export d'armes, de matériels ou de technologies militaires vers Israël. Le ministère des affaires étrangères français a été interrogé sur l'existence d'exports d'armes vers Israël au cours de l'année 2023, et spécifiquement suite au 7 octobre. En l'absence de chiffres officiels, le ministère a annoncé le 24/01/2024 que : « La France respecte strictement ses engagements internationaux dans ses exportations d'armes vers Israël [...]. À ce titre, elle n'exporte pas et n'exportait pas avant les événements dramatiques du 7 octobre de matériels létaux susceptibles d'être employés contre des populations civiles dans la bande de Gaza », tout en précisant que la France « exporte des équipements militaires à Israël afin de lui permettre d'assurer sa défense, comme l'article 51 de la Charte des Nations unies lui en donne le droit ». Aussi, il souhaiterait obtenir des chiffres précis sur les exports et autorisations d'exports d'armes décidés par la France vers Israël en 2023, et le détail des équipements qui ont été livrés dans cette période. Il souhaiterait aussi savoir si le Gouvernement entend prononcer en 2024 un embargo sur la vente d'armes à Israël, conformément aux engagements internationaux de la France.

Publiée dans le JO Sénat du 15/02/2024 - page 506

#quelle putain de honte... le monde occidental est pourri jusqu'à la moelle #france #french #french side of tumblr #upthebaguette #zionism #israel #colonialism #palestine #genocide #bee tries to talk

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historiased · 10 months ago

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El comienzo de un tc4, Haeun

Hola me llamo Haeun tengo casi 15 años y suelo no comer, vomitar lo que como, contar kcal y cortarme como castigo por comer o subir de peso ¿te recuerda a algo?, bueno así es un tca, más o menos como algo que tienes tú también y estoy muy segura de que te preguntas cómo se siente tener un tca, como lo desarrolle y estoy muy pero muy segura que estas aqui por que lo tienes también, les platicare de como empezó mi lucha contra la comida y como me convertí en lo que soy ahora, hace algunos años en primero de secundaria era normal, era una chica que comía lo que sea sin saber de las calorías y comia bastantes papas de las que venden en el oxxo como, takis o chips fuego, esas eran mis favoritas sin embargo despues de bastante tiempo las cosas cambiaron me empeze a meter mas en el mundo del kpop y normalmente mi madre me decia que me veia mas gordita, que tenia que cuidar lo que como y siempre hacia comentarios como “mira que delgadita esta tu amiga Yuri” (una de mis amigas), de verdad era desesperante, en segundo de secundaria hubo un momento donde decidi hace una dieta, esta dieta era exrtricta pero hecha por el nutriologo, cuando rompi la dieta y comi normal senti algo que jamas habia sentido, culpa…demasiada culpa, desde ahi dije que iba a comer menos y empeze a ver los cuerpos de lisa, wonyoung y jennie (idols de kpop) mi mamá me empezo a decir que me veia mas llenita, que no me cerraban los pantalones y incluso me llego a decir que si queria adelgazar, cerrara la boca y dejara de comer. Y eso fue lo que hice.

Constantemente me sentía como una gorda por lo que deje de comer poco a poco cada vez menos, me empeze a obsesionar con las calorías demasiado, al punto que más de 300 ya era demasiado, contaba la mínima cosa que comía y empeze a bajar, lamentablemente mi madre me obligaba a comer los días martes, jueves y viernes porque esos eran los días que iba a mi casa ya que los lunes y miércoles me quedaba a clases de baile, al principio realmente me daba miedo vomitar la comida, muchas veces pensaba en hacerlo me pero me daba mucho miedo, el primer dia que lo hice sorprendentemente lo pude hacer bien ya que ese dia habia comido pollo con champiñones a la crema (algo facil de vomitar), despues de ese dia no pude parar, se me complicaba a veces pero hubo un momento donde ya no me costaba porque en si la comida ya me daba asco, mi madre jamas se entero y pase de pesar 46 a pesar 43 en pocas semanas, yo pense que hasta ahi iba a llegar pense que no iba a ser muy grave pero me di cuenta que una vez que empiezas no paras, empeze a vomitar todos los dias, tomar muchos laxantes, fumar vape, contar todas las kcal y comer mucho menos, incluso llegue a cortarme los muslos como castigo por comr algo muy calorico basicamente me hice mierda las piernas, pero baje, logre bajar y mi madre nunca se entero, ahora cada que como me siento culpable, me veo al espejo y me veo como una gorda, con grasa, solo siento asco al verme y ya es normal compararme con todas mis amigas, porque asi empezo mi tca y probablemente el tuyo empezo casi igual, solo recuerda.

UNA VEZ QUE EMPIEZAS NO PUEDES PARAR.

#quiero ser flaca #ed disorder #tw ed diet #anorexcya #th1nsp1ration #tw ed descussion #tw restrictive ed #low cal restriction #tc4 #an0r3c1a #hasta los huesos

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twwpress · 9 months ago

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Weekly Press Briefing #86: February 11th - 17th

Welcome back to the Weekly Press Briefing, where we bring you highlights from The West Wing fandom each week, including new fics, ongoing challenges, and more! This briefing covers all things posted from February 11 – February 17. Did we miss something? Let us know; you can find our contact info at the bottom of this briefing!

Challenges/Prompts:

Do you have a challenge or event you’d like us to promote or know of one we’re missing? Be sure to get in touch with us! Contact info is at the bottom of this briefing.

@thefinestmuffin and @JessBakesCakes are hosting the 3rd Annual Josh/Donna Rom-Com Fest. The fest revealed on February 14, but prompts and claims are still open and fics can still be added to the collection. Details here.

This Week in Canon:

Welcome back to This Week in Canon, where we revisit moments in The West Wing that occurred on these dates during the show’s run.

Season 1, Episode 15: Celestial Navigation aired on February 16, 2000.

Season 2, Episode 14: The War At Home aired on February 14, 2001.

Season 4, Episode 15: Inauguration: Over There aired on February 12, 2003.

Season 6, Episode 15: Freedonia aired on February 16, 2005.

Photos/Videos:

Here’s what was posted from February 11 - February 17:

Amy Landecker posted a screenshot of Josh Lyman in sunglasses.

Amy Landecker posted photos of her and Brad’s dog Angie, including photos of each of them with the dog.

Bradley Whitford posted a photo of his wife Amy with one of their dogs, along with a sweet Valentine’s Day message.

Dulé Hill posted a photo from the TCAs where he was talking about his upcoming show “The Express Way with Dulé Hill”, a four part docu-series airing on PBS beginning April 23.

Dulé Hill posted photos of himself and his wife Jazmyn continuing their Valentine’s Day oyster tradition.

Janel Moloney posted a photo of her beagle Ollie eyeing her son’s birthday breakfast.

Josh Malina posted a photo of himself donating platelets.

Josh Malina posted a cast photo from the 1992 National Tour of A Few Good Men.

Marlee Matlin posted a photo of herself at the Academy Nominee Luncheon (she is a Governor).

Mary McCormack posted photos of her daughter Rose playing live at the Whisky a Go Go as part of a benefit for HEARTbeats.

Melissa Fitzgerald posted a photo of herself with her pup for Valentine’s Day.

Richard Schiff posted a photo of himself with his wife Sheila for Valentine’s Day.

Rob Lowe posted a photo of himself and his wife on bicycles in celebration of Valentine’s Day.

Rob Lowe posted photos of himself at Santa Barbara International Film Festival with Robert Downey Jr. and Cillian Murphy.

@twwgifs: February 11 | February 14

Editors’ Choice:

This week, we’re bringing you some of our favorite fics that touch on what could have been: here are a few of our favorite canon divergence fics!

i want your complications too by thefinestmuffins for JessBakesCakes | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss, Amy Gardner/John Tandy | In progress | What could have happened between Josh and Donna during Dead Irish Writers if Josh and Amy had never really gotten off the ground? Canon-divergent from 100,000 Airplanes. In Whatever Way You Need by TemperanceCain | Rated T | C. J. Cregg/Toby Ziegler | Complete | C.J. has a problem. Margaret offers a solution. before i forget by jazzjo | Rated G | C.J. Cregg, Talmidge Cregg | Complete | standing at the fork in the road, c.j. chooses her father and ohio, at least for now. or, a love letter to my grandmother let my love fix you up (when you’re coming undone) by JessBakesCakes for hufflepuffhermione | Rated T | Josh Lyman/Donna Moss | Complete | The Gaza Arc reimagined: what if Sam flew to Germany to make sure his friends didn't miss their third chance? love is not a victory march by epigraphs | Rated G | C.J. Cregg/Simon Donovan | Complete | On a bench in Times Square, surrounded by lights and sounds and sights and people, she lets herself fall apart. The Deepest of Needs by deandratb for broken_hearted_bard | Rated T | C. J. Cregg/Toby Ziegler | Complete | His proposal is a failure, his job is only getting harder. At least his best friend isn't going anywhere. Begins the night after “7A WF 83429.”

This week's fics coming in the reblog!

#the west wing #tww #tww fandom #tww fic #west wing #josh lyman #donna moss #cj cregg #sam seaborn #toby ziegler #canon divergence fics #joshdonna #cjdanny #danny concannon #tww rare pairs #cjtoby

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wannabperf · 1 year ago

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Martes 8, 4am

Bajé dos tallas en dos semanas, tengo familia y mi novio que me supervisan que coma (saben que quiero bajar de peso y que tuve tca hace años) y bueno, como lo que toca comer pero luego tengo 15 min para vomitarlo todo. Aprendí al pasar los años cómo hacer para que lo haga ya sin ruidos. Estoy comiendo una vez al dia lo cuál vomito y toooodos me dicen que estoy más flaca, pero prefiero escuchar que estoy MUY flaca. Es distinto.

Aún no me peso, mañana por fin lo haré y estoy emocionada por eso, sé que baje lo sé, ropa que no me quedaba hoy logre desfilarla contenta. aunque el sentimiento dura poco.

#estoy gorda #hasta los huesos #no quiero ser gorda #ana español #bul1m14 #princesa ana #tw mia #mia goth #ana e mia #ana and mia

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usafphantom2 · 4 months ago

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How I Missed the D*mn War – Part 1

By the way, we drank the base dry. They literally ran out of beer. For a few days you couldn’t find a six pack of beer anywhere on base, but eventually we were resupplied, and all was well again.

My crew was headed down range…

(stay tuned for How I Missed the D*mn War – Part 2)

Photos: Lajes Field runway, the parking ramp, my AC and copilot, an A-10 receiver during one of the missions

@tcamp202 via X

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outoflimbo · 2 years ago

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Because people on the internet, especially viz-a-viz AI image generation, seem to have a hard time understanding what fair use is in U.S. copyright law, here's a quick summary:

Fair use is an affirmative defense that protects artists' uses of preexisting material that might otherwise be considered copyright infringement. Being a form of affirmative defense, it is case-by-case, and it is decided in court whether or not a usage constitutes fair use and is thus protected on an individual basis. These decisions are based on precedent and individual judgement.

There are four quasi-official factors that are used to determine whether or not something constitutes fair use. I want to make clear that this checklist is not an automatic arbiter of the decision; it is used to aide the decision making.

The four factors are:

Transformative use. Does the new work utilize the borrowed materials in a novel, original way? Does it have a significantly different purpose, meaning, aesthetic or medium? There are certain purposes that are often evoked in favor of fair use as well: is the new work educational, critical, or satirical? Does it comment upon the original? Does it not merely reproduce but turns the original into a new work in and of itself? The nature of the copyrighted work. What is the nature of the material that you're borrowing from? Is the original piece in and of itself fanciful, artistic, or creative? Or is it documentary, utilitarian, "un-artistic?" Think of the difference between using a news photograph vs. an original oil painting. Also, is the original still in market? Can it still be bought? (This ties in with the fourth factor.)

The portion taken. How much of the original work is used in the derived work? Does the derived work use the main "heart" of the original piece, or only bits and pieces? Can the derived piece be seen as a replacement for the original? Are multiple different derived pieces, copyrighted or not, used as well? The effect of use upon the market. This is the most important to the decision: does this new work pose any sort of threat to the borrowed work on the market? If I use pieces of news photographs in an original collage, for example, it's safe to assume I am not significantly replacing the original in its market.

Now let's look at some cases! These are taken from https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/cases/ :

Fair use. Publisher Larry Flynt made disparaging statements about the Reverend Jerry Falwell on one page of Hustler magazine. Rev. Falwell made several hundred thousand copies of the page and distributed them as part of a fund-raising effort. Important factors: Rev. Falwell’s copying did not diminish the sales of the magazine (since it was already off the market) and would not adversely affect the marketability of back issues. (Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Moral Majority, Inc., 606 F.Supp. 1526 (C.D. Cal., 1985).)

Here, we see one of the most common fair use arguments: that the new work does not present a threat to the original in the market.

Fair use. The black comedy, Hand to God, features the famed Abbott and Costello routine “Who’s on First?” The routine is spoken by a repressed character, whose hand puppet persona mocks him for pretending to be the author of the routine. Important factors: Though the use of the routine in the movie and play both elicit laughs, the play’s usage is transformative because the audience must be aware of the original in order to “get the joke.” TCA Television Corp. v. McCollum, No. 15 Civ. 4325 (S.D. N.Y. Dec. 17, 2105).

The novel use of the comedy routine is transformative. It utilizes the original in a novel way that is aesthetically distinct and presents a new artistic voice.

Not a fair use. A company published a book of trivia questions about the events and characters of the Seinfeld television series. The book included questions based upon events and characters in 84 Seinfeld episodes and used actual dialog from the show in 41 of the book’s questions. Important factors: As in the Twin Peaks case, the book affected the owner’s right to make derivative Seinfeld works such as trivia books. (Castle Rock Entertainment, Inc. v. Carol Publ. Group, 150 F.3d 132 (2d Cir. 1998).)

Here, the question of "does it affect the copyright holder's market share?" rears its head again. Note that the decision was made on potential monetary avenues.

Fair use. A search engine’s practice of creating small reproductions (“thumbnails”) of images and placing them on its own website (known as “inlining”) did not undermine the potential market for the sale or licensing of those images. Important factors: The thumbnails were much smaller and of much poorer quality than the original photos and served to help the public access the images by indexing them. (Kelly v. Arriba-Soft, 336 F.3d. 811 (9th Cir. 2003).)

The resulting thumbnail images were found to not serve as a replacement for the original pictures, and served a public use, combining the first and fourth factors.

Full disclosure: I'm an anti-copyright socialist who thinks that the idea of intellectual property in the first place is abhorrent. However, fair use presents a very powerful, if limited, defense for artists to engage in the right to reuse, remix and plunder as they see fit. As all artists should!

If you see attempts being made to constrict fair use in any form, even in the name of "artist's rights," do not be duped.

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