#Bauer Media

[croszukis]

nick — pre-season 10.04.23

[ddbtorres]

from 2022, back when I was trying out new techniques using graphite and digital color.

very rough, but I'm happy how it turned out

eventually it became a Magic: the Gathering token for one of my decks.

IG | Cara

[itsmyfriendisaac]

♐ December 2nd: Cuban Casanova, Steven Bauer.

[ihrtnickburkhardt]

[tmmediapharma]

Mueller Hinton Agar: The Media for the Kirby-Bauer Method

Mueller Hinton Agar (MHA) is a solid medium used for the routine susceptibility testing of non-fastidious microorganisms. It was developed by Mueller and Hinton in 1941 for the isolation of Neisseria species. MHA is non-selective and non-differential, which makes it suitable for the growth of any organism. Mueller Hinton Agar acts as a standardized medium for the Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method, a widely used technique for determining antibiotic susceptibility. This method involves placing antibiotic-soaked discs on the agar surface, allowing them to diffuse into the surrounding medium.

Kirby-Bauer susceptibility testing with MHA

MHA is a multipurpose culture media that allows the growth of all non-fastidious bacteria. The presence of starch in the media absorbs all the toxins released by the bacteria, which could interfere with the antibiotics. MHA is a loose agar plate, thus increasing the rate of antibiotic diffusion and providing a clear depiction of the zone of inhibition. Batch-to-batch reproducibility is a major factor in adopting this media for antibiotic susceptibility tests for microbes. The concentration of inhibitors is very low in the medium, which reduces the inactivation of sulphonamides and trimethoprim during the susceptibility of bacteria to antimicrobials. The interpretation of the results obtained from MHA involves measuring the diameter of the clear zones around the antibiotic discs. Larger zones indicate greater susceptibility of the bacteria to the antibiotic, while smaller or absent zones suggest resistance.

Composition of MHA

Ingredients (Gms/ltr)

Agar 17.000

Casein acid hydrolysate 17.500

Beef, infusion 2.000

Starch 1.500

TM Media’s MHA ensures consistency and reproduces exact results. It consists of beef extract, casein hydrolysate, and starch. Beef extract and the acid hydrolysate of casein provide all the essential nutrients for growth, like nitrogen, vitamin, carbon, amino acids, sulphur, etc. Starch plays a characteristic role in absorbing toxic substances released by bacteria during growth. Agar is the solidifying agent.

TM Media’s Mueller Hinton Agar

TM Media provides Mueller Hinton Agar in two forms: Dehydrated and Ready-to-Use, fulfilling the various needs of the microbiologist. The Ready-to-Use MHA Plates reduce any manual error with higher accuracy and productivity as they are ready-to-use and pre-sterilized. They also provide antibiotic discs for susceptibility testing along with all the necessary laboratory equipment, like Petri Plates, Nichrome Loops, Disposable Swabs and many more.

Summary

In conclusion, Mueller-Hinton Agar is a fundamental component in the field of microbiology, particularly in antibiotic susceptibility testing. Its standardized composition and reliable performance make it an invaluable tool for assessing the efficacy of antibiotics and guiding clinicians in the selection of appropriate treatments for bacterial infections.

[hislop3]

Wednesday Feature: Another, Different Pandemic

Happy Hump Day! The purpose of these Wednesday detours from the usual health policy, economics, senior living/senior housing/post-acute care stuff is to help readers and followers either add a touch of levity to their day or (to) cause them to think a bit differently about the world. Consider Wednesday Features as a deviation from the first part of the week, propelling you to the second half and…

[knchr]

EMPIRE MAGAZINE March 2020

[chukys-mouthguard]

what are the odds? - pt. 1

matt rempe x female reader; featuring several side people (francesca kreider, alley rempe, ty bauer, etc.)

social media au!

part two - coming soon!

your.name.here

liked by mattrempe, francesca.kreider, chris.kreider, and 99,394 others

your.name.here it’s all fun and games until the strap of your dress breaks mid dice roll

francesca.kreider not sure what was more impressive, your reflexes to catch the dress or the fact catering fixed it for you lol

-> your.name.here i seriously was prepared to give that woman everything i own as a thank you 😭

chris.kreider your dress breaking is hands down the best thing in rangers casino night history

-> your.name.here yeah i know, you guys are never letting me live that down 🤦🏼‍♀️

user194749 screaming, crying, throwing up at how beautiful you look

user182949 😍😍😍

user103883 is she dating a rangers player???

-> user39587 she’s best friends with the Kreider’s and donates a lot to the Ranger’s charities!

mattrempe still can’t convince me the dress “breaking” wasn’t planned because you were too shy to stick around

-> your.name.here do you know the price tag on this dress?! I’d never break it on purpose 🥹😭

-> mattrempe I’ll happily buy you a new one

liked by your.name.here and francesca.kreider

user29348 wait…Rempe??? 👀 anyone else seeing this?

-> user10379 boy is being bold!

-> user19389 i feel like we would’ve seen pics of them together if this is legit…

-> user10379 maybe he will post something?

nyrangers thanks for coming out! 💙❤️

liked by your.name.here

addison.clark waiting for you to submit your WAGs application already 🥵

-> your.name.here submitted, pending approval 🤭

-> francesca.kreider who can we ask to speed up that process???

mattrempe

liked by your.name.here, alleyrempe, tybauer_, and 104,204 others

mattrempe biggest go fish tournament I’ve ever seen

alleyrempe can you even spell blackjack?

-> mattrempe can you count my winning chips for me? 🤑

alleyrempe will you please punch him for me your.name.here 🙄

-> your.name.here consider him punched

liked by alleyrempe

-> mattrempe alley is rubbing off on you and i don’t like it ☹️

-> your.name.here I’ll make it up to you don’t worry

your.name.here dealer, I’m all in on blue 73 🤞🏼

liked by mattrempe

-> mattrempe i call your bluff 😎

-> addison.clark can confirm she’s not bluffing

-> your.name.here shhh, can’t be exposing my hand 🙊

user52408 i can’t figure out if they are just joking with all the puns or…

-> user29487 there’s literally nothing online about her and rempe being together

user13992 alley stays roasting matt in his comments 😂

liked by alleyrempe

user20349 so no one else is gonna notice the comments with him and your.name.here ?

-> user69667 hard not to notice it

-> user13045 there’s literally no photos of them together…this is the first they’ve ever commented on each other’s stuff. Chill y’all…

tybauer_ matthew, the snapback to a formal event ? 🤦🏻‍♂️

-> mattrempe don’t worry, it was confiscated at the door 🫠

nyrangers official rangers go fish champ ‘24 💪🏼

liked by mattrempe

user29495 alley is friends with your.name.here?? So are her and rempe a thing??

-> user34387 we will probably never know for sure, unless it’s from them directly

[youcouldmakealife]

David, Kiro; ready for your close up, Mr. Ambassador?

For this year's bracket challenge winner, who requested something like Crosby and Mackinnon's Tim Hortons commercials, but with David and Kiro instead.

But of course, because this is David, instead you get a lot of setup as to how exactly we got into this particular scenario. (Kiro to meddle later)

David has never done many endorsement deals. It isn’t that they weren’t offered to him, especially at the beginning of his career — the Islanders may not be the most popular team in New York, but they were still, in Dave’s words, ‘in New fucking York. Yeah, okay, they’re on Long Island. Semantics, David, the market’s the market.’

It wasn’t semantics, not really — the Rangers were New York’s team, then and now, the Islanders relegated to some distant second, New York’s team the way that the Ottawa Senators were Ontario’s, that San Jose was California's.

Still, he had offers. A lot of them. But when he was younger David wanted to focus on hockey and only hockey, worried any distractions would halt his development. His job was to play hockey, not to pretend to be excited about some product he’d never heard of before they called him.

And, frankly, the media David deals with, and the filming he already has to endure for contractual reasons — YouTube videos for his team, soundbites for the TV networks, media day for the league — means that David has no illusions about his acting ability.

So, for the most part, David’s ignored the offers. The money offered is sometimes good, occasionally very good, but he already makes more money than he can spend.

Well, he could easily spend it, but it’s certainly more money than he could responsibly spend, particularly knowing that, sooner rather than later, his career will have to end.

It’s that particular thought, and the accompanying awareness that his endorsement value is only going to decline from this point forward, that has David playing closer attention than usual when Dave mentions that one of the team’s sponsors is interested in filming a TV spot with him.

That isn’t unusual — Dave mentions them often, but they’re more an aside that David’s welcome to ignore. Dave is well aware that David has little interest, but he still conveys the message, mostly, he says, because he gets paid for them too — not as much, obviously, but he does receive a portion of David’s earnings.

To date, David’s only taken him up on one offer. Leapt on it, even though the compensation was negligible compared to other offers, let alone compared to what he made on the ice, but that was because it was Bauer, offering him the chance to, in effect, advertise a stick designed to his specifications. The filming wasn’t too bad either, since it mostly involved him stickhandling for take after take, which wasn’t all that different from practice. Even those have cameras sometimes.

He still uses the stick to this day. It isn’t the only one uses, or even the one he uses most often — it’s a little too fragile, and David grew tired of having to race back to the bench when it snapped yet again, though he did draw more penalties with it — but it’s excellent for the power play.

“It’s a very generous offer,” Dave says. “They have a ‘vision’, they said, and they’re willing to pay a little more to get you specifically.”

“What do you mean?” David asks.

“Let them tell you,” Dave says. “It’s actually a pretty decent idea.”

Dave wouldn’t say it if he didn’t mean it, and between the money, and David’s curiosity, it’s enough reason to agree to meet with someone from the sponsor. ‘Just a coffee’, they said, but David prepares for — and receives — a pitch instead.

Apparently it’s all Kiro’s fault. The representative doesn’t put it like that, of course, but he does mention that the idea came after someone on their marketing team watched the red carpet interview from the Awards the year David won the Art Ross.

David isn’t sure why that interview’s still online, let alone why anyone would watch it, but it is, and they have, and their marketing team thinks, being that David is from the Canadian capital, plays in Washington, and Kiro joked about him being the Canadian Ambassador to Russia, it would be funny for David to play an ambassador.

“A hockey ambassador,” he says. “You know?”

“I have no experience with diplomacy,” David says. “Or acting, really.”

He’s sure he’d be terrible at it. He’s terrible even at playing himself, according almost every bit of feedback he’s received on NHL media day, and he can't see playing a role going any better.

“You don’t even really need to act,” the sponsor says. “We’re going for diplomatic, you know? Stern but polite. That’s kind of your vibe anyway, isn’t it? We figured that was why Volkov said it.”

“Is that why?” David asks. He genuinely thought Kiro had been joking that David earned honourary Russian status after spending the entire summer with him, Oleg, and Slava, but sometimes Kiro’s jokes can go over his head.

That gets a laugh, and he’s not sure why, but he’s stopped trying to understand at this point, unless it’s someone whose opinion that matters to him, someone he cares about.

“Well,” David says, when time’s up. He still has half his tea, but it’s in a to-go cup, and he thinks he’s heard enough. “I’ll think about it.”

He doesn’t anticipate needing to spend a lot of time on that. The money really is good, but he really does have no shortage of it, and he doesn’t think he’d like to earn money by humiliating himself.

His mistake was mentioning it to Kiro. He should have known Kiro would never let him turn it down.

[letsgetrowdy43]

Honey’s Tattoo Tour—

Au Masterlist!!

I was thinking a little bit about Honey, and I was like imagine how sick it would be if she just had all these cute tattoos littered all over her skin!!

So here’s a little tattoo tour for her!!

For the most part, her tattoos all have important meanings to her, it started as just a little fun and cute thing, but the more she worked with artists in the Vancouver area the more she realized the sort of art behind it!!

A little added piece of information is that Quinn normally has a strong dislike for tattoos, but the look of Honey with tattoos has his knees weak! They are all just so pretty, and a little sexy, that he has no choice but to love them, plus some of them hold such importance in their relationship and he just adores them!

Her first ever tattoo was the lyric “Honey, there is no right way” from Hozier's song ‘Someone New’ that she got in her senior year of high school on the inside of her right arm just a few days before she graduated. The song is a reflection on the complexity of love and the human desire for connection, which at the time was something Honey was just out of reach of. It highlights the need to find a love that brings meaning to one's life and at this specific time in her life, she deeply resonated with wanting to find that one.

She didn't get her second tattoo until her final year of university, during a break with Quinn. The tattoo is a black and white depiction of Sir John Millais' "Ophelia." Being the angst teenager she was, she felt a deep connection with the character Ophelia from William Shakespeare's play "Hamlet". Ophelia's emotional vulnerability and her descent into madness felt very personal to Honey when she was at the ripe age of 16 (dramatic as shit... but she is so me), the character embodies the fear of losing oneself in the face of overwhelming emotions such as love and anger all the while dealing with external pressures. It was definitely an ode to her younger self but also resonated with the 20-year-old version of herself who was trying to navigate the break with the love of her life. aren't we all just a deeply disturbed teenage girl at heart :)  

Her third tattoo happened a few weeks into the summer of 2021, just after her University graduation. She had just gotten back together with Quinn and moved her entire life to Canada to be with him, and now she was beginning to build her media marketing portfolio by taking some shots for a tattoo and piercing shop in downtown Vancouver. The artist she had been doing shoots with and helping to manage their websites offered to do a tattoo for her at a discounted price if she ever wanted. She ended up getting leaves on her hip bones, it was her first really impulsive tattoo and one of the most painful, but she was obsessed with the outcome. They don't hold any significant meaning to her, but they really boosted her confidence and Quinn was absolutely obsessed with them when she surprised him with them, so she really loves them.

Her fourth tattoo was the big piece on her back, she reached out to an artist who specializes in floral and colour tattoos and commissioned a piece that was in homage to paintings her mother made when she was a child. Her mother used to paint these intricate floral pieces to hang up around the house, and eventually, every extended family member in her family had a signature piece in their home. Honey was gifted the one that hung in her grandmother's lake house just after she passed, and she hung it up in hers and Quinn's room at the Michigan Lake house. She got it tattooed on her back a year later (around Warren's first birthday) so she could always have a piece of her grandma and her mother at her at all times!

Her fifth tattoo was one she got during All-Star week a few years after both Hayden and Warren were born. It was the first time they were kid-free in a long while, and while he and the other all-stars were doing media for Bauer and other league activities, the girls went out for the day. One of the other wives suggested getting tattoos. Initially, she got a simple "43" on her sternum, following the trend of other wives and girlfriends getting their partner's numbers. However, she ended up really liking the artist's line work and asked if she could get a full piece done before flying back to Vancouver. The artist had availability the next day and managed to fit Honey into her schedule before the skills competition. She ended up getting a lunar moth just beneath the "43," starting on her sternum and dipping down to span her abdomen. The tattoo was an homage to their first summer as a married couple, a summer where everywhere they seemed to go lunar moths followed them. Quinn finds it incredibly sexy, thinking it makes her boobs look even more perfect (which he didn't know was humanly possible), and he couldn't stop kissing it once it healed.

Her final tattoo was one she got when Maeve was around 3, Hayden was 8, and Warren was 10. It was a collaborative piece by all her kids: Maeve drew the basic shapes of the flowers, Hayden added the details, and Warren contributed the fine lines. This tattoo is a little piece of her babies and their childhood, etched onto her forever. It's probably her favourite piece because it means the most to her.

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[strawberryblondebutch]

So I read Britta Curl's apology.

Emphasis on read, because no way in hell am I listening to that whole thing with my shitty auditory processing. So please acknowledge that this means I'm potentially missing out on tonal cues and body language.

I don't think she's changed. A good apology recognizes what you've done wrong and how you'll improve in the future. She seems to think that her posts are the problem, not the beliefs that motivated said posts. Her improvement plan is to "grow in humility, and grow in love." I'm not sure where most marginalized groups would rank that in their restorative justice plans.

Even if the apology's content is lackluster, the fact it exists is good. That Curl felt she needed to say something, for her own and the league's reputation, means she knows that eyes are on her. There are degrees of harm in public figures. Among baseball players, you can trace a line down from Curt Schilling (actual Breitbart personality) to Jason Adam (refused to wear a pride cap in a game) to Brad Hand (likes Trump tweets on Twitter in silence). I have no respect for the beliefs Hand's social media activity suggests that he has, but he's not saying on the record that being gay is a bad lifestyle choice, nor is he tweeting about how awesome that Capitol riot was. My personal respect may be nonexistent, but Hand's actions are less directly harmful.

I would love if Britta Curl changed her beliefs. I don't engage in moral Puritanism. I believe that people can change, and I want them to. If she came out with an apology tomorrow where she said, "I understand that my words and actions have hurt members of the trans and Black communities, and here are the steps I am taking to understand why this is so harmful so that I can improve, I would support her. But that's not what happened.

Whether we like it or not, this shit does matter. Arguably, it matters even more in women's sports. I don't like it. I would love if the WNBA, PWHL, or any other league were one where you could shut up and play, and you weren't expected to be a role model for young girls everywhere (which, that's a rant all of its own). But at the end of the day, you can't cater who you are to a hypothetical ideal. You have to cater it to the world that you're in. And yeah, that sucks.

The increased scrutiny on female athletes will always affect marginalized groups more. I'm not going to speak too much on racism in the WNBA, because I don't consider myself an expert on it (I'm only a casual basketball fan, no matter the gender), but I've seen the scrutiny leveled on Angel Reese compared to Caitlin Clark. I also remember Hilary Knight being fucking terrified to come out as queer because of all the outside pressure on her. Having to hide what you believe is different than hiding what you are.

She's not going to get top-six minutes this coming season, and the discourse is going to be insufferable. Yeah, Curt Schilling's a terrible human being, and although his beliefs got worse after retirement, he was an outspoken conservative when he won the 2004 World Series. Compare that to Trevor Bauer, whose shooters claim that he's being blacklisted by the Woke Mob, when he's really just... not a good pitcher, and he's also managed to piss off every manager he's ever had. Britta Curl will not be one of the six best players on Minnesota unless something goes terribly wrong - she's not a better center than Heise or Pannek, and she's not a good enough sniper to move to the wing. The worst people you know will claim she's being punished for her beliefs, because they do not understand how sports work. Block and move on.

It is still very funny that she blocked me on Twitter. Block and move on goes both ways, but I didn't tag her in the post or anything, which means she name searches.

Once again, if you read this far, please consider giving to Prevention Point or Savage Sisters. Harm reduction is important. Those two organizations are why I'm still alive, and the city of Philadelphia wants addicts to die.

[peachhcs]

THE NEW BREAKUP TIMELINE!!

hughes!sister x will smith au (samy + will)

after some consideration, i'm changing the breakup timeline for our lovely friends samy and will!!! wooohooo!! (because let's be real, could i really drag it out that long? no.) i've bulleted everything that's changed, so take a read and see what's new!! i will be writing bigger fics for the major points so don't worry, but if there's any bullets you want expanded into a fic or blurb, let me know!!

i will still keep the previous breakup timeline fics up, we'll just pretend some of it doesn't exist and it's like a parellel universe to the au lmao. the charm bracelet still does exist btw!! but yay!! enjoy new samy and will timeline!! i just love them so much i couldn't drag it out more, so i changed it up!! also yes will's new post may have influenced this decision as well :))

au masterlist

will breaks up with samy a few days after they get back from worlds (end of May) 

will signs with the san jose sharks (end of May) 

samy and will don’t speak for the month of June (the longest they’ve gone without talking)

will goes to the bauer combine where he talks to this girl in hopes of getting his mind off samy, but it doesn’t work because when he makes a joke that the girl doesn’t laugh at because only samy gets, will realizes it’s all wrong and he shouldn’t have broken up with her 

this highkey makes him spiral hard because he realizes how big of a mistake he made 

he panic calls gabe and ryan in hopes that they’ll tell him what to do 

gabe and ryan tell him that he needs to talk to her!! 

will’s scared to reach back out because what if samy doesn’t want to talk to him (rightfully so)  

he goes back home for a bit where he confides in grace and his mom (for once!!) 

they tell him that he should reach out if he wants it’s really up to him, but he needs to realize he lost all of samy’s trust because of what he did and said, so she may not warm up to him as quickly or easily 

meanwhile, samy sees all the content of will at the combine which makes her happy and sad at the same time 

happy because he’s experiencing all these things and meeting so many new people, but sad because she misses him and wishes they worked something out between them or at least talked more before will made that decision

she doesn’t reach out though. too scared and not wanting to distract him from working on all his media things 

another week passes and now it’s july which means the smith + hughes family vacation is coming up!! 

(i said will would skip out on this, but i’m changing it so he does end up showing up) it’s the first time they’ve seen one another since the breakup so two months 

they’re kind of awkward and avoid each other at first because they’re only really there because their parents forced them to be 

samy hangs around on the deck or anywhere away from the boys because she knows wherever her brothers are, will is there 

(jack, quinn, and luke are like lowkey still pissed at will, but they cool off a bit when they talk to him about it more and see that he really regrets it and wants to get back together) 

on the third day, samy and will can’t keep avoiding each other. they’re the only ones awake one night after a long day going out and about with everyone 

will approaches samy first when he finds her down on the dock just sitting by herself 

they talk some awkward small talk before getting into the meat of everything 

in short, will admits he messed up, he was just scared of the distance and not being good enough for her because he’s gonna be so far away once summer’s over and he doesn’t want to hold her back from anything 

samy half forgives him, but tells him she wishes he talked to her more. basically, will’s going to have to work to get her trust back and he definitely knows that, so they decide to start back as friends before jumping into anything

after that talk, the rest of the vacation is less awkward and they slowly warm back up to one another which the parents are happy to see 

the smiths go back to boston after the vacation, so samy and will don’t see one another again until the end of july/beginning of august when will’s move out is coming up  

they still talk a bit over text though 

(the farewell party is a bit different now and will knows they’re coming instead of finding out the morning before and they talk at the party again. another mini reunion again) 

samy talks with gabe and ryan privately later that day about her and will. 

once the party’s over, samy and her family and the guys stay back for a bit and they all just hang out like old times

later that night, will gets samy alone again. they make cute little small talk which leads to will asking samy to fly out to california with him to help him move in like they always talked about 

she agrees and so they’re all flying out that next week  

they spend that whole weekend decorating will’s apartment and making it “him” 

the day before samy flies back home to start her own pre season camps for soccer, will takes a chance and takes samy out on a date 

it’s like they never even broke up in the first place on that date 

by the end of the night, will asks samy if they could try again and he promises he won’t fuck it all up again 

samy agrees and they get back together with the promise that the distance doesn’t matter no matter what happens!! 

[puckpocketed]

ok the stick story is this

according to The Hockey Media, who as we know do not actually follow any teams closely so know NOTHING, ovechkin was finally hit by father time. he's finally slowing down. he's a shell of his old self. he has old man syndrome. blah blah blah

as a caps fan, i know that this is false, because our russian machine never break. he's a freak. who btw had like 13 goals disallowed or something crazy like that in the first half of last season but i digress

gee i wonder why ovechkin's goals went down? is it because his longtime center and future hall of famer nicklas backstrom retired in all but name? is it because our other top 6 center in evgeny kuznetsov had by far the worst season of his career (from point a game to not even half a point a game) and then went into the player's assistance program before being traded to the canes and then bolting for the KHL?

actually, as it turns out: no.

i mean probably those were factors, but there was another factor. a factor that many caps fans are very aware of but almost no one reported on for some reason (probably because they were too busy writing about how SiDneY CrOsBy was having SuCh an AmaZiNg season for a 36 year old despite ovechkin literally having just as a good a season the year prior at the *checks notes* age of 36. also this is a reminder that one of those two actually led their team to a playoff berth and it wasn't crosby)

ovechkin is, among other things, an elite shooter. like many elite shooters, he is EXTREMELY picky about his sticks. he has been using the same CCM model for the last 7 seasons...and prior to this season they discontinued it.

the first half of the season (roughly), ovi was constantly trying out new sticks from CCM, from Bauer, whoever. he tried quite a few different sticks. results: 8 goals in 43 games.

then, ovechkin found an independent supplier. apparently (i can't remember where this info came out, maybe 32 thoughts?), these guys have an "ovi pro curve" model based on his old stick with CCM and he bought it and tried it out. curve was identical, and it felt right to him. started using those. results: 23 goals in 36 games.

am i saying that he is going to continue on that pace this coming season? probably not. do i think that the rumors of his demise as a goal scorer are greatly exaggerated and almost surely mistaken? yes. am i optimistic that with some stability in our center depth and stability in stick choice, ovechkin will have a 40 goal season again and possibly break wayne gretzky's all time goals record? YES.

what this means for PLD our beloved failhorse wife: he's not getting some washed up old man former great on his wing. he's getting the greatest fucking goal scorer in the history of the sport. and i, for one, am excited to see what they can do together.

link i thought about this all morning during baking and while i was out!! thank you for the stick explanation and all the sources i LOVE citations i am eating them up like theyre cakes at teatime....! more under the cut but heres what i was thinking about when i read this:

thinking about how,, particular some players get about their equipment, how superstitious, it's crazy to me that a manufacturer can just do all that. if it were me and MYE special stick got discontinued id be suing for damages

i was super interested in what actually changed in the second half of the season because i saw ovechkin was back to scoring basically at-will again, so really thank you for explaining.. the bond between a hockey and their stick is so beaugtiful <3

cr-sby is my babygirl-in-law and i fear i will always be fond of him because of this, so i shall tread carefully here (pens friends look away) it DOES suck that they're not recognising your old man for his achievements while that old man gets hyped. is it like, weird anti-russian sentiment? or a more general anti-caps bias? every team fan space i dip into feels unfairly maligned one way or another - which, yeah! clenching my fist of rage.......

you spin such a tale and im VERY excited to see how next szn shakes out in light of all this and also . grabbing dubois by the scruff of his neck like i will stan either way but PLEASE dont embarrass me in front of my cool new friends kjlasdklasdkl....

thank you so much for stopping by and for the warmest welcome ever <3

[doyouknowthisactor]

By "roles" I mean playing a different character, and in a different piece of media; someone playing one character across a franchise only counts as one thing for the purposes of this poll, as does playing multiple characters in one franchise/piece of media

Below are some of this actor's roles. Please only check after voting!

24 as Jack Bauer (1 Emmy win & 6 nominations)

The Lost Boys as David

Designated Survivor as Tom Kirkman

The Three Musketeers 1993 as Athos

Sutherland has a connection to many other actors. His parents were actors Donald Sutherland and Shirley Douglas. He is the father of actor Sarah Sutherland, and is engaged to actor Cindy Vela. His stepmother and one of his half-brothers are also actors.

More roles

[simply-ivanka]

Joe Biden and America’s Out-of-Control Spooks

The president should step aside rather than find out how the deep state would save his candidacy.

Wall Street Journal

By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

Thursday’s catastrophic debate can be a lifesaver for America. A different kind of 2024 election is still possible, starting with a rollicking contest of impressive Democratic governors for their party’s nomination. The outcome wouldn’t merely result in replacing an invalided Mr. Biden. It would allow Democrats to hire a new standard-bearer who doesn’t need to dig America ever deeper into the pit of lawfare, media lying and intelligence meddling to get himself re-elected.

This is the real issue now.

Not exactly the bipartisan wise person I’ve been hoping for, Bob Bauer will have to do. A former White House counsel under Presidents Obama and Biden, he has a timely new book, “The Unraveling.” Our democracy, he writes, endangers itself with its free fall toward win-at-all-costs cynicism, and the trouble doesn’t begin and end with Donald Trump.

He’s right, and only missing is 75% of his case since he doesn’t mention the collusion hoax or intelligence officials lying about the Hunter Biden laptop to help Mr. Biden get elected, episodes in which his own hands may not be entirely clean.

Now he has a chance to put his money where his mouth is. I see the same descent into reckless, zero-sum politics that he does. So does fund manager Ray Dalio, who told clients this week that the behavior of our parties is “threatening the rule of law as we know it and is bringing us closer to some form of civil war.”

What I don’t see is an underlying cause or dispute, such as slavery in the Civil War, of transcendent magnitude to explain it.

The tainting of our elections itself is what’s driving Americans apart.

This is where Mr. Bauer’s moment has arrived. He played Mr. Trump in Mr. Biden’s debate prep. He’s obviously trusted by the candidate. He could point out a few things about how we got into today’s mess, starting with former FBI Director James Comey’s ill-advised meddling in the Hillary Clinton email case to help another Democratic candidate. Play history backward without Mr. Comey and everything is different now. Mr. Trump likely loses in 2016. The collusion follies never happen, profoundly damaging half of America’s faith in Washington.

Mr. Biden is playing with the same fire all over again. He had every moral and political reason not to seek a second term—his age, Hunter Biden, the intelligence community’s unseemly lying to the American public to secure his first victory over Mr. Trump.

Almost anybody in the Democratic Party was a better bet to beat Donald Trump a second time, and Mr. Biden wasn’t a good bet to beat almost any Republican who might earn the GOP nomination instead of Mr. Trump.

But Mr. Biden insisted on being the candidate anyway, and we got the bubbling up of Trump prosecutions from dutiful Democratic prosecutors around the country. Whatever their merits, the charges had an overridingly political purpose: Return Mr. Trump to center stage and give Mr. Biden the one opponent he might reasonably hope to beat.

The miscalculation is now apparent. Mr. Biden’s own deterioration makes him the opponent even a scandalized and distrusted Mr. Trump could likely beat, possibly in a landslide.

What now? Ours was already in danger of becoming a government of siloviki, to borrow Russia’s word for intelligence operatives actively manipulating domestic politics. This subject our media continues to shy away from though academics are taking it up: the revolutionary and unprecedented activities of Mr. Comey and Obama intelligence veterans James Clapper and John Brennan starting in 2016 and again in 2020 with the laptop lie.

In my view, Mr. Biden is more blundering than calculating in this mess. He foolishly indulged his son over the years, getting himself in a situation in 2020 where his campaign had to be rescued from his family-created scandal by the shockingly disingenuous intervention of intelligence officials falsely fingering Russia for the laptop.

But ask yourself: Having stumbled into a dynamic where they might need a failing Mr. Biden to hold off a Trump restoration, how will our Clapperized elite prevent the outcome they have been telling themselves and us for eight years would be the end of America? Do you want to find out?

The 2024 election is already shaping up to be a deeply souring democratic experience for millions of Americans, the third such presidential election in a row. It can get a lot better or a lot worse depending on what Democrats decide to do, with Mr. Bauer hopefully whispering wisdom in Mr. Biden’s ear.

The next few days will be telling. If Mr. Biden remains in the seat, Mr. Trump may romp to a broad, unambiguous victory and mandate. Then you’ll want to hold your breath on the morning of Nov. 6.

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“El poder político es simplemente el poder organizado de una clase para oprimir a otra”

Karl Marx

Fue un filósofo, economista, sociólogo, historiador, periodista, intelectual y político comunista alemán de origen judío nacido en Tréveris en mayo de 1818. Su vasta e influyente obra abarca diferentes campos del pensamiento en la filosofía, la historia, la ciencia política, la sociología y la economía. 

Su abuelo paterno fue el rabino de su ciudad natal Tréveris desde 1723 y su abuelo materno era un rabino neerlandés.

El padre de Karl pertenecía a una clase media próspera, poseedor de algunos viñedos en la región de Mosela. Se convirtió del judaísmo al protestantismo luterano para evitar las restricciones antisemitas. Era un hombre inclinado a la ilustración interesado en las ideas de los filósofos Immanuel Kant y Voltaire.

Poco se sabe de la infancia de Karl Marx, era el tercero de nueve hermanos y tenía un enorme apego a su padre de quien nunca se cansaba de hablar de él y del cual llevaba siempre una fotografía suya.

En 1835 a la edad de 17 años fue a la Universidad de Bonn en donde deseaba estudiar filosofía y literatura pero su padre insistió en el derecho como un campo de estudio más fértil. Fue capaz de evitar el servicio militar debido a un problema de salud, siendo aficionado a a las bebidas alcohólicas en Bonn en donde se unió al Club de la Taverna de Tréveris. 

Dado que Marx no tenía interés en estudiar derecho, y debido a sus bajas notas, su padre lo obligó a moverse a la la Universidad de Berlin una academia mucho mas seria y mejor orientada y en donde a pesar de ello, sus estudios de derecho se hicieron menos importantes que las incursiones en la filosofía y la historia. Se relacionó con el círculo de los filósofos pertenecientes a la llamada izquierda hegeliana manteniendo especial contacto con Bruno Bauer y Moses Hess.

A la edad de 18 años se comprometió con una baronesa aristocrática de la clase dirigente prusiana con quien contrajo matrimonio 7 años mas tarde y dedicaría a su suegro su tesis doctoral titulada “Diferencia de la filosofía de la naturaleza de Demócrito y Epicuro”.

Marx se dedica a la vida docente y debido a las dificultades que las autoridades pusieron al desarrollo de los hegelianos de izquierda, de la vida académica se volcó al periodismo trasladándose a la ciudad de Colonia en 1842 escribiendo artículos para el periódico radical Gaceta Renana, expresando sus opiniones cada día mas socialistas sobre la política.

Ante la situación política imperante en Alemania, Marx decide marcharse a París en donde conoce a quien fuera su gran amigo Federico Engels.

En 1843 publicó la obra “Sobre la cuestión judía” y “Crítica de la filosofía del derecho de Hegel” en donde se ocupó de la religión, describiéndola como “el opio del pueblo”, rompiendo por diferencias ideológicas con su amigo Bauer y en general con los jovenes Hegelianos.

En 1845 después de ser expulsado de París, se instala en Bruselas en donde también será expulsado en 1848. Es en Bruselas en donde Marx desarrolla actividades organizativas de núcleos obreros emprendiendo una febril actividad revolucionaria, rompiendo con la filosofía clásica alemana y profundizando en el estudio científico de la sociedad.

En 1848, junto con Engels escribe el famoso “Manifiesto del partido comunista” creando con ello las bases de su concepción comunista basada en la lucha de clases que según ellos, es realmente un fenómeno social que actúa como motor de la historia, en donde la propiedad privada es una fuente de enajenación y propugnan la necesidad de la toma del poder político por parte del proletariado.

En 1859 publica la “Contribución a la crítica de la economía política”, en donde se sientan las bases principales de la que sería su magna obra “El Capital”.

“El Capital” es publicado en su primer volumen en 1867. Los volúmenes segundo y tercero los publicará póstumamente Engels y el volumen cuarto el teórico marxista Karl Kautsky.

Durante la última década de su vida, la salud de Karl Marx sufrió gran deterioro. Tras la muerte de su esposa en 1881, Marx desarrolló una fuerte gripe que lo mantuvo en mal estado durante los últimos quince meses de su vida. Con el tiempo contrajo bronquitis y pleuresía muriendo en marzo de 1883 en Londres.

Fuente: Wikipedia