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Tops Markets says it will once again stock and sell Flutie Flakes, the cereal that became so popular when the Bills former quarterback took Buffalo by storm in the late-1990s.
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Søren Kierkegaard on the Importance of Walking
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”
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In honor of 50 years of Apple, we're sharing - for the first time ever - Don Valentine's original 1977 memo for Sequoia's investment into Apple Computer. #Apple50
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To the Americans:
I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.
And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:
You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.
This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.
Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.
This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.
But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.
This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.
And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:
Thank God for the United States.
Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.
Long may your admirable country dominate the world.
Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.
May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.
Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.
Thank God for the USA.
Happy 250th.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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The most influential immigrant group in American history is the one nobody argues about, because almost nobody remembers it was them.
Start at the beginning. The Continental Army was a half-trained mess until Baron von Steuben, a Prussian officer, showed up at Valley Forge and drilled it into a real fighting force. The freedom of the press you take for granted traces back to John Peter Zenger, a German immigrant printer whose 1735 trial established that you can't be jailed for printing the truth. German-Americans were shaping this country before there was a country.
Then look around your own life. Your Christmas tree is German. The hot dog (Frankfurt), the hamburger (Hamburg), the pretzel, the delicatessen, all German. Kindergarten is German, the word and the idea, brought over and opened by Margarethe Schurz. Blue jeans came from Levi Strauss of Bavaria. Heinz ketchup, Steinway pianos, Oscar Mayer, and the big four beers, Budweiser, Pabst, Miller and Schlitz, were every one founded by German immigrants.
The Brooklyn Bridge was engineered by John Roebling, born in Prussia. The Santa Claus you picture every December, plus the Republican elephant, were drawn by Thomas Nast, a German immigrant. Pfizer was founded by Charles Pfizer, who arrived from Germany in 1848. Boeing was built by the son of a German immigrant. John Jacob Astor showed up from Germany with next to nothing and became America's first multimillionaire. Charles Steinmetz, a disabled immigrant nearly turned away at the border, went on to make modern electrical power possible.
And it kept going. Wernher von Braun designed the rocket that put America on the moon. Einstein was German. Carl Schurz, a refugee, became a Union general and the first German-born US Senator. Eisenhower commanded D-Day and won the White House under a name once spelled Eisenhauer. Babe Ruth was a German-American kid from Baltimore.
Here is the kicker. German is the single largest ancestry group in the entire United States, around 44 million people, bigger than Irish, English or Italian. The biggest thread in the whole American fabric, and somehow the quietest.
They never asked for parades. They just trained the army, freed the press, engineered the bridges, founded the companies, built the rockets and lit up the Christmas mornings, then blended in so completely you forgot they were ever the "other." That might be the most American story there is.
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Diego Maradona, kitabında Franco Baresi hakkında şunları söylüyor:
“İtalya’ya geldiğimde herkes ona karşı oynamaktan korkuyordu.
Bir maçımızda Michel Platini bana şöyle dedi:
‘Hey yeni çocuk, pas vermekten çok çalım atmayı seviyorsun. Franco Baresi ile karşılaşınca ne yapacağını göreceğiz.’
Ben de, ‘Baresi mi? O da kim? Ona bir ders vereceğim.’ dedim.
İki ay sonra Milan ile San Siro’da oynadık. Carlo Ancelotti’yi çalımlayıp yere düşürdüm. Her şey kolay görünüyordu ve rahatça gol atacağımı düşündüm.
Bir anda arkadan biri üzerime atıldı ve ben fark etmeden topu inanılmaz bir zarafetle ayağımdan aldı.
‘6 numaralı bu oyuncu da kim?’ dedim.
Topu Mauro Tassotti’ye verdi ve yerde yatan Ancelotti’ye:
‘Onu bana bırak, ben hallederim.’ dedi.
İşte forvetlerin korktuğu Franco Baresi buydu.
Karşımda sıra dışı bir savunmacı olduğunu anladım.
Claudio Gentile beni durdurmak için tekmelerdi.
Ama Baresi, bana dokunmadan topu ayaklarımın arasından çalardı.
Bir maçın sonunda formasını istedim ve San Paolo Stadı’nın ortasında onun formasını giydim.
Bu, kariyerimde karşılaştığım en iyi savunmacıya duyduğum saygının bir göstergesiydi.”
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Brazil vs Italy in the 1982 World Cup
Do you agree this is the greatest match of all time?
Does anyone remember this moment?
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The last words Peter said to his dying wife were: “I think I’m going to become a priest.” A moving story of a late vocation from Stratford, Connecticut.
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Some Memento Mori thoughts to cap off 2025
The story of the beautiful' Knocking Ritual' - how the Habsburg Family buried their emperors. @EduardHabsburg tells me the meaning behind it.
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I might have met one of the richest European founders last night
He is absolutely crushing it - makes €85k a year
Pays just 65% tax plus solidarity surcharge
Takes home €3,800 monthly
Top 0.1% of German earners
He vacations twice yearly: camping at Baltic Sea and weekend in Prague
Said he has a cleaning lady that comes 3x a week
I thought he could not impress me more until he said goodbye and left towards a parking lot
His car?
A 2015 Volkswagen Golf
Fully paid off
An incredible guy and so humble for a billionaire, unlike rich Americans who always flaunt their wealth
I dream to be as successful as him one day
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Today, Valar Atomics became the first startup in history to split the atom.
Announcing Project Nova, a series of zero power critical tests on Valar Atomics' Nova Core in collaboration with Los Alamos NCERC and NNSS.
Nova went critical for the first time this morning at 11:45am.
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I’m the CFO of a PE backed company.
I woke up to 19 emails from the CEO between 1am and 4am. Subject lines: “thoughts,” “quick one,” “alignment.”
I stared at the ceiling and thought, he doesn’t sleep, he just runs equity payouts at different EBITDA scenarios.
By 8am I was already behind.
The VP of Finance asked when we’re sending the updated forecast. I said “soon,” even though I haven’t opened the model in two weeks because I already know how it ends.
At 10am the CEO told me we’re hiring 12 heads but cutting SG&A. I nodded, deleted the plan, and renamed the file “final_v9_APPROVED.”
At lunch I sat alone in my office, scrolling through emails that all started with “just following up.”
By 1pm the PE senior associate was replying to my updates before I could even finish reading the subject line. Every message started with “quick thought,” and ended with another model version request.
At 3pm he called. Wanted an “EBITDA bridge that inspires confidence.”
I moved numbers until it looked believable.
He said, “Not good enough. The MD wants EBITDA to double by year end.”
I said, “Copy that.”
Then I stared at the spreadsheet and thought, so do I.
By 6pm I was writing words like “momentum,” “synergies,” and “runway” into a deck that means nothing.
I closed my laptop, looked at my reflection, and reminded myself:
We all know it isn’t real. But it has to look like it is until someone buys it.
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“The Elevated Market of Starre, with Carriages Hastening to Boston,” oil on canvas, 1781, by John Trumbull
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Armani dead at 91. In a few weeks he was to celebrate company's 50th anniversary.
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RIP Judge Frank Caprio. Such a good man. Let me out of many parking tickets back in the day.
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