Phil Van Horn

Missionary to Men ✝️ Journey Discipleship. Cracking the Man Code Co-Author. Influencers & Souly Business Ministries. Emmy Award winner. Lecia’s husband.

[Katherine Rowe @katherinearowe]

CNBC released its NHL valuations today. Toronto leads at $5.4B, the Islanders jumped 65%, and all 32 teams gained value.

The part I find more interesting: average team value rose 23%, revenue rose 6%, and EBITDA fell 11%.

CNBC points to recent stake sales, higher media rights fees and potential expansion, along with continued demand from buyers for a limited number of teams.

Put together a few charts on where the gains went and what CNBC says is behind them.

Chart 1: How much each team gained.

All 32 increased in value, adding $16.4B combined. The Islanders had the biggest jump at $1.18B (+65%), followed by Toronto at $1.1B and Philadelphia at $1B.

[The Food Manufacturing Guy @TipOfTheBanana]

Nestlé puts ground-up Kit Kats in the filling of Kit Kats.

Bars that come off the line broken and can't be sold aren't thrown out. The plant calls them rework. They're ground up and mixed in small amounts into a paste of cocoa liquor and sugar, and that paste is spread between the wafers of new bars. A Nestlé worker showed it on the BBC series Inside the Factory in 2015, and Nestlé's head of confectionery marketing in Australia later confirmed it.

Nestlé says its plant in York, England can make up to 4 million Kit Kats a day. The bar was invented there in 1935.

Hershey makes the Kit Kats sold in the US under a license from Nestlé. Asked by Today in 2017 whether it fills them the same way, Hershey said the manufacturing process is proprietary.

[Phil Van Horn @Ballphild]

“If you have 🙏🏽 and the answer hasn’t come yet, keep standing. And when you stand under the truth and authority of Jesus ✝️ Christ, you are not standing there alone.” Tony Evans. @Influencers_LA

[Phil Van Horn @Ballphild]

Family — worth all the ups and downs — all the joy and pain.

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

Young adults are told kids will make them miserable.

The data tell a different story: Among 1.5 million Swedes, parents were far less likely to die by suicide—especially moms (70% lower risk).

In our atomistic age, family remains one of our strongest anchors.

[Sam Warren @samwarren83]

Fernando Mendoza on Kirk Cousins:

"I really, truly, from the bottom of my heart wanted to thank Kirk and the entire Cousins family, whether it was Julie, Cooper, or Turner. They've as a family, done so much for me. They've essentially taken me in to their household when they were here, and they welcomed me with open arms. It would have been really easy for Kirk, being a veteran quarterback and already proved everything, to be a little bit more dismissive. But he had me with open arms and has taught me so many things, whether it was film study, how to operate as a starting quarterback, all the different multifaceted approaches that have made him so successful throughout his career. He has shared with no restrictions and no constraints. I really appreciate him and it was heartfelt to see him (go), as he was a great mentor."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Just learned that the social security database is not de-duplicated, meaning you can have the same SSN many times over, which further enables MASSIVE FRAUD!!

Your tax dollars are being stolen.

[Barbarian Herodotus @BBHerodotus]

Theodore Roosevelt’s Nine Reasons for Going to Church (1917)

[Influencers LA @Influencers_LA]

“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends.”
John 15: 12-13 @Ballphild

[Influencers LA @Influencers_LA]

“Grace ✝️ doesn’t treat us better than we deserve. Grace ceases to be grace if God withdraws it upon any human failure. If Grace is in any way tied to something you do, then it is no longer a gift but a wage, and that’s not grace.” Paul Donnan. @Ballphild

[Influencers LA @Influencers_LA]

Jesus said, "My ✝️ Father is always working; and so am I." John 5:17 @Ballphild

[Influencers LA @Influencers_LA]

"When you share how God ✝️ met you in your struggle:
Broken hearts will mend.
Shame will flee.
Bitterness will cease.
Souls will be saved." Sharon Jaynes.
@Ballphild

[Influencers LA @Influencers_LA]

Souly Business California: Celebrating Christ with about 150 men. Worship, food, brotherhood and time alone with our Heavenly Father. Enjoy the video. @Ballphild See you again in March. https://t.co/orNTolTb9A

[Jaxon @jaxoncoder]

Walmart and Kroger are quietly rolling out an internal store technology across America that could either modernize retail or bankrupt the middle-class family budget.

Starting across thousands of locations heading into 2027, traditional paper price tags are being ripped off grocery shelves and replaced with cloud-connected digital screens. Raise the price of bottled water by 20 percent the second the afternoon temperature hits 90 degrees. Surge the cost of ground beef, milk, and sandwich bread between 5 PM and 6 PM when exhausted commuters are rushing home from work. Drop prices at 10 AM on a Tuesday, then hike them right back up the minute the after-school crowd walks through the sliding doors.

Every price change happens wirelessly in seconds from a central corporate dashboard. No store employee has to touch a single shelf.

Walmart has already signed a massive deployment deal with VusionGroup to wire 2,300 American supercenters with EdgeSense digital shelf rails by 2027. Kroger is expanding its own Microsoft-backed system called EDGE across hundreds of supermarkets. Over 60 million digital price tags are already blinking on US grocery aisles right now.

This is not supply chain inflation. This is Uber-style surge pricing built directly into the shelves where Americans buy baby formula, eggs, and medicine.

Last week I sat down for coffee with a former retail pricing director who spent 14 years building supermarket margin algorithms before leaving the industry. What he shared over the table completely changed how I look at a grocery aisle.

"Retailers just turned static shelves into live stock tickers. The question is not whether grocery chains will use instant price changes, because they already spent billions installing the hardware. The question is how much extra money a family of four will lose every week simply because both parents work until 5 PM and cannot shop during off-peak hours."

Here is how the digital grocery pricing system actually works, how it tracks you in the aisle, and the exact phone settings and checkout playbook you need to beat it.

[The Institute for Family Studies @FamStudies]

Religious affiliation remains a key predictor of human flourishing.

Men and women from almost every religious group report significantly higher flourishing overall.

They also report greater flourishing on every single life domain except financial and material stability.

[Christopher Rufo @christopherrufo]

EXCLUSIVE: We spent weeks in Napa Valley investigating Gavin Newsom's wine empire. According to a whistleblower, the operation is built on undocumented migrant labor, in violation of the law.

Illegal aliens pick the grapes—and Newsom sells the wine for up to $7,000 a bottle.

[Grampa @Grampa1950]

Nature is so beautiful. Let's see your beautiful nature shots

Here's mine (taken this morning)

[Big Ten Network @BigTenNetwork]

"My only gripe with these rankings is how is it that there's an undefeated Bruin team behind a two-loss SEC team?"

Jake Butt discusses @UCLAFootball coming in at No. 4 in the second CFP rankings 🗣️

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

Religious men are almost 2x as likely to be very happy, according to Harvard's Global Flourishing Study -- here, evangelical and LDS men lead out!

[Steak F @steaakfriend]

So to confirm 2 loss Bama is.

1 spot ahead of undefeated UCLA.

2 spots ahead of 1-loss Notre Dame, who just beat the #1 team in the country.

3 spots ahead of Texas, who has the same amount of losses and way more impressive wins.

5 spots ahead of 2-loss Tennessee, who beat the shit out of them.

6 spots ahead of 1-loss defending champion Indiana, who dropped 5 spots after a bye.

Sureeeeeeeeeeeee

[Influencers LA @Influencers_LA]

:Sometimes God uses.. miracle(s) through.. layoffs, let downs, and loneliness.  Do not assume that Jesus is absent or oblivious to your struggle. Just the opposite. He is using it to reveal himself to you." Max Lucado. @Ballphild