This is @romanjmarcotte at age 8.
He is now 16 and will be draft eligible in 2028.
This is why it was so important for the @NHL to expand into the US, and why American-born players are competing at the highest level now against the great hockey countries of the world.
Tom Brady reveals the brutally honest talk he had with a Michigan sports psychologist that turned him from a benchwarmer into the GOAT.
Brady's transformation started with one change: the way he thought.
"I sit on the bench my first year, and I really had—I would call it—a lot of self-defeating attitudes and behaviors. I always had an excuse. 'Coach doesn't want me in there.'"
"I had a sports psychologist. His name was Greg Harden. I would go into his office every Tuesday, and he would say, 'Tom, I like you. You work hard, but you have a shitty attitude.'"
"'How about you start worrying about what you can control and stop talking about the other quarterbacks, stop talking about the coaches not putting you in.'"
"If they give you three reps, you do the best with the three you get. Quit bitching about you only getting three or you going in there with the backup receivers. No one cares.'"
"'You treat practice like it's a game. If you throw a touchdown in the two-minute in practice, you celebrate like it's the game.'"
Brady never approached it that way before. Then "sure enough" everything changed.
"Mmy energy started getting way better. I was bringing juice; I had the right attitude."
"Then all of a sudden, I'm bringing the juice, man. Every day, boom."
"That [mindshift] really helped me get better."
The road to 7 Super Bowl rings didn't start on the practice field; it started in that very office…
In 1945 the USS Indianapolis secretly delivered the parts for the atomic bomb that would hit Hiroshima.
Days later, mission done, a Japanese submarine put two torpedoes into her. She sank in 12 minutes.
Nearly 900 men made it off the ship alive and into the open ocean. Then it got worse.
No one knew they were missing. Three separate Navy stations picked up the distress signals and every one of them ignored it. One officer thought it was a Japanese trap. Another had ordered not to be disturbed.
So the men floated. For almost five days. No food, no fresh water, burning by day and freezing at night. Some drank seawater and went insane. And the whole time, the sharks were circling and feeding. It is considered the worst shark attack in human history.
When rescue finally came by accident, only 316 of the nearly 1,200 crew were still alive.
The Navy needed someone to blame for the disaster. They chose Captain Charles McVay, one of the men who survived it. He became the only U.S. captain in the entire war to be court-martialed for losing his ship to the enemy.
At his trial the Navy did something almost unheard of. They brought in the Japanese commander who sank the ship to testify against him. Instead, the enemy captain told the court that zigzagging would have made no difference and that McVay did nothing wrong.
They convicted him anyway.
For years afterward McVay got hate mail from the families of the dead. Some sent letters every Christmas telling him he murdered their sons. In 1968 he walked onto his front lawn and shot himself, holding a toy sailor he had kept since he was a boy.
Case closed. For fifty years.
Then in 1996 an 11-year-old named Hunter Scott watched Jaws with his dad and got hooked on the 30 second speech about the Indianapolis. He made it his sixth grade history project.
He tracked down and interviewed nearly 150 survivors. He dug through more than 800 documents. And buried in there he found what the Navy had left out, including that they knew enemy subs were operating right on the ship's route and never warned McVay.
A kid's school project turned into a national story. It reached Congress. In 2000 lawmakers passed a resolution clearing McVay's name and President Clinton signed it. The Navy officially cleared his record in 2001.
The captain the Navy spent decades blaming was finally exonerated by a sixth grader.
Hunter Scott grew up and became a naval flight officer.
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I’ve been one of the loudest supporters of $SRXH, and after the reverse split, I was also one of its most frustrated shareholders.
Why? Because I believed in this company enough to accumulate an enormous position over the past several months. Watching that investment get fundamentally reshaped overnight was hard. Like many of you, I felt disappointed, frustrated, and even embarrassed by how everything unfolded. Trust took a hit. There’s no point pretending otherwise.
But frustration and the long-term investment thesis aren’t necessarily the same thing.
Today I’m choosing to look forward instead of backward.
The reverse split is behind us. The share structure is cleaner. The company has cash on hand. A corporate treasury is already being built. Management has authorized a meaningful share repurchase program. Most importantly, the Gen2 strategy is what brought me here in the first place, and it’s still what I believe has the potential to separate SRXH from the crowd if management executes.
To me, Gen2 isn’t about yesterday’s mistakes. It’s about building a company designed for the future.
Every great comeback starts with a moment where people have to decide whether they’re going to stay angry forever or move forward. I chose to move forward.
Do I expect trust to be earned back? Absolutely. Management has to execute. They have to communicate better. They have to deliver results. Retail investors deserve that.
But if they do…
The combination of a reduced float, an active buyback authorization, cash available to deploy, continued treasury growth, and long-term holders who refuse to sell creates a setup that could look very different than what we’ve experienced over the last few weeks. The market will ultimately determine the price, but I believe sustained execution could justify valuations well above where we trade today.
I’m still here.
Not because I forgot what happened.
Because I believe second chances can create extraordinary outcomes when they’re backed by action instead of promises.
For me, this is the rebirth of SRXH.
Time to stop looking in the rearview mirror and start building the company we all hoped we’d own from the beginning.
#SRXH #Gen2 #LongTerm #Treasury #Buyback #Investing #Stocks #Retailinvesters
JMO. Not financial advice. Do your own due diligence.
$SPCX - SPACEX COULD SOAR 440%, SAYS RAYMOND JAMES
Raymond James launched SpaceX coverage with a Strong Buy rating and a Street-high $800 target, implying 440% upside.
The bullish outlook is driven by Starship, Starlink, and SpaceX’s potential as a global infrastructure giant.
However, skeptics question its valuation, while investors await the company’s first public earnings report for clearer financial evidence.
$SRXH
I've spent the last seven months digging through every filing, every interview, every tweet from @ericjackson, every court document, and every rumor I could find. Yesterday hurt. I've had plenty of bad days in the market over the years, but this one felt different.
Watching a position get crushed while people around you scream "scam" is one thing. Watching years of savings disappear and wondering if you just made one of the biggest mistakes of your life is something else entirely.
As a father, I don't look at my portfolio and see numbers on a screen. I see first cars. College tuition. Wedding days. Helping my kids with the down payment on their first home. Those are the reasons I invest. Not for flashy lifestyles or bragging rights. I do it because I want to give my children opportunities I never had.
Yesterday, for the first time in a long time, I questioned whether I had failed them. That's a heavy feeling to carry. The people you love most don't see the weight you're carrying, but you feel it every second of the day.
Over the past several months, I've also found support in something I never expected. A group of complete strangers who slowly became more than just usernames in a chat. We've celebrated together, argued with each other, questioned everything, laughed through the chaos, and picked one another up on the days it felt impossible to stay positive. Yesterday wasn't just hard for me. It was hard watching good people, many of whom have become people to lean on, hurting right alongside me. No matter how this story ends, I'm grateful for every one of them who chose to walk this road together.
Maybe this investment turns around. Maybe it doesn't. None of us know that today. But I'm not going to let the most emotional day of this journey be the day I abandon the research, the conviction, or the ability to think clearly. Fear has a way of convincing us that today's pain is permanent. Sometimes it is. Sometimes it's the chapter right before everything changes.
I don't know how this story ends. I just know I'm going to see it through with my eyes open, accept whatever comes, and keep fighting for the future I've always wanted to build for my family.
@theiaincameron I actually took a 35 day canoe trip on the Kazan river which goes through the lake. The lake usually never fully unthaws. I wish we would’ve know about this back then. Came across about 20k caribou near this spot.
In a very remote part of Nunavut, northern Canada, lies a seemingly unremarkable body of water. According to the map, it's just one of many mid-sized lakes in that area.
However, 45-mile (72 km)-long Yathkyed Lake contains something quite literally unique in the world.
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