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[Official] Toronto Blue Jays Major League Baseball thread
nuckin_futz replied to The Stork's topic in Off-Topic General
Willie Mays describing when, as a 17-year-old, he faced Satchel Paige for the first time: "It was 1948. Satchel had a very, very good fastball. But he threw me a little breaking ball, just to see what I could do, and I hit it off the top of the fence. And I got a double. When I got to second, Satchel told the third baseman, 'Let me know when that little boy comes back up.' "Three innings later, I go to kneel down in the on-deck circle, and I hear the third baseman say, 'There he is.' Satch looked at the third baseman, and then he looked at me. "I walk halfway to home plate and he says, 'Little boy.' I say, 'Yes, sir?' because Satch was much older than I am, so I was trying to show respect. "He walked halfway to home plate and said, 'Little boy, I'm not going to trick you. I'm going to throw you three fastballs and you're going to go sit down.' And I'm saying in my mind, 'I don't think so.' If he threw me three of the same pitch, I'm going to hit it somewhere. "He threw me two fastballs and I just swung...I swung right through it. And the third ball he threw, and I tell people this all the time, he threw the ball and then he started walking. And he says, 'Go sit down.' This is while the ball was in the air. "He was just a magnificent pitcher." (Source - "Willie Mays Comes Home" GQ Magazine interview 2/1/10) -
Rates in the USA are now 5.25% and yet it has not cooled the employment market a bit. Jobs continue to be added wages continue to rise. The only fault I can find in this report is the 2 month net revision. US April non-farm payrolls +253K vs +180K expected April 2023 US employment data from the non-farm payrolls report Prior was +236K(revised to +165K) Two-month net revision -149K Unemployment rate 3.4% vs 3.6% expected Prior unemployment rate 3.5% Participation rate 62.6% vs 62.6% prior U6 underemployment rate 6.6% vs 6.7% prior Average hourly earnings +0.5% m/m vs +0.3% expected Average hourly earnings +4.4% y/y vs +4.2% expected Average weekly hours 34.4 vs 34.4 expected Change in private payrolls +230K vs +160K expected Change in manufacturing payrolls +11K vs -5K expected Household survey +139K vs +577K prior Birth-death adjustment+378K vs -29K prior This is undoubtedly hawkish and puts the Fed in a real bind. The Fed wants to pause and may soon even need to cut but the jobs market isn't cooperating. Now, jobs are certainly a lagging indicator but 3.4% unemployment is extraordinarily tight and this is the 13th straight month of non-farm payrolls beating the consensus estimate. Canada April employment 41.4K versus 20.0K estimate Canadian April 2023 jobs report data Canada jobs increased by 41.4K led by part-time Prior month 34.7K Employment gain for April 41.4K vs 20.0K estimate Unemployment rate 5.0% versus 5.1% expected Full-time employment -6.2K versus 18.8 K last month Part-time employment 47.6K versus 15.9 K last month Participation rate 65.6% vs 65.6% last month Average hourly wages permanent employees 5.2% versus 5.2% last month other highlights Employment growth among core-aged men (25-54 years) and men aged 55+; steady for core-aged and older women; little change for male and female youth. Sectors with employment increases: wholesale and retail trade, transportation and warehousing, information/culture/recreation, and educational services; decrease in business services. Employment rose in Ontario and Prince Edward Island, declined in Manitoba, and remained stable in other provinces. Average hourly wages increased 5.2% (+$1.66 to $33.38) year-over-year in April (not seasonally adjusted). Part-time employment increased while full-time employment held steady; 15.2% of part-time workers involuntarily working part-time. Private sector employees increased by 299,000 (+2.3%) year-over-year, public sector increased by 81,000 (+2.0%), and self-employment remained unchanged, below pre-COVID-19 levels. Looking at the different sectors, the winners and losers are showing: Wholesale and retail trade employment increased by 24,000 (+0.8%) in April, partially offsetting a net decline from May to December 2022. Transportation and warehousing employment rose by 17,000 (+1.6%), building on March's increase; up by 47,000 (+4.7%) compared to 12 months earlier. Information, culture, and recreation employment increased by 16,000 (+1.9%) after three months of little change; up by 58,000 (+7.3%) since October 2022. Educational services employment grew by 15,000 (+1.0%), trending upwards since August 2022 with cumulative gains of 71,000. Business, building, and other support services employment decreased by 14,000 (-1.9%), partially offsetting March's increase; up by 32,000 (+4.7%) compared to April 2022. Health care and social assistance employment held steady for a second consecutive month. Professional, scientific, and technical services employment remained stable in April, with a year-over-year increase of 3.8% (+68,000). Canadian sector winners and losers Overall, solid job gains but centered in the part-time employment. Full-time prep employment was steady. Unemployment rate dipped back to 5%. That is the low water mark for employment.
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[Rumour] Nikolay Goldobin eyeing NHL return
nuckin_futz replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Pretty sure Tocchet would chew him up and spit him out back to Russia. -
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My God, talk about a golden voice.
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[Proposal] This is how we clear cap space!
nuckin_futz replied to HKSR's topic in Proposals and Armchair GM'ing
I have a better idea how we can clear cap space. In the following article just replace every instance of "Marian Hossa" with "Oliver Ekman Larsson"............. Marian Hossa allergic to his own equipment, may have to retire from NHL Marian Hossa may have played his last NHL game. The Chicago Blackhawks right wing will at least miss the 2017-18 (23-24) season, as it was announced Wednesday that he's suffering from a skin disorder, which is being caused by an allergic reaction to his own hockey equipment. The 38-year-old Hossa has missed 46 games over the past six seasons, but said playing right now has to take a back seat. "Due to the severe side effects associated with those medications, playing hockey is not possible for me during the upcoming 2017-18 (23-24) season," Hossa said in a statement. "While I am disappointed that I will not be able to play, I have to consider the severity of my condition and how the treatments have impacted my life both on and off the ice." -
I just save it on my phone and upload it from there.
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With pics from Facebook you have to save pic and post it from there. The ones posted straight from Facebook tend to disappear after a few days.
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Has there ever been a story teller better than Bruce?
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Investing in the stock market - Discussion
nuckin_futz replied to AV's Coin's topic in Off-Topic General
Depositors aren't taking risk, investors/shareholders in the bank take risk and are rewarded with dividends and share price increases. Tax payers do not fund FDIC, it's funded by premiums paid by the banks for the insurance. In the case of SVB they didn't take huge risk they bought US long dated treasuries. US treasuries are the safest investment there is. If they had time to wait it out they wouldn't have lost $1. -
Is There Anything We Can Do to Bring About a Change in Ownership?
nuckin_futz replied to TFerguson's topic in Canucks Talk
Guy's gotta have a little mad money kicking around. -
Investing in the stock market - Discussion
nuckin_futz replied to AV's Coin's topic in Off-Topic General
SVB was allowed to die. Only depositors were made whole. 5 Goliath banks, like we have in Canada? -
Investing in the stock market - Discussion
nuckin_futz replied to AV's Coin's topic in Off-Topic General
That's what FDIC is for. -
Carolyn Bryant Donham, woman at center Emmett Till lynching, dies JACKSON, Miss. — The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner's report shows. Carolyn Bryant Donham was 88. Donham died Tuesday night in Westlake, Louisiana, according to a death report filed Thursday in Calcasieu Parish Coroner’s Office in Louisiana. Till’s kidnapping and killing became a catalyst for the civil rights movement when his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in their hometown of Chicago after his brutalized body was pulled from a river in Mississippi. Jet magazine published photos. Till traveled from Chicago to visit relatives in Mississippi in August 1955. Donham — then named Carolyn Bryant — accused him of making improper advances on her at a grocery store in the small community of Money. The Rev. Wheeler Parker, a cousin of Till who was there, has said 14-year-old Till whistled at the woman, an act that flew in the face of Mississippi’s racist social codes of the era. Evidence indicates a woman identified Till to her then-husband Roy Bryant and his half-brother J.W. Milam, who killed the teenager. An all-white jury acquitted the two white men in the killing, but the men later confessed in an interview with Look magazine. Donham said she didn't know what would happen to Emmett Till In an unpublished memoir obtained by The Associated Press in 2022, Donham said she was unaware of what would happen to the 14-year-old Till. Donham was 21 at the time. The contents of the 99-page manuscript, titled “I am More Than A Wolf Whistle,” were first reported by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. Historian and author Timothy Tyson of Durham, who said he obtained a copy from Donham while interviewing her in 2008, provided a copy to the AP. Tyson had placed the manuscript in an archive at the University of North Carolina with the agreement that it not be made public for decades, though he said he gave it to the FBI during an investigation the agency concluded last year. He said he decided to make it public now following the recent discovery of an arrest warrant on kidnapping charges that was issued for Donham in 1955 but never served. *********************** Good riddance.