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American Bulldog - Sheldon *courtesy Post* - Large - Adult
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I'm looking to sell my female bully pup she is a great with kids all ages an other pets
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I have to sell my American blue bully pup she is up to date on shots an Simi house broking great with kids of all ages an other pets
Asking $175 obo
I have a blue brindle american bully havent been register but i have the application so he can b register his my bby but i cannot longer have him bcuz of the manager of the place that i live at. Txt me or email me for more pics and to let me know if your interested pliz ...
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This is a 9 week old sable male american bully with champion blood lines. this pup is priced to move.
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American Bulldog - Kami - Medium - Young - Female - Dog
Hello everyone I am Kami a 1 year old adult female American Bulldog mix. I was turned into a shelter with a belly full of puppies. The shelter staffed promised me that they would get me out of there before they had to ...
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Evansville-Henderson :
I am looking to rehome several of my dogs due to some personal and family issues. All raised around children. Some have UKC/ADBA registration; some are not registered. I have more available than what are pictured. I have a fawn bluie male 6 months old non papered for $50; I ...
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Springfield (MO) :
UKC registered American Bully pups for sale. Almost 9 weeks old in pics.Ready for new home. Razors Edge, Hawaiian, and Winegarner bloodlines. First 2 sets of shots done and have been wormed on schedule. Loving and very friendly; raised around children. 2 red males, 3 black ...
I have a 7 month old female im looking to rehome if interested please feel free to contact me anytime at 3144821279 Rashod
Her bullypedia is located down below in the street and intersection section
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100% Gotti. Mikelands son bred to a bankroll bullies daughter. 5 males 4 females. 4 chocolate, 4 brindle and 1 black. Will be UKC registered. Ear cropping will be available and shipping as well if needed. Contact 317-229-5519 for additional info or questions. Serious ...
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Indianapolis :
Dax Granddaughter meets Big Buck Grandson. 4 Chocolate, 2 Champagne, 1 Black. All Tri's. 4 females 2 males. Will be UKC Registered. Ear cropping will be available as well as shipping if needed. Contact 317-229-5519 for addtional info or questions. Serious Inquiries Only ...
I have 10 beautiful full blooded American Bully Puppies. Blood lines are Double Cracker (daddy) and Gotti (mommy) I have 6 girls and 4 boys. Going to be short stocky and wide. Momma and daddy are both on premises, puppies will be ready for new homes December 24th. Now ...
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Memphis :
7 month old male show quality
This ad was posted with the eBay Classifieds mobile app.
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Central Illinois :
Cute loveable puppies. We have mom and dad on premises with papers.
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American Staffordshire Terrier - Perry - Medium - Young - Male
Perry is available for adoption through Rescued Heart Animal Hospital in Pekin, IL. He was turned in as a stray and passed his temperament test with flying colors at the pound, but he was heartworm positive. He ...
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We have a litter of American Bullies (NOT Pit Bulls).
The dad's ped is on bullypedia, the mothers isn't.
These are PET ONLY HOMES they will NOT come with papers (Will be on a pet only contract) Mom is on site, tons of pics of dad.
Puppies should be standard size (males: ...
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St. Louis :
American Staffordshire Terrier - Sadie - Medium - Young - Female
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Please dont let Sadie's cyst turn you away. Her cyst is strictly cosmetic. She was already passed up at the shelter because of it as people called her ugly but she is ...
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Central Illinois :
American Staffordshire Terrier - Miss Piggy - Medium - Adult
Miss Piggy is the sweetest girl ever. She was found dumped on the side of the road with her ears chopped off. They were infected, and she had a terrible skin infection. She is healing from the neglect and abuse ...
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Nashville :
Pit Bull Terrier - Tito - Large - Adult - Male - Dog
Hello everyone! I am Tito an adult male American Bulldog mix. I was turned into a local high kill shelter with a very bad skin infection! I was put on the "E" as most bully mixes are there but luckily for me one of Bullie ...
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Evansville-Henderson :
We have beautiful American Bully puppies that are now 2 months and ready to go. Purple Ribbon UKC registration in hand. Up to date on all shots and dewormer. The deposit to secure your puppy is $350. The remaining balance is due at time of pick unless you pay balance in full ...
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St. Louis :
Saint Louis
American Bulldog - Otis - Large - Young - Male - Dog
Name/Sex- Otis/ Male Breed/Size: American Bulldog mix/ Large Approx. age: 1 1/2 years old Good with women: Yes Good with men: Yes Good with kids over 6 yrs old: Yes Good with kids under 6 yrs old: Yes Good with other dogs ...
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Evansville-Henderson :
I have two beautiful female American Bully puppy looking for a good stable safe fun loving /home environment.
She has an amazing temperment does exceptionally well with children and other dogs and even cats :)
I'd like them to go to the best homes available.
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AOL Mail locks down email servers to deal with spam tsunami
If you've been getting a lot of spam from AOL emails recently it's not because you've fallen into a time rift and it's the nineties all over again – the company has confirmed that it has been under an intensive spoofing attack. The problems started three days ago when large volumes of email, apparently from AOL Mail's servers, …
Getting spammed
I've been getting a lot of spam in recent days. They are not from AOL but rather spam-bot registered domains that have no function and no content. The IP address range also suggest an new spam bot network that is currently working overtime pumping out spam emails.
Re: Getting spammed
Who on earth are AOL?! Never heard of em.
Re: Getting spammed
AOL used to make cup mats, in fact best I ever used.
They should send some more out.
Re: Getting spammed
AOL was "Assholes On Line" if I remember my 1990s acronyms correctly.
Re: Getting spammed
Surely it was "Army of Lamers" ?
Wait a moment...
AOL still [em]exists[/em]?!!
Re: Wait a moment...
People still use AOL???
NONE of them are serious about fighting spammers
If they were, then they would give us effective tools to help disrupt the spammers' business models. If the spammers weren't making money, then they would stop spamming. More concretely, if they knew that a particular email service or provider was going to disrupt their scams, then they would stop using and abusing that email system.
Imagine that ANY of the big email services offered an integrated anti-spammer system. The obvious design would involve several iterations of analysis and confirmation. Basically, it would allow you to donate a bit of your time and human intelligence to target ALL of the spammers' infrastructure, pursue ALL of the spammers' accomplices, and even help and protect ALL of the spammers' victims. The victims even include the email system itself, and the various corporations whose reputations are abused by the spammers. Less spam = more value for the entire Internet.
I'm NOT saying that we can convert the spammers into decent human beings. These vicious sociopaths can only be moved under less visible rocks. I'm NOT saying that everyone has to help in fighting the spammers. I'm just saying that there are a LOT of people who dislike spam and only a few suckers who are feeding the spammers. If ANY of the major email providers made it somewhat easier, then the spammers would be more effectively cut away from their money and they would look for 'better' scams.
One concrete example that especially annoys me: Link shorteners. Easy cure: After a few people have confirmed that the link is a spammer, then the link would be locked down and repointed. Rather than pointing at the website where the spammer is waiting for victims, it would point at some website that would warn or scare the potential victims. The spammers' bait would become poison to the spammers' own scams--but you need some humans in the loop to help out. I don't mind if you want to be a free rider. I'm one of the folks who wants to ride the spammers--all the way into the dirt.
Re: NONE of them are serious about fighting spammers
> After a few people have confirmed that the link is a spammer, then the link would be locked down and repointed. Rather than pointing at the website where the spammer is waiting for victims, it would point at some website that would warn or scare the potential victims. The spammers' bait would become poison to the spammers' own scams--but you need some humans in the loop to help out.
Interesting plan, but this is where it all falls down. Just off the top of my head I can think of the following issues:
1. How do you authenticate the humans helping out?
2. How do you verify that the site in question is in fact a spam site?
3. Who makes the rules for the spam/no spam decision?
4. Who makes the rules to amend those rules?
5. How do you prevent malicious/mischievous users from gaming the system and marking legitimate sites as spam and spam sites as legitimate?
In the end would it be any faster than the spam site take-downs already in place?
Human intelligence still has some value
It's really hard to take seriously anyone who defends the spammers. The best possible interpretation is that you're some kind of religious fanatic with "Live and let spam" as one of your commandments. I could answer each of your objections in some detail, except that it's obvious that if you actually read what I wrote (and I have to doubt that), then you certainly didn't think about it.
Just for the sake of illustrating why it is better to say nothing when you have nothing to say, let me spend a few seconds to consider your first "thoughtful" objection (all sarcasm intended). Do you understand the word "integrated"? Evidently not, so let me explain that word in the original suggestion. Because the system I proposed would be integrated into the email system, the authentication is exactly the same as that which applies to each user of the email system. I will go even farther and say that a good (as distinct from a minimally competent) implementation would consider the history of the reporter. An additional hedge in the particular paragraph you mentioned was "few", but I've already wasted far more keystrokes than your minimalist comment deserved.
Instead, I'll throw out another example for consideration. This one is slightly more complicated, so please don't strain yourself. Just a caution judging by your previous reply...
Recently I received a notification from American Express warning me about a new security problem. There was only one minor problem there. I am not now and have never been a customer of American Express.
This was a quite beautifully done phishing scam. I spent several minutes studying the masking, but I acknowledge that it was done at a level I could not unravel. The cover letter was doing some highly clever JavaScript manipulation, probably playing with the DOM tree, and the main body was actually an embedded and encoded HTML webpage that was intended to run locally. As paranoid as I am, there is some chance I could have clicked on the trigger, especially if it turned out that I was an actual customer of American Express.
With the anti-spammer mechanism that I am suggesting, the first round of analysis would flag it as a phishing scam, but a later round of analysis should escalate that report to a fairly high level of seriousness. I'd even want to believe that American Express might want to initiate countermeasures to protect their actual customers.
However, it could go even farther than that. What if the spam included valid personal information? In that case, there might be an actual breech of the company's servers and the actual customers may be part of the mechanism to alert the authorities.
I'm not saying we can create a perfect world free of spam. I'm saying that spammers (and to a lesser degree, the spam-loving defeatists) deserve a full load of trouble, and I'm eager to help pile it on top of them.
Re: Human intelligence still has some value
"It's really hard to take seriously anyone who defends the spammers. The best possible interpretation is that you're some kind of religious fanatic with "Live and let spam" as one of your commandments. I could answer each of your objections in some detail, except that it's obvious that if you actually read what I wrote (and I have to doubt that), then you certainly didn't think about it."
It's even harder to take seriously anyone who blithely tosses off an "easy fix" that demonstrably isn't going to be very easy at all to implement, then responds to adult point-by-point criticism of the idea with that paragraph of froth.
Actually, most of the points raised by that poster *on the subject of your "easy fix to short-links idea" were thoughts that crossed my mind too. I don't think that his/her bullet points have equal weight or equal threat (drawing a line in the sand as to what is and isn't spam is not so very hard), but having been the one who missed the staff meeting and therefore got volunteered to pull similar rabbits out of the hat a few times in my thirty plus years in IT, I think that you'd have a much harder time "answering in some detail" than you think.
But if you want to have a go for real, I'll read what you have to say.
Re: Human intelligence still has some value
So are you [Stevie] a spammer or spammer's sock puppet? Or just another loser? The reason I offered the 'kindly' suggestion that the first spammer defender might be a religious fanatic is because that is actually the category of non-economic spam that I think would be relatively difficult to deal with.
As regards your [Stevie's] reading comprehension problems, I am NOT saying that it would be easy or a trivial thing. I am saying that focusing more efforts on the money side of the spammers' motivations would significantly deter the spammers, reduce the amounts of spam below the current "Live and let spam" levels, and thereby increase the value of email in particular and the value of the Internet in general.
One aspect of human intelligence is adaptability. ANY effective spam-fighting system has to have room for "Other" or "None of the above" options because the spammers are always going to look for new tricks and scams. I understand that you [Stevie] are probably a loser or quitter (since the spammers are probably too busy spamming to read the Register) and that you accept the spammer's economic argument, which is basically that the marginal cost of another million spams is approximately zero. I prefer the search for a constructive solution focusing on the imbalance between the small number of suckers and the large numbers of people who could stop the suckers--if they had better tools to do so.
Near as I can tell, there are two reasons why spam continues to be a problem. I've already mentioned the sociopathy of the spammers. The other is defeatist and passive attitudes of people who can't actually imagine doing anything to make the world better.
(So why don't I do more? Not much of an excuse, but I judge my situation is that I'm sort of locked into a good job that is already helping to make the world better in a different area. If I only had additional time and resources, then I'd gladly tackle this project, too, but...)
Stangely enough, Shannon (was: Re: Human intelligence still has some value)
AOL has been doing exactly what you are asking for since the late 1990s or early 2000s. Get spam, hit the "this is spam" button. It seems to actually work, to a degree.
How do I know? I've had an AOL email account from the QLink days. It's the only commercial email account I've ever had that refuses to die. It's supposedly been deleted a dozen(ish) times since 1989. I stopped trying to nuke it in 2004.
These days, I only use it for two things: It's the account I used to register here on ElReg, and occasionally I get contacted by someone from back in the old days.
Re: Stangely enough, Shannon (was: Human intelligence still has some value)
That is called adaptive Bayesian filtering, and it is pretty much the standard technology used by all of the large email systems.
The main technical problem is the tradeoff between false positives and false negatives. Essentially there is a limit where you have to trade one kind of mistake for the other. The large-volume email services are able to drive the total error rate below 1%, but the exact value depends on the volume of email and the creativity of the spammers, which is the main human problem (assuming you are willing to grant human status to the spammers, which I sometimes wonder about). In brief, the spammers are constantly studying the how to make their spam look like ham.
However, my focus is on the economic problem, and from that perspective, the bottom line is that the spammers can clearly live with the filtering. Their profits are still high enough to motivate a whole lot of spam going on, as the song goes. I don't really monitor Microsoft's email these days, but based on Yahoo in two countries and Gmail, the spammers must be making most of their money on false negatives, so the spammers' current weakness is not the filtering, but the delay time before the human victims can respond, either to websites (often via link shorteners) or email dropboxes.
Filtering has pretty much reached its limits, and we're not going to abandon SMTP, either. It's not that there is a magic solution that will permanently cure the problem, but we need a more adaptive and evolving mechanism.
Re: Human intelligence still has some value
"So are you [Stevie] a spammer or spammer's sock puppet??"
You forgot to ask when I stopped beating my wife.
Sorry. I thought you were an actual systems engineering sort of person with actual ideas on how to get stuck in based on real world know-how and an in-depth understanding of how the internet works and why it works that way.
I don't have much time for "ideas men/women" or "big picture types". We have too many of them already, as a quick audit of the number of multi-million credit, multi-year aborted system rewrites in the news in the last five years can prove to anyone with the perspicacity to understand what that is saying to them.
Engineers do. Star Trek script writers talk about doing. Politicians and other idiots think Star Trek is real.
Lock down?
They should just shut them down. Who uses AOL anymore?
Re: Lock down?
Talktalk's email system sits atop AOL's (you can log into it via their own website or AOLs). Any email that gets delivered to talktalk also sits in an AOL mirror, and can be read/deleted etc separately.
Whether that makes the situation better or worse I'll leave as an exercise to the reader (speaking as a Talktalk customer who uses the AOL version sometimes as a failsafe backup if I've deleted an email that I then need again).
Those who still use this service...
...Deserve it! How is this shower still going? How can a company f**k up this bad and still keep customers?! Its amazing...
Re: Those who still use this service...
I would personally never use any such service, but the people who do so deserve better. Many have had the same address for years and don't know a practical way to change. The fact that many of them don't have a clue doesn't mean that the company shouldn't look after them. In fact, quite the contrary.
@AC (was: Re: Those who still use this service...)
"How can a company f**k up this bad and still keep customers?!"
I have an AOL account. I am not a customer. I haven't paid money since the QLink days. It's the only commercial account I have ever had that refuses to die.
Re: Those who still use this service...
AOL has been surviving by making its numbers look better via layoffs. At this point they have laid off so many people that the few that remain are vastly overworked, and things like this have a much greater impact than they once did. If AOL management had any sense - and that is debatable - they would stop trying to sell kidneys to survive. Instead they pay astronomical salaries to the top execs, who can't come up with a coherent strategy. Its a bit like watching a few rich land barons climb over the dead bodies of their people to grab that one last payoff.
AOL is better than Google
America On Line does not track you and sell your information to all kind of wierdos like Gurgle does. This is clearly not an intentional loss of your privacy, but a screwup.
Re: AOL is better than Google
I sometimes have dinner with an old acquaintance and coworker who 'defected' to google. In one of our discussions he (accidentally) caused me to realize that their current motto is "All of your attentions are belonging to the google."
Having said that, I have to disagree with the post because AOL sincerely wishes that they could do what the google is doing. The underlying business models are pretty much equivalently evil, but the google wins and profits on the execution. Economic success requires both an effective business model and effective implementation. Good quality software from the user's perspective is much less important... The technologies are morally neutral, as the poor joke goes.
Re: America On Line does not track you
Would you be interested in buying a bridge?
Re: AOL is better than Google
"America On Line does not track you and sell your information to all kind of wierdos like Gurgle does."
Yes they do. They have used behavioural targeting (including predicitive analytics) through internal systems and external third-parties for many years. No better than any of the others.
(Edit: typo)
Re: America On Line does not track you
Would you be interested in buying a bridge?
or swampland in Florida???
yup. all 7 of the AOL subscribers on one of my email lists got shut out the other day by dmarc policy p=reject.
so now, yahoo and its clients (att, and all the former babybell legacy domains), hotmail, AND AOL have effectively banned email list servers. "Why, fewer than 2% of our 300 million email users post to mail lists, who cares about those 5 million people!"
Now this is strange, only yesterday was I handed back a Harry Potter DVD with the following on the back:
AOL keyword "Harry Potter"
Website contact forms too.
Also affects web forms that use the persons entered email address as a simple "From:" address for the message sent out from the web server. If that address is @ a domain that has a strict DMARC policy then mail servers that check DMARC (e.g. Google) will block the messages from being delivered.
The fix seems to be to use an address belonging to the website for the "From:" address, and adding the person's email address as a "Reply-to:" field. Logically this is more correct, as the email is indeed being sent from the website, but does want the reply to go direct to the person who filled in the form.
This does mean, of course, that quite possibly the vast majority of website contact forms no longer work for people with @yahoo.com and @aol.com email addresses (and other domains that use these services).
All the signs are that this is not simple spoofing
I've been getting spam from AOL users. But it's from people I know and the other addresses on the recipient list are to their genuine contacts. This means their account has been compromised in some way rather than straight forward (and far less serious) spoofing of their email address to send to random recipients.
Re: All the signs are that this is not simple spoofing
Yes, I've seen this too over the past week and a bit. Changing the account passwords hasn't made any difference and there's never any spam in their sent folders so I'm not too sure exactly what's been happening.
Those were the days... When internet still was innocent and the viruses could only do so much damage.
incoming mail from @aol.com - blocked.
outgoing mail to @aol.com - blocked.
Sorted. Never had problems with spam from them since '95.
I used to have a collection of CD-aka-cupholders from them, which makes THEM the spammers. No serious business would use AOL, but we warned our clients and providers that we didn't receive or send AOL mail, just in case.
Regular user
I'm a regular user of the service. Why? Because the spam blocking is much better than I've found elsewhere. I had been an AOL customer in the mid-90s but got turned off by their failure to block spam. I went to Yahoo and found them to be even worse. I tried Brightmail for a time but found it cumbersome. After that I latched onto Mailblocks which had the right amount of control. In time the company was bought by AOL, so I ended up where I started, but with much better spam blocking. (This is often confirmed by what shows up on my Blackberry but not in my AOL inbox.)
The thing I find odd though is that nobody is having this conversation about spam from Yahoo or Hotmail accounts, which occurs routinely. One friend had her Yahoo account hacked twice in two weeks. Generally I can expect to receive spam like the item displayed in the related article, from at least one Yahoo user on a monthly basis. Does this not get discussed about the other providers because it happens so routinely?
With all this hate-on for AOL, the company that *really* got the US population en-masse interested in going on-line for fun and profit, I hope we can extend the same "old and therefore defunct and detestable" labeling convention to CompuServe and that jit who keeps trying to tell me how to pronounce "gif".
AOL probably don't have anyone forwarding mail from say firstname.lastname@example.com to email@example.com because in my experience it takes a single AOL end user two clicks of the "spam" button for the entire forwarding server IP to be dropped into a blackhole pretty much forever. Reading lots of forums over the years, this has been happening for many years.
If mailing lists are still getting through I am *very* amazed as their policy seems to be block everything, deny it's an AOL issue and then AOL subscriber will hopefully not be clued up enough to realise they're lying.
@AC regarding blocking AOL...did that years ago and no one seemed to notice. :)
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Yes, the spam blocking can be a little over-eager. It is trainable however, but it does take some effort, that is you have to log on to your account and flag the items as not spam. I think that whitelisting is supported, but I seldom log on directly, so I'm not sure. (I mostly use a desktop client or a Blackberry.) And occasionally it is so eager that unexpected mail is vaporized without a trace (although I may have noticed it on the BB before it went poof). On the whole though I find it gives me a good balance of delivering the mail I want while blocking the annoyances, while sometimes forcing me to retrieve desired mail from the spam folder.
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Go Blue!
Report: Shaw still questionable for Saturday; Herron good to go
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Brandon Herron is good to go, according to RR.
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Phil likes a 38-31 victory for the Maize and Blue. He's been surgically accurate going 14-1 last week and 90-11 on the year picking top 25 teams' games. "...the Wolverines are playing at home and desperately need to regain the upper hand in the series." Sounds good to me.
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TomVH: 2012 LB Reggie Ragland
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Ragland currently has offers from Alabama, Auburn, and Kentucky. He's a 6-foot-4, 245-pound linebacker from Alabama that also plays wide receiver for his high school. He's a monster, and he's also hoping to hear from Michigan.
Of course Michigan is one of my top schools. I always loved to watch them play.
I also asked him about how Denard Robinson's success might help Michigan with recruiting:
He might win the Heisman this year. If we think the school isn't going to have players we might not look at them, so he helps them a lot.
Just a name to keep an eye on for the future. Most schools are recruiting him for linebacker or tight end.
Wiki Page for the Student Sections?
I'm bored and the following is a concern of mine. I'm sure some here will share these concerns so I figured I'd throw it out there...
Would it be cool/useful for there to be some global location (i.e. a section on the Michigan Athletics wiki page) devoted to the various M student sections?
I'm a grad student now and this year one of the weird things that occured to me was that current UM juniors have not had the pleasure of a winning season. As such, we've had the wave started in a 2 score game. We've had people try to start the wave on the wrong side of the section, do it in the wrong order, etc.
Worst of all (to me) we've had people chant "It's Great to be..." in games that it shouldn't be chanted in. I don't know about others, but to me in my Maize Rage days that cheer was always reserved as a victory celebration of a big game. We should not be chanting it while walking out of a UMass victory.
But yeah, would the wiki page be a good idea? I'm not a regular of hockey games and I know hockey isn't as organized as the Maize Rage, so maybe this would be a usefull tool for them? Maybe a way to get sections like the Zone (volleyball) and the Ultras (soccer) some recognition.
Are there other traditions/cheers that have been struggling lately?
Or if you just don't care and think I'm yelling at people to get off my lawn, what's your favorite Mich cheer/tradition?
So, The Zone has a wiki page. Pretty cool, seems to have been made by members of the '04 pep band. Oddly, there's no page for the Maize Rage.
Also, I put together a userpage to work on a page for all student sections and have gotten it started. Please, feel free to edit it and get it rolling! I think something cool that this could do is serve as a bit of historical record for old traditions gone by the wayside (marshmellows!) so the more contibutors, the better!
Denard/UM Offense Effect: Factored out of Opponents Past
Alright, so 1) I'm no Mathlete and 2) This may mean squat come Saturday, but here goes...
We've all been preached to about how our mighty Dilithium powered offense hasn't faced any REAL tests yet, with the inference that MSU will somehow be our first real litmus test. In particular, our first challenging RUN defense faced.
I've also read a few casual at best mentions, acknowledging that our past opponents defensive rankings may be slightly inflated for having played against said dilithium power. Nowhere though, have I seen anything that quantifies this effect, hence my attempt.
Looking at Notre Dame and UConn (chosen because they've played the toughest schedules of our ooponents to date), I factored out the numbers that UM hung on them, both in terms of total defensive yardage allowed, and rushing yardage allowed:
Notre Dame moves from per game avgs of 401 total yards, 153 rush yards down to 368 total, 119 rush.
UConn moves from per game avgs of 338 total yards, 162 rush yards down to 304 total, 130 rush.
For comparisons sake, MSU is currently at per game defensive avgs of 328 total yards, 101 rush yards. While it would appear that MSU does indeed have a better "D" (and specifically, RUN D) than we've seen thus far, I'd argue that their own numbers have been skewed.
Two of their opponents rely heavily on the passing game: Florida Atlantic's offensive total yards to date have been 922 pass yds to 291 rush yrds (45 yds vs MSU). Western Michigan's offensive totals to date have been 1100 pass yds to 307 rush yds (85 yds vs MSU).
In my opinion, we're going to run all over Sparty, Greg Jones or not. MSU will get their points, but I I'm not worried at all about us, I think they're a pretender.


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The global state of hunger has improved by 39% since 1990, but it's still at a 'serious' level, according the 2014 Global Hunger Index.
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Susan Smith Ellis is the CEO of (RED), a brand designed to engage business and consumer power to help eliminate AIDS in Africa. You can follow (RED) on Twitter: @joinred. We live in a world where the average person spends 13 hours online every week. Imagine if we used just a fraction of that time to take a stand on an issue that really mattered. Possibilities just like that will be addressed on Monday when Mashable, 92Y and the United Nations Foundation host the Social Good Summit.
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The HSBC Flash China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to neutral (50) in November, down from 50.4 in October. This was the weakest reading since Chinese respondents noted contracting levels of activity from January through May. Indeed, output contracted once again (down from 50.7 to 49.5) for the first time since May, which was not a good sign. Hiring (down from 48.9 to 48.4) was also negative for the 13th straight month. On the positive side, new orders (up from 51.2 to 51.4) edged slightly higher, and exports (down from 51.7 to 50.5) continued to expand, albeit at a much slower pace. (continue reading…)
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Markit: Chinese and European Economies Stalled in November
ISM: Strong Gains in the Manufacturing Sector in October
The Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) grew strongly in October, rebounding after a disappointing headline figure in September. The main index rose from 56.6 in September to 59.0 in October, back to where it had been in August. As such, the August and October readings were both the highest levels since March 2011, suggesting healthy gains in the sector as we move into the fourth quarter. (continue reading…)
Somewhat Better Manufacturing Data in China and Europe for October, But Weaknesses Persist
The HSBC Flash China PMI rose to its highest level in three months, up from 50.2 in September to 50.4 in October. It was the fifth consecutive monthly expansion in manufacturing activity in China, an improvement from the contracting activity levels experienced in the first five months of 2014. Yet, despite the better headline figure, many of the underlying data points reflect some easing in growth rates for the month, including new orders (down from 51.5 to 51.4), exports (down from 54.5 to 52.8) and output (down from 51.3 to 50.7). Hiring continued to decline but at a slower rate (up from 47.5 to 48.6).
As such, Chinese manufacturers are expanding but not by as much as we might prefer. This finding is consistent with the deceleration in other Chinese data, including real GDP, which slowed from 7.5 percent year-over-year growth in the second quarter to 7.3 percent in the third quarter. Fixed real investment (down from 16.5 percent year-over-year in August to 16.1 percent in September) and retail sales (down from 11.9 percent year-over-year to 11.6 percent) also declined. On the positive side, industrial production picked up, increasing from the year-over-year rate of 6.9 percent in August to 8.0 percent in September; yet, that remained lower than July's 9.0 percent pace.
Meanwhile, the Markit Flash Eurozone Manufacturing PMI increased from 50.3 to 50.7. That is good news, as the September figure had been the lowest level since July 2013, when Europe first emerged from its recession. October's reading was higher largely due to a pickup in output (up from 51.0 to 51.9) and employment (up from 50.1 to 50.6). Still, new orders (unchanged at 49.3) contracted for the second straight month, with exports (down from 51.6 to 50.5) easing. The Eurozone continues to face challenges in manufacturing, especially in terms of falling sales. The results also vary by country, with Germany (up from 49.9 to 51.8) improving somewhat, while French manufacturers (down 48.4 to 47.6) continue to report weakness.
Closer to home, the Markit Flash U.S. Manufacturing PMI dropped slightly, down from 57.5 to 56.2. The pace of activity was down across-the-board, including new orders (down from 59.8 to 57.1), output (down from 59.6 to 58.0), hiring (down from 56.4 to 56.2) and exports (down from 54.1 to 51.9). While the index for new orders was at its lowest level since January's 53.9 reading, it is hard to get too worked up over October's decline for these indicators. After all, demand, production and employment continue to grow at decent rates, and manufacturers are reporting higher activity levels than earlier in the year.
Still, we would like to see better results to begin the fourth quarter, particularly for exports. Given the softness in worldwide markets, however, this weakness should not be a surprise.
Chad Moutray is the chief economist, National Association of Manufacturers.
Global Manufacturing Economic Report – October 10, 2014
Here is the summary for this month's Global Manufacturing Economic Update:
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) slightly downgraded its global outlook earlier this week, with Asia, Europe and South America growing slower than expected three months ago. The IMF now expects world output to expand 3.3 percent and 3.8 percent in 2014 and 2015, respectively, down from 3.4 percent and 4.0 percent as estimated in its July report. One notable exception to this downward trend was the United States, with the IMF raising its 2014 forecast from 1.7 percent to 2.2 percent real GDP growth. This reflects recent strength in the U.S. economy, particularly when compared to other nations. To be fair, the IMF had more optimistic expectations for growth coming into this year, projecting 2.8 percent growth in 2014 in its January report. After disappointing growth in the first quarter, however, it lowered its outlook projections, much like everyone else.
One of the bigger challenges remains Europe. The Markit Eurozone Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) continued to decelerate in September, with activity just shy of being stagnant. New orders contracted for the first time since June 2013, when the Eurozone was emerging from its deep two-year recession. Indeed, the fear is that Europe will once again sink back into recession, with contracting levels of activity seen in four nations in September: Austria, France, Germany and Greece. Of particular note on this list was Germany, the largest economy in Europe. Real GDP was unchanged in the second quarter, down from 0.2 percent growth in the first quarter. Meanwhile, both industrial production and retail sales were higher in August. We will get new production data next week, and it is expected to be softer. For its part, the European Central Bank kept its monetary policies unchanged, but there is an expectation of further stimulus in the coming months.
Meanwhile, Brazil, Russia, India and China also continue to experience softness. Brazil shifted into its fifth contraction so far this year, but investors are cautiously optimistic about the upcoming runoff election between incumbent President Dilma Rousseff and Aécio Neves, who is favored by business leaders. Russia, India and China are growing, but just barely. China's manufacturing sector has shown signs of stabilization, but stronger growth remains elusive. A number of key economic indicators in China have continued to decelerate this year, including industrial production, and it is likely that real GDP will decline from 7.5 percent growth in the second quarter to 7.3 percent in the third quarter. India's PMI figure in September was at its lowest point this year, and Russian exports continue to fall. Nonetheless, it was not all bad news in the emerging markets. For instance, Indonesia, Turkey and Vietnam had their paces of new orders shift from negative to positive for the month, which bodes well for them.
The U.S. trade deficit narrowed marginally in August, although export growth remains sluggish so far this year. Looking at the top 10 markets for U.S.-manufactured goods, four countries (Brazil, Germany, Hong Kong and South Korea) experienced contracting levels of activity in September, which hampers our ability to sell products there. In addition, Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom also had marginally deteriorated demand and output in September, even as each continues to grow modestly. In contrast, manufacturing activity in Mexico and the Netherlands accelerated slightly in September.
U.S. trade negotiations in the Asia Pacific are moving forward with major meetings in Australia and China later this month and next. United States–European Union negotiations face increased controversy and new leadership at the EU Commission and Parliament. And, with the World Trade Organization's Trade Facilitation Agreement facing a continued stalemate, there are efforts to move the information technology talks to a conclusion and engage in the detailed environmental goods talks. The U.S. Export-Import Bank was granted a nine-month extension, but manufacturers remain highly concerned that continued uncertainty will put U.S. exporters at a disadvantage in global markets. Efforts continue to move forward on a host of trade legislation, including Trade Promotion Authority, the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill, customs reauthorization and the Generalized System of Preferences.
Chad Moutray is the chief economist, National Association of Manufacturers.
Monday Economic Report – October 6, 2014
Here are the files for this week's Monday Economic Report:
Several recent indicators have shown marked improvements in the U.S. economy and for manufacturing activity, particularly when compared to earlier in the year. These range from the NAM/IndustryWeek Survey of Manufacturers to increased levels of demand and output. Last week, for instance, the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) reported that the pace of production (up from 64.5 to 64.6) was marginally higher in September, with the index exceeding 60—indicating strong growth—for four consecutive months. Likewise, the new orders index has measured 60 or higher for three straight months, even though it eased somewhat in September (down from 66.7 to 60.0). That was an encouraging sign, and it was consistent with a relatively upbeat outlook as noted by the National Association for Business Economics (NABE).
Yet, the headline ISM Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for manufacturing unexpectedly dropped from 59.0 to 56.6. The prior month's reading had been a three-year high, making the deceleration in sentiment a bit of a disappointment. The drop stemmed from slower paces of growth for domestic sales, exports (down from 55.0 to 53.5) and employment (down from 58.1 to 54.6). Along those lines, manufacturers added just 4,000 net new workers in September, with August's employment number revised lower to reflect a decline of 4,000 employees for the sector. As such, we have had two straight months of disappointing manufacturing jobs numbers, which stand in stark contrast to the stronger hiring rates seen prior to August. We can hope for healthier job gains in the coming months, which would be more consistent with the mostly optimistic tone seen in other measures.
Indeed, the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank's manufacturing survey noted robust pickups in production, capacity utilization and shipments in September, and respondents continue to expect stronger activity levels over the next six months. In addition, factory shipments have risen 2.1 percent year-to-date through August, or 3.1 percent over the past 12 months. The corresponding data on new factory orders reflected a sharp decline in August, but that was the result of very strong nondefense aircraft sales in July. While new manufactured goods sales remained soft when excluding transportation orders, the underlying data also reflect gains made since the winter months. Moreover, manufacturers have been confident enough in their outlook to increase construction spending, which rose 1.5 percent in August, increasing for the fifth straight month. Year-over-year growth in manufacturing construction spending was an impressive 14.9 percent.
At the consumer level, personal spending rebounded in August after holding steading in July. Since winter-related declines in January, personal spending has risen 2.7 percent, with 4.1 percent growth year-over-year. Strength in durable goods purchases boosted the August consumption figure. Still, Americans remain anxious, particularly about labor and income growth. The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index declined from 93.4 in August to 86.0 in September, a notable and sizable decrease especially after the index had been at its highest point since October 2007 in August. It is possible that geopolitical events have put the public on edge, dampening enthusiasm. (The same could probably be said of the ISM report discussed above.) We have similar concerns in comparable data from the University of Michigan and Thomson Reuters, and the two releases support the notion that the consumer remains cautious despite recent improvements in sentiment.
Meanwhile, the U.S. trade deficit narrowed from $40.32 billion in July to $40.11 billion in August, its lowest level since January. In general, we have seen the trade deficit decline after peaking at $45.98 billion in April. Since then, goods exports have increased by $3.79 billion, and goods imports have declined by $1.99 billion, helping to explain the bulk of the shift over that four-month period. Much of that improvement can be explained by increased energy exports and reduced energy imports.
After a busy economic data release calendar last week, this week will be much lighter. The minutes of the September 16–17 Federal Open Market Committee meeting will be released on Wednesday, with market watchers looking for clues for when the Federal Reserve will start raising short-term rates. Other highlights include the latest data on consumer credit, job openings and wholesale trade.
Chad Moutray is the chief economist, National Association of Manufacturers.
Global Manufacturing Economic Update – September 12, 2014
Here is the summary for this month's Global Manufacturing Economic Update:
Net exports have been a drag on the U.S. economy so far through the first half of this year, with manufacturers continuing to experience sluggish sales growth in international markets. With that said, the U.S. trade deficit narrowed a bit in July to its lowest level in six months, with growth in goods exports outpacing growth in goods imports. Petroleum trade accounted for a significant portion of the change in each, and in general, energy has helped to narrow the deficit from that of a couple years ago. Another positive note was the fact that each of the top-five trading partners for U.S.-manufactured goods experienced increases in manufactured goods exports year-to-date relative to the same time frame last year using non-seasonally adjusted data.
Along those lines, manufacturers worldwide saw modest growth, with a slight improvement from the month before. The J.P. Morgan Global Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose marginally, up from 52.4 in July to 52.6 in August. The good news is that this marks the 21st straight month of expanding activity globally; yet, it is also clear that the pace of growth has not changed much this year. Still, manufacturing activity in August expanded in 9 of the top 10 markets for U.S.-manufactured goods, an improvement from just five markets in May.
Nonetheless, the data also show signs of softness, most notably in Europe and in China. Real GDP in the Eurozone fell 0.2 percent in the second quarter, with recent industrial production and retail sales data trending lower, as well. The Markit Eurozone Manufacturing PMI declined from 51.8 to 50.7, its lowest level since July 2013, when Europe was just emerging from its deep recession. Still, the economic health of various European nations varies widely, ranging from deteriorating activity in France to relatively robust growth in Ireland. For its part, the European Central Bank has once again lowered interest rates in the hope of spurring more economic activity and additional lending. With these actions and slow growth in Europe, the euro has depreciated against the dollar, down from a recent high of $1.3924 for one euro on May 6 to yesterday's close of $1.2921 on September 11.
Meanwhile, Chinese manufacturers have reported expanding levels of activity for three straight months (June to August), which by itself is progress after starting the year with five months of contraction. However, the HSBC China Manufacturing PMI declined from 51.7 to 50.2, or just barely above neutral, with decelerating levels of new orders, output and exports. Moreover, while real GDP in China picked up slightly from a year-over-year pace of 7.4 percent in the first quarter to 7.5 percent in the second quarter, we expect to continue to see an easing in growth rates moving forward. We have also seen decelerating rates of growth—albeit still healthy ones by our standards—for industrial production, fixed asset investments and retail sales. Slower growth in China has also helped to pull down overall manufacturing activity in the emerging markets.
U.S. trade talks continue this month with both Asia-Pacific nations and Europe, while the World Trade Organization seeks to move forward both trade facilitation and environmental goods discussions. Domestically, a range of trade and international financing legislation awaits action, including the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, whose charter expires on September 30.
Chad Moutray is the chief economist, National Association of Manufacturers.
ISM: Manufacturing Activity Expanded Very Strongly in August
The Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) rose very strongly, with the headline figure rising from 57.1 in July to 59.0 in August. This was the highest level since March 2011, and it reflected a robust recovery from weaknesses earlier in the year. Indeed, new orders (up from 63.4 to 66.7) and production (up from 61.2 to 64.5) appear to be expanding at quite healthy paces, with indices for both exceeding 60 once again. The production measure has been over 60 for three straight months; whereas the new orders index was at its fastest pace since April 2004. Export sales (up from 53.0 to 55.0) were also improved.
The sample comments tend to echo these strong figures. As one electrical equipment manufacturer said, "Overall business is improving. Order backlog is increasing. Quotes are increasing. Much more positive outlook in our sector." This pretty much summed up the increase in demand seen in many of the other comments, as well. Yet, those taking the ISM survey also noted some challenges, particularly the geopolitical risks and the ability to attract labor. The other concern noted in past surveys was pricing pressures, but they appear to have eased somewhat in August (down from 59.5 to 58.0).
On this latter point, the employment index was marginally lower (down from 58.2 to 58.1), but hiring growth has clearly picked up from recent months. The hiring index averaged 52.7, for instance, through the first six months of the year, further highlighting the July and August acceleration in the data. This should bode well for manufacturing jobs numbers out on Friday, which have averaged 22,000 between May and July and 15,000 each month over the past year.
Overall, this report shows that manufacturers are seeing strong growth more recently in demand and output, which is definitely positive given the disappointing start to the year. Manufacturing leaders are mostly positive about the second half of 2014, even as they are keenly aware of possible risks on the horizon. This includes geopolitical events, a cautious consumer and labor shortages, among other concerns. Still, it is nice to see the sector hitting on all cylinders, and the outlook for strong growth over the coming months remains positive.
Chad Moutray is the chief economist, National Association of Manufacturers.
Growth in Chinese and European Manufacturing Activity Slowed in August, While U.S. Was Up Sharply
Given the contraction seen in the Eurozone economy in the second quarter, analysts were eagerly anticipating the preliminary Markit Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) data released this morning. Indeed, the HSBC Flash Eurozone Manufacturing PMI decelerated from 51.8 in July to 50.8 in August, suggesting that growth in manufacturing activity on the continent has slowed to a crawl. Germany (down from 52.4 to 52.0) eased slightly, but with output falling to its slowest pace since June 2013. French manufacturers (down from 47.8 to 46.5) continue to struggle, with its Flash Manufacturing PMI contracting for the fourth straight month and new orders declining at their quickest pace since in 16 months.
For the Eurozone as a whole, manufacturing activity was slower across-the-board. New orders (down from 52.1 to 51.0), output (down from 52.7 to 50.9), exports (down from 52.6 to 52.1) and employment (down from 49.9 to 49.1) were all lower in August, with the latter contracting for the second consecutive month. Production growth was at its weakest point since Europe emerged from its deep recession 13 months ago. In essence, the good news was that European manufacturing activity did not contract in August, but it is clear that demand and output are moving in the wrong direction. These data will continue to be fodder for those looking for economic stimulus in the months ahead.
Meanwhile, the HSBC Flash China Manufacturing PMI was also much softer for the month, down from 51.7 in July to 50.3 in August. As such, manufacturing expanded for the third straight month, but only barely so. New orders (down from 53.3 to 51.3), output (down from 52.8 to 51.3) and export sales (down from 52.6 to 51.4) downshifted from a modest pace to slower growth, and employment (down from 49.4 to 48.2) deteriorated further. In fact, hiring has been negative in 16 of the past 17 months. While China has begun to stabilize its economy after weaknesses earlier in the year, these data show that there remains room for improvement.
Japan's economy contracted in the second quarter, falling 1.7 percent in the second quarter or 6.8 percent year-over-year. Yet, the Markit/JMMA Flash Japan Manufacturing PMI (up from 50.5 to 52.4) seem to indicate that manufacturers are in a better mood, with a pickup seen in demand and output. This was the fastest pace since March, or before the imposition of a new tax in April that sent the economy lower. The underlying data were mostly higher, including sales (up from 51.2 to 54.4), production (up from 49.8 to 53.2), exports (up from 50.8 to 53.0) and hiring (up from 50.2 to 51.1).
Closer to home, the Markit Flash U.S. Manufacturing PMI was up sharply, up from 55.8 to 58.0. This was the highest level for manufacturing activity in the U.S. since April 2010. Both new orders (up from 59.5 to 60.8) and output (up from 59.7 to 60.2) were above 60, suggesting strong growth and closely mirroring similar data from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). New export orders (up from 50.3 to 54.4) and employment (up from 51.2 to 54.6) were both higher, as well, with each recording modest expansions. Overall, these data were quite positive, indicating that the recent rebound in manufacturing activity in the U.S. (after softness in the early months of 2014) has begun to take hold.
Flash data give us an advance estimate of manufacturing activity incorporating "approximately 85% of the usual monthly survey replies," with the final PMI data for the month released in early September.
Chad Moutray is the chief economist, National Association of Manufacturers.
Kansas City Fed: Manufacturing Activity Expanded for the Seventh Straight Month in July
The Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank said that manufacturing activity has expanded every month so far in 2014, picking up slightly in July from June. The composite index of general business conditions rose from 6 in June to 9 in July. The pace of growth accelerated in many of the key indicators, including new orders (up from 8 to 12), production (up from 2 to 11), shipments (up from 2 to 14) and employment (up from 1 to 8). One-third of survey respondents said that their production had increased in the month.
There were two negatives in the report, as well. The average workweek (down from 7 to -3) shifted into its first contraction in six months. The percentage of those taking the survey who noted a reduced workweek increased from 12 percent in June to 17 percent in July, enough to tip the diffusion index. In addition, new export orders (up from -11 to -6) continued to fall, albeit at a slower pace of decline for the month. This measure has been in contraction territory in 8 of the past 12 months, indicating weakness on the trade front in the Kansas City Fed's district.
Nonetheless, there continue to be encouraging signs for the months ahead. The forward-looking composite index increased from 12 to 15, with relatively strong growth anticipated over the next six months. Manufacturers in the region expect higher new orders (up from 14 to 24), production (up from 17 to 23), shipments (up from 20 to 28), employment (up from 14 to 23) and capital expenditures (up from 23 to 25) at rather healthy rates of growth. In fact, over 40 percent predict increased sales, output and shipments, with more than one-third seeing additional hiring and capital spending. Yet, the sample comments also suggest frustrations with attracting qualified workers. Exports are predicted to grow just modestly (unchanged at 6).
Respondents expect pricing pressures to remain elevated, with nearly half of those taking the survey saying that raw material prices should increase over the next six months. Still, 24 percent felt that input costs for them might fall, and the diffusion index for this measure (down from 49 to 46) eased slightly in July.
Chad Moutray is the chief economist, National Association of Manufacturers.
Continued Progress in China and the U.S., with Europe and Japan Growing More Modestly
The HSBC Flash China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) expanded for the second straight month in July, rebounding from softness from January through May. The headline index rose from 50.7 in June to 52.0 in July, its highest level since March 2011. The underlying data were mostly higher, including new orders (up from 51.8 to 53.7), output (up from 51.8 to 52.8) and exports (up from 50.6 to 52.7). The sales pace was the fastest since January 2011, and each of these measures are a sign that recent stimulative actions taken by the Chinese government have had a positive impact. Some downsides in the PMI survey contracting hiring rates for the 16th consecutive month (up from 48.7 to 49.5) and slightly accelerated raw material prices (up from 50.8 to 52.9).
Meanwhile, Japanese manufacturing activity also expanded for the second straight month, but it eased slightly in July. The Markit/JMMA Flash Japan Manufacturing PMI declined from 51.5 to 50.8. The recent uptick in activity has materialized as the Japanese economy has recovered from an increased in taxes that went into effect on April 1st. Still, manufacturers in the country cannot cheer yet, as output growth came to a halt in July (down from 51.8 to 50.0, or neutral). Other indicators were mixed. Export sales (up from 49.0 to 51.6) and employment (up from 49.8 to 50.8) both shifted to positive growth, but the pace of new orders decelerated somewhat (down from 52.0 to 51.1).
In other news, the Markit Flash Eurozone Manufacturing PMI edged marginally higher, up from 51.8 to 51.9. The Flash Eurozone PMI Composite PMI was up more strongly, increasing from 52.8 to 54.0, suggesting healthier growth in the service sector. For manufacturers, the data suggest slightly faster growth in production (up from 52.8 to 53.0) and exports (up from 52.4 to 52.7), but the pace of growth for new orders (51.9) and employment (50.3) were unchanged.
Overall, these figures provide a limited degree of encouragement for the manufacturing sector in Europe, which has worried of late about slow economic and income growth. It is also still clear that the data vary on country-by-country basis, with German manufacturing activity (up from 52.0 to 52.9) accelerating in July but with French manufacturers noting yet another deterioration in sales and output. Indeed, the French economy remains in a rut, with manufacturing activity positive in just three months since January 2013.
Closer to home, the Markit Flash U.S. Manufacturing PMI decreased from 57.3 to 56.3. Despite the slight easing in July, manufacturing activity continues to grow at relatively decent rates. Through the first seven months of 2014, the top-line index has averaged 55.9, stronger than the 53.5 average noted for 2013 as a whole. The July data show both new orders (down from 61.7 to 59.8) and output (down from 61.0 to 60.4) growing at a healthy paces, albeit with some deceleration for the month. Yet, hiring growth remains more modest (down from 53.8 to 52.1) and export sales (down from 50.9 to 50.6) were just barely growing, suggesting that there remains room for improvement.
Flash data give us an advance estimate of manufacturing activity incorporating "approximately 85% of the usual monthly survey replies," with the final PMI data for the month released on August 1.
Chad Moutray is the chief economist, National Association of Manufacturers.


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