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RBC PMI™ signals modest improvement in manufacturing business conditions in August Français
Sep 03, 2013, 09:30 ET
TORONTO, Sept. 3, 2013 /CNW/ - Canada's manufacturing expansion was sustained for a fifth consecutive month in August, but the rate of growth was modest and below average, according to the RBC Canadian Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index™ (RBC PMI™). A monthly survey, conducted in association with Markit, a leading global financial information services company, and the Purchasing Management Association of Canada (PMAC), the RBC PMI offers a comprehensive and early indicator of trends in the Canadian manufacturing sector.
After accounting for usual seasonal variation, the RBC PMI - a composite indicator designed to provide a single-figure snapshot of the health of the manufacturing sector - posted 52.1 in August, little-changed from July's reading of 52.0. Remaining above the neutral threshold of 50.0, the RBC PMI has indicated growth of the manufacturing sector for five consecutive months, although the latest expansion was modest and weaker than the series average.
The RBC PMI found that both output and new orders rose at modest rates during August. This generally reflected greater client demand in both the domestic and export markets. Firms hired additional staff in light of higher activity levels, with the rate of employment growth accelerating to a three-month high. On the price front, input cost inflation picked up further, while output charges fell for the second month running.
"The PMI continued to make positive gains for the fifth consecutive month and moved modestly higher in August, suggesting some of the recent shocks to the economy have been mitigated by strength elsewhere," said Craig Wright, senior vice-president and chief economist, RBC. "We expect that improving U.S. demand will continue to provide a boost to the manufacturing sector for the balance of the year."
The headline RBC PMI reflects changes in output, new orders, employment, inventories, prices and supplier delivery times.
Key findings from the August survey include:
- output and new order growth continues;
- strongest rise in employment since May; and
- input price inflation picks up to a five-month high.
Manufacturers received a larger volume of new orders in August, as has been the case in each month since April. New work intakes grew in both the domestic and export markets, with the United States particularly highlighted as a source for the latter. Overall, total new order growth was solid, albeit unchanged from a three-month low recorded in July.
Reflective of increased new work, firms raised production and depleted existing inventories of finished goods. Output rose modestly in August, despite the rate of growth being the weakest in the past four-months.
The quantity of inputs bought by Canadian manufacturers rose marginally in the latest survey period. Stocks of purchases also fell, albeit slightly, having increased one month previously. The reduction in input inventories partly reflected a preference for leaner stocks, but was also to offset longer suppliers' delivery times. Lead times for inputs, on average, increased for the second month running in August.
Employment in the Canadian manufacturing sector rose further in August, which is the 19th consecutive month of growth. Approximately 18 per cent of surveyed firms hired additional staff since July (while seven per cent reduced their staff numbers) and often cited increased business activity. Overall, the rate of job creation was solid and the second-fastest in a year.
Input costs faced by manufacturers continued to rise in August. Panellists commonly reported higher prices for commodities, including oil and metals. Although the rate of inflation accelerated for the fourth month running to its fastest pace since March, it nonetheless remained weaker than the historic average.
In contrast, average selling prices at manufacturing firms fell for the second month running. This was the first back-to-back reduction in output charges since data collection began in October 2010.
Regional highlights include:
- Ontario saw only a marginal improvement in manufacturing business conditions in August - the weakest among the four regions.
- New orders fell in Ontario, but increased elsewhere.
- Employment growth was strongest in Alberta and British Columbia.
- Output charges fell in three regions, led by Alberta and British Columbia.
"Higher client demand supported a further expansion of the Canadian manufacturing sector in August. New domestic work continued to increase and was matched by a further rise in exports, partly reflecting favourable market conditions in the U.S.," said Cheryl Paradowski, president and chief executive officer, PMAC. "The survey also showed improvement elsewhere, with the Employment Index, in particular, suggesting the second-strongest increase in a year."
The report is available at www.rbc.com/newsroom/pmi
Notes to Editors:
The RBC Canadian Manufacturing PMI™ Report is based on data compiled from monthly replies to questionnaires sent to purchasing executives in over 400 industrial companies. The panel is stratified geographically and by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) group, based on industry contribution to Canadian GDP.
Survey responses reflect the change, if any, in the current month compared to the previous month based on data collected mid-month. For each of the indicators the 'Report' shows the percentage reporting each response, the net difference between the number of higher/better responses and lower/worse responses, and the 'diffusion' index. This index is the sum of the positive responses plus a half of those responding 'the same'.
Diffusion indexes have the properties of leading indicators and are convenient summary measures showing the prevailing direction of change. An index reading above 50 indicates an overall increase in that variable, below 50 an overall decrease.
The RBC Canadian Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index™ (RBC PMI™) is a composite index based on five of the individual indexes with the following weights: New Orders - 0.3, Output - 0.25, Employment - 0.2, Suppliers' Delivery Times - 0.15, Stock of Items Purchased - 0.1, with the Delivery Times Index inverted so that it moves in a comparable direction.
The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) survey methodology has developed an outstanding reputation for providing the most up-to-date possible indication of what is really happening in the private sector economy by tracking variables such as sales, employment, inventories and prices. The indices are widely used by businesses, governments and economic analysts in financial institutions to help better understand business conditions and guide corporate and investment strategy. In particular, central banks in many countries (including the European Central Bank) use the data to help make interest rate decisions. PMI surveys are the first indicators of economic conditions published each month and are therefore available well ahead of comparable data produced by government bodies.
Markit does not revise underlying survey data after first publication, but seasonal adjustment factors may be revised from time to time as appropriate which will affect the seasonally adjusted data series. Historical data relating to the underlying (unadjusted) numbers, first published seasonally adjusted series and subsequently revised data are available to subscribers from Markit. Please contact [email protected].
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The Purchasing Management Association of Canada (PMAC) is the leading, and the largest, association in Canada for supply chain management professionals. With 7,000 members working across private and public sectors, PMAC is the principal source of supply chain training, education and professional development in the country, requiring all members to adhere to a Code of Ethics. Through its 10 Provincial and Territorial Institutes, PMAC grants the SCMP (Supply Chain Management Professional) designation, the highest achievement in the field and the mark of strategic leadership. For more information please see www.pmac.ca.
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About PMIs
Purchasing Managers' Index™ (PMI™) surveys are now available for 32 countries and also for key regions including the Eurozone. They are the most closely-watched business surveys in the world, favoured by central banks, financial markets and business decision makers for their ability to provide up-to-date, accurate and often unique monthly indicators of economic trends. To learn more go to www.markit.com/economics.
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I was driving home from getting groceries (in a Boston suburb) and drove past these tracks. I thought it was a beautiful scene and hit the brakes, backed up a bit, and took a shot from the driver's seat of my car. From their I cropped out a section of the road in the bottom of the shot.
-Milton Fall
I was watering the small potted lemon tree last week and I noticed a light dew on the leaves as the sun passed through the windows on my open front door. The glass has many prisms in it making the rainbow of colors on the leaf.
Sony SLT-A37 Minolta 50mm f/1.8 1/500 second. 17mm extender tube for macro.
-Jacob Freeman
Title: Mirrored Fall
I went for a weekend trip into the Appalachian Mountains hoping to take some great waterfall pictures with the gorgeous fall colors. Unfortunately, all the leaves around the waterfalls I hiked to were still only green with a little yellow. Although I did take some nice waterfall pictures, none of them really stood out. On my last morning there, I decided to walk down to the lake by my cabin and encountered the most vibrant colors I had seen all weekend. With no wind, the water was almost perfectly smooth letting me capture the dual fall colors in my picture.
Shot Info: Nikon D5000, 18-55 f/3.5-5.6 VR, ISO200, 1/25 sec at f/4.5, shot on tripod
-James Cox
The photo is called Autumn Leaves. I was invited to go for a short hike with my boss Alex and his Son Ryder. We had finished the hike and on the way to the car I saw these leaves and thought it would make for a great composition.
The setup included a Nikon D5100, Nikkor 50mm F1.8 lens, the settings were:1/800 ƒ/1.8 ISO 200, focal distance was 50mm. The photo location was near Nanaimo on Vancouver Island and was taken on the 20th of October 2012.
-James Moxley
I took this photo on October 20, 2012, in Kinnelon, NJ. I love the way the colors of the leaves reflect in the water and the way the rocks seem to form an arrow. I shot it with my Canon EOS Digital Rebel, EF-S 18-55mm lens,1/50 sec, f/5.6.
-Jamie Babbitt
I shot this on one of my first photog-trips with friends in
Collingwood Ontario. When I bent down to tie my shoe I saw the line
of the fence and the gorgeous fall colours in the background and got
lucky enough to get this great shot!!
It was shot with a Nikon D50, using an 18-55mm lens and Auto-ISO on a
dark and almost-rainy day.
-Jamie House
Nikon D800e in AP Mode @320 ISO
Nikkor 105mm (Micro) @f/3.2 1/250
While I enjoy the results, this shot was born from disappointment. Last year I made the trek to the volcanic Hachimantai plateau in Akita Japan to be greeted with fleeting patches of sunlight and healthy dose of rain; for the rematch this year, it was a massive wind storm and an even heavier dose of the wet stuff. Perhaps, a curse.
With crap conditions my focus goes small, so I slapped the macro lens on and began my hunts. However, during this time, I began to feel a solution to the storm would be to focus on the rich colors of the wet trees and the warm glow behind them.
Image title: Fall's Reach
Process was mostly Lightroom with a minor measure of Photoshop using Selective Color Adjustment layer to further enhance the foliage.
-Jason Arney
some friends and i were shooting a mountain bike promo video for a guy who builds bikes from scratch. i was just laying in the leaves waiting for the next pass and was struck by how awesome a day it was.
canon 5d mkII with the 24-105mm lens. iso 2000, f/4, 1/800s
-Jason Stern
was very fortunate to be stateside while the leaves were changing. I traveled all over: Colorado, Pennsylvania and New York. Everywhere was so beautiful, it was hard to choose what to submit. The photo I chose is from Sedalia, Colorado taken at sunrise. I decided to submit this one for several reasons 1) I am rarely up before sunrise unless I am suffering from massive jetlag 2) it was taken on the morning of my sister-in-law's wedding day and 3) beyond just the colors of the leaves, it shows exactly how beautiful and crisp a fall day can be. There is so much fall detail, the pink Rocky Mountains, the orange scrub oaks, the rolling hills of yellowing grasses. My favorite part though how the red leaves match the red barn.
Canon 550D 18-55mm kit lens
18 mm
1/250 sec
-Jeannie Moulton
After a day full of driving side roads in my new GTI, I stopped to take this shot about a mile from Mount Monadnock right outside of Keene, NH. Canon Rebel XT 18-55mm IS lens, 35mm focal length, F8.0, 1/100, ISO 100
-Jeffrey Holway
Equipment: D200 w/ 18-70 Nikon DX lens. Gitzo Tripod.
Settings: ISO 100; f/13; Shutter: .4s & .8s
Technique: Two images, one exposed for highlights and one exposed for shadows, were merged in Photoshop—ala HDR. Adjustment layers followed. Additionally, there is a separate photo of some unique textures from a darkroom tray blended in to form a vignette.
Story: Hurricane Sandy was about to hit southern Massachusetts and I hadn't gotten a chance to take some fall foliage pictures. So my wife and I went leaf peeping. The overcast sky provided some phenomenal lighting with the sun just breaking through the clouds as it neared the horizon and the following picture ensued. It was a good thing we went then, because now there are no leaves on any tree
-Jeffery Habenicht
I took a ton of photos for this challenge which made it really hard to pick just one to submit. But I ended up picking this photo because of the multitude of colors on one leaf. I thought it looked really unique and interesting. To take the photo, I used my iPhone 5.
-Jeff Ring
These are some kind of Poplar trees at the Kentucky Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Frankfort, Kentucky. I walk these woods with my dog just about everyday during the fall. At the right time in evening, the sunlight hits the top of these trees and really bring out the color of the leaves. With a bright blue sky above the yellow tree tops, I quickly shaped this shot to show off the colors and the height of these amazing trees.
Taken with my iPhone 4S with no Photoshop or filters.
-Jeremy Rome
I took this photo on a visit to beautiful Park Bois de la Cambre in Brussels, Belgium.
I went a bit off the beaten track and stumbled upon this group of mushrooms.
The light was good, the colours looked nice, so I started to fire away...
Fujifilm X10
Focal length: 7,1mm
Aperture: f/2,2
Shutter speed: 1/60
-Jernej Stefanec
The setup used was a Nikon D3100 with an 18-55mm NIKKOR VR lens, at ISO 100. The F-stop was f/22, and the exposure time was 1/50 sec. This photo was taken on the Penn State University Behrend campus, in Erie, Pennsylvania. With the end of fall fast approaching, it is nice to look back at the beauty that is nature. The woods behind the campus put on a stunning show with a large variety of colors and textures. It could almost be mistaken for a serene painting.
-Jonathan Riska
I have recently moved to an area of the country that experiences actual seasons. Being from San Diego we don't experience Fall so to speak.
Technical info:
Canon Rebel XS with Canon 50mm f/1.8
Aperture @ f/4
Exposure @ 1/13s
-Joseph Baltazar
When I first started out for this challenge, I tried to find the perfect setting with lined trees, or a pathway covered in leaves, or something "typical". But after working for a few hours cleaning up my yard, I thought, 'what was more fun than jumping in leaves when growing up as a kid'? So after the pile was finished, I grabbed my camera and jumped around in the pile of leaves with my dog.
This picture is a bit blurry because I wanted to capture the movement of jumping in the leaves. For the photo, I used a Canon T2i with 28-135 lens, ISO 200, f3.5, 1/80
-Joshua Dersch
Nikon D3100, 400ISO, 18-55 Nikon "Kit" lens, no idea what the shutter speed or aperture where at.
I recently visited the UCSD college campus in to take photos of the famous Geisel library. I'm 32 years old and never attended college so while I was on campus I found myself walking around and imagining what it would have been like to go to a school like this while I was snapping pictures.
UCSD has this common area with a little fountain at price center west. I noticed this leaf hanging over the edge of the fountain and I loved the colors and how the water dropped off the stem. So I took a photo of it and here you go
-Joshua Kelsey
I used a 50mm lens with a f6.3 at 1/80. The pictures was taken at Lake Bastrop in Texas.
-Juan Villarreal
Fall is definitely my favorite time of year. My wife and I have lived in our apartment for over 3 years. There is a certain tree that sits right outside our building that never disappoints in this season. It truly has become my favorite tree. I always want to capture the best picture I can of it each year, but I seem to love them all. A simple view looking up grants you a magical fall experience of brilliant red colors. And that is all this is, a simple view looking straight up into the tree.
Canon Rebel XSI, 50mm f/1.8, f/2.5, 1/1600 sec., ISO 100
-Justin Biggs
Sony A33 DSLR - 55 mm lens
Oct. 2012
Every fall my mom and I do the traditional apple picking and buying of kettle corn, hot apple cider, and apple pie at our local farm, Pattersons. Patterson's is in the small town of Chesterland Ohio, where the fall trees overwhelm the landscape. This particular year I happen to have my camera in the car, as we were driving, and I made my mom pull over on the side of the road and stop when I saw the reflection of the fall leaves in the water. I snaped a few pictures, causing a traffic jam, and having some cus words being directed at me. But it was all worth it at in the end, as this landscape pictures hangs in our kitchen to remind my family of the beautiful city we live in.
-Kaitlin Bondra
This is the courtyard of Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria. You will
find lots of photos of the main castle on the web, but this one is
from the interior of the castle looking out. There is a row of small
windows in the hallway just before the tour entrance, so I stuck my
camera out for a few shots. It was a cool, misty day - still early in
the season - and this single tree in the courtyard had just recently
turned its leaves yellow.
Canon EOS 7D
1/20 sec.
-Kent Waller
This photo was taken on October 20th as my wife and I were on our back from Lake Tahoe celebrating our 1st anniversary. We were driving past Truckee and we saw this area of birch trees with a abandoned amongst them. So we decided to pull over to check it out and take some pictures. While there stumbled upon this log with a pumpkin on it and i just gravitated to it and started looking for the best angles. I loved this angle as able to get the pumpkin in the foreground, while the background has beautiful blue skin, yellow birch tree leves and tall redwood trees.
I took the picture with my Nikon D5000 using my Tamron 28-75mm lens.
ISO 200, 28mm, f/4.5, exposure 1/2500.
-Kevin Day
I recently moved to Portland, Oregon, where the fall is defined as much by the start of the winter rains as it is by the colorful foliage. Although daily rainstorms can become oppressive, the puddles they leave are beautiful in their own way. This photo was taken on a basketball court, where a puddle was reflecting a beautiful yellow tree. Taken using a Sony DSC-H20
-Leah Nicolich-Henkin
Although more wintery than fall, I wanted to capture the bitter cold we've had for a few days this fall. I got the idea from an article I saw a while back about capturing leaves in ice using a Pyrex dish, so I figured I'd give it a shot.
This was shot from my Lumix G5, 14-42mm kit lens fully extended, f/8, 1/15 shutter, ISO 160.
-Joselito Santana
Shot with Canon 7D with a 15-85mm IS lens at 16mm F/16, 1/250 sec. 400 ISO
The main challenge with this shot was the wind. The leaves i had carefully placed on the ground kept flying away. I had to rethink the complex shape I initially had in mind for this simpler, more grouped design. I like the Green to Red pattern, as it depicts the real transition in the trees at a 45 degree North lattitude these days. Lighting was also a major problem. The sun came up and blew everything to white wherever there was a hole in the treeline. I had to move the design to a shadowy spot in the woods and use two speedlited as the main source. It gave everything a nice black halo feel that i quite liked in the end.
-Marc Lepage
My girlfriend and I took a trip from Portland, Maine to Bradbury Mountain State Park in Pownal, Maine.
As usual, I rushed out the door bringing only my trusty iPhone while she brilliantly remembered to bring her Canon PowerShot.
She neglected to let me in on her secret in an effort to snap a few pics of her own before I hijacked her camera all day (after fourteen years together, she knows).
From the summit of the mountain, she took this photo of the surrounding landscape with her free hand while holding our energetic French Bulldog on a leash with the other.
She gave me the camera for the rest of our hike and although I took many great shots with her camera that day, I had to commend her execution on this one.
They say the best camera is the one that you have on you… unless of course, you bring your girlfriend.
Date taken: October 7th, 2012 @ 12:40pm
Camera: Canon PowerShot A2000 IS
F-stop: f/5
Exposure: 1/125 sec.
Focal Length: 27mm
-Marquis Grant
It's now late fall here in New England. I'm still getting used to the
early sunsets and colder days, but those early sunsets mean golden
hour starts around 3 PM! So I headed down to the pond where a few
beautiful trees and bushes still had their brightly colored leaves.
These berries caught my eye.
Shot with a Nikon D7000: 1/1250, ƒ/5.3, ISO 320.
-Martha Bixby
Nikon D7000
I just arrived in Oxford - I'm originally from Vienna - and to welcome me, a friend of mine, Evelyn, took me to see Worcester College. Even though its a comparatively young college, it definitely is one of the most beautiful with its lake, medieval cottages and neoclassical mansions. So we went there and there was this massive chestnut tree reaching over the lake. Because my (cropped) 18mm lens couldn't cope with the magnificence of the tree, I instead decided to climb it (don't ask me how I came up with that idea!) Evelyn could barely watch as I was climbing just above the water (and I admit, a few times falling into the lake seemed almost inevitable). In principle, I wanted to use the branches to frame some of the ducks swimming around, but because the bark was so slippery I just stood still, waiting for something to happen - something other than me being photographed by Japanese tourist as I am falling from the tree. And once I stopped moving, one of the ducks just swam right into my frame
-Martin Prechelmacher
Sony Alpha a55
This shot is from in my backyard. I have a wonderful variety of trees in the back that always give me a full wide range of colors in the fall.it was taken with a 17-50 mm lens at 17mm and f2.8.with a 1/13 second shutter. Sorry for the quality on the 970px file, I had to use 45%quality to get it under 200k.
-Marvin Francois
I shot this while on location shooting video content for a winery on Howell Mtn in Napa.
We started shooting video about an hour before the sun came up.
As the sun rose over the valley the light in the vineyard on the mountain top was incredible.
The biggest challenge for me was making the leaves in the shot more central than the grapes. How'd I do?
The pic was shot on a Canon 5d III set to an ISO of 320
Used a 50mm prime @ f/4 @1/640th
I believe I was using Aperture Priority when I took the shot.
Post included minor color adjustment and a slight tweak with a tilt shift filter to help make the leaves rather than the grapes central
-Matthew Goff
Canon T2i, 1/160, f/5.0, ISO 400, EF-S 18-135.
My family and I had already planned a trip up to New England around the start of October to see the sights, the foliage, and relatives. As luck would have it, right before we left I saw this challenge and grabbed our better camera for the trip. On our way back from the Fryeburg Fair one evening we passed this gorgeous lake as the sun was setting and we decided to stop for pictures. Sadly the sun had almost fully set and the colors were fading so I was lucky to get anything out of it.
-Matthew Kent
These were taken on the shore of the Hudson River on the Poughkeepsie waterfront in Poughkeepsie NY, on the foggy morning of October 18th. I graduated from the Culinary Institute of America so my wife and visited the Hudson Valley for a couple of days during our NYC trip.
Nikon D600 with the 24-85mm kit lens, ISO 1600, 42mm, f/11, 1/500.
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I obviously have the 1300 I have recorded, but it's a bit hard to share...
The archive is quite big indeed. Plus, if you want to listen to the songs, simply use the radio...
Ervin - never saw Meltdown but what a great tune!
We cannot "use" the radio, just listen to (barely) 3 or 4 playlists per week
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Rios benched for lack of hustle in loss to Braves
Outfielder doesn't run out grounder; Danks allows go-ahead HR in sixth
CHICAGO -- The White Sox record over the final 70 games of this season might not change much from the pre-All-Star break deeply sub-.500 ledger.
But Robin Ventura is bound and determined not to let the same first-half mental and physical mistakes plague his team over the season's second half. If those mistakes rise up, the White Sox manager is ready to make a quick but definitive statement.
Take Atlanta's 6-4 victory over the White Sox before 25,613 Friday night at U.S. Cellular Field. The game story was Brian McCann touching up John Danks for a three-run game-winning homer in the sixth inning and a late rally by the White Sox (37-56) falling short.
Alex Rios' double-play grounder in the fifth, though, was the true tale of this contest.
With Alejandro De Aza on third and Alexei Ramirez on first, Rios' hard-hit grounder to shortstop Andrelton Simmons looked like a surefire double play. Rios, in turn, did not break quickly from the box.
Simmons bobbled the ball twice as he moved toward second, but with Rios not hustling, the inning-ending double play still was turned. The game was tied at 2 at the time, and two innings later, Rios was replaced in right field by Casper Wells.
"That was very related. We expect more than that. It was simple. Nothing more than that," said Ventura of the cause and effect with Rios' departure. "There's just expectations, and we're not starting the second half off that way.
"He'll be back in. But tonight, that's what happens when you don't run."
Rios was unavailable for comment postgame, but both Danks and second baseman Gordon Beckham spoke in generalities about the situation. Danks admitted that he didn't notice Rios was out of the game until he was in the clubhouse after seven innings of work and saw Rios in there with him. His focus was the game at hand.
Both Beckham and Danks arrived at the same point of Ventura's word and decision being the only ones that matter.
"We said all along we are going to play as hard as we can and try to win every game until the season is over," Danks said. "You know, that's part of being here."
"He's going to do what he thinks is right. That's his call," said Beckham of Ventura. "If that's what he thinks, that's what goes. There is no more that needs to be said than that."
As for the Danks-McCann battle, the two went back and forth for 10 pitches with two outs and Joey Terdoslavich and Justin Upton on base. On the 11th pitch, Danks tried to double up with a change and McCann launched it out to right.
Danks (2-7) slammed his arm in anger as the ball cleared the right-field fence, marking McCann's 13th long ball and the 14th Danks has allowed. The southpaw surrendered multiple homers in a start for the fourth time this season and fell to 3-17 in 25 starts where he has allowed a home run since 2011.
"Yeah, I don't know. I made a bad pitch," Danks said. "I kind of got to the point where for lack of a better way of putting it, I ran out of things to throw at him. He's a good hitter. He's been around a while doing what he does. He's been an All-Star and he did what All-Stars do to bad pitches."
"I was covering away and he hung a changeup in," said McCann of the deciding pitch. "I was lucky enough to put the good part of the bat on it."
Other than that blast and a two-run shot from Simmons in the third, it was another solid effort for Danks. Over seven innings and 105 pitches, Danks allowed the five runs on seven hits and struck out four without issuing a walk.
Tim Hudson (7-7) was a little bit better on this evening, as the White Sox dropped to 19 games under .500 for the first time since Sept. 27, 2007. Hudson yielded four runs on eight hits, while striking out four, walking two and getting out of trouble with two double plays behind him.
Two runs came home for the White Sox in the eighth on Ramirez's run-scoring double and Jeff Keppinger's two-out single to right off reliever Jordan Walden. But Conor Gillaspie struck out swinging to end the inning, and Craig Kimbrel (27th save) fanned the side in the ninth to close things out for the Braves (55-41).
All that was left to address was why Rios' night had come to a premature end. While it's highly likely Rios will be back in the starting lineup Saturday afternoon, Ventura wasn't worried about pulling a potential prime trade target in-game on Friday.
"I'm just worried about our team and how we go about it," Ventura said. "I just told him he was coming out. That was it. He knows, so it's pretty simple. There's not a long explanation required.
"You lose and it's disappointing, but you see guys still grinding and getting after it. There were some good things to come out of it."


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Five Trophies for Aston Martin at Spa Date: Jul 15, 2014 Tags: Racing Aston Martin Racing took five podium spots at the British GT Championship at Spa-Francorchamps this weekend (12 July) as the pair of Oman Racing Team V12 Vantage GT3s finished second and third overall, the TF Sport V8 Vantage GT4 took its first class win and the Beechdean AMR GT4 took third and first in the two one-hour races. Top five finish for Aston Martin in Nürburgring 24 Hours Date: Jun 22, 2014 Tags: Racing, Nürburgring Aston Martin has finished fifth overall in the 2014 Nürburgring 24 Hours, in its #007 V12 Vantage GT3 and has taken three class podiums with its close-to-production V12 Vantage and pair of V8 Vantage N430s. Four hours remain and all four cars still going strong Date: Jun 22, 2014 Tags: Nürburgring, Racing With just four hours of Nürburgring 24 Hours remaining, Aston Martin's four Vantages are still going strong. The #007 V12 Vantage GT3 continues in sixth place overall and all three of the close-to-production road cars are in line for podium finishes. SIXTEEN HOURS AND SIXTEEN WHEELS STILL TURNING Date: Jun 22, 2014 Tags: Racing, Nürburgring Morning has broken over the Nordschleife and all four of the Aston Martin Nürburgring 24 Hours entries are still pounding around the 25-km circuit after 16-hours of action-packed racing. ASTON MARTIN STILL CHARGING ON AT HALFWAY MARK OF NÜRBURGRING 24H Date: Jun 22, 2014 Tags: Racing, Nürburgring At the halfway mark of the 2014 Nürburgring 24 Hours, Aston Martin Racing's #007 Vantage GT3 is in eighth place and the three Aston Martin-entered race-prepared production cars are all in podium positions. 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