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Superior Industries International manufactures cast aluminum road wheels to original equipment manufacturers (OEM) for automobiles and light truck manufacturers in North America.
In 1995 Superior entered into a joint venture with Otto Fuchs Kg (Otto Fuchs), to form Suoftec Light Metal Products Production & Distribution Ltd (Suoftec). The joint venture was intended to manufacture cast and forged aluminum wheels in Hungary, principally for the European automobile industry. During Q2 2010, Superior liquidated their investment in Suoftec, and on June 18 sold 50% ownership to joint venture partner Otto Fuchs. At the time of sale, loss on the sale was $4.1 on a total investment of $12.8 million. Suoftec posted a $24.8M loss during their 2009 fiscal year. [3]
On June 28, 2010 Superior entered into an agreement with Synergies Casting Limited (Synergies), a private aluminum wheel manufacturer based in Visakhapatnam, India, acquiring a minority interest in Synergies. As of December 31, 2010, the total cash investment in Synergies amounted to $4.5 million, representing a 14.6% ownership stake in Synergies. There is an option to purchase an additional $5.0 million, which would increase ownership to 26%, if certain conditions are met by the February 15, 2011 deadline. Superior has the option to liquidate their position on or before March 30, 2011. [4]
As mentioned in the conference call, Synergies had a slow Q4 due to the late release of Chrysler's 300 and Charger product offerings. Although these late releases were in no part the fault of Synergies, they display a critical weakness of Superior. As an automotive supplier, if the customer is having difficulties manufacturing or selling vehicles Superior's sales are still hurt. However, the Chrysler 300 and Charger have since been released in India and sales are expected to rebound for Q1 2011.
For the past two years there have been more insiders purchasing, both number of people and transactions, than selling. However the sale value has always exceed the buy value. The larger volumes of purchasing, instead of selling, could reveal management's beliefs that the stock is undervalued. However management's true motives are still unknown. [5]
Superior maintains and operates five facilities that produce aluminum wheels for the automotive industry, located in Arkansas and Chihuahua Mexico. [6]These five facilities encompass 2,466,000 sq. ft of manufacturing space and 30,000 sq. ft. of office space. Superior owns all of its facilities with the exception of the warehouse in Rogers, AR, and its worldwide headquarters located in Van Nuys, CA which are leased.
Below are the five manufacturing facilities:
December 2008, during the recession, Superior closed their Kansas plant and closed their California plant in June 2009, production from these plants was shifted to the Mexican manufacturing facilities. This closure of US facilities is responsible for the shift of revenues from the United States (2008) to Mexico (2010), and the decrease in revenues during 2009 and rebound in 2010 was a result of the recession in 2009 and economic recovery during 2010. [8]
Superior Industries International is financed exclusively through equity with 0.00% Debt, and has reported no Long-term debt on its balance sheet since December 31, 2003. [9]
Superior currently has a current ratio of 5.41 with total current assets of $381.61M and total current liabilities of $70.54M. Superior has maintained a high current ratio, averaging around 4.392 for the last 5 years and their current ratio has been above 2.00 since December 31, 1995. [10] [11]
Superior owns several subsidiaries, all but Cyprus are 100% owned.[12]
Although Superior doesn't directly compete with any other aluminum wheel suppliers in North America there are several auto parts companies that are financially comparable to Superior.
American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings (AXL) designs, engineers, and manufactures drive line systems for light trucks and sport-utility vehicles. The company produces axles, propeller shafts, chassis components, and forged products. American Axle also manufactures various drive line components for light trucks and sport utility vehicles manufactured in North America.
Meritor Inc. (MTOR) provides drive train mobility and braking solutions for original equipment (OE) manufactures of trucks, trailers and specialty vehicles. The Company also offers related aftermarket parts in the transportation and industrial sectors. Meritor serves customers that include motor carriers of all sizes, OE dealers, independent distributors and others.
Tenneco Automotive (TEN) designs, manufactures, and markets emission control and ride control products and systems for the automotive original equipment market and the aftermarket. The company's products include shocks and struts, shock absorbers, mufflers, and performance exhaust products, as well as noise, vibration, and harshness control components.
TRW Automotive Holdings (TRW) supplies automotive systems, modules, and components to global automotive vehicle manufacturers and related aftermarkets. the company's products include active and passive safety related products. TRW's products are primarily used in the manufacture of light vehicles
Valuation Ratios
When using Price to Earnings Superior looks overvalued compared to American Axle and TRW, but significantly undervalued compared to Meritor, Tenneco, and the average of Superior's Bloomberg Peers. This trend reverses with Superior's Price to Sales, it would seem to be overvalued compared to every peer and well above the Bloomberg average.
Superiors Enterprise Value divided by Revenue is much lower than their Bloomberg peers but is higher than Meritor, Tenneco, and TRW while slightly below American Axle. Superior's Enterprise Value/EBITDA of 5.64 (according to Yahoo!) is higher than American Axle and TRW, while far below Meritor, Tenneco, and their Bloomberg peers.
Profitability Ratios
The automotive supplier industry is highly asset intensive so the return on asset ratio is very important in determining whether management is able to efficiently utilize the firms assets. Superior has a very favorable return on assets, higher than all peers and the average of their Bloomberg peers. Superior's return on equity is lower than TRW's and the average of its Bloomberg peers. This is due to Superior's lack of debt financing, and therefore increased equity compared to other automotive suppliers. For example TRW has 77.76% of their financing through equity, while Superior has 100% equity financing. It is important to note that superior's cost of equity (11.12%) is lower than TRW's cost of equity (16.03%).
Margins are huge to automotive suppliers, their ability to control input costs, manufacturing expenses, and turn sales $$ into profits are vital to success. Superior's Gross Margin is about average, slightly below it's Bloomberg peer's average while above Meritor and TRW, but also below American Axle and Tenneco. But most importantly Superior has a very favorable profit margin, their profit margin of 11.65% is above every one of their Bloomberg peers and almost three times the Bloomberg peer average. This incredible profit margin speaks to Superiors manufacturing efficiencies, and will provide a competitive advantage moving forward through the ability to outspend competitors in R&D, or increasing their manufacturing capacity.
Asset Management
Superior has a Asset turnover slightly less than its comparables. However, this low asset turnover is more than offset by their high profit margin. The low asset turnover ratio, but high profit margin reveals management's intentions of having fewer profitable sales instead of increasing sales volume while reducing net income. This approach could be favored because through establishing positive margins management reduces their dependency on ridiculously high sales volumes to return a satisfactory return. Moving forwards this strategy would prove favorable during times of economic downturn because sales volumes would reduce for both strategies, but with a high profit margin Superior needs less volume to maintain the same level of income.
Inventory turnover is reflects how many times a company's inventory is sold and replaced over a period. It is generally calculated as Sales/Inventory or Cost of Goods Sold/Average Inventory. A low inventory turnover implies poor sales and, thus excess inventory while a high inventory turnover reflects high sales. Superior's low inventory turnover ratio (resulting in an average collection period of 52) could cause liquidity concerns going forward, but is not currently an issue because of their strong current ratio. Secondly, management mentioned in their earnings call that they are increasing inventory in anticipation of an increase in sales. Therefore the high inventory that causes the low inventory turnover ratio is intentional, although the high inventory levels also cause liquidity concerns.
Superior's, slightly lower than comparables, inventory turnover could indicate problems selling inventory, or overstocking. However, this is not a concern because management is significantly increasing production to over 90% of capacity (details below) in anticipation of future demand. Obviously this could be a concern if future demand doesn't materialize.
The Accounts Payable Turnover Ratio shows how many times per period the company pays its average payable amount. Accounts Payable Turnover is calculated by taking the Total Supplier Purchases divided by the Average Accounts Payable. Superior's significantly high payable turnover reveals quick payments to suppliers and this quick payment could possibly strain future cash flows and is possibly a concern for future liquidity, but their favorable quick and current ratio settles any current liquidity concerns.
Liquidity Ratios
Measured up against its comparables, Superior is hoarding cash and current assets. Superior's quick and current ratio's are almost double their next closest Bloomberg peer. Looking at Superiors historical averages their 20 year average current ratio of 3.48 is also above any of their Bloomberg peer's current ratio. This would imply that management is more conservative than comparables and prefers to hold large amounts of cash which could imply that management doesn't know what to do with excess cash or have no good ideas for where to put extra cash.
The inventory to cash measure simply conveys how long it takes a company to transform their inventory into cash, including both how long it takes to sell the inventory and how long it takes to collect on the sale. Superior's inventory to cash (days) is higher than its Bloomberg peers. Their cash conversion cycle is dangerously high, more than double the Bloomberg peers average. However this high conversion cycle is not an immediate threat due to their strong quick and current ratios, but should be a focus of management moving forward. The high CCC could be the underlying reasoning behind management's decision to horde cash and current assets. However, most investors would prefer that management reduces their CCC, or accurately forecasts future cash flows to avoid sever liquidity concerns, and reinvests the cash in the company or distributes the extra cash to shareholders.
Debt Management
Superior's lack of long term debt can be seen both as a positive and a negative. On the positive side, there are no interest or debt payments that will threaten future cash flows or influence Superior's ability to reinvest in itself. However, the lack of debt means no leverage and Superior would lag in a bull market. The rest of Superior's Bloomberg peers are much more aggressive with the use of debt financing, with an average of 2.37 Debt to EBITDA and an average of 175.53% of long term debt to capital.
Within the aluminum manufacturing market competition is based primarily on price, technology, quality, delivery, and overall customer service. Superior currently supplies 30 to 35% of aluminum wheels installed on passenger cars and light trucks in North America. There are no other American companies that produce aluminum wheels for OEM's. When contacted, investor relations mentioned, "There really are no direct competitors. I mean, there are the Chinese manufacturers."
These Chinese manufactures, with facilities in North America, are the largest competitor to Superior. However, none of the competitors represent greater than 10 percent of the total North American production capacity.
Beyond these Chinese manufactures the aluminum wheel manufactures, there are also companies that produce aluminum wheels for racing and after market.
Race Wheel Manufacturing
After Market Wheel Manufacturing
However, none of these competitors supply OEM's and therefore do not compete with Superior they simply also manufacture aluminum wheels.
Shown to the right is a table of key statistics for the SUP management team (data acquired from Bloomberg):
It's important to note that superior has operated with less than a third the number of management employees, CEO compensation less than half, but almost three times the CEO tenure when compared to the industry average. Superior's ability to retain top talent despite these difficult obstacles speaks volumes as to management loyalty towards Superior.
Superior's CEO has a tenure of 4 years. Superior also has five members of the management team with five or more years of experience. Lastly, there are only two VP's with less than two years of experience.
There are many different macroeconomic factors that affect Superior, just a few are Aluminum prices, consumer credit availability, interest rates, and the overall recovery of the American economy.
Aluminum Prices
As you can see the forward prices have aluminum increasing 1.15% from Q2 to Q3 2011 and then price increases slowing to 0.77%, 0.66%, 0.62% and then 0.50% for Q2 2012. So aluminum is expected to appreciate going forward but not significant and the gradual price increases in the current forward market can and will be passed along to customers as actual prices increase.
Consumer Credit Availability
Small Business Credit Availability looks favorable moving forward and this increase of credit availability will allow for capital expenditures, such as company automobiles, easier and possibly increase the demand for automobiles.
If access to credit for consumers was to tighten this would make large purchases, such as automobiles, almost impossible for most Americans. This would force consumers to keep their current vehicle, or purchase a pre-used vehicle, neither help Superior and reduce demand for automobiles which in turn reduces the demand for Superiors aluminum wheels. Therefore, a tightening of credit could have drastic affects for demand for Superiors customers.
The Fed has amassed a portfolio of more than $2 trillion which has helped to keep interest rates low and represents a bet by the Fed that interest rates will stay low. Otherwise their massive portfolio of low yielding debt will dramatically decline in value. Additionally, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernake said rates will remain at historic lows for "an extended period," and that rates won't rise until the Fed has met at least twice more. Which guarantees rates will remain low for the next twelve weeks, but beyond that it is uncertain to predict whether rates will remain low, or whether they will rise and how high they will rise. [13]
Recovery of the American Economy
Although the United States Government has been able to cling to its AAA rating, Standard & Poor's cut its rating outlook on the U.S. to negative from stable on Monday (April 18, 2010). If the United States government continues its spending spree and lack of financial responsibility there will be disastrous consequences for the American Economy which will negatively impact Superior's sales revenues and income.
Superior supplies OEM's in North America and thus relies on the American markets for demand, if the recovery was to stumble or slip back into another recession, or possibly depression, there would be significantly negative effects for Superior.
Gasoline plays a huge role in the expense of owning and operating an automobile. Superior is in a somewhat favorable position for high gasoline prices by supplying products for automobiles and light trucks instead of more gas intensive alternatives such as SUV's or heavy duty trucks. But overall higher gasoline prices will encourage mass transit as opposed to individual vehicle ownership.
Below are 20 years (and the averages) of ratio data. Some of this data conflicts with the comparables section, both sets of data came from Bloomberg just via different ways. The comparables section was recovered using the 'Relative Valuation' page and inserting columns with the respective information. Whereas, the historic ratios came from financial statements exported to MS excel.
Valuation Ratios
Superior is currently trading at 11.49 price to earnings, well below its twenty year average of 17.07. Although it is important to note that this average does not include the 3 periods with negative earnings. Superior's price to sales of 0.88 would suggest it is slightly undervalued when compared to its twenty year average of 1.07. However, since 2003 Superior has averaged a price to sales of .72 so compared to their recent performance superior is overvalued from a price to sales perspective.
Superior's price to book ratio of 1.54 is slightly lower than its twenty year average of 1.77 and has made a significant rebound since its low of .59 in 2007. Superior's Price to Cash Flow of 20.67 is significantly higher than its twenty year historical average of 11.59 and has remained above 18 since 2008. Lastly, the dividend yield of 2.63% for Superior is above its twenty year average of 2.27% but below its seven year average of 3.86%.
Profitability Ratios
Superior's EBITDA, Gross, and Operating Margins are slightly below their twenty year moving averages but have rebounded since their lows in 2009 and are at their highest level since 2003. However, Superior's profit margin of 7.18% is well above the twenty year average of 5.22%. Once again, superior's profit margin remains at its highest level since 2003.
Asset Management Ratios
Superior's inventory turnover of 10.28 is high compared to their twenty year average of 9.2. A high inventory turnover ratio might imply management's ability to keep inventory levels favorably low and their ability to sell current inventories. Superior's inventory to cash saw a dangerous high in 2009 when it reached in 127.82 due in part to deflated demand and significantly low inventory levels.
Superior has been able to reduce their receivable turnover from a dangerous level of 77.74 in 2009 to 52.04 in 2010, below its twenty year average of 56.92. Superior has a payable turnover of 23.99 which is incredibly high when compared to its twenty year average of 14.39 and 2009 level of 15.98. Superior's asset turnover ratio has recovered from a low of 0.72 in 2009 to 1.29, returning to about its twenty year average of 1.26.
Balance Sheet Ratios
Superior's current ratio of 5.41 is well above its twenty year average of 3.48, and has been above its twenty year average since 2006. Their Cash Conversion Cycle of 72.24 remains above their twenty year average of 68.89, but has made a significant recovery since their high of 104.97 in 2009.
Superior has recently been hoarding current assets, as evident by their 66.66% of current assets as opposed to their twenty year average of 51.92%. Their current assets as a percentage of total assets has increased consistently since 2006. Superior's accounts receivable, as a percentage of total assets, of 20.39% is in line with its twenty year average of 19.41%. Their accounts receivable decreased to it's twenty year low in 2008, when it reached 14.23%. Lastly, Superior's 13.08% of inventory compared to total assets coincides with their twenty year average of 12.08%.
Threat of entry of new competitors
The entry of new competitors is unlikely. Initially, aluminum wheel production is highly asset intensive and requires thorough and precise manufacturing processes. Secondly, and most importantly, there are few purchasers with established supplier relationships.Ford/GM/Chrysler and other automotive manufacturers would be hesitant to purchase products from a new, unproven and potentially unsafe or unreliable supplier. Superior's established relationships with customers may not provide a significant competitive advantage, but it is a huge economic moat for new and unproven competitors.
Intensity of competitive rivalries
Competition between rivals is based primarily on price, technology, quality, delivery, and overall customer service. Superior currently supplies approximately 30-35% of aluminum wheels installed on passenger cars and light trucks in North America. Superiors primary competitors are Asian manufactures who export to North America, none of whom have facilities in North America that are greater than 10 percent of the total North American production capacity.
With only a few, but major, players in the aluminum wheel manufacturing industry it could be described as an oligopoly. This classification helps to minimize the effects of price-based competition, reducing the risk of a disastrous price war.
An alternative to aluminum wheels are steel wheels. The aluminum wheel installation rate on passenger cars and light trucks in the U.S. was 65 percent for the 2010 model year compared to 64 percent for the 2009 model year and 65 percent for the 2008 model year. Aluminum wheel installation rates have increased to this level since the mid-1980s, when this rate was only 10 percent. Aluminum wheels became popular because of their differentiator factor, and were seen as a way to spruce up new vehicles, their reduced weight and thus increased performance also helped. Management expects this 65 percent to remain steady going forward.
Aluminum wheels compared to steel wheels.
Another threat to Superior is the increase in mass public transportation in North America. Increased Gasoline prices, availability to public transportation, and other factors may push consumers to prefer bicycles, or alternative methods of transportation. If more and more people take the train, subway, or fly as they travel, this would lessen the demand for cars and thus Superior's volumes would decline.
Bargaining power of customers
Superior is reliant upon a small number of customers for a significant portion of revenues (breakdown below). This few number of customers would imply strong buying power, however there are very few aluminum wheel suppliers that supply OEM's and the vast majority of costs (and thus selling price) is due to Aluminum and manufacturing costs the affect all potential suppliers. Suppliers differentiate themselves based upon price, quality, delivery, and service requirements. Its important to note that Superior has entered into multiple vehicle supply contracts with key customers over the past year.
The key customers of Superior are Ford Motor Company (F) , General Motors (GM), and Chrysler with sales breakdown.
Superior's 2010 revenue breakdown is: $237.4M from Ford, $237.4M from GM, and $100.7M from Chrysler. [16]
Bargaining power of suppliers
Suppliers have minimal bargaining power because the primary product supplied is Aluminum, which is a commodity and readily available on international markets. Natural Gas and other energy expenses also contribute towards the overall manufacturing costs. Regardless, Superior has entered into purchase commitments to guarantee the delivery of aluminum. These purchase commitments are with several major domestic and foreign producers with whom trade relations have been established through previous purchase commitments and long standing relationships.[17]
Bargaining power of workforce
Although not part of the traditional Porter's 5 forces, within the automotive industry the unions and union workers have as much if not more influence on the future profitability of the automotive industry as key suppliers. For Superior's customers they are subject to the whim of the Automotive Workers Union. Fortunately for Superior none of their 3,500 full time employees are part of a collective bargaining agreement.[18]
Selling the right products for the right vehicles: Although car and light vehicle production increased 39% in 2010, Superior shipments increased by 54%. The reason Superior's growth exceeded the markets growth was due to strong positions at GM and Chrysler, and strength in light-duty trucks. Superior gains market share and increased sales when its customers increase market share, GM and Chrysler saw year-over-year market share gains of 2 points. Light duty trucks also saw impressive growth, light duty trucks grew by 48 points, 18 points above passenger cars, which gret 8 points above the general market. Lastly, Superior saw benefits from specific program positions including GMT 900, Ford F-Series, GM Malibu, Ford Fiesta, Cadillac SRX, Nissan Sentra, Toyota Avalon [19]
Lastly, unit shipments to international brands increased significantly, reducing domestic concentration by almost 4 points. Through shifting sales to international brands as opposed to domestic brands Superior recieves important customer diversification benefits.
During 2010 Superior was faced with the difficult position of low inventory levels, rapidly increasing customer orders, and operating with fewer manufacutring facilities. To solve these potentially diasterous problems, management was able to successfully raise capacity utilization to 98% for Q4 2010, and 91% from the full year of 2010. During the Q4 2010 confrence call, managment would like to reduce the capacity utilization down to 90% looking forward. It's important to note that the capacity utilization numbers could be increased going forward, they currently include downtime for scheduled maintance and do not include possible overtime
Margin Rebound: Superior's profitability margins are rebounding nicely after the economic downturn, going from negative to overwhelmingly positive from 2009 to 2010. Superior's EBITDA/Gross/Operating/Profit Margin are all at their highest levels since 2003/2004.
The average tenure of board members is significantly higher than peer companies (19.4 compared to 8.2 years).
Earnings Surprises: The unfortunate trend of earnings disappointments during 2008/2009 has reversed itself and Superior has seen four quarters with an average earnings surprise of 101%.
Although the economic downturn crushed revenues and net income, Superior was able to maintain a steady dividend of $.64 per share for 2010, 2009, and 2008. The steady dividend payment reveals managements ability to properly control cash flows in the midst of an economic crisis and other negative factors.
Changes in the price of Aluminum are not a direct threat because these costs are passed along to customers. However, there may be a lag between increased raw material costs compared to increased selling prices.
The failure of the Joint Venture in Hungary could cast doubts about managements ability to select future investments and acquisitions. This could reveal one weakness of management, based on compensation they are far inferior to their peer companies (average reported compensation of $.86MM compared to $3.62MM).
During 2010 cash increased by $11M, Superior has very high current and quick ratios both in general and compared to their peers. Although management has historically kept a significant amount of cash on hand, it would be beneficial to shareholders to either distribute this extra cash back to shareholders, further reinvest in the company, or seek strategic acquisitions. However, the failure of the joint venture in Hungary casts doubts about managements ability to select good investment opportunities.
Superior's investment in an Indian private aluminum wheel manufacture (Synergies Casting Limited, details in the Business Analysis section) opens the opportunity to supply OEM's in the Indian and Asian automotive manufacturing markets. The contract allows for Superior to increase their investment by $5 Million or to 26% investment in Synergies.
Although the SG&A expense increased by $5.6M for the full year 2010, it decrease 1.5 points when measured against net sales. One third of the increase was from an ERP system implementation. The ERP was responsible for the late 2010 financial statement release, this problem has been resolved and will not happen again. Phase 1 for the ERP system is complete and will likely result in improved inner company communications. Phase 2 for the ERP implementation will begin Q1 2011, this will result in recording and analyzing data from manufacturing processes. Once phase 2 completes, the ERP system will increase quality control, reduce spoilage and costs, and help Superior refine their manufacturing processes while constantly monitoring results and finding areas for improvement.
If Superior's customers continue to increase market share, their product lines continue strong performance, or consumers continue the shift towards automobiles and light trucks: Superior will continue to see strong sales growth without undergoing any fundamental changes.
Negative impacts on consumer credit, gasoline prices, Automobile Industry , Market Economy , and other macroeconomic factors can significantly impact future demand for aluminum wheels.
During future economic downturns Superior will not be able to count on the U.S. government for bailouts such as the Cash for Clunkers program. During 2009, to jump start purchases of new, more fuel efficient vehicles, the U.S. government initiated the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), otherwise known as "Cash for Clunkers." Starting July 24, 2009 and running through August 25 the CARS program pumped $2.877 billion into new vehicle purchases. Although CARS prompted 690,114 dealer transactions, similar government stimulus is unlikely due to the unpopularity of the rising U.S. government debt levels. [20] [21]
Although Superior has no facilities in Japan, do not supply any facilities in Japan, and was not affected by the natural disaster there, some of their customers receive parts from Japan. This could hurt Superior if, for example, Toyota shuts down vehicle production on a certain type of car because they are waiting on a different component from japan to finish production. This would reduce shipments from superior to this specific manufacturing facility for an indefinite period of time. Management specified in their Q1 2011 conference call that this canceling of shipment, "probably over the phone, maybe a day in advance." This abrupt cancellation of shipments might increase inventory, negatively impact sales and earnings, and could pose other future threats to superior although management largely disregarded this as a serious threat.
If one or more of Superiors customers would begin purchasing, or purchase more of their aluminum wheels from a Chinese competitor the increased overhead allocation on lower volumes would completely wipe out any profits and quickly result in operating losses.
Superior has been running at nearly full capacity, 98% for Q4 2010, and if sales continue to increase at dramatic levels Superior will be unable to meet customer orders. This stock out would have disastrous affects for customer relations and would likely increase the likelihood of customers switching to Chinese manufacturers for a larger portion of their purchases. [22]
The UAW has recently begun a push to increase its membership base. If Superior's employees were to join the UAW or create a union of their own this could have disastrous results on production capability in the case of a workers strike. This would also increase expenses across the board, reducing the wonderful profit margins that distinguish Superior from its competitors. [23]


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Ruth Scantlin grew up in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, where she started riding her uncle's Shetland Ponies at about the age of three. She taught herself to do trick horse riding during her childhood, for fun. After completing the eighth grade, Ruth, who was a scant 5'2" tall, left home and travelled to Oklahoma to join the Miller's 101 Ranch rodeo in 1914, as a trick rider. Prior to the start of the show season, she married bronc rider, Bryan Roach, and became Ruth Roach. She was known as Ruth Roach throughout her rodeo career.
Ruth and Bryan Roach traveled with the 101 Ranch show on a 1914 European tour, where they performed in France, England, Ireland, and Belgium. During the tour, however, World War I broke out, the show was cancelled, all of the rodeo horses were confiscated by the British for their war effort, and the performers returned to the United States.
Ruth continued to perform in rodeo shows all over the U.S. in such places as New York City, Boston, Pendleton, Cheyenne, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, and St. Louis. She joined the Hagenback-Wallace Circus for a time and began to ride bucking horses in addition to trick riding, making her bronc riding debut at the 1917 Fort Worth rodeo. She performed in Madison Square Garden, in New York City, every season from 1916 to 1934.
Ruth and Bryan Roach took a second trip to Europe with the John "Tex" Austin rodeo in 1924. After this second rodeo tour of Europe was finished, a man named Tommy Kirnan formed a group, including Ruth and Bryan, which continued to perform in London and Paris for several months. They appeared on stage at the London Palladium and gave a command performance for the British royal family. During their stay in London, the group was given special permission to ride on the royal bridle path, sometimes in the company of the King.
By 1936, Ruth and Bryan Roach had divorced and she was working for W. D. Johnson in a rodeo show at the Texas State Fair. During her time performing at the Fair, she met a Texas rancher named Fred (Dick) Salmon, who owned 2,000 acres near Nocona, in Montague County. After a two-year courtship, Ruth married Dick and became a rancher's wife, a role she enjoyed for the rest of her life. She died in 1986, at the age of ninety.
Ruth Scantlin Roach Salmon is an inductee in the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame (1989) and the National Cowboy Hall of Fame (1989). She is the winner of several titles, including World's Champion All Around Cowgirl, World's Champion Trick Rider, and World's Champion Girl Bronc Rider. In addition to these titles, she was also acclaimed as one of the world's most beautiful cowgirls and her pictures were featured on calendars and rodeo placards all over the country.
The records of the Ruth Scantlin Roach Salmon Collection document the life of rodeo cowgirl, Ruth Roach, and focus primarily on her 24-year career as a trick rider and bronc buster in the 1920s and 1930s. The majority of the records consist of 343 black and white photographs taken during her rodeo days, although there are six folders of written materials, as well. The photographs record the various venues in which she performed and her many friends in rodeo. Some are action shots taken by a professional photographer during rodeo performances. A select number of un-copyrighted black and white photographs from this collection are available for viewing on the Portal to Texas History at http://texashistory.unt.edu/
The materials in this collection are organized into two series: Series 1, Written Records; and Series 2, Photographs. The materials in the written records series include six folders of original and photocopied news clippings; stationary, cards, letters, and copies of chapters from books and articles about Ruth Roach and her rodeo friends, 1929-1981, n.d. The materials in the Photographs series include 344 black and white photos, most of them copyrighted, and three folders with photocopies of photos in the collection, 1914-1981. One photograph is separated from the collection and stored in a sink mat box (1989) and the very large news clippings are stored in an oversize box (1989).
Open for research.
There is an oral history interview, OH 87, with Ruth Roach in the UNT Archives.
For reproduction of any copyrighted materials, permission must be obtained from the owner of the copyright. This is a responsibility of individual researchers, not the University Archives.
Materials are available for research only in the University of North Texas Archives, during its normal hours of operation. Materials are not loaned out. Depending upon how fragile the materials are, they may or may not be allowed to be photocopied or scanned.
The Ruth Scantlin Roach Salmon Collection materials were donated to the University of North Texas Archives by Ruth Roach Salmon in 1984.
Ruth Scantlin Roach Salmon Collection, University of North Texas Archives, Denton, Texas.

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Bobby Flay, a celebrity chef and prominent racehorse owner, has been named to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame's board of trustees, museum president Gretchen Jackson announced Nov. 23.
Proven more than formidable sprinting, Taris will try a slightly new aspect heading east for the $300,000 Go For Wand Handicap (gr. III) Nov. 27 at Aqueduct Racetrack.
With one week go before the Breeders' Cup World Championships at Keeneland Race Course, trainer Todd Pletcher is confident in how his large contingent of hopefuls is coming into their respective races.
Todd Pletcher discusses the October 23 works from his Breeders' Cup contenders including Sweet Whiskey, Red Rifle, Dame Dorothy, and Rachel's Valentina. Watch Video
The morning of Oct. 17 was another busy one for Todd Pletcher, as the trainer with a barn full of Breeders' Cup World Championships hopefuls sent five of his trainees out for workouts at Keeneland.
Fasig-Tipton has added six supplemental entries to its November sale, including grade I winner Dame Dorothy.
Breeders' Cup hopefuls Liam's Map, Rachel's Valentina, and Stopchargingmaria recorded breezes at Keeneland Oct. 5.
La Verdad stretched her unbeaten streak on the year to five with a wire-to-wire score in the Sept. 26 Gallant Bloom Handicap (gr. III) at Belmont Park.
Dame Dorothy, whose seven wins in 10 starts includes the Humana Distaff Stakes (gr. I), seeks a return to the winner's circle in the $300,000 Gallant Bloom Handicap (gr. II) after finishing sixth in the Ballerina (gr. I).
The 5-year-old New York-bred daughter of Yes It's True will put her four-race win streak on the line Aug. 29 in the $500,000 Ballerina Stakes (gr. I) at Saratoga Race Course.
Bobby Flay's Dame Dorothy added another victory to her already-impressive resume with a 1 1/2-length win in the $150,000 Bed O' Roses Handicap (gr. III) June 20 at Belmont Park.
Humana Distaff (gr. I) winner Dame Dorothy is scheduled to make her first start since that May 2 victory when she faces an expected seven other older fillies and mares in the $150,000 Bed o' Roses Handicap (gr. III).
Dame Dorothy earned her first grade I victory May 2 and did so with distinction, running down game champion Judy the Beauty and surprisingly tough 18-1 pacesetter Moonlit Stroll in the $300,000 Humana Distaff Stakes (gr. I).
Trainer Wesley Ward pulled no punches with the season debut of champion Judy the Beauty, entering her in top-level company on the biggest day of the North American racing year in the $300,000 Humana Distaff Stakes (gr. I).
Champion 3-year-old filly Untapable, Breeders' Cup Classic (gr. I) winner Bayern and classic winners Palace Malice and Tonalist are among horses nominated to 10 stakes during Kentucky Derby Week at Churchill Downs.
Warren's Veneda will look to keep trending upward with a win in the $400,000 Santa Margarita Stakes (gr. I) March 14 at Santa Anita Park, a race that features perpetual shipper Cassatt.
Fresh off the claim, Sr. Quisqueyano upset the $250,000 Florida Sunshine Millions Classic Jan. 17 at Gulfstream Park, holding off East Hall by a half-length in a shocker.
The $100,000 Sunshine Millions Filly & Mare Turf drew a well-matched field of 11, while Reporting Star heads the $100,000 Sunshine Millions Turf on Jan. 17 at Gulfstream Park.
Godolphin Racing's Snowbell led from the start and drew off through the stretch for an authoritative win in the $400,000 Comely Stakes (gr. III) Nov. 29 at Aqueduct Racetrack.
If Dame Dorothy can extended her unbeaten streak to five in the $400,000 Comely Stakes (gr. III) at Aqueduct Racetrack, she will take her place among the leading 3-year-old fillies of 2014.
Fields are taking shape for the Nov. 29 Cigar Mile (gr. I) stakes program at Aqueduct Racetrack, featuring four graded events worth a combined $1.7 million.
Keeneland, Europe, Japan, Zia Park, Santa Anita, Breeders' Cup works and more! view slideshow
Bobby Flay's Dame Dorothy remained undefeated in four starts when she held off a late run from Catch My Drift to take the $200,000 Turnback the Alarm Handicap (gr. III) by a half length on closing day at Belmont Oct. 26.
Todd Pletcher appears to hold a strong hand in the $200,000 Turnback the Alarm Handicap (gr. III) at Belmont Park Oct. 26 with the duo of Teen Pauline and Dame Dorothy, who are both riding three-racing winning streaks.
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|William A. Kaplan
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Bridgehead ends Quest for storage partner
Convergence ahoy
Brief BridgeHead Software has done a worldwide distribution deal with Quest.
Quest customers and partners will now get access to BridgeHead's "integrated storage management" products.
Additionally, Quest and BridgeHead have worked together to integrate Quest's srchive manager product with BridgeHead's file archiving product.
Recent research from BridgeHead found increasing interest in converged email, file storage, and archiving. ®


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Buying a car? Don't forget your ID
Dallam and Hartley County residents purchasing a vehicle in Texas must now show a proper form of identification to obtain a title and registration.
"We want to process your registration and title application as quickly and efficiently as possible," said Dallam & Hartley Tax Assessor-Collectors Kay Howell and Frankie Scott. "So it's very important to know the new rules before heading to our office's or your auto dealer."
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A surfer thought to be in trouble off Newgale beach yesterday (Sunday) was not drowning but waving.
St Davids RNLI all weather lifeboat was called out just after 9am to go to the surfer's aid. Little Haven RNLI lifeboat and a coastguard team from Broad Haven were also tasked to this incident.
Once on scene the coastguards spoke to the surfer's parents and discovered that he was waving to them to have his photograph taken.
With this information both lifeboats, returned to their stations with St Davids lifeboat back on her moorings at 9.40am.
St Davids crews were also involved in a rescue on Friday afternoon.
The city's inshore boat launched to the aid of an eighteen year coasteerer who had fallen one metre onto rocks near St Non's injuring his lower back.
Once on scene lifeboat crew members went ashore to administer first aid and pain relief.
They then placed the teenager onto a stretcher, and transferred him by lifeboat into Porthclais harbour to await the arrival of helicopter rescue 169 from RAF Chivenor.
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Bill Nye 'The Science Guy' Keynotes March 20 Symposium
Feb. 28, 2014; Updated |March 18, 2014
Bill Nye "The Science Guy" is the keynote speaker March 20 at Cal State Fullerton's "Explorations in Citizen Science" symposium.
A live stream of Nye's sold-out keynote address can be seen in Titan Gym Thursday, March 20. Doors open to the public at 4 p.m. Seating is free and available on a first-come, first-served basis.
The 5 p.m. talk also can be viewed online, as well as on iPhones and Androids using iFullerton app: Go to iFullerton, click on "Titan Radio/TV" then click on "Titan Web TV" and go to "Titans Communications Website." Titan TV will air the talk on 15-202 (digital) or AT&T U-Verse (check local listing).
Bill Nye "The Science Guy" is the keynote speaker March 20 at Cal State Fullerton's "Explorations in Citizen Science" symposium, presented by the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics' Inter-Club Council. "An Evening with Bill Nye" is open to the public with a purchased ticket.
$25 per ticket with a limit of two per person. Cal State Fullerton students, faculty and staff members with CSUF identification can receive one free ticket and may purchase up to two additional tickets. Tickets are available beginning Thursday, March 6, at the Titan Student Union until all have been sold or distributed.
Thursday, March 20
5-6:30 p.m. (doors open at 4 p.m.)
Titan Student Union's Portola Pavilion
Cal State Fullerton, 800 N. State College Blvd., Fullerton, 92831
Nye, who holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University, is a scientist, engineer, comedian, author and inventor. His stated mission is "to help foster a scientifically literate society, and to help people everywhere understand and appreciate the science that makes our world work." Making science entertaining and accessible is something "The Science Guy" has been doing most of his life.
CSUF President Mildred García is scheduled to give opening remarks.
Ticket Info:
Purchased and free tickets must be picked up in person at the Titan Student Union Information and Services counter, located on the main floor of Titan Student Union. Hours of operation are available online. Tickets are not available online.
$2 per hour or $8 for a daily permit Monday though Friday. Details are available online.
Symposium Info:
The College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Inter-Club Council's 11th annual Science and Mathematics Symposium, organized by students, begins Wednesday, March 19, and also features student research presentations and faculty lectures. These events, held from noon-7 p.m. both days in the Titan Student Union's Portola Pavilion, are free.
The College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Inter-Club Council is one of the eight academic inter-club councils at Cal State Fullerton. The council receives funding from Associated Students Inc., which helps to support student science and math research.
More Info:
For ticket updates, information and schedule, visit online.
Media Contacts:
Amy Mattern, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, 657-278-4158
Debra Cano Ramos, email@example.com


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Le Bec-Fin Chicken Stock
- Servings: MAKES 10 CUPS
- 5 quarts water
- 5 pounds chicken legs or wings
- 1 medium red onion, chopped
- 1 large carrot, chopped
- 1 large celery rib, chopped
- 1 unpeeled head of garlic
- 1 bay leaf
How to make this recipe
Combine all the ingredients in a large pot and bring to a simmer over moderate heat. Cook gently for 1 1/2 hours, skimming occasionally. Strain, then boil to reduce to 10 cups if necessary.
Make Ahead
The stock can be cooled and then refrigerated for up to 3 days or frozen for up to 1 month.
One Cup Calories 36 kcal, Total Fat 1.5 gm, Saturated Fat .8 gm.
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Watch Boardwalk Empire Episodes Online
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Boardwalk Empire is an American television series from cable network HBO, set in Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition era. It stars Steve Buscemi as Enoch "Nucky" Thompson. The show was adapted from a book about historical criminal kingpin Enoch "Nucky" Johnson by Nelson Johnson entitled Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, by Emmy Award-winning screenwriter and producer Terence Winter of The Sopranos.
Atlantic City, 1921: Though his fortunes have soared in the wake of the enactment of Prohibition, Nucky Thompson is paying a steep price for wielding ultimate power in "the world's playground." Following the '20 election, Nucky finds himself the target of an investigation for voter fraud and faces not only jail, but insurrection by some of those he considered his closest allies. From Terence Winter, Emmy(R) Award-winning writer of "The Sopranos" and Academy Award(R)-winning director Martin Scorsese, BOARDWALK EMPIRE is set in the 1920s in the early days of Prohibition, and chronicles the life and times of Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, the undisputed leader of Atlantic City, who was equal parts politician and gangster.
The Emmy(R)-nominated, Golden Globe-winning drama series kicks off its 12-episode second season SUNDAY, SEPT. 25 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT), exclusively on HBO, followed by other episodes on subsequent Sundays at the same time. In season two, Nucky and his lieutenants - including young World War I veteran Jimmy Darmody - appear to have solidified their hold on power by rigging an election and getting a crony elected mayor. However, after a bloody KKK attack at Chalky White's bootleg warehouse, Nucky finds his hold on Atlantic City weakened, first by state agents who arrest him for election fraud and ransack his office, then by members of his own inner circle and even his family, who align with Jimmy's father, the aging Commodore Louis Kaestner, in an attempt to oust him altogether. Meanwhile, mobsters like Arnold Rothstein, Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Al Capone wait in the wings, looking for the chance to grab a bigger piece of Nucky's pie.
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Adam Gopnik on the French presidential elections and the more than likely future french president François Hollande:
But it's entirely likely that, after the second round of voting, on May 6th, the next President of France will be François Hollande, the inoffensive, myopic, weight-conscious Socialist candidate, a man so milky-mild that one has to project onto him a secret life to make him seem not just a fully credible politician but a fully credible human being. (And, indeed, Hollande's love life is more intricate than one might expect: having fathered four children with his lover, the previous Socialist Presidential candidate, Ségolène Royal, he left her, or was left by her, for another partner, meaning that his Presidency could include a role for an ex-mistress who is also a would-be queen.)
The strength of Hollande's candidacy speaks mainly to the weakness of Nicolas Sarkozy's, and the pervasive sense that his free-market reformist project has failed. After the twelve dead-man's-float years of the Chirac Presidency, it was hard not to root at least a little for Sarkozy, and, in truth, his economic record, given the circumstances, is far from the worst on the Continent, or off it, for that matter. Yet he quickly came to seem arrogant instead of energetic, and he never quite shook a reputation, earned in the first days of his Presidency, for flashiness and bling. Even his marriage to Carla Bruni, and the child they had together, left the French unmoved. People will forgive a short man with a beautiful wife if he seems sufficiently surprised; Sarkozy seemed merely showy, and his energy, over time, merely antic and self-pleasing.
I have to admit that I like Adam Gopnik a lot, but that I am increasingly irritated by what he writes about France because it is so obvious that he is too much of a romantic to understand and to accept certain realities. One only needs to read what he was writing about Sarkozy about five years ago to get the fact that Gopnik writes about France the same way BHL (Bernard Henri Lévy) writes about America that is with passion, but not much more than superficial analysis.


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> I think there's a difference between limited intervention to prevent injury during the natural process, and full intervention to enable the process to happen at all.
> I wouldn't like to use it myself,
> A cradle to support a bitch suggests that either the bitch isn't very strong or the dog is too heavy - so use a lighter dog or a stronger bitch. Mechanical support like this means the pairing is wrong.
> silkens rarely need c sections but for other breeds they are common place
> I'd call that rape and if that amount of support is required then it should not happen.
> I say ban them, there is no need for them and would be horrified if I took my bitch to a stud and they wheeled it out.
> When I typed in mating cradle into search engine
> LOL Im saying nothing ;-)
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Cambria to hold public hearing on raising contributions for volunteer firefighters' service
CAMBRIA – The Cambria Town Board will hold a public hearing at 8 p.m. Thursday to consider local volunteer fire companies' request to raise the town's contribution to the firefighters' service award program. The Town Board will vote Thursday on placing the matter on the Nov. 5 ballot.
The proposal is to raise the current award from $550 per year to $650 per year for each qualified firefighter, according to Cambria Supervisor Wright H. Ellis. He said this would currently affect 66 members of Cambria Volunteer Fire Company and Pekin Volunteer Fire Company, which both have had a defined contribution plan in place with the town since it became available in 1992.
The proposal is to raise the town's annual contribution for the entire program from the current $40,000 per year to $45,000, which includes a $1,600 administration cost.
The program was established by referendum in the fall of 1991, going into effect in 1992. The public voted to increase the annual individual amount the qualified firefighters earned from $480 to $550 by a second referendum vote in 2005.
"The state has changed the law and allowed the maximum contribution to increase to $700 per qualified firefighter," Ellis said. "The fire companies asked for an increase last year, but it was too late to get it on the November ballot last year."
Harold Wollaber II, president of the Cambria Volunteer Fire Co., said that firefighters were earning around 8 percent interest annually on the town's plan when it began. Firefighters cannot collect the awards until age 62.
"But now, I don't think it's even 1 percent interest," he said. "This is why we're asking for the increase. If we were getting the same interest rate as we had in the beginning, we wouldn't be bothering the town for this. I'm a taxpayer, too, and I don't like to see rates raised, but I think that if the public saw it in this light, they would understand it better."
Ellis said the Town Board will vote on the matter Thursday following the public hearing in order to meet the deadline for the Nov. 5 ballot.
Ellis explained that under the defined contribution plan, firefighters must earn 50 points each year to qualify for the statewide program.
"They earn points based on active participation in their fire companies," he said.


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I love this. Although this may sound bad to some people, but it reminds me of something that would be on Kingdom Hearts II. None the less, amazing job =)
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
By no means bad, but shy of 'epic'
I really love the start, the tension building - but then in the middle it gets a bit too slow, then grows faster, and then slows down again for end and that really turns down the 'epic' meter.
I think starting off slowly, and then ending with hard drums/bass (as stated previously) ould make it much more 'epic' (alike the most notable trailer song used - Clint Mansell's Requiem of a Dream Remix).
Try watching already released trailers and create music for those trailers. I think it may help with the structure a bit if you're really aiming for it to be epic. other than that, it's great, but nothing I would associate with a Hollywood blockbuster trailer (more so the lesser financed Hollywood films).
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Now coming to a theartre near you....
haha, great job! it really sounds like a movie trailer, way to go!
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Hans Zimmer!? What a BRILLIANT man, just brilliant.
Thought it could use some real pounding drums towards the end, that would have really made it epic. Most 'epic' pieces seem to start off quietly, then build and build and build until you've got some explosive drums and strings! :D
Good start, though. Maybe not quite 'epic' yet, but I liked it!
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D minor!
Nice work. I particularly liked the violin.
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#2 | Garth Tander
#22 | James Courtney
Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Holden's official factory racing team has become one of the greatest success stories in Australian sport.
Formed in 1990, the team was initially run by British sports car driver Win Percy on behalf of Tom Walkinshaw Racing.
After winning on debut at Bathurst, HRT hit its straps from the mid-1990s with the emergence of Craig Lowndes and the late Peter Brock, before drivers such as Greg Murphy, Mark Skaife, Jason Bright and Todd Kelly helped push the team to the mantle as the most successful touring car team in V8 Supercar history.
In 2008, reigning V8 Supercars champion Garth Tander joined Skaife in the hot seat. Will Davison replaced the retiring Skaife in 2009, and the team's successes continued, Davison and Tander clean-sweeping the Phillip Island and Bathurst endurance races and delivering HRT the V8 Supercars Teams' Championship.
Reigning V8 Supercar champion James Courtney replaced Davison in 2011, Courtney making his return to the team with which he made his V8 debut in the annual V8 endurance races six years before.
Courtney scored his first win for the Holden outfit in Abu Dhabi, while Tander backed up a win in the Clipsal 500 with victory in Townsville.
Tander joined with Bathurst rookie Nick Percat to win Australia's Great Race, the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 in October, HRT's seventh Bathurst crown, and its 200th all-time race win - an Australian record.
2012 was a rebuilding year for HRT, leading into a very rewarding 2013 season with the new VF Commodore. Tander led home teammate Courtney for a dominant one-two finish at Townsville, before Courtney broke through at Winton and Tander scored his second win for the season at Phillip Island.
Courtney began 2014 in the best way possible by winning the season-opening Clipsal 500 in Adelaide - and also took victory at Ipswich. Tander replicated the team's famous one-two result in Townsville, leading home Courtney.
HRT enters the 2015 season with an unchanged driver line-up, and plenty to celebrate on its silver anniversary.
Team Principal:
Adrian Burgess
Team Manager
Anthony McDonald
Commercial Manager
Bruce Stewart
Media Manager
Gerald McDornan
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1990/91: Win Percy
1992: Tomas Mezera
1993: Tomas Mezera, Wayne Gardner
1994/95: Peter Brock, Tomas Mezera
1996: Peter Brock, Craig Lowndes
1997: Peter Brock, Greg Murphy
1998-2000: Craig Lowndes, Mark Skaife
2001/02: Mark Skaife, Jason Bright
2003-07: Mark Skaife, Todd Kelly
2008: Mark Skaife, Garth Tander
2009/10: Garth Tander, Will Davison
2011-15: Garth Tander, James Courtney
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Bathurst Wins
1990 - Win Percy/Allan Grice
1996 - Craig Lowndes/Greg Murphy
2001 - Mark Skaife/Tony Longhurst
2002 - Mark Skaife/Jim Richards
2005 - Mark Skaife/Todd Kelly
2009 - Garth Tander/Will Davison
2011 - Garth Tander/Nick Percat
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Mapa de Centro Francia Imagen
This is a map of Centre in France. You can use this map to advice acquisition towns for hotels and vacations in towns in Centre abreast your capital auberge anniversary destination. Often, hotels in adjacent towns can be abundant cheaper than those in capital towns such as hotels in Orleans etc.


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Financial Times
Published: October 23 2005
The chaos theory has a butterfly flapping its wings in China and a hurricane engulfing the other side of the world. It may be the only reasonable explanation for one of the most convoluted and potentially far-reaching sagas to consume the US.
It all began three summers ago with a retired diplomat writing an opinion article about a trip to an obscure country in Africa. It could end with a battered Bush White House deprived of the services of at least two of its leading brains. It has already claimed the reputation of the best newspaper in the land, the New York Times.
The cast of characters is more the stuff of fiction than fact, part Le Carré, part Flashman. It has never lent itself to an easy explanation, but even a partial understanding requires that one be attempted.
Joseph Wilson, the retired diplomat, wrote a New York Times column disputing President George W. Bush's assertion that Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger in his drive to acquire weapons of mass destruction. The US invaded Iraq ostensibly to root out WMDs, which have never been found.
Mr Wilson had reason to know, because somebody in the administration sent him to Niger to check out the yellowcake story. Robert Novak, the conservative pundit, then wrote a column claiming two senior, but unnamed, White House officials had told him the mission had been arranged by the diplomat's wife, Valerie Plame, who worked at the CIA. The column, from someone as connected to this White House as Mr Novak, was widely seen as an official attempt to discredit Mr Wilson. But Ms Plame may have been at the time an undercover agent working on WMD issues. A 1982 law makes it a crime to disclose the identity of a covert operative. Under pressure, the justice department appointed Patrick Fitzgerald, a hard-nosed federal prosecutor in Chicago, to find out if laws had been broken and, if so, by whom.
Fingers of suspicion, initially raised by Mr Wilson, pointed at Karl Rove, the deputy White House chief of staff and Bush political mastermind, and Lewis "Scooter" Libby, vice-president Dick Cheney's influential right hand and a leading neo-conservative hawk. Mr Fitzgerald questioned both early in his investigations.
But the key to solving the case lay with the at least half a dozen journalists working on the story. All but two co-operated by answering Mr Fitzgerald's questions, but Matt Cooper of Time magazine and Judy Miller of the New York Times refused, citing the principle of protecting the confidentiality of sources. Time controversially folded Mr Cooper's tent this summer, but Ms Miller, who had never actually written anything about the Plame affair, spent 85 days in jail for contempt. She was released earlier this month after receiving a letter from her source, Mr Libby, absolving her of obligations to protect him. She then gave testimony twice.
Last Sunday, the New York Times published an agonised account of Ms Miller's involvement in the affair, including her own version, which left many questions unanswered, not least why an apparent earlier release from Mr Libby was not taken up. She also claimed to have a "security clearance" from the Pentagon, which raised many eyebrows inside and beyond her newsroom.
The internal dismay on the newspaper is palpable, with its leadership, from publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr downwards, looking weak. The executive editor, Bill Keller, actually removed Ms Miller from the national security beat, but she simply went back to it regardless.
This is the third embarrassing mea culpa from the Times in two years – following the Jayson Blair case (the young reporter who made things up) and the reappraisal last year of its own WMD stories, most written or co-authored by Ms Miller, an ardent believer in their existence (her prime source was Ahmad Chalabi, the controversial Iraqi politician once favoured by the Pentagon). Mr Libby's letter reads like one from one true believer to another, not from a senior government official to a reporter.
The Fitzgerald investigation appears nearly complete. He has run a tight ship, unlike the special prosecutors who probed Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair. He could bring charges for perjury or under other federal statutes, including the Espionage Act, or he could indict nobody (the 1982 CIA law carries an extremely high burden of proof).
It would be bad enough for Mr Bush to lose the services of Mr Rove or Mr Libby, but worse still if the buck did not stop with them but extended to Mr Cheney, the guiding force behind so much the administration does.
The fact that they have been distracted has contributed to these worst of times for the president, as reflected in sagging poll ratings. Asleep at the wheel when Hurricane Katrina struck, bogged down in Iraq, now pilloried by his own conservative base for nominating the obscure Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, even his public performances, once so carefully orchestrated by Mr Rove, have become more erratic.
Watergate and Monicagate showed the cover-ups were worse than the crimes, which may prove true here. Whatever the outcome, now as then, chaos reigns.
The writer, a former FT US editor, writes the Letter to America column


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10 Amazing Jewish Hora Photos From Jewish Weddings
by Jamie Miles
If you've ever been to a Jewish wedding, you've no doubt seen the hora dance in action. The hora, which involves lifting the couple up on chairs as they hold opposite ends of a handkerchief makes for an amazing photo op. See for yourself!
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ANAHEIM, J. Lowe: I was glad to read in the Register that the state budget has been fixed ["Welfare compromise seals state budget deal," State, June 22]. Really? Are state voters so naive as to believe this?
One only has to read Brian Joseph's article to discover that "the latest agreement contained only broad outlines and few hard figures." When will this nonsense stop? Not likely in the near future now that a budget can be passed without one Republican vote.
As an Independent voter, I now know that the Democrats own this and can no longer blame Republicans. We all know the Democratic-controlled legislative body is unwilling to really tackle entitlements and unions. Do they not think we can see the forest through the trees? They boldly assume us dumb, uninformed voters will get in the lemming line and march over the cliff.
I am taxed to the max and can't afford more giveaways. When did our state (and nation) stop being comprised of hardworking individuals trying to make a difference and morph into a state with whiners who have their hands out? We are the most generous nation in the world, so stop trying to make me feel bad because I don't want to give my last penny to unethical spendaholics.
CYPRESS, Bob Andriacchi: Columnist Jon Coupal's op-ed piece, "Another year, another bogus budget" [Orange Grove, June 21], is spot on. By their continued inactions, Gov. Jerry Brown and the state Legislature appear to be unfit to govern: ideologues, the lot of them, rather than real leaders. This is another bad budget to go along with another set of ineffective initiatives voted in to fix the problems.
Maybe the real problem is that the majority of California voters are unfit to vote?
TRABUCO CANYON, Mary Diek: In reference to the article, "State to raid disability fund for unemployment benefits" [Business, June 20]: At every level of our government there is a dire need to tighten our belts and stop spending money we do not have.
From my experience as a small-business owner, I can give countless ways that some people get around the system and get disability for no legitimate reason. One way is to be lucky enough to get an Employment Development Department representative who couldn't care less where the money is distributed.
These billions of dollars being stolen from one state department to pay off another state department will get us nowhere. Adding interest to these loans adds to the disgusting debt we have allowed ourselves to get into.
Please stop borrowing. You are enabling some people by paying them to do nothing while truly disabled people will suffer. You are not fixing your budget problems; you are moving them around. You are not performing tasks that you are paid to do, like making corrections to meet the budget. Instead, we will "borrow" and then, eventually, raise taxes.
LADERA RANCH, Chuck Gibson: The California budget system is flawed ["State budget: Haste makes waste, again," Editorial, June 22], but it is the elected people, who run the system, who must be held accountable.
If financial managers in a company were caught stealing or cheating, they would be fired. The people's first priority should be to fire politicians who have abused the budget system.
There have been many changes in the system during the past 10 years. Some clever elected officials have used the changes to justify fiscal irresponsibility. Arguably, they broke laws along the way, yet they remain in office.
Whose fault is that? Voters need to get their act together and find competent people we can trust to balance the budget. In many districts, it would take only a small percentage of voters to make a difference.
Obama's incompetence is clear now
MISSION VIEJO, Gary Mantey: I am so sorry. I apologize for my mistake and will never do it again. You can blame me for the election of an empty suit to the highest office in the land.
I fell for a claymation figure with a pretty face, grand gestures and a meaningless message of unfulfilled promises. He has been a non-producer his entire life. Never has he held a position where he was held accountable for his actions. He has never been responsible for any growth in the private sector nor has he had to worry about a profit/loss statement.
You can make bad decisions as a bureaucrat and the government continues but the same decision in business can mean failure and the loss of jobs for people who depended on you.
I look at businesses he sees as his right to regulate and cannot think of one where the human resources department would consider bringing him back for a second interview due to his lack of training and education in the field or his experience.
BREA, Jennifer L. Zehner: President Obama, putting your arrogance and entitlement attitudes aside, are you now realizing that your experience as a community organizer is not sufficient to run the United States of America? Just because I can hold a hammer and a nail, does not mean I can build my own house. You are so in over your head that it makes my own head spin. The debacle and harm you have created for our great nation is beyond imagination, and it truly saddens me.
GOP trashes economy
TUSTIN, Bob Machado: We need to congratulate Republicans in their effort to take down this president, but they are also taking the economy down with them. Case in point: the transportation bill was passed in the Senate, but the House Republicans refuse to consider the bill since it would put between 1 million and 2 million people to work, potentially helping President Barack Obama. So when the Republicans ask where the jobs are, know that it is these hypocrites who are holding back the jobs and the economy.
Seat belts save lives
FULLERTON, S.A. Strong: Letter-writer David Grund claims the California Highway Patrol's motivation for enforcing seat-belt laws is to generate revenue ["CHP's legal bullying," June 22]. I wonder how many traffic collision scenes Grund has seen? Has he ever seen the bloody and mangled face of someone against the windshield of a car because they were not wearing a seat belt? Has he ever been at the scene of a traffic collision where somebody was ejected from a car through the windshield? Has he heard the agonizing screams of pain from people who could have prevented their fate by wearing a seat belt?
Perhaps, if Grund had seen the horrific scenes frequently seen by CHP officers he would have a different perspective.
Romney's vacillation
MISSION VIEJO, Jim Schneiderman: I was amused to see Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney tiptoe around the immigration issue in front of a Hispanic audience ["Romney pledges 'civil' immigration approach," Politics, June 22]. Better that he be booed out of the hall but speak his sincerely held beliefs.
Where is his backbone? It is this kind of vacillation and spinelessness that has led us to the brink. Principles be damned – there's an election to win.
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SPORTS >>Jacksonville clinches first conference title since 93
By RAY BENTON
Leader sports editor
It had not been since 1993, now its only been one day since Jack-sonville won at least a share of a conference championship in football. The Red Devils overcame a 10-point deficit and a lot of bad luck to knock off West Memphis 14-10 to improve to 5-1 in the 6A-Central and take over sole possession of first place with one week left in the regular season.
Jacksonville coach Mark Whatley was happy that a share of the league title was wrapped up, but quickly averted his attention to next week.
Im proud of those guys. Im happy for them. Now were going to try to do the very best we can do next Friday, Whatley said. Then well get up Saturday morning and find out where were going to go or whos coming to see us.
The sequence of events that led to the game winner began with Jacksonville trailing 10-6. West Memphis took possession after stopping the Red Devils on fourth and goal from the 11-yard line.
The Blue Devils took over at that spot with 4:16 remaining. Jacksonville had jus one time out left, so one first down would have likely given West Memphis the win. That became an even easier task when Jacksonville jumped offsides be-fore the Blue Devils snapped the ball, making it first and five. Three West Memphis carries picked up just four yards, leaving West Memphis with fourth and one at the 20. The Blue Devils called timeout after failing to get the Red Devils to jump. They decided to go for it, but the Jacksonville defense didnt give an inch. In fact, it backed up Blue Devil fullback Dominique Hamalin about a foot, and the Red Devils took over with two minutes left in the game.
Senior tailback Justin Akins went two yards on first down, and Lee Robinson caught a 13-yard pass on second to set up first and goal at the 5.
Hubbard then fired a rocket to Akins on a slant pattern in the end zone with 56 seconds remaining. After a five-yard delay penalty, Hubbard hit Marcus King on a fade to the corner of the end zone for the two-point conversion to set the final margin.
The Jacksonville defense was outstanding throughout the game, but never as much as on that fourth down play.
Red Devil defensive lineman Cord Walker put the play in perspective.
That play goes all the way back to practice, Walker said. Thats what we were there for in August, working in the 112-degree heat, for that moment right there. We were waiting on that one.
Whatley reiterated what Walker had to say.
This goes back to August when this team first started learning how to believe in each other, Whatley said. They continue to believe in each other, continue to beat the odds and continue to overcome adversity. This is an awful special bunch and Im proud to work for em.
The Red Devils overcame eight dropped passes Friday night, including six in the first half. They overcame a 10-0 fourth-quarter deficit and an offense that was stuck in neutral the entire first half.
Jacksonville could get nothing going offensively in the first half. The first three drives were all three and out and totaled seven yards. The Red Devils got it moving on the fourth drive, but an interception on the West Memphis 28 was returned 36 yards to the Jacksonville 34 by Blue Devil safety Kevin Moore.
The Jacksonville defense didnt budge, and West Memphis kicker Paulo Henriques nailed a 43-yard field goal with 16 seconds left in the half to put his team up 10-0.
Jacksonville got the ball to start the second half, and moved it exclusively on the ground until the drive stalled at the West Memphis 47.
Jacksonville punted and West Memphis put together its second long, time-consuming drive of the game. But after 12 plays and 49 yards, the Blue Devils were faced with fourth and three at the Jacksonville 18. A pass attempt was tipped up into the air, and junior Cameron Hood caught it on the run and returned back to the 20. From there, the Red Devils started their first scoring drive of the game. The drive took 10 plays to go 80 yards, and featured six runs and four passes. The key play took place on fourth and inches at the West Memphis 20-yard line. Jacksonville lined up in the spread, and Hubbard hit Norvel Gabriel over the middle for a 17-yard pick- up to set up first and goal at the 3-yard line on the last play of the third quarter.
On the first play of the fourth, Akins bulled his way in for the score. The extra point attempt was blocked, leaving the score 10-6 with 11:56 left in the game.
Akins finished with 20 carries for 134 yards. He had only 26 yards until the last play of the first half. The second half was a totally different story, and Akins gave credit where it was due.
The line just stepped up and opened big holes for me, Akins said. We werent able to do much in the first half because we were dropping balls. We were looking at the guys coming to hit us. We just kept our eye on the ball in the second half, made the catches. The line opened up holes. We just all came together in the second half.
Jacksonville flinched first when receivers dropped two passes while wide open on the Red Devils first drive. The drive came right after the Jacksonville defense had forced a West Memphis three and out to start the game. West Memphis got a good run back that was coming back from the start, but the Blue Devils still made Jacksonville pay for the drops.
West Memphis went on an 18-play, 84-yard drive that ended with a two-yard touchdown run by Josh Wilson on the first play of the second quarter.
The drive took over nine minutes, and Jacksonville answered with another three and out drive that took less than two minutes.
The Red Devil defense forced another punt after giving up two first downs, but Jacksonville answered with its third three-play series and punted again.
The Red Devil defense forced a Blue Devil three and out, and Jacksonville finally got some offense going on the ground. Three Justin Akins runs went for 34 yards and two first downs before the dropsies struck again.
Two drops on first and second downs were followed by a tough catch over the middle by Blake Mattison. Mattison paid for the catch by taking a huge hit, but hung on for a 16-yard gain and another first down.
Two plays later, the sixth dropped pass of the first half resulted in Moores interception that led to Henriques long field goal.
The Red Devils finished with 253 total yards, 184 of which came in the second half. West Memphis had 218 total yards. Junior Josh Wilson led the quintet of running backs with 68 yards on 15 carries.
Jacksonville can clinch an outright league title by beating Marion at Marion next week. West Memphis finishes up at home against Forrest City. A Jacksonville loss could lead to a four-way tie for first place at seasons end. Look for details and breakdowns of the clear-as-mud 6A-East Conference race in Wednesdays edition of The Leader.


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The Obama administration is rolling out a new program to fight obesity among low-income children, with $375 million in grants for states that promote healthy eating consistent with the government's latest dietary guidelines.
The grant program will serve Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamp, participants; kids participating in school lunch and breakfast programs; and low-income individuals. It replaces SNAP's existing nutrition education program, called "SNAP-ed," with a new focus on childhood obesity.
"The rule continues commitment to serving low-income populations while focusing on the issue of obesity, a priority of this Administration," according to the Office of Management and Budget's notice on the draft rules.
Initial spending for the two-year grants was capped at $375 million, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. After the program is fully implemented, grants will be based on a formula that considers participation, the USDA notes.
The program will be awarded on an entirely federal basis, allowing states to fund programs "where they can be most effective without the constraints of a state match," the OMB notice said.
According to the USDA, the goal of SNAP-ed is "to improve the likelihood that persons eligible for SNAP will make healthy food choices within a limited budget and choose physically active lifestyles" consistent with USDA food guidance.


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Setubandhasana - Bridge Pose सेतुबंधासन (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It turns out that setubandhasana is ideal for obesity, overweight and metabolic syndrome. First of all, it is one of the very best asanas to rejuvenate and stimulate the thyroid, thus improving metabolism. Secondly, setubandhasana helps lower the blood pressure. As an important anti-hypertension asana, setubandhasana addresses one of the key components of metabolic syndrome. Thirdly, setubandhasana is great for reducing stress. And as I have discussed in several blog posts, stress is an important co-factor in the development of insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome. As an added benefit, setubandhasana is helpful in preventing osteoporosis, a condition that often affects women at about the same age that insulin resistance and hypothyroid make themselves known.
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Sidney Sheldon was awarded in memoriam as a Gold Circle honoree from The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), Pacific Southwest Chapter. The Gold Circle honors those with 50 years of service to the television industry.
The Sidney Sheldon Scholarship Award for Playwriting at the UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Televsion was awarded in June.
The Sidney Sheldon Young Filmmaker Award was presented at the Palm Springs Student Short Film Festival.
Sidney Sheldon received the 2002 Will Rogers Memorial Award given by the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce. Read his acceptance speech.
Literacy Network of Greater Los Angeles "Literacy Lifetime Achievement Award" (2001)
Sidney Sheldon Day in Chicago (November 2, 2000)
Chicago Mayoral Proclamation
Sidney Sheldon Honored with "Great Authors fo the Twentieth Century" Stamp (1999)
Declared Sidney Sheldon Day by Mayor of Beverly Hills
Portals Golden Bell Award (1997)
The Guinness Book of World Records (1997)
World's Most Translated Author
Honorable Citizen Award (1995)
Los Angeles Public Library
National Spokesman for Libraries for the Future (1994)
Deauville Film Festival (1993)
Prix Litteraire de Deauville Award
Star on Palm Springs Walk of Stars (1993)
Golden Plate Award (1990)
American Academy of Achievement
Freedom to Read (1988)
Roll of Honor Award
Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame (1988)
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
City of Hope (1987)
Medical Center Aides Plaque of Appreciation
L.A. Regional Foodbank (1987)
Gold Plaque (Plaque of Appreciation)
Freedom to Read (1985)
Friends of the Chicago Public Library
Sidney Sheldon Day in Chicago (1983)
Chicago Mayoral Proclamation
Bicentennial Tribute to Men and Women of Achievement (1983)
Metromedia, Inc.
Library Trust Awards (1980)
Brandeis University National Women's Committee, Los Angeles Chapter
Jewish Community Federation (1979)
United Jewish Welfare Fund Plaque of Appreciation
USC Division of Cinema (1979)
Awarded membership in Cinema Circulus
Award of Excellence (1978)
Authors and Celebrities Forum
Pacifica Awards (1973)
Edgar Allan Poe Award (1969)
Mystery Writers of America for THE NAKED FACE
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (1966-67 Awards)
Nominated for Outstanding Writing Achievement in Comedy for I Dream of Jeannie
Box Office - Blue Ribbon Award (1963)
(Screenplay) Billy Rose's Jumbo
Screenwriters Annual Award (1962)
Nominated for writing achievement for Billy Rose's Jumbo as "the best written American musical of 1962"
Antoinette Perry Award (1959)
For authors of a musical - Redhead
Screenwriters Guild Award (1951)
Annie Get Your Gun
Box Office - Blue Ribbon Award (1948)
(Screenplay) Easter Parade
Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (1948)
Academy Award® of Merit for Outstanding Achievement for The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer
Box Office - Blue Ribbon Award (1947)
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