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Large update at shop.LEGO.com
Posted by Huw,What I assume is in preparation for their imminent release, images have been uploaded to shop.LEGO.com for all of the first-wave of 2012 sets. The products aren't all listed at LEGO.com yet so you won't be able to see them on the site itself, so I've added them to Brickset, including all the additional images showing small details and minifigs.
So, use these links and get drooling: City | Cars | Star Wars | Friends | Ninjago.
For me, the Friends sets look most intruiging. There are some great colours and pieces in them, and it is said that the girls' hairpieces are compatible with minifigs. It's a shame my daughters are now too old to buy them for. I'll just have to come up with some other excuse!
Here's a few alternate images to whet your appetite:
Update: there's some interest in the comments about the new astromech head in the X-Wing set, so I've posted a close-up on flickr:
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If all of them have been uploaded, then where are the Technic sets?
If you take out the figs and the overly cutesie animals, these sets are really interesting. No excuse needed Huw, just do it!
^^ Good point. My sweep of the server didn't reveal those so it looks as if they've not been uploaded yet.
Argh! They finally got round to making an R5-D4 style astromech droid head, thus forcing us to buy re-iterations of the same sets we bought 13 years ago! Those cunning swines of LEGO ;-)
Nice set of figs in the new TIE Fighter, and at last an Endor Troop battle pack. The forestry police sets look fantastic (great vehicles, and a new wheel arch it seems). I like the look of the Ninjago snake vehicles, and do I note a touch of Stafford's work in Jay's Storm Fighter? (And is it too much to suggest a hint of my Drake fighter in the wing design?) Either way there's a lot of nice SPAAAAACCEy blue parts in there.
I still struggle to grasp the scale of these Friends sets. Being so used to seeing the likes of Polly Pocket toys, I still picture them as Playmobil-sized, despite all the evidence that they're minifig sized and all the tools, gadgets, animals and lovely coloured bricks are transferable. Even having seen and held one of the special bits in my hand, I still can't visualise them as minifig sized when I look at those pictures!
Hmm... I'll be buying those Friends sets... Don't know where I'll put the figures, shame they don't put those great parts in City sets....
The friends sets look great. Shame the inventor set is so disappointing, especially the microscope (why is she stood on a box?). Maybe I'm just biased though, as I think the lab I work in looks more like the one I did. http://www.flickr.com/photos/62571196@N03/6510196847/in/photostream
What the chuff is an outdoor bakery? And why is that girl hiding jewels underneath her tree house? And we thought the Ninjago sets had gone crazy... :P Great new (?) colours and hope they transfer some of the accessories into 'normal' (ie system) sets. But a 100 bill for a cupcake seems a bit steep! It's about time lego made some lower monetary denominations :P
@Joefish "Argh! They finally got round to making an R5-D4 style astromech droid head, thus forcing us to buy re-iterations of the same sets we bought 13 years ago! Those cunning swines of LEGO ;-)" New versions of old star wars sets? Surely not! ;-)
I wasn't convinced about the Friends theme but having now spent a few moments looking at those pictures, there's some really lovely stuff going on there. I think I'll have to get me some of those after all!
The animal and hair pieces have holes in them, so bows etc an be added, I think that will be popular.
I'm LOVING all the new flower pieces too.
The house is almost exactly what I was planning on building for my niece to use as a lego dolls house (but with out the pink roof!) - I think that will be hugely popular. And expandable. The holiday gift sets from this years promo look like they'd add on to the house nicely :)
I can't wait for all of these! Hopefully they come out just before christmas so I can put them on my list! ;)
Never been a LEGO starwars fan but that Y-wing looks pretty awesome, especially with the droid and pilot, really detailed print on pilots helmet. X-wing looks pretty cool too. And if I end up getting the Y-wing and maybe X-wing, then I'll HAVE to get at least ONE tie fighter haha! Oh man. slippery slope I fear.
@JoeFish, I believe Mark has been involved with many of the 2012 Ninjago sets and you're right, there are tell-tale signs of that all over them :-)
New c3-po, didn't know that.
^ I think R2-D2 is the same, it's R5-D4, the red one, that now has a different head, slightly more conical if you look closely. I've uploaded a close up to flickr and linked to it in the article.
It looks as though threepio is different, with coloured wires on the torso and possibly yellow coloured eyes?
The first four SW sets in that list (9488, 9489, 9490, 9491), absolutely shocking. if ever you needed proof positive that it's all about the minifigs...
I was really hoping to see the Creator Summer House show its face as part of the initial wave. When is it expected?
The TIE set (9492) astromech droid also appears to have a conical head.
Having initially dismissed the Friends line as girly rubbish, i'm now eating my words and planning some purchases, especially if the hairpieces fit normal minifigs. Lots of purple, turquoise and pink parts to be seen!
It does appear that c-3po has a new torso, and possibly printed eyes? The stormtroopers in that set also have some good 'dirt' printing on them. And yet another iteration of a speeder bike! Do you think they're trying to see how many ways they can build the same thing?
Those first SW sets are amazing! I love the new astromech head. And I can't believe they finally gave C-3PO a new torso! Its great! If I ever got the Friends sets I would probably just keep the parts, and throw away the people (or at least put them in a box where I can't see them).
A few of these city sets are already availavbe at TRU. As well as the cars oil rig.
What I really don't understand is, in 4441 Police Dog Van why is the burgular stealing a ruby from a gold mine? ;)
@ George G I think the crook was running to hide out in gold mine with the ruby. :)
How much are the SW Battlepacks?
Apparently some 2012 sets are already available in store at John Lewis (confirmed in Glasgow). Might be worth checking out if theres one local to you.
Why is police set 4205 Off-road Command Center listed as a fire set?
Why do I get the feeling that LEGO is biased towards using good interior designing on "girl" sets. Why don't we see this in system sets? Why aren't system sets as well thought out and have as rare of parts as these?!
@Mr. Mini Man - My take is, stereotypical "girl" toys (Barbies, doll houses) focus more on the accessories. So you get the specialized bricks, interesting colors, and more realistic looking figures. "Boy" toys (transformers, hot wheels i.e.) are more about functionality and moving parts...so in "boy" Lego sets, you have walls or bridges that have action elements, racing cars, and lots of weapons (pirates, castle, Star Wars, are all about the swords/guns). Unless boys all over the world all of a sudden decide that that stuff isn't good enough...the system sets aren't going to change.
Does anyone know how much the X-Wing is? I got the 2006 version, but this one is just... too good to pass up.
^TBOC: And another thing, does anyone know the size compared to 2006's? This one looks enormous compared to the other one...
Also, the Olivia Inventor Workshop set, or whatever its called, has some nice pieces. Now if only it wasn't a GIRL set. :P
Love the Star Wars sets
Gosh, I hate this! Lego stop coming out with amazingly awesome sets! I'm getting poor...
I'm loving the new jedi interceptor. Comes with some great new minifigs and you can fit r2 in it.
Amazing city and SW in particular my god I am in love with the x-wing, no official prices though, I hope not too expesive I still want to eat after i have bought these!
The Jedi interceptor set seems nice, however it is disappointing that the minifigs does not come with Padme while she is pregnant. Now that makes it more interesting to get.
Shopping in 'drag' could be an option when purchasing Friends sets. If only they came with a mincer for the figures and a recycle envelope for posting their mangled bodies back to Lego.
The city sets are up!!!!
The new astromechs head makes me buy the X-Wing again! :)
When are the Ninjago boosters, Destiny's Bounty, and the Fangpyre Truck gonna be released?
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SUBJECTS: The budget;
Matthew Abraham: Where will the pain be in this budget?
Penny Wong: Well, we've taken over $33 billion worth of savings in this budget and they come across government. There's a net reduction in the number of public servants. There's savings in defence. There are savings as a result of the deferral of the (inaudible). Essentially there's been savings across government. We have redirected a number of those savings to important priorities and they include the school kids bonus for giving familles up front assistance for school costs as well as increases for low and middle income families through the family tax benefit system.
Abraham: You've pulled back promises that were made as compensation to ordinary taxpayers. We know you've done that to the business community, but you've pulled back promises that were made in selling the mining tax. There were going to be compensation sweeteners. There was going to be a deduction to simplify their tax returns and a discount on interest income that was meant to encourage bank savings. That was promised in the original mining tax. If you can break those promises what's to stop you breaking the promises for compensation from the carbon tax?
Wong: Well, the carbon tax assistance is already rolling out so you don't have to trust me on it. You can just receive the assistance. If you're a person on less than $80,000 a year you're going to get a tax cut, if you're on a family tax benefit of pension, you're going to get those increases, but in terms of the two issues you raised they were part of the original mining tax package, but recall what we have done instead is triple the tax free threshold. So the standard deduction, once you've taken a million people out of the tax system through raising the tax free threshold was not the most effective policy. Remember also what we're doing with the mining tax revenue now is providing it to families. That's what the increases for family tax benefit…..
David Bevan: While you're handing out cheques to families; those same families, what sort of services will they get in South Australia when the South Australian Government is looking at GST revenue being cut by billions of dollars?
Wong: Regrettably the South Australian Government, like us are having to deal with the same problem, which is less revenue than occurred previously. Remember we are actually getting much less in tax than Peter Costello got when he was the federal treasurer.
Bevan: Yes, but you could compensate the states for that fall in GST revenue. Yet instead you choose to hand out cheques to families, which is very good politically for you, but those same families turn up to a hospital; there might not be the same services. Their school might not have the same services. Jack Snelling is going to cop the pain there isn't he while you're handing out cheques?
Wong: Well, let's recall how much more money the Federal Government is investing in health. Health spending will continue to grow as a result of our policies. We've also increased infrastructure spending. We have in fact doubled the annual infrastructure spending per South Australian since we've come to government. So there is a substantial amount of assistance that we've put into the state. All governments, this government and state governments are having to deal with the fact that revenue, that is tax to government is less than it used to be for an equivalent level of growth and the way we've dealt with that is to make the savings measures, the cuts that we've had to.
Abraham: Chris Pyne, is this really snookering Tony Abbott, your leader? Paul Kelly describes it as an "Abbott trap"; using the mining tax to fund a nearly $5 billion resources boom family package. It's substituted the corporate tax cuts that the Coalition has opposed. This time politics surely dictates that Tony Abbott cannot oppose the new cash splash for families?
Christopher Pyne: Matthew, no, I don't think that's the case at all. The truth is this is an unbelievable budget. The public won't believe that the Government can deliver a one and a half billion dollar surplus while they're saying they wan the debt ceiling raised by $50 billion. So they want the debt ceiling raised from $250 to $300 billion at the same time that they're saying they're going to have more money than they did last year. So if you have more money coming in, if you have a surplus why would you need to borrow $50 billion more and I think that is the hole in the heart of this budget. I just heard how Penny was talking about how they had less revenue, but they've forecast $39 billion of more revenue by next year when the terms of trade have fallen by five per cent. So I don't think the public will buy this budget.
Abraham: You will pass the Budget. Will you block any of these measures?
Pyne: We don't since 1975, I think most people remember that particular year, we don't make a habit of blocking supply. The Government is entitled to pass its Budget bills. Not of course are all measures part of the Budget and the Opposition doesn't have to pass every singe measure but we don't have a position where we would block supply. This is a fiddled figures Budget and I think the public will know that. There's also cruel hoaxes in this Budget. The Government says its delivered a National Disability Insurance Scheme but the Productivity Commission said it would cost $3.9 billion when the Government's saying it's going to cost $1 billion so $2.9 billion that was to go to the National Disability Insurance Scheme has been cut. And so I think people who had high expectation that an NDIS would be delivered should be very disappointed today. In my own portfolio area, the Gonski Review called for $5 billion a year for education, the Government's delivering $5 million. That's $5 million rather than $5 billion.
Bevan: Penny Wong, just quickly before we go to calls. Can you respond to Christopher Pyne?
Wong: Well a few things. On is he isn't being up front with you about what they're going to oppose and what they're going to support and what that means. Christopher's the Shadow Spokesperson for Education, is going to be opposing the Education Bonus.
Pyne: It's not an education bonus.
Wong: Well it's an upfront payment…
Pyne: It's not an education bonus.
Wong: It's an upfront payment to families to deal with the cost of putting children through school.
Pyne: It can be spent on anything, Penny.
Wong: Can I finish my sentence?
Pyne: Well if it can be spent on anything you should tell the truth.
Wong: I try to tell the truth but I actually can't speak at the moment.
Pyne: That's never stopped you before.
Wong: It's an upfront bonus because we had in place an Education Tax Refund and we found that about a million families weren't claiming what they were entitled to because obviously keeping receipts isn't at the top of the 'To Do List' for families is the first point I'd make. The second point I'd make is we have close to doubled the amount of funding for schools so I think it's wrong to say this Government is not investing in education. I think what's more interesting is what will the Coalition do? I notice Andrew Robb, my counterpart, last night was promising a surplus of $15 billion. Now that would mean this year that the Coalition if in government would have to not pay any Medicare out. So if they're seriously saying to the Australian people we believe we can deliver a surplus…
Abraham: Well there are other ways…
Wong: Well then tell us.
Pyne: Now you're interrupting the radio host.
Abraham: Well that's OK. This is a robust democracy as we all know (inaudible)… now your public service cuts. 3,000 jobs out of a workforce of 258,000, so 1.2%. Are you saying you couldn't find any more? I mean that's almost the level they're looking for in South Australia.
Wong: It's actually slightly more than that if you take out the increases as a result of Defence Reserves and so forth. They're not the only efficiencies we're making.
Abraham: And if you take out casual census collectors moving off the books, its less than that. There's well over a thousand there.
Wong: I'm not sure that's right. But I think it's important to remember we don't say to people we want you to sack people. What we say is we want to take more efficiencies out of the public service and we've done that. We put in place what's called an efficiency dividend, a very high one. 4% for 12-13.
Abraham: What your saying is you could only take out 1.2% out of a workforce of over a quarter of a million public servants.
Wong: No what I'm saying is that we have taken many efficiencies and my instruction, or my indication, as Finance Minister was people should look to non-staffing matter first. They should look to consultancies, travel, advertising, those sorts of things and that voluntary redundancies and forced redundancies should be a last resort and that's the approach the public service has taken. This is the first net reduction in the public service that we've seen since figures started which were in I think the early 2000s. So it is very substantial.
Bevan: Lets go to a call (name inaudible).
Caller 1: Good morning. Chris actually said my point about the deficit and the debt, the debts increasing and yet we've got a surplus. But where does the actual money come from? Do they actually, in cartoonistic terms, do they actually go to another big bank to draw out $50 billion cap in hand?
Bevan: Penny Wong, where do you get the money from?
Wong: No, no, look there is currently what is called a debt cap, a legislative debt cap in place which keeps the size of what we call the government bond market, so how much money the government can issue in terms of its debt. We anticipate being below that at the conclusion of every financial year and the forward estimates. But during each year there is a large amount of variability because of technical reasons of about when you get payments, when revenue comes in when the expenses go out and also different government bond lines maturing at different times. So the advice from the Office of Financial Management is we do need to have the capacity to deal with this temporary fluctuation during the year.
Bevan: If you are as fiscally responsible as you're telling our listeners, you wouldn't need to increase it by that much would you?
Wong: Well we are seeking to increase it for the reasons I've outlined.
Bevan: Yes, but if you were fiscally responsible, you wouldn't have to.
Wong: We are fiscally responsible and that's why we have taken $100 billion savings in the last budget and an 11 and half billion..
Bevan: why do you need to borrow then?
Wong: Let me finish, and another $34 billion in savings from this budget. We have as a government experienced $150 b right down in revenue as a result of the financial crisis, but we are still protecting return to surplus, and the only way we have done that is by protecting the bottom line by taking savings.
Pyne: Can I make two points?
Bevan: Make it one because Robin wants to call.
Pyne: Ok, well very quickly, Penny Wong keeps saying they are making $33billion worth of cuts or savings as she euphemistically calls them, she's not. A half of those $33 billion dollars are new taxes and charges in six new areas and forecast high dividends from government business enterprises. It's actually about half of that $33 billion are actual cuts in a $350 billion budget.
Wong: (inaudible)
Pyne: Hang on; I let you speak; now you let me speak. Secondly, Penny Wong talked about the forecast the government has planned. Two years ago they forecasted a $12b dollar deficit this year, last year it became $23 billion dollars, then it was $37 billion at MYEFO, and it's ended up being actually $44b dollars of deficits. Why would anybody believe that this government can deliver (interruption) the actual deficit this year is $44b dollars, forecasted next year to be a one dollar and half a billion surplus, why would anybody believe that a government that can't get it right so often is suddenly going to find fiscal prudence.
Wong: Can I just make one point; we have laid out our budget. My challenge to Christopher, if he is so sure that he can do better is get Tony Abbott to tell Australians what he'd do.
Bevan: Let's go to Robin from Winnvale. She's called; she wants to put something to the both of you.
Caller 2: Hello, my question is regarding the Medicare funding of mental health services with regard to better access schemes to psychologists and mental health social workers. Penny in last year's budget your Government told sufferers of anxiety, depression and other mental health illnesses that they must recover in 10 sessions, which is half what research shows, research says 18 – 20 sessions.
Abraham: You want to know what happened to that funding whether it's been restored or cut further I suppose, Minister?
Wong: There has been no change to that in this budget, but you're right we did make some savings in the mental health package that we announced in the last budget. Bearing in mind there was a very substantial additional investment in mental health and I think, whilst I can understand that some people would prefer more sessions, what I would say is we did find a lot more other services, services that were very much needed by people who suffer from mental illnesses and their friends and families.
Pyne: I actually introduced the better access to psychologists and social workers when I was the Minister responsible for mental health. So I thought the government measure last year was the wrong measure and I am still disappointed with the changes and cuts to what was an excellent program.


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When you're applying for a gig on Wall Street these days, you've got to do something that will set you apart from the crowd. Jobs are scarce and while anyone can tell a firm why they should be hired, few go the extra mile to show. Armed with this knowledge and the knowledge that competition for positions at Citi is fierce, one recent applicant knew she had to raise the stakes. She didn't just send Citi a resume and cover letter indicating her interest and qualifications– anyone can do that. She sent them an 11-page presentation entitled "I'm Always Awake With Citi: 9 Reasons Why You SHOULD Hire Me As Your Investment Banking Analyst" filled with headers like "Smart" and lotsa clip art. Perhaps it was the reasons, perhaps it was the fact that she appealed to someone at Citi's love of its insomniac tagline, but we're told she's been asked to come in next week. (We're also told she created similar presentations for other banks, such as BAML, which has also invited her to stop by next week, and that she has interviews set up with "several" firms. Citi may be her "dream," but they're not the only ones who should be offered a piece of this and girlfriend is a hustler.) Job-seekers, take note.
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Would immensely appreciate your help in identifying the manufacturer and/or model of track lighting system shown in the photo. No obvious mark or brand on what of it I could see. The home it is in was built around 2001-2002 and I suspect it is original to the structure and not added later. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. --Leigh in WI |
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It might be a Tech Lighting T Trak system. Does it have a transformer or is it direct wired? The T Trak system is direct wired. |
Dekeoboe, thanks for your suggestion. I will try to look up Tech Lighting T Trak system. I have so far not been able to find a transformer, where the home has a good number of other low voltage lighting systems (bedrooms, bathrooms) where I do find transformers . . . so the fact I haven't found one so far seems a promising fit with your thought that it may be the T Trak system. |
This is a Juno Track. See the fixture below. Good luck! |
Here is a link that might be useful: Example Juno track fixture
Homepro01 and other folks who have so kindly responded--thanks for your help, the system is indeed from Juno (Flex 12 is the product name) and I have been able to locate the parts diagrams and spec sheets I was looking for. Very much appreciate your help with this! |
Ledino, Glad to help. I really love that shape fixture!! Homepro01 |
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This most famous and revered of Hindu scriptures tells the timeless story of the paths of knowledge, devotion, action, and meditation. Stephen Mitchell's acclaimed translation, read by him for the first time, brings this ancient story to life and shows how it became the seed for all the Hindu systems of philosophy and religion that followed.
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"On the list of the greatest spiritual books of all time, the Bhagavad Gita resides permanently in the top echelon. In this titular translation, Stephen Mitchell's rhythms are faultless, making music of this ancient Song of the Blessed One. Savor his rendition." (Amazon.com)
"Mitchell must by now be accounted one of our generation!s heroic translators, having taken on the Book of Job, the Tao te Ching, and Genesis and done so much to popularize Rilke in English. Now he applies his considerable skill and sympathy to one of the most noted sacred texts of Asia, the Bhagavad Gita and the results are very happy. He works in free-verse quatrains of about three beats per line, and his language flows with great naturalness." (Library Journal)
"The Gita is one of Asia's most renowned spiritual texts. Mitchell, whose translation of the Tao Te Ching has been extraordinarily popular, offers a direct, clean translation of the Gita that reads like a series of pithy epigrams of advice and comfort… Mitchell clarifies meaning without sacrificing beauty and emotional resonance." (Booklist)
"Way too abridged"
This book must have an interpretive line - each sentence is packed.
And because this translation has a superficial interpretation, I was very disappointed.
Also, the performance starts in a daze and transforms into excitement by the end.
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no Also, the performance starts in a daze and transforms into excitement by the end.
if only Maharishi made an audiobook version!
"Living skillfully"
If you are interested in increasing your skill at being, this is an excellent light illuminating the path and deserves study. Mitchell, as always, translates beautifully.
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I'm watching Craig Ferguson's monologue from last night, and he makes the comment that he's surprised Hollywood hasn't tried to do a modern remake of "It's A Wonderful Life." (He's not saying they should, only that he's surprised they haven't.)
But they have.
"It Happened One Christmas" was a 1977 TV movie that was an official remake of "It's A Wonderful LIfe," only with some gender swaps. The central character is Mary Bailey (played by Marlo Thomas, only six years after "That Girl" went off the air), and her guardian angel is Clara Oddbody, played by Cloris Leachman. The love of Mary's life is George Hatch, played by Wayne Rogers, best known as "Trapper John" from the first few years of the "M*A*S*H" TV show. Rogers, by the way, is an active alumnus of The Webb School in Bell Buckle. Orson Welles (!) plays Mr. Potter, and Christopher Guest (!!) plays Harry Bailey.
Weirdly enough, according to IMDb, it's set in 1944, the same time frame as the original. They didn't take the opportunity to modernize the story, only to swap out the main character's gender.
I have never seen this. I doubt it poses any real challenge to the original, but one of these days I'd like to see it once, just out of curiosity. It seems to be available, though perhaps illegally, on YouTube.


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When considering the fact that more than 12-hundred drag strips have been built in the United States since 1949, perhaps no single track has ever captured the imagination, created more legendary figures, or held as many noteworthy events than a stretch of real estate sitting quietly off the San Diego freeway in Wilmington, California, just south of Los Angeles.
But don't bother to grab your jacket and camera and set sail for this holy grail of quarter-mile landmarks, as Lions Drag Strip's 18-year reign ended with "The Last Drag Race" event in the wee hours of December 2, 1972.
Given this 30-plus year stretch of cruel time since the last pair of tire-burners scorched the mystical patch of asphalt known initially as LADS (Lions Associated Drag Strip), today's fans might be wondering, who the heck cares?
I have been asking myself precisely that for the past three decades as I pondered some sort of Lions tribute. Initially, I thought this was due to it's proximity to my childhood home where, as a wide-eyed kid growing up just a few miles away, I got my start with a Brownie camera at age 14.
But history - and the words and deeds of those who experienced the "magic" firsthand, teach us that there is a real and viable basis for placing Lions at the literal top of the list.
After spending 30-plus years as a drag racing photojournalist and more recently as a freelance TV motorsports producer for niche shows on ESPN2 and Speed Vision, I settled on doing an in-depth video documentary. These past two years, while gathering materials and research, have become an eye-opening journey into a past filled with marvelous stories, gripping film and photographic depictions and heartfelt recollections which, for the sake of argument, explains Lions' major role in shaping the sport from near infancy to the format of 320 mile-per-hour rear-engined missiles witnessed today.
When it initially came to making a decision to either do the project, or walk away, a phone call was placed to one of the sport's most revered figures, C.J. Hart, known to many as "Pappy", who opened the sport's first commercial dragstrip on an unused airport landing strip at Santa Ana, Calif., in 1950. He later managed Lions in the mid to later 1960s.
The gist of the conversation was that he was in his 90s, his health was in decline, and if I wanted to get any such stories out of the proverbial horse's mouth, "You better get your butt out here - and soon," he quipped.
Less than two weeks later I showed up with video equipment at his door, hence the first interview - and literally Pandora's box of drag racing lore was opened.
Subsequent cross-country trips netted interviews with such pioneers and notables as Fritz Voigt, Art Chrisman, Gene Adams, Don Garlits, Tom McEwen, Don Prudhomme, Tommy Ivo, Chris Karamesines, Connie Swingle, Roy "Goob" Tuller, Roland Leong, George Bolthoff, Ed Lenarth, Sush Matsubara, Bill Schultz, Paula Murphy, Don and John Ewald, Gerry Glenn, Joe Koenig and speed merchants Joe Reath, Ed Iskenderian, Chet Herbert, chief starter Larry Sutton, promoter Doug Kruse, photographers Steve Reyes and Jim Kelly and writers Ralph Guldahl, Dave Wallace and Don Prieto, plus C.J. Hart's son and Lions announcer, Jerry, likewise announcer and part-time starter, Tim Kraushaar, Drag News gossip columnist Suzy (Kelly) Beebe and artist, Tom Hunnicutt, to name a few. Others who graciously allowed our cameras into their homes were early track photographers Roy Robinson and Don Hale.
And then there was Judy Thompson, who recounted her early years as a young girl infatuated with a quick tempered and hot rod-afflicted young man who would become the proverbial "speed king" of the industry, her husband - and Lions' first general manager, the late-Mickey Thompson. At her home we also spoke with the track's original "hot" and "stock" car tech directors, Roy Swanson and Ray Halladay, respectively.
But let's backtrack one moment, because how the track came about is quite important. At the time period immediately following World War II, the day's youth had a lot of energy, a dollar in their pocket, an excess of sedans and roadsters to tinker with (thanks to a bevy of newsstand magazines later on such as Hot Rod), plus an infant industry capable of producing go-faster, do-it-yourself bolt-on parts, much of it from innovative and inquisitive thinkers with backyard and garage industries born from knowledge gained in area aerospace and metalworks.
Due to Southern California's year-round mild climate, youthful hot rod activity was a constant, and initially street and purpose-built racers converged on several dry lake beds such as nearby El Mirage and Muroc. The plentiful and unused concrete runways of airstrips newly abandoned by the military provided equally tempting locations for airing out one's hot iron. The need for such locations came at a price, as illegal street racing and highway incidents and deaths climbed in alarming proportions by the late-1940s, long before freeways were built.
The local police, including Los Angeles police officer Gordon Browning and specifically Long Beach's Bob Cabot (who along with the Associated Car Club of Long Beach), made it their business to convince area car club members to direct their energies toward safer, supervised activities. A Long Beach judge also became alarmed at the newspaper headlines and court cases involving street racing and he got behind a movement to build a local dragstrip. The local Lions Club was informed, and altogether nine Lions chapters from the Los Angeles harbor area got involved, a piece of land was secured, bonds were sold to create working capital, and in the summer of 1955 work began on the construction of one of the sport's first purpose-built facilities. Thompson was hired as it's sole paid employee.
Amazingly, Thompson at the time had just built the sport's first "slingshot" dragster, while he simultaneously operated a muffler shop, worked at the Los Angeles Times as a pressman, and was about to take on a job of immense proportions as the dragstrip facility kingpin.
The track opened on October 9, 1955 - and so too did a great number of tales. Take for instance an 11 year-old kid who on that day was looking for lizards on some property near his home in west Long Beach when he heard a huge roar of sound. He walked toward the noise, parted some scrub brush and there he was near the finish line turnoff of an enormous new drag racing facility. Frank Fedak literally became a kid who pressed his face against the Cyclone fence for a closer look at the smoke-belching cars at the starting line. Within several years he became a regular competitor - and winner in the elite top fuel and junior fuel divisions. Before that his family moved to nearby Garden Grove, and at 14 he introduced his next-door neighbor to the sport, a kid named John Mulligan (later of top fuel Beebe & Mulligan fame).
At the start the cars were mostly dry lakes racers, but quarter-mile specific machines soon became the norm. And Lions' location in the literal center of civilization and later on conveniently at the south Alameda off-ramp of the newly-built 405 (San Diego) freeway, was the place to witness big league racing every Saturday evening for the hot cars, and again on Sundays during stock and bracket racing day.
Much innovation and bravado was displayed in the early going, with initial sanction through the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA), which was itself formed "as a social club" some five years prior. Through Thompson's efforts it was the first track to utilize an electronic starting system instead of a flagman, for example. Later it would become one of the first to place electronic monitoring equipment at specific intervals along the track for increment times, incorporate concrete starting line pads, roller starters replaced unsafe push starts due to a frightening dragster accident in the mid-1960s and is a track where the advertising of major match races was born and flourished. It was also the second dragstrip to draw crowds from Saturday night racing "under the lights" (Saugus was the first), and as luck would also have it, Lions was located just a couple of city blocks from where the sport's first "weekly bible" was published - Drag News.
After a year-and-a-half of successful operation, on February 3, 1957 a stunning series of runs by nitro-burning dragster pilot Emory Cook's San Diego-based machine netted a best of 166.97 mph, resulting in seven area dragstrips who voted to place a total ban on fuel competition. The infamous "fuel ban" initially hit Lions and area racers hard, but resulted in some of the most innovative and exciting times in the sport's history. It also spawned the successful creation of an alternative event - the U.S. Fuel and Gas Championships at Bakersfield (a three hour drive north), and when NHRA adopted the gas-only limitations for all of their sanctioned tracks, including it's handful of national events, the result was the elevation of a rival organization who indeed placed a premium on nitro-burning machines as major drawing cards, hence the emergence of the American Hot Rod Association (AHRA) with the likes of Don Garlits, Setto Postoian and Chris Karamesines, among others.
Because a single-engine, gas-burning powerplant could only produce so much horsepower, inventive racers started to employ two engines; some placed inline like Lefty "Allen" Mudersbach, Glen Stokey, (John) Peters & (Nye) Frank (whose Quincy Auto rail was later known as the "Freight Train") and Chet Herbert's next-door neighbor, Zane Shubert. Others were side-by-side sensations including Tommy Ivo's, Howard Johansen's "Twin Bear", (Jim) Nelson & (Dode) Martin's "Two Thing", Thompson and Voigt's "Monster", (Don) Hampton & Dye's "Too Bad", plus consistent early winner "Jazzy Jim" Nelson's twin-Merc with a Fiat body. The envelope was finally reached when former-child actor Ivo tried a four-engine creation called "Showboat", which was relegated to exhibition runs when it spooked NHRA officials.
The mid-1950s also witnessed the last days of the flathead, as Chrysler, Olds and Chevrolet V8 engines became the norm, and these were soon being topped with superchargers for greater power. With most of these racers building their own machines from the ground up (including Jerry Baltes' dragster frame built using his daughter's swing set), some like the locally-based "Bustle Bomb" came with an engine in the front, and one in the rear. Art Arfons towed in from Ohio with his Allison aircraft-powered behemoth; utilizing one of the sport's first parachutes. Another rear-engine oddity housing a blown Chrysler initially built by Paul Nicolini and later campaigned by Chuck Jones and Joe Mailliard, became known as the "Sidewinder" and from 1959 was driven solidly by a gas station operator from the area, Jack Chrisman (Art's uncle), who later drove a series of other cars to great success, including single and dual-engined dragsters for Mickey Thompson, plus an all steel-bodied Mercury Comet with a blown, nitro-burning engine in 1964 that became one of the sport's first funny cars.
All of this innovation, lack of adequate safety and the sheer numbers of cars that congregated at Lions (because it's proximity to the ocean meant incredible air and power-producing capabilities), came at a price. In fact, by the time Lions reached the mid-1960s, it had claimed more lives than in all previous years of the Indianapolis 500. When it closed, more than 18 are known to have perished there, some famous and others anonymous.
Names that have long since faded from the headlines included such notables as Leonard Harris, nephew of Ansen wheel and speed shop founder, Lou Senter, who won more than a dozen straight top eliminators with engine master Gene Adams and chassis builder Ronnie Scrima, plus Mickey Brown, the first man to top 150 on gasoline; both died there while testing cars for fellow racers. Joe "The Jet" Jackson lost his life while also trying out a car for another team. Jackson literally lived out of his push-car - ironically a hearse, after having moved from Maine to California during the winter months with his red top fuel dragster in search of drag racing paydirt that never came. Dave Gendian was the first, and others like Pete Petrie, Harrell Amyx and Boyd Pennington joined a growing toll on the sport's pioneering dark side.
Other incidents were less tragic and have become the basis for time-tested lore. Current NHRA official starter Rick Stewart crashed at speed in the mid-1960s, and when he asked a nurse at the hospital why the world was on fire, she told him he had suffered a head injury. Stewart reportedly asked again why the world appeared on fire while looking through the window, and she responded, oh yeah, the Watts Riots just started.
Zane Shubert once made a pass there in a twin front-engine machine in which his feet resided under the rear-end, and when someone negated to properly fasten his restraining belts, he was thrown out of the cockpit after deployment of the parachute; he managed to hold onto the steering wheel with his face was pressed next to the back engine's magnetos, while looking rearward toward the starting line through his legs!
Long Beach resident Gary "Rocket Man" Gabelich once crashed in the fog, and wasn't found for the longest time. And when they finally reached his dragster upside-down and under a fence, his first question was "Did I win?" Glen Stokey also went through the infamous Willow Street barrier with a dragster, and the first person on the scene was an elderly man, who saw the blossoming parachute and rollcage bolt from the sky and asked safety personnel, "When did they start dropping these out of airplanes?"
Engle Cams general manager Don Moody likewise had a terrible-looking accident at speed in Dave Zeuschel's fueler one night, and when the dust settled, after taking out scores of recently installed plywood fencing, he was found sitting on the track with nothing but a shell of seat between his rear and the asphalt - with literally no injuries. And in the funny car days of the early 1970s, the Beaver Brothers had quite a scare the night their "L.A. Hooker" machine had the throttle stick just as two crewmen lowered the body - and went on one heck of a ride until half-track, where the two crewmen fell off, got up and walked away lucky. The tale was told by owner Gene Beaver's nephew - a kid who got his start in the sport with his mom's car at Lions, John Force.
Perhaps my favorite was a contest between Bill Maverick's "Little Red Wagon" and Chuck Poole's "Chuck Wagon" wheelstanders. In their final round with the scored tied, Maverick shocked the crowd when he set his front end down in the actual sand trap without too much damage and just a few yards from the property fence, and was feeling pretty good about his pending victory. But Poole would have none of it, and when he became disoriented from the fog past the finish line, he drove, wheels-up, past Maverick, through an opening in the fence, down an access road, out the gate, and crashed upside-down into the adjoining property - the winner!
In those days there was sheer power in numbers, and following the lifting of the fuel ban in 1962 the numbers of fuelers in the southern California area grew to nearly one hundred. While you now have to wait all year for a sizable drag racing national event show in your "market", it was not unusual in the mid-1960s to witness more than 60 top fuel cars on a given weekend at Lions. Some events like the Mickey Thompson 200 Mile-Per-Hour Club Meet had 64-car fields!
Toss in a match race with the blown, gas-burning Willys of "Big John" Mazmanian versus "Stone, Woods & (Doug) Cook" during what became the infamous "cam grinder wars", long lines of blown AA/Fuel and gas Altereds, AA/Gas Supercharged Anglias and Austins, wheel-stander and jet car oddities, (injected) junior fuel dragsters (started at Lions by Hart), top gas dragsters and later nitro funny cars - and even an injected funny car class and every sort of two-wheeler imaginable, and you get some sense of what made this place so special in terms of depth. Oh, did I mention that in the early years they used to run the stock cars four at a time, because there were so many!
Another facet of the track was it's unique layout, with pit-side grandstands so close to the racing surface that dragster pilots who were push-started from the finish line toward the starting line said that the fans leaning over the fence could practically slaps hands as they drove past prior to a run. Also, the finish line "on deck" road was near another set of large grandstands, allowing spectators the opportunity to converse at the fence with racers while awaiting the call to suit up. It was not unusual to see little kids chatting with big name drivers in their firesuits just prior to their flame-throwing, on-track excursions.
Likewise, the physical layout was built to where the enormous pits funneled to conclusion under the timing tower behind the starting line like a sieve, and as a spectator you could stand there and literally rub elbows with engine builders Black, Sid Waterman, Ed Pink and Dave Zeuschel, plus Isky, Leonard Van Luven, Bruce Crower, Dean Moon, Donovan and writers Guldahl, Prieto, Wallace and Terry Cook as they and the drivers and car owners exchanged barbs, ideas and laughter - then watched as metallic-suited men climbed into machines so volatile and dangerous that some never made it home alive.
From a perspective of ambience, the huge petroleum refineries to the west, which were always burning off excess fuel with large feathers of flame and smoke, plus a mass of tall electric powerline towers just to the east gave the place a feeling of enormous power and provided an eerie backdrop. Toss in the smell of hot dogs, tamales with chili, your hand wrapped around the latest copy of Drag News, souvenir booths sometimes manned by a guy who would airbrush you a Rat Fink t-shirt - named Ed "Daddy" Roth, plus a wad of napkins needed to wipe the dew from your seat as the night air grew thick, and you get some idea of what a typical night was like at Lions - for 18 years!
In its mid-to-latter stages the dragster boys put up a valiant series of political stands with big United Drag Racers Association (UDRA) meets; coupled with area meetings and boycotts designed to force NHRA to pay more monetary rewards and resolve safety and licensing issues; some worked and other attempts failed. By the mid-1960s the diggers were then slighted as the southeastern FX/AFX and funny car craze took stage with a literal stranglehold, then top fuelers made a comeback with a couple of epic "dragster-only" PDA meets run impeccably by fabricator, Doug Kruse. Eventually both classes lived side-by-side until the end.
Just before the axe fell Lions was the setting for one of the most dramatic series of runs in the sport's history, when Don Garlits, the front-engine dragster "king", came to the line in the finals on March 8, 1970 during a meet under the track's then-AHRA sanction (and management of C.J. Hart). At the flash of green the transmission exploded in his "Wynn's Charger" and cut the car completely in half from his feet forward. Garlits was sent tumbling just past the staring line, minus a portion of his right foot above the arch, plus a spectator also lost an arm in the incident.
Garlits returned to the racetrack early the following year to officially debut a machine that placed the engine safely behind the driver, and with a slower steering ratio which alleviated the problems faced by many of the sport's earlier back-motored machine. His final round showing and realized success (as he went on to win the NHRA Winternationals and Bakersfield March Meet in subsequent weeks) started a land-rush movement which obsoleted the front-engine "slingshot" within a year.
Amazingly, after it's first pass at Lions, while sitting on the return road, a new funny car driven by John Collins crashed, and the complete running engine made a beeline for Garlits and the new dragster. It bounced straight up in the air, glanced off the cowling on one side of the dragster, then kept on rolling. Both Garlits and crew chief Tommy T.C. Lemons commented that, had that engine hit the dragster any harder, because of their heavy race schedule (and with another front-engine car ready to go), they may have never rebuilt that rear-engine car.
The remaining season-and-a-half witnessed Steve Evans as it's third manager, who gave the track a fresh new look and a major NHRA season-opener (while returning to NHRA sanction) with the Grand Premier, plus an adjacent motocross motorcycle track was built to increase income. But with Wednesday night grudge racing, Friday motorcycles, Saturday and Sunday drag racing, it was becoming a further nuisance to nearby homeowners. Shortly thereafter when the next-door-neighbor "Lone Star Mothers" (who were widows or wives of military men living in large housing complexes) pressured local officials to revoke the track's lease with the Los Angeles Harbor Commission, he became the reluctant architect of an epic, "The Last Drag Race", which fittingly pitted Tom McEwen against Don Prudhomme in the funny car final. The last two cars to officially grace the Lions surface occurred between eventual winner Carl Olson and Jeb Allen; both were kids who literally grew up there and later became top fuel stars.
Well, the above paragraph is partially correct, and points to more of the colorful commentary and laughter I hope everyone - young and old, will derive from the video, dubbed "Lions - The Greatest Dragstrip".
Off-the-record the final pass was made sometime later before sun-up by the track's official starter, Larry Sutton and his assistant, Bill Keys - and it was accomplished while they were being towed down-track by a rather intoxicated individual driving a station wagon while standing inside a wooden outhouse. Realizing their predicament at speed well into the run (especially considering the size of the crowd that day and the contents of the "hold"), the rope was nervously cut, the outhouse then smacked a guardrail, spun a few times - and Sutton and Keys emerged from their confines right at the finish line alive and "in-the-lights".
If you think that's an isolated case, there's a whole bunch more to be found on the video, scheduled for release to the general public by late-2004. To date more than 52 individuals were interviewed on-camera and a huge amount of never before seen 8-mm home movie and 16-mm film, plus close to a thousand still photos including the work of Reyes, Kelly and Don Varian (thanks to Dick Towers/Match Race Madness) Robinson, Hale, Jere Alhadeff, Norm Grudem, Doug Hayes, Alan Earman and Mickey McIver, plus the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing and NHRA Motorsports Museum, for example, have been acquired. There's even a 8-mm film which surfaced within the past two years of the infamous Garlits front-engine accident that you must see to believe.
A separate trip to Colorado last summer likewise allowed access to a private individual's film collection, who had footage of the track being built from "day one", plus the original film reels from KTTV (Los Angeles), of a 90-minute black-and-white "live" television broadcast from Lions in September 1961. Included on this are interviews with the likes of Jack Chrisman, Gary Cagle, Stokey, Prudhomme, McEwen, Dode Martin, Ronnie Hampshire, Bob Muravez, Mudersbach, plus the show was even emceed by track manager Mickey Thompson, himself.
Other snippet items of interest include an audio taped interview with "Wild Willie" Borsch, conducted in 1988 before the legendary AA/Fuel Altered pilot's untimely passing. Also, the current property owners allowed our cameras onto the facility, which provides an interesting before-and-after perspective, including panorama views from the rooftop of their multistory office tower.
As a final thought, consider the plight of Mickey Williams, a weekly bracket racer who lived for the excitement of Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons when he competed with his Bracket 3 machine at Lions, until being drafted in late-1968. After only a couple of months in the jungles of Viet Nam, near the DMZ, with only his purple Lions jacket tucked along for luck, a rocket-propelled grenade shattered his tank; Williams lucked out, but three companions were killed instantly. He was somehow rescued and patched back together with more than 12-hundred stitches.
All he wanted in life, at that point, was to retain a pulse - and witness the sights, sounds and smells of Lions one more time. After many operations and months of painful recovery, he was returned to his home near Long Beach and soon thereafter loaded into an awaiting car and driven to a piece of property officially listed at the corner of 223rd and Alameda. As he caught a glimpse of the starting line sign and those immense grandstands, a smile no doubt returned to his face, as he officially came "home".
Lions was like that to a lot of other people, from the hardest of the hardcore racers and even to the casual spectators. Times were different back then, and what this video will convey is the sense of history and significance, with a tinge of reverence, and a large dose of visual smoke and thunder.
It was life at it's best; a quarter-mile at a time. Perhaps the grandest ever in the theater of drag racing.
And Lions was the front row seat.
Don Gillespie would love to hear your input and if you have anything you would like to add to his documentary, his email address is [email protected]


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"I've always enjoyed that sound," Hamilton says. You can sense the pleasure he takes in the precision of his memories. "My first pair of golf shoes had metal spikes. I was ten years old. Up until then I played in tennis shoes. But I was going to be playing my first real tournament, and it had rained the night before. My dad said, 'You probably need a pair of golf shoes. We don't want you slipping.' "
The shoes were all white, with a flap over the laces. And they crunched when he walked on pavement. He never switched to soft spikes, as the majority of modern pros have.
Hamilton likes to keep things simple. Today, like most days, he is wearing a solid-color shirt, because solid shirts are easier to match with pants than patterned shirts are. He has won all his tournaments with the same style Ping putter. His current one, a beryllium copper B60, he bought used for $50 in 1995. There are four strips of lead tape on the bottom. "With a heavy putter, you don't have to use your hands too much," he explains.
Hamilton's caddie, Ron "Bambi" Levin (no relation to this writer), describes his boss as "low maintenance." Hamilton calculates his own yardages, reads his own putts. "He's very businesslike," Levin says. "He loves to play golf, loves to practice. There's nothing false. What you see is what you get."
At home in McKinney, Texas, Hamilton likes to carry his own bag. Back in Japan, he got used to carrying his own luggage up and down stairs, sometimes a thousand yards from the bus to the train. That experience, bouncing around the Far East in cars, buses, taxis and trains, earning a living with no frills, made him identify with the barnstorming pros of the 1930s and '40s who practically lived out of their cars. "I'm sure those guys didn't lift weights," he remarks. "And they carried their own luggage."
A strapping fellow at six-foot-one, 195 pounds, Hamilton admits he could stand to lose ten to fifteen pounds, and that someday he'll probably have to start stretching if he wants to continue playing golf, perhaps with a trainer's help. But he's not there yet. "Craig Stadler lost a lot of weight one time," he says, "and he didn't golf well. He decided he'd rather golf well than look his best."
Hamilton also doesn't use a golf coach: "I'm very stubborn and hardheaded. I've taken a few lessons over the years, but I've never relied on anyone to fix me. I don't want to call up some guy every night when I'm not going well, like he's a baby-sitter."
Growing up in Oquawka, a Mississippi River town of 1,500 in west central Illinois, Todd Hamilton was by no means rich. His father owned a small grocery store called Hamilton's Super Market, where Todd worked when he got old enough. Todd took after his father, a good athlete who had grown up playing football and basketball. When Todd was three, his dad took him to the local country club in Henderson County, Hend-Co Hills (2005 membership for a family of four: $800) and gave him a sawed-off iron to chip and putt with. Those types of shots are still the strongest part of Hamilton's game.
In the summer before his junior year in high school, Hamilton started dating a pretty cheerleader named Jacque Saben, the woman he later married. He won a golf scholarship to Oklahoma, where he was named an all-American three times, and left in 1987 just short of a degree to begin earning his living at golf. Jacque, who also went to Oklahoma, stayed to get her degree in merchandising and today handles Hamilton's business affairs.
In his first shot at Q-school, in 1987, Hamilton fell three strokes short of earning his Tour card. "That was devastating to us," says Jacque. "I cried and cried, not realizing that there were other tours out there for him to play."
Before the first of their three children, Tyler, was born in 1998, Jacque would fly to Asia or Japan a couple of times a year to be with Todd. She did some sightseeing, but it wasn't all play. "In the Philippines," she recalls, "he had a tee time at seven in the morning, and you want to get there an hour early. So my wake-up call was around 2:30, because we had an hour and a half on the bus, and then we had to take a shuttle bus to the course."
When Hamilton first arrived in Asia, the 90-degree heat with 90-percent humidity hit him like a lead mop. "It was unbearable," he says. "You've got sweat dripping in your eye, your glove's slick, but we were focused on the golf tournament and that wasn't going to bother us."
It was in these circumstances that he became fast friends with Brandt Jobe. "We used to leave for Asia around the first of February and play fourteen straight weeks of tournament golf," Jobe recalls. "That's a strength he has. He can be mentally ready to play that many weeks in a row. Most players can't. Todd loves to play, and that's all we did."
Some of the ports of call on the Asian Tour were rugged, to say the least. The food was iffy. Hamilton caught a stomach virus in Pakistan in 1988 that caused him to lose so much weight his wife says she barely recognized him. And often there were no range balls, forcing players to save up old balls to hit on the range and then walk out and fetch them. But the roughest part was seeing extremes of poverty rarely if ever encountered at home.


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Updated: July 14, 2013 11:40PM
The Cubs reach the All-Star break a very different team than the one that left spring training. And they will be very different again in the second half as trades unfold.
But the players knew change would come if they didn't perform well.
''As a team, guys come and go, but we integrate pretty well,'' pitcher Jeff Samardzija said. ''We talked even in the spring that it would be a key for us to come together and pull for each other.
''We were a little sloppy early in the year, but we've come together lately. I think we've shown how we can play baseball.''
The Cubs were 10-16 in April, 13-14 in May and 12-15 in June. But they are 13-9 in their last 22 games, thanks to a relatively more stable bullpen and modestly better hitting.
''I look for a lot more success in the second half,'' said Samardzija, who is scheduled to start the first game Friday at Colorado. ''We start out west, where we had some trouble, but hopefully we can right the ship. We have [Starlin Castro] and [Anthony] Rizzo coming around, and [Alfonso Soriano], and guys like myself for one can play better. That's exciting.''
Consistency remains the Cubs' missing link, but Samardzija said it can come in the second half.
''Teams at the top of the league day-in and day-out play consistently,'' he said. ''When their superstars have big games, then it's a blowout. The days that Sori hits two 400-foot homers and Rizzo [homers], that's when we win. But you have to pitch well and finish games out.
''I know I've had a few rough ones lately, but I've been pretty happy with how I've pitched. If you look at my record, the first halves haven't been my bread and butter. But I get more energized in the second half. Hopefully, the [opponents'] bats get a little slower in the heat by the end of the season, too.''
First start
Right-hander Scott Baker, who had Tommy John surgery in April 2012, struggled in his first trip to a mound Sunday for Class A Kane County. He threw 56 pitches in three innings, giving up four runs and six hits with a walk and two strikeouts against West Michigan. Cubs manager Dale Sveum said getting Baker back in a game environment was more important.
''Today was a big step, to go against real hitters and a game atmosphere,'' he said.
Baker will continue to pitch every fifth day.
Face of the future
Cubs prospect Arismendy Alcantara, 21, doesn't get mentioned as often as Albert Almora or Jorge Soler. But the 5-10 infielder stood out at the All-Star Futures Game in New York, playing second base and hitting a home run.
At Class AA Tennessee, Alcantara is hitting .280 with 13 home runs and 23 doubles in 91 games.
Gillespie on board
Newly acquired outfielder Cole Gillespie joined the team, and reliever Henry Rodriguez was designated for assignment.


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Righteous Defense and hit chance
So... I recently decided to try out 3/5 WE (so far, I'm noticing a positive difference which is what I was hoping for) but the 3 points came out of precision and, suddenly, Righteous Defense is missing over and over again. This makes me ask - is Righteous Defense's hit chance based off of spell hit or melee hit?
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TitleBaltimore and Eastern Shore Drug Dealer Sentenced to 17 Years in Prison for Distributing Cocaine with a Street Value of $1.3 Million
Will Forfeit Over $1.1 Million in Drug Proceeds;
Also Participated in an Identity Theft Scheme
Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Anthony Wayne Ballard, a/k/a Buzzard, age 38, of Baltimore, today to 17 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute more than 50 kilograms of cocaine.
The sentence was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Baltimore City State's Attorney Patricia C. Jessamy; Special Agent in Charge William Winter of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Special Agent in Charge Ava Cooper-Davis of the Drug Enforcement Administration - Washington Field Division; Special Agent in Charge Janice K. Fedarcyk of the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Philadelphia Field Office; Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III of the Baltimore City Police Department; John Kuo, Director of the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration - Investigation and Security Services Division; Somerset County Sheriff Robert Jones; Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis; and Somerset County State's Attorney Kristy Hickman.
"The significant sentence issued today, along with the substantial monetary forfeiture, send a very clear message to others that participating in the illicit drug trade does not pay," said William Winter, Special Agent in Charge for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Baltimore. "ICE is committed to working with our law enforcement partners to identify, arrest and bring to justice those involved in these criminal organizations."
According to Ballard's guilty plea, from 2004 to 2008 Ballard sold large quantities of cocaine in the Baltimore and Eastern Shore areas of Maryland. During a search on November 24, 2004 at Ballard's home on Shadyside Road in Baltimore, law enforcement officers recovered seven kilograms of cocaine from Ballard's car, with an approximate street value of $175,000. Officers also recovered over $25,000 in drug cash that Ballard had stored at that location. Later that day, law enforcement searched Ballard's residence at E.43rd Street in Baltimore, Maryland, where they recovered additional cocaine and $6,125 in drug cash possessed by Ballard.
On February 9, 2006, law enforcement officers observed Ballard meeting with other drug dealers late at night in a parking lot in Prince George's County, and saw the exchange of bags consistent with narcotics trafficking. Officers stopped Ballard and an associate as they left the location and called for a canine search of their cars. The canine alerted to the presence of narcotics in both vehicles. Law enforcement recovered $276,219 in cash from Ballard's car and an additional $603,791 from the vehicle of Ballard's associate. During the search, Ballard lied to the officers by identifying himself as J.L. and presenting a fraudulent Maryland driver's license bearing the name of J.L.
Ballard also admitted that between December 2005 and October 2007, he conspired with others to knowingly and without lawful authority, produce and transfer Maryland driver license learner permits, driver licenses, and personal identification cards. In doing so, the conspirators used their own names and identification information, as well as using the names, social security numbers and dates of birth of other individuals, without their knowledge. As part of the conspiracy, Ballard had phone and in-person contact with a co-conspirator who was a Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration ("MVA") employee. Ballard paid the co-conspirator for four unlawfully produced Maryland identification documents: (1) a Maryland driver's license in the name JBL on December 27, 2005; (2) a Maryland commercial driver license learner's permit in the name Anthony Ballard on August 25, 2006; (3) a Maryland commercial driver's license in the name Anthony Ballard on December 8, 2006; and (4) a Maryland driver's license in the name MAS on June 10, 2006.
On January 8, 2008, law enforcement arrested Ballard and recovered additional drug proceeds, including $83,554. Ballard was also arrested with one of the fraudulent identification cards used in this case. Ballard admits that he sold over 50 kilograms of cocaine in Maryland.
As part of his plea agreement Ballard will forfeit $1,135,678.59 in drug proceeds seized during this investigation.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein commended Assistant U.S. Attorneys Kwame J. Manley and Harry M. Gruber, who prosecuted the case.