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The Champion Speed Shop Special
The racing bloodlines running through the Champion Speed Shop are long and complex, going back through 60 years of tradition, innovation, and racing dominance—Northern California style. HOT ROD is honored to be able to present it as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of the small-block Chevy engine, which is integral to this story, leading up to the 60th anniversary of Champion Speed Shop in 2017. The Champion Speed Shop Special dragster is powered by the quickest Chevy small-block ever conceived, with a best e.t. of 5.67 seconds in the quarter-mile, and it has stayed competitive in the nostalgia ranks of Top Fuel off and on for years, including winning the championship in 2012.
Champion Speed Shop and the NorCal Racing Scene
Jim McLennan in many ways is Northern California drag racing. In 1957 when Jim opened Champion Speed Shop in South San Francisco, it was a wood-shack mecca for all of the Great Highway street racers, gearheads, and roundy racers in the Bay Area. McLennan moved fast to capitalize on the local speed lust and racing fanaticism. Within a year, a 10,000-square-foot facility was built just around the corner on Old Mission Road, and soon after, McLennan partnered with Don Smith, who in the mid-1960s would buy him out.
It wasn't long before he teamed up with "Terrible" Ted Gotelli to pilot his Organ Grinder dragster, while at the same time building a Scotty Fenn dragster running a 364ci small-block Chevy for himself. This was the beginning of a dynasty, and the legacy of the "World's Quickest Chevy" Champion Speed Shop dragster.
Having a speed shop in "South City" seeded related paint shops, engine builders, and competing speed shops, which spurred McLennan to branch out from his racer roots. First, he and Smith leased Half Moon Bay airstrip for drag races starting in 1958. A half-hour hop south of South San Francisco, it wasn't long before they also ran Cotati Drag Strip, hidden behind the Santa Rosa, California, hills, hosting drag races at the two strips on alternate weekends.
Smith says Half Moon Bay was well attended. "We had [more than] 14,000 people for the 'East vs. West' race between Don Garlits and Don Prudhomme; Highways 1 and 92 were completely closed, there were so many cars," Smith says. Due to Cotati, California's location outside of the Bay Area, Smith says the best attendance there was in the 1,500 to 2,000 range, for comparison.
McLennan and Smith were instrumental in starting the first March Meet in 1959 at Bakersfield, with Smith making the first contacts with Garlits. Part of their deal in getting Garlits to come to California was for him to also race two weeks later at Kingdon in Lodi, California. Smith and McLennan felt that neither Half Moon Bay nor Cotati could handle the crowds. "It ended up Kingdon wasn't big enough, either," Smith says. According to Smith, there were so many people they closed the ticket booths and just collected the money people threw into the window holes of the booths!
In 1967 Jim added Fremont Drag Strip to his strip-management obligations, which was a one-hour drive across the San Francisco Bay in Fremont, California.
Within a year of running the world's quickest and fastest Chevy, McLennan decided—because of NHRA's nitro ban—that two were better than one and cut the dragster in half to lengthen it for a twin-engine setup. Test 'n' tunes were done right on Old Mission Road, with fuel and burnt rubber hanging in the damp, night air. But by the end of 1961 Jim had gone back to a single engine, while business and family pressures sent him looking for a driver. He chose a young kid hanging out at the speed shop—one Sammy Hale.
The combo of fresh, new driver and fast, single-Chevy rail worked well, and by 1962 Jim was fielding a new Kent Fuller car with a 114-inch wheelbase, which Hale immediately ran to 8.36 seconds at 180 mph in the quarter-mile. In Cole Coonce's book "Top Fuel Wormhole," Hale says, "Nobody had ever gone 180 mph with a small-block before." With Hale getting the slip on the clutch, it was holeshot heaven and wins for Champion Speed Shop.
Tired of being away from his family and wanting to focus all of his attention on new ventures, McLennan sold his dragster to concentrate on building Champion Speedway in Brisbane, California, just south of Candlestick Park. A half-mile oval track was constructed, with an eighth-mile dragstrip added in 1967. He made a deal with the race team Masters and Richter to take over the dragster. They immediately heaved the Chevy for a Hemi. Hale was out of a dragster seat for only a short time, finding rides in Vic Hubbard's naturally aspirated Chevy, the Chrysler-powered Masters and Richter dragsters, Gotelli Speed Shop dragster, and Jesse Perkins' Cow Palace Shell fuel dragster.
Managing tracks, concessions, and other real-estate ventures was now McLennan's gig, and he continued in that vein for years. Champion Speedway featured regularly scheduled races until it closed in 1979, as did Champion Speed Shop that same year, after it was sold to Andy Brizio and Cub Barnett in the early 1970s. Half Moon Bay's closing in early 1969, and Cotati's followed in 1972, but both McLennan and Smith had long been out of management of those strips by the late-1960s.
Good things sometimes just keep rolling. Jump ahead just a couple of years to 1981 and old front engine dragsters and Comp Coupes were but a distant memory when a few of the old timers, fuelled by NorCal's Tom Prufer and Brian Burnett, used Fremont as ground zero for a small gathering of vintage dragsters, gassers, and street rods for some e.t. bracket racing. Most of the race cars were relics from the 1950s and 1960s, with no rules governing equipment or safety. It was innocent fun dusting them off, dumping some nitro into the tanks, and seeing if they would fire up and even make it down the strip. They were there only as exhibition racers in between the street rods racing brackets, but this became the launch for what we now know as nostalgia drag racing. Full circle, baby!
Speed is in Their Blood
McLennan's son, Bobby McLennan, continues the legacy of the Champion Speed Shop today, while Jim's other son, Mike, continues the driving part of the McLennan bloodline. He drove for the nostalgia championship in 2004, piloting Mike Fuller's Forever Young Top Fuel nostalgia dragster.
In 1969 Jim was inducted into the Bay Area Sports Writers' Hall of Fame, in 1993 elected into the National Hot Rod Association's Hall of Fame, and posthumously inducted into the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame in March 2007. He died a month earlier at age 74.
About his father, Bobby McLennan says, "I've never seen anyone match my father's passion for racing, except maybe Mickey Thompson, who was one of his closest friends. Our goal is to keep Jim McLennan and the Champion Speed Shop name in the winner's circle."
Dragsters of Future Pasts
Though Jim McLennan's sons, Bobby and Mike, stayed plenty close to their father's racing and management activities as youngsters, by the 1980s Bobby was deep into his own career and pursuits. With a degree in economics from the University of California at Riverside, he was involved in real-estate development and starting athletic clubs in the Bay Area, not unlike his father's pursuits 30 years previous. He hadn't been to a drag race in years.
Roy Brizio was starting his car-building career in South San Francisco in the early 1980s and proposed building a replica of Jim's Scotty Fenn dragster as a gift. Roy's connections to the McLennan family and NorCal drag racing are deep, as his father Andy was the Half Moon Bay starter for years, and Andy started his roadster-building business in a small corner of Champion Speed Shop. Roy and Bobby grew up together among the racers, nitro, and burnt rubber of NorCal dragstrips.
Bobby thought it was a great idea and opened his checkbook for the recreation. Running a blown 4-71 small-block from friend Bruno Gianoli, mated to a Hilborn injecton system they got from Mickey Thompson, it was never intended to be anything other than a three-dimensional representation that fired up and made some noise. When it was finished, they closed down Old Mission Road, and with old friend Bud Burnett behind the wheel, they fired it up to a surprised and emotional McLennan. Besides a sentimental night they all wouldn't forget, this one car led to something much larger no one could have imagined.
Sammy Hale, Jim's first driver back in 1961, drove the dragster at a Fremont nostalgia event later in 1985, and gives his glowing impression of that first drive: "The engine didn't even have aluminum racing pistons and the blower was driven by V-belts. I thought I was driving a Datsun pickup truck." With interest ramping up and original race cars popping up from all corners of the state, there was a reason to at least make some respectable runs to uphold the reputation of the car, its owner, and South City. So a new engine was built, which enabled it to eke into the high-7-second range. But it was obvious this combo would never be competitive in what was becoming a little more organized and a lot more serious race platform with each passing event.
Next came a new dragster in 1992 built from an Arnold Chaves chassis that had been collecting dust for more than 15 years. It was lengthened to 150 inches, then to 170 inches. Hale drove this car for five years and was able to squeak it into the 6.50s. Hale continued to drive until an engine explosion and fire at Bakersfield. Says Hale, "I was OK, but felt 'someone' was sending me a message to step aside." Subsequent drivers included Harry "High Speed" Hoffman, then Gary Read of "Groundshaker" fame, followed by Scott Hesselgrave.
Then in 1996 things got downright serious. The Goodguys nostalgia series was in full swing, and the race gene in Bobby dominated his being. He had Robert Sterling front-half the chassis, got racing wizard Ronnie Capps to consult, and convinced Hale to hop back in the saddle. Though it was a bit twitchy at first, with a propensity to swap lanes, once more uprights were added to the chassis, Hale managed to be low qualifier at many of the races they attended. But they were not consistent enough to win.
Says Bobby, "We replaced the cast Hilborn fuel pump with a Waterman 750 billet pump, then jettisoned the Mallory points magneto for an MSD 44-amp flamethrower, and we added an onboard computer for run data." They also went with a Barnes dry-sump and Crowerglide clutch. Soon after, Hale ran a 6.21 at Sears Point, beating out Denver Schutz and then Ted Taylor, before losing in the final round to Bob Hallock.
In those early days of nostalgia racing, and even up to today, the Hemi reigned supreme, but there were problems with this combo. The old cast-iron blocks couldn't withstand the fire put to them, and engine explosions were common—and killing the show. For the Champion small-block Chevy, Bobby used high-nickel-content NASCAR blocks. Says Bobby, "We could put the coals to them without splitting the block."
It would be a few years before Goodguys allowed aftermarket Hemi blocks, so the Champion team had an edge. Bobby knew once the rules changed for Donovan blocks, he would become less competitive; sure enough, later in 1996 things changed for the fabled team. "We found ourselves going from the top of the class to about two-tenths behind the leaders in the matter of a few months," Bobby says.
Still, there was another reason besides heritage to stick with the Mouse. The team found some comfort in swapping power for weight, and so in this heady world of tenths-of-seconds and grams and inches, the mighty Mouse still possessed an advantage over the Hemi.
By 1999 the Champion team fielded a completely new Sterling chassis, a no-frills, potato-chip-light car with a carbon-fiber body, Brodix aluminum heads, and plenty of go; running 5.875 seconds at 239.22 mph, yet overall wins eluded the team. At the 1999 Hot Rod Reunion at Bakersfield against Larry Gotelli Jr., Hale almost flipped the car, and that was when that "someone" called him again to quit racing for good. It would be his final race for Champion.
Rance McDaniel replaced the irrepressible Hale from 2000 through 2002. In 2001 they won the Goodguys championship with their Tony Bernardini and McLennan-prepped, 400ci small-block running 5.854 seconds at 239.40 mph. Yet there were still problems to conquer, and not just with the car.
Intake valves kept hanging in the Brodix heads, so Bobby looked for a solution. The middle exhaust ports are siamesed in small-block heads, and with the nitro popping loud and hot, the Achilles' heel was those ports. Things were just too hot, causing one failure after another almost every run.
Alan Johnson manufactured symmetrical-intake-port heads for small-blocks, and Champion got permission from Goodguys to use them. This symmetrical-valve arrangement helped eliminate heat issues as an intake port shielded each exhaust port. But these new heads created heat elsewhere. Says Bobby, "When the word got out we had AJ heads, the uproar was unbelievable; people were very upset, accusing us of ruining the sport."
With their winning ways, 2002 would start off with backflips and rainbows, but end in disaster and bitter fallout from a horrendous crash at Boise. As Bobby says, "This was the darkest time in the entire history of the Champion Speed Shop." Coming into the Boise race, Bobby was trying to keep the engine from becoming a grenade, as usual. He brought four engines with him, two Rodeck cast-aluminum blocks, and two iron blocks. The aluminum blocks would not stay together, and so in quick succession they no longer existed—blown to pieces. Then the first iron block let go in the semifinals, and the team was down to its final engine. In the last round against Jack Harris, as McDaniel approached the traps the bottom blew out, causing a massive explosion. The subsequent head trauma from the crash resulted in a six-month hospitalization for Rance. Within a few months, a lawsuit stopped the entire Champion operation while the courts determined the intricacies of negligence law in the 21st century. Bobby and the Champion crew laid low for more than two years, resigned to seeing the suit take its course, as well as hoping Rance could make strides in his rehabilitation, which he eventually did. Everyone needed a break.
But as we've seen, the will to race is unrelenting, and so after those two long years off, a now more determined Champion team took shape. Arriving in 2005 to tune Brian VanDyke's RB Entertainment, taking over RB's 2001 Uyehara Top Fuel dragster, and continuing with driver Jeff "Surfer" Diehl, the Champion Special was back with a new look—and powered by their old nemesis: a Hemi. Bobby was building a new small-block-powered Champion Speed Shop Special dragster, but progress was slow and the Champion team needed to get back to its winning ways.
Toward the end of the 2005 season, Diehl got an IHRA Funny Car ride, leaving the team to look for a replacement. When Adam Sorokin's services became available, Bobby signed him up, and he's been with the team ever since. Before this car was retired in 2009, Adam piloted the RB dragster to 5.703 seconds in the quarter-mile. Like father, like son.
Adam Sorokin—Father to Son
Today, Adam Sorokin drives the Champion Speed Shop dragster. The name Sorokin is steeped in drag-racing mythology, as Adam's father, Mike, shoed for the legendary Surfers Top Fuel dragster team in the mid-1960s. The Surfers were a couple of cosmic college kids from Santa Monica and Sorokin, who together won the 1966 March Meet at Bakersfield and terrorized the established racers of the day. HOT ROD has chronicled this epic story throughout the years, including the October 1998 issue ("The Epic Saga of the Surfers").
When the Surfers folded up in September 1967, Mike Sorokin went on to pilot other dragsters, before losing his life in a horrific accident at Orange County Raceway on December 30, 1967. Adam was a year old at the time, so while the legacy of his father is etched into his pursuit of Top Fuel driving, he has no recollection of his legendary father.
Through Adam's late mother, Robyn, the drag-racing flame was kept alive with yearly treks to Orange County International Raceway (OCIR), where she and Adam gave out the Mike Sorokin Memorial Award to OCIR's Driver of the Year. She was also friends with Don Prudhomme's wife, Lynn, and Kenny Safford's wife, Carolyn, so inside pit access was easy for Adam. Tom Jobe of Surfers' fame was also in his life, but always in an effort to dissuade Adam from driving. Robyn, too, was against him following in his father's footsteps.
It wasn't until Adam's mother was dying from cancer when he was 18 that she finally told him to follow his dream, but do it safely. Eventually, Tom also came around.
Soon he started taking driving lessons at different racing schools, as road racing was his interest at the time. It wasn't until strapping himself into a Super Comp dragster at the Frank Hawley Drag Racing School that he realized this was the racing he would pursue. After that, he crewed for a couple of teams and says that aspect of racing was not in his genes: "Look, I was a terrible crew member."
By now he was talking with driver/builder Pat Foster regularly about racing, and it was in one of those conversations that Pat told Adam to specialize in driving. Modern Fuel teams specialize, it's not like the old days where one guy owned, wrenched, and also drove. His chance came at the end of 2000 piloting Dave Smith's alcohol Funny Car, winning Rookie of the Year honors his first year up, and then the California Independent Funny Car Association championship the following year.
He continued to get driving advice from Pat, and Adam also had long discussions with Tom about qualities good drivers should bring to a team. Says Adam, "You can't have too much ego if you want to be good."
In this modern age of racing rides for sale, he's never gotten much of a chance to shoe in big show Top Fuel. That hasn't stopped him from making a huge mark on drag racing, piloting the Champion Speed Shop nostalgia Top Fuel dragster since 2005. Slaying the Hemi haulers with a mouse motor is the stuff of legends. Adam is first to remind someone
that it's not only himself but also his team and fans who have catapulted the team to winning the NHRA Top Fuel Heritage Racing Series championship in 2010 with the RB Entertainment Hemi car, and in 2012 with the Champion Chevy.
His secret is no secret; really, it's breaking down driving into a mechanical process. "I'm a process-type person, so I have a mental notepad for each stage of driving, and I check it off as I go through the driving process," he says. "I want to pull myself out of the tune-up by being very consistent—the same burnout, the same amount of times in and out of the clutch when backing up, the same starting procedure, et cetera. That way, my driving doesn't get in the way of the combination." The process must be working, as he cuts a very quick light; in fact, he's the quickest leaver in the class, having the best average reaction times since starting Nostalgia Top Fuel back in 2004.
Asked if he was a bit scared his first few times in a Top Fuel seat, he says, "I have a very healthy respect for these cars, but fear wasn't the first thing on my mind. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I came from a driver of high regard and I didn't want to F that up. But also, I didn't want to be just Mike Sorokin's son-who-drives-a-dragster—I want to be Adam Sorokin."
His racing résumé covers experience in almost all forms of racing, from road racing karts to sprint cars. While Adam practices and plans for his next race, he works at Technicolor in Hollywood, California, running its quality-control department, having been involved in digital masters quality control for more than 20 years. Both his son, Mike, and wife, Jenni, are totally behind his racing exploits, usually assisting him at points meets.
So would he let Mike drive Top Fuel? Says Adam, "Sure, as long as it's for the right reasons—for himself and not to be famous or whatever." And he adds that after all of these years driving Top Fuel, he never thinks he's got the whole thing figured out.
After doing this for so many years, we asked if the thrill had worn off just a bit? "Front-engine Top Fuel dragsters are the most humbling cars on the planet," he says. "I've never been bored. They're exciting, but they can also kill you—they killed my dad. Just like in the old days, the driver sits right over the rearend and the clutch is in between your feet. I know my own edge, and I drive with my ass; I just know how far I can hang that ass out." Words to live by, ladies and gentlemen.
Crowning the Champion
For 2009 Bobby McLennan campaigned a new Sterling car purchased from Dan Horan Jr. in 2004, running alongside the new Neil-Parks RB car with Hemi power they added in 2010. Adam drove both. The Champion Speed Shop Special dragster, known as the Batmobile, was unique for more than its Chevy power and red and black paint. It's got a cockpit canopy.
"Bobby had the idea to use a canopy to make the car distinguishable and safer," Sorokin says. "I didn't have a say in it, but I had already been driving for them three years and they're a great team, so I'm OK with the canopy. I prefer an open car so that when they blow up and I'm oiled-in, I can pull a tear-off and can see. With a canopy, when you blow up, you're blind. Would I prefer the quick way to see? Yes. Do I mind the canopy? No." Bobby said the idea for "something different" came from seeing another NorCal dragster in his youth: the canopied "Glass Slipper" dragster. Says Bobby, "I knew the canopy adds some weight [around 20 to 25 pounds], but I thought the new car needed something. Jeff Teaford drew it up to give us an idea of what it would look like, and Jack Hageman built the body."
Recently they have replaced all of the aluminum with lighter-weight carbon fiber in an effort to get 100 pounds out of the car. That's one of their goals going into 2016, further weight cuts. "The last 100 pounds is crazy expensive—about $200 a pound to lighten," Bobby says.
Adam says Bobby is not afraid to spend money to win. "Bobby doesn't run the car on a budget, and that's super important from a driver's standpoint," Sorokin says. By 2017 Bobby sees a new, lighter car as the next step in the evolution of the only small-block Chevy Top Fuel dragster in the country.
On a final note, Bobby says, "Sammy Hale once said to me, 'Bobby, when you pass through the pit gate, there is only one thing we are here to do: get the gold and leave with class.' No pressure, right?" Sammy, I think those are two things…
Slaying All Hemis With a Mouse
Chuck Nugent at CN Block (CNBlocks.com) machines the small-block from an aluminum billet. Bore is 4 inches and stroke is 3.75—a quarter-inch more than stock. The engine comes in at 377 ci. The deck height is increased from 9.025 inches for a stock Chevy small-block to 9.500 inches, using 6-inch rods with 6.8:1 compression. However, stock Chevy heads can still bolt up, so the bore centers are the same as stock.
It's called a "Y-block" due to the main caps being level with the pan rail. Interestingly, Champion Speed Shop was the first to make available girdles for small-block Chevys in the day, so there is a certain déjà vu to their current setup. Mains are six-bolt—four in the conventional location and two more from each side of the main—like a modern LS engine.
The engine's brain is the cam and is the work of Sammy Hale, Mike Perry, and Kenny Crawford. Yes, Hale is still involved with the car after all of these decades. The cam originally opened the intakes at 35 degrees before top dead center and they have varied timing events and its duration. Through flow-bench testing and a lot of trial and error, they discovered the air in the cylinders started stacking up with the valves staying open for a long duration, stressing the valvetrain. Once they realized this, they took out a lot of lift and slowed the profile down, which has had a positive effect on the whole rotating mass.
Part of the reason for the Chevy's slower speed in the quarter-mile—as compared to a Hemi—is that the airflow to the cylinders is not a straight shot like a Hemi, which affects the upper limits of the Chevy's potential. Says Bobby, "I don't think the Chevy will run 270 mph." So the car needs to be a jackrabbit off the line.
Bobby ran a 6-71 Mooneyham K11 supercharger for years. They had dialed-in the fuel-to-boost ratio, and the team had a lot of success in the clutch, while Adam's consistent driving kept them in the game. Then in 2014 they put on a new Littlefield LB-21 supercharger, and that changed everything about their combination. At the March Meet in 2014, the boost was crazy—at times running 40 pounds. The Chevy won't survive once boost hits 38 pounds, so the mayhem began. "Boost starts ramping up drastically at half-track—exponentially. We used to run 6:1 compression and 96 percent to straight-can nitro with 350 pounds fuel pressure," Bobby says. "Now we are running much less compression and also less percentage of nitro."
They are the only team that runs a two-disc clutch instead of the common three-disc setup. One less clutch and floater means lighter rotating weight, a hallmark of their Chevy setup.
With a 3.90 gear in the rear, Adam keeps the engine to 10,000 rpm, though the Chevy will survive at close to 11,000 rpm. The Bob Molinari clutch is the required six-lever clutch, but in working with Molinari, they have experimented with lever angles and feel pretty confident with their current setup, which Bobby won't reveal.
Whereas the Hemis can survive with a burnt piston, it's devastating for the small-block. A burned piston means instant destruction. So there are advantages and disadvantages to the small-block.
So what's the difference between a Hemi and Chevy in the seat of your pants? Sorokin has a good perspective on the characteristics between the two, as he's driven both. He says the Chevy is fast off of the line to about half-track, much more so than the Hemi. "It moves down low," he says, but has no top end. The Hemi pulls from half-track "like crazy." He says the Chevy is a handful at launch to half-track, then cruises from there, whereas the Hemi is easy to maneuver from launch, then it becomes a handful when the power comes on at half-track.
Interestingly, besides the difference in the sound from the cockpit, Adam says the Chevy "springs" off of the tires at launch, while the Hemi will turn the tires due to the torque. So the response from the Chevy is jackrabbit-like, and the numbers bear this out. At half-track, the elapsed time is 3.70 seconds at 216 mph, while a typical Hemi is 210 to 212 mph in nostalgia Top Fuel. That may not sound like much, but it's a huge advantage in the quarter-mile. The miles per hour for the Chevy in the quarter-mile are 247 mph versus the Hemi at around 270 mph. At 800 to 900 feet, the Chevy flattens out, but he says he seems to be getting farther down the track before the engine breaks or a supercharger explodes. "I've been on fire or the supercharger has exploded too many times to even remember exactly how many times it has happened," Adam says. "I stopped counting years ago. Blowing up tends to come with the territory."
Champion Speed Shop Special Crew
Tony Bernardini, Crew Chief
Owner: Four Star Automotive Inc, South San Francisco, California
Jeff Stitch, Engine
Clayton Auto Service, Concord, California
Mike Perry, Heads
Kibblewhite Precision Machining, Pacifica, California
Dave Carkhuff, Lower End
Ned's Auto Body Supply, Concord, California
Nick Sharp, Oil and Fuel Specialist
Honda Mechanic
Tom McLennan, Clutch
Tom Homer, Fuel
Retired, Worked at Champion Speedshop in 1961
Bob Gavron, Cook
Retired, Worked at Half Moon Bay in 1961
Pat Farrell, Truck Driver/Clutch Surfaces
Rod Zanolini, Clutch and Wax
Connie O'Leary, Computer
Financial Analyst
Car Ownership
McLennan Family
With Special Thanks: Roy Brizio, Sammy Hale, and Ken Crawford


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Here at the MCU: Location Scout, Jovial Jay digs deep to uncover the real-world filming locations behind your favorite super hero films. From Iron Man to Inhumans and everything in between!
Having grown up on comics, television and film, "Jovial" Jay feels destined to host podcasts and write blogs related to the union of these nerdy pursuits. Among his other pursuits he administrates and edits stories at the two largest Star Wars fan sites on the 'net (Rebelscum.com, TheForce.net), and co-hosts the Jedi Journals podcast over at the ForceCast network.


text: Adelaide Tiger 1,095 Report post Posted June 19 Just watched the rerun of last nights NRL 360 on Foxtel hosted by Ben Ikin and Paul Kent. The middle segment had James Graham and Robbie Farah as guests and the topic turned to this weeks Rep weekend. Ben Ikin commented to Paul Kent 'This is the weekend when you don't give a hoot isn't it'. Kent smugly said 'Two hoots'. The camera panned to Robbie Farah, wearing his Lebanon RL jersey, who looking embarrassed said to Kent 'Two years ago you said you would not be watching the Pacific Test. Will you be watching this week?'. Kent replied 'No'. Now everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But Kent, a RL journalist, would have known in advance that Farah would be on the show to speak passionately about the internal politics that has engulfed RL in Lebanon and how Farah feels it is important to play - even though on tonight's news there are some that feel the game should be boycotted - to show Lebanese youngsters in Lebanon and Australia about the pride in playing the game and playing for your country. Farah explained that there had been no active league in Lebanon since 2018 and if the game died there because of the political wrangling then Lebanon would forfeit their place at the next World Cup. Kent a bloke that earns his living from the game just sat looking smug. I would like to think that after the show finished Farah slapped that smug look off Kent's face. 4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Lord West of Spithead and Sir Julian Oswald, Admiral of the Fleet, are among a number of officers to have urged David Cameron to reverse the cost-cutting announced in last month's defence review.
In a letter to The Times they called the decision to scrap the Harrier force and HMS Ark Royal "strategically and financially perverse".
The signatories to the letter, who also include Vice-Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham, Vice-Admiral John McAnally and Major-General Julian Thompson believe that the moves put British interests at risk.
They wrote: "In respect of the newly valuable Falklands and their oilfields, because of these and other cuts, for the next ten years at least, Argentina is practically invited to attempt to inflict on us a national humiliation on the scale of the loss of Singapore — one from which British prestige, let alone the Administration in power at the time, might never recover."
Defending the intervention this morning, Lord West said he feared the letter would make him "persona non grata" in defence circles but "there comes a time when something is so crucial to your country that you have to say it."
He told Radio 4's Today programme that greater savings would be made by scrapping or "dramatically reducing" the Tornado jet fleet than by ditching the Harrier force.
"I'd be extremely surprised if those in the Navy and many in the Army don't think that keeping the Harrier force is a better option," he said.
Nick Harvey, the Armed Forces minister, said Lord West's claim that scrapping the Tornado would save more money was "total nonsense".
He said that, while he recognised the importance of the Falklands, the ongoing war in Afghanistan had to be prioritised.
"The actual battle that we are involved in here and now, and will be for some time, is Afghanistan, and unfortunately the Labour government reduced the Harrier force to such a scale that it wouldn't be possible to revert to using it there," he said.
"We had to make a straight comparison between the two jets and if you look at the total range of conflicts we might face over the next 10 years, the Tornado will serve us better."
The intervention came as the head of the Royal Navy attacked the Coalition's decision to scrap surveillance planes that help protect Britain's nuclear armed submarines.
Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, the First Sea Lord, said he was "very uncomfortable" about the decision to scrap planned Nimrod aircraft.
His remarks were the first public criticism of Coalition defence cuts from a serving defence chief.
The Strategic Defence and Security Review last month confirmed that the £3.6 billion order for new Nimrod MRa4 maritime patrol aircraft.
Nimrods, which fly from RAF Kinloss in Scotland, are equipped with long-range surveillance equipment for eavesdropping on communications and detecting movement.
The aircraft can provide vital support for Vanguard submarines carrying Trident nuclear missiles, by detecting Russian hunter-killer subs trying to follow them.
Without the Nimrods, Britain is likely to ask the US and France to provide such anti-submarine warfare capabilities in future
"I am very uncomfortable at losing Nimrod. I am happy to say that publicly," Adml Stanhope told a defence industry conference in London.
The Ministry of Defence last night accepted that the decision to scrap Nimrod was "difficult."
Britain lost control of Singapore to the Japanese in 1942, described by Winston Churchill as the "worst disaster" and "largest capitulation" in British history.


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Original broadcast date: November 17, 2017. Sometimes, the best solutions to complex problems are simple. But simple doesn't always mean easy. This hour, TED speakers describe the innovation and hard work that goes into achieving simplicity. Guests include designer Mileha Soneji, chef Sam Kass, sleep researcher Wendy Troxel, public health advocate Myriam Sidibe, and engineer Amos Winter.
Technology has reshaped our lives in amazing ways. But at what cost? This hour, TED speakers reveal how what we see, read, believe — even how we vote — can be manipulated by the technology we use. Guests include journalist Carole Cadwalladr, consumer advocate Finn Myrstad, writer and marketing professor Scott Galloway, behavioral designer Nir Eyal, and computer graphics researcher Doug Roble.
Original broadcast date: February 6, 2016. Sinful behavior is human, and nearly impossible to avoid. In this hour, TED speakers talk about the guilty pleasure of behaving badly and the challenge of confronting sin — and avoiding it. Guests include psychologist Christopher Ryan, former Oklahoma City mayor Mick Cornett, activist Dave Meslin, epidemiologist Gary Slutkin, entrepreneur Nick Hanauer, book editor Parul Seghal, and record-holding Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings.
Original broadcast date: April 25, 2014. Love is instinctive and essential, but what is it that brings certain people together? In this hour, TED speakers examine the mystery of connection and relationships. Guests include writers Amy Webb and Jeff Kluger, Anthropologist Helen Fisher, Psychotherapist Esther Perel, and CEO Angela Patton.
When the life you've built slips out of your grasp, you're often told it's best to move on. But is that true? Instead of forgetting the past, TED speakers describe how we can move forward with it. Guests include writers Nora McInerny and Suleika Jaouad, and human rights advocate Lindy Lou Isonhood.
Original broadcast date: September 15, 2017. From data collection to gene editing to AI, what we once considered science fiction is now becoming reality. This hour, TED speakers explore the future consequences of our present actions.Guests include designer Anab Jain, futurist Juan Enriquez, biologist Paul Knoepfler, and neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris.
There's no greater threat to humanity than climate change. What can we do to stop the worst consequences? This hour, TED speakers explore how we can save our planet and whether we can do it in time. Guests include climate activist Greta Thunberg, chemical engineer Jennifer Wilcox, research scientist Sean Davis, food innovator Bruce Friedrich, and psychologist Per Espen Stoknes.
Original broadcast date: July 21, 2017. We often know how to plan for the future, but find it hard to take the necessary steps. This hour, TED speakers challenge the inevitable and explore what to do today to prepare ourselves for tomorrow. TED speakers include neuroscientists Daniel Levitin and Rebecca Brachman, writer Lisa Genova, epidemiologist Seth Berkley, and behavioral economist Daniel Goldstein.
Failure can feel lonely and final. But can we learn from failure, even reframe it, to feel more like a temporary setback? This hour, TED speakers on changing a crushing defeat into a stepping stone. Guests include entrepreneur Leticia Gasca, psychology professor Alison Ledgerwood, astronomer Phil Plait, former professional athlete Charly Haversat, and UPS training manager Jon Bowers.
Original broadcast date: December 15, 2017. Are deception and secrecy categorically wrong? Or can they be a necessary means to an end? This hour, TED speakers share stories of going undercover to explore unknown territory, and find the truth. Guests include poet and activist Theo E.J. Wilson, journalist Jamie Bartlett, counter-terrorism expert Mubin Shaikh, and educator Shabana Basij-Rasikh.


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Our new Parent Approved Panel is up and running and our first batch or reviews are in. Keeping little ones entertained can be one of the biggest challenges of parenting, but a good playmat is a perfect space for fun on the floor. Find out how Patrizia and baby Koda got on with theirs.
We've been using the new lion playmat by Mamas & Papas for the last 3 weeks and it's been useful in so many ways!
Originally, I set it up with the bars and hanging toys but very quickly noticed that Koda's favourite things to do on the playmat was to use his monkey feet to play with the toys and then to fold the bars down, which I didn't mind, I saw it as a fun challenge for him. He then learned how to roll and as this was his new trick he wouldn't stop rolling and kept rolling into the bars and getting stuck!
I removed these bars and attached the little hanging toys to the wedged part of the mat on the available loops. This really encouraged him to enjoy tummy time a bit more and gave him room to roll! The mat is slightly raised which also helped his love for rolling and tummy time.
The bottom of the mat has several multi coloured tails, one has a crunchy noise to it, another a rattle noise and the other a squeaker. These were great fun for Koda as he has really active legs and loves to kick. I hear the crunchy tail all day long but every now and then he would kick the squeaker and wonder where the noise came from, then he'd tire himself out trying to do it again.
We are now practicing sitting up with Koda and the playmat has been a great help as it's so padded and the slightly raised element makes a nice cushion support when he wobbles forward. Koda is a very big baby so I like that the playmat is more of a wedge rather than a circle. With his previous playmat he didn't fit on it at any angle as he was too long but on this one his legs don't even reach the bottom of the tails!
At first I was sceptical about the colours as the playmat would be in our light, white and blue living room, and I feel the online pictures don't do the colours justice. The colours are stunning in person and really nice and bright, they have really grown on me now to be something I love about it! The little red strawberry is Koda's favourite...and mine!
Our living room isn't the biggest but the playmat fits nicely into the middle of the room while Koda uses it and then can be easily folded up and stored away when he goes to bed. All the hanging toys can be removed as they loop together with Velcro, which has been really handy for us. We have the mirror hanging in his den and like to take a strawberry or bird on the go, for those potentially unsettled trips to the supermarket, making him feel like he's never left his mat behind.
Overall we are really pleased with the mat, it's improved his mobility and I can see it being used even as he gets older. What he has discovered on the playmat so far he loves and there is still so much more for him to find, such as the lion on the main body of it with its different textures and colours, making this a baby and a toddler's best friend.
Our Lion Playmat seems to have gone down a storm with little Koda, and from the sounds of it, Patrizia is a huge fan as well! That's great! Check out what our other Parent Approved Panellist, Rae Duke, thought about the playmat in her review.
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GOVERNMENT moves to reform strike laws have been condemned by union leaders, with one saying the situation "smacks of Germany in the 1930s".
Legislation to be published on Wednesday will propose a 50 per cent turnout threshold for industrial action ballots. In core public services, 40 per cent of those eligible must back action.
Current restrictions on using agency workers to cover for strikers are likely to be lifted.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: "This Bill is an affront to fair play. It reads like something straight out of a George Orwell novel."
Mick Whelan, general secretary of the train drivers' union Aslef, said: "It smacks of Germany in the 1930s when trade union leaders, and activists, were rounded up, and imprisoned, and, in some cases, executed.
"The Nazis banned unions, and strikes, in 1933, and that is what the Tories are trying to do now."
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13 Ways to Keep the Kids Active this Autumn
We all know the importance of regular exercise for our health and wellness.
And while yes, exercise is increasingly important as we get older, it is also an important habit to start at a young age. Did you know? Children ages six and older are encouraged to have at least an hour of physical activity each day. Exercise helps youth develop muscle and strengthen bones, reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression, maintain a healthy diet, prevent chronic disease, and so much more.
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- Autumn leaves will soon be bursting with orange, yellow, and red. Enjoy fall in all its splendor by visiting a local state park for a hike! Don't forget to pack a picnic.
- Ditch the car and take a family walk around your neighborhood. Better yet, walk to your local coffee shop for hot chocolate or cider.
- Plan a family game night with a twist. Use a deck of UNO or playing cards and complete exercises based on the cards you pick.
- Make a splash! Don't put away your swimsuit just yet; swimming is a fantastic year-round activity for children and adults alike. At acac, we offer designated family swim time hours.
- Fall is a popular time of year for community races. Visit active.com to find a 5k run or walk near you!
- Toss around a football in the backyard, or organize a neighborhood flag football game for everyone to enjoy.
- Now that all of our favorite fall TV series are back, it can be tempting to spend most nights curled up on the couch. Set a timer during every commercial break to stretch, do jumping jacks, or have a wheelbarrow race in the living room—then return to your regularly scheduled programming.
- Make fitness a family affair. Children ages 9-12 are welcome to use cardio equipment with active adult supervision at acac. Schedule a fitness orientation with one of our specialists and help familiarize your child with the equipment before getting started.
- Get jumping! Trampoline parks are a fun (and exhausting) way to get everyone moving. Or, break out the jump rope for some old-fashioned fun!
- Find a disc golf course in your area or play a leisurely game of frisbee. Breathe the fresh air, enjoy the scenery, and work on your hand-eye coordination.
- Bundle up and head to a corn maze for a fun outdoor activity that will not only increase your daily steps, but stretch your mind and facilitate teamwork.
- Children ages 9-12 can also enjoy group exercise classes with adult supervision. Check the group exercise schedule at your local acac to find a class everyone can enjoy.
- Play ball! Nothing says fall more than a family game of H-O-R-S-E on the driveway. Channel your inner Michael Jordan and see who is the last one standing!
Download our Fall Family Fitness bucket list and hang it on your fridge for everyone to see. Pick a different activity each weekend to help encourage fitness and wellness from an early age! Visit acac.com/30days to find out how you can help us support the Make-a-Wish Foundation during the month of October.


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This five-piece band from the Vancouver area has been playing together since 1998. They began as three friends writing and recording early demos together in a basement studio on the Sunshine Coast, and they have since evolved as a band performing throughout the Pacific Northwest. They sold sev-eral hundred copies of their early EPs: "Songs for the Wounded" and "Autumn on the Radio" and in 2003 they realeased their debut full length on Anniedale Records. In the past year since its release, Maplewood Lane have licensed songs to national tv shows (Radio Free Roscoe) and film (Atom Egoyan's "Cold Water"). Songs from their full length have been featured on CBC radio 3, have charted nationally on college radio and have reached radio playlists in Spokane and Bellingham. The band has played shows ranging from local concerts at the commodore and the media club to music festivals such as New Music West.
With their new ep MAPLEWOOD LANE have found a new assuredness in their songwriting and presentation revealing their love of the dreamy pop song. Once again the band retreated into the studio with producer/musician Jonathan Anderson (Jonathan inc/Radiogram) this time opting to built up the songs to glorious effect with tremolo guitars, multipart harmonies and warm, glowing keyboards. Along with some acoustic moments there are trace elements of shoegazer and a british influence - summers spent listening to bands like the Cure and Slowdive. The Golden Skies takes a bold step out of the gates with the driving "Come What May" which is a good indication of where the band is heading in their songwrit-ing, it's more direct and electrified set than their understated debut. Where their debut was filled with songs of quiet yearningsung soflty from the corner - the new batch reach out with open arms and wide eyed wonder. There is still a mel-ancholic undercurrent to tracks like the moody"Tears" and the swooning "That's When it Comes" but it is matched with it's jubilant counterparts like the down-right joyful "The Brightest Star" and "Canadian Winters".
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The letter by Katherine Atha and Susan Frain (Your Say, November 18) makes some good points but omits many that account for the poor standards of education in Blackpool and in many other parts of the country.
Briefly, these include:
a) the lack of discipline in the classroom. There can be no true learning in an undisciplined class room. Teachers are afraid to use their authority for fear of the consequences. Three weeks ago a senior teacher down south was suspended for simply placing a hand on the shoulder of a 15-year-old who had been swearing during a lesson. He is accused of assault. Last year a deputy headteacher was suspended for 14 months before being cleared of assault.
b) permitting mobile phones in class. These are switched on and used while the teacher is trying to teach. They should be banned. In many Finnish schools and several US states they are.
c) Poor teaching. Maths, for example, is taught in over 59 per cent of our schools by teachers who have no qualification in the subject beyond GCSE. This has nothing to do with academies.
d) pupils arriving at school half asleep because they have spent hours on their mobile phones long after midnight instead of sleeping. In many cases parents are aware of this but choose to pretend otherwise.
e) lack of parental support. This is vital if their offspring are to succeed.
f) a lack of reading. The addiction to facebook and twitter has led to a refusal to read. History, for example, is copied from the internet despite much of it being inaccurate. Books are regarded as something to avoid at all costs. This is now widespread in our weaker universities.
g) poor leadership. Each of the above plus many more is based on: numerous inspection reports, teacher interviews off the record, many, many reports by pupils in secondary schools, and brave ex-teachers who have exposed in writing what is taking place in our schools every day.
Is there any wonder we are sliding further down the international table yearly in English and maths?
There is a real crisis in our educational system. It will not be resolved by pretending it is all about money or it doesn't exist.
Dr Barry Clayton
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Inequalities led to Leave success
I believe the real reason for the success of the Leave campaign was not fear of immigration, loss of sovereignty, or the promise of vast sums for the NHS but an over-riding and deep-rooted dissatisfaction with the inequalities dividing this country.
In general, it is said, we, the older voters, the "nos" with homes and pensions and savings, opted to leave, and we have been demonised as selfish and uncaring about the future of the young. This is nonsense. We are the parents and grandparents of these same young.
In the 1970s, we voted to remain in the Common Market, because we were told, and believed, that trade would bring wealth, which would "trickle down". It has not "trickled down", nor, as things stand, is it going to. Big business, the wealthy and financial institutions constantly warn us of the dangers of Brexit. They prefer the status quo, which has served them well.
Were we to have a second referendum, and voted to "remain", how do Remainers think Europe would treat us, were we now to vote to stay with them? They would regard us as ditherers, and rightly so. Any influence we ever had on their decisions would disappear.
We older voters recall a time when the NHS was created in a time of austerity, a time when the young could buy a home, when there were decent jobs, and zero-hour contracts were unknown, when the utilities and rail were owned by us, when young people could study at university without incurring huge debts and a time without food banks.
We leavers don't know what a future outside the EU holds for us. We do know that the present system has failed.
G Cooper
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A stocking filler for motorists
A good Christmas present would be a copy of the latest Highway Code, especially if never purchased or reviewed within the last three years.
Just reading through the Highway Code would refresh driving standards and be good for young family members, especially cyclists. The code warns of potential dangers, as well as highlighting laws and rules.
However, there are far too many drivers and riders who may never conform, however strong a lecture, and I have to accept that the very small cost of purchasing this potentially life-saving booklet would, for them, be a complete waste of money.
In my opinion, books on courtesy and road accidents could be better for such individuals. If nothing else, take back control by fitting winter tyres.
Mike Dodgson
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Nail in the coffin of our post offices
Who on earth, at Post Office Limited HQ, took the decision to withdraw the sale of TV licences at local branches?
This, together with payment of pensions and allowances directly into personal bank accounts, has resulted in the closure of hundreds of smaller post offices.
In many places, such as rural areas, branches provided an essential service, and these actions can be likened to starving a faithful old workhorse to death.
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Sony really hopes Venom will be their Deadpool. They've got at least some history to back them up, at least. The two characters were part of a popular wave of antiheroes that hit Marvel in the '90s and probably went on for longer than it needed. But as Deadpool really took off at that point, Venom got kinda lost in a bunch of bad storylines, new characters joining with the symbiote, and he was always in Spider-Man's shadow.
That really needs not to be the case as Sony launches their new cinematic universe, and this teaser trailer for Venom is a strong start. Tom Hardy takes on the role of Eddie Brock, who in the comics was a rival of Peter Parker's. He gained super powers when he bonded with the same alien symbiote that gave Spidey his black costume, and they forged an unholy pact against the wallcrawler for a while before becoming good guys.
You won't see any of that in this footage, though, and I was surprised by how much it resembled a horror movie. If that's the way director Ruben Fleischer steers it then I think it's a good idea to get some separation from the expectations this will be just an R-rated Spider-Man movie without Spider-Man. Sony has been trying to make Venom for years and trying something a little different is a good way to go about it.
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Repeat after me: Just because football training camp has begun doesn't mean football has begun. Just because football training camp has begun doesn't mean football has begun. Just because football training camp has begun doesn't mean football has begun.
Football starts when the season starts, i.e., when real games start. In other words, and believe me when I say I truly wish this wasn't so, there are still only two teams in town playing meaningful games. One of those teams seems hell bent on posting one of the worst records in Chicago sports history and the other is back to torturing its fans with new and excruciating ways to waste good pitching.
In celebration of that latter team, which of course calls the North Side home, let's hear some Ronnie Woo Woo (!).
Ronnie was last seen attending Dennis Farina's funeral last week, in full uniform of course (as usual, you cannot make this stuff up).
I'm not sure if he did so arm in arm with Jim Belushi, but he sure should have.
As for the former team, well, the only even slightly compelling storyline at this point is the White Sox's race for the worst record in the league. They are full-on going for the top pick in next year's draft, making it 10 losses in a row with their 3-2, 12-inning setback in Detroit on Sunday.
The problem is, the Houston Astros will probably not be denied. The Sox raced past the Marlins for the second-worst record mid-losing streak (and now "lead" Miami by a couple games). But they still "trail" the Astros by four.
One other note on the White Sox - congrats on scoring two runs on Sunday and preventing a Chicago shutout (they were blanked the day before and the Cubs failed to score on Saturday or Sunday) weekend.
Earlier last week, the North Siders lost in large part because they grounded into four double-plays. They lost a game in which Junior Lake piled up four hits but did not score a run. They also lost a game in which they hit four (solo) home runs.
And they lost to the Dodgers 1-0 on Sunday to cap off a four-game sweep at Wrigley. In so doing, they failed to dent the scoreboard against Dodgers' sixth starting pitcher Stephen "Barney" Fife, who took the mound because manager Don Mattingly knew he had nothing to fear from the utterly punchless Cubs lineup and could therefore push Zach Greinke back a day to face the major-league Cardinals.
The Cubs did manage to help Starlin Castro look a little better on Sunday. The shortstop has been scuffling but he is still far better than journeyman Donnie Murphy, now in his eighth professional season and sporting a .204 career average (which is still two points higher than what Julio Borbon, whom he replaced on the roster, was hitting for the Cubs before angering Sveum one last time and getting demoted.) Murphy was, to say it as kindly as possible, overmatched at the plate in his start on Sunday.
So he fits right in.
I'm thinking next week I will have to break my "regular season" rule. We can spin all sorts of fan fantasies about the Bears right now and I'm sure this Friday's exhibition opener will give us plenty to discuss. It won't mean anything but that sure beats baseball reality in this town.
Jim "Coach" Coffman is our man on Mondays. He welcomes your comments.
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October 4, 2017
It's been 7 weeks of coiling and 7 weeks of Babesia treatment by meds. I would guess that many of the people who find themselves reading this can relate to how a person measures the passing of time with pill boxes taking precedence over calendars and clocks. In so many ways, we wish away the time, bypassing the present in favor of the day when we don't have to plan around how one family member feels and how to best manage their pain and suffering. And once again, I have to remind myself that even the worst days should never be taken for granted and overlooked. Since the last blog post, not every moment of every day has been lost, and in those moments Avery has experienced joy.
The past week brought an update to the AmpCoil software. Although we have experienced some bugs in the program (that I'm certain will be worked out soon), a couple of new features have been introduced that we are happily using: a count down clock that we can see from a distance; a chime to tell us when our "journey" is complete; some new journeys; and the ability to target more than one "top hit" at a time when using the Cleanse journey. This last function is exciting because instead of cleansing just one item at a time (i.e. spirochetes, water-borne microbes, pinworms, metal toxicity, etc.), we can now target up to 5 of these items per sitting.
Positive notes of the past few weeks:
Avery's brother, B, seems to be feeling better in so many ways. Our family splurged on the AmpCoil not simply because the technology sounded like it could help Avery; we felt it could help us all. For many months, my anxiety has been extremely high because I have been witnessing the decline of B's health. He was exhibiting so many of the same symptoms that went unrecognized during Avery's "pre-sickness" teenage years: daily headaches; joint pain; extreme fatigue; constant sports injuries; and sallow looking skin to name just a few. It had gotten to a point where he was no longer telling me his problems because he knew how upset I was becoming. To someone outside our immediate family, B looks strong and healthy, but since last winter I felt that his looks were deceiving. I have not been directly inquiring how he feels lately because I don't want him to think about it; I am simply observing –
- He isn't falling asleep all the time! He's staying up a little later at night and is not nearly as groggy in the morning. Last school year, B was in bed by 9pm at the latest and could not get out of bed in the morning.
- He is studying! B has to work hard at school, and although his teachers may think that his average grades are far from ideal, I am noticing the effort that is going into them at home. He is actually spending time in the evenings learning, which I attribute to the fact that he isn't falling asleep while trying to work and also has a better attention span.
- No complaints of headache. HUGE.
- The dark circles around his eyes have lightened.
- He seems to be generally happier.
Unfortunately, I do not feel that I can fairly assess Avery's progress. She is on the third week of Round 2 of her current medication protocol (2 weeks on – 1 week off). I can honestly say that although taking Mepron and Artemisinin has continued to cause difficult side effects, this round was easier than Round 1; but this is probably how it is supposed to be, with or without AmpCoil usage. I have spent a lot of time reading about how others react on this protocol, and I tend to believe that although she has had many terrible days, I don't think they're as bad as they could have been… but I just don't know. Avery is continuing to use the Cleanse journey regularly, along with the Nutrition journey (Tunes your body with nutrition essentials for nourishment and strength. Consists of Herx Help!, Nutrition Tune-Up, Primer and individual nutritional groups) and Organ journey (Chinese medicine is based on the premise that in order to balance one organ you must also balance its counterpart (yin and yang) The Organ journey tunes your organs and body systems with their unique signature for balance and optimal function.) . The Nutrition and Organ journeys are used as supportive measures between cleanses.
Avery has experienced some obvious positive reactions to some coiling journeys… there are times when in addition to feeling fluish, she will complain of just feeling "off" or simply "not right". I have come to think that during these times there is some kind of emotional imbalance. When this occurs, we run the Positivity journey (Emotions Relief Nutritionals / Neurotransmitters, emotions, earth grounding), and since the new update we've also tried the Demo-Harmonizer (overall vibrational alignment, earth grounding, spinal, nutrition, chakras, nervous system, emotions, brain). Both have been very successful at correcting whatever imbalance was present, leaving Avery calmer and feeling better.
A month from now, Avery has her 9-month appointment with Dr. Jemsek's office, and we have decided at that time to request to take a break from treatment. We have felt their babesia protocol has been needed and probably has been quite effective, and because of this we decided to continue using the medications even though we instead wished we could allow our AmpCoil to do all of the healing work. Avery has an enormous adventure planned for the month of January, and we do not see how continuing meds during this time will be feasible. We hope that the months of October, November and December will bring healing that will allow her to take the trip of a lifetime.
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Come and join us for a party in the Chapter house to celebrate the light of Jesus! Come dressed up in your brightest neon outfits, and we will provide the glowsticks! Join in our party games and themed crafts, and finish by exploring the Cathedral with your glow sticks lit.
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Stephen Curry made his return tonight after missing 11 games with a groin injury. He finished with 27 points but the Detroit Pistons get strong play from Blake Griffin, Stanley Johnson and Andre Drummond to win this one 111-102.
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Miami Hurricanes at Toledo Rockets
The Hurricanes come up north to battle the Toledo Rockets in the Glass Bowl. The Canes pulled away in the end winning easily 49-24. Here are some highlights…
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Brose Soccer Tournament 2018
Brose soccer tournament 2018 kicked off at Evolution Sportsplex in Auburn Hills, MI. This was the 3rd America's Soccer Championship qualifiers. Brose New Boston won again this year and will be heading to Mexico for the finals. Brose North America qualified to make the trip as well. Brose, know for excellence in mechatronics puts on great soccer tournaments as well. Here are a few highlights…
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Ann Arbor Skyline Eagles at Northville Mustangs – Boys Freshman Soccer
New York Giants at Detroit Lions
Preseason "action" at Ford Field in Detroit, MI. Giants take the victory 30-17 in this game that was tough to watch. There were a few highlights though…
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Cincinnati Reds at Detroit Tigers
Tigers shortstop Jose Iglesias led Detroit to a 7-4 victory over the Reds with 3 RBI. This completes the two game sweep of the Reds here at Comerica Park in downtown Detroit. Next for the Tigers, a west coast trip in search of more wins.
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