Last month was good for small Fiats and for the trio Up!/Mii/Citigo. They all increased their sales compared to September figures, but Italians did better allowing the Panda to claim the leadership again. This time, for better understanding of sales data, the trio coming from Slovakia is clearly divided so there can be a better comparison. In October the Panda sold 16.566 units, which is 1.341 unist ahead of Up!/Mii/Citigo together. It means the Panda is up 21% compared to September, while VW cars are up 11%. Meanwhile the 500 is up 18% and had the best month since June. In fact the Cinquecento sold more units than VW Up! only, which is not bad, taking into account that the Up! is sold with 2 body types (3 and 5 door), is 4 years younger and its native market (Germany) has not shrunk as much as Italian car market. VW is not doing bad with its small cars but Fiat impresses not with the new Panda but with the 'old' 500. Yes, Panda's popularity is bigger in Italy, and its makes it the best-seller car of Fiat Europe nowadays, but the 500 is less Italy dependent and its success in other European countries keeps going, no matter the car is 5 years old and competition has got hard not only with VW but with Opel and its Adam model. In fact yesterday Tychy plant in Poland, where the 500 is produced for the whole world, except the Americas, announced they produced unit number 1 million.
So the Panda is back in the podium allowing it to come back in Europe's top 10 best-selling cars at place number 9. A total of 16.566 Pandas were sold in 15 European countries but this time Italy counted for more. In October almost 3 out of 4 cars were sold in Italy which is a big concentration in just one market. October 2012 was the second best month so far this year (after May with 12.813 units), but in terms of share, the Panda got its best month ever. In the other hand, Panda's registrations outside Italy are down 1.4% from 4.443 units in September to 4.381 in October. It keeps being Europe's best-selling minicar but this generation seems to be much more dependent on Italy. Actually there is just one market above 1 thousand milestone besides Italy: Germany. Almost 1.400 units were sold there, down 7% or 100 units compared to September. Then comes France, down 14%. The car had a good performance in Switzerland, up 74% or 100 units, Slovenia (+138%, or 54 units) and Greece (+48%, or 38 units). Compared to the 500, the Panda was more popular in Czech Republic, Spain, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland and Slovenia. And compared to the Up!, the Panda clearly wins in Spain, once again in Greece, of course Italy, Poland, and once again in Slovenia. If the Citigo and Mii registrations are counted, then the Panda beats them in Spain, Greece, Italy, Poland and Slovenia. The 4×4 version should boost Panda's sales from now when winter is about to begin.
The 500 did also good. If it wasn't because of the Seat Mii and Skoda Citigo, the 500 would occupy second place among best-selling city cars, as it sold 9.995 units against 9.931 VW Up!. This result is really good for the Cinquino. Its sales were mainly boosted by France and Germany markets, up 58% and 35%. The reason fot this spectacular growth is unknown but the car was France's second best-selling mini car after Renault Twingo (ahead only 1.414 units) and above Peugeot 107 or Citroen C1. The 500 sold twice as much as what the trio from VW sold together. In Germany the 500 was the third best-selling city car after the Up! (ahead 2.180 units) and Smart (ahead 340 units). In both countries, the Fiat got record numbers. In Italy was not that good. Though it is up compared to September (+4% or 140 units) the car could do much more. Yes, Italian car market is along with Spain the worst in terms of fall, and the 500 is not really cheap. But Fiat should make more to boost its sales (in October Italy was again the second larger market for the 500, after USA). From the 15 markets analyzed Fiat 500's sales increased in 12, while it had a very big fall in the Netherlands, down 59% or 409 units. Compared to Up! sales, the 500 beats it in Austria (where VW is really really popular), Spain, France, Italy and Sweden. It's important to mention that the new 500L sales are not included in any of these numbers.
Finally there are the VW Up!, Skoda Citigo and Seat Mii. They all sold 15.225 units together, up 11% or 1.509, that allowed them to have their best month so far. From that total the Up! counts for 65%, while the Citigo is in second place with 3.007 units (20%) and the Mii with 2.287 units. They continue to be very popular in Denmark, the Netherlands and of course Germany. Nevertheless their sales figures for larger markets such as Italy, France and Spain are not that good. Compared to September figures the trio's sales declined in the Netherlands (-37% or 992 units), Greece (-22% or 30 units), Romania (-17% or 12 units), Austria (-6% or 22 units), and Poland (-2% or 7 units). Regarding the Skoda and Seat, it is important to mention that Skoda Citigo was the absolute leader of the segment in its native Czech Republic, over its twin the Up! and of course the 2 Fiats. Both, the Mii and Citigo were more popular in Denmark and Ireland (were not even 1 Panda or 500 were sold). In Poland (where Skoda is the top-selling brand) the Citigo was ahead of the 500 by only one unit. In Romania there were no Mii sales but the Citigo beated both cars from Fiat. At the end it was important to split sales figures for the 3 models of VW Group, no matter they are the same car. It is useful to make a deeper analysis of Fiat Panda/500 sales against the VW Up!, which becomes popular but is still behind the Italian citycars.
Fiat can do more!Absolutely more with all the new panda versions and with the next 500..maybe they will introduce othe new versions..the zagato and the giardiniera..and why not,a giardiniera trekking!That's gonna be my car!
it would be a much more complete analysis having the british data too but i know they're not that easy to get. anyway Britain is Europe's second largest market and 500's second largest market in Europe after Italy.
You are right. The UK is a great market for the 500. Cumulative sales figures till September show that Fiat 500 sold 27.345 units, much more than 25.607 units sold in the whole year 2011. Unfortunately there is not always data available.
Fiat brand -19.7% in October. All of Fiat is 37041 units YTD. Is the 500 making up 75% of Fiat sales in the UK?
And, yes, 500 is 29215 units YTD, That's indeed about 67% of the total Fiat YTD sales figure of 43740.
SMMT does have full data available by subscription, but I have no idea what the subscription cost it.
Interesting would be to see a split up between 'old' and 'new' Panda sales figures.
As well as the FWD / 4WD ratio.


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Researchers use smart phone to make a faster infection detector
6 May '18 | By Biophotonics.World
WSU Professor Lei Li and graduate student Yu-Chung Chang (l-r) test the new smartphone that detects 12 common viral and bacterial infectious diseases.
By: Washington State University
Portable reader is nearly perfect in finding 12 common viral and bacterial diseases.
PULLMAN, Wash. - Washington State University researchers have developed a low-cost, portable laboratory on a phone that works nearly as well as clinical laboratories to detect common viral and bacterial infections.
The work could lead to faster and lower-cost lab results for fast-moving viral and bacterial epidemics, especially in rural or lower-resource regions where laboratory equipment and medical personnel are sometimes not readily available.
Led by Lei Li, assistant professor in the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, they have published their work in the journal, Clinica Chimica Acta. Collaboration with Ping Wang, associate professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, enabled the design and implementation of the key clinical validation study.
Symptoms, judgment, waiting
In rural or underserved areas, doctors sometimes must rely on a patient's symptoms or use their own judgement in looking at test sample color results to determine whether a patient has an infection. As expected, this process is often inaccurate. If they send results off to a lab in a distant city, the doctors sometimes must wait for days -- by which time the infection may have become widespread. Most existing mobile health diagnostic devices, meanwhile, can only analyze one sample at a time.
Smartphone vs. lab tests
The WSU researchers found that their portable smartphone reader worked nearly as well as standard lab testing in detecting 12 common viral and bacterial infectious diseases, such as mumps, measles, herpes, and Lyme Disease. The researchers tested the device, which is about the size of a hand, with 771 patient samples at Hospital of University of Pennsylvania and found that it provided false positives only about one percent of the time (was 97. to 99.9 percent accurate).
The smartphone reader, which includes a portable device, takes a photo of 96 sample wells at once and uses a computer program to carefully analyze color to determine positive or negative results.
"This smartphone reader has the potential to improve access and speed up healthcare delivery," said Li. "If we find out about infections, we can treat them more quickly, which makes a difference especially in low-resource, remote areas."
Low-cost components
Buying the components themselves, the research team was able to build the device for about $50, but the manufacturing cost would probably be lower than that, he said. They have filed a patent and hope to move forward with clinical trials that could lead to commercialization.
Original article: Click here
Area of application: Infectious disease and antibiotic resistance
Methods and Techniques: Biochips, Bioassays, High-throughput screening, Micro-array technologies, Point-of-care, other methods and techniques

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Almost a grand Pollok performance by Hutcheon!
Greig Hutcheon has been a professional for 26 years - since 1992 - but there's a lot of golfing life left in the Aberdeen-born competitor. Today (Wed) he won the Pollok Golf Club pro-am's individual pro prize with a four-under-par score of 67 - one shot ahead of Paul O'Hara - and, with a cheque for £984, boosted his earnings for the month of May to £3,689.
So Hutcheon, pictured, has finished first, second, third and fifth in the four pro-ams he has played this month.
At Pollok the Paul Lawrie Golf Centre player had an eagle at the 15th, birdies at the second, third, seventh and 10th, offset by bogeys at the first and eighth.
Hutch also earned £115 in team event in which he and his amateur partners finished joint second.
69 G Wright (West Linton) (£590).
70 D Orr (Eastwood), N Fenwick (Dunbar), R Leeds (Archerfield Links), R Arnott (Bishopriggs) (£336.74 each).
71 S Binning (Mearns Castle) (£216.53).
72 C Currie (Erskine) (£187.03).
73 G Fox (Clydeway Golf), S O'Hara (N Lanarkshire Leisure), G Hay (Mearns Castle) (£150.49 each).
74 C Ronald (Carluke), S Henderson (Kings Links) (£123 each).
Each of five pros received £115.
127 G Hutcheon and Claymore Consulting Services II, D Orr and Blantyre Park Services.
130 G Hardy and Team G Peters; G Wright and Team Cup and Saucer.


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Changing Characteristics of Obese Children and Adolescents Entering Pediatric Lifestyle Intervention Programs in Germany over the Last 11 Years: An Adiposity Patients Registry Multicenter Analysis of 65,453 Children and Adolescents
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Muehlig, Yvonne et al. (2017)
The association between socio-economic status and diabetes care and outcome in children with diabetes type 1 in Germany: The DIAS study (diabetes and social disparities)
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High Variability in Oral Glucose Tolerance among 1,128 Patients with Cystic Fibrosis: A Multicenter Screening Study
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Hotel Alessandrino in Rome is a 3 star superior hotel located in the heart of Rome near Saint Peter's Basilica and Vatican City, in a panoramic and quiet position.
Our 26 rooms, single, double, double use single and triple bed, are all equipped with air-conditioning, satellite color TV with SkyTV , mini-bar, safe deposit box, internet WI-FI connection free, private bath with shower and phon.
Every detail, from the decorated ceilings of the rooms to the furnishings in valuable wood, is a message of welcome and hospitality.
Hotel Alessandrino has a roof top bar with an open-air terrace with a stunning view to St.Peter Basilica and Rome city center. Rome Hotel Alessandrino attracts vacationers and business travelers looking for a welcoming atmosphere.
Delightful hotel, behind St. Peter's.
Great location. Staff very kind and helpful.
Very close to the Vatican and above all a very quiet and clean area.
and close to the places to visit: I recommend it.
clean and tidy everywhere, the cleanliness of the rooms was super.
Always a holiday with the best service!
organize city tours with a tour guide and book a taxi to/from the airport.
Hotel Alessandrino enjoys a great location in Rome, only two steps away from St. Peter's Basilica and Vatican city and from Rome city center and is the perfect place to enjoy the city.


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DIY Statesboro
Don Berryhill
Help at the Heart of Dixie
By Logan Stubbs
BROOKLET, Ga - Heart of Dixie Equine Rescue is a privately owned facility that rescues abused and neglected horses.
The rescue began in 2008 on a 20-acre farm 45 miles west of Savannah, placing it in the heart of Dixie. Owner and founder, Julie Barnes, runs the facility soley of of personal funds, donations, and volunteer work.
"We have a great core group of volunteers from Georgia Southern," said Barnes.
"It started with a group called Future Vets of America that volunteered and has since progressed to where we are now community partners with GSU."
Barnes stated that many concerned citizens and students, including several GSU fraternities, have volunteered their time to help groom, feed, clean, provide care for the horses, and maintain the facility.
According to a study conducted by the National Center for Biotechnoloy Information, closure of U.S. equine slaughter houses in 2007 and the recession have contributed to a large increase in unwanted horses, totaling to about 100,000 horses per year. The study calculated that the average cost to care for a horse is $3,648 per year.
"Unfortunately, there's not much money left at the end of the month after we feed everybody and pay the vet and the ferrier," said Barnes. "These volunteers have been a huge, huge help."
Created by Logan Stubbs. Source: North American Equine Ranching Information Council
Chris Umbarger, a 13-year-old homeschooled student, lives on the farm with his grandmother, and has been volunteering his time to Heart of Dixie for over one year.
"I do anything that Julie needs me to do," said Umbarger, who helps Barnes with everyday tasks such as feeding, grooming, cleaning,
caring for and desensitizing abused horses. "I love being around the horses. It makes me happy to see the horses brought back to health."
Samantha Bacon, a GSU student and a volunteer from Future Vets of America says that the Heart of Dixie's biggest need is monetary funds.
"It takes a lot of money just to feed the horses at the rescue," said Bacon, who is currently helping Barnes with the expensive process of turning the private organization into a non-profit organization. "After becoming a non-profit, we are going to push to re-home some of the horses. We have been working to get a lot of them used to being handled."
Heart of Dixie volunteers and Julie Barnes hope to see more donations and volunteers when the organization gets not-for-profit status in a few months due to the tax deductions available for donators.
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Statesboro's Sheriff Candidate, Noel Brown wins
Saving the world, one bag of coffee at a time
By Alice Diekhoff
STATESBORO, Ga. - Locally owned coffee company, Three Tree Coffee Roasters, participates in fair trade, brings awareness to human trafficking and supports the Statesboro community.
"Our mission at Three Tree is we want to be a source of life in three ways: empower the farmer, end human trafficking and engage the community of Statesboro," co-owner of Three Tree, Anna Klayman states.
Klayman uses her love of coffee to create better circumstances for the farmers who make Three Tree's coffee beans through fair trade, Klayman says. Fair trade is a social movement whose goal is to help farmers in developing countries build a sustainable business that positively impacts their communities.
Three Tree strives to end human trafficking through raising awareness and donations.
Three Tree Coffee partners with local and international organizations, including Rahab's Rope, International Justice Mission and Student Abolotionist Movement at Georgia Southern University, and two personal connections to families working with victims in Thailand and Indonesia, to end human trafficking, Lovins describes.
Marissa Lovins, a Three Tree intern, explains why the company strives to end human trafficking. "Human trafficking is slavery, which is a complete injustice to humanity," Lovins explains.
While empowering international farmers and bringing awareness to human trafficking are important to Three Tree, supporting the Statesboro community is the company's backbone. Philip Klayman, co-owner of Three Tree, explains how it engages the Statesboro community.
Three Tree buys its mugs, labels and equipment locally, fundraises for local organizations and promotes eating local. At the end of the day, living a "local" is the foundation of a community, Klayman says.
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O' what is the sound of love aborted?
There is no protection of law for the poor?
Shatter the usual manoeuvres of morning, warnings?
O' how do the scarlet soldiers fare?
O' what is the sound of hope departing?
Most prized possessions, our dignity.
To be reborn into something else.


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Captain America to the rescue!
(2019) Action Comedy (Gravitas) Linda Hamilton, Ben Matheny, Matthew Paul Martinez, Susan Gordon, Cory Dumesnil, John Goodman (voice), Harry Shearer (voice), Bryan Batt, Dwight Henry, Charlie Talbert, Isabel De La Cruz, Catherine Capiello, Turner Crumbley, Dennis Thomas IV, Sophie Howell, Summer Selby, Marnie Morgan, Jacob McManus, Julio Castillo, Carol Ann Scruggs. Directed by Will Addison
There is something special and wonderful about the grindhouse films of the 1970s. They were bigger than life, well past the edge of acceptability and full of attitude. Audiences love cheering on the anti-heroes and lovable screw-ups as they confounded society and The Man. We seem to be entering an era where those kinds of films are going to become necessary again.
Fast-talking Jack Buckner (Matheny) and his best friend, Scottie Aldo (Martinez) live in a flea-bitten town called Aberdeen. It's the 1970s and Nixon is about to resign, Detroit steel rules the roads and mob bosses like "King George" (Hamilton) wear their hair any damn way they want to because they can – in King George's case, it's cornrows. Jack and Scottie owe King George money, as everyone in Aberdeen seems to. They work at a greasy spoon as dishwashers, and on the side try to drum up cash by staging inept cons which in general never work out.
Then Jack gets a postcard that hints that his mom has passed away and that she'd left him something valuable under the pier in San Clemente, California (where Nixon is about to flee to). Jack thinks it's some kind of treasure; if he can just get there in his star-spangled Mustang, it could mean the end of their money troubles and a ticket out of Aberdeen.
But he's flat broke and so is Scottie, and even Detroit muscle cars need to be filled with gas once in awhile on the way from Mississippi to California. And Aberdeen being a small town and Scottie and Jack being none to bright, word gets back to King George that the two are about to skee-daddle. She doesn't like the idea, and brings her enforcer – her baseball bat-wielding daughter Blue Eyes (Gordon) for emphasis. The two manage to get away but they know they aren't going to get very far without the kindness of strangers. They end up at a gas station wondering if the clerk could front them the price of gas which they'll pay back once they acquire the treasure only it goes horribly wrong, and they end up stealing cash and dragging around a nerdy hostage (Dumesnil) who clearly doesn't want to be there and suddenly they're a viral sensation before there were viral sensations, robbing gas stations along with their increasingly not-so-reluctant hostage all the while being chased by a very perturbed Blue Eyes and the Law.
If this sounds like a good premise for a fun hour and a half at the movies, I'd be right there with you on that. The execution, though, leaves something to be desired. Part of the big problem here is that the characters are too bland, even though co-writers Addison and Metheny do their best to make them quirky, there's a huge difference between quirky and interesting.
Definitely their hearts are worn firmly planted on their sleeves; the grindhouse movies of the '70s which gave us such fare as Thunderbolt and Lightfoot and Bloody Mama and more recently the Quentin Tarantino oeuvre. This is a little bit more rooted in a particular subgenre of the period than Tarantino who often references a dozen genres from blaxploitation to chop sockey (terms that were very much of their time and are being officially retired on this site as of now) and all points in between. Here, we see a lot of the good ol' boy crime spree films that rose out of things like Smokey and the Bandit and to a lesser extent, The Dukes of Hazard the latter of which is closer kin to Easy Does It.
Hamilton is the Big Star here and she really turns up mostly in the first 30 minutes of the movie and is not really that heavily involved afterwards. She is certainly visually striking with her cornrows and dead-eyed stare, and her husky voiced Eastwood impression, but she gives little more than name value to a largely unknown cast (Goodman and Shearer, the other two big names, do not appear onscreen as baseball game announcers we here on the soundtrack).
There is decent enough chemistry between Matheny and Martinez, although the movie would have benefitted from a little more of that between the two. Gordon actually drew most of my admiration for her baseball-loving enforcer who uses a baseball bat as her weapon of choice. The voice-over baseball play-by-play is gimmicky and overused unfortunately. Dumesnil overplays Collin and brings him well into the category of self-parody, never what you want to see in a movie like this.
I think that the filmmakers were gong for something of a Logan Lucky vibe but they just needed a little more edginess to pull it off. Scottie and Jack are a little too dumb and a little too sweet to make a movie like this one work. That's too bad because I think with a few tweaks here and there this could have been an extremely fun movie and fun is something in terribly short supply these days, kinda like toilet paper.
REASONS TO SEE: Big dumb fun.
REASONS TO AVOID: Tries too hard to be clever.
FAMILY VALUES: There is violence, profanity and some drug use.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: This is Addison's debut feature film.
BEYOND THE THEATER: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango Now, Google Play, Microsoft, Redbox, Vimeo, Vudu, YouTube
CRITICAL MASS: As of 7/23/20: Rotten Tomatoes: 33% positive reviews. Metacritic: No score yet.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: The Vanishing Point
NEXT: The Painted Bird
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Satan & Adam
The ultimate odd couple.
(2018) Music Documentary (Cargo) Sterling "Mr. Satan" Magee, Adam Gussow, Harry Shearer, The Edge, Al Sharpton, Kevin Moore, Phil Joanou, Bobby Robinson, Joan Gussow, Frank Migliorelli, TC Carr, Quentin Davis, Miss Maicy, Jeremy Jemott, Peter Noel, Margo Lewis, Rachel Faro. Directed by V. Scott Balcerek
The blues can be a beautiful thing. I think (and many agree) that no music touches every aspect of the human spirit the way the blues does. The blues can be sad yes but it can be cathartic, make you feel good when you feel down, bind us together (who hasn't had the blues at one time or another?) and give us guidance. The blues is wisdom, man.
Adam Gussow had the blues one afternoon in 1986. He had just broken up with his girlfriend and the Princeton grad (and Columbia grad student) was walking around, finding himself in Harlem near the Apollo theater. I imagine if he'd been thinking about it clearly, he might not have ambled into that part of town so easily; New York City in 1986 was rife with racial tensions and people as lily white as Gussow were regarded with suspicion and sometimes outright hostility there.
About a block north of the legendary Apollo Theater he heard music and saw a crowd gathering. Being a harmonica player himself, he was curious and listened to the man identifying himself as Mr. Satan's One-Man Band. The man who called himself Mr. Satan played hi-hat and tambourine using pedals and played the kind of guitar that rubs the soul raw. Totally in the right space for this Mississippi Delta blues, the white Gussow asked Mr. Satan if he could sit in on a couple of tunes. The older African-American man said sure. And lo and behold, the white boy could play. Afterwards, the young Ivy League grad asked if he could come back. Satan said sure. So Adam came back. And soon he was a regular partner. Mr. Satan noticed that the crowds were bigger when Adam played; it was a novelty that a white man could play the blues like that. While there was some grumbling that Adam was just another white man out to appropriate the music of black musicians, the partnership between Satan and Adam continued to grow and blossom.
The story of this duo is not your usual music industry tale. The duo would go on to record an album for the prestigious Flying Fish label, tour Europe and play such events as the New Orleans Heritage Jazz Festival. They were on the cusp of being a big act in the blues market…and then Mr. Satan just disappeared.
The movie takes place over a 20-year span. Balcerek first ran into the pair playing on the streets of New York City and became absolutely entranced with their story. He's been filming them off and on over that time, sometimes in black and white (particularly the early years) but also in color. He buttresses the performance footage with interviews not only with the musicians themselves but by those in their orbit; friends, fellow musicians, celebrities. I was surprised to learn that the two were spotted by director Phil Joanou when he was filming the U2 concert documentary Rattle and Hum and U2's guitarist The Edge was so taken with them that he put a snippet of their performance of the song "Freedom for My People" on the soundtrack.
I don't want to spoil too much about their story; I'm deliberately leaving a lot of things out which will have greater impact if you experience them without any foreknowledge. The tone is pretty low-key and even some of the emotional highlights don't hit you like a sucker punch but still there is a melancholic tone that reflects the music nicely.
And that music! Mr. Satan, whose birth name was Sterling Magee, is one of those raw, natural talents who come along every so often and simply rewrite the book. Think of him as up there with Sun Ra (jazz), George Clinton (funk) and Jimi Hendrix (rock). Yeah, he's that good. Gussow compliments his sound nicely, not quite in the same league as a musician but wise enough to know that his main job is to support Mr. Satan.
Needless to say, a guy who calls himself Mr. Satan is kind of an interesting cat and you'll be captivated by him. Magee can be charming although he has a temperamental streak as well and Adam learned when to tread carefully around him when he was in a bad mood. But once onstage, Magee was as joyful a human being as there ever was – it radiates from his face and from his smile. He reminds us that while the blues may be rooted in a particular set of emotions, there is joy in playing the blues at the absolute best of your abilities.
The story is unusual enough to make this a different kind of music documentary. It doesn't reinvent the wheel but even those who aren't blues fans will be captivated – and who knows, it might win over a few converts. While as a documentary this isn't exactly reinventing the wheel, it is compact enough that it doesn't require an exorbitant investment of time nor does it overstay its welcome. At the same time, you get to hear some raw street blues, some of the best you'll ever hear. That alone has got to be worth the price of admission.
REASONS TO SEE: The story is a fascinating one. The music is incendiary.
REASONS TO AVOID: There's a little bit of a lull in the middle.
FAMILY VALUES: The is some profanity.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Magee played in the bands of James Brown, Etta James and Marvin Gaye (among others) and had a solo career on Ray Charles' label before walking out on the music industry in disgust.
CRITICAL MASS: As of 4/24/19: Rotten Tomatoes: 92% positive reviews: Metacritic: 78/100.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Searching for Sugar Man
NEXT: Hail, Satan?
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Posted on March 3, 2017 by carlosdev
Springtime for Hitler.
(2016) Documentary (The Film Collaborative) Renee Firestone, Klara Firestone, Mel Brooks, Rob Reiner, Harry Shearer, Gilbert Gottfried, Sarah Silverman, David Steinberg, Larry Charles, Alan Zweibel, Etgar Keret, Carl Reiner, Robert Clary, David Cross, Lisa Lampinelli, Jake Ehrenreich, Zdenka Fantlova, Jeffrey Ross, Susie Essman, Abraham Foxman, Roz Weinman, Malala Sagal. Directed by Ferne Pearlstein
Humor is an intensely personal subject; everyone's idea of what is funny and what is inappropriate varies, sometimes to astonishing degrees. There are always taboo subjects that even comics shy away from, but not all of them. There are subjects that some comics tackle that make even other comics a little bit uncomfortable.
This new documentary by Ferne Pearlstein tackles the interesting subject of what is inappropriate material for comics, concentrating on one of the most horrible events in human history – the Holocaust. More than 70 years have passed since Nazi Germany surrendered but there are plenty who think that jokes about it – even by Jewish comics – are wildly inappropriate. Even Mel Brooks, whose cult classic The Producers dropped jaws when it was released in 1967, says that there is a difference between jokes about the Holocaust and jokes about the Nazis.
Much of the film is devoted to Renee Firestone, an Auschwitz survivor who talks about cabaret shows in the camps used to keep the workers entertained and about the gallows humor employed by the prisoners to help make the days bearable. Other survivors of concentration camps take the opposite tack – the Holocaust was no laughing matter and that the prisoners couldn't even crack a smile, let alone a joke.
I tend to side with Renee – humor is a mechanism that many humans use to cope with stress and what could be more stressful than living under the constant threat of death? Still, six million Jews and others died in the camps – can we joke about them without trivializing them, or upsetting those who lived in them?
These are the kind of questions that are brought up by various comedians of different eras – old school like Brooks and Carl Reiner, mid-school like David Steinberg and Gilbert Gottfried and more recent vintages like Lisa Lampinelli and David Cross. There are also writers like Alan Zweibel, Malala Sagal and Etgar Keret as well as Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League which monitors anti-Semitism in the media. Foxman has some strong opinions as to what is appropriate and what is not, some of which you may agree with or disagree with. I think it's a telling point that when Foxman pooh-poohs the argument that some comics make that the jokes keep the Holocaust from being forgotten; Sarah Silverman ripostes that if we haven't forgotten the Holocaust why do genocides continue to this day?
To the filmmaker's credit, no side seems to be given advantage other than that of the Survivors themselves and particularly Firestone. She is the emotional centerpiece of the film and some of the most moving moments take place as she remembers being separated from her sister whom she never saw again and having to deal with the death of her husband much later in life. Robert Clary, who played a French prisoner of war in the comedy Hogan's Heroes used his real-life experience in the concentration camps for his character and reveals almost casually of 13 members of his family to be arrested, he was the only one left alive by the end of the war. How does one survive that? Clary doesn't say and perhaps it's better that we don't know.
Towards the end of the film other taboo subjects are tackled such as 9-11 and use of the "N" word but almost in so casual a manner that they might better have not been mentioned at all. Clearly the Holocaust is the big subject here and thus it should have remained. I suspect the filmmakers were aware that there might be some backlash "what, only the Jews have suffered?" which is completely unfair. Nobody's saying that these other subjects aren't important and shouldn't be handled delicately but quite frankly, I think the filmmakers would have been better served sticking to the subject that brought them to the dance, as it were and use it maybe as a gateway to other taboos. Perhaps that was what they were trying to do but quite frankly I think it was a case of trying to do too much. That's really the only issue I had with the film.
There are, of course, plenty of jokes here and quite a few of them will get you laughing. One of my favorite bits is the "Springtime for Hitler" musical number from the 1967 version of The Producers and the audience reaction shots which might be how some modern audiences in this era of political correctness might react to some of the humor here.
I'm a big believer in freedom of speech and comics, as Mel Brooks himself observes are the conscience of the country. They allow us to look at ourselves and how we react to things that are controversial and uncomfortable; restricting them with political correctness is an absolute abomination and one of the most things that as a liberal I'm most ashamed of my left-leaning friends. It is a healthy thing once in awhile to be outraged.
There is some thought-provoking stuff here and no ready answers. Like everything else, it's all up to how you perceive things and what affects you. You may be offended by some of the jokes here – or you might laugh your tush off. Is there a line that cannot be crossed? I don't know; maybe. Should only Jewish comics joke about the Holocaust or gay comics about AIDS or African-American comics about slavery and racism? There are those who think so; I do not. At the end of the day, we are all humans and if we believe that, truly believe that, then all experiences are shared experiences. While the Holocaust was aimed mainly at those of the Jewish faith, we can mourn the loss of these people because we believe we are all brothers and sisters; the loss of even a single Jew makes all of us less.
Sure, that's a bit simplistic (and sorry this movie review has appeared to become a rant) but the message is that it's harder to hate someone if you feel connected to them. If there were fewer divisions between us wouldn't there be fewer reasons to hate? I'm not sure if that's the message that these comedians are trying to send by joking about the Nazis or even the Holocaust but it's a message that can be inferred and wouldn't it be a better world indeed if we all looked at the world that way?
REASONS TO GO: The subject is truly thought-provoking. Some of the jokes are hysterical. There are a few moments that are heart-rending. Brooks is a national treasure.
REASONS TO STAY: Segments on 9-11 and other taboo subjects seemed a bit rushed and didn't add anything to the film overall.
FAMILY VALUES: Here you will find plenty of profanity, humor that some might find inappropriate and a few images that are unsettling.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: The movie made its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April of 2016.
CRITICAL MASS: As of 3/3/17: Rotten Tomatoes: 100% positive reviews. Metacritic: No score yet.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: The Aristocrats
NEXT: The Freedom to Marry
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Love & Taxes
Josh Kornbluth gets troubling news.
(2015) Comedy (Abramorama) Josh Kornbluth, Sarah Overman, Helen Shumaker, David Keith, Robert Sicular, Nicholas Pelczar, Harry Shearer, Robert Reich, Nile Acero, Misha Brooks, Menachem Creditor, Carrie Paff, Anthony Nemirovsky, Jeff Raz, Kay Kostopoulos, Jenna Davi, Katherine Celio, Lorri Holt, Amy Resnick, Patricia Scanlon, Cindy Goldfield. Directed by Jacob Kornbluth
The art of the monologue is somewhat different than the art of stand-up comedy. The latter is joke after joke after joke; the former is a story, generally a humorous one. Louis C.K. is a stand-up comedian; Spalding Gray is a monologist. You're far more likely to get rich and famous doing stand-up than you are reciting monologues, but that doesn't stop plenty of people from going the latter route.
Based on a semi-autobiographical monologue by Josh Kornbluth who is shown performing it onstage enhanced by re-enacted portions of it, the cleverly titled film (Death and Taxes mixed with Love and Death, a Woody Allen – clearly a major influence on Kornbluth – film) shows Kornbluth who admits to his tax lawyer boss that he hadn't paid his taxes in seven years.
To make this further ironic, Kornbluth works for a corporate tax lawyer (Keith) to pay the bills while he struggles to get his career as a monologist going. When Keith finds out that his employee hasn't filed, he immediately sends him to a personal tax lawyer named Mo (Shumaker). Holistic and a bit New Age, Mo sees his failure to file not so much a tax problem as a tax symptom. Josh has memories of his father (Sicular), a testy communist, refusing to pay his taxes. A revelation, perhaps?
And filing his taxes seems to have helped Josh in many ways. He starts getting bigger crowds at his gigs. He gets the attention of a cheesy Hollywood producer (Shearer) who has Josh living in L.A. five days a week to write a screenplay in hopes that a studio will pick it up. He also gets the attention of a groupie named Sara (Overman) who is nearly as neurotic as himself, but in a complimentary way. Soon they are living together and talking marriage – particularly when Sara gets pregnant.
But Josh's tax struggles are far from over and soon he finds himself in a bigger hole than he could imagine. Sure enough, things go from blessed to cursed in a big hurry. It's a condition known to most of us as life.
Josh is a charismatic and engaging personality. He's a cross between a Berkeley liberal and a Brooklyn Jew which makes for an interesting personality. He's no matinee idol but he nonetheless keeps your attention whenever he's onscreen, something that some matinee idols have trouble with. His stage sequences make you want to run right out and catch his act, which I suppose is what he was after all along.
While the movie could have used a little more editing (it drags a bit at the end of the second and beginning of the third act) it still doesn't ever really wear out its welcome. It's not the kind of film that is going to have you screaming with laughter but instead elicits a quiet chuckle – a whole lot of them, in fact. The interweaving of stage monologue and ensemble film sequences works well together, keeping the movie humming along for the most part. Sometimes there is a little too much shtick but by and large this is an entertaining and funny movie that is an improvement on Haiku Tunnels, the first film collaboration between the Brothers Kornbluth. I hope the two of them continue to make movies if they're going to come up with stuff this good.
REASONS TO GO: The weaving of the stage monologue and the acted re-creations is nicely done. Josh is an engaging storyteller.
REASONS TO STAY: The movie runs a little bit too long.
FAMILY VALUES: There is a little bit of mild profanity as well as some mild sexuality.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: This is adapted from a monologue that Kornbluth first staged in 2003 in San Francisco; he later refined it in the Sundance Theater Lab, San Francisco's Z Space Studios and Washington DC's Arena Stage.
CRITICAL MASS: As of 3/2/17: Rotten Tomatoes: No score yet. Metacritic: No score yet.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: The Producers (1967)
NEXT: The Last Laugh
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Posted on January 28, 2010 by carlosdev
The Simpsons are startled by the first part of "Lights! Camera! Action!"
(20th Century Fox) Starring the voices of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Albert Brooks, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Marcia Wallace, Joe Mantegna, Tom Hanks. Directed by David Silverman.
When they made their debut 20 years ago on Tracey Ullman's short-lived sketch show, who'd have thought The Simpsons would become national cultural barometers? That's exactly what happened though. Just after their 18th season, America's most dysfunctional family took a crack at the big screen.
The pollution in Lake Springfield is getting out of control. After Lisa (Smith) nags the city fathers enough, joined in by a new Irish boyfriend named Colin (MacNeille), the mayor (Castellaneta) authorizes a no-dumping zone in the lake.
In the meantime, Homer (Castellaneta again) has picked up a pig for whom he's developing an unnatural affection for. A depressed Bart (Cartwright) finds solace in the house of Ned Flanders (Shearer), who is more of a father to him than the self-involved Homer. As the pig's droppings begin to accumulate, Marge (Kavner) demands that Homer dispose of the waste properly. As he's about to do that, Homer is distracted by a free doughnut giveaway – curse those free doughnuts – and as a shortcut to doughnuts, dumps the waste into Lake Springfield.
That's enough to tip the Lake into full-blown toxicity. Mutant squirrels convince President Schwarzenegger (Shearer) and his smarmy EPA Chief Cargill (Brooks) to imprison the entire town within a dome. Nothing can get out, nothing can go in – except Maggie (Smith), who discovers a sinkhole that allows egress. Still, it's a good thing that FEMA wasn't in charge – the dome would have been late and full of more holes than a fishnet.
Anyway, once the good citizens of Springfield find out that Homer was responsible, the town arrives on their doorstep with torches and rope. The Simpsons barely escape, and are forced to flee to a new life in Alaska. Still, when the family discovers that the government plans to destroy Springfield, Marge is eager to get back and save the town. However, when Homer refuses, the family splits up. Homer must now find his inner Simpson, rescue his family and save Springfield. Is there time for ribs too?
The question you always have to ask in a situation like this was "why make a movie of something that is available on television?" The evaluation has to include whether a big screen is necessary for the story, and will the experience be enhanced in a movie theater as opposed to one's own home. In the case of X-Files: Fight the Future, the criteria were met. Here, however, it's hard for me to say unreservedly that this is a movie that cries out for the big screen.
There are some scenes that make for nice movie viewing – the Doming of Springfield, the trip to Alaska, Homer's encounter with the Northern Lights spring to mind – but for the most part, the movie doesn't do much more than give us a few obscene gestures and sequences that wouldn't make it past the network censors. I agree, there are some really awesome laughs, like Homer's scorn at the Itchy and Scratchy movie and Maggie's barroom brawl, but the ratio of big laughs is about the same in any typical episode of the series.
I really liked Marge's videotaped sequence – that was truly a tearjerker – but for the most part the performances were solid as always. The thing I didn't like was the scale. It just didn't seem so epic that they couldn't have done it as a two-parter in the show.
It took 158 drafts to get to the script they eventually used. Plans for a Simpsons movie have been in motion for nearly 15 years now; something tells me, they could have used a little more time to get it right.
WHY RENT THIS: Hey, it's the Simpsons. Some good laughs. Alaska, the last unspoiled wilderness.
WHY RENT SOMETHING ELSE: Never delivers a compelling reason for this to be a movie and not a TV show.
FAMILY VALUES: If you feel comfortable having your kids watch the TV version, there's nothing here that is any worse than on the broadcast edition.
TRIVIAL PURSUITS: During the month of July 2007 when the movie was released, a dozen 7-11 stores throughout North America transformed themselves into Kwik-E-Marts, with several items made famous on the TV show for sale including Duff Beer and Buzz Cola.
NOTABLE DVD FEATURES: A parody of the "Let's All Go to the Lobby" intermission cartoon and appearances of the Simpsons characters on live television are included.
TOMORROW: Passengers
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My first vet c5 what should I do first.
i just picked up my first corvette and it's. 1999 coupe with automatic that has 26,467 miles on it. It is immaculate and I just don't know where to start. The oil gauge said 60% life.. and all the fluid levels seem ok. It runs great. I was thinking about changing all the fluids this coming spring but someone said to only change the oil and coolant. Transmission and transaxle fluids should not be changed because they can lead to issues. What should I do?
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check date code on tires ????
Where I I find dates on the tires or code on the tires?
Last edited by Acquan; 01-14-2019 at 06:24 PM.
The tire date code will be on the sidewall of the tire. They are usually on one side only but they are easily seen. The format is a 4 digit number; the first two numbers represent the week of a year when the tire was made.and the last two number will be the year of manufacture. An example would be something like 2716 where 27 is the week and 16 is the year. Most people say to not keep tires if they are 5-7 years old or signs or cracking on the sidewalls or the tread.
Clean out the radiator by blowing air from back of radiator toward front.
Check all bushings, ball jounts and tie rod ends.
This is a good start. I do this whenever I buy a "new" car.
I guess although everything looks good doesn't mean I shouldn't have a mechanic look at that list.
Do you know how old the battery is? If not, try to find a date code on it. If it's more than 3 years old or if you can't figure it out, have the battery tested at a auto parts store that will do it for free.
Transmission and transaxle fluids should not be changed because they can lead to issues. What should I do?
I know the owner's manual says the 6 speed fluid is good for life and the auto transmission fluid should be replaced every 100k miles, or 50k with severe duty.
I changed my 6 speed's fluid anyways, and the shifting was noticeably improved. When you change your automatic's fluid, just drain and refill. Don't flush. That's what can lead to issues. Basically a shop's flushing equipment can contaminate your transmission with someone's else dirty fluid.
I don't know if differential fluid has a recommended change interval, but I went ahead and did it anyways for peace of mind. Unlike when the cars were new, you can now get AC Delco gear oil with the anti-slip additive already mixed in the proper ratio. After you change the fluid, there is a break in procedure to follow. Do figure 8's in a parking lot to work the new fluid into the differential's clutch packs. And no hard acceleration for, I believe, 500 miles.
Radiator hoses are a good suggestion to check. The original owner of my car had them replaced about 8 years into its life. And I replaced them again after I bought it, since I live in a hot climate and didn't want to risk failure. Also my coolant overflow reservoir got a leak and I got a new one, as well as I just replaced the radiator. (It started leaking near the upper flange) Just keep in an eye on your coolant level.
Also if your car is still on its original harmonic balancer, there is a good chance you'll need to replace it once you start driving it frequently. The original balancers commonly fail. My original balancer started wobbling at about 50k miles.
17 year old tires!? First thing I'd do is drive slowly to a tire shop!
the corvette black book book doesn't have that color listed for a 1999 so what color is it?
99 had both Silver (brighter), and Pewter (darker). Assume it should be what your build sheet says. They just put silver on a registration/inspection/carfax etc.
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Pennsylvania 2011
Michael Eric Ballard – White, age 36
Sentenced in Northampton County, Pennsylvania
Date of crime: June 2010
Victim: Denise Merhi, 39, Dennis Marsh, 62, Alvin Marsh, 87, Steven Zernhelt, 53
Prosecution's case/defense response: Ballard admitted to the stabbing deaths of his ex-girlfriend, Merhi, her father and grandfather, Dennis and Alvin, and a neighbor who came when he heard screams. The prosecution presented the murders as "revenge killings" arguing Ballard was motivated to punish the entire family when he discovered Merhi had been with other men. The defense argued that Ballard had suffered a rough childhood, brain damage, and an overbearing jealousy that had caused him to snap. The prosecution noted that Ballard had recently been paroled after serving a felony-murder conviction. They also entered into evidence a number of letters Ballard had written from prison detailing the murders and his motivations.
Sources: Allentown Morning Call (PA) 5/10/11 A1 (2011 WLNR 9322974), Allentown Morning Call (PA) 5/17/11 A1 (2011 WLNR 9869039).
Glen Lyons – Black, age 42
Sentenced in Berks County, Pennsylvania
Date of crime: May 2008
Victim: Kathy Leibig, 45
Prosecution's case/defense response: Lyons killed Leibig by stabbing her 30 times. The prosecution argued that Lyons snapped when Leibig attempted to break off their affair. DNA evidence linked him to the scene, and the murder weapons matched a knife set in his kitchen. Lyons contended that an unknown attacker knocked him out and murdered Leibig. He also believed his conviction was prejudicial as he had been convicted by an all-white jury for murdering a white victim. A forensic psychologist argued that Lyons' rough childhood, low IQ, and prejudiced beliefs mitigated his sentencing. The prosecution argued the murder was aggravated by the torture of the 30 stabbings and the criminal history of armed robberies.
Sources: Reading Eagle (PA) 6/3/2011 (Pg. Unavail. Online) (2011 WLNR 11108702), Reading Eagle (PA) 6/8/2011 (Pg. Unavail. Online) (2011 WLNR 11432982).
Hector Morales – Latino, age 26
Sentenced in York County, Pennsylvania
Date of crime: July 16, 2009
Victim: Ronald Simmons Jr., 42
Prosecution's case/defense response: Morales broke into a fellow drug dealer's home and shot him six times, twelve hours before the victim was set to testify against Morales in a preliminary hearing. The defense listed mitigating factors including Morales's inability to appreciate criminality due to a severe head injury received as a child, his age, and his character. Defense also argued that he had already bought off the witness and that one of his enforcers killed Simmons and framed him. The prosecution argued three aggravating factors necessitating the death sentence: the killing of a witness, felony-murder, and causing a grave risk of death to someone other than the victim (Simmons' wife was ten feet from her husband at the crime). The victim was notably sympathetic, portrayed as a veteran who turned to drugs to self-medicate but in all other facets was a contributing member of society.
Sources: York Daily Rec. (Pg. Unavail. Online) 1/21/11 (2011 WLNR 1275671), York Daily Rec. (Pg. Unavail. Online) 1/22/11 (2011 WLNR 1351347), York Daily Rec. (Pg. Unavail. Online) 1/22/11 (2011 WLNR 1351448)
Richard Poplawski – White, age 22
Sentenced in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Date of crime: April 2009
Victim: Paul J. Sciullo II, 36, Stephen J. Mayhle, 29, Eric Kelly, 41
Prosecution's case/defense response: During a domestic dispute, Poplawski's mother called 911. Poplawski fired on police and a standoff ensued for three hours. During the exchange of fire, Poplawski killed three police officers. The defense presented character witnesses testifying to Poplawski's youth, lack of criminal record, and troubled childhood including emotional and physical abuse. The defense argued that this dysfunctional home life, rampant distrust of the government, and Poplawski's sizable arsenal combined into a horrible perfect storm. The prosecution countered that one of the victim's had a similarly troubled childhood and decided to become a police officer rather than a cop-killer.
Sources: 6/29/11 AP Alert – Legal 01:38:43, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA) 6/29/11 A1 (2011 WLNR 12912065).


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People caught up in the cycle of drug addiction lose any sense of control or will over their lives past the demands of the addiction. In effect, drug addiction changes how the mind thinks as well as drives a person's emotional responses.
While some people can overcome addiction on their own, many require the types of supports and guidance offered through drug rehab treatment centers. According to the New York State Department of Health, addiction creates a diseased state of mind that grows progressively worse when left unattended, much like a chronic medical condition, such as heart disease.
Drug rehab treatment centers specialize in addressing the damage done by chronic drug abuse on the brain and the body. As addiction creates its own mindset and lifestyle, drug rehab treatment centers help undo the addiction mindset and provide addicts with healthy coping skills for managing everyday life.
For many people, the very thought of entering a drug rehab treatment center brings on waves of anxiety and apprehension. After relying on drugs for so long, the thought of going without can quickly overwhelm a person's desire to get well.
Drug rehab treatment centers offer much support to their patients.
The staff at drug rehab treatment centers understand how difficult it can be to transition from an addiction lifestyle to a treatment setting. For these reasons, treatment staff offer ongoing encouragement and support to residents in their efforts to overcome addiction.
By the time addiction sets in, chaos and drama characterize of person's day-to-day existence. These types of conditions only work to perpetuate ongoing drug use. Without some form of stability, addicts remain entrenched in an abuse-addiction cycle.
Drug rehab treatment centers operate within a stable, structured environment that's conducive to personal growth and healing. In effect, your stay at a drug rehab treatment center becomes a type of training ground for the type of lifestyle that makes ongoing abstinence possible.
In cases of severe or chronic addiction, it's not uncommon for addicts to develop medical problems from the damaging effects of drug abuse. Medical problems can easily aggravate a person's desire to use drugs, especially conditions involving pain symptoms.
Drug rehab treatment centers offer medical care for conditions that result from ongoing drug use as well as chronic conditions that feed into a person's addiction problem. By addressing these types of issues, drug rehab treatment centers give recovering addicts the best chance at a successful recovery.
While addiction treatment remains the primary focus of a drug rehab treatment center's efforts, a big part of this process works towards helping addicts develop the personal habits, routines and behaviors that make-up a productive lifestyle.
Personal development entails building upon one's strengths and aspirations in terms of the type of future he or she desires to have. In this way, a person comes to focus his or her attention on positive, constructive goals as opposed to meandering and getting caught up in drug-related pursuits.
During the course of an addiction, drugs become the focus of a person's thoughts and emotions. In the process, the mind starts to associate drugs with certain people, places and activities. All of these factors work to drive ongoing drug-using behaviors.
Drug rehab treatment centers provide relapse prevention training sessions designed to help addicts identify and avoid drug-using cues. These sessions also help a person develop other interests and ways of having fun that don't involve drugs.
Once addiction sets in, a person tends to limit his or her associations to other addicts or else spend large amounts of time alone. Not surprisingly, a person's ability to communicate and form genuine relationships with others falls by the wayside in the midst of a drug-centered social circle.
A big part of the drug rehab treatment center process entails learning how to communicate effectively with others in constructive ways. Developing relationship-building skills also equips addicts with the tools needed to reach out for help when the urge to use drugs seems overwhelming.
As with any important goal or life pursuit, having the support of others along the way can mean the difference between success and failure. The same goes for when you're going through a difficult period or life stage. Drug rehab treatment centers place a heavy emphasis on the importance of peer supports and building a support network throughout the recovery process.
People who fall into the addiction lifestyle develop the type of mindset that supports this way of life. In effect, the addiction mindset accounts for why it's so difficult for addicts to maintain abstinence for any length of time. Much of your time spent in a drug rehab treatment center involves undoing the addiction mindset and developing healthy ways of thinking and interacting with the world around you.
According to the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, 45 percent of people struggling with addiction have also developed some degree of mental illness. When left untreated, mental health issues, such as depression or anxiety symptoms can quickly sabotage any efforts made towards addiction recovery. For these reasons, drug rehab treatment centers make it a point to assess for mental health problems and provide treatment as needed.
Support groups play a central role in the recovery process, and become even more so important the further along a person progresses in recovery. Support groups provide addicts with practical insight and guidance for overcoming addiction on a day-by-day basis. Drug rehab treatment centers provide addicts with a firm foundation in the support group process.
While it can be difficult to ask for help in dealing with an addiction problem, the longer you put off getting needed treatment help the stronger the addiction gets. In effect, the help available through drug rehab treatment centers can make a tremendous difference in your overall outlook and ability to overcome addiction's pull.