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In Ozarks, drilling debate isn't about oil
The search for lead ore sparks a familiar jobs-versus-environment debate
By Craig Savoye Special to The Christian Science Monitor
BUNKER, MO.,
When Dale Brooks says he doesn't want the clatter of drilling in his backyard, he really does mean his backyard.
After spending a career in St. Louis, Mr. Brooks returned to this corner of the Ozarks, his birthplace, after retirement, buying a 220-acre lot down a dirt road more than a mile from anyone. But a corner of the Mark Twain National Forest happens to come within 100 yards of his house - and therein lies the problem.
Somewhere beneath the ash and maple lies the world's largest concentrated vein of lead.
The US Forest Service recently granted a mining company permission to drill exploratory holes in the area to search for the high-quality ore that is used in everything from TVs to X-ray shields.
Brooks now envisions a future of bulldozers and Euclids instead of songbirds and the whoosh of wind through the trees. "I dreamed all my life of living here," he says. "To me this was paradise on earth. They've ruined the reasons for living here."
As this "battle of Bunker Hill" suggests, controversy over drilling on public lands isn't limited to the American West, nor to oil and gas.
Here, amid the rolling woodlands and brooks of the Mark Twain National Forest, the federal government's move to allow more than 200 exploratory holes to be drilled over the next two years is sparking a jobs-versus-environment debate that echoes those in other parts of the country - but also has an Ozarks flavor of its own.
"I just don't think mining belongs in scenic area like [Mark Twain National Forest]," says Tom Kruzen, mining chair of the Ozark chapter of the Sierra Club. "It's kind of like Humpty Dumpty. Once you've mined these public lands you can't put them back together again. You have valleys filled with mine waste and toxic material and that stuff stays there forever."
Extending life of the "lead belt"
For Doe Run, the mining company that sought the permit to drill, the opportunity to look for new veins of lead is part of a long-term strategy of increasing known reserves. What oil and gas are to Texas and coal to West Virginia, lead mining is to Missouri. The state produces two-thirds of America's annual output, the majority of it concentrated here, where an ancient inland sea once lapped up against the base of the Ozark uplift, leaving a deposit only a few miles wide by 40 miles long known as the Viburnum Trend.
Potential hazards
Environmental critics cite concerns about underground lead mining - from air and water pollution - to unsightly ponds, noise, and toxic dust. They're concerned about the cutting of new roads, spillage of ore concentrate off transport trucks, and the heightened risk to a particularly sensitive area - the southern end of the Viburnum Trend is less than 20 miles from one of the region's National Scenic Riverways.
But Doe Run says mining critics are jumping the gun. They argue that automatically linking exploratory drilling to new mining is misleading.
Even if exploratory drilling yields favorable results, permitting for mining is extensive, requires a full-scale environmental impact statement, and could take years. Doe Run officials point out that the company has been granted 12 exploratory permits in the last decade, but none have led to a mining application.
"You have to look at what are historical issues and what are current and future issues," says Barbara Shepard, a spokeswoman for Doe Run. "Sure there were things that were done differently in the past and we recognize there may be some problems there and we're fixing them voluntarily. At the time that was current technology. Now we know we need to be doing some things differently."
Time to get the lead out?
Of even greater health and environmental concern to critics is the refining process of lead, known as smelting. Last year, In Herculaneum, a town just south of St. Louis where Doe Run operates the nation's largest smelter, the state found that over one-quarter of the town's children under the age of seven had lead poisoning.
"I understand the whole environmental thing," says Karen Walls, standing outside the Rock Buster Video store in Viburnum, a town near the Mark Twain Forest which bills itself as the lead capital of the world. "Our kids tend to test high for lead. That's a concern. But when I drive the backroads, it's not like the whole countryside is destroyed."
Ms. Walls and her husband moved down from St. Louis seven years ago to enjoy the country life. Neither is employed directly or indirectly by the mines, but recognizes the importance of the industry to the local economy.
"We need the natural resources, we need the jobs - our community is based around the mines," she says.
Minimizing risks
The mining industry says it has already taken steps to minimize hazards of lead mining. For example, technological advances for the extraction of a higher percentage of lead from the ore reduces the amount of the metal that can seep from tailings ponds into the notoriously porous limestone formations undergirding the Ozarks. Contamination of the limestone could provide an avenue for broad dissemination of pollutants among a series of interconnected aquifers and springs.
Proponents of mining reject the framing of the drilling debate solely in environmental terms.
"You have to look at the big picture," says Randy Scherr, Executive Director of the Mining Industry Council of Missouri. "We all use lead, it's in our cars, we couldn't drive to work in the morning without it. Mining provides jobs and keeps communities in the region healthy. There has to be a balance, you have to include those considerations along with environmental concerns when you look at these things."
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The middle market accounts for a third of private GDP and employment, and is the fastest growing segment of the economy. But it can occupy a no-man's-land in terms of political discourse, government services, and rulemaking: too big to qualify for special services or to be exempt from regulations, and too large to field government-affairs teams at seats of government. The National Center for the Middle Market therefore took an election-year opportunity to ask executives from the critical middle market segment to evaluate the quality and impact of the government services they receive.
The survey asked middle market executives a series of questions, such as their satisfaction with government service, the value they receive for taxes and fees paid, the manageability of their regulatory burden, and their preference between lowering taxes or making them less complex.
You can also see how perspectives across the four U.S. regions and in key middle market states and industries compare to the perspectives of the U.S middle market has a whole.


Nitin Gadkari is BJP candidate from Nagpur Lok Sabha seat. The results of Lok Sabha Elections 2019 will be declared on May 23.
Nagpur: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, who is the BJP candidate from Maharashtra's Nagpur Lok Sabha seat, cast his vote here on Thursday.
"India is the biggest democracy in the world. The entire world is looking at us. I am very happy that people have come out in large numbers to vote," he said.
"I went to people with the development works done by the BJP-led government in these five years. People have supported me immensely. I feel that I will win with a better margin than the last election," he said.
Gadkari's main rival in the seat is Congress' Nana Patole, a former BJP MP.
Polling for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections began in the morning in the state's seven seats – Nagpur, Wardha, Ramtek, Bhandara-Gondiya, Chandrapur, Gadchiroli-Chimur and Yavatmal-Washim.
All these seats are located in the state's Vidarbha region.


Test Tube Aliens – Teach Your Kids About Responsibility And Government Cover-ups | OhGizmo!
By Andrew Liszewski on 03/21/07 • Leave a comment!
Has your kid been bugging you for a puppy or kitten but you're just not sure if they're responsible enough? Well what better way to find out then by having them care for a Test Tube Alien? The story behind this bizarre toy is that an invasion from another world is well under way and your child can help out the invaders by adopting and raising one of the aliens in a test tube. So in addition to responsibility I guess they also get to learn about treason by helping the enemy.
The aliens start out as a white egg crammed in a plastic test tube that magically hatches (dissolves) once you fill it with water. You then add a packet of powdered 'food' and watch as the alien grows over the course of a week or so. To keep track of how the invader's doing it has a flashing light on its head indicating its heartbeat. Your child will need to make sure the alien has the right level of liquid in the tube and equal amounts of darkness and sunlight to keep the heartbeat going at a steady pace. For a more thorough diagnosis you can even log into a special website which can communicate with the tube letting you know just how terrible a guardian your child has been.
The Test Tube Aliens can be found on Amazon for $14.99.


Selina, Columbus, Ohio. August 3, 2011.
I was working with the model Selina in downtown Columbus Ohio. This portrait is my favorite photo for August 3.
We did several portraits in this soft light on a cloudy bright day. Soft light is very flattering for portraits.
Selina was in Columbus for a two day photo shoot. You can see more photos of Selina here.


Islamabad, Apr 10 : Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has supported the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying both the countries will have a better chance of settling the Kashmir dispute if Modi-led BJP government returned to power.
According to the media reports here, the cricketer-turned-politician further said if the Congress comes to power at the Centre then it might not start a dialogue with Pakistan on Kashmir as it will be scared of the opposition. "Perhaps if the BJP - a right-wing party - wins, some kind of settlement in Kashmir could be reached," Khan was quoted as saying.
Khan further said that he seeks a meaningful dialogue on Kashmir issue with the BJP if it comes to power despite the fact that Muslims were facing continuous attack under Modi rule. Muslim-ness is under attack, said Khan and added that he had never expected to witness something like this. Citing his Indian Muslim friends he said they were happy about their situation in India but they are now worried due to the rise of extreme Hindu Nationalism.
Drawing a parallel between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Modi he said that their campaign and rallies were based on "fear and nationalist feeling".


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Tag Archives: Christopher Plummer
Posted on January 23, 2020 by carlosdev
(STX) Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery, Colin Farrell, Henry Golding, Eddie Marsan, Hugh Grant, Jeremy Strong. Directed by Guy Ritchie
An Oklahoma entrepreneur who built a billion-dollar marijuana business in London looks to cash out while he still can. His intentions trigger a flurry of activity as a rogue's gallery of characters try to steal his business out from under him. This is Ritchie returning to his gangster comedy roots.
See the trailer here
For more on the movie this is the website
Genre: Caper Comedy
Now Playing: Wide Release
Rating: R (for violence, language throughout sexual references and drug content)
63 Up
(BritBox) Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield, Andrew Brackfield. This groundbreaking documentary series from Michael Apted reaches its ninth edition as it follows a group of Britons, checking in with them every seven years from the age of seven – they're 63 years old now.
Now Playing: Enzian Theater
Rating: NR
(NEON) Alfre Woodward, Aldis Hodge, Wendell Pierce, Richard Schiff. A burned-out prison warden develops a relationship with a death row inmate she is tasked to execute.
Now Playing: Cinematique of Daytona, Regal Winter Park Village
Rating: R (for some disturbing material and language)
(Roadside Attractions) Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer, Ed Harris, Samuel L. Jackson. An all-star cast headlines this story based on actual events in which a Pentagon staffer is tasked with investigating a Congressional Medal of Honor request for a soldier for his heroic actions 32 years previously in the bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War. As he digs, he discovers a government cover-up of a secret they want to keep buried along with the dead.
Genre: True Life Drama
Now Playing: AMC Altamonte Mall, AMC Disney Springs, Cinemark Orlando, Cinepolis Hamlin, Old Mill Playhouse, Regal The Loop, Regal Winter Park Village
Rating: R (for war violence and language)
(Universal) Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, Brooklynn Prince, Joely Richardson. A beautiful young nanny is put in charge of two orphans in a mysterious house in rural Maine, only to discover that neither the house nor the children are what they appear to be. Based on the classic Henry James novel The Turn of the Screw.
Rating: R (for terror, violence, disturbing images, brief strong language and some suggestive content)
ALSO OPENING IN ORLANDO/DAYTONA:
Detective Chinatown 3
Disco Raja
Gul Makai
Que Leones
Street Dancer 3
ALSO OPENING IN MIAMI/FT. LAUDERDALE/KEY WEST:
Shylock
ALSO OPENING IN TAMPA/ST. PETERSBURG/SARASOTA:
Anjaam Pathira
ALSO OPENING IN JACKSONVILLE/ST. AUGUSTINE:
Raising Buchanan
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FILM FESTIVALS TAKING PLACE IN FLORIDA:
Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival, West Palm Beach, FL
Sarasota Native American Film Festival, Sarasota FL
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New Releases for the Week of November 29, 2019
Posted on November 29, 2019 by carlosdev
(Lionsgate) Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Christopher Plummer, Toni Collette, Michael Shannon, LaKeith Stanfield. Directed by Rian Johnson
Something of a tribute to Agatha Christie via Steven Soderbergh, this whodunit involves the death of a family patriarch the day after his 85th birthday. When the insurance company suspects foul play – it is initially thought a suicide – crack detective Benoit Blanc is brought in to solve the case.
Genre: Mystery/Comedy
Rating: PG-13 (for thematic elements including brief violence, some sstrong language, sexual references, and drug material)
(Focus) Anne Hathaway, Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Victor Garber. A crusading attorney uncovers the dark truth of one of the world's most prestigious multinational corporations, linking a shocking number of unexplained deaths with their product. He will risk everything – his career, reputation, his family and ultimately his life – to bring the truth to the light of day in this disturbing true story.
Now Playing: Regal Winter Park Village
Rating: PG-13 (for thematic content, some disturbing images and strong language)
Queen and Slim
(Universal) Daniel Kaluuya, Jodie Turner Smith, Bokeem Woodbine, Chloë Sevigny. An African-American couple on a first date unwittingly become symbols for the grief and suffering of that community when they are forced to kill a police officer in self defense after being pulled over for a minor traffic violation.
Rating: R (for violence, some strong sexuality, nudity, pervasive language, and brief drug use)
Arjun Suravaram
By the Grace of God
Once Upon a Time in Philly
Tholubommalata
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New Releases for the Week of July 6, 2018
Posted on July 5, 2018 by carlosdev
(Disney/Marvel) Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Peña, Walton Goggins, Bobby Cannavale, Judy Greer, Tip "T.I." Harris, Hannah John-Kamen. Directed by Peyton Reed
Scott Lang deals with the consequences of his decisions made during Captain America: Civil War, trying to balance his responsibilities as a father and as a superhero. When Hank Pym and Hope Van Dyne come to him with an urgent mission with personal ramifications for them both, Scott wants to help but wonders how his choices will effect his relationship with his daughter.
See the trailer, interviews, video featurettes and a promo here.
For more on the movie this is the website.
Release Formats: Standard, 3D, D-BOX, D-BOX 3D, Dolby, IMAX, IMAX 3D, RPX, RPX 3D, XD, XD-3D
Genre: Superhero
Rating: PG-13 (for some sci-fi action violence)
(Sony Classics) Vera Farmiga, Christopher Plummer, Lewis MacDougall, Christopher Lloyd. A struggling single mom and her precocious son are forced to drive her freewheeling, pot-dealing devil-may-care father across the country after he is kicked out of the nursing home she put him in.
See the trailer and clips here.
Release Formats: Standard
Genre: Dramedy
Now Playing: Old Mill Playhouse, Regal Winter Park Village
Rating: R (for drug material, language, some sexual references and nude sketches)
The First Purge
(Universal/Blumhouse) Y'lan Noel, Lex Scott Davis, Marisa Tomei, Joivan Wade. This is where it all began; the New Founding Fathers' solution to crime – let everyone get it all out of their system in one night be it looting, assault or murder. It's a lot different than the Purge we've come to know.
See the trailer here.
Now Playing: Wide Release (opened Wednesday)
Rating: R (for strong disturbing violence throughout, pervasive language, some sexuality and drug use)
Na Band Na Baraati
(HUM) Komal Farooqi, Saram Jaffery, Ali Kazmi, Zuhair Jaffery. A Pakistani family living in Toronto has their hands full planning a wedding for both their sons. Traditions from their homeland collide with expectations in a new world that they don't entirely understand; nor does it understand them.
Now Playing: Touchstar Southchase
No Postage Necessary
(Two Roads) George Blagden, Charleene Closshey, Robbie Kay, Raymond J. Barry. A convicted computer hacker, barred from using the Internet and not quite scraping by working minimum wage jobs, takes to stealing mail to make ends meet. He reads a letter a beautiful young woman wrote to her husband, a Marine killed in Afghanistan. Intrigued, he begins to fall in love with her. Hoping to be the man she deserves and the man he's always thought he could be, he tries to turn his life around but the past has a way of catching up with you
Now Playing: AMC Universal Cineplex
Rating: PG-13 (for some drug references and brief language)
(Miramax/Roadside Attractions) Whitney Houston, Cissy Houston, Bobby Brown, Kevin Costner. She was one of the most distinctive voices of her generation and one of the greatest female vocalists ever. She had everything; a loving family, a skyrocketing career, fame and talent beyond measure. Her meteoric rise was matched by a startling fall ending in the tragedy of a life ended too soon. This is her story, buttressed by plenty of interview and performance footage.
Genre: Music Documentary
Now Playing: AMC Altamonte Mall, AMC Disney Springs, AMC Universal Cineplex, AMC West Oaks, Old Mill Playhouse, Regal Ormond Beach, Regal Waterford Lakes, Regal Winter Park Village
Rating: PG-13 (for some thematic elements and language)
Neither Wolf Nor Dog
Pantham
ALSO OPENING IN MIAMI/FT. LAUDERDALE:
En El Septimo Dia
Tej I Love You
ALSO OPENING IN TAMPA/ST. PETERSBURG:
Amma I Love You
Bleeding Steel
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New Releases for the Week of December 22, 2017
Posted on December 21, 2017 by carlosdev
(Columbia) Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Rhys Darby, Bobby Cannavale, Nick Jonas, Alex Wolff, Missi Pyle. Directed by Jake Kasdan
A group of four bored teenagers discover an old video console and while fooling around with it are somehow transported into the game's jungle setting, becoming the avatars they chose. They discover their strengths and weaknesses (don't give Fridge any cake) and must work together if they are to survive the game and make it home. Based on the Robin Williams classic movie Jumanji.
Release Formats: Standard, 3D
Rating: PG-13 (for adventure action, suggestive content and some language)
(Tri-Star) Michelle Williams, Christopher Plummer, Mark Wahlberg, Charlie Plummer. Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction; in the 70s, the heir to a billion-dollar oil fortune was kidnapped and held for ransom. His grandfather, the richest man on Earth, refused to pay it despite having his grandson's ear sliced off as proof the kidnappers meant business, leaving his mom to rescue her boy on her own. Also stranger than fiction, disgraced actor Kevin Spacey was originally cast as oil baron J. Paul Getty. After being accused of sexual misconduct and only weeks before the release date, director Ridley Scott decided to erase Spacey from the film and digitally insert Christopher Plummer instead. Like I said, stranger than fiction.
Now Playing: Wide Release (opens Monday)
Rating: R (for language, some violence, disturbing images and brief drug content)
(Focus) Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn, Lily James. Early in World War II, the United Kingdom must replace their Prime Minister with a compromise candidate that nobody really wanted; Winston Churchill. He is given a nation to lead on the brink of complete military collapse; their army is trapped in Dunkirk and their navy and air force have taken a pounding. Somehow this unpopular Prime Minister must summon the will to lead his country through the darkest hour in their history.
See the trailer, clips and featurettes here.
Genre: Biographical Drama
Now Playing: AMC Altamonte Mall, AMC Disney Springs, AMC Universal Cineplex, Cinemark Artegon Marketplace, Regal Winter Park Village
Rating: PG-13 (for some thematic material)
(Paramount) Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Kristen Wiig, Jason Sudeikis. A middle class couple makes the decision that a new shrinking technique will make their lives better. When the wife backs out at the last moment, the husband is left to begin a new life in a new world and rediscovers wonder and purpose.
See the trailer, clips, interviews and featurettes here.
Genre: Sci-Fi Comedy
Rating: R (for language including sexual references, some graphic nudity and drug use)
Father Figures
(Warner Brothers) Owen Wilson, Ed Helms, Glenn Close, J.K. Simmons. Two twin brothers discover that their father, whom they were told was dead, was in fact possibly very much alive – but their mother wasn't sure which man out of several possibilities their actual dad is. They decide to go on a road trip to find out for certain.
See the trailer, clips, interviews and B-roll video here.
Rating: R (for language and sexual references throughout)
(20th Century Fox) Hugh Jackman, Michelle Williams, Zac Efron, Zendaya. The story of the legendary P.T. Barnum whose circus and museum of oddities became known as the Greatest Show on Earth is set to music from the team that gave us La La Land.
See the trailer, clips, interviews, featurettes and B-roll video here.
Genre: Musical
Rating: PG (for thematic elements including a brawl)
Molly's Game
(STX) Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera. Here is the incredible but true story of former Olympic-class skier Molly Bloom who following her athletic career ran a high-stakes poker game that made her an FBI target when it turned out some very dangerous Russian Mafia types were part of her clientele. Remember the whole truth is stranger than fiction thing?
Now Playing: AMC Disney Springs, Regal Winter Park Village (opens Monday)
Rating: R (for language, drug content and some violence)
(Universal) Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp. The publicity is touting that this is the final chapter in the Glee-rip-off series. We can only pray they're not lying.
Rating: PG-13 (for crude and sexual content, language and some action)
(Fox Searchlight) Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins. In a secret laboratory in the 1960s, a mute janitor discovers that the scientists are experimenting on a strange aquatic creature they took from the Amazon. She is determined to stop their cruel experiments on the creature when she discovers that not only is the being intelligent but an emotional attachment is developing between them. This film led all movies this year in total Golden Globe nominations with seven.
Now Playing: Enzian Theater, Wide Release
Rating: R (for sexual content, graphic nudity, violence and language)
(Yash Raj) Katrina Kaif, Salman Khan, Anupriya Goenka, Paresh Rawal. Superspies Tiger and Zoya are pressed back into service eight years later when India is threatened by a potential despot. This is the sequel to the massive Indian hit Ek the Tiger.
Genre: Spy Action
Now Playing: AMC Universal Cineplex, AMC West Oaks, Touchstar Southchase
Crooked House
MCA – Middle Class Abbay
The Trace We Leave Behind
Velaikkaran
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The Man Who Invented Christmas
God bless us every one? Bah, humbug!
(2017) Biographical Drama (Bleecker Street) Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce, Simon Callow, Anna Murphy, Justin Edwards, Miriam Margolyes, Morfydd Clark, Ger Ryan, Ian McNeice, Bill Patterson, Donald Sumpter, Miles Jupp, Cosimo Fusco, Annette Badland, Eddie Jackson, Sean Duggan, Degnan Geraghty, David McSavage, Valeria Bandino. Directed by Bharat Nalluri
One of the most beloved and most adapted stories of all time is Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. What some folks might not know is that Dickens wrote, had illustrated and self-published the work in an amazing (for the era) six weeks. It was a massive hit on the heels of three straight flops which had begun to lead the publishing world to question whether he was the real thing or a flash in the pan. He was on the verge of financial ruin when Scrooge, Marley, Tiny Tim and company rescued him.
As we meet Dickens (Stevens) the financial pressures have become overwhelming. He and his wife Kate (Clark) are undergoing an expensive renovation of their home complete with plenty of Italian marble; the last three books after the unquestioned success of Oliver Twist have under-performed and his friend/manager John Forster (Edwards) tells him that his publishers are clamoring for a success and an advance is out of the question.
A story told to his children by Irish maid Brigid (Murphy) gives Dickens the idea of a Christmas-set ghost story but he is in the throes of an anxiety-fueled writer's block that is threatening his entire career. A chance meeting with a grumpy old man gives him the idea of a miser at the center of the story and once he comes up with the name for the character – Ebeneezer Scrooge (Plummer) – he materializes and starts to argue with Dickens on the direction of the book. People who surround Dickens start to become various characters in the novella; a lawyer becomes Marley (Sumpter), a nephew becomes Tiny Tim, a couple dancing in the festive streets of London become the Fezziwigs and so on.
To make matters worse, Dickens' spendthrift father John (Pryce) and mother (Ryan) drop by for an extended stay. Dickens and his father have a strained relationship at best and the constant interruptions begin to fray the author's nerves. Worse still, the novella is needed in time for Christmas which gives him a scant six weeks to write and arrange for illustration of the book with one of England's premier artists (Callow). Kate is beginning to be concerned that all the pressure is getting to her husband who is at turns irritable and angry, then kind and compassionate. She senses that he is going to break if something isn't done and time is running out.
I have to admit I didn't have very high expectations for this film. I had a feeling it was going to be something of a Hallmark movie and for the first thirty minutes of the film I was right on target. However a funny thing happened on the way to the end of the movie: it got better. A lot better, as a matter of fact. The movie turns out to be extremely entertaining and heartwarming in a non-treacly way.
Stevens, one of the stars that emerged from Downton Abbey, does a credible job with Dickens although at times he seems unsure of what direction to take him. Plummer could do Scrooge in his sleep if need be but gives the character the requisite grumpiness and a delightful venal side that makes one think that Plummer would be magnificent in a straight presentation of the story.
This is based on a non-fiction book of the same title that I have a feeling is more close to what actually occurred than this is, but one of the things that captured my attention was the dynamic between father and son. Certainly Dickens was scarred by his father's imprisonment in a debtor's prison when he was 12, forcing him to work in a horrific shoe black factory and from which much of his passion for social justice was born.
The entourage of characters from the story that follow Dickens around is delightful. Of course, the movie shows Dickens getting an attitude adjustment and growing closer to his family thanks to his writing of the novella and who knows how accurate that truly is but one likes to believe that someone who helped make Christmas what it is today got the kind of faith in family and humanity that he inspired in others.
This has the feeling of a future holiday perennial. The kids will love the whimsical characters that not only inform the characters in the story but fire up Dickens' imagination; the adults will appreciate the family dynamics and all will love the ending which is just about perfect. This is the kind of Christmas movie that reminds us that we are all "fellow passengers on the way to the grave" as Dickens puts it and the kind of Christmas movie that Hollywood shies away from lately. I truly wish they would get back to making movies like this one.
REASONS TO GO: A thoroughly entertaining and truly heartwarming film. The portrayal of the relationship between Dickens and his father is intriguing.
REASONS TO STAY: Starts off slowly but after the first thirty minutes or so improves greatly.
FAMILY VALUES: There is some mild profanity as well as adult themes in the film.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: The majority of the cast are trained Shakespearean actors, many of whom have appeared in a variety of adaptations of Dickens' work through the years.
CRITICAL MASS: As of 11/23/17: Rotten Tomatoes: 80% positive reviews. Metacritic: 58/100.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Finding Neverland
NEXT: The Big Sick
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(Disney*Pixar) Starring the voices of Anthony Gonzalez, Gael Garcia Bernal, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, Gabriel Iglesias, Edward James Olmos. Directed by Adrian Molina and Lee Unkrich
A young Mexican boy is obsessed with music but had the bad luck to be born into a family that didn't care much for song and frivolity. A devotee of a recently deceased troubadour, he is accidentally sent to the Land of the Dead and must work out the mystery of why his family hates music so much before he can return to the Land of the Living.
Release Formats: Standard, 3D, 4DX
Genre: Animated Feature
Rating: PG (for thematic elements)
(Amazon/Lionsgate) Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, Steve Carell, J. Quinton Johnson. Three ex-Marines who served together in Vietnam come together for one last mission; to bury the son of one of them who was killed in Iraq. This is the latest from director Richard Linklater.
See the trailer, clips and a featurette here.
Rating: R (for strong language throughout including some sexual references)
(Bleecker Street) Dan Stevens, Christopher Plummer, Jonathan Pryce, Simon Callow. One of the great traditions of Christmas is the beloved novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. He wrote it at a time in his life where he was surrounded by tribulations but where did these ideas – a Christmas ghost story, after all – come from? Look for the review for this tomorrow.
See the trailer, a clip and a featurette here.
Rating: PG (for thematic elements and some mild language)
(Sony Classics) Margaret Qualley, Melissa Leo, Julianne Nicholson, Dianna Agron. A young woman in the early 1960s gets swept up by the idea of becoming a nun and so enters a convent just at a time when sweeping changes were overtaking the Catholic Church. You can check out my review for the film here.
Now Playing: AMC Universal Cineplex, Regal Winter Park Village, Rialto Spanish Springs
Rating: R (for language, some sexuality and nudity)
(Columbia) Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell, Carmen Ejogo, Tony Plana. A former activist turned lawyer finds himself confronted with a crisis of conscience. Passed by and struggling to survive, a series of events leads him to consider extreme action.
See the trailer, clips and an interview here.
Genre: Legal Drama
Rating: PG-13 (for language and some violence)
(Fox Searchlight) Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Caleb Landry Jones. When the police fail to discover the identity of the killer of a young woman, the victim's mother frustrated by the lack of progress puts up three billboards near her home castigating the authorities for their inability to solve the crime. Her actions sharply divide the community in this latest darkly comic drama from Irish director Martin McDonagh.
See the trailer, clips, interviews and a video feature here.
Now Playing: AMC Altamonte Mall, AMC Disney Springs, Barnstorm Theater, Cinemark Artegon Marketplace, Regal Pointe Orlando, Regal Waterford Lakes, Regal Winter Park Village
Rating: R (for violence, language throughout, and some sexual references)
Balakrishnudu
Mental Madhilo
The King's Choice
Hey, Pillagada
Roman Israel, Esq.
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THE JUSTICE LEAGUE
(Warner Brothers) Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Jason Momoa, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher, Ciaran Hinds, Jesse Eisenberg, Amber Heard, Jeremy Irons, Amy Adams, Connie Nielsen. Directed by Zack Snyder
With Superman no longer in the picture, Earth is facing a threat beyond any it has surmounted up to now. Batman gathers the heroes of Earth – Wonder Woman, Aquaman, The Flash and Cyborg – to stand against the threat of Steppenwolf and his legions but they may not be enough.
See the trailer, interviews, clips, featurettes and B-roll video here.
Release Formats: Standard, 3D, IMAX, DBOX, Dolby, RPX
Rating: PG-13 (for sequences of sci-fi violence and action)
(A24) Saoirse Ronan, Odeya Rush, Timothée Chalamet, Laurie Metcalf. A spirited and iconoclastic young woman living in Northern California with a mom who doesn't understand her confronts the obstacles of growing up as she tries to reconcile her own burgeoning sexuality. The director is writer and actress Greta Gerwig.
Rating: R (for language, sexual content, brief graphic nudity and teen partying)
Sidemen: Long Road to Glory
(Abramorama) Pinetop Perkins, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Hubert Sumlin, Marc Maron. Three musicians who helped develop the Chicago blues sound with such legends as Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters have influenced not only the blues but popular music in general and rock and roll specifically. Late in life, they would win a Grammy on their own. This is their incredible story.
Genre: Musical Documentary
Now Playing: Enzian Theater (Monday only)
(Columbia) Starring the voices of Steven Yeun, Kristin Chenoweth, Christopher Plummer, Zachary Levi. The story of the first Christmas as seen through the eyes of the animals who were present.
Rating: PG (for some thematic elements)
(Lionsgate) Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay, Mandy Patinkin. A young boy with facial disfigurements attends a mainstream school for the first time. Unsure of himself and self-conscious about his face, he endures bullying but slowly begins to win everyone over in the school with his amazing perseverance and optimistic attitude.
Rating: PG (for thematic elements including bullying, and some mild language)
Khakee: The Power of Police
Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru
Tumhari Sulu
Aida's Secrets
ALSO OPENING IN JACKSONVILLE:
Ghost Bride
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The Exception
Posted on August 1, 2017 by carlosdev
Christopher Plummer is resplendent as Kaiser Wilhelm II
(2016) Historical Drama (A24) Jai Courtney, Lily James, Christopher Plummer, Janet McTeer, Ben Daniels, Mark Dexter, Kris Cuppens, Eddie Marsan, Anton Lesser, Aubeline Barbieux, Lois van Wijk, Stephanie Auberghen, Martin Swabey, Lucas Tavernier, Kurt Standaert, Martin Savage, Karen Leclercq, Frederik Lebeer, Stephanie Van Vyve, Daisy Bouliton, Verona Verbakel. Directed by David Leveaux
As the First World War drew to a close, it became painfully obvious to the German people and to those in power that their Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II had failed them as a wartime ruler and he was quietly forced to abdicate and fled the country for a life in rural Holland in a place called Huize Doorn. There he remained in exile for the remainder of his life, surrounded by a few loyal former military men, Dutch servants and his devoted second wife Hermine.
It is 1940 and the Second World War is in full swing. Germany is ruled now by the Nazi party and their military victories have been startling in their speed and ferocity. The former Kaiser (Plummer) keeps abreast of these with keen interest, expressing admiration for Hitler although not for the party. The Nazis get wind that there is a British spy operating in the area so they dispatch Captain Stefan Brandt (Courtney) to take command of the Kaiser's personal guard.
He is assisted by Dietrich (Dexter), an SS officer who informs Brandt that transmissions had been intercepted by the SS and that all they needed to pin down the location of the transmissions was a truck able to triangulate the signal and pin down its location. He assures Brandt that one is on the way.
Brandt – who was wounded in the invasion of Poland – is something of a ladies' man and his eye falls on the comely made Mieke (James). The two begin a torrid affair which is forbidden; discovery could get Lily fired and Brandt sent back to combat duty. Both of them are what you'd call damaged goods with horrors in their past; not exactly an easy place to build a relationship from.
When the announcement that Nazi bigwig Heinrich Himmler (Marsan) will be visiting, the entire household is in a tizzy. Hermine is certain that this means her husband will be summoned back to Berlin to take his rightful place in a restored monarchy (delusion can be beautiful in its own way). The Kaiser believes it too – but Himmler has other plans.
As the search for the spy begins to close the noose, Brandt begins to suspect that Mieke might be involved. He will have to choose between his love for her and his duty to his country. Given what his country has become that might not be a very hard choice at all.
This is a fictionalized account of the Kaiser in his final year of life and pretty much the history that it gets right is that there was a man named Wilhelm who was once Kaiser of Germany. Most of the rest is fiction so if you're going to this movie thinking you're going to get a history lesson, think again. The saving grace here is that Plummer inhabits the role so well, capturing Wilhelm's ego and Prussian love for pomp but also the decent fellow that lay just beneath although most accounts of the Kaiser don't reveal a whole lot of regard for anyone other than himself. Plummer however is just so magnetic that you can't help but enjoy the performance even knowing it's a bit of a sham.
Courtney has much of the burden for the film as he's really the centerpiece (the title refers to him rather than the Kaiser) and that's maybe not such a good thing. There are some things that Courtney does really well – he was one of the bright spots of Suicide Squad I thought – but this really isn't the type of role that's in his comfort zone and you can tell because his performance is far from assured. Part of the issue is that Courtney doesn't really excel at expressing emotion non-verbally and we don't get a sense of the struggle going on within the character; we just see him get into a situation where he's having sex with a beautiful woman and we just assume it blossoms into love but the process is never apparent so when it comes time for him to choose between love and country we never get a sense that it is a struggle for him.
It also must be said that Courtney is far too buff for his role. We see him naked quite a bit and unfortunately Courtney had just finished filming Suicide Squad when he started up with this and he still had an action hero's body which really doesn't jive with a German officer's body during World War II. There wasn't a lot of pumping iron going on at that time.
There are some other things as well. The dialogue is occasionally clunky and even some of these seasoned performers deliver it like "this isn't how people talk; how the hell am I supposed to say this?" is bouncing around their brain pan. The movie looks a bit stage-y in places which isn't surprising since Leveaux has a Broadway background. Be assured though that the pluses outnumber the minuses by a comfortable margin. Plummer alone should be reason enough to make a point of seeing this. And quite frankly, the ending has a kind of grace to it that is all too rare in motion pictures. I won't give you much detail on that score other than to say the ending does elevate the film.
So this is a strong recommend. It's still playing in a few cities here and there (Orlando is one of them as of this writing) but if it isn't anywhere near you or it's been and gone, do check it out on VOD (Amazon Prime subscribers can see it for free). This isn't going to be one of the best movies of the year but it's better than the majority have been and will be – even if it is as fake as a three-dollar bill.
REASONS TO GO: Christopher Plummer is on a hot streak. The final scene is a nice touch.
REASONS TO STAY: Some of the dialogue is a bit clunky.
FAMILY VALUES: There is a bit of profanity, some nudity and plenty of sexuality.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: Some of the filming took place at the Kaiser's actual home at Huize Doorn.
BEYOND THE THEATERS: Amazon, Fandango Now, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube
CRITICAL MASS: As of 8/1/17: Rotten Tomatoes: 77% positive reviews. Metacritic: 60/100.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Anthropoid
NEXT: The Commune
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New Releases for the Week of July 28, 2017
(Focus) Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, Eddie Marsan, John Goodman, Toby Jones, Sofia Boutella, Til Schweiger, Barbara Sukowa, James Faulkner. Directed by David Leitch
The most lethal assassin in MI6 is sent on assignment to Berlin to smuggle a dossier out of the city which has been destabilized by opposing forces. In a simmering cauldron of betrayal and murder, she is allied with the embedded station chief to navigate the back alleys and halls of power to get what Her Majesty's government requires of her. She soon realizes that she has been betrayed from within and you know what they say hell hath no fury like. This is based on the Oni Press graphic novel The Coldest City.
See the trailer, clips, interviews, B-roll video and premiere footage here.
Rating: R (for sequences of strong violence, language throughout and some sexuality/nudity)
(A24) Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, Kesha Sebert, Will Oldham. Recently deceased, a ghost – complete with white sheet – haunts his beloved home while silently observing his grief-stricken wife. He is also able to see other inhabitants of the house both past and present. The latest film from director David Lowery has gotten much acclaim on the festival circuit.
Now Playing: AMC Disney Springs, Cinemark Artegon Marketplace, Regal Winter Park Village
Rating: R (for brief language and a disturbing image)
(Columbia) Starring the voices of T.J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris, Patrick Stewart. Deep in the heart of your smart phone lies a place called Textopolis where all your favorite emojis live. Each one of them has but one facial expression – except for poor Gene who has many. Wanting to be normal, he and his friends Hi-Five and Jailbreak search the phone and all its apps to find the code that will fix Gene. When unwittingly they discover a greater danger threatening the entire phone, the resourceful emojis will have to use all their skills to keep the emojis from being deleted for good.
See the trailer, a featurette and premiere footage here.
Rating: PG (for rude humor)
(A24) Christopher Plummer, Jai Courtney, Lily James, Janet McTeer. As the Second World War looms, Kaiser Wilhelm II lives in exile in the Netherlands. A German soldier is assigned to determine whether the Dutch resistance has a spy or spies in the former ruler's household. In the course of his investigation he falls for a Dutch Jewish girl who may or may not be the droid he's looking for.
Genre: Historical Drama
Rating: R (for sexuality, graphic nudity, language and brief violence)
OPENING IN ORLANDO/DAYTONA:
Mubarakan
Vikram Vedha
ALSO OPENING IN MIAMI:
A Family Man
My Father's Land
Wolf Warrior 2
ALSO OPENING IN TAMPA:
The Black Prince
The Last Face
Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back
I, Daniel Blake
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Posted on April 24, 2015 by carlosdev
Pacino describes the size of his paycheck as a bemused Bening and Benoist look on.
(2014) Dramedy (Bleecker Street) Al Pacino, Annette Bening, Bobby Cannavale, Jennifer Garner, Christopher Plummer, Melissa Benoist, Josh Peck, Nick Offerman, Aarti Mann, Katarina Cas, Giselle Eisenberg, Anne McDaniels, Eric Lange, Brian Smith, Michael Patrick McGill, Cassandra Starr, Scott Lawrence, Meghan Aruffo, Eric Schneider, Linda Wang. Directed by Dan Fogelman
Fame is something we wear on our heads like a sombrero; it might appear to some to be like a halo but at the end of the day it's just straw.
Danny Collins (Pacino) has been living with fame for most of his adult life. Once a promising folk singer, a cross between Bob Dylan and John Lennon, he has settled into a groove as a soft rock pop star, feeding off the energy of his massive hit "Hey Baby Doll" and others of that ilk, not a one of them written by Danny Collins and none of them as heartfelt or insightful as those he wrote himself in his youth. But thirty years have passed under that bridge and there's an awful lot of water that went with it.
After another rote concert filled with screaming old ladies whose days of beauty were decades gone and who retained just enough of their bloom to be utterly ridiculous, he's ready to give it all up. Those feelings are sealed when his best friend and manager Frank (Plummer) gives him a letter written to him by John Lennon back in his youth. You see, Danny had done an interview with a now-defunct rock magazine with a smarmy interviewer (Offerman); the interview catches the attention of none other than John Lennon who wrote him a letter care of the smarmy interviewer who promptly sold the thing. Frank had only found it a few months earlier.
For Danny, the effect is galvanizing. He tells Frank to cancel his upcoming world tour and points his private jet towards Jersey – not before breaking up with Sophie (Cas), his much younger fiance. Why Jersey? That's because that's where his estranged son Tom (Cannavale) lives. Tom is a working class guy, the sort that takes whatever construction job comes his way in order to feed his family; his very pregnant wife Samantha (Garner) and his severely ADHD afflicted daughter Hope (Eisenberg). Danny was pretty absent in Tom's life and Tom didn't take kindly to it and hasn't really been able to get past it.
But given Danny's sex drugs and rock and roll lifestyle, that might not have been a bad thing. Danny has made a lot of mistakes in his life and in many ways his chickens have come home to roost. He has occupied a room in a suburban Hilton, arranged for a grand piano to be brought in and sets out to woo the attractive manager Mary (Bening) and charm his family, but both are uphill battles for a man who has become used to taking the path of least resistance.
Fogelman, who's made a tidy career writing Disney animated films (including Cars) and unimpressive comedies (including Last Vegas) makes his directorial debut here. In all truth it's pretty solid if unspectacular; Fogelman hits all of the right notes and while he doesn't take a whole lot in the way of chances, he delivers a product that is more than palatable.
That's mainly because of the presence of Pacino who delivers one of his more enjoyable performances of recent years. Danny is a charming Irish rogue at his best and while that sort of role hasn't exactly been one Pacino has been noted for in his career, he does a great job of making Danny the kind of guy that you'd love to hang out with but that you wouldn't want dating your sister.
He's got a solid supporting cast behind him, with the ever-lovable Bening as the love interest, the just-as-charming Plummer as the best friend and Cannavale (more on him in a moment). Only Garner seems a bit wasted in her role as the daughter-in-law as she mostly seems confused and bewildered, although she shows a bit of backbone when Danny offers to get Hope in to a prestigious school that they could never afford to get her into on their own.
I honestly think Cannavale has it in him to be an A-list leading man. He has mostly been cast in thug roles but I don't think they suit him very well; he seems to do better with more sympathetic parts. Here he's gruff and a bit stubborn but at his core he's a good-hearted man who just wants to do right by his family.
The soundtrack is definitely worthwhile with plenty of John Lennon songs, although they are used a bit of a ham-handed manner; I mean, we don't need to hear "Working Class Hero" to know that Tom is just that or "Instant Karma" after a failed attempt at reconciliation with Tom. The Danny Collins songs – the Leonard Cohen-like one he's writing in the hotel, and the insipid pop "Hey, Baby Doll" are less memorable.
The story is a bit rote and the plot twists are pretty old school if you ask me. Then again, this isn't a movie about redemption; it's about understanding who you are and growing when need be. What I like about this movie is that Danny doesn't end up being the perfect grandfather/father and write insightful songs that re-energize his career. The changes in his life are coming piecemeal as best as he can. In that sense, Danny Collins is a real character because real people don't make wholesale changes but gradual ones. Nothing happens overnight except maybe a Beyonce album.
REASONS TO GO: Pacino is a hoot. Cannavale continues to be a cinematic presence.
REASONS TO STAY: Doesn't really inspire audience commitment. Predictable ending.
FAMILY VALUES: There is a fair amount of foul language, some nudity and some drug use.
TRIVIAL PURSUIT: The movie was inspired by the real life story of English folk performer Steve Tilston who learned of a similar letter sent to him by John Lennon 40 years after the fact.
CRITICAL MASS: As of 4/24/15: Rotten Tomatoes: 78% positive reviews. Metacritic: 58/100.
COMPARISON SHOPPING: Somewhere
NEXT: Unfriended
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Immunotherapy has become such an important aspect of cancer research after showing great promise for so many cancers, including mesothelioma. As research continues to show just how unique each case of cancer truly is from patient to patient, the need for personalized medicine continues to be pushed to the forefront. As such, one form of cancer immunotherapy, called personalized cancer vaccines, has become an increasingly important aspect of research.
What Are Personalized Cancer Vaccines?
Personalized cancer vaccines are a type of immunotherapy made to be totally unique for each individual patient. As researchers continued to study different types of immunotherapy, one reason for why this new treatment doesn't work for everyone became glaringly apparent. Even patients with the same type of cancer have tumors with a unique molecular makeup, specifically the antigens the cancer cells host.
Antigens are molecules that can induce an immune system response, as they stimulate the body to create antibodies to fight this foreign toxin off. The trouble lies in some tumor cells that sport the same antigen as normal cells, which the immune system understands not to attack. This has led to difficulties in some past clinical trials with cancer vaccines, where the treatment wasn't truly personalized.
Since then, researchers have focused on the new approach of creating personalized cancer vaccines. For this treatment, doctors biopsy an individual patient's tumor to sequence the DNA and compare these sequences to that of a normal, healthy cell. Studying antigens on an individual level is key, as doctors note it's highly unlikely that these will be the same among any two cancer patients. The differences between the normal and cancer cells, mutations, can be few or even up to 1,000.
After recognizing these mutations, researchers can then identify which mutated genes make antigens that can then be targeted by a cancer vaccine. It's estimated that about 3 or 5 out of every 100 mutations makes an antigen. Because these antigens (sometimes labeled neoantigens) aren't made by healthy cells, the doctors can then synthesize the tumors' antigens into a vaccine with adjuvants which will enhance the immune response. Researchers have noted that it only takes one of these neoantigens to make the vaccine, but experts note that 20 antigens can maximize the effects and make it more likely the vaccine is successful.
Since the initial findings, there have been some successful clinical trials testing these vaccines for some different cancers. One study from the summer released results of the use of personalized vaccines on melanoma patients. This study could be particularly promising even for mesothelioma patients, since melanoma has already been found to be genetically similar to mesothelioma.
The neoantigen vaccines in this study were created for six patients who showed cancer mutations in their melanoma tumors, and thus could possibly see effective results from the treatment. On average, these patients received their vaccines about 18 weeks after having cytoreductive surgery. Researchers noted that the treatment produced some side effects, like the flu. But the end results were worth some of these symptoms.
After 25 months, four patients who had later-stage skin cancer saw no disease recurrence. Two patients saw recurrence at this time, but were then treated with another type of immunotherapy which ultimately led to complete remission. Though the trial was only held among a small group of patients, the researchers believed it was a good step in exploring the safety and efficacy of a personalized cancer vaccine as a treatment alone or with other immunotherapies.
Another study observed a type of personalized vaccine for mesothelioma. Researchers tested a dendritic cell vaccination in combination with chemotherapy to determine if the vaccine could be more effective. Dendritic cells have been studied in immunotherapy for some time because of their natural ability to induce an immune response. These cells can process antigens, then migrating to the lymph nodes and activating the T cells that can cause an immune response against cancerous cells.
In this particular study, cancer immunologists tested the efficacy of dendritic cell vaccination with a low dose of the chemotherapy drug cyclophosphamide on ten patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma. Researchers found the treatment to be safe, with only mild fever reported in some patients, and effective. Seven of the patients achieved survival of 24 months or longer, which is longer than the average mesothelioma survival. Two of the patients were still alive after even 50 and 66 months.
Though this study was also only among a smaller group of patients, the results suggest it could lead to a larger clinical trial in the future. These two studies and several other around the efficacy of personalized cancer treatments have all shown promising results for the future, and will hopefully lead to larger studies with even more impactful results going forward.
What's Next for Cancer Vaccines?
Immunotherapy is an increasingly important aspect of cancer research. Through efforts like the Cancer Moonshot, which recently revealed the Partnership for Accelerating Cancer Therapies (PACT) focusing specifically on improving immunotherapy for all kinds of cancer, this emerging treatment will hopefully only become more effective with further study.
Molecular testing has become more of a norm for cancer treatment, to see if patients are eligible for treatments like these cancer vaccines. Many believe precision, or personalized, medicine is truly the way to a cure for cancer and other health conditions. With more study, precision medicine could not only help tailor treatments, but also provide preventive measures for each individual patient.


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North Korea Claims It Has Developed Hydrogen Bomb
North Korea claims that it has successfully tested a nuclear weapon that could be loaded onto a long-range missile.
Pyongyang said its sixth nuclear test was a "perfect success", hours after seismologists had detected an earth tremor.
North Korea said it had tested a hydrogen bomb – a device many times more powerful than an atomic bomb.
Analysts say the claims should be treated with caution, but its nuclear capability is clearly advancing.
Pyonyang last carried out a nuclear test in September 2016. It has defied UN sanctions and international pressure to develop nuclear weapons and to test missiles which could potentially reach the mainland US.
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Kim Jong-un Suggests North Korea Has Hydrogen Bomb
North Korea Successfully Tests First Hydrogen Bomb
North Korea Hydrogen Bomb: US, South Korea and Japan United in Response
According to South Korean officials, the latest test took place in Kilju County, where North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site is situated.
The "artificial quake" was 9.8 times more powerful than the tremor from North Korea's fifth test, the state weather agency said.
It came hours after Pyongyang said it had miniaturized a hydrogen bomb for use on a long-range missile, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was pictured with what state media said was a new type of hydrogen bomb. State media said the device could be loaded on to a ballistic missile.
Initial reports from the US Geological Survey put the tremor at 5.6-magnitude with a depth of 6 miles but this was later upgraded to 6.3-magnitude at 0 miles. This would make it North Korea's most powerful nuclear test to date.
Japan condemned the test and South Korean President Moon Jae-in convened emergency security council talks.
A series of recent missile tests has caused growing international unease.
In a report on September 3, North Korea's state news agency KCNA said Kim Jong-un had visited scientists at the nuclear weapons institute and "guided the work for nuclear weaponization".
The report said: "The institute recently succeeded in making a more developed nuke."
"He (Kim Jong-un) watched an H-bomb to be loaded into a new ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile)," it added.
The report carried pictures of Kim Jong-un inspecting the device. It described the weapon as "a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes".
International experts say North Korea has made advances in its nuclear weapons capabilities but it is unclear if it has successfully miniaturized a nuclear weapon it can load on to a missile.
North Korea has previously claimed to have miniaturized a nuclear weapon but experts have cast doubt on this. There is also skepticism about North Korea's claims to have developed a hydrogen bomb, which is more powerful than an atomic bomb.
Hydrogen bombs use fusion – the merging of atoms – to unleash huge amounts of energy, whereas atomic bombs use nuclear fission, or the splitting of atoms.
South Korean Soldiers Fire Warning Shots at Suspected North Korean Drone
South Korea has fired warning shots at a suspected North Korean drone flown across the DMZ.
Soldiers fired about 20 rounds before the craft turned back, Yonhap news agency said citing South Korean officials.
Earlier, South Korea's President Park Geun-hye urged China to impose the strongest possible sanctions against North Korea, following its apparent nuclear test.
North Korea claims it has tested a hydrogen bomb.
That claim is doubted by experts, who say the blast, though probably nuclear, was not big enough to have been a thermonuclear explosion.
In her annual press conference, President Park Geun-hye said the international community's response to North Korea "must differ from the past", without giving details.
Park Geun-hye said new sanctions on Pyongyang must go further than before, with China's support crucial. She also warned of possible further action by North Korea, including "cyber terrorism".
China, North Korea's closest ally, has repeatedly condemned North Korea's nuclear tests but is often accused of doing little to try and stop them.
Park Geun-hye stressed China's past statements but added: "I am certain that China is very well aware if such a strong will isn't followed by necessary steps, we will not be able to stop the North's fifth and sixth nuclear tests and we cannot guarantee true peace and stability on the Korean peninsula."
"I believe the Chinese government will not allow the situation on the Korean peninsula to deteriorate further."
Last week Secretary of State John Kerry also urged China to take a tougher line, telling his Chinese counterpart the relationship with North Korea cannot be "business as usual".
President Park Geun-hye also spoke about the steps South Korea was taking with the US to "neutralize North Korea's provocative actions" including additional deployments of American military assets on the Korean peninsula.
Answering a question about whether Seoul would consider ending its involvement in the jointly-run Kaesong industrial zone, just north of the border, Park Geun-hye said its future depended on Pyongyang's actions.
Seoul has already limited access to Kaesong from South Korea, to only those directly involved in its operations.
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A coastal storm is forecast to form late tonight near the Northeast Florida coast and intensify as it hugs the South Carolina coast Tuesday morning. The impacts from the storm will be felt across most of the state, ranging from heavy rain and gusty winds over the Midlands, Low Country, and Pee Dee regions to the chance of snow or sleet mixing in with the rain over parts of the Upstate.
National Weather Service meteorologists from the Charleston office say strong northeast winds may cause minor coastal flooding in normally flood-prone areas, such as downtown Charleston around daybreak Tuesday. The forecast of 1 to 2 inches of rain in the Beaufort, Sumter, Charleston, and Myrtle Beach areas may cause localized flooding of low-lying, urban areas.
Small Craft Advisories and Gale Watches are in effect along the coast. Gusty winds from the storm could make conditions dangerous for mariners. Winds could frequently gust over 40 mph near the coast as storm intensifies.
Enough cold air may allow for a period of wet snow to mix in, mostly over portions of Oconee, Pickens, Greenville, Spartanburg, and Cherokee counties. The highest elevations northwest of I-85 may see a light dusting off snow according to the National Weather Service in Greenville, SC. A few locations south and east of the interstate may see a wet snowflakes for a brief time, too, but no accumulation is forecast there.
Rapidly clearing skies are expected over much of the state Tuesday afternoon as the storm moves away from the state.


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