GOP Debate: Will They Be Mean to Cain? (The Atlantic Wire)

Tonight's Republican primary debate in Detroit will be about the economy, which means it will give Herman Cain a chance to talk about something other than how tall various women are. Cain's most popular proposal so far has been his tax plan, so he might be able to remind viewers why they started paying attention to them in the first place. On the other hand, Cain says he doesn't like to play by the old media rules, so maybe he won't duck the sexual harassment controversy at all. Rival Michele Bachmann is a diminutive lady -- perhaps Cain will ask for her assistance in explaining one more time how tall his wife is relative to his chin. He could demonstrate how it was all so innocent. So far no pundits are recommending that course of action -- those inside-the-box thinkers -- but those who love reality TV can dream.

Related: Debate Liveblog: Romney, Perry Attack Each Other

Most of Cain's rivals will probably avoid the sexual harassment allegations, First Read predicts, because they want Cain's voters and don't want to make them mad.?But The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza says Michele Bachmann might be ready to attack Cain, having already promised voters that she wouldn't blindside them with "surprises." Rick Santorum might go after Cain too, Cillizza says. As for the other candidates, CBS News reports that Rick Perry has been through several study sessions so he can perform better in this debate than in the earlier ones this fall. Perry's also been trying to show his nicer side, which means maybe we won't get a chance to see Perry and Romney yell at each other all night as we did at the Las Vegas debate.?And Jon Huntsman, who's being considered as the last-chance Not Romney candidate, needs to stand out, The Washington Post's Nia-Malika Henderson writes. He needs to " drop the broad, sweeping answers to basic questions" and the lame jokes, she says.

Related: GOP Debate Preview: Hey, We're Not So Bad

We'll be liveblogging the debate tonight here, starting around 7 p.m.

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Vaccine to Treat Breast, Ovarian Cancers Shows Promise (HealthDay)

TUESDAY, Nov. 8 (HealthDay News) -- A vaccine that coaxes the body to attack tumor cells has shown promise in a small study of advanced breast and ovarian cancer patients, improving overall survival times and stopping the disease for a handful of breast cancer patients.

The PANVAC vaccine, administered to 26 women through monthly shots, helped the body's immune system recognize proteins produced specifically by cancer cells, said study author Dr. James Gulley, director and deputy chief of the clinical trials group at the Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology at the U.S. National Cancer Institute.

All of the women had breast or ovarian cancer that had spread to other organs and were considered "heavily pre-treated" with other therapies, with 21 having received at least three chemotherapy regimens. In addition to the four breast cancer patients whose disease stopped progressing, one woman with breast cancer experienced a "complete response," meaning her cancer disappeared.

The study is published Nov. 8 in the journal Clinical Cancer Research.

"Anytime we have one type of biologic treatment demonstrate some success, it's exciting," said Dr. Elizabeth Poynor, a gynecologic oncologist and pelvic surgeon at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, who was not involved in the study. "No matter how small the study is -- and early studies will be small -- when we have positive results on a particular technique, it's a very hopeful thing. These are our most difficult patients to treat; they have failed multiple therapies."

Indeed, most participants -- whose average age was 57 -- had exhausted other forms of treatment, Gulley said, which likely hampered their immune systems from responding as fully to the vaccine as they otherwise might have. As therapeutic vaccines become more established, Gulley said they might prove even more effective in patients whose disease is less advanced.

"That's exactly what I'd like to eventually see -- the vaccine used earlier in the disease process before other [toxic drugs] that can damage the immune system," he said. "I think it makes more sense, when the immune system is more likely to overcome a lower tumor burden. Until recently we haven't seen a lot of substantial clinical impact of vaccines . . . I think this gives us a better level of confidence."

Among the 12 study participants with breast cancer, the median time before the disease continued to progress was 2.5 months and the median overall survival was 13.7 months. For the 14 patients with ovarian cancer, the median time to progression was two months and the median overall survival was 15 months.

Side effects from the vaccine were exceedingly mild, with minor injection-site reactions the most common problem reported.

The PANVAC vaccine, containing certain genes that encourage the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells, was previously studied in 70 patients with advanced colorectal cancer, Gulley said. While the time before disease progression was similar between patients who did and did not receive the vaccine, the overall survival time in the vaccine group was "strikingly better," he noted.

"This is an exciting step forward," said Dr. David Fishman, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive science at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City. "The ultimate goal would be to identify unique proteins in an individual patient's cancer and use vaccines unique to that patient."

More information

The U.S. National Cancer Institute has more information on cancer vaccines.

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dailywireless.org ? Communications Law: Net Neutrality ...

Senate Communications Subcommittee chairman John Kerry is asking his colleagues to vote against the Congressional Review Act resolution to nullify the FCC?s network neutrality rules (pdf), which could get a vote on the Senate floor next week.

It has already passed the Republican-controlled House, but the Democrat-controlled Senate is resistant.

The FCC?s rules for internet openness are scheduled to go into effect Nov. 21, but they have been challenged in court by phone company Verizon and public interest groups such as Free Press ? the latter because the rules were not extended to wireless broadband.

The FCC?s net-neutrality rules prevent Internet service providers from slowing down or speeding up access to websites. Wireless carriers are banned from blocking lawful websites or applications that compete with their services.

But applications that offer wireless hotspots on phones, for example, are routinely blocked by wireless carriers ? unless consumers pay carriers additional fees for access to the same bucket of MBs.

?As the leading trade association for the wireless communications industry, CTIA also has a significant interest in defending the FCC?s decision not to impose additional regulatory burdens on mobile broadband providers,? the CTIA said in its filing.

In Kerry?s opinion, the FCC ?not only has the authority to protect the Open Internet, but the responsibility to do so.?

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) has been pushing the nullification resolution, and indicated earlier this week she had the support to at least bring it to a vote on the floor. ?The Internet is not broken and does not need fixing,? Hutchison told an audience at The Heritage Foundation.

According to The Daily Caller, Senator Hutchison said:

?We are hoping that next week we will be able to get the Resolution of Disapproval on the floor. We have over 40 signatures to have the expedited Congressional authority to take this resolution up, and the House has already passed it. It now rests in the Senate.?

In other legislative news, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) are sponsoring the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance Act which provides legal clarity for the use of electronically-obtained location data.

The GPS Act was introduced in June by Wyden and Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah). It will give law enforcement and the telecommunications industry the rules needed for how data compiled by the newest technologies can be used and promulgated.

Roger Easton, the man who designed and invented the Global Positioning System (GPS), has formally asked the Supreme Court to consider his amicus curiae (friend of the court) opinion in the United States v. Jones case. Easton wants the Supreme Court to take a closer look at how GPS tracking technology works and act to protect the Fourth Amendment rights of Americans.

The New York Times has called the upcoming US v. Jones case ?the most important Fourth Amendment case in a decade.?

GPS Intelligence, of Scottsdale, Arizona, has sold ?thousands? of GPS monitoring devices to various police agencies, reports Wired. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Tuesday.

The Jones case will set the precedent for the legality and limitations of GPS tracking without a warrant. The courts will address a question that has divided the lower courts: Do the police need a warrant to attach a GPS device to a suspect?s car and track its movements for weeks at a time?

Source: http://www.dailywireless.org/2011/11/07/communications-law-net-neutrality-surveillence/

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NTT DoCoMo's Galaxy S II LTE makes way through FCC with swagger

Among the litany of smartphones that NTT DoCoMo announced last month, the SC-03D -- otherwise known as the Galaxy S II LTE -- was undeniably among the forefront of the bunch. The handset will begin shipping in the Land of the Rising Sun before year's end, but it seems that a lucky punk at the FCC got to review its dirty bits ahead of the glorious release. Like its Korea-bound siblings, the phone sports a Snapdragon S3 SoC with a dual-core 1.5GHz CPU and an Adreno 220 GPU, but unlike the over-achieving HD variant, the SC-03D's 4.5-inch display is limited to WVGA resolution. Jet-lagged Japanese travelers will find GPRS and EDGE love with our 1900 and 850MHz domestic networks, although HSPA is restricted to the 2100 and 900MHz bands. As for that lusty 75Mbps theoretical speed for the Xi LTE network, you'll have to excuse us while we attempt to hide our jealousy.

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Mya Guarnieri: Who Are the Palestinians?

The Palestinian Authority's United Nations bid for statehood is divisive. It has furthered America's and Israel's drift from the international community--and has confirmed, yet again, the United States' deep bias towards Israel. The request is also controversial within Palestinian circles. Even if it is successful, will it create meaningful change on the ground? Can it end the occupation? What about equal rights for Palestinian citizens of Israel? What about the Palestinian refugees and their right to return, enshrined in UN resolution 194? And what is the PA's source of legitimacy, when none of the 10 million Palestinians it claims to represent have been given the chance to endorse it?

The interviews I conducted in Ramallah reveal no clear consensus. But PA President Mahmoud Abbas's recent speech to the UN was enthusiastically received in Palestinian cities across the West Bank. For some, it represented, perhaps, a small victory--a moment when the voiceless were given a voice. But that begs the question: which voices are we still not hearing? What are their stories? What unites - and divides - the sometimes mutually antagonistic voices across their society as a whole? Who are these people, the Palestinians?

Arthur Neslen's groundbreaking new book, In Your Eyes a Sandstorm: Ways of Being Palestinian, holds many answers.

A collection of 51 in-depth interviews of Palestinians from all walks of life, In Your Eyes a Sandstorm introduces readers to everyone from ministers in the Hamas government, to ministers in the Israeli government, from sisters who were born and raised in Beirut's Shatila camp, to a drug dealer in East Jerusalem, from a Salafi Jihadist web manager to a West Bank zoo curator. Candid, colorful, and sometimes surprising, the portraits remind us that Palestinians aren't the monolithic group that the Western media depicts them as.

Neslen points his attention to Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza, Israel, Lebanon, and Jordan. While these areas are crawling with journalists, Neslen brings us the stories that go overlooked--like that of Neriman al-Jabari, a 26-year-old widow of an Islamic Jihad leader who was assassinated by Israel in 2004--forcing the reader to interrogate pre-conceived notions about Palestinians.

Neslen's focus on interviewees in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories serves another purpose. As he points out, location affects both experience and one's sense of self. The Palestinians nearest to Israel seem to best know "the terror that conflict brings." Those inside of Israel--an oft-ignored group--wrestle with "identity contradictions that especially afflict Palestinians living close to Israeli Jews." They also offer a glimpse of the racism and segregation that plagues Israeli society.

Nuri al-Ukbi, a 66-year-old Bedouin man, describes the state's demolition of his village, Al Arakib. Nabila Espanyoli, a 53-year-old NGO director in Nazareth, recalls the difficulties she faced enrolling in university, due to discrimination. Tawfiq Jabharin, a lawyer in Umm al Fahem, discusses the state's policy of denying building permits to Palestinian citizens of Israel.

Tamer Nafar, a 29-year-old Palestinian citizen of Israel and founder of the rap group DAM, tells Neslen how all these impulses come together in his hometown of Lyd, just south of Tel Aviv:

"If you buy a map of Lyd, you won't find the Arabic neighborhoods on it... There are cops here all the time. You have no street lights, unemployment, drugs, and a [four]-meter-high separation wall between Arab and Jewish areas. You know when someone does something very ugly, and he doesn't want to look in the mirror? That's the wall."

In Your Eyes a Sandstorm also serves as a primer of Palestinian politics, history, and culture, grouping the interviewees by their generation and, thus, the events they have lived through. It's sophisticated enough to hold the attentions of those already involved in the issues but accessible to those who have just begun to explore the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, too. This is a difficult balance to strike and Neslen does so gracefully.

There was, for me, a slight stumble, however. In the introduction, Neslen describes himself as the son of "left-wing and anti-Zionist Jewish parents." He also mentions that "trust was often difficult to establish" with his Palestinian interviewees. It's a catch-22: Neslen can't not mention these details; but, naturally, some readers might wonder if Neslen's Jewish background was ever an issue. Was there tension with his interviewees? Why was trust difficult to establish?

One interaction was particularly intriguing. Reflecting upon his interview with an 82-year-old fisherman in Gaza, Neslen remarks, "Strangely and unexpectedly, I felt at home." This moment seemed worth exploring.

But this is a minor complaint. And Neslen probably made the right decision. His book isn't a memoir. If he'd introduced too much of himself, he would have run the danger of his story swallowing up those of his interviewees (a Jew in Gaza! A Jew in Palestinian refugee camps! How does he feel? There's no room for that but, still, it's a book I'd like to read).

In Your Eyes a Sandstorm is a gripping look at a society and people who are misrepresented by the mainstream media and misunderstood by much of the Western world. "The Palestinian question" - never the "Jewish question" anymore - is generally posed in a way that omits Palestinian's own experiences from consideration. Through these carefully-crafted portraits, Neslen gives Palestinians the space to begin to answer it for themselves.

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Senate votes for unlimited potatoes in schools (AP)

WASHINGTON ? The Senate threw its support behind the potato Tuesday, voting to block an Obama administration proposal to limit the vegetable on school lunch lines.

Agriculture Department rules proposed earlier this year aimed to reduce the amount of french fries in schools, limiting lunchrooms to two servings a week of potatoes and other starchy vegetables. That angered the potato industry, some school districts and members of Congress from potato-growing states, who say USDA should focus on the preparation instead and that potatoes can be a good source of fiber and potassium.

Following a bipartisan agreement on the issue, the Senate by voice vote accepted an amendment by Republican Sen. Susan Collins that would block the USDA from putting any limits on serving potatoes or other vegetables in school lunches.

Collins, who is from Maine, a potato-growing state, says the vegetables are a cheaper and nutritious way to feed children when school budgets are strapped. She said after the vote that it was a "victory for common sense" and hoped the strong bipartisan vote would send a message to the USDA.

"This proposed rule would have imposed significant and needless costs on our nation's school districts at a time when they can least afford it," she said.

Amended was a spending bill that includes dollars for the Agriculture Department. The House passed a similar bill earlier this year including language that would ask the department to rewrite its school lunch rules entirely. Republicans have singled out the potato proposal in criticizing the rules, saying the government shouldn't be dictating what kids eat.

Advocates and government officials say children get enough potatoes already and should have more diversity in their diets

"USDA's proposal was about helping kids to eat a very wide variety of vegetables and I think that point has been lost in all this," said Margo Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest, which pushed for the standards. "Other vegetables have a hard time competing with potatoes."

Since the proposed guidelines apply to federally subsidized meals, schools are generally fine with broad federal guidelines on nutrition ? how many servings a week children are allowed of grains or vegetables, for example. But some schools have balked at the attempt to tell them exactly what foods they can't serve.

And many critics said the proposal ignores schools that have long since taken the "fry" out of french fry. Though they may be fried as part of initial processing, many schools are now preparing them with little grease and no crispiness, serving them to kids as a healthier option.

The way the amendment is worded ? blocking the department from limiting potatoes ? would still give USDA flexibility to regulate the preparation of the potatoes when it issues the final version of the school lunch rule.

""This amendment seeks to ensure flexibility for schools to provide nutritious and affordable school meals," said Democratic Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado, another potato-growing state. Udall co-sponsored the amendment with Collins.

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Leon Cooperman Discusses Attractive Values at Value Investing ...

By Renee OFarrell Leon Cooperman, Omega Advisors

Leon Cooperman, Omega Advisors

Leon Cooperman, founder of Omega Advisors, discussed what he termed ?attractive values? at the Value Investing Congress on Tuesday. This included his outlook on recession, the economy in general, the Eurozone and the world?s debt issues. Here are some of the highlights from his presentation.

Cooperman thinks that the world is highly unlikely to experience any sort of economic decline like was seen in 2008. To his reasoning, the banking system is reporting strong capital ratios, Corporate America is in excellent shape, investors and households are more conservative with money and inventories are in good shape (in other words, no bubbles). Cooperman also said that the lower dollar should help boost exports, as will the oil price decline. He likes the recent surge of M&A activity as well.

Leon Cooperman?s View on the Equity Market Outlook

Leon Cooperman also discussed the risks he sees to the economy and the equity outlook in general. Cooperman said that the government is not friendly to corporate America and that is a problem. He also noted that the more controls that the government puts in place, the more the equity markets will be constrained because protecting against bubbles works both ways. Cooperman also said that weak employment growth could be an issue.

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"The Artist," "Shame," "Melancholia" coming to AFI Fest (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) ? The silent film "The Artist," Roman Polanski's "Carnage," the sexually charged "Shame" and the Michelle Williams vehicle "My Week With Marilyn" will be among the centerpiece galas at the AFI Fest 2011 in Hollywood, festival organizers announced on Tuesday.

Other galas will include Luc Besson's "The Lady" and an evening with Pedro Almodovar that will feature a screening of his 1987 film "Law of Desire."

The ArtistAFI Fest, which runs from November 3-10 in Hollywood, also announced 11 special screenings. Those include Jim Field Smith's comedy "Butter," Ralph Fiennes' Shakespeare adaptation "Coriolanus," Mark Pellington's "I Melt With You," the Duplass brothers' "Jeff, Who Lives at Home," the Dardenne brothers' "The Kid With a Bike," Gerardo Naranjo's Mexican Oscar entry "Miss Bala," Oren Moverman's "Rampart," Lynne Ramsay's "We Need to Talk About Kevin" and the always-controversial Lars von Trier's "Melancholia."

The festival will also present special screenings of a pair of documentaries from German auteurs, Wim Wenders' 3D dance doc "Pina" and Werner Herzog's death-row film "Into the Abyss."

Clint Eastwood's "J. Edgar" was previously announced as the festival's opening-night gala..

It also previously announced the slate in its "Young Americans" and "New Auteurs" programs. The former includes Sophia Takal's "Green," Bill Morrison's "Spark of Being" and Tristan Patterson's documentary "Dragonslayer," while the latter includes Oscar foreign-language entries from Greece ("Attenberg") and Belgium ("Bullhead").

More information on the lineup is available at the festival Web site.

AFI Fest 2011, which is presented by Audi, will offer free tickets to all screenings after selling Patrol Passes and Special Screenings Passes. These tickets will become available to the general public on October 27, after a 24-hour window in which AFI members can obtain tickets.

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