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January 28, 2012
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Vonn wins World Cup super-combined event (AP)
ST. MORITZ, Switzerland ? Lindsey Vonn won a World Cup super-combined event Friday to extend her lead in the overall standings against second-place Tina Maze.
The American defended her lead from the morning downhill with a solid slalom leg to clock a combined two-run time of 2 minutes, 28.35 seconds.
“It was a really satisfying win. I was happy with my downhill run but I knew it was going to be tough to hang on,” Vonn said.
Maze of Slovenia was 0.41 seconds back and third-place Nicole Hosp of Austria trailed Vonn by 0.58.
Vonn earned 100 World Cup points for her 48th career World Cup victory and leads Maze by 302.
Vonn won the super-combined title the past two years. She has seven victories this season in her quest to regain the overall crown.
“It was really important today,” Vonn said. “If I were to go out (in slalom), I knew that Tina would be within striking distance, so I had to stay on the podium. I tried to ski smart.”
Maze trailed Vonn by 1.41 seconds in downhill.
“I tried to be fast and be close to Lindsey,” she said. “I lost too much time. Super-combined is like that, and if you don’t do well in one (discipline), you lose.”
Vonn held her nerve when Maze and Hosp put down the two fastest slalom runs after they finished the downhill sixth and seventh, respectively.
“It definitely wasn’t pretty skiing, but I made it,” Vonn said. “There aren’t many parts of slalom I’m good at, but on the flats is one of them.”
Elisabeth Goergl of Austria was second in downhill, 0.61 behind Vonn, but skied out in the slalom.
Defending overall champion Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany had a big mistake midway down the slalom and hiked up the mountain to resume her run. She finished 21st, more than five seconds behind the leader.
The Olympic champion in super-combined was third after the morning run.
Hoefl-Riesch is winless this season after denying Vonn a fourth straight giant crystal globe last year.
Hosp won the overall crown in 2006-07 before Vonn’s winning streak began, but has sustained a series of injuries since. The 28-year-old Austrian got her first podium finish this season, and just her second since March 2009.
American teammates Leanne Smith and Julia Mancuso dropped in the standings after being fourth- and fifth-fastest in downhill.
Mancuso, the Olympic silver medalist in super-combined, finished 13th, 3.82 behind Vonn. Smith placed 18th, 4.74 back.
Both were upbeat about their prospects in Saturday’s marquee downhill race.
“I tried to push it today to see where I can be perfect for (Saturday),” said Mancuso, who is seventh in the overall standings. “I’m happy with where I am.”
Smith said her form was heading “definitely in the right direction.”
“I know I have the speed, but there’s still a few things to fix,” Smith said. “I just need to be cleaner in a couple of places.”
The St. Moritz event ends Sunday with the second of the season’s three scheduled super-combined events. The super-G and slalom legs are a makeup for a canceled race last month at Val d’Isere, France.
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Aging reputed Chicago mobster found guilty (AP)
CHICAGO ? A federal judge on Thursday convicted a 73-year-old reputed Chicago mobster who first gained notoriety three decades ago for helping to steal the 45-carat Marlborough Diamond from a London jewelry store.
Arthur “The Brain” Rachel grimaced, turned to one of his attorneys and shook his head slightly after Judge Harry Leinenweber found him guilty in the bench trial on three of four counts, including racketeering for his involvement in several planned robberies.
Co-defendants Joseph “The Monk” Scalise, 74, and Robert Pullia, 70, pleaded guilty last week. Scalise was an accomplice with Rachel in what at the time was seen as a daring, daytime theft of the Marlborough Diamond, which was never recovered.
The Chicago trial, which was not connected to the jewelry theft, attracted attention partly because of the defendants’ advanced ages when they’re accused of plotting robberies several years ago.
Prosecutor Amarjeet Bhachu told reporters after Thursday’s verdict that the men were far from harmless, elderly goofs.
“You don’t need to be a weightlifter to pull the trigger on a firearm,” he said. “These men were dedicated to hurting other people. The fact that they were old wasn’t a barrier to the crimes.”
Rachel, who was acquitted on a lone weapons charge, did not speak to reporters as he left the courthouse Thursday.
The judge set a May 30 sentencing date for Rachel. He is expected to get a prison term of around 10 years.
Among the evidence brought to court was a banged-up stepladder the would-be robbers intended to use in the 2010 burglary at the home of late Chicago mobster Angelo “The Hook” LaPietra. Authorities arrested the senior citizens, dressed in black, outside the house.
They had also planned to rob an armored car, prosecutors said.
Scalise and Rachel were convicted in Britain of using a hand grenade as a threat in 1980 to rob London’s posh Graff Jewelers of $3.6 million worth of goods, including the diamond. They began serving 15-year prison terms in 1984 and were released in 1993.
The FBI has said Scalise’s resume included serving as a technical adviser on the movie “Public Enemies” about Depression Era gangster John Dillinger, which was filmed in Chicago in 2008.
Asked by reporters as he left court last week if the Marlborough Diamond could ever be located, Scalise said, “If Lloyd’s wanted to pay enough money, maybe they could.”
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January 27, 2012
Tim Cook unveils new Apple employee benefits at Town Hall staff meeting
Tim Cook has apparently unveiled some new Apple employee benefits at yesterdays Town Hall meeting. According to 9to5Mac, the meeting was all about giving something back to the people who worked so hard to put Apple where it is today; one of the wealthiest businesses in the world.
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Studies: Avastin may fight early breast cancers (AP)
Surprising results from two new studies may reopen debate about the value of Avastin for breast cancer. The drug helped make tumors disappear in certain women with early-stage disease, researchers found.
Avastin recently lost approval for treating advanced breast cancer, but the new studies suggest it might help women whose disease has not spread so widely. These were the first big tests of the drug for early breast cancer, and doctors were cautiously excited that it showed potential to help.
In one study, just over one third of women given Avastin plus chemotherapy for a few months before surgery had no sign of cancer in their breasts when doctors went to operate, versus 28 percent of women given chemo alone. In the other study, more than 18 percent on Avastin plus chemo had no cancer in their breasts or lymph nodes at surgery versus 15 percent of those on chemo alone.
A big caveat, though: The true test is whether Avastin improves survival, and it’s too soon to know that ? both studies are still tracking the women’s health. The drug also has serious side effects.
“I don’t think it’s clear yet whether this is going to be a winner,” Dr. Harry Bear of Virginia Commonwealth University said of Avastin. But he added, “I don’t think we’re done with it.”
Bear led one study, in the United States. Dr. Gunter von Minckwitz of the University of Frankfurt led the other in Germany. Results are in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine.
Avastin (uh-VAS’-tihn) is still on the market for some colon, lung, kidney and brain tumors. In 2008, it won conditional U.S. approval for advanced breast cancer because it seemed to slow the disease. Further research showed it didn’t meaningfully extend life and could cause heart problems, bleeding and other problems. The government revoked its approval for breast cancer in November.
Now doctors can prescribe Avastin for breast cancer but insurers may not pay. Treatment can cost $10,000 a month. The drug is made by California-based Genentech, part of the Swiss company Roche. It is still approved for treating advanced breast cancer in Europe and Japan.
The new studies tested it in a relatively novel way ? before surgery. This is sometimes done to shrink tumors that seem inoperable, or to enable women to have just a lump removed instead of the whole breast.
The women in the studies had tumors that were large enough to warrant treatment besides surgery. Their cancers were not the type that can be treated by Herceptin, another widely used drug.
In the U.S. study, 1,200 women were given chemo or chemo plus infusions of Avastin. By the time of their surgery, no cancer could be found in the breasts of more than 34 percent of those given Avastin versus 28 percent of the others. (Surgeons still have to operate because they don’t know the tumor is gone until they check tissue samples.)
The German study involved 1,900 women including some with larger tumors. It used a stricter definition of cancer-free at surgery: no sign of disease in the breast or lymph nodes rather than just the breast. No cancer was seen in 18 percent of women on Avastin versus 15 percent of those given only chemo. Different chemo drugs were used ? a factor that might change Avastin’s effectiveness.
The U.S. study was paid for by the National Cancer Institute with some support from drug companies. The German study was sponsored by drug companies. Some researchers consult for Genentech or other makers of cancer drugs.
If even one of these studies shows a survival advantage for Avastin “that would be a game changer” although side effects remain a concern, said Dr. Gary Lyman. He is a Duke University researcher who was on the federal advisory panel that recommended revoking Avastin’s approval.
However, von Minckwitz said side effects are more justifiable in early breast cancer patients because “the intention is cure” rather than in late-stage disease where cure isn’t usually possible.
Of the more than 200,000 women in the U.S. diagnosed each year with breast cancer, about 30,000 are like those in the new studies, Lyman estimated.
But the studies’ impact could be far greater: The participants’ tissue samples are being analyzed for genes and biomarkers to predict which women are most likely to respond to Avastin. That could lead to a relook of using the drug for certain women with advanced disease, too.
Three other studies are under way testing Avastin in early breast cancer; one is expected to have results by the end of this year, said Dr. Sandra Horning, global development chief of cancer drugs for Roche and Genentech. The company does not plan to seek any change in Avastin’s use until more results are available, she said.
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Avastin: http://www.avastin.com
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Marilynn Marchione can be followed at http://twitter.com/MMarchioneAP
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Sprint’s move to roaming agreements sends AT&T to angry town
Despite all Sprint’s efforts to promote its Network Vision plans, the carrier has been much more coy about its intentions for subscribers in the rural midwest. It was recently revealed that the company plans to divest some of its infrastructure in Oklahoma and Kansas, where the carrier will instead rely on roaming agreements for voice and data. The move is primarily a cost-cutting measure, but one network — AT&T — is none too happy about the revelation. Ma Bell argues that Sprint is being too opportunistic following the FCC’s shuttering of the Home Market Rule, which (once upon a time) required carriers to build up infrastructure rather than rely on roaming agreements in areas where they held spectrum licenses.
With the Home Market Rule a thing of the past, AT&T suggests this move will merely be the tip of the iceberg for Sprint, as the carrier may now essentially piggyback on the investments of other providers. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is currently set to hear arguments on the matter this spring, and AT&T hopes the Court will “reject the FCC’s market intervention.” In the meantime, according to Ma Bell, Sprint’s actions are, “Nice work, if you can get it.” These are fighting words, indeed.
Naturally, Sprint isn’t taking these accusations lying down. In response, it states, “It’s disappointing, but not surprising, that AT&T wants to challenge a consumer’s right to access email, the Internet and other mobile broadband services wherever they may travel in the U.S.” Those interested can read the text in its entirety after the break.
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Exclusive: The Vampire Diaries Casts Another Gilbert (omg!)
There’s another Gilbert coming to Mystic Falls.
Newcomer Lindsey R. Garrett has been cast on The Vampire Diaries as Samantha Gilbert, TVGuide.com has learned exclusively.
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Samantha, in her 20s, is described as a bit of a gossip, but don’t expect her to cross paths with Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev) anytime soon. She’ll appear only during flashbacks in the episode titled “1912,” airing at the end of February, as one of the town’s founding family members who interacts with both Salvatore brothers.
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Summary Box: Swiss army battles snow at Davos (AP)
CREATING BARRIERS: Thousands of Swiss soldiers and police have been shoveling snow to erect a “ring of steel” against unwelcome demonstrators hoping to gatecrash the annual meeting of political and economic elites in the Swiss Alps at Davos.
SNOW JOB: A Swiss army spokesman said Tuesday that heavy snowfall over the past two weeks made putting up 11 miles (18 kilometers) of security barriers around the heart of Davos an arduous task.
AVALANCHE THREAT: Davos saw 16 inches (40 centimeters) of fresh snow overnight, with roadside mounds already reaching heights of more than 8 feet (about 2.5 meters).
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