Egypt's president behaves like his predecessors

Boys sit in front of graffiti and Arabic, bottom, that reads, "regime you're afraid of a paint brush and a pen," in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. The Egyptian military on Monday assumed joint responsibility with the police for security and protecting state institutions until the results of a Dec. 15 constitutional referendum are announced. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Boys sit in front of graffiti and Arabic, bottom, that reads, "regime you're afraid of a paint brush and a pen," in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. The Egyptian military on Monday assumed joint responsibility with the police for security and protecting state institutions until the results of a Dec. 15 constitutional referendum are announced. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Graffiti depicting Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi as a pharaoh and Arabic that reads, "void," covers a wall in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Monday, Dec. 10, 2012. The Egyptian military on Monday assumed joint responsibility with the police for security and protecting state institutions until the results of a Dec. 15 constitutional referendum are announced. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012 file photo, Graffiti depicting Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi covers an outer wall of the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt. Some six months since becoming the first democratically elected president of Egypt, Morsi is widely accused of having abandoned pledges of inclusive government for doctrinaire and authoritarian ways. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012 file photo, Egyptian riot policemen march past a mural on the wall of the presidential palace depicting president Mohammed Morsi, left, former military council ruler Hussain Tantawi, center and ousted president Mubarak with Arabic anti-Morsi graffiti, in Cairo, Egypt. Some six months since becoming the first democratically elected president of Egypt, Morsi is widely accused of having abandoned pledges of inclusive government for doctrinaire and authoritarian ways. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012 file photo, an Egyptian protester wears a Guy Fawkes mask while posing for a photo next to a mural painted overnight on the exterior wall of the presidential palace depicting president Mohammed Morsi, left, former military council ruler Hussein Tantawi, center and ousted President Mubarak with Arabic that reads "no, the brotherhood's constitution is not valid," in Cairo, Egypt. Some six months since becoming the first democratically elected president of Egypt, Morsi is widely accused of having abandoned pledges of inclusive government for doctrinaire and authoritarian ways. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

CAIRO (AP) ? The freshly scrawled graffiti depicting Mohammed Morsi as a pharaonic Saddam Hussein tells the tale of high hopes dashed with record speed: Barely six months after becoming Egypt's first democratically elected president, the Islamist is widely accused of abandoning pledges of inclusive government for doctrinaire and authoritarian ways.

Some say it should come as no surprise: heavy-handed rule has a history in Egypt and in much of the region ? as do unfulfilled promises of reform.

In the past three weeks alone, Morsi has given himself near-absolute powers; placed himself above any oversight; allowed or looked the other way when his supporters set upon peaceful protesters outside his palace or besieged the nation's highest court to stop judges from issuing an unfavorable ruling; and, ominously, indicated he was spying on his foes.

Borrowing a page from his predecessors' governance manual, Morsi justified his actions by speaking, albeit cryptically, of a "conspiracy" aimed at destroying state institutions and derailing the transition to democracy. He offered no evidence to back his allegation, saying only that he would do everything he can to protect the nation.

"I see what you don't see," he told state television a week after he touched off a political crisis Nov. 22 by issuing decrees that gave him sweeping powers.

The actions of the 61-year-old, U.S.-trained engineer have a lot to do with a political system that in six decades of de facto military rule has grown accustomed to having one man with all the power concentrated in his hands. Some in Egypt argue that one-man rule is an enduring legacy of pharaonic times when the leader was treated as a god.

In Morsi's case, critics and analysts believe his actions are dictated by the powerful group he hails from, the Muslim Brotherhood, although they only have anecdotal evidence to support that contention.

"In the final analysis, he is a dictator," said analyst and former lawmaker Emad Gad. "But he is only carrying out the will of the Brotherhood after he promised to be a president for all Egyptians."

Gad and others were surprised that Morsi made the power grab so quickly.

But Gehad el-Haddad, a Brotherhood spokesman, dismissed charges that Morsi embraced an autocratic style of governance, emphasizing the president's popular election.

"Those who claim he is a pharaoh or a dictator need to produce proof to back their argument or be quiet," he said.

The Brotherhood, Egypt's oldest Islamist group, had been outlawed for nearly 60 years until it emerged as the country's most powerful political force following Mubarak's ouster in last year's uprising. Critics accuse the group of monopolizing power as a prelude to its longtime dream of turning Egypt into an Islamic state.

The military officers who seized power in 1952, ending three decades of a Western-style democracy under a monarch and British occupation, promised to return to the barracks after six months. Instead, they founded decades of military rule with Gamal Abdel-Nasser emerging as the country's strongman two years later after a power struggle with an older officer.

Anwar Sadat, who succeeded him in 1970, jailed his rivals a year later to consolidate his grip on power, marketing his move a "corrective revolution."

Mubarak began his 29-year rule with a series of goodwill gestures toward the opposition, ordering the release of hundreds of Sadat's critics, promising a gradual move toward democracy and pledging to step down after two terms in office. Before his ouster, his son, Gamal, was poised to succeed him.

Such transformations are found elsewhere in the region. Syria's Bashar Assad succeeded his father, Hafez, in 2000 amid high hopes that the young leader would relax the police state that was established in nearly 30 years of iron-fisted rule.

Assad did not disappoint, but the so-called "Damascus Spring" he tolerated lasted less than a year before authorities began to arrest dissidents and jail them again. Assad is now fighting for his survival in a civil war that has killed at least 40,000 Syrians since March 2011.

Even the late Moammar Gadhafi brought hopes for a better life and development to Libyans when he seized power in a 1969 coup that toppled the monarchy. He rode a wave of popular support for several years before he began ruling the North African nation as a fiefdom, with his family dividing up its vast oil wealth.

So much hope had been placed on Morsi's shoulders during his campaign and the early days of his presidency that liberals found it hard to accept his latest grab for power. Many of them voted for him in June not so much out of conviction as out of a desire to see the defeat of Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq. Morsi narrowly beat him, winning only 51 percent of the vote.

Morsi had fed these expectations by promising inclusion and equality, suggesting at one point that he might appoint a Christian as vice president. In the end, he gave the job to a Muslim judge, and the one Christian among his four assistants has quit in protest of his handling of the political crisis.

In fact, of the 17 people he named to a presidential advisory council, seven quit over the same issue. Most of those who remain on the panel are Islamists.

All those who quit, in addition to Vice President Mahmoud Mekki, said they were not consulted about the president's Nov. 22 decrees. Morsi has vowed never to infringe on the freedom of the press, but since coming to office, Egypt has seen a private TV station closed and several newspaper journalists and bloggers hauled before the courts. Brotherhood members or sympathizers have been named editors of most of the nation's 50-plus state publications, including its flagship dailies. Hundreds of Islamists are besieging a media complex on the western outskirts of Cairo to protest what they see as a hostile editorial line of the powerful, privately owned TV networks.

The spiritual leader of the Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie, offered a rare glimpse of the vast influence he wields in Egypt when he criticized prosecutors for releasing most of the dozens of protesters who were arrested last week in clashes with Morsi supporters near the presidential palace. The prosecutors cited a lack of evidence in the release, but they still drew the ire of Badie, who has no official capacity in Morsi's administration.

Also Sunday, the man thought to be the Brotherhood's most powerful member, Khairat el-Shater, indicated in statements on TV that he had voice recordings of individuals allegedly plotting to destabilize Morsi's rule. El-Shater did not identify the individuals and did not say how or why he had access to the recordings. Like Badie, he has no official role in government.

Morsi and his Brotherhood supporters, however, must contend with a very different Egypt than his predecessors ? one in which nearly every adult has a strong opinion on topics such as political leaders, the economy and how to reform the police force.

"He has made a huge mistake when he did not accurately read the Egyptian population in terms of whether or not they will accept what is essentially a return to authoritarian rule," said Tarek Radwan, a Middle East expert at the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center in Washington. "He saw himself as having 'revolutionary legitimacy,' which allows him to take the drastic steps he did. He does not have that mandate."

Evidence of the new Egypt has been on display since the uprising that toppled Mubarak began on Jan. 25, 2011, with wave after wave of demonstrations, strikes and sit-ins that at times made the country look almost ungovernable.

In the past three weeks, tens of thousands of Morsi opponents have rallied in Cairo and elsewhere against the decrees and a draft constitution that they see to be favoring Islamists, restricting civil liberties and giving clerics a say over legislation.

And then there is all the graffiti ? the unflattering caricatures and slogans against Morsi and the Brotherhood that the protesters have spray-painted on the walls outside the presidential palace.

Associated Press

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Analysis: Distrust among members of Congress complicates "cliff" talks

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and his Republican opponents in Congress enter a crucial week in the "fiscal cliff" impasse with more than just differences over taxes to bridge: Also in the way is pervasive mistrust among members of Congress that discourages big concessions for fear the other side won't reciprocate.

That distrust is fueling doubts among Republicans and Democrats about relying on the other side to live up to any bargains struck now on deficit reduction in the future, Capitol Hill aides say.

Because resolution of the immediate cliff issues depends in part on commitments by both sides to a framework for overhauling the tax code and entitlement programs over the next year, an atmosphere of disbelief could impede any agreement on the cliff.

Nearly everyone - from Obama to most of the 535 members of the House of Representatives and Senate - say they want to avoid the cliff's $600 billion in harmful tax hikes and spending cuts set to kick in automatically in the new year, and replace them with more reasoned savings.

Obama wants the tax cuts that originated during the administration of President George W. Bush extended for middle class taxpayers only, while Republicans want them extended for all, including the wealthiest.

But widespread credibility issues could cause problems for Democrat Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner if and when they have to sell any agreement they forge to their parties in Congress.

The task for Boehner, who met Sunday with Obama, may be greater because many Republicans distrust each other as well as the Democrats.

The distrust between the parties is nothing new, having been built up over years of partisan recrimination. But it's now become a regular feature of debate on the cliff, on and off the floors of the House and Senate.

Some Democrats have spoken darkly of a hidden Republican agenda to gut, not just cut, social safety net programs.

Republicans, said Oregon's Peter DeFazio in a December 5 House floor speech, are acting under the "guise of deficit reduction," to "somehow kill Social Security, which they've never supported."

GOING OVER THE CLIFF?

Republicans, for their part, say they don't believe Democrats will follow through on promises to make spending cuts.

"The reason we haven't heard Democrat ideas for entitlement reform may be because they have no plans to cut or to reform entitlement spending at all," Republican Representative John Fleming of Louisiana declared on the House floor last week.

"This is just another game from their play book - raise taxes and increase spending, as always," said Fleming.

And some see behind the firm Democratic stance a desire to go over the cliff in order to discredit Republicans, who several recent polls have indicated will bear the lion's share of the blame.

"I think their whole game plan is take the economy off the fiscal cliff and then blame Republicans," Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson said on CNN December 2.

And neither side trusts the other's math. While Obama maintains his plan will shrink deficits by $4.4 trillion over four years, the Republican staff on the Senate Budget Committee says it's more like $400 billion.

Doubts about the worth of promises are fueling a renewed argument over the federal debt ceiling which could greatly complicate resolution of the impasse over the cliff.

The nation's borrowing limit - which controls the government's capacity to borrow money to pay past debts - will need to be increased by the end of February. Under current law, an act of Congress is required to do that.

Obama is demanding, as part of the fiscal cliff negotiations, enhanced presidential authority over the debt limit, in order to stop Republicans from using it as leverage against the White House.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and other Republicans are resisting, saying that without debt ceiling leverage, the White House won't make the cuts it's promising.

"Look," McConnell said in the Senate last week, "the only way we ever cut spending around here is by using the debate over the debt limit to do it."

More broadly, members well aware that Congress gets mired in gridlock on much lesser pieces of legislation, find it hard to conceive of Congress succeeding at the far more complex tasks of overhauling the tax code and entitlement programs.

The truth is that many members of Congress share the same low regard for Congress that the public expresses in surveys.

Indeed, a regular theme in floor speeches by members of both the House and Senate is dysfunction - their own.

(Editing, additional reporting and writing by Fred Barbash; editing by Todd Eastham)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-distrust-among-members-congress-complicates-cliff-talks-060409852--sector.html

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Travel Expenses for Home-Based Business

If you are self-employed your business may well be based at your home address, although you perform the majority of your work at your customers' sites. This can apply to a range of trades from plumbers to computer consultants, and even medical professionals.

In order to claim the costs of travelling to your customers' sites against your taxable profits, you need to show that your trading activity does not cease when you arrive home. The following records should help prove this:
  • Precise records of all journeys to your customers' sites, including the date, the mileage, and any public transport tickets and parking receipts.
  • A diary of the time spent working on proposals, quotes and other business related paperwork at your home address.
  • Business-related paperwork such as invoices and quotations should show your home address as the business base.
  • Any insurance policy you need for your business should show your home address as the operational base for the business.
  • Where your business is operated through a company, having the registered office for that company at the home address can also help. HMRC will be able to see these details, but you can hide them from prying eyes on the Companies House register.
  • You can also make a claim for the cost of running your business from home, so speak to us to see what can and cannot be claimed as a business expense.

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Festive performance at church by Thames Philharmonic Choir

Festive performance at church by Thames Philharmonic Choir

In a rare festive performance the Thames Philharmonic choir will be delivering their first Christmas concert for years in Surbiton tonight.

At the refurbished St Andrew?s Church, they will be singing a varied selection of seasonal classics and more unusual numbers, including music from Handel?s Messiah, Bach and Vaughan Williams.

Jackie Morgan, an alto in the choir, said: ?We do not often do an actual Christmas concert, so it will be both unusual and interesting for us, and make a change from what we usually do.?

Morgan has sung with choirs for most of her life, she said: ?I love singing Christmas carols. I really miss it.

?It is a wonderful thing to do, and I know from experience that audience members get frustrated if they can?t sing along, so we will be inviting them to sing at our concert.

?Christmas is not Christmas if you don?t have Christmas carols.?

The soloists at the concert will be Katherine Crompton, a soprano, and Morgan Pearse, a baritone, who are both postgraduate students at the Royal College of Music.

Renowned former Royal Choral Society chorus master, John Bate, will be conducting. Scholar of the prestigious Trinity College of Music, he has performed at venues such as King?s College, Cambridge, and throughout Europe.

Morgan said: ?Everyone says it is a fabulous place with really great acoustics, and somewhere really nice to sing now.?

She added: ?I hope people will enjoy the variety of music we are singing, it is quite a lovely programme, all in what is a very nice ambience.?

The concert starts at 7.30pm, with an open rehearsal at 2.30pm. Adult tickets cost ?12, concessions cost ?10.

To book call the box office on 07522 524081, or visit thamesphilchoir.org.uk.

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Amritsar shoot-out: Criminalization of politics is the root-cause | Sikh ...

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By Baljeet Singh
Published: December 8, 2012

Hoshiarpur, Punajb (December 08, 2012): The ?Sikh Youth of Punjab? has termed the shoot-out in Amritsar as horrific and shocking.

?Our heart goes to family members of the ASI Ravinderpal Singh, who lost his life while defending the izzat of his daughter?, said party head Ranbir Singh and general secretary Manjit Singh.

They said the criminalization of politics was the root-cause of what happened yesterday in Amritsar.

File Photo: Sikh Youth of Punjab is youth wing of Dal Khalsa.

The commercialization and criminalization of politics by both the main parties Congress and the SAD have posed serious danger to the society.

They said Akalis were known for their simplicity and sobriety but ironically now their lifestyle was almost opposite to it. They alleged that people with criminal bent of mind has penetrated into its rank and file of the SAD. They said Badals had done enough damage to the society at large by allowing these criminals to have a field day. They asked Badals to cleanse their party from bad elements.

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Texas A&M?s Manziel becomes first freshman to win Heisman Trophy

NEW YORK -- Johnny Football just got himself a way cooler nickname: Johnny Heisman.

Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy, taking college football?s top individual prize Saturday night after a record-breaking debut.

Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te?o finished a distant second and Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein was third in the voting. In a Heisman race with two nontraditional candidates, Manziel broke through the class barrier and kept Te?o from becoming the first purely defensive player to win the award.

Manziel drew 474 first-place votes and 2,029 points from the panel of media members and former winners.

?I have been dreaming about this since I was a kid, running around the backyard pretending I was Doug Flutie, throwing Hail Marys to my dad,? he said after hugging his parents and kid sister.

Manziel seemed incredibly calm after his name was announced, hardly resembling the guy who dashes around the football field on Saturday. He simply bowed his head, and later gave the trophy a quick kiss.

?I wish my whole team could be up here with me,? he said with a wide smile.

Te?o had 321 first-place votes and 1,706 points and Klein received 60 firsts and 894 points.

Just a few days after turning 20, Manziel proved times have truly changed in college football, and that experience can be really overrated.

For years, seniors dominated the award named after John Heisman, the pioneering Georgia Tech coach from the early 1900s. In the 1980s, juniors started becoming common winners. Tim Tebow became the first sophomore to win it in 2007, and two more won it in the next two seasons.

Adrian Peterson had come closest as a freshman, finishing second to Southern California quarterback Matt Leinart in 2004. But it took 78 years for a newbie to take home the big bronze statue. Johnny Football really can do it all.

Peterson was a true freshman for Oklahoma. As a redshirt freshmen, Manziel attended school and practiced with the team last year, but did not play in any games.

He?s the second player from Texas A&M to win the Heisman, joining John David Crow from 1957, and did so without the slightest hint of preseason hype. Manziel didn?t even win the starting job until two weeks before the season.

Who needs hype when you can fill-up a highlight reel the way Manziel can?

With daring runs and elusive improvisation, Manziel broke 2010 Heisman winner Cam Netwon?s Southeastern Conference record with 4,600 total yards, led the Aggies to a 10-2 in their first season in the SEC and orchestrated an upset at then-No. 1 Alabama in November that stamped him as legit.

He has thrown for 3,419 yards and 24 touchdowns and run for 1,181 yards and 19 more scores to become the first freshman, first SEC player and fifth player overall to throw for 3,000 yards and run for 1,000 in a season.

Manziel has one more game this season, when the No. 10 Aggies play Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl on Jan. 4.

The resume alone fails to capture the Johnny Football phenomena. At 6-foot-1 and 200 pounds, Manziel is master of the unexpected, darting here and there, turning plays seemingly doomed to failure into touchdowns.

Take, for example, what he did in the first quarter against the Crimson Tide. Manziel took a shotgun snap, stepped up in the pocket as if he was about to take off on another made scramble and ran into the back a lineman. On impact, Manziel bobbled the ball, caught it with his back to the line of scrimmage, turned, rolled the opposite direction and fired a touchdown pass ? throwing across his body ? to a wide-open receiver.

He might as well have been back in Kerrville, Texas, where he became a hill country star in high school.

Manziel thought he was going to be the next Derek Jeter ? hence the No. 2 he wears. Instead he became the biggest star football star in College Station since Crow won the Heisman.

His road to stardom was anything but a clear path.

Manziel competed with two other quarterbacks to replace Ryan Tannehill as the starter this season, the Aggies? first in the SEC and first under coach Kevin Sumlin.

Manziel came out of spring practice as the backup, and went to work with a private quarterback coach in the summer to better his chances of winning the job in the preseason.

It worked, but still nobody was hailing Manziel is the next big thing.

Then he started playing and the numbers started piling up.

He had 557 total yards against Arkansas, 576 vs. Louisiana Tech and 440 against Mississippi State.

He also had some struggles against Florida in the season opener and in a home loss to LSU. The question was: Could Johnny Football do his thing against a top-notch opponent?

The answer came in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Nov. 10. Going into the matchup against the Crimson Tide, Manziel said he and his teammates heard a lot of doubters.

?You can?t do this and you can?t do that,? he recalled Saturday at the podium

Manziel passed for 253 yards, ran for 92 and the Aggies beat the Tide 29-24. Klein had been the front-runner for most of the season, but Manziel surged after beating `Bama.

Still, Manziel was still something of a mystery man. Sumlin?s rules prohibit freshmen from being available to the media. Johnny Football was off-limits, but not exactly silent.

Manziel gave glimpses of himself on social media ? including some memorable pictures of him dressed up as Scooby-Doo for Halloween with some scantily clad young women.

Before he became a celebrity, Manziel got himself into some serious trouble. In June, he was arrested in College Station after police said he was involved in a fight and produced a fake ID. He was charged with disorderly conduct and two other misdemeanors.

After the season, Texas A&M took the reins off Manziel and made him available for interviews, allowing Johnny Football to tell his own story.

Though in the end, his play said it all.

Source: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/12/08/3212780/texas-ams-manziel-becomes-first.html

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South ends 4-year skid to North in 64th Annual North-South All-Star football game

MYRTLE BEACH -- The South team was sick of being on the losing end of the SCADA North-South All-Star Football game.

From July on, coach James Waring said his assistants and coaches did everything to make sure a four-game skid in the series ended Saturday. All involved from the Lower State?s side of the all-star event did just that.

The South won 23-0, getting one of the strongest defensive efforts in recent memory and taking a North offense with plenty of college talent out of the equation throughout.

But this wasn?t just about executing on one December afternoon at Doug Shaw Memorial Stadium. It was about the coaching staff, particularly Hartsville coach and South defensive assistant Jeff Calabrese crafting a group of players who could make an immediate impact.

?What Coach Calabrese did was he went out and got a lot of guys in the Pee Dee area that he had seen play. They knew each other,? Waring said. ?When they came together, a lot of these kids were from the same area; they?ve played each other before. It wasn?t like it was a brand new set of guys. It was almost like the team was intact from the beginning.?

The defensive shutout closed the North?s advantage in the all-team series to 36-26-2. It also helped erase some of the sting from last year?s 42-3 North victory. That score marked the second-largest margin of victory in the first 63 games.

It was clear early in the 64th annual game that the North team wasn?t going to have the type of offensive production from last season. The South defense frustrated North quarterbacks Kylen Binn (Blythewood), Trey Robinson (Dorman) and Devin Pearson (South Pointe).

It mattered little that South quarterbacks C.J. Frazier (Bluffton) and Anthony Smalls (Hanahan) combined for three first-half interceptions. While the South offense finally got on track with some big plays, including a pair of second-half touchdowns from Fort Dorchester?s Daitwan Commodore, the North failed to finish its most successful drives.

?From what I saw, it looked like we out-worked everybody,? South defensive MVP Darius Leonard said after recording nine tackles and combining for a safety. ?They were tired, and we were still in shape. We had another level we played on. We took that next step and played as big boys.?

They also overcame a system that was designed to create more offense. Defenses were required to use four-linemen sets and weren?t allowed to blitz; offensive sets were all-but required to go out of a spread that eliminated many rushing options.

?This is an all-star game, and its designed for offensive teams. We can?t blitz,? Myrtle Beach linebacker Octavius Thomas said. ?For them not to score a lot of points, a shutout, whew. All week, since we got here, the escorts talked about how they lost to the North four times in a row and they can?t stand it. They had to take the heat for those kids.?

Thomas and the other four area players selected for the game all had a visible role in the victory for the South team. The Seahawks linebacker finished with a pair of tackles and a fourth-quarter sack that basically forced one of nine North punts.

Myrtle Beach teammate Max Huggins was arguably the busiest of the five. He had six punts for a 39.7-yard average, connected on all three of his extra point attempts. His one field-goal attempt was blocked.

Georgetown offensive lineman Dillon Alford helped the South offense rush for 245 yards, while fellow Bulldog Anthony Blair (three tackles) drew some of the biggest cheers of the day for a monster sack on the North?s last drive of the game.

Socastee linebacker Adam Crane recorded two tackles, including one for loss, and forced a fumble.

Third quarter

S-Jerod Tucker 78 run (Max Huggins kick)

S-Safety

S-Daitwan Commodore 3 run (Huggins kick)

Fourth quarter

S-Commodore 12 run (Huggins kick)

RUSHING?North: Kylen Binn 9-14, Nicholas Sims-Metts 3-0, Trey Robinson 8-(-14), Devin Pearson 10-3, Levi Bufford 3-(-)2, Osharmar Abercrombie 2-0. South: Anthony Smalls 8-52, Daitwan Commodore 12-61, C.J. Frazier 4-9, Noah Shuler 11-48, Jerod Tucker 3-75, DeAndrew Schoultz 1-0.

PASSING?North: Binn 7-20-1, 0, 90; Robinson 4-6-0, 0, 38; Pearson 5-10-1, 0, 56. South: Frazier 7-17-3, 0, 72; Smalls 4-7-1, 0, 26.

RECEIVING?North: Tovaris Cureton 3-58, Ty Garrett 3-54, Dorian Raines 2-16, Jaleel Scott 2-14, Bufford 2-10, Hakim Frazier 2-7, Abercrombie 1-14, T. Robinson 1-11. South: Jordan Berry 3-20, DeVona? Delaney 3-33, Rudder Brown 2-12, Noah Shuler 1-7, Marquis Webb 2-26.

MVPs?North: Offensive, Tovaris Cureton; Defensive, Simeon Byrd. South: Offensive, Daitwan Commodore. Defensive, Darius Leonard.

Source: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/12/08/3212596/south-ends-4-year-skid-to-north.html

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Myriad Genetics' HRD Test Predicts Response to Platinum Therapy in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 7, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Myriad Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq:MYGN) announced today that a presentation entitled "Homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) score predicts pathologic response following neoadjuvant platinum-based therapy in triple-negative and BRCA1/2 mutation-associated breast cancer (BC)," was presented on Friday, December 7, 2012 at the CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in San Antonio, Texas. The study demonstrates that Myriad's HRD test strongly predicts which primary tumors will respond to platinum-based combination therapy in patients with triple-negative breast cancer.

Triple-negative breast cancer describes breast tumors that lack estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and HER2. This type of breast cancer tends to be more aggressive than other subtypes of breast cancer and has not been amenable to targeted therapies. The platinum class of drugs kill tumors by causing DNA damage inside the tumor and may be particularly effective against tumors that have lost their ability to repair DNA.

Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine and Myriad Genetics studied the pathologic response of tumors in patients with triple-negative breast cancer to a carboplatin-based therapy and showed that the HRD test can significantly predict patient response to such therapy. 70% of patients with an HRD score ?10 responded to the carboplatin treatment, compared to only 20% of patients with an HRD score < 10 (p=0.0001). Using the HRD test instead of BRCA status identified more than 3 times as many patients as likely responders. The HRD test may prove to be a very important tool in guiding the treatment of patients with triple-negative breast cancer.

"DNA repair deficiency is believed to be a property of a significant number of triple-negative breast tumors," said Dr. James Ford of Stanford University School of Medicine, the senior author of the study. "The HRD score has enabled us to effectively identify the majority of responders with high accuracy."

Many breast tumors are believed to be deficient in DNA repair capacity.?Myriad's HRD test is designed to predict patient response to DNA damaging agents such as platinum drugs and PARP inhibitors that may be more effective against these subsets of breast cancer.?With further research, the use of the HRD test may become an important tool to guide treatment decisions in all breast cancer patients.

About Myriad Genetics

Myriad Genetics is a leading molecular diagnostic company dedicated to making a difference in patients' lives through the discovery and commercialization of transformative tests to assess a person's genetic risk of developing disease, guide treatment decisions and assess risk of disease progression and recurrence. Myriad's portfolio of molecular diagnostic tests are based on an understanding of the role genes play in human disease and were developed with a commitment to improving an individual's decision making process for monitoring and treating disease. Myriad is focused on strategic directives to introduce new products, including companion diagnostics, as well as expanding internationally. For more information on how Myriad is making a difference, please visit the Company's website: www.myriad.com

Myriad, the Myriad logo, BRACAnalysis, Colaris, Colaris AP, Melaris, TheraGuide, Prezeon, OnDose, Panexia and Prolaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Myriad Genetics, Inc. in the United States and foreign countries. MYGN-G

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,including statements relating to the ability of the HRD test to predict which primary tumors will respond to platinum-based combination therapy in patients with triple-negative breast cancer; whether the HRD test will become a important tool to guide the treatment of patients with triple-negative breast cancer and in all breast cancer patients; and the Company's strategic directives under the caption "About Myriad Genetics".?These "forward-looking statements" are based on management's current expectations of future events and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those set forth in or implied by forward-looking statements.?These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the risk that sales and profit margins of our existing molecular diagnostic tests and companion diagnostic services may decline or will not continue to increase at historical rates; the risk that we may be unable to expand into new markets outside of the United States; the risk that we may be unable to develop or achieve commercial success for additional molecular diagnostic tests and companion diagnostic services in a timely manner, or at all; the risk that we may not successfully develop new markets for our molecular diagnostic tests and companion diagnostic services, including our ability to successfully generate revenue outside the United States; the risk that licenses to the technology underlying our molecular diagnostic tests and companion diagnostic services and any future products are terminated or cannot be maintained on satisfactory terms; risks related to delays or other problems with manufacturing our products or operating our laboratory testing facilities; risks related to public concern over genetic testing in general or our tests in particular; risks related to regulatory requirements or enforcement in the United States and foreign countries and changes in the structure of healthcare payment systems; risks related to our ability to obtain new corporate collaborations and acquire new technologies or businesses on satisfactory terms, if at all; risks related to our ability to successfully integrate and derive benefits from any technologies or businesses that we acquire; the development of competing tests and services; the risk that we or our licensors may be unable to protect the proprietary technologies underlying our tests; the risk of patent-infringement and invalidity claims or challenges of our patents; risks of new, changing and competitive technologies and regulations in the United States and internationally; and other factors discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" contained in Item 1A in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as any updates to those risk factors filed from time to time in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q or Current Reports on Form 8-K. All information in this press release is as of the date of the release, and Myriad undertakes no duty to update this information unless required by law.

Media Contact: Stephanie Ashe Continuum Health Communications (650) 245-0425   Investor Contact: Jim Evans Chief Financial Officer (801) 584-3672

Source: http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2012/12/07/510291/10014977/en/Myriad-Genetics-HRD-Test-Predicts-Response-to-Platinum-Therapy-in-Triple-Negative-Breast-Cancer.html

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