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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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Jessica Biel And Gerard Butler Promise Kid Soccer Action In 'Playing For Keeps'

While the trailers for the romantic comedy "Playing For Keeps" do a fine job of selling the film's romancey-ness and its star-studded cast, which includes Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Uma Thurman and Dennis Quaid, it's not all about the lovey-dovey stuff. There's also "crazy" action involved, though the type of action to which [...]

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All Things Appy: 5 Best iOS Transportation Apps

The travel experience has been enhanced by the portability of the iPhone and its apps. Travel planning, making reservations, and getting information while on the road are all easier with the top five free transportation-oriented apps available for the iOS platform.

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'Grey's Anatomy' creator disses Katherine Heigl

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Katherine Heigl on "Grey's Anatomy."

By Us Weekly

"Grey's Anatomy" has had some pretty sensational storylines -- bomb explosions, plane crashes, mass shootings, etc. -- but not all of the drama happens onscreen.?

Four years ago, series star Katherine Heigl caused a bit of a stir on set when she withdrew her name from Emmy consideration because she felt she hadn't been "given the material to warrant a nomination." Writers on the show were reportedly miffed, and though Heigl remained on the show for two years after the incident, her relationship with series creator Shonda Rhimes always seemed strained.

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Rhimes -- who also created the "Grey's" spinoff "Private Practice" and the political drama "Scandal," starring Kerry Washington -- recently sat down with Oprah Winfrey for an "Oprah's Next Chapter" interview airing Sunday, Dec. 9, on OWN. Among the topics they covered? Heigl's infamous Emmy snub.

"On some level it stung, and on some level I was not surprised," the "Grey's" head writer, 42, tells Oprah in a teaser for the interview. "When people show you who they are, believe them. I carry that with me a lot. It has served me well."

Heigl, 34, left the medical drama in 2010 to pursue film projects and spend more time with her family -- she and husband Josh Kelley adopted daughters Naleigh and Adalaide in fall 2009 and spring 2012, respectively -- but earlier this year, she expressed interest in returning to Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital to close out her character's arc.

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"I've told them I want to," the?"Knocked Up" actress told E! News in January. "I really, really, really want to see where [Izzie Stevens] is. I just want to know what happened to her and where she went and what she's doing now. My idea is that she actually, like, figures it out, and finds some success and does really well in a different hospital."

Rhimes had other ideas, and none of them involved Izzie -- or Heigl. "I think it was really nice to hear her appreciating the show. At the same time we are on a track we have been planning," she told TV Guide in response to the star's wish to reprise her role. "The idea of changing that track is not something we are interested in right now."

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Rhimes says she's grown a lot since that experience and, in general, during her nine years as a show runner. Speaking to Oprah about her greatest accomplishment over that time, she says: "I think I'm most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and artist, and a businesswoman and manager. Because those two things do not go together."

"For a long time," she continues, "I really had a hard time with the idea that I was supposed to be this person who lived inside her head and created things but also managed a bunch of people and had to lead a group of people. And those two things have sort of come together. And I'm really proud of how that works now."

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