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Saturday, December 31, 2011
Gene identified in increasing pancreatic cancer risk
ScienceDaily (Dec. 29, 2011) ? Mutations in the ATM gene may increase the hereditary risk for pancreatic cancer, according to data published in Cancer Discovery, the newest journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most morbid cancers, with less than 5 percent of those diagnosed with the disease surviving to five years. Approximately 10 percent of patients come from families with multiple cases of pancreatic cancer.
"There was significant reason to believe this clustering was due to genetics, but we had not, to this point, been able to find the causative genes that explained the cluster of pancreatic cancer for a majority of these families," said lead author Alison Klein, Ph.D., associate professor of oncology at the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins and director of the National Familial Pancreas Tumor Registry.
Klein and colleagues used next-generation sequencing, including whole genome and whole exome analyses, and identified ATM gene mutations in two kindreds with familial pancreatic cancer.
When these initial findings were examined in a large series for patients, ATM mutations were present in four of 166 subjects with pancreatic cancer but were absent in 190 spousal control subsets.
Klein said that knowledge of the presence of the ATM gene could lead to better screening for pancreatic cancer, the fourth most common cause of cancer-related death. However, there are currently no recommended screening tests.
Many doctors use endoscopy as a screening tool for pancreatic cancer, but researchers are still evaluating this technique in clinical trials.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Five lawsuits pending in University City crash
The legal battle for relatives of four people killed by a Marine Corps jet that crashed into their San Diego home ended Wednesday in a $17.8 million judgment against the federal government. The struggle for compensation continues, however, for several other families whose homes and possessions were damaged in the Dec. 8, 2008, accident.
The Navy has resolved 33 claims related to the crash in University City and paid about $1.7 million, said Jennifer Zeldis, a spokeswoman for the Navy Judge Advocate General?s office in Washington, D.C.
Those who were unable to come to terms with the Navy Department sued in federal court, where five lawsuits are pending.
The Marine Corps had concluded that a chain of errors caused the crash, but the government was unable to agree with several families about how much compensation was owed.
Owners of the two homes that were destroyed by the jet crash are among those whose claims were rejected by the Navy. Three other houses were significantly damaged.
One of the destroyed homes was the residence of John Wu, his wife, Sunny Zhuang-Wu, and their two daughters. No one was home at the time of the crash.
After two years in temporary housing, the family moved into the rebuilt home about a year ago. Their homeowners? insurance did not cover all costs of construction, temporary rental housing or the replacement of their personal possessions, Zhuang-Wu said.
To make matters worse, Zhuang-Wu, a scientist for a biotech firm, and her husband, an information technology specialist, were both laid off from their jobs after the crash.
To her surprise, the Navy paid them nothing for the damages, she said. ?I didn?t know the military would be so difficult.?
The Navy is unable to comment on the Wu case or other pending litigation, Zeldis said, referring questions to the Department of Justice.
The Wu girls were ages 13 and 9 at the time of the crash. Losing their home and their belongings, and the deaths of their neighbors, ?it is very, very hard for them,? said Zhuang-Wu. ?It affected their school, their achievability, all those things.
?They are still very scared. They still cannot sleep by themselves. Not when they see airplanes over the sky here all the time,? she said.
Her only consolation has been that everyone in their family was at work or school at the time of the crash. ?At least we are still here,? she said.
Don Yoon?s wife, Youngmi; daughters, 15-month-old Grace and 7-week-old Rachel; and mother-in-law, Seokim Lee perished in the crash.
?I feel so sad every time I think of them,? Zhuang-Wu said.
Source: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/dec/29/five-lawsuits-pending-university-city-crash/
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Video immaturity: Diaz not a fan of cowboy hats or Cerrone
Aside from watching 500-plus pounds of muscle hit the stage at the UFC 141 weigh-in today, the staredown between Nate Diaz and Donald Cerrone should be epic, if not a bit violent.
Yesterday's staredown at the final press conference resulted in Donald Cerrone's cowboy hat flying 10 feet in the air. Check out the video (NSFW) to see the aftermath with 20-somethings, Nate and his brother Nick, talk about who's really the puss in this case.
For Cerrone, he loves being the bully and thinks he's in Diaz's head.
"He is the guy that punks everybody else and gets in everyone else's head, so now what happened? The tables turned, and now I'm in your head, you little (expletive)," Cerrone told Adam Hill of the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "It feels good to turn the tables, to think that he came out hard and wanted to be a bully and now I'm bullying him."
Cerrone wasn't totally calm about Thursday's minor fracas. That was $1,000 cowboy hat that Diaz was messing with.
This is shaping up as a very solid card with the Cerrone-Diaz beef leading into a good main event between behemoths Brock Lesnar and Alistair Overeem.
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Thursday, December 29, 2011
New satellites to extend China's military reach (Reuters)
HONG KONG (Reuters) ? China this week reached a milestone in its drive to master the military use of space with the launch of trials for its Beidou satellite global positioning network, a move that will bring it one step closer to matching U.S. space capabilities.
If Beijing can successfully deploy the full 35 satellites planned for the Beidou network on schedule by 2020, its military will be free of its current dependence for navigation on the U.S. global positioning network (GPS) signals and Russia's similar GLONASS system.
And, unlike the less accurate civilian versions of GPS and GLONASS available to the People's Liberation Army (PLA), this network will give China the accuracy to guide missiles, smart munitions and other weapons.
"This will allow a big jump in the precision attack capability of the PLA," said Andrei Chang, a Hong Kong-based analyst of the Chinese military and editor of Kanwa Asian Defense magazine.
China has launched 10 Beidou satellites and plans to launch six more by the end of next year, according to the China Satellite Navigation Management Office.
Chinese and foreign military experts say the PLA's General Staff Department and General Armaments Department closely coordinate and support all of China's space programs within the sprawling science and aerospace bureaucracy.
As part of this system, the Beidou, or "Big Dipper," network will have an important military role alongside the country's rapidly expanding network of surveillance, imaging and remote sensing satellites.
China routinely denies having military ambitions in space.
Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun on Wednesday dismissed fears the Beidou network would pose a military threat, noting that all international satellite navigation systems are designed for dual civilian and military use.
CATCHING UP WITH THE U.S.
China accelerated its military satellite research and development after PLA commanders found they were unable to track two U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups deployed in 1996 to the Taiwan Strait at a time of high tension between the island and the mainland, analysts say.
The effort received a further boost when it was shown how crucial satellite networks were in the 1991 Gulf War, the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
While China still lags the United States and Russia in overall space technology, over the last decade it has rapidly become a state-of-the-art competitor in space-based surveillance after deploying a range of advanced satellite constellations that serve military and civilian agencies.
With the launch of more than 30 surveillance satellites over the last decade, according to space technology experts, the PLA can monitor an expanding area of the earth's surface with increased frequency, an important element of reliable military reconnaissance.
That coverage gives PLA commanders vastly improved capability to detect and track potential military targets.
Real-time satellite images and data can also be used to coordinate the operations of China's naval, missile and strike aircraft forces in operations far from the mainland.
"What we are seeing is China broadly acquiring the same capabilities in this area as those held by the U.S.," said Ross Babbage, a Defense analyst and founder of the Canberra-based Kokoda Foundation, an independent security policy unit.
"Essentially, they are making most of the Western Pacific far more transparent to their military."
In a recent article for the Journal of Strategic Studies, researchers Eric Hagt and Matthew Durnin attempted to estimate the capability of China's space network using orbital modeling software and available data on satellite performance.
China's most basic satellites carried electro-optical sensors capable of taking high resolution digital images in the visible and non-visible wavelengths, wrote the authors.
More advanced satellites launched in recent years carried powerful synthetic aperture radars that could penetrate cloud and cover much bigger areas in high detail.
Added to that, China was now deploying satellites that could monitor electronic signals and emissions, so-called electronic intelligence or ELINT platforms, the authors said.
"Next to China, only the United States possesses more capable tactical support systems in space for tactical operations," they wrote.
(Editing by Don Durfee and Robert Birsel)
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Friday, December 16, 2011
NFL Owners Expand Loans for Stadiums
MINNEAPOLIS - Just when the Vikings stadium site selection seemed to be narrowed down to two choices, a third location is back in running as NFL owners vote to expand a loan program that could send extra money to building a new home for the Minnesota Vikings.
The Linden Avenue site seems to be gaining some traction after Sam Grabarski, president and CEO of the Downtown Council said both that site and the Farmers Market local are possibilities. Now, Linden Avenue is being promoted for its access to bars, hotels, transit and freeways.
"We are assembling teams of experts to help them understand that site fully, and I'm awaiting news from them as to how interested they are," Grabarski said.
The team says it is waiting for more information before moving ahead in Minneapolis, but it's still maintaining its commitment with Arden Hills.
The Metrodome remains a candidate, and Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak emphasizes that it is the cheapest option with the most support on the City Council, though he said all of the city's potential sites have their own appeal.
"I think all Minneapolis sites offer great potential," Rybak said. "If there is some way to find more money for another site or more votes for another site, I'm all for it."
More money may be available to the Vikings thanks to a vote the NFL owners took on Wednesday night in Dallas. The league voted to expand it's G4 loan program, which provides teams with funds to expand or build stadiums. The move could send up to $200 million toward the team's $400 million contribution.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
CrunchBase Reveals: Most New US Startups Founded In Silicon Valley, Followed By? New York City
Lots of US cities claim they're the best place to do a startup. So where are entrepreneurs actually starting companies these days? TechCrunch reader Yuval Baror took a look at CrunchBase to try to answer the question. His most surprising result is that New York has been getting quite a few more startups than other cities outside of Silicon Valley. There's actually something to all the hype being cooked up by New York media companies and politicians, apparently.?Of course, the San Francisco-Silicon Valley region is still the clear leader.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/M02E9z-Zjqg/
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Rick Santorum, Buoyed by Palin's Remarks, Campaigns in New Hampshire (ContributorNetwork)
BEDFORD, N.H. -- Rick Santorum, the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania who is running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, made a campaign swing through southern New Hampshire. Santorum met with staffers and supporters at his Bedford headquarters on Friday, Dec. 2, before going on to visit Nashua later that night. He also campaigned in Nashua on Saturday.
The Bedford event was attended by about 30 supporters. There was a Christmas theme as attendees were asked to bring Christmas presents to support the Marine Corps' Toys for Tots campaign. Some supporters brought their children, and the presence of the youngsters helped make the event festive and upbeat, despite Santorum's lagging in the polls.
Support from Sarah Palin
Santorum was upbeat, buoyed by supportive remarks recently made by Sarah Palin on Sean Hannity's Fox News show. Palin intimated that voters looking for a true conservative with a consistent record may wind up supporting Santorum.
Newsmax quoted Palin as telling Hannity, "If voters start kind of shifting gears and deciding they want ideological consistency, then they're going to start paying attention to say, Rick Santorum."
Palin told Hannity that she was not officially endorsing Santorum, quipping that her "personal endorsement probably doesn't amount to a hill of beans at this point in the race."
Focus on Iowa
Senator Santorum told the Bedford quorum that he was focusing his efforts on Iowa, where he was successfully recruiting caucus "captains", key figures in Iowa's electoral process. Santorum promised his supporters he was going to do well in Iowa and then ride a wave of support back to New Hampshire.
It's the same strategy that Mike Huckabee used, who also was not polling well until he won the Iowa caucuses. A deeply religious conservative like Santorum, Huckabee built on the support of evangelical Christians to propel his candidacy.
According to Politico, Santorum's New Hampshire field director is Nick Pappas, who worked on Huckabee's 2008 campaign. Santorum's national political director, Michael Biundo, another Granite Stater, oversaw Pat Buchanan's victory in the 1996 New Hampshire primary.
Evangelical Support
Santorum proudly told the crowd he had picked up the endorsement of evangelical pastor Cary K. Gordon of Sioux City, Iowa, president of the PeaceMakers Institute. A power in the Hawkeye State, Gordon spearheaded the campaign that defeated three Iowa Supreme Court judges who had voted for same-sex marriage.
A staunch Catholic, Santorum is a hardliner on the issue of gay marriage, which he opposes.
During the question and answer session, I mentioned to Santorum that Newt Gingrich had anointed himself the Republican nominee, which he responded to with a laugh. Citing the fact that Iowa evangelicals are upset with Republican politician Bob Vander Plaats, the head of a coalition of conservative activists called The FAMILY Leader, for his ties to the thrice-married, twice-divorced, admitted serial adulterer Newt Gingrich, I asked whether he thought evangelicals would get behind Gingrich as a presidential candidate.
Santorum told me that he had the word that The FAMILY Leader would not endorse Gingrich. After several more questions, the Senator schmoozed with his supporters over pizza before hitting the road for Nashua.
It was a relaxed and upbeat event headlined by a confident candidate who has embraced the strategy of running as a dark horse.
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Monday, December 5, 2011
Planning Afghanistan's future beyond 2014 (AP)
BERLIN ? A global conference in Germany to discuss Afghanistan's future beyond 2014 comes as the country faces political instability, an enduring Taliban-led insurgency and possible financial collapse following the planned drawdown of international troops and foreign aid.
About 100 countries and international organizations will be represented at the Monday gathering, with some 60 foreign ministers in attendance, among them U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
But one of the most important countries for Afghanistan's future, its eastern nuclear-armed neighbor Pakistan, said it will boycott the conference to protest last month's NATO air assault carried out from Afghan territory that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.
Pakistan is seen as a crucial player in the region because of its links and influence on insurgent groups that are battling Afghan government and foreign troops and that sometimes use Pakistan as a base for their operations.
The Bonn conference is expected to address the transfer of security responsibility from international forces to Afghan security forces over the next three years, long-term prospects for international aid and a possible political settlement with the Taliban.
"Our objective is a peaceful Afghanistan that will never again become a safe haven for international terrorism," German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said.
The U.S. had once hoped to use the Bonn gathering to announce news about the prospect for peace talks with the Taliban, but neither an Afghan nor a U.S. outreach effort has borne fruit.
The reconciliation efforts suffered a major setback after the September assassination of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was leading the Afghan government's effort to broker peace with the insurgents.
But Washington and other partners are still trying to arrange an interim step toward talks ? the opening of a Taliban diplomatic office where its representatives could conduct international business without fear of being arrested or killed. Such a deal would be a minor accomplishment for the Bonn gathering.
"Right now we don't know their address. We don't have a door," to knock on, said Afghanistan's ambassador to the U.S., Eklil Hakimi.
The final declaration of the Bonn conference is expected to outline broad principles and red lines for the political reconciliation with the Taliban, a project that several leading participants in the conference increasingly predict will outlast the NATO timeline for withdrawal in 2014.
The Bonn conference also seeks to agree on a set of "mutual binding commitments" under which Afghanistan would promise reforms and policy goals such as good governance, with donors and international organizations pledging long-term assistance in return to ensure the country's viability beyond 2014, a senior German diplomat said.
"It's about not repeating the mistakes of 1989, when the Soviet troops left and the West also forgot about Afghanistan," he said, referring to the bitter civil war that unfolded soon after the sudden withdrawal that was followed by the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will formally open the one-day conference of about 1,000 delegates. Afghanistan's western neighbor Iran also joins the conference, represented by Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi.
Afghan civil society groups are meeting on the sidelines, and some 5,000 protesters were out in Bonn's streets Saturday, urging an end to the Afghan war.
While the conference is nominally run by the Afghans and organized by Germany, the United States is the key participant because it's the country that has by far invested the most blood and treasure in Afghanistan since 2001.
The NATO coalition of 49 countries currently has 130,000 troops in the country, including about 72,000 Americans. The U.S. military footprint in Afghanistan, however, totals more than 101,600 because other American forces operate under a separate command. The vast majority are set to withdraw from Afghanistan over the next three years, leaving only a small force focused on training and counterterrorism missions beginning in 2015.
President Barack Obama announced this summer that 10,000 U.S. troops will come home by the end of the year. Another 23,000 will be pulled out by the end of September 2012. Those troops represent the 33,000 reinforcements that Obama sent in to help reverse the Taliban's momentum, leaving a force of about 68,000 U.S. forces, which will gradually shrink as the deadline for withdrawal approaches.
That deadline was set a year ago, by agreement between NATO and Afghanistan. There is little chance it will be extended.
The U.S. had also hoped to use this opportunity to unveil an agreement with the Afghan government establishing operating rules for the small number of remaining U.S. forces and other issues after international forces withdraw. But talks on the deal have bogged down over the past several months.
Although the Bonn gathering is not a donors' conference where specific pledges are expected, the U.S. is seeking agreement among other nations that they will not rush to the exits and commit to long-term financial assistance to avoid seeing Afghanistan slip back into chaos.
The international troops' withdrawal could indeed cause the Afghan economy to collapse, the World Bank warned last month, stressing that the war-ravaged nation will need billions of dollars in aid for another decade or more.
Afghanistan this year received $15.7 billion in aid, representing more than 90 percent of its public spending, it said.
In a report published ahead of the conference, the Afghan government said that despite expected revenue increases from a growing mining industry, customs and taxes, foreign donors will have to finance about half of the country's economic output in 2015, equivalent to aid worth $10 billion.
Despite the international troops' presence for more than a decade, Afghanistan still ranks among the world's poorest and most corrupt nations.
Without foreign help, Afghanistan won't be able to pay for basic services needed by its security forces which are slated to increase to 352,000 personnel by the end of 2014. Those expenses will have grown to twice the size of revenues and will result in a shortfall of about $7.8 billion annually, or about 25 percent of the country's gross domestic product in 2021.
"There will be a gap from when international forces withdraw, and we want to see a plan," for filling it, Hakimi said.
Although the United States has spent $444 billion in Afghanistan since it invaded the country in late 2001 after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and plans to spend $101 billion in fiscal 2011, most of that money "does not reach Afghanistan because it primarily funds salaries of international soldiers, purchases of military hardware, and the like," the World Bank said.
Despite improvements to security in Afghanistan, militants operating from safe havens in Pakistan and chronic problems with the Kabul government pose significant risks to a "durable, stable Afghanistan," according to a recent Pentagon progress report on the country.
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Deb Riechmann in Kabul contributed to this report.
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
S.Africa: Funds raised to fight rhino poaching
JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? A fundraising campaign aimed at putting rhino poachers in jail was welcomed Friday by South African conservationists.
Michael Knight, head of park planning and development for South Africa's national parks department, said money raised by the Florida-based International Rhino Federation would be used to support such efforts as teaching park employees how to safeguard evidence at crime scenes.
More South African rhinos were poached ? 341 ? in the first 10 months of 2011 than in all of 2010, which was a record poaching year with 333 animals lost. The International Rhino Federation project is for parks in South Africa and neighboring Zimbabwe, which also has seen increased poaching.
An Asian economic boom in recent years is believed to be behind the spike in poaching, with a growing middle class in countries like China and Vietnam able to afford exotic purported remedies like powdered rhino horn.
"We're losing animals like crazy," Knight, who also chairs the rhino specialist group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, said in an interview. "But the prosecutions are falling way behind."
Knight said police in isolated areas of South Africa are not always experienced in investigating environmental crime. He said rangers and others would be trained to support police and prosecutors.
In court, he said, "You need to have the most up-to-date information, you need to have the most convincing arguments."
Morne du Plessis, chief executive of the South African arm of the World Wildlife Fund, said his organization has for several months been involved in a similar project that includes training for prosecutors and judges and creating a team of expert witnesses. He welcomed help from the International Rhino Federation.
"It's work that's absolutely essential," du Plessis said. "In South Africa, we have a particularly poor record of conviction in rhino crime."
He said other, more straightforward crimes compete for the attention of police, prosecutors and judges. He also said law enforcement officials might feel sympathy for the often impoverished locals employed by international syndicates as poachers.
"These are very complex realities of a developing country like South Africa," du Plessis said.
The International Rhino Federation launched its fundraising this week. Donations will fund training in collecting evidence and information. The federation also plans to distribute basic crime scene kits containing cameras, fingerprinting materials and evidence bags.
In an interview, federation director Susie Ellis said that an anonymous donor kicked off the fund with $25,000. She said she spoke with South African security officials in March about how best to use the money.
"It's a small project that we hope will have a big impact," she said, adding the first training session is set for early February in South Africa.
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Nicki Minaj A Not-So-New Best New Artist Nominee
J. Cole, Skrillex and Bon Iver have also been around for years before rookie Grammy nods.
By Gil Kaufman
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There are many reasons people love to bash the Grammys, but one of the most frequent punching bags is the Best New Artist category.
Whether it goes to someone music fans have never heard of (2010's Esperanza Spalding), an act who's been around forever (2001's Shelby Lynne), or one that even at his or her peak seemed unworthy at best (notorious 1981 flash-in-the-pan Christopher Cross), Best New Artist is a perennial head-scratcher.
By Recording Academy rules, the award is for a musician or band who releases an album during the year of eligibility that establishes their "public identity" as an artist. That doesn't mean it's their first album or that they suddenly appeared on the scene just that year, because, really, no act just materializes out of thin air and makes their way to the Grammys without years of unseen road, club and studio work.
But a look at this year's nominees is proof that in an age of mixtapes, YouTube, features and blog love such "new" acts as Bon Iver, Nicki Minaj, Skrillex and J. Cole are practically veterans by the time the Academy decides to shine its spotlight. In fact, of all this year's nominees, only country trio the Band Perry are truly "new," and they formed in 2005, then gigged around and dropped a few singles until their only full-length studio recording was released in late October of last year.
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The Recording Academy has been dancing as fast as it can over the past few years to get younger and hipper, putting such buzz acts as Drake, MGMT, Feist and the Ting Tings up for the award. But no amount of hustle can really help keep up with a music business that has radically changed the game when it comes to introducing new acts.
A year after another mixtape veteran, Drake, landed in the Best New Artist mix, Minaj and Cole are perhaps this year's best examples of everything old being new again.
Nicki released three mixtapes between 2007 and the time she signed with Young Money Entertainment in 2009. From that point on, she became the queen of features, showing up for guest verses on songs by Robin Thicke, Teairra Marie, Mariah Carey, Bobby Valentino, Usher, Mya, Ludacris, Jason DeRülo and many others prior to dropping her first album, Pink Friday, in November 2010.
On the same tip, Cole started posting his earliest rhymes online nearly a decade ago before being signed to Jay-Z's Roc Nation label. He, too, released a series of mixtapes, scored guest shots on songs by Jigga, Wale, B.o.B, Young Chris and Miguel, worked the road and seeded the Net with new music for more than three years before finally unleashing his major-label debut, Cole World: The Sideline Story, in May. Like Minaj, by the time his debut hit stores, Cole was practically a household name and had already been touted as one of the biggest young stars in the business.
Dubstep DJ Skrillex (a.k.a. former From First to Last guitarist Sonny Moore) spent several years on the road earlier in the 2000s playing emo-core before breaking off in 2007 to work on his own music. He transitioned from rock to producing and remixing as Skrillex, releasing his debut dance EP, My Name Is Skrillex, in June 2010. After getting signed to pal deadmau5's label, he put out the Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites EP in October 2010, followed by his major-label debut, More Monsters and Sprites, in June of this year on Big Beat/Atlantic.
All that time, he was remixing songs by everyone from Lady Gaga and Snoop Dogg to the All-American Rejects, Black Eyed Peas and Robyn, while relentlessly touring. In fact, over the course of the past year, his audiences have grown to thousands and sometimes tens of thousands, as he's become a Spin cover boy and one of the most sought-after EDM acts on the planet, lending credence to the idea that this truly was his breakthrough year.
Similarly, gentle Auto-Tune folkie Bon Iver (the stage name of Wisconsin's Justin Vernon) gigged around in little-known bands for years and released an acclaimed indie-label debut, For Emma, Forever Ago, in 2008 before the Academy noticed his self-titled second Bon Iver album, which came out in June.
It probably didn't hurt that he was also featured on leading Grammy nominee Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album on a number of tracks.
So are any of these nominees really "new"? Not really. Maybe to you, or the Academy, but for hard-core fans, the only thing new about them is that from now on they can add "Grammy-nominated" to their long list of accomplishments.
Who are you rooting for in the Best New Artist category? Let us know in the comments!
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Sarkozy: Paris, Berlin to push for treaty changes (AP)
PARIS ? French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he and the German chancellor will push for European treaty changes to "rethink the organization of Europe" in order to protect the euro.
Sarkozy said in a speech on Thursday that he and Angela Merkel would unveil proposals at a meeting on Monday in Paris.
But he provided few details about what the changes would entail.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
PARIS (AP) ? French President Nicolas Sarkozy says he and the German chancellor will meet in Paris on Monday to unveil proposals that he said will "guarantee the future of Europe."
Sarkozy, who was speaking in Toulon in southern France on Thursday, did not specify what he and Angela Merkel might propose to help alleviate Europe's financial crisis.
The two countries are the powerhouses of the European economy.
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Missing person report filed for McCready and son
FILE - In this undated file photo, country singer Mindy McCready performs in Nashville, Tenn. A missing persons report has been filed for McCready and her 5-year-old son Zander. The Department of Children and Families says the report was filed with Cape Coral Police Tuesday night after McCready took Zander from McCready's father's home. McCready doesn't have custody of her son ? her mother does ? and was allowed to visit the boy at her father's home. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, file)
FILE - In this undated file photo, country singer Mindy McCready performs in Nashville, Tenn. A missing persons report has been filed for McCready and her 5-year-old son Zander. The Department of Children and Families says the report was filed with Cape Coral Police Tuesday night after McCready took Zander from McCready's father's home. McCready doesn't have custody of her son ? her mother does ? and was allowed to visit the boy at her father's home. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, file)
CAPE CORAL, Fla. (AP) ? Florida authorities say country singer Mindy McCready is missing with her 5-year-old son, and a judge has given her until Thursday to return the boy.
The Department of Children and Families says a missing persons report was filed Tuesday night with Cape Coral police after McCready took her son Zander from her father's home. McCready doesn't have custody; her mother does. The singer was allowed to visit Zander at her father's home.
DCF spokesman Terry Field told The Associated Press the agency requested an emergency pickup order, and a judge said McCready must return the boy by 5 p.m. Thursday.
Since topping the country charts in the mid-1990s with her music, the 36-year-old singer's troubled life has been filled with domestic abuse, drug and DUI arrests and a suicide attempt.
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