Bluegrass Awards remember Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson

Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers perform at the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards show on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers perform at the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards show on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Dale Ann Bradley accepts the female vocalist of the year award at the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards show on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Del McCoury, right, and Bobby Osborne, left, perform at the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards show on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Doyle Lawson speaks after being inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Nicky Sanders of the Steep Canyon Rangers performs at the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards show on Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ? It was a hard year in the bluegrass world and the loss of icons such as Earl Scruggs and Doc Watson hung over the International Bluegrass Music Awards on Thursday night.

The Gibson Brothers won entertainer of the year and joined Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice as the only multiple winners at the ceremony at Ryman Auditorium. But the attention of most was turned toward the pioneers no longer able to attend.

An emotional Steve Martin paid tribute to the late banjo innovator Scruggs with a special 30-banjo salute that included many of the world's top five-string players.

The IBMAs also saluted Watson and players Doug Dillard and Everett Lilly, as well as bluegrass promoter and actor Andy Griffith, all of whom died in the last year. Watson won guitarist of the year posthumously.

It was the first entertainer win for The Gibson Brothers, who also took home honors for gospel recorded performance for "Singing As We Rise," with Ricky Skaggs. Sisk & Ramblers Choice won album of the year for "The Heart of a Song" and song of the year for "A Far Cry From Lester & Earl," keeping with the night's unofficial theme.

In major categories, top nominee Russell Moore won male vocalist of the year, Dale Ann Bradley won female vocalist, Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers were named emerging artist, Blue Highway won vocal group, The Boxcars won instrumental group, Lonesome River Band won instrumental recorded performance for "Angeline The Baker" and St. Jude charity album "Life Goes On" won recorded event.

Rob Ickes (dobro), Stuart Duncan (fiddle), Sammy Shelor (banjo), Adam Steffey (mandolin) and Marshall Wilborn (bass) won instrumentalist of the year awards.

And 2012 Bluegrass Hall of Fame inductees Doyle Lawson and Ralph Rinzler were honored as well.

Though the night was full of spirited performances, none could hold up to Martin's show-ending salute to Scruggs. The actor, comedian and musician seemed on the verge of tears as he paid tribute to Scruggs before inviting players including J.D. Crowe, Kristin Scott Benson, Sam Bush, show co-host Del McCoury, Lawson, Shelor and Tony Trischka and more than 20 others onto the stage where Scruggs first played his rolling, rollicking style during the Grand Ole Opry.

Scruggs' sons Gary and Randy also were part of the tribute.

Martin said in an interview before the show that he was inspired by the Kennedy Center Honors when conceiving of the Scruggs tribute.

"They like to do these big salutes and I thought why not here at the IBMAs for Earl," Martin said. "All the banjo players who've been influenced by him, why can't they all be here and pay tribute to him?"

McCoury, inducted into the Hall of Fame last year, said he would probably not have gotten into music had it not been for the Flatt & Scruggs record his brother bought in 1950. The 11-year-old McCoury was transfixed by Scruggs' playing.

"I just could not get that sound out of my head," McCoury said.

Mandolin player Bush joked he was playing rhythm banjo while on stage, but said he felt privileged to be involved.

"I knew Mr. Earl," Bush said. "It gets real emotional as I look at Randy and Gary standing there and how they must feel, and how everybody loved their dad. He was a true gentleman. Nobody's more deserving of accolades than him."

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Millennium Entertainment sued by 'Boys & Girls Guide' filmmaker over distribution

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The co-writer/director/producer of the 2006 indie film "The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down" has filed a lawsuit against Millennium Entertainment, claiming that Millennium is illegally distributing the film.

In the suit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in Central California, Paul Sapiano alleges that Millennium has given his work to "retailers, broadcasters and has entered into sub-license agreements with other sub-distributors for the sale and display of the work without authorization."

The suit alleges copyright infringement, contributory copyright infringement and unfair competition. In addition to asking that Millennium be enjoined from further distributing the film, Sapiano is asking that all materials to which he claims to hold copyright be seized from Millennium.

Sapiano is also asking for statutory damages from each defendant - in addition to Millennium, the suit names 10 anonymous defendants - of $30,000 each, or $150,000 "if such acts of infringement are found to be willful."

Millennium claims to have acquired the film - a hybrid documentary-narrative exploration of young people's social lives - from First Look Studios in 2007 when First Look's creditors sold off the company's film library to Millennium, Thomas E. Ho'okano, Sapiano's lawyer, told TheWrap.

Ho'okano said that First Look, which is now dissolved, had no agreement with Sapiano or his company, Boys and Girls Guide, LLC (BGG, LLC).

Sapiano sent a cease and desist letter to Millennium, which Millennium ignored, Ho'okano said.

Millennium has not yet responded to TheWrap's request for comment.

In addition to directing, producing and co-writing the film, Sapiano claims to have copyright ownership of the film.

In the suit, he also claims that Millennium - which distributes titles including the Lee Daniels film "The Paperboy" and "A Little Bit of Heaven," starring Kate Hudson - has illegally distributed other titles.

"Plaintiffs are informed and believe and on that basis allege that Millennium has a catalog of over 600 films which it continues to distribute and among those films, including plaintiff's work, are films which it has no right to distribute in violation of copyright laws," the suit reads.

Ho'okano told TheWrap that the other films would likely be other titles sold by First Look's creditors.

"I view this suit as a 'David vs. Goliath,'" Ho'okano said.

"The principal at issue is: Can Millennium sell, duplicate, distribute the film without paying a fee to the copyright holder? BGG, LLC has not received a dime from the film."

(Pamela Chelin contributed to this report)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/millennium-entertainment-sued-boys-girls-guide-filmmaker-over-011318400.html

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Scientists Go Deep On Genes Of SARS-Like Virus

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Coronaviruses get their name from the crown-like tentacles that surround their rims.

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Coronaviruses get their name from the crown-like tentacles that surround their rims.

When an unknown virus emerges, disease detectives turn to gene sequencers ? not magnifying glasses ? to identify the culprit.

So when a new type of coronavirus killed a man in Saudia Arabia and hospitalized another in the U.K., investigators got cracking.

Both patients showed symptoms similar SARS. But thanks to fast and accurate gene sequencing, health officials quickly realized that this isn't SARS or even a known coronavirus that causes colds. Rather it's a totally new virus that needs to be handled with caution until more is known about it.

Yesterday scientists at Britain's Health Protection Agency partially decoded the new virus's genetic sequence. They've placed the virus on the family tree of coronaviruses. And even given the virus a temporary name, which I have to warn you is quite a mouthful: London1_novel CoV 2012.

The virus appears to be most closely related to a cluster of bat viruses, and "it is genetically very different than SARS," Ralph Baric, a microbiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tells Shots.

But the DNA sequence isn't just a tool for hanging the virus on the right branch of the family tree. It has helped health workers rapidly respond to the disease in ways they couldn't when SARS emerged in China in 2002.

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The new coronavirus has been tentatively named London1_novel CoV 2012. A small piece of its genome tells researchers how closely related the virus is to other known coronavirus, such as SARS.

With the new virus's DNA at their fingertips, health workers alerted the WHO about the potentially dangers of the virus just three weeks after the second patient showed symptoms.

With the SARS epidemic, it took over three months ? and hundreds of infected people ? before the WHO was contacted. That epidemic caused over 8,000 infections and killed nearly a thousand people.

This rapid detection of new viruses, Baric says, is due in part to a technology, called deep sequencing. The method allows scientists to differentiate closely related viruses and ones that are rapidly mutating. Deep sequencing decodes genes at a very high level of accuracy so even small changes are visible.

Since the SARS epidemic, virologists have used deep sequencing to discover dozens of new coronavirus in bats, badgers, birds and humans from around the world. They've built a family tree of coranviruses with these sequences showing how the viruses relate to each other.

When a new virus appears on the scene, like the London strain, scientists can quickly sequence it and figure out where it fits in. If it sits on top of a known pathogen, then doctors may have a good idea of how to counter it. If it's completely new, as in this case, health workers can alert the WHO and take extra precautions before it spreads.

The genetic code for the new coronavirus also gives doctors a tool for quickly finding new cases, Baric say. They can even go "back in time and see if the virus caused other strange respiratory illnesses over the past few months," Baric says.

"It is fairly common for doctors to keep samples from fatal respiratory cases," Baric says. Doctors can now sequence the samples and look for the new virus's genes.

Baric thinks these types of tools make deep sequencing "one of the most important advances in public health."

"There's tremendous expertise and capabilities for identifying and tracking new viruses" he says. "This is a huge public health advantage and it's been put in place [since the SARS epidemic] to protect the global health."

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/09/25/161770135/scientists-go-deep-on-genes-of-sars-like-virus?ft=1&f=1007

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Shawn Johnson 'didn't dance once' after 'DWTS'

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"Dancing" pro Derek Hough and Olympian Shawn Johnson rehearse in preparation for the big "All-Stars" premiere.

By Anna Chan, TODAY

"Dancing With the Stars" kicks off its much anticipated all-stars season Monday night. Season eight champ and returning contestant Shawn Johnson, who is paired with pro Derek Hough, took a few minutes to chat with us about preparations ahead of the big premiere, what fans should expect from her and more.

The Clicker: What have you done to keep up your ballroom skills since your first time on "DWTS"?
Shawn: I haven?t done anything! I think everybody else can say the same. It?s not our natural sport or our natural career. When I finished season eight, I was done with dancing. I went back to gymnastics and I honestly didn?t dance once. So it is like starting over, especially with a new partner. We?re kind of starting from zero.

For the most part, I think the feeling is still there. I understand the vocabulary and what (Derek's) saying and where he?s coming from. Whereas the first time, it was like Mark (Ballas) was speaking Chinese. Now I understand it so I can correct things easier and ... getting into the movement and the habit and the feeling is definitely foreign. I have to work to get that back.

The Clicker: How have you been preparing?
Shawn: ?In the past few weeks, we?ve really just been getting our first dance ready. (The producers) assigned us our first dance and our first music three days into training. I think the past few weeks have just been getting used to this process again and (I've) kind of been gearing up for it.

My first dance is a fox-trot and that?s about all I can tell you! It?s been going really well. Our fox-trot isn?t by any means traditional, definitely different and doesn?t really adhere to the normal rules. We have unique music and it kind of suits us and our personality, which I think is important for the first dance. I want to show everybody who I am and not come out as a character yet. You have to (do characters) later. That?s part of it. There are dances where you have to take on a role: tango you have to be serious and dark, rumba you have to be romantic and sexy. It?s part of (dancing). It?s the acting side. But thankfully with our fox-trot and our music, I?m just being me. We get to be goofy and fun and playful and energetic. I?m enjoying that. I love it. I hope everybody else likes it as well.?

The Clicker: Which role are you most looking forward to playing?
Shawn: I feel like the first time, I was so uncomfortable and so out of my comfort zone that I didn?t push myself enough to try to step into the character of any of the dances. ... I don?t think it?s going to be easy, but I think it?ll be neat to push myself into those characters this time, trying to be sexy and romantic and trying to be all mysterious and kill someone in the paso. I feel like I?m a little more comfortable this time to try to take them on.?

(My first time on the show,) I had just turned 17. You have to look like you?re in love with someone. It was definitely difficult. I was like, ?Again, you?re speaking Mandarin.? ... I?m more the awkward person and the person that just giggles and smiles at everything, so it?s going to be hard.

But I think I?m a little more ready this time to at least try. I?m just trying to put myself in the mindset that it?s OK to step into the characters. You know you?re not necessarily portraying who you are. You?re acting. I will never be an actress, I?m me. It?s really hard for me to act something different. I want things to be appropriate. I want things to represent who I am. Then again, it is the show. It is the job. You have to find a happy balance to suit the dance and suit the style. ... I hope I don?t just bust out laughing or something halfway through it!?

The Clicker: Are you afraid the judges might criticize you for not getting into the character of the dances?
Shawn: I think that?s THE place I have to work on. I have to push myself. They?ll be able to see the difference between (my) first season to this. I definitely don?t think right off the bat I?ll be able to act like some of the professionals on the show, some of the actors who are dancing on the show. Then again, we all have our strengths and we all have our weaknesses.

The Clicker: What's it been like training with Derek versus Mark?
Shawn: I love Derek! There?s definitely a lot of differences, (but) they?re pretty much like brothers. They grew up together and grew up around each other, so there?s a lot of similarities. They choreograph different, they think different, they have different creative standpoints and angles that they come from. ... Derek is a phenomenal choreographer and a dancer and he?s a great teacher, and I think we?re partnered perfectly together.?

"Dancing With the Stars: All-Stars" premieres Monday night at 8 p.m. on ABC. Follow Shawn Johnson as she tweets throughout the season.

Which dance are you most excited to see from Shawn this season? Tell us on our Facebook page.

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