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With no question, Marvel's The Avengers is one of the most highly anticipated movies of the year, bringing together such iconic superheroes as Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), The Incredible Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), all under the auspices of S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), in order to defeat an unexpected enemy (Tom Hiddleston) threatening to destroy the universe.
At the film's press day, co-stars Downey, Hemsworth, Evans, Ruffalo and Jackson were joined by producer and President of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige to talk about their most memorable moments during filming, the challenges of uniting all these characters together, what they like best about their characters, how much fun they had with the comedy, and what made Joss Whedon the right man for the director's job. Check out what they had to say after the jump:
Question: What was your most memorable moment during filming?
ROBERT DOWNEY JR: There's that first time that we're all assembled on the bridge, when we all see each other and realize that we're probably likely to continue shooting the movie because we had to make good on this vision of Kevin Feige's, from as far back as I can remember. I have a question: How come it's only Harry Dean Stanton that got to see Mark Ruffalo naked? Anyone who has that answer, I'll trade you one for it.
CHRIS HEMSWORTH: That was our first day on set, too, with the whole ensemble, which was a pretty exciting and nerve-wracking experience. That was amazing!
CHRIS EVANS: Mine was the scene where Thor and Iron Man are fighting. I had just seen Thor, the day prior, and I had yet to see Hemsworth or Downey in their full suit. I showed up that night, and it was the first time I saw them both geared up, and I just got really excited. I felt like a little kid. It was just an honor to be a part of it.
MARK RUFFALO: Mine was being naked in front of Harry Dean Stanton.
SAMUEL L. JACKSON: I was naked in front of Harry Dean Stanton, the night before he shot the scene [with Mark].
Mark, there have been many versions of The Hulk out there, in film and television, and a lot of actors have played Bruce Banner. How did you form your own unique version of Bruce? Did you do any research, in regard to any specific comic issues?
RUFFALO: Well, I met with (director) Joss Whedon and he said he really liked The Incredible Hulk TV show and what Bill Bixby did with him, so I rented those with my 10-year-old son. After the third episode, he turned to me and said, "Papa, he's so misunderstood!" I basically based my character entirely on my 10-year-old boy, who has all of the force of nature screaming out of his body while at the same time having everyone around him telling him to fucking control himself.
Robert, were you really the force that united this ensemble?
DOWNEY: Yeah, I offered rides back and forth from Albuquerque on my private jet. Going back to 2007, when I was cast in Iron Man, and Kevin Feige said, "You know, this is all going to lead to where we're going to have all of these franchising come together and we're going to do something unprecedented in entertainment and we're going to make this Avengers movie." I just remember that I would get nervous about it and excited about it and doubtful of it. And then, by the time I already had a history with Sam and really wanted to capitalize on that, and by the time Chris [Hemsworth] and Chris [Evans] had launched their individual franchises with success and charisma, and by the time we had Mark [Ruffalo], I was like, "Wow, this is really going to happen." Just being a worker amongst workers is where I started out, and it was nice to not really have to carry a movie. I think everyone really, really, really, really is equal, in this venture. It's great. That will be my last sincere answer of the afternoon.
Chris [Evans], you've joked about how Captain America has to take the stairs while everyone else is flying around. What was that like?
EVANS: Yeah, I give all these orders like, "Hulk, you do this impossible thing. Thor, you bottleneck a portal. Iron Man, fly over here. I'll take the stairs."
If you could swap with any of the other characters, who would it be and why?
EVANS: I want to say Iron Man because I love those movies, but who can do it better? The shoes would be too big to fill.
JACKSON: I'd want to be Scarlett [Johansson]. I just want to be that cute for 15 minutes.
Kevin, how long have you actually been trying to make an Avengers movie, and what sorts of things did you have to do in the build-up of the other movies to make sure that they all led to this?
KEVIN FEIGE: One answer is my whole life, just 'cause I've been a nerd my whole life and wanted to see this movie made for my whole life. The real answer, though, is towards the end of production of Iron Man 1, when Sam [Jackson] was gracious enough to spend three hours on a Saturday to break into Tony Stark's house, wearing an eye patch, and tell him and the world, "You're part of a bigger universe, you just don't know it yet." When that movie succeeded, we realized that we actually had the opportunity to do it. The only challenge was to try to make all the movies live on their own, even if we weren't leading towards an Avengers movie. If they're all just interconnected puzzle pieces, that's not as fun. They need to be movies, beginning to end. That was the biggest challenge.
Mark, since this was your first Marvel film, what were the challenges of integrating into this world?
RUFFALO: It was terrifying. I knew what my responsibility was. I felt it just by making the mistake of going online and reading some of the fanboy responses to the announcement that I was playing the next version of Bruce Banner. That was a mistake. I will never do that again. But, I've never had a role be more scrutinized and criticized, even before I'd shot a single frame. Coming onto the set with all of those guys was pretty daunting. Many of my heroes in life are in this cast. So, I knew that I had big shoes to fill, so to speak. It was tough, and I wish that I had a cool costume to wear the entire time, instead of a leotard that was painted like a Chinese checkerboard.
Chris [Evans], you are known for playing characters that tend to be the jokester or the smart ass, but you're the straight guy here. What was that like for you?
EVANS: Yeah, it's tough not getting any jokes. That's the role. It's necessary. That's why I like it. I'm used to leaning on cracking jokes and being the smart ass, so it's nice to play it straight a little bit. I think with this film, even more than the first Captain America, Steve Rogers has some issues, some conflicts and some trouble with the fact that he is a man out of time. But, given who he is as a man, his nature is that he puts that second and the mission first. He's selfless. It's a fun character to play.
Chris [Hemsworth] and Chris [Evans], you both get to play the fish-out-of-water characters in this. How much fun was that?
HEMSWORTH: We all fell into that category. Joss [Whedon] said it early on that we're a dysfunctional family that belongs because they don't belong anywhere else. Thor is from another planet and his motivation through the conflict and the villain was far more personal than the rest of them because it's his brother. It was nice to have already shot that film and to have had that relationship with Tom [Hiddleston]. That was my focus. But, we all didn't get along, at the beginning. Certainly, when you're from some other planet or some other world, it's fun to play that dynamic.
What was it like to shoot that 360 shot, when you're all together on the street?
HEMSWORTH: I remember thinking, on that day, "Yeah, this is the trailer shot," or "This is the big moment." We'd been on the bridge, in the first scene where you see us all together, but we weren't getting along, at that point. That moment, we finally were assembled and there and the same team, in that big 360 wide shot with all the chaos around us. I certainly remember thinking, "This is the moment."
What was it like to work with Tom Hiddleston? Does he really like having group hugs?
HEMSWORTH: Tom loves hugs. I did a film with him, and there were plenty of hugs on that film. Group hugs.
Do you have any funny stories, either on set or off?
HEMSWORTH: Chris [Evans] sent us a text that said, "Avengers assemble at such and such bar, at 9 o'clock on Saturday night." That was a good group effort. We paid for it at work, the next couple of days.
RUFFALO: You should see that group hug.
HEMSWORTH: At three in the morning, on the dance floor.
DOWNEY: Ruffalo, weren't you the one throwing the roof parties?
RUFFALO: Yeah, that was me.
DOWNEY: So, you were the group instigator.
RUFFALO: I was the group hugger.
HEMSWORTH: I keep getting asked about who was the biggest diva. This was the first time I worked with these guys, and we all are either that well-behaved, or everyone kept each other in check. No one wanted to be the one who screwed it up.
RUFFALO: I just remember going to someone's place with a group of half-naked stuntmen in a hot tub, and Scarlett Johansson standing over them with a giant ladle, making boy soup.
What do you like best about your character? What makes your guy special to you?
RUFFALO: We're all told to be so well-behaved and sometimes we're all bursting at the seams to let it rip. Bruce Banner gets that moment, and part of the joy for people is to actually see that happen. That's exciting for us. It's a nice way for us to blow off steam, in watching movies, especially me.
EVANS: His heart and his selflessness. He wasn't born a superhero. This didn't happen to him by accident. He was chosen for those reasons – his values and morals. He puts other people and other causes ahead of himself. It's something to aspire to.
DOWNEY: That he didn't really set out to do anything noble. He's in transition, so there's something a little more Hans Solo than Luke [Skywalker]. Also, the fact that he can pull off wearing a Black Sabbath t-shirt, for the better part of the film.
HEMSWORTH: I like the visceral gut instinct that Thor has. There's a bit of a childlike quality, in the sense that, if he believes something and wants to do something, he does it and says it. Kids own their environment. There are no opinions that they really care about. With Thor, it's there. It's surrounded by bravado and strength, and all that, but at the end of the day, he's pretty true to who he is and what he wants to do, and that was fun to play with.
JACKSON: I just like the fact that Nick Fury believes that these unique individuals deserve the love and admiration of the world, who owes pretty much everything to them because there are things out there greater than us.
Chris [Hemsworth], did you pull from your real-life relationships with your brother, for the complicated relationship between Thor and Loki (Tom Hiddleston)?
HEMSWORTH: The last time either one of my brothers tried to take over the world or the universe, I had to think back and wonder, "How did I feel?" When we did Thor, (director) Ken Branagh kept saying, "Let's not get caught in playing Gods. It's truthful. You have brothers. How do you relate to that?" That became the thread through Thor and through this. It's that thing of, "I can give my brother a hiding and telling off, but no one else can."
DOWNEY: But, don't you feel that Liam is trying to take over your box office universe (with The Hunger Games)? Doesn't he need to be corrected, in some way?
HEMSWORTH: And, I did say that. He's got a few bruises, currently, from me.
Kevin, what is it that made Joss Whedon the perfect person to take over and helm this project?
FEIGE: One of the only big fears I had with this was that the whole thing would collapse under its own weight. We'd spend so much time with costumes and superpowers and special effects that these characters and these actors wouldn't get the chance [to shine]. My biggest interest in The Avengers is the interaction between these people. Looking at Joss' body of work and the scripts that he's written and his TV shows, the characters never, ever get lost. In fact, those are the moments that shine. That was, to me, why he was, by far, the best choice to mount this. We're confident in our ability to handle a production of this size. We want a helmsman to come in and steer it in unexpected ways, and to guide that tone, which is what Joss has done so well.
There is a lot of hand-to-hand combat in this movie. Did you have any real accidents while you were filming?
HEMSWORTH: I had one. The scene where Thor takes Loki off the ship and lands, and then we go into the big two-hander. So, I was on a wire because I hadn't learned to fly yet, and I had to come down and land on the cliff, step and have the conversation. For the first couple of takes – and it's going to turn up on the DVD extras somewhere – I just face-planted into the dirt. It was incredibly ungraceful and unsuperhero-like.
FEIGE: Jeremy Renner did have a little bit of an injury, but it didn't last very long, thankfully.
Everybody's comic timing was great in this. What was it like to get to do that comedy together? Did you improvise much?
EVANS: Anytime you do a scene with Downey, he's so good with improv and working off-the-cuff. He's never going to do the same thing twice, so you've just gotta be on your toes. He's just funny. He's always funny. He brings a certain life to the scene. Even if you're not the one making jokes, you can appreciate what he brings to any scene, in terms of comedy.
HEMSWORTH: The line where I say, "He's adopted," gets a big laugh, but I had no idea. When we shot that, I went, "Is this really funny?" But, that's the thing. Joss is hilarious. The whole film, I was surprised how the comedy in it played so well.
DOWNEY: What everybody captured for their character was the right tone. At a certain point, without killing it, you tip your hat. We don't take it too seriously. This is essentially a comic book movie, but you buy into the reality of it. So, I think everyone has their moments. Joss did a good job of finding everyone's frequency. "I'm pretty sure God doesn't dress like that," before he jumps off, was still within the realm of what Steve [Rogers] would say and do. But, also, tonally there's this moment where they're in the final battle and, once [Mark Ruffalo] turns green or my helmet closes, he's in upstate New York and I'm back in L.A., and these guys are on the ground. Sequence after sequence, there was all this stuff shot in Cleveland, and I don't think we ever had to go to Cleveland, for one day. I kept squeezing the misses' hand [at the premiere], during these incredible sequences that they did, going, "They shot a lot in Cleveland." The Avengers could have fallen flat on its face and had people not be able to suspend their disbelief or get behind it, but the movie succeeded. Whether Joss' wit is funny or actually being able to hold the whole myriad of ideas and notions that you have to get right for Avengers not to be bunk is what he accomplished.
What were your favorite geek references from the script that you were most excited about?
HEMSWORTH: I remember reading the script and reading the section where Hulk and Thor are finally on the same team and fighting the aliens, and they end and are both standing there out of breath, and Hulk just backhands Thor. That was something I looked forward to. That had me on a wire, just getting yanked out of the shot. That was good.
What was it like to shoot that scene on the bridge when everybody is arguing with each other?
JACKSON: That was the second big scene on the bridge. That was an interesting scene. I didn't really know all that was going on, in that scene, when everybody starts talking at once, until all of a sudden it happened and we were just like, "Oh, we're having an argument." Nobody is listening to anybody and we're just batting stuff around. I kept wanting to say, "I don't come to your world and blow shit up," to Thor. They wouldn't let me say it. We all know each other and we all laugh together. Once we saw each other, in that particular setting, it was like, "We're actually going to do this. This is going to be a lot of fun." It's almost like an Our Gang movie, where you're like, "Hey, I've got some costumes. I've got some film. My dad's got a studio." We just decided, "We're going to have fun!" But, Robert gets to say all this nice, cute shit and every time I would change something, Joss would come to me like he was the line police. He was always on me. But, the family feeling was there. Joss set up the rules, and we showed up and played by the rules of that world.
It was a great time, doing that and being able to be in that space and allowing an audience to see, "Okay, these guys have superpowers, but they have normal attitudes." They get pissed with each other and they argue about petty shit. They can be smart asses and they can be heroes and they can just be jerks, but they are eventually going to find a way to love each other. Thank god, we had somebody there to guide us in that direction.
For more on The Avengers, click here for Steve's interview with Feige where he talks about Thor 2, Captain America 2, Iron Man 3, The Avengers 2, 2014 and 2015 releases, another Hulk movie, and a lot more.


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Day 4: Cumberland
Ah, Canada Day – the holiday where "you can do anything" for one day. Maybe that's not the holiday's real motto, but it is certainly the experience that BC Bike Race organizers would like to create on this day for their participants.
How's this for the start of the fourth day of epic mountain biking and a celebration of west coast Canada? A 4:30am wake-up call as pre-cursor to watching the remnants of a beautiful sunrise over the Georiga Straight while waiting to board the first BC Ferries crossing of the day. Then chowing on breakfast while admiring the view of the coastal areas off the bow.
A quick road transport to the next ferry terminal, Saltery Bay, leaves racers mingling with other racers as they grow comfortable with the riders in their own "pack" each day. One more scenic sailing down the coastal area ultimately leads to the final transfer destination for the day – Earls Cove ferry terminal – which is a popular and inspirational BC Bike Race start line...
For six BCBR participants whose shuttle driver accidentally missed the early morning ferry by 15 minutes, it might seem that BCBR really can do anything. In missing the ferry, those teams would not make the start line in time; however, their shuttle driver did treat them all to a very Canadian Tim Horton's breakfast to take the edge off. Meanwhile, Harbour Air, presenting sponsor of BC Bike Race, freed one charter floatplane and flew it to the Comox harbour to pick up the anxious racers and carry them directly to the Earls Cove start line ahead of the rest of the racers.
Once the ferry docked, riders arrived at the quaint landing in Earls Cove where the familiar Bear on Bike start/finish arch stood waiting, along with 360 bikes ready to ride. With racers seeded in the starting chute, the course director, Rod Camposano, shared trail insights and highlights. Those who know Rod knew it would be a relentlessly hilly day.
All eyes would be on Open Men local favourite Kris Sneddon and his partner Barry Wicks as well as the remaining top 3 teams, Jamis/Santa Cruz, DCM and Trek. With the history that these teams have built in just 3 days, they are creating a considerable buzz. However, the real focal point of today's battle is the fact that Sneddon grew up in this area and even helped to build some of the trail network that riders would experience. It was time to find out how much advantage knowing the trails like the back of your hand actually can bring.
For the majority of the race, Team Kona lead the group through all of the singletrack but always had Seamus McGrath and Chris Sheppard stuck on their rear wheels, even as they ripped through some incredible sections at 'mach chicken.' In the end, Team Kona would take the stage in 3:27:46 and retain their GC leade, with Team Jamis / Stanta Cruz right behind in 3:28:04.
A propos - homegrown Canadian boy wins stage at home on Canada Day.
South Africa's Team DCM, in the process of securing their third place position over Trek, is proving to be incredibly strong on the climbs, but less technically. Although they do claim to have observed an increase in technical accuracy as each day advances.
The big question at the finish line was what happened for Kona to gap out Seamus and Chris in the very last ten minutes of the race.
Sneddon recappped the competition, "Well it was mostly just givin'er as fast as we could in the singletrack. There are also a couple of corners where if you don't really know the course, then you are afraid to go too fast around. It's just too scary. We just got a little bit of a gap, and I think they probbly hit their brakes a little bit on stuff like that and we slowly spread it out a little bit. But trust me, we were going scary fast. It was sort of a chance we took and it would be pretty easy to go off the bike. We were full out, full throttle and you don't want to be breaking the bike. We don't really want to do it."
The Solo Men's cat is heating up right now, too, as current GC leader, Colin Kerr, blasted across the Sechelt finish line in 3:43:13; unbeknownst to Colin, until too late, Ruedi Schnyer snuck up in stealth mode to close the gap and cross the finish line in 3:43:11. Next across was Kevin Calhoun, in 3:49:20, with early stage winner, Tony HOGG, crossing approximately seven minutes later. This will be a close contest throughout the remaining three stages this week.
With a few little change ups here and there, the finish board is starting to come to life!
Next up for these intrepid adventurers: Sechelt unto itself! Enjoy!
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DWTS12 Week 7 Search Engine Round-Up
So last night, John & Heidi taught me how to check the site stats and see what the top search terms were for the site this week. And boy – is it interesting just what you kids are wanting to know 🙂 So as a new feature, I'm going to go through top search terms at PureDWTS and answer your burning questions – and also some not-so-burning ones that I just find amusing 😉 So just what did you guys want to know about this week?…
Is Hines Ward married?
This was the top searched term for the site this week – and it only cropped up yesterday, after the story broke about Hines & a lady friend getting handcuffed under suspicion of grand theft auto. Unfortunately, the answer to this question seems murky at best. First I tried searching for a marriage license or a divorce decree in Fulton county, GA (Hines' county of residence), and it did show some public records for Hines, but I didn't feel like shelling out the $19.95 fee to see them in their entirety…sorry guys 😉 So I had to go the gossip route on this one. According to Player Wives (which I would take with a grain of salt), he was allegedly married at some point to Simone Ward, the mother of his son Jaden. However, rumors started swirling of their separation back in late 2008, after Hines was spotted spending some time with another lady. That same article references a claim from Gossip Online (which of course I cannot find) that they've either been separated or divorced for at least a year now. So due to the lack of mainstream speculation about whether Hines was creeping around on wifey, I would venture a guess that they are probably no longer romantically involved, at the very least. We all know that the gossip mags would just jump on that one if they thought they had something solid to go on 😉 But I must say – Simone is quite striking. Very pretty lady.
Mark Ballas hand gesture/obscene gesture/rude gesture
I don't know why I find this slightly funny, but I do 🙂 Maybe it's just funny out of context. Anywho…this one was discussed at length by our readers in the comments section of Vogue's post about whether Mark & Chelsea's risk-taking was hurting their chances of winning. Many believed it was obscene; others insisted it was benign. According to Mark's mom Shirley's Facebook, it was meant to be a "rolling the dice" gesture for a risky paso. Tom Bergeron also weighed in on the gesture in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, and of course added his own brand of Tom humor to the explanation 🙂 The official word: it was meant to be "rolling the dice". The Courtney opinion? Glad it wasn't obscene after all, but maybe next time don't pick a gesture that could be so easily misinterpreted within context.
Chantal Sutherland
This one definitely came out of left-field – we first reported that jockey Chantal was a possible contestant for season 11 back in August of last year. Obviously, that has yet to materialize into anything solid. So I'm wondering if horse racing fans just have Chantal on the brain, with the Kentucky Derby upon us…or maybe you guys know something we don't? 😉
Dial Idol
I'm hoping & praying that you guys are searching this in order to find my post that explains why Dial Idol doesn't work for DWTS, because as of last week this has been declared a 4-letter word here at PureDWTS 😉 If so, please – feel free to refer any renegade believers freaking out over so-and-so being in the bottom on that blasted site to my post to show them they probably shouldn't put too much stock in what it says 😀 Once again, if it just happens to be correct – pure coincidence. Not a genius prediction.
DWTS Music List
Glad you guys come to us for the rundown on the tunes you've heard on the show 😉 As always, you can find all the music from the show right here, or by clicking on the "DWTS Music" link on the top right-hand side of the page. John usually posts each week's music on Monday after the show wraps in the Mountain time zone.
How old is Shirley Ballas?
The answer: cougar 🙂 Just kidding! According to Shirley's facebook page, she was born in 1960…and I know for a fact that she's a Virgo (long story short – Corky jokingly blames their divorce on her zodiac sign), so she hasn't had her birthday yet this year…so Shirley is 50. And looks fabulous! 🙂
Mark Ballas girlfriend
*sigh* Seriously guys? You're gonna make me utter not one, but TWO forbidden words in one post? 😛 Alright, just this once…for those of you who have either been living under a rock or are fortunate enough to NOT have the ground-breaking Mark & Pia performance on last week's results show rammed down your throat, Mark has allegedly (and I say allegedly because they both have elected to be uber-coy about the whole thing, despite some pretty incriminating media coverage *eye roll*) been spending some quality time with ousted Idol contestant Pia Toscano. She was in the audience next to Corky on Monday night's show this week. Alright, no more P-word. 😉 Man, you guys really had Ballas on the brain this week!
Louis Van Amstel boyfriend
Ooh…this is a tough one. He publicly admitted having one on the Chelsea Lately show in 2009, and allegedly pointed him out in the audience on the Ellen show, but of course, I can't find a clip. But hey, he's a pretty enthusiastic (and verbose) Tweeter…what's to say he won't spill the beans if you ask nicely? 😉


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DeMar DeRozan scored 20 points, Rudy Gay added 19 and the Toronto Raptors beat the Chicago Bulls 101-98 on Tuesday night.
Toronto allowed a 15-point lead to dwindle to four at halftime but regrouped in the third quarter, getting it up to 16. The Raptors then hung on after the lead got down to two near the end of the game.
Nate Robinson nailed a 3-pointer with just under a minute left and Carlos Boozer hit two foul shots with 16.8 seconds remaining to pull Chicago within 99-97.
DeRozan then made two free throws to get the lead up to four, but the Bulls weren't finished. Robinson hit the first of two free throws with 10.6 free throws left, and after a jump ball following the miss, there was a scramble for the loose ball.
From the floor, Boozer threw it to Robinson. The ball went through his hands and started to go into the back court. The guard saved it off Toronto's Amir Johnson to avoid the violation but missed a heave at the buzzer.
That preserved the win for the Raptors, but an injury to center Jonas Valanciunas sure cast a cloud over it.
He walked off the court clutching his neck after colliding with Gay during that scramble and was tended to for several minutes on the sideline before being wheeled off on a gurney.
For the fifth-place Bulls, the loss left them just a half-game ahead of Atlanta in the Eastern Conference with five to play. It also damaged their chances of catching Brooklyn, a team they trailed by two when the night began, for the fourth seed and homecourt advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
Veteran guard Richard Hamilton returned to Chicago's rotation after missing more than a month with a back injury, but with Joakim Noah (right foot), Luol Deng (hip), Taj Gibson (sprained left knee) and Derrick Rose (left knee) sidelined, the Bulls struggled on both ends and dropped their second straight game.
Gay shook off a poor performance after matching a season low with four points in Saturday's loss to Milwaukee.
DeRozan came up big. Terrence Ross came off the bench to score 13. Kyle Lowry added 13 points and 10 assists, and the Raptors shot over 51 percent.
Jimmy Butler led Chicago with a career-high 28 points. Robinson scored 22, and Boozer added 19 points and 11 rebounds.
Hamilton was a surprise addition to the rotation after coach Tom Thibodeau said at the shootaround that he would not play. Instead, he got in 15 minutes and finished with four points after missing the previous 19 games, but Chicago again stumbled badly after falling to Detroit on Sunday.
The Raptors broke it open midway through the third, scoring 12 straight to turn a four-point lead into a 76-60 advantage.
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Planning a Party[edit]
Troy eventually gets a bit older and is ready to age up. The Schultzes still want to expand their social network as well, so they're going to kill two birds with one stone: it's time for a party!
Parties are paragons of chaos, just because so many people can become involved. If you plan accordingly, it can be organized chaos at least. At minimum, you better have plenty of food around, as well as a decent-sized bathroom to accommodate several guests having the urge at once. Also advised is the $300 buffet table, which allows you to essentially create food instantly, sparing your Sims from having to cook. Bars are useful also for adult parties, allowing the guests to loosen up and possibly have more fun.
Seth and Holly have none of these, of course, but they're going to give a party a shot anyway. Once day breaks, they buy a birthday cake in Buy Mode and place it on the kitchen counter. Then, Seth goes to the phone and uses the Throw Party command. He could also use the Throw Party At… command, which would have the party off-site. That's a good option for larger parties if your house is small, though it's not necessary right now.
Once Seth uses the Throw Party command, the Party Planner menu pops up. First, you select the type of party you're going to have. "House Party" is the default, standard type. In this case, Seth is choosing birthday party. Note that the party type dropdown box is contextual, so if no one on your lot can have a birthday party, the option won't even be there.
Just below the party type selection is the party start time, which you can type in. Some people don't like having parties in the middle of the night, so you'll need to keep that in mind. Below that is the dress code, in case you have a specific idea in mind. Wedding parties or parties in fancy-pants houses probably should be formal attire, whereas parties held at pools or ocean lots should be swimwear. Seth chooses a 12-noon start time and casual attire for this one.
The next part of the party planning menu is the possible guests you can invite. Whoever is making the call can invite whoever they want, provided someone in the house knows them. Guests are not guaranteed to show up, however. In fact, they will often refuse to show up if they don't like any of the hosts. Seth invites all his fellow soldiers, who are all considered friends to him. (Thank goodness for the Hang Out with Soldiers work strategy!) Seth is also going to try inviting his boss, Erin, but it's very doubtful she'll show up. Can't hurt to try though.
Just to clarify one thing about guests: the guest's decision whether to attend the party is based on their highest relationship with a member of the hosting family. So in this case, Seth is inviting Molly French to the party. In previous Sims games, Molly would likely refuse because she and Seth barely know each other. However, because Molly is friends with Holly, Molly will probably show up anyway even though Seth is making the party. In this way, it doesn't matter who in the family actually plans the party: invite everyone's friends, and they should all show up!
Throwing a Party[edit]
Seth and Holly use the few hours they have before the party starts to tidy up the house. Seth is planning on ordering a pizza to save Holly time and effort with cooking, but they still have breakfast and feed the baby.
At 11:00am, the first guests show up. Most guests show up an hour early, usually based on their relationship with the hosts. Well, only a few do: Erin surprisingly does show up, along with another of his fellow soldiers. By noon, all the guests have shown up, many of them bringing food for the whole party! Excellent!
Eventually, it's time to do the candles thing. Holly puts the cake on the table, then selects it and uses the Blow Candles command. Up pops a list of every Sim that's on the lot, and you can choose anyone to age up, regardless of how close they are to actually doing so. Note that this allows you to age up Sims even if you've disabled aging in the options menu.
Holly selects Troy to blow out the candles, leading to a special animation, and Troy gets a little older! The rest of the party goes swimmingly, and it starts to break up about three hours after it got started. It would have gone longer if the guests had had a better time, but a crying stinky toddler kinda ruined things. Still, as the guests leave, they tell Seth and Holly that they had a good time, so that's a win in my book.
Once they all leave, Seth is given a little grade on the party. Turns out this one was rated a "modest success," which frankly is pretty much as good as they could have gotten considering how little they had for their guests. With a bit more work on their objects, they could easily be the life of the neighborhood!


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The release of the SAS® Scoring Accelerator for DB2 marks a key milestone in that relationship.
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The gold standard for determining whether a medical treatment works is the ]]>double-blind, placebo-controlled study]]> . With a few exceptions, new drugs must pass a number of double-blind studies to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA); conversely, when a drug already in use for a given purpose repeatedly fails to prove effective for that purpose in double-blind studies, it is eventually discredited.
Herbs and supplements do not need FDA approval, but they too are subjected to double-blind studies, and the results of those studies, whether positive or negative, can have a major impact on the public. Therefore, when an article published in the International Journal of Epidemiology in April 2007 exposed a serious deficiency in the entire body of double-blind study literature, it struck at the very heart of evidence-based medicine. Based on the findings of this article, the results of virtually all double-blind trials must now be viewed with skepticism.
In a double-blind, placebo-controlled study, some of the participants are given the real treatment while others are given a fake treatment designed to appear as much as possible like the real treatment (the placebo control). The assignment to real or fake treatment groups is accomplished by flipping a coin or by a computer random number generator. Both participants and researchers are kept in the dark (blind) regarding who is receiving real treatment and who is receiving fake treatment. The full technical name for these studies, "randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial," incorporates all of the elements mentioned above. This expression is often abbreviated as "RCT," or randomized controlled trial. However, this abbreviation leaves out both placebo and blinding, and therefore we shall not use it here.
The double-blind, placebo-controlled study was first conceived by German researchers in the 1950s as a way to minimize the power of suggestion and other confounding factors. By the 1960s, the medical scientific community had come to recognize that double-blind trials are the essential means of establishing treatment efficacy. However, it wasn't until the 1970s that pharmaceuticals were routinely required to pass meaningful double-blind studies to obtain FDA approval. (Many drugs approved prior to this were "grandfathered" in, and may not work!)
At about the same time, double-blind studies of herbs and supplements began to appear sporadically in the literature, but such studies remained relatively uncommon until the late 1980s. From then on, the rate of publication of double-blind studies of natural products has grown at an astonishing pace. In the early 1990s, months could go by before a new double-blind study of a natural product was published; today, 15-20 such studies are published every week. Furthermore, while the typical study published in the early days of natural product testing involved ten or twenty participants, current studies commonly enroll more than a hundred participants. Some are much larger than that: studies of ]]>vitamin E]]> , ]]>beta-carotene]]> , and other ]]>antioxidants]]> enrolled tens of thousands of participants.
Unfortunately, as natural treatments have begun to undergo systematic testing, many have failed to prove effective. For example, in the giant studies just mentioned, vitamin E and beta-carotene proved ineffective for preventing heart disease or cancer. Other stand-bys have also suffered falls from grace: ]]>garlic]]> for high cholesterol, ]]>glucosamine]]> for arthritis, and ]]>calcium]]> supplements for osteoporosis, to name a few.
These negative trials have been discouraging for supporters of natural medicine. However, the article alluded to above casts doubt on these negative results—though it casts doubt on all positive results as well.
In April 2007, Danish researcher Asbjorn Hrobjartsson and his colleagues published a landmark article in the International Journal of Epidemiology . Essentially, they conducted a study of studies. Through extensive analysis of published studies augmented by interviews with some of the researchers who published those studies, Hrobjartsson documented that the vast majority of researchers who perform double-blind, placebo-controlled studies fail to carry out a central, essential task: that of determining whether the blind held firm. In another words, they did not check whether participants and observers remained unable to distinguish the real treatment from the fake treatment.
It would not have been difficult to answer this question; one can simply poll participants and observers and ask them to guess. If the guesses come out correct no more than about half the time, then it would be fair to conclude that the blind remained intact. However, researchers generally do not conduct such a poll; and, therefore, generally they do not know whether the blind remained intact.
But it is essential to know this. If blinding does not hold, if, for example, most people involved in the study figure out who's taking placebo and who's taking the real treatment because the real treatment is smelly, then the validity of the study is drastically and even fatally compromised.
This is a very complicated subject, discussed in detail in the article, ]]>"Why Does This Database Depend on Double-Blind Studies?"]]> Here we will mention only one reason: the issue of observer bias.
Suppose the researchers conducting a study want to prove that an herb or supplement doesn't work. Such bias doesn't matter much if the study they conduct is truly double-blind; since they cannot tell who is getting the real treatment and who is getting the placebo, the outcome of the study is insulated from their preferences. But once the blind is broken, this protection disappears. For example, researchers disinclined to believe that glucosamine can help arthritis may unconsciously underestimate or underreport benefits in patients that they know are taking glucosamine. This in turn could lead to a false outcome in the study, an apparent failure of a treatment that actually works.
Of course, this problem cuts the other way as well. If researchers are biased in favor of the natural product (or drug) being tested, their predilections will likely cause them to see benefits not actually present; this is only human nature. However, when researchers do not know who is getting the treatment and who is getting the placebo, their bias is frustrated. (Of course, bias can still get its hand in through manipulation of statistics or outright dishonesty, but that is a different subject.)
The problem of observer bias is just one of the confounding factors that double-blinding forestalls. And yet, in their article, Hrobjartsson and colleagues found that most researchers do not bother to poll their study participants to see if the blind held. To make matters even worse, among those who did conduct such a poll, less then half actually found that the blind had been maintained! This means that over half of all published double-blind studies are quite possibly invalid.
In one sense this is cheery news for supporters of natural medicine: all the recent negative studies regarding natural products may have been flawed by a broken blind. On the other hand, the very same research deficiency identified by Hrobjartsson means that positive studies involving natural products may be invalid as well.
In either case, this shows that the gold standard for medical research has become somewhat tarnished. It's time to polish it up.
Hrobjartsson A, Forfang E, Haahr MT, et al. Blinded trials taken to the test: an analysis of randomized clinical trials that report tests for the success of blinding. Int J Epidemiol . 2007 Apr 17 [Epub ahead of print].
Last reviewed by ]]>Steven Bratman, MD]]>
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