'Avengers' Fans Should Feel 'Exhausted And Fulfilled,' Joss Whedon Says

At South by Southwest film festival, 'Cabin in the Woods' scribe tells MTV News, 'It's a ride.'
By Kara Warner

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Joss Whedon has a big year ahead of him. In a little more than a month, fans will finally get to see the long-delayed horror movie "The Cabin in the Woods," followed a few weeks later by the release of one of this summer's most highly anticipated tent poles, "The Avengers."

When MTV News caught up with Whedon during the South by Southwest film festival press day for "Cabin in the Woods," we asked him how his superhero film is coming together.

"The most satisfying thing about 'The Avengers' is that soon I will finish it," he said with a weary smile. "That's quite an undertaking — although listening to Alan Silvestri conduct an 80-piece orchestra didn't suck. It was a really beautiful experience," he said of watching the Oscar-nominated composer at work. "He did such a great job: You're listening to live music and watching your movie form in a way that it doesn't until it has that music. That was exciting."

Another exciting aspect of the filmmaking process was interacting with his A-list actors: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Samuel L. Jackson, Clark Gregg and Tom Hiddleston, to name a few.

Whedon said he enjoyed "just having them all." "When they would be together, the energy that they would give each other, the way they play off each other, the way they protect each other narratively, making sure that whoever they were coming up against had as much juice as they did. It would be easy to imagine that they would be all be like 'me, me, me,' and it was always 'us, us, us,' and that was really fun," he explained. "Except sometimes they would just gossip so much and talk. 'Guys, we're rolling. We have to make a movie. This isn't a party; this isn't the green room.' "

The "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Firefly" mastermind said he hopes audiences feel just as worn out at the end as he was making it.

"I want them to feel exhausted and fulfilled," he shared. "Not unlike 'Cabin,' it's a ride, and we put the screws to them. We really put the characters through it, and we want the audience to be with them every step of the way and come out of it going, 'That was an extraordinary experience, and now I want to pay to see it again.' "

Someone who didn't have to wait to pay to see the finished product is Whedon's "Cabin" co-writer and director Drew Goddard.

"Drew's seen it: He saw the very first assembly," Whedon said. "He was one of the first people I came to and said, 'Where did I go right?' "

Goddard could only offer a one-word review via third person: "Drew's been told he's not allowed to say anything about it," Goddard said with a smile. "But it's awesome."

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London 2012 Olympics: Yamile Aldama - Don't call me a Plastic Brit

By Ian Stafford

PUBLISHED: 23:32 GMT, 10 March 2012 | UPDATED: 01:42 GMT, 11 March 2012

Yamile Aldama wrapped herself in the Union flag and defiantly dared anyone to call her a 'Plastic Brit' as she celebrated a gold medal performance.

The woman who won a world indoor triple jump silver for Cuba 12 years ago, then competed for Sudan, claimed Britain's first gold of the World Indoor Championships as a storm rages over the right of foreign-born athletes to compete for this country in Olympic year.

Tiffany Porter, the American-born hurdler whose controversial selection as captain of the GB team here poured further fuel on the fire, also weighed in with a silver medal in the 60 metres hurdles.

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But it was Aldama, 39, who took centre stage and her emotional reaction showed just what victory meant to her.

'Of course I am British,' she said, fighting to hold back tears. 'I've been in this country for 11 years, my kids are British, 60 per cent of my friends are British - Britain is most definitely my home.

'The gold is for my mum and children and will serve as a great motivation for London. I'm feeling very proud and happy and it is the best moment of my career. It's not been easy over the years but I've dealt with it and all the ups and downs make this moment even more special. Better late than never.'

Aldama, who has two British-born children, only became eligible at last summer's outdoor World Championships. But she has suddenly leapt into serious Olympic title contention with a winning jump of 14.82 metres, achieved on her second effort.

On her third attempt she tweaked her left hamstring and pulled out of the jump, withdrawing from the rest of the competition. But she had done more than enough to see off Kazakhstan's Olga Rypakova, whose best response fell 19cms short.

Gold sensation: Aldama led the way in Istanbul

In fairness to Aldama, her circumstances are different from some other recently recruited athletes and, under the laws of residency, she is more British than some prominent members of the England cricket and rugby teams.

Having finished fourth at the 2000 Sydney Olympics her future looked bright as a Cuban athlete. Then she fell in love with Scotsman Andrew Dodds, who was studying Spanish in Havana, fell pregnant and moved to London with him.

As Cuba did not select any athletes who lived overseas, she turned to Britain but then her life spiralled downwards when Dodds was arrested after 100kgs of heroin was found in an east London warehouse.

He received a 15-year sentence but was released in 2009 while Aldama stood by him.

During all of this her passport application stalled, leaving her without a country for whom to compete.

She represented Sudan, finishing fifth at the 2004 Olympics and claiming a world indoor bronze in 2006, while living in London and visiting her imprisoned husband.

All smiles: Aldama made no attempt to hide her joy

It was not until 2010 when she finally obtained her British passport, was selected for the GB team and finished fifth last year in Daegu, South Korea. The gold however, made all the hardship worthwhile.

As for hurdler Porter, who began the championships under the most intense spotlight, she clocked 7.94 seconds only to be eclipsed by world outdoor champion Sally Pearson in the race for gold (7.73).

Michigan-born Porter, 23, was made captain here by UK Athletics head coach Charles van Commenee despite the fact that she still lives in America and only switched allegiance in 2010.

Four years earlier she had competed for the US in the world junior outdoor championships where she won bronze.

Porter has been a British passport holder since birth, however, because of an English mother and Nigerian father.

'I feel so good,' she said. 'I'm happy I was able to execute my race and bring home a medal. My focus was to compete well. That's what I've done.'

US-born Shana Cox produced a personal best of 52.13 secs to finish fifth in the women's 400m final. Although she lives in Long Island she has two British parents and gained eligibility only last year.

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Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/olympics/article-2113234/London-2012-Olympics-Yamile-Aldama--Dont-Plastic-Brit.html?ITO=1490

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President visits Houston for campaign fundraising

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Posted on March 9, 2012 at 8:23 AM

HOUSTON (AP) ? President Barack Obama jets to Houston on Friday for a pair of campaign fundraising events.

The president is scheduled to arrive at Minute Maid Park around the dinner hour for a fundraising banquet. About 600 people are expected to attend the $500-a-ticket event.

The president then heads to a private residence for a more intimate dinner at which about 70 people are expected to attend at a cost of $35,800 per ticket.

The president will depart Houston afterward.

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Romney wins Ohio, but fails to land knockout blow

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (Reuters) - Mitt Romney eked out a close victory in Ohio but failed to land a knockout blow against rival Rick Santorum on the Republican presidential nominating contest's biggest night, raising the chances of a drawn-out battle between the party's establishment and its grassroots conservatives.

Romney won five of the 10 state contests on Tuesday but his margin of victory was uncomfortably slim in Ohio, the night's biggest prize. Unlike previous contests, this year's "Super Tuesday" results failed to anoint a nominee.

Romney methodically moved closer to the 1,144 delegates needed to win the party's nomination, but a strong showing by Santorum underscored the front-runner's continued inability to win over large swathes of the Republican base, who view his past as a moderate Massachusetts governor with suspicion.

Romney's troubles with evangelicals and working-class voters

are likely to persist in upcoming contests in the conservative states of Kansas, Alabama and Mississippi. As the candidates spend millions of dollars attacking each other, polls show the lengthy nominating contest may be alienating voters.

Still, Romney's strong organization and robust fundraising operation make him the favorite to face President Barack Obama in November. Super Tuesday may not have delivered a decisive verdict, but it did move Romney closer to the Republican nomination.

"Tonight we are counting up the delegates for the convention and counting down the days until November," Romney told supporters in his home state of Massachusetts.

Romney won in Massachusetts, as well as liberal-leaning Vermont and in Idaho, where his fellow Mormons make up a substantial slice of the electorate. Romney also won Virginia, where Santorum failed to qualify for the ballot.

Santorum said his victories in Tennessee, Oklahoma and North Dakota proved he was the best candidate to represent the party's conservative philosophy. "In every state we overcame the odds," Santorum told supporters, noting that he had been consistently outspent by his rivals throughout the campaign.

Newt Gingrich won his home state of Georgia and said he would stay in the race.

With most of the votes counted in Ohio, Romney led Santorum by 38 percent to 37 percent and TV networks projected he would take the state. Romney ran strongest in and around the state's largest cities, while Santorum carried the rural areas.

Exit polls showed that Ohio voters viewed Romney as more likely to defeat Obama, but thought Santorum was more sympathetic to average Americans' concerns.

In Alaska, early results showed Romney with a slight edge.

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Romney, who built a fortune of at least $200 million as a private-equity executive, has struggled to connect with conservatives and blue-collar voters. A convincing win in Ohio would have put many of those doubts to rest.

Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, has won support of religious conservatives thanks to his opposition to gay marriage and his views on other hot-button social issues. His controversial comments about birth control and the role of religion have alienated moderate-leaning voters, especially younger women who will be a key constituency in November.

He has also focused on the white working-class voters who have moved increasingly to the Republican column in recent decades as their economic fortunes have stagnated.

"This campaign is about the towns that have been left behind," he told supporters.

Santorum's understaffed campaign also missed opportunities to qualify for delegates in Virginia and portions of Ohio. Romney and his allies outspent Santorum by nearly 4 to 1 in Ohio.

Gingrich's strategy of focusing on southern states did not pay off in Tennessee and Oklahoma, where he came in third.

Ron Paul, a representative from Texas known for his libertarian views, had hoped to score his first win in Alaska.

In recent presidential campaigns, the Super Tuesday wave of primaries and caucuses has often settled the Republican race. But this year's campaign is likely to stretch until April or May - or possibly until the last contest on June 26 - under new rules designed to attract more voters and boost enthusiasm.

The Republican contenders are viewed less favorably among voters at large than the eventual nominees in earlier contests.

(Additional reporting by Sam Youngman in Massachusetts, Lily Kuo and Emily Stephenson in Washington and Colleen Jenkins in Atlanta; Writing by Andy Sullivan; Editing by Claudia Parsons, Doina Chiacu and Vicki Allen)

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Genetic survey of endangered Antarctic blue whales shows surprising diversity

ScienceDaily (Mar. 7, 2012) ? More than 99 percent of Antarctic blue whales were killed by commercial whalers during the 20th century, but the first circumpolar genetic study of these critically endangered whales has found a surprisingly high level of diversity among the surviving population of some 2,200 individuals.

That, says lead author Angela Sremba of Oregon State University, may bode well for their future recovery.

Results of the study have just been published in the open-access journal, PLoS ONE. As part of the study, the researchers examined 218 biopsy samples collected from living Antarctic blue whales throughout the Southern Ocean from 1990 to 2009, through a project coordinated by the International Whaling Commission.

The genetic survey revealed a "surprisingly high" level of diversity that may help the population slowly rebound from its catastrophic decimation by whalers.

"Fewer than 400 Antarctic blue whales were thought to have survived when this population was protected from commercial hunting in 1966," noted Sremba, who conducted the research as part of her master's degree with the Marine Mammal Institute at OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center. "But the exploitation period, though intense, was brief in terms of years, so the whales' long lifespans and overlapping generations may have helped retain the diversity."

"In fact," she added, "some of the Antarctic blue whales that survived the genetic bottleneck may still be alive today."

Prior to whaling Antarctic blue whales were thought to number about 250,000 individuals -- a total that dwindled to fewer than 400 animals by 1972 when blue whales were last killed by illegal Soviet whaling. Blue whales are thought to be the largest animals ever to have lived on Earth, said OSU's Scott Baker, associate director of the Marine Mammal Institute and an author on the study -- and the Antarctic blue whales were even larger than their cousins in other oceans.

"These animals are very long-lived -- maybe 70 to 100 years -- and they can grow to a length of more than 100 feet and weigh more than 330,000 pounds," he said. "There is a jawbone in a museum in South Africa that takes up most of the lobby. This is one reason they were so intensively exploited; they were the most valuable whales to hunt."

Despite their history of exploitation, little is known about modern-day movements of Antarctic blue whales, which are considered a separate subspecies -- differing in size and habitat use -- from the smaller "pygmy" blue whales, which live in more temperate regions of the Southern Hemisphere.

Through "microsatellite genotyping," or DNA fingerprinting, the PLoS ONE study was able to track some of the movements of individual Antarctic blue whales.

"We documented one female that traveled from one side of Antarctica to the other -- a minimum distance of more than 6,650 kilometers over a period of four years," said Sremba, who is now continuing her studies as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at OSU. "It is the first documentation of individual movements by Antarctic blue whales since the end of the commercial whaling era."

Baker said the long distance movement of a few individuals was "somewhat surprising" in comparison to the evidence for genetic differences between areas of the Southern Ocean. On one hand, it is apparent that individual Antarctic blue whales are capable of traveling enormous distances in search of food.

"On the other hand," Baker said, "there seems to be some fidelity to the same feeding grounds as a result of a calf's early experience with its mother. This 'maternally directed' fidelity to migratory destinations seems to be widespread among great whales."

There is much, however, which scientists still don't know about Antarctic blue whales, Baker pointed out.

"This is a poorly understood species of whales, despite its history of exploitation," Baker said. "Only now are we developing the technology to study such a small number of whales spread across such a vast habitat."

The biopsy samples were collected during more than two decades of research cruises supervised by the International Whaling Commission, and with international scientists joining research vessels from the Japanese Ministry of Fisheries.

Now that their population is slowly recovering, future studies may focus on Antarctic blue whales' migration patterns, and the locations of their breeding and calving grounds.

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1. Angela L. Sremba, Brittany Hancock-Hanser, Trevor A. Branch, Rick L. LeDuc, C. Scott Baker. Circumpolar Diversity and Geographic Differentiation of mtDNA in the Critically Endangered Antarctic Blue Whale (Balaenoptera musculus intermedia). PLoS ONE, 2012; 7 (3): e32579 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032579

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