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Assumpta Serna
Assumpta Serna
Now it is time for everyone to meet the woman who created
the spirited Teresa
Assumpta Serna talks with us in a beautifully candid, gracious and exclusive interview telling of her time on Sharpe, working with Pete Postlethwaite and speaking of her romantic and what turned out to be a very fortuitous marriage to another actor whom she met on the set of Sharpe, the talented Scott Cleverdon.
Assumpta Serna brought an intensity and a passion to the role of Teresa Moreno that no woman has ever really matched since for Richard Sharpe. Fighting to free her beloved Spain from the French she was a perfect soul mate for him.
Dying far too early in the series, we know her memory is always lingering back in the mind of the soldier who fights hard with his own brand of passion and intensity. It's no wonder when the two of them met, they caught fire and burned quickly, leaving long standing memories not only for Richard Sharpe but for all of us who loved Teresa as well.
How did you always know that acting was what you wanted to do or did you come into it by other means?
As a young girl acting gave me the opportunity to explore different points of view, and different ways of communicating with an audience. I have always been fascinated by how we perceive others, and I have always loved the exchange between character and actor. Making someone in the audience smile and laugh, and inspire them to be better, to look deeper for answers in life has always been my goal in acting. Although very rarely do we get to choose the best character; more often than not, it's about choosing the least bad!
Were there any female characters in books or film that inspired you as you were growing up?
Katherine Hepburn, without a doubt, was the actress who inspired me to start out in the business. I always found her take on the profession and life in general to be fascinating. I always admire female characters that have real substance, who accept adventure positively. I love roles which are passionate, that search for the answers to life's questions and dilemmas… I am particularly interested in female heroines who are wrong again and again, fighters, common-people with strong points of view. Also love to play characters that existed in real life. It's an opportunity to make them alive and search for the true meaning of our existence in our world.
Were you familiar with the character of Teresa Moreno from Bernard Cornwell's Sharpe series?
No, I grew to appreciate it whilst playing the part. It was a great inspiration for me.
My experience in Sharpe was a turning point in my life, clearing away the past, the key for the future really, kind of like a personal Tsunami…
surrounded by many male actor
"...kind of like a personal Tsunami..."
Originally Diana Peñalver was set to play Teresa —How was it the producers came to you for the part?
It all happened very quickly. I was just returning from Thailand, working on a movie for American TV. Funnily enough, I was shooting at a wonderful place, which some years later would be the epicentre of the Tsunami… But anyway, on my way back home to Los Angeles I visited my agent in France, at which point I received an urgent call from my Spanish agent Alsira G. Maroto, who was also the agent for Diana. Slightly nervously Alsira asked me to read the script at once. The producer, Muir Sutherland, had called my agent because they needed to recast the romantic duo on the show. The main actor had had an injury and could no longer play the part.
(By the way I've always thought that Diana would have been great for the character and would have shone as Teresa). Anyway, I loved the part and the script and so the next day there I was, in Russia, still with all my beach clothes from Thailand.
Did you know any of the other actors before you came to the set of Sharpe?
No, I didn't know any of the British actors on set, but I have since got to know many very well and I love seeing them again. Being on Sharpe, after shooting in many countries, I see that British actors are unpretentious and that their theatre schools produce hard working and wonderfully well-prepared actors. Being on set with only male actors was very funny. We women on the show, away from our respective countries, had plenty to choose from…. I had a friend there, Sano de Perpessac, who was our fantastic makeup artist on the first year's series. The greatest professional I have, or ever will, work with. We cooked for all of the team many times. That first year in Ukraine together we enjoyed enormously. My personal love life wasn't so hot at the time, and I deeply felt for some of the actors there - my entire life was that two-year job.
Was it an issue at all, being one of the few female actors in a remote location with a predominantly male cast?
Sometimes: as a woman, you could easily see the attitudes of the other actresses and women on set. Some of us girls would cook and go to the market for the rest of the crew, which was strange - as apples were, for example, very expensive but you could find uranium (so I was told) and military clothes, belts and medals in exchange for western clothes very easily… Some of the women would show their attributes like peacocks, whilst others were occasionally shot down, and Sano and I would at once be in their rooms to rescue and to integrate them. We had fun in those gatherings in our rooms. I remember that I had two suitcases full of food: pasta, cans, a stove, my own sheets, my own toilet paper, hand warmers, a duvet cover, my first computer - a laptop (in 1992 remember) Macintosh 180. I certainly wasn't bored at all.
In Laura Jackson's biography of Sean she states at one point you said you were wearing newspaper under your clothing to stay warm. How difficult was it to keep warm day after day on the set?
Yes. I had the boys' newspaper pages written about British football sticking to my body. It's a trick I still do (although not so much with the football pages anymore!). Javier Artiñano, a great Spanish period costume designer, with whom I did many movies before Sharpe, passed the trick on to me on a cold winter day in Madrid, and it was very useful in Ukraine. After a while it isn't noisy and the sound department doesn't protest (they do if you wear silk to warm up sometimes). All the paper stuffed against your skin becomes malleable and warm and better than noisy silk…. Particularly, it is very useful inside boots, because it takes the shape of any movement, and protects you against damp. You should try it! It's good for recycling too. If you're on a motorcycle it can save your life.
©Celtic FIlms
Diana Peñalver, the person
originally cast to play Teresa
in Sharpe with Paul McGann.
Teresa led a group of partisans
and guerilla fighters to prevent the French
from invading her beloved Spain.
Screencap courtesy The Mighty Bean, © Celtic FIlms
Diana Peñalver
Surrounded by male actors, including Blas Vivar,
played by Simón Andreu, Assumpta was one of the few
women on the set of Sharpe.
©Copyright 2011 Sharpe Pointe. All rights reserved.
Traci Moore and Alison Stokes


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Staged Hack Causes Generator to Self-Destruct
Re:Disconnecting is NOT an option (258 comments)
If they are connected to the network, there is probably a very good reason for it...
Lazyness? Insanely stupid cost cutting?
Yes, the components of the system need to get data back to the dispatcher, and receive instructions in return. No, that doesn't require the internet. You can use a modem on a leased line. Yes, it really is possible to send and receive data without the intarweb.
The internet is a cheap, insecure way to accomplish what should be done on an expensive, secure, private network.

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John Mariani's new laws of dining out, no matter what kind of restaurant you're eating at these days
With expert restaurant do's and don'ts, etiquette tips, and more romantic advice, make this 21-step guide your food bible for Valentine's Day. Or else.
For thirty years, people have believed salt should be avoided at all costs. It's time to put that myth to rest.
Guidelines to ensure your gratuities aren't gratuitous, whether you're in the U.S. or abroad.
Everything you need to know, including do's and don'ts, what cuisines are the most romantic, and 13 signs you picked a bad restaurant.
The new Mobil Travel Guide is out. And it's filled with closed restaurants and reviews of places they never ate in.
There's more to Pamplona than men in scarves fleeing bulls. Explore the other side of this Spanish city, the side that Hemingway fell in love with.
Animal rights activists say duck liver is evil, the by-product of an abusive system. They don't know what they're talking about.
It's time to turn off the Food Network and watch something with a little bit more substance.
Jim Lahey's new pizza joint, Co., eschews "non-Italian" ingredients like mozzarella and tomatoes. Che una idiota!
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Whoa-oh-oh-oh, for the longest time, the big debate among NBA diehards has been who is better between LeBron James and Kobe Bryant, and the dispute continues to these days. If you like winning championships and the epitome of the superstar ethos, you choose Kobe Bryant. If you like basketball players who dominate every aspect of the game and then sometimes have terrible games when it matters most, you choose LeBron James. These are the generally held assumptions regarding the argument about these two basketball players, and most people will not change their minds even when confronted with statistics.
But that's not stopping NBA 2K12 from setting the record straight. As far as their concerned, LeBron is four points better than Kobe. From Pasta Padre:
LeBron James will begin NBA 2K12 as a 98 – the highest rated player in the game – while Kobe Bryant has settled in at 94. Miami also features the 96 rated Dwayne Wade and the 80 rated Chris Bosh (who drops from the 87 he started 2K11 with). Bryant and the Heat, who have no players outside the "big three" above 68, are the only ratings revealed so far.
That settles that. No one will argue about this any more since a video game has declared that LeBron is better than Kobe and that Kobe isn't even the second-best player in the game. I am glad that this episode of our lives has passed and now we can all be best friends. Let's all meet at the soda stand to rejoice in the good times.
Pretty sad day for Kobe Bryant, I'm sure. One day he might be the best player in the league, and is being compared favorably to a guy who won two straight MVPs. The next, some video game tells him he's not even the best shooting guard in the game. Crushing, undoubtedly.
But at least he's not Chris Bosh, who sacrificed seven skill points and a couple million dollars to be a third option on the NBA's runner-up. That sucks, but at least he got to pose with chocolate milk that one time. That sort of thing never would have happened in Toronto.
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We support both claimants and professionals. These are just some of the organisations who have subscribed to Benefits and Work:
- Royal College of Nursing
- Spinal Injuries Association
- Chesterfield Law Centre
- Stephenson's Solicitors
- Birmingham Citizens Advice Bureau
- Manchester City Council Sensory Provision Team
Formal stuff
Benefits and Work Publishing Ltd.
Registered office: 8-10 Queen Street, Seaton, Devon EX12 2NY
Country of registration: United Kingdom
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Please see our Contact and help page.
What we're about
At a time when most politicians seem proud to treat sick and disabled claimants with harshness and suspicion, independent and accurate information about how to claim and keep your benefits is vitally important.
Benefits and Work, was launched in 2002 (and became a limited company in October 2006) by advice worker turned barrister Holiday Whitehead and benefits writer and trainer Steve Donnison, to provide just such information.
It is unique amongst benefits information providers in that it asks for no funding or support from the government, local authorities, grant making trusts or large companies. Every penny of Benefits and Work's revenue comes from its subscribing members.
This complete independence means that Benefits and Work is free to publish information that makes it deeply unpopular with the Department for Work and Pensions, multinationals with an interest in benefits - such as Atos Healthcare, Unum Provident and Capita - and even other advice providers whose dependence on state and corporate funding may have made them reluctant to tell the whole truth.
Who we are
Steve Donnison
Before launching Benefits and Work Steve worked in the voluntary sector for over 25 years, mainly with disadvantaged children and homeless adults.
He has been a welfare rights worker for more than a decade and continues to represent clients at social security tribunals for a local advice agency. He also trains advice workers, social workers, housing workers, health professionals and others who deal with welfare benefits in the course of their work.
Steve has written about welfare benefits for a wide range of disability organisations, including: Disability Alliance; National Association for Colitis and Crohn's disease; Spinal Injuries Association; Multiple Sclerosis Society; Cerebra, the foundation for brain injured children; Parkinson's Disease Society.
Holiday Whitehead
Holiday began her working life as an ancillary worker in an NHS hospital, where she became involved in trade union work for NUPE (now part of UNISON). Following a diploma course at Ruskin College, Oxford sponsored by the TUC and her trade union, Holiday went on to do a law degree at the University of East Anglia. At the same time Holiday began volunteering for an advice centre and, following her degree, became a full-time welfare rights worker and then an employment law specialist.
In 1998 Holiday returned to university to undertake her Bar finals and was called to the Bar in 1999.
Holiday practised as a barrister until January 2004 when, entirely frustrated with the lack of progress towards direct access to barristers made by the Bar Council, she ceased practising and became a freelance employment law consultant. Holiday is the co-author of all the guides on the site.
Sangeeta Enright
Sangeeta started her career in a Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) in Croydon and has worked as a Welfare Benefits Adviser since 2001; she has worked for Bradford CAB and Kirklees Council. In 2012, she joined Ridley and Hall Solicitors and provides a pro bono benefits advice surgery for them.
She is experienced at representing clients with their appeals to the First Tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal as well as making complaints against the DWP and has a varied caseload.
Sangeeta is a member of the National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers who work to challenge, influence and improve policy and legislation in this area.
Karen Sharpe
Karen has worked in the voluntary sector in several organisations as a specialist Welfare Rights adviser for more than 16 years, helping claimants with complex benefits issues and appeals to tribunal and Upper Tribunal. She has also delivered training to various organisations across the region, as well as managing an advice organisation and welfare rights forum during that time. She is now part of the publishing team at Benefits and Work, as well continuing voluntary work for specialist mental health organisations.


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Processor(s): Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3GHz (333MHz x 9)
Cooling: Corsair Nautilus500 (Supplied by Corsair) with Arctic Cooling MX-2 Thermal Compound (Supplied by Arctic Cooling)
Motherboard(s): GIGABYTE X48-DQ6 (Supplied by GIGABYTE)
Memory: 2 X 1GB Kingston PC6400 DDR-2 3-3-3-10 (KHX6400D2ULK2/2G) (Supplied by Kingston)
Hard Disk(s): Seagate 250GB 7200RPM SATA-2 7200.10 (Supplied by Seagate)
Operating System: Windows XP Professional SP2, Windows Vista SP1
Drivers: Catalyst 8.1, Forceware 174.11 (9600GT Win XP), Forceware 171.16 (9600GT Win Vista)
Continuing to use our new test bed we will be comparing the overclocked HD 3870 from MSI against the 9600GT OC from Galaxy, also throwing in a stock clocked HD 3870 from ASUS for good measure.
Version and / or Patch Used: Build 110
Developer Homepage: http://www.futuremark.com
Product Homepage: http://www.futuremark.com/products/3dmark06/
3DMark06 is the very latest version of the "Gamers Benchmark" from FutureMark. The newest version of 3DMark expands on the tests in 3DMark05 by adding graphical effects using Shader Model 3.0 and HDR (High Dynamic Range lighting) which will push even the best DX9 graphics cards to the extremes.
3DMark06 also focuses on not just the GPU but the CPU using the AGEIA PhysX software physics library to effectively test single and Dual Core processors.
Straight away we can see some little gains for the MSI offering which helps keep it ahead of the 9600GT.


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I bought a set of sheets, 600 thread count, all Egyptian cotton, at a discount store. The cost was about the same as ordinary sheets at Target so I just wanted to have these luxurious sheets! They feel like sleeping on angel feathers. They give me nice dreams.
Then a little tear developed on the bottom fitted sheet. Instead of sewing it up first, I washed it. It came out of the dryer not as a little rip but as a 5 inch, frayed hole! There were not enough whole sides to sew together.I did not want to use regular iron-on patches on this delicate fabric so I tried fusable interfacing on both sides of the sheet, sandwiching the frayed part in the middle. That was ok, but when I washed the sheet, it all came off. According to the directions on the interfacing,it should have been washable. Does anybody have any ideas how I can patch and save this? I really don't want to part with it.
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- Posted by seattlemike (My Page) on Tue, Jan 13, 09 at 2:46
Sorry, I have absolutely no ideas on how you can patch and save it. However, I think you deserve the Grand Prize for creating the most hilarious (and accurate) subject of your posting! |
- Posted by marlingardener (My Page) on Tue, Jan 13, 09 at 8:17
If the top sheet has the usual wide hem at the top, you could rip that hem seam, cut off the needed amount all across the top, re-hem the top sheet and use the extra material for a patch. It sounds like a lot of work, but I can't think of anything else. Love your subject posting, too! Hee, hee, hee . . . . |
I think my mom bought similar sheets-600 thread count Egyptian cotton. They were being sold in a kiosk in the mall for the holiday time. After she paid for them, the man told her they should only be washed in cold water, by themselves and dried on the "fluff-no heat" cycle for no more than 15 minutes. I don't think she's used them yet. |
- Posted by colorcrazy (My Page) on Wed, Jan 14, 09 at 21:33
An easier option would be to patch it with regular cotton (in a matching color). Cut the patch much bigger than the hole, turn the edges under, and sew it onto the sheet, sewing close to the edges of the patch. Once you have done that, sew around the hole so that it does not get any bigger. To be really careful, you could sew a patch on both sides. Hopefully the hole is close enough to the bottom that you will not feel the patch with your feet. Then see if your dog or DH or whatever has sharp toenails! You don't want new holes. |
Maybe there was a reason you got these 600 thread count Egyptian sheets at a DISCOUNT store???? They weren't 1st quality,perhaps seconds or irregular? You didn't say how long you had them before the rip, and what was the price? If you had them for just 1 wash cycle,i'd return them..If you have had them for awhile, just go buy a new bottom sheet..Time is money, and while patching the hole is being "frugal",feeling the patch-job on my feet would negate the comfort of the great sheets you have... |
- Posted by scarlett2001 (My Page) on Fri, Jan 16, 09 at 12:53
Thanks, everybody. I got them at Marshalls and gave them hard use for about a year. The package did not say irregular. Marshalls buys overstock from various better stores and sells stuff at discount. I hadn't thought of my husband's toenails, but I'll just bet that was it! Okay, he gets to sleep with his feet on the patch! If I had only sewn the little rip before washing, it would have been fine. I will take your advice on various ways to patch, I want to save this sheet. |
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University Hosts Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow
September 9, 2013
Averett University has invited Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow Mike Markovits, an internationally renowned global leadership expert, for an intensive week-long visit. Markovits will conduct classes, seminars, workshops, and lectures and will meet with students and faculty members informally throughout the week to share his practical knowledge in the areas of business and leadership. In addition, he will give a free presentation to the public on Tuesday, Oct. 1 at 7 p.m. in Blount Chapel. The presentation will focus on the leadership characteristics required for success in our increasingly global world. When Markovits left IBM at the end of 2010, he was vice president of leadership. He now works for AchieveMission, as a partner responsible for consulting services. AchieveMission is a non-profit consulting services organization that helps other non-profits improve their management of human capital. In addition, he retains an independent leadership consultant practice that specializes in succession planning, leadership development and coaching. Markovits has been a member of the Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows Program since 2008. The Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellows program, which is administered by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) in Washington, D.C., brings prominent artists, diplomats, journalists, business leaders, and other professionals to campuses across the United States for a week-long residential program of classes, seminars, workshops, lectures, and informal discussions. For 35 years, the Visiting Fellows have been introducing students and faculty members at liberal arts colleges to a wide range of perspectives on life, society, community, and achievement. The Visiting Fellows program is available to all four-year colleges and universities. For more information, visit CIC's website at www.cic.edu/visitingfellows.


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It's Time To Sweep Those Chimneys. With only 6' of 14" Dia pipe to sweep and approx 5' of firebox to sweep (including taper to chimney. I dread the chore yearly. The soot sweeps off with no real resistance.
1. I just need to get over the chore but I still question the need when it seems as a harmless flake vs resistance in the 14" pipe.
3. I burned one creosote removing log this past winter. I feel I see layers flaking off before sweeping vs fuzz and lumps that I swept off in the past. 4. Would you agree that build-up is normal and yearly cleaning is not needed if less than 1"? |
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Loger, I always assumed that you burned a lot of hardwood. I certainly did too but I also included a significant portion of softwoods as well. For many years I was using a Franklin fireplace which is practically the opposite of a modern sealed unit with 6 or 7" insulated flue. I never had any oily or sticky or thick buildup. I only cleaned every few years. The closed modern unit didn't respond differently for me, but I was burning a lot of softwoods then to use them up before I moved. My understanding was that the main problem came from slow controlled burning. Since I see your 14" pipe, I assume you are burning with an old fashioned stove, even if more efficient than my Franklin. If it is not tightly sealed, I would expect your burn to be hot enough to prevent serious buildup. But It might be worth googling air tight stoves and creosote before you through caution to the winds. |
The Chimney and Box sweep was no challenge except chimney to box trips (that challenge my legs). 1. I Swept the 6' of chimney with a stiff 18" broom head clamped parallel to 2" PVC (a 14" dia pipe brush in the future). 2. A short handle broom works well in the box with a box fan pulling up the chimney. 3. It's always the thought and mess vs the actual work that I hope to reduce yearly. 4. What is the best source of getting rid of the approx gal of soot (reg trash sealed)? Note: I'm burning 90% Oak and Pecan with very little softwood as starters if pecan is not considered soft. I keep the damper 3/4th closed (just to eliminate int smoke) or all the heat goes up the 14" pipe IMO. The 14" pipe was due to it being a Double Faced Fireplace. I added a steel back with a steel 6" back-log, two, 2" stainless grate tubes connected and 7, 2" stainless tubes above the fire, all open to the back side. With the plate glass doors closed at night and ducted combustion air into the box, we get safe heat and good coals the next morning. |
I let the Defiant burn wide open for about 20 minutes a week. But this is in a brick chimney with a flue liner. I do have a set of brushes and poles. I havent used them in ages. Makes a mess. |
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20th May 2004, 04:52 PM | #1 |
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Collisions and Blocking Mishaps
Running into some strange issues and was hoping somebody could clear them up...
I'm spawning some objects in a level, and i've made sure to turn off bCollideWorld and bCollideWhenPlacing. The objects will spawn properly, but it seems like as soon as they hit a BSP, they get destroyed (or just disappear). I'm not yet certain it's the brush that is the problem... The objects will probably encounter other actors on their travels, and I started to get confused about whom I should be setting collide and block properties for. i.e. - What happens when a blocking actor hits a non-blocking actor? - What happens when a colliding actor hits a non-colliding actor? I'm not sure exactly why my object is being destroyed, but I thought maybe it had something to do with the fact that it's hitting a brush? I read something on the Wiki about collisions only being calculated for certain BSP Trees, and maybe this has something to do with why my object is disappearing? |
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Actors witcth are "out of the world" are destroyed (exept static meshes and controllers i belive) and as you've set bcollideWorld to false your actor is "leaving the world" as soon as it collide with BSP object.
21st May 2004, 01:47 AM | #3 |
What kind of actor is this? If its some actor which uses native code, that may be your problem...
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The actor is one that I've created called "Item" and it extends StaticMeshActor. Is there any way to make the Item not be destroyed when it "leaves the world"? I couldn't find anything in the Wiki about what conditions must apply for an object to be destroyed automatically. I found the sequence of events upon destruction, and garbage collection talked a bit about removing items when there are no more references to it and its pointers have all been destroyed.
I thought I could solve the problem by setting bNoDelete to True, but now the objects won't spawn (I guess you can't have objects non-static and non-deleteable too?). Any advice? |
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I just tried filling an array with the objects I'm spawning, in hopes that maybe by having active references to the objects they wouldn't be destroyed. No dice! Is there any way I can keep these objects from being destroyed, and why exactly ARE they being destroyed?
22nd May 2004, 12:55 AM | #6 |
uhh...I would avoid using StaticMesh Actor, and just use the base class Actor. For one, it is a native class, so some quirks may be hiding in the background that you may not know about, and in the long run, using the Actor class would be more flexible and easier.
-Jimboh |
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Again, TG|McBain correctly identified that once an object leaves the world space they are destroyed. I don't think there is a way to stop this from happening. Quote:
A possible fix to this, is to actually test to see if the new location is possible or not. By doing this you prevent the actor from leaving the game world. To do this, use a trace, and detect if the trace actually hits something. If it hits the world or other objects it will return with a value. If this value is equal to something then move the actor to the new location since it is possible. To find code for this, I believe the player's behindview camera checks for such things. Ideally if you could use fast trace that would be much better. |
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''Ross Wakeman succeeded the first time he killed himself, but not the second or the third.'' -- First line of Jodi Picoult's novel second glance (Atria, $25)
''Dogs are easy. If their tails are up and their eyes are soft, you're in. Sometimes they need to smell your hands, your shoes, between your legs. Sometimes they just throw themselves full tilt, all of them at all of you....'' -- First lines of Paula McLain's memoir, like family (Little, Brown, $23.95)
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I think we need to start paying more attention to something. Adam Dunn is on his way to doing something that hasn't happened since Babe Ruth did it in 1927. No, it isn't "sixty homers by a big oaf while wearing black and white/gray" — he's on pace for closer to fifty of those. Rather, Dunn could be the first in 85 years to lead the entire Major Leagues in each of the "Three True Outcomes" categories: walks, strikeouts and home runs.
Through Sunday (though he's done nothing to improve his standing in any of the categories so far as I write this on Monday evening, managing to put the ball in play twice thrice four times in a row), Dunn was leading both leagues in all three categories, and by a relatively healthy margin: his 31 home runs are three better than the four guys tied for second, his 77 walks lead Ben Zobrist by ten, and his 150 strikeouts lead Carlos Pena by twenty (it's very possible that Dunn would end the season in the top ten in that category if he didn't strike out again all year). Dunn, through Sunday, was on pace for 50 homers, 124 walks and a record-smashing 241 strikeouts.
Leading the American League in all three categories would by itself be an admirable feat. As Jonah Keri (with help from Elias) noted a month ago, a Three True Outcomes Triple Crown (TTOTC) has historically been half as common as the old BA/HR/RBI Triple Crown, having been done just eight times in history. Leading both leagues in all categories, though? That's been done by exactly one guy. Until now.
Here's the list of single-league TTOTCs, per Jonah/Elias:
Name | Team | Year | HR/BB/K |
Babe Ruth | Yankees | 1923 | 41/170/94 |
Babe Ruth | Yankees | 1924 | 46/142/81 |
Babe Ruth | Yankees | 1927 | 60/137/89 |
Babe Ruth | Yankees | 1928 | 54/137/88 |
Hack Wilson | Cubs | 1930 | 56/105/84 |
Mickey Mantle | Yankees | 1958 | 42/129/123 |
Mike Schmidt | Phillies | 1983 | 40/128/148 |
Dale Murphy | Braves | 1985 | 37/90/141 |
It's pretty easy to see the progression here. For the first few years of the Babe Ruth era, nobody else hit anything like Babe Ruth — he was out-homering entire teams, so he didn't see many strikes, and he was the only guy willing to swing hard enough to miss now and then (putting up strikeout totals that would be average-ish today). He missed the TTOTC by a couple strikeouts in 1920 and '21, had an off-year in '22, then led the entire Major Leagues in '23 and by a ton in '24. He had another off-year in '25 and then led by a bundle in homers and walks (but not strikeouts) in '26, then won the last MLB TTOTC in 1927 (Lou Gehrig came in second in the bigs in all three categories).
It was around then, though, that Ruth starting coming back toward mortality, and that other teams really started to figure out that they needed to try to play his way to compete; Ruth led the AL in all three categories in '28, but the NL's Hack Wilson had him by plenty in strikeouts, and then when Wilson won the NL TTOTC in 1930, Ruth beat him in walks. It's a bit surprising that Jimmie Foxx never managed it — he led in HR four times, walks twice and strikeouts seven times, just never all at once — and of course the next really dominant hitter considered strikeouts a failure of the highest magnitude. It's continued to become increasingly hard for any one hitter to dominate in any set of statistical categories, and TTO is no exception. So Mantle (who it's a bit surprising didn't do it more than once) had the only TTOTC in the 53-year span between Wilson's and Schmidt's. Schmidt was the first guy to do it while striking out more than he walked.
Increasingly since the early nineties, players up and down the lineup have been both walking and striking out more often than they used to, and for a while there, everyone was hitting home runs too. And, of course, there are nearly twice as many teams now as there were when Ruth, Wilson and Mantle played. So with so much competition, it's probably unsurprising that nobody has won a TTOTC in either league for 26 years.
Since 1986, a handful have led their league in both homers and walks (Bonds, McGwire, Bautista, Ortiz), but generally, those guys have have controlled the strike zone too well to strike out among the league's worst. A few have led in both walks and strikeouts (Giambi, Thome, Cust), but they've tended to have good but not great power in those seasons — with so many guys hitting 40+ home runs, you're not likely to be among the league's elite power sources if you're whiffing 150-200 times a season. Thome did have one year (2003) in which he led the league in both homers and strikeouts, but his walks were down that year; Cecil Fielder did the same thing in 1991, but he was never much of a walker at all. Dunn himself has been the King of the Three True Outcomes more or less since the term was invented, but he's never led his league in homers, only once in walks, and hadn't led in strikeouts since 2006. The closest to doing what Dunn is threatening to do this season was probably Giambi, who hit 41 HR in 2003 to go with his league-leading BB and K marks…but that was good for just 4th in the AL, behind league leader A-Rod.
I'll go ahead and call it now — barring injury, Dunn is going to lead the Majors in walks and strikeouts. I don't see a reason to think Ben Zobrist is going to walk 11 more times than Dunn will for the rest of this year, or Carlos Pena 16 more times, and Pena and Curtis Granderson certainly aren't striking out 31 and 39 more times, respectively. It'll be much harder to hold off each of the six hitters who are within four of Dunn's 31 homers, but that's all he has to do to be the first MLB TTOTC winner in 85 years. Which, you might argue, is totally trivial and pointless, strikeouts generally being considered negative things while the other two categories are positives. But he'll be the only person to have done a certain thing in the whole history of the world besides Babe Ruth (and will have had to overcome much longer odds than Ruth ever did to make it happen), and how many guys can say that?
More than anything, though, I think this is one more way to highlight what a spectacularly bizarre player Adam Dunn has had. His game is built on long periods of waiting, punctuated intermittently by sudden and extreme acts of violence. He waits for his pitch, and if he doesn't get it, he takes ball four or strike three and waits for his next turn at bat. If he does get it, he swings as hard as it's possible to swing, and a lot of times, he misses, and a lot of times, he destroys a perfectly good baseball. And that's all he does; anything else feels like a freak accident. Ask Jack Cust how easy it is to make a big-league career out of doing those things, and only those things. It's a bit of a Three True Outcomes world these days, but we've never seen anybody before, and might never see anybody again, who does it as extremely or as successfully as Dunn does it. The TTOTC would be nothing more than a curiosity, but it'd be a fitting apex to a historically curious career.


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HUBLI: A CBI team on Wednesday raided JSW Steel Ltd's South West Mining Company office in Toranagal of Sandur taluk in Bellary district.
Seven officials of a CBI team led by inspectors Ramesh and Satyamurthy conducted the raid around 8.30am. According to sources, the raids on South West Mining Company were held to probe the connection between former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa denotifying land and South West Mining Company having reportedly paid Rs 20crore to purchase land in Dhavalagiri estate, to Yeddyurappa's sons and son-in-law. The company also reportedly gave Rs 10crore to Prerana Education Trust, which belongs to Yeddyurappa's family.
The team also raided JSW Steel Ltd CEO Vinod Navel's residence in Vidhya Nagar on Jindal campus, and verified some documents.
A JSW spokesperson said: "The company has not carried out any illegal activity, nor is connected with any wrongdoing. It has full faith in the judicial process and its books are open and it will fully cooperate with the investigating agencies. The JSW group follows the highest standards of corporate governance and is the victim of alleged illegal mining."
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