#richard ayton

[whats-in-a-sentence]

Not until the nineteenth century would anyone have any concerns that women and children were risking their safety and health in terrible conditions:

Women commonly worked underground in coal mines, primarily as part of family teams. While men worked the coal face, women carried or dragged the coal in sledges or tubs through the tunnels to the lifts, or on occasion even up to three surface . . . At lime kilns, women were employed carrying baskets of coal and chalk, while men broke the chalk loose, screened it, lifted the baskets onto the women's heads, and threw the chalk into the kiln. Both sexes helped hack the coal and chalk into small pieces and fill the baskets . . . Women were employed in the loading of slate onto boats in Devon (after it was quarried by men), where the work was described as 'immoderately hard' (by Richard Ayton, an observer in 1814), yet women 'accomplish as much in a given time as the men do.'

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[kitsunetsuki]

Shirt by Zandra Rhodes and Sylvia Ayton, The Sunday Times, 16 June 1968, from Photographing Fashion: British Style in the Sixties by Richard Lester (2009)

[david-watts]

OC ask, 1

well. I have literally so many ocs I'm not gonna list all of them here (if anyone wants me to ramble on for paragraphs about really obscure two-frame characters, you can ask) but here's a few you should know about;

roger frederick claire (roger), peter sutton (pete), david anthony harrison (davey, who has the stage surname 'peacock'), charles morris (charlie), richard louis smith (snowy), michael andrew lily (mick), rory tevita locking (rory), sylvia tamsin chase (sylvia), james cassidy-bell (james), holly dorothea keys (holly)

and

james rafferty jade (jimmy), theodore klaus van alst (teddy), luke/lucas littleproud (lucky, I also haven't decided if it should be luke or lucas yet), arthur douglas floyd (arthur), peter edward byron morrison (peter), stephen henry casey ayton/stephen casey maple (stevie, and yes. he changes his name), christopher velvel goldstein (christopher), katherine acar robinson (katherine)

this is a basic list of the characters that play somewhat of an important role. second group of names is I'd say 'less' important than the first, in terms of how I'm going to structure the overall story, but they're still important and have their own story that fits within the starstrucks'

[scots-gallivanter]

NINE

Grey recumbent tombs of the dead in desert places,

Standing Stones on the vacant wine-red moor,

Hills of sheep, and the howes of the silent vanished races,

And winds, austere and pure!

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, To S. R. Crockett (1895)

YOU GET OVER having the breath taken from you by haunting scenery worthy of the Hebrides or Cornwall, then you round a headland and there’s something even more picturesque: this is the Scottish Riviera, an appellation dreamed up by an anonymous copywriter of the 1930s. During his Voyage Around Great Britain Richard Ayton likened Galloway to Caernarvonshire. When John Keats toured in 1818, he called it ‘very beautiful, very wild with craggy hills somewhat in the Westmorland fashion. The county is very rich, very fine, and with a little of Devon.’ For the Rev. C. H. Dick, a Galloway minister, who wrote Highways and Byways of Galloway and Carrick (1916), it had something of Bavaria about it.

Today two ravens patrol one of Keats’s ‘craggy hills’. We hear them on the scree before we spot them tumbling and rushing. For me their call is closer to a quack than a croak. A gronk? Scottish gamekeepers nearly pushed them to extinction to safeguard pheasants, grouse and other birds which people pay to shoot for ‘sport’. In some areas pheasants are almost tame and, therefore, easier to kill. The lobbying power of the new gentry is such that they are fast turning some beautiful parts of Scotland into private playgrounds. More than four thousand ravens were ‘culled’ in Scotland between January 2015 and July 2018.

The Norwegians revered ravens as wise messengers, prophets and protectors. Not so in Scotland, where a flock of ravens is, unkindly, called an ‘unkindness’ possibly because of their association with the macabre. The ravens we see today swirl above Screel, which affords a spectacular panorama that would quicken the unkindest of hearts.

We spot the wind-whipped skeleton of a tree downhill from Screel; something extremely macabre happened there – one of the most spine-chilling episodes in the annals of Scottish demonology. There are records of a vicious poltergeist, which hounded a family here for three months in 1695. It hurled rocks, slapped several people, made objects move, and finally burned the farmstead of Ringcroft of Stocking Hill down. In 1957, Tom Phin, who once edited the Galloway News, wrote in The Scots Magazine of ‘a row of trees conspicuous on the sky-line near Auchencairn. The trees, reduced from four to three by a recent storm, grow from the site of the cottage, the foundations of which are still there.’

More than 60 years after Phin’s piece only one of the so-called Ghost Trees remains, and it’s hard to find the foundations of the building. The first O.S. map showed it as ‘Ring, a ruin’, on ‘Stocking Hill’, but there is no mention of either on recent maps. There’s a local rumour that the poltergeist will return if the last tree dies.

Alexander Telfair, the local minister, published the story of the poltergeist in a pamphlet authenticated by several ministers and elders, some of whom spent the night on the farm:

‘It came often with such force upon the house that it made all the walls to shake, it broke a hole through the timber and thatch of the house and poured in great stones.’

The Saturday Review, albeit many years later, denounced the pamphlet as a practical joke – propaganda against atheism. And Sacheverell Sitwell, in his book, Poltergeists, dismissively reckoned one of Mackie’s children had mastered the art of ventriloquism!

A ventriloquist would twist his tongue throwing some of the placenames of this district, many of which have Norse, Viking, Gaelic and Scots etymology. And although the maps of the Solway coast have dropped many evocative place names and features, there is still a lexicon of strange nomenclature that harks back to old-world customs and characters. Torrs Warren, Peter’s Paps, the Gauger’s Loup, the Doukers’ Bing, Adam’s Chair, Lot’s Wife. It could almost be a poem. Spouty Dennans, Witchwife’s Haven, Raven’s Nest, Thunderhole Bay, Rascarrel Moss.

Wealthy Kippford across the bay, whose lone hawthorn was voted Britain’s best tree in 2021, didn’t appear on any map until 1750. Ayton observed during his wanderings there that he was now in ‘a very rude and unfrequented part of the country where a traveller was an object of some curiosity’. The village had once been called Scaur. Samuel Murdoch Crosbie, under the byline, Scauronian, wrote in the Kirkcudbrightshire Advertiser & Galloway News, in 1923: ‘Within living memory the Scaur has changed from an out of the world little hamlet of some eighteen cottages, most of them thatched, to a thriving little village of more than double the number of dwellings. In those earlier days the Scaur was cut off from the outside world by the tide for a portion of each day as the only road into it was along the beach, which was covered twice every 24 hours. There was no post office, there were three public houses, there was no shop worthy of the name and, generally speaking, the village was considered to be quite a century behind the times.’

However, the nearby ancient hill fort of the Mote of Mark on the summit of a low hill by the estuary testifies to ancient occupation.

Many Galloway beaches are a pleasure to see and explore, but three of the five of Scotland’s 85 tested beaches that failed European safe-bathing standards in 2021, are around here: Brighouse Bay, Dhoon Bay and Rockcliffe. That this can happen in a designated National Scenic Area nicknamed the Riviera is appalling. Testers even found traces of human faeces. The water quality at Rockcliffe was rated ‘poor’ for four consecutive years. It’s high time slurry spreading was banned, too. What happened to good old-fashioned, weathered cow shit?

Ruins are uplifting. They have energy; their grandness cuts you down to size. Dundrennan Abbey has survived since the 12th century, despite the iconoclasts of the Reformation. This peaceful sylvan location appealed to the Cistercian ideal, described by Abbot Ailred of Rievaulx as: ‘Everywhere peace, everywhere serenity, and a marvellous freedom from the tumult of the world.’

In 1839 the blunt Cockburn castigated landowners again for dereliction, for using historic buildings as cow sheds:

‘They gaze on the glorious ruins of noble buildings, over which time and history delight to linger, and which give their estates all the dignity they possess, with exactly the same emotion that the cattle do, to which these impressive edifices are generally consigned. It is a humiliating, national scandal.’

On May 15th, 1568 Mary Queen of Scots spent her last night on Scottish soil at Dundrennan, probably in the commendator’s house; next morning, she boarded a fishing boat bound for Workington in England, for imprisonment and eventual execution.

Jackdaws nest in the abbey heights today, opposite a raucous rookery. A nuthatch whistles from the ivy thatch, and wagtails dart about the grass foreground this side of the unsightly ring of railings erected to keep us out. It is temporarily closed to the public, pending close tactile inspection of every stone. But it’s not just Dundrennan Abbey that is subject to closure. A goodly swathe of the coast is often a no-go area to allow the military to practise shooting and blowing things up. We might very well be on the wonderful Scottish Riviera, but 20 tons of depleted uranium shells have been rocketed into the sea from Dundrennan: land acquired by the Army in 1942 on which to train forces for the liberation of Europe. There is now a danger area 15 miles by 19 miles.

Gulls and waders congregate in their cacophonous thousands on the guano-blotched crags of Hestan Island, which is only accessible along a cockleshell causeway. An hour before low tide the occasional human walks across to this 33-acre island, which was one of the settings of Samuel Rutherford Crockett’s book The Raiders, although Crockett called it Rathan. Smugglers from the Isle of Man hid their contraband in a shelved cave that is now colonised by washed-up tree trunks, plastic debris, sand, spiders and pigeons. The Rev. Beryl Scott and her husband lived for years in a former copper miner’s house on the island without mains water, electricity or gas. They built church organs. Edward Balliol, former king of Scotland, also exiled himself to Hestan and built a manor house there more than a century after the monks of Dundrennan had come to fish. You must know the tides before crossing to Hestan from Almorness Point. Tobias Smollett wrote in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771) that the Solway sand was ‘quick in different places’ and the tide ‘rushes in so impetuously, that passengers are often overtaken by the sea.’ And Walter Scott warned in Redgauntlet: ‘He that dreams on the bed of the Solway may wake in the next world.’

Crockett set much of his work in his native Galloway, including The Black Douglas, which Tolkien credited as an inspiration. Although Crockett sometimes rearranged the geography of Galloway, and in fact enlarged the cave on Hestan, he described the area vividly. ‘There were many tales about these caves,’ he wrote in The Raiders. ‘They were miles long, according to the ignorant. They were inhabited by the most terrible of sea-beasts, by mermen and sea lions of fearsome presence and exceeding ferocity.’

[goalhofer]

2024 olympics Great Britain roster

Archery

Conor Hall (Belfast)

Tom Hall (London)

Alex Wise (Newcastle Upon Tyne)

Megan Havers (Markfield)

Penny Healey (Telford)

Bryony Pitman (Shoreham-By-Sea)

Athletics

Jeremiah Azu (Cardiff)

Louie Hinchliffe (Crosspool)

Zharnel Hughes (The Valley, Anguilla)

Charlie Dobson (Colchester)

Matthew Hudson-Smith (Wolverhampton)

Max Burgin (Halifax)

Elliot Giles (Birmingham)

Ben Pattison (Frimley)

Neil Gourley (Glasgow)

Josh Kerr (Edinburgh)

George Mills (Harrogate)

Sam Atkin (Grimsby)

Patrick Dever (Preston)

Tade Ojora (London)

Alastair Chalmers (Guernsey, Channel Islands)

Richard Kilty (Middlesborough)

Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake (London)

Lewis Davey (Grantham)

Toby Harries (Brighton)

Alex Haydock-Wilson (London)

Sam Reardon (Beckenham)

Emile Cairess (Saltaire)

Mahamed Mahamed (Southampton)

Philip Sesemann (Bromley)

Callum Wilkinson (Moulton)

Jacob Fincham-Dukes (Harrogate)

Scott Lincoln (Northallerton)

Lawrence Okoye (London)

Nick Percy (Glasgow)

Dina Asher-Smith (London)

Imani-Lara Lansiquot (London)

Daryll Neita (London)

Bianca Williams (London)

Amber Anning (Hove)

Laviai Nielsen (London)

Lina Nielsen (London)

Victoria Ohuruogu (London)

Phoebe Gill (St. Albans)

Keely Hodgkinson (Atherton)

Jemma Reekie (Beith)

Georgia Bell (London)

Laura Muir (Milnathort)

Revée Walcott-Nolan (Luton)

Megan Keith (Inverness)

Eilish McColgan (Dundee)

Cynthia Sember (Ypsilanti, Michigan)

Jessie Knight (Epsom)

Lizzie Bird (St. Albans)

Aimee Pratt (Stockport)

Desirèe Henry (London)

Amy Hunt (Nottingham)

Yemi John (London)

Hannah Kelly (Bury)

Jodie Williams (Welwyn Garden City)

Nicole Yeargin (Bowie, Maryland)

Clara Evans (Hereford)

Rose Harvey (London)

Calli Yauger-Thackeray (Flagstaff, Arizona)

Morgan Lake (Reading)

Holly Bradshaw (Preston)

Molly Caudery (Truro)

Katharina Johnson-Thompson (Liverpool)

Jade O'Dowda (Oxford)

Badminton

Ben Lane (Milton Keynes)

Sean Vendy (Milton Keynes)

Kirsty Gilmour (Glasgow)

Boxing

Lewis Richardson (Colchester)

Patrick Brown (Sale)

Delicious Orie (Wolverhampton)

Charley Davison (Lowestoft)

Rosie Eccles (Newport)

Chantelle Reid (Allenton)

Canoeing

Adam Burgess (Stoke-On-Trent)

Joe Clarke (Stoke-On-Trent)

Mallory Franklin (Windsor)

Kimberley Woods (Rugby)

Climbing

Hamish McArthur (York)

Toby Roberts (Elstead)

Erin McNeice (Rodmersham)

Molly Thompson-Smith (London)

Cycling

Tom Pidcock (Leeds)

Josh Tarling (Aberaeron)

Stephen Williams (Aberysthwyth)

Fred Wright (Manchester)

Jack Carlin (Paisley)

Ed Lowe (Stamford)

William Turnbull (Morpeth)

Joe Truman (Petersfield)

Dan Bigham (Newcastle-Under-Lyme)

Ethan Hayter (London)

Ethan Vernon (Bedford)

Oli Wood (Wakefield)

Charlie Tanfield (Great Ayton)

Mark Stewart (Dundee)

Charlie Aldridge (Crieff)

Kieran Reilly (Newcastle Upon Tyne)

Kye Whyte (London)

Ross Cullen (Preston)

Lizzie Deignan (Otley)

Pfeiffer Georgi (Castle Combe)

Anna Henderson (Edlesborough)

Anna Morris (Cardiff)

Sophie Capewell (Lichfield)

Emma Finucane (Carmarthen)

Katy Marchant (Manchester)

Lowri Thomas (Abergavenny)

Elinor Barker (Cardiff)

Neah Evans (Langbank)

Josie Knight (Dingle, Ireland)

Jess Roberts (Carmarthen)

Ella MacLean-Howell (Llantrisant)

Evie Richards (Malvern)

Charlotte Worthington (Chorlton-Cum-Hardy)

Beth Shriever (Braintree)

Emily Hutt (London)

Diving

Jack Laugher (Ripon)

Jordan Houldon (Sheffield)

Noah Williams (London)

Kyle Kothari (London)

Anthony Harding (Ashton-Under-Lyne)

Tom Daley (Plymouth)

Yasmin Harper (Sheffield)

Grace Reid (Edinburgh)

Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix (London)

Lois Toulson (Cleckheaton)

Scarlett Mew-Jensen (London)

Equestrian

Carl Hester (Sark, Channel Islands)

Tom McEwen (London)

Scott Brash (Peebles)

Harry Charles (Alton)

Ben Maher (London)

Lottie Fry (Den Hout, The Netherlands)

Becky Moody (Gunthwaite)

Ros Canter (Louth)

Laura Collett (Royal Leamington Spa)

Field hockey

Tim Nurse (London)

Nick Park (Reading)

Jack Waller (London)

David Ames (Cookstown)

Jacob Draper (Cwmbran)

Zachary Wallace (Kingston-Upon-Thames)

Rupert Shipperley (London)

Sam Ward (Leicester)

James Albery (Cambridge)

Phil Roper (Chester)

David Goodfield (Shrewsbury)

Ollie Payne (Totnes)

Liam Sanford (Wegberg, Germany)

Lee Morton (Glasgow)

Thomas Sorsby (Sheffield)

Conor Williamson (London)

Will Calnan (London)

Gareth Furlong (London)

Laura Unsworth (Sutton Coldfield)

Anna Toman (Derby)

Hannah French (Ipswich)

Sarah Jones (Cardiff)

Amy Costello (Edinburgh)

Sarah Robertson (Melrose)

Charlotte Watson (Dundee)

Tessa Howard (Durham)

Isabelle Petter (Loughborough)

Giselle Ansley (Brixham)

Hollie Pearne-Webb (Duffield)

Fiona Crackles (Kirkby Lonsdale)

Sophie Hamilton (Bruton)

Lily Owsley (Bristol)

Flora Peel (Cheltenham)

Miriam Pritchard (Loughborough)

Golf

Matt Fitzpatrick (Sheffield)

Tommy Fleetwood (Dubai, U.A.E.)

Charley Hull (Kettering)

Georgia Hall (Bournemouth)

Gymnastics

Joe Fraser (Birmingham)

Harry Hepworth (Leeds)

Jake Jarman (Peterborough)

Luke Whitehouse (Halifax)

Max Whitlock (Hemel Hempstead)

Zak Perzamanos (Liverpool)

Becky Downie (Nottingham)

Ruby Evans (Cardiff)

Georgia-Mae Fenton (Gravesend)

Alice Kinsella (Sutton Coldfield)

Abi Martin (Paignton)

Bryony Page (Sheffield)

Isabelle Songhurst (Poole)

Judo

Chelsie Giles (Coventry)

Lele Naire (Weston-Super-Mare)

Lucy Renshall (St. Helens)

Katie-Jemima Yeats-Brown (Pembury)

Emma Reid (Royston)

Pentathlon

Charlie Brown (Kidderminster)

Joe Choong (London)

Kerenza Bryson (Plymouth)

Kate French (Chapmanslade)

Rowing

James Robson (Oundle)

Ollie Wynne-Griffith (Guildford)

Tom George (Cheltenham)

Oli Wilkes (Matlock)

David Ambler (London)

Matt Aldridge (Christchurch)

Freddie Davidson (London)

Tom Barras (Staines-Upon-Thames)

Callum Dixon (London)

Matt Haywood (Burton Upon Trent)

Graeme Thomas (Burton)

Sholto Carnegie (Oxford)

Rory Gibbs (Street)

Morgan Bolding (Weybridge)

Jacob Dawson (Portsmouth)

Charlie Elwes (Radley)

Tom Digby (Henley-On-Thames)

James Rudkin (Northampton)

Tom Ford (Holmes Chapel)

Harry Brightmore (Chester)

Henry Fieldman (Barnes)

Liv Bates (Nottingham)

Chloe Brew (Plymouth)

Rebecca Edwards (Aughnacloy)

Becky Wilde (Taunton)

Mathilda Hodgkins-Byrne (London)

Emily Craig (Pembury)

Imogen Grant (Cambridge)

Helen Backshall (Truro)

Esme Booth (Stratford-Apon-Avon)

Samantha Redgrave (Frinton)

Rebecca Shorten (Belfast)

Lauren Henry (Lutterworth)

Hannah Scott (Coleraine)

Lola Anderson (London)

Georgina Brayshaw (Leeds)

Heidi Long (London)

Rowan McKellar (Glasgow)

Holly Dunford (Tadworth)

Emily Ford (Holmes Chapel)

Lauren Irwin (Peterlee)

Eve Stewart (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Harriet Taylor (Chertsey)

Annie Campbell-Orde (Wells)

Lucy Glover (Warrington)

Rugby

Abi Burton (Wakefield)

Kayleigh Powell (Llantrisant)

Amy Wilson-Hardy (Poole)

Ellie Boatman (Camberley)

Ellie KIldunne (Keighley)

Emma Uren (London)

Grace Crompton (Epsom)

Heather Cowell (Isleworth)

Isla Norman-Bell (Gillingham)

Jade Shekells (Hartpury)

Jasmine Joyce-Butchers (St. Davids)

Lauren Torley (Flackwell Heath)

Lisa Thomson (Hawick)

Megan Jones (Cardiff)

Sailing

Connor Bainbridge (Halifax)

James Peters (Tunbridge Wells)

Fynn Sterritt (Inverness)

Sam Sills (Launceston)

Micky Beckett (Solva)

Chris Grube (Chester)

John Grimson (Leicester)

Emma Wilson (Christchurch)

Ellie Aldridge (Parkstone)

Hannah Snellgrove (Lymington)

Freya Black (Redhill)

Saskia Tidey (Dublin, Ireland)

Vita Heathcote (Southampton)

Anna Burnet (London)

Shooting

Mike Bargeron (Bromley)

Matthew Coward-Holley (Chelmsford)

Nathan Hales (Chatham)

Seonaid McIntosh (Edinburgh)

Lucy Hall (York)

Amber Rutter (Windsor)

Skateboarding

Andy Macdonald (Newton, Massachusetts)

Sky Brown (Takanabe, Japan)

Lola Tambling (Saltash)

Swimming

Ben Proud (London)

Alex Cahoon (Fairford)

Matt Richards (Droitwich Spa)

Jacob Whittle (Alfreton)

Duncan Scott (Glasgow)

Kieran Bird (Street)

Daniel Jervis (Resolven)

Oliver Morgan (Bishops Castle)

Jonathon Marshall (Southend-On-Sea)

Luke Greenbank (Crewe)

Adam Peaty (Uttoxeter)

James Wilby (Glasgow)

Jimmy Guy (Timperley)

Tom Dean (Maidenhead)

Max Litchfield (Chesterfield)

Joe Litchfield (Chesterfield)

Jack McMillan (Belfast)

Hector Pardoe (Wrexham)

Toby Robinson (Wolverhampton)

Kate Shortman (Clifton)

Isabelle Thorpe (Clifton)

Anna Hopkin (Chorley)

Kathleen Dawson (Kirkcaldy)

Medi Harris (Porthmadog)

Honey Osrin (Portsmouth)

Katie Shanahan (Glasgow)

Angharad Evans (Cambridge)

Keanna Macinnes (Edinburgh)

Laura Stephens (London)

Abbie Wood (Buxton)

Freya Colbert (Grantham)

Eva Okaro (Sevenoaks)

Lucy Hope (Melrose)

Freya Anderson (Birkenhead)

Leah Crisp (Wakefield)

Table tennis

Liam Pitchford (Chesterfield)

Anna Hursey (Tianjin, China)

Taekwondo

Bradly Sinden (Doncaster)

Caden Cunningham (Huddersfield)

Jade Jones (Bodelwyddan)

Rebecca McGowan (Dumbarton)

Tennis

Jack Draper (London)

Dan Evans (Dubai, U.A.E.)

Joe Salisbury (London)

Neal Skupski (Liverpool)

Sir Andy Murray (Leatherhead)

Katie Boulter (Woodhouse Eaves)

Heather Watson (St. Peter Port, Channel Islands)

Triathlon

Sam Dickinson (York)

Alex Yee (London)

Beth Potter (Bearsden)

Georgia Taylor-Brown (Leeds)

Kate Waugh (Newcastle Upon Tyne)

Weightlifting

Emily Campbell (Bulwell)

[ulkaralakbarova]

Five twenty-something friends spend a drug-fueled weekend in Cardiff, Wales. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Jip: John Simm Koop: Shaun Parkes Nina: Nicola Reynolds Lulu: Lorraine Pilkington Moff: Danny Dyer Lee: Dean Davies Felix: Andrew Lincoln Moff’s Father: Terence Beesley Reality (voice): Jo Brand Andy: Richard Coyle Karen Benson: Jan Anderson Pablo Hassan: Carl Cox Fleur: Stephanie Brooks Howard Marks: Howard Marks Jip’s Mother: Helen Griffin Tyrone: Danny Midwinter Ziggy Marlon: Justin Kerrigan Hip Hop Junkie: Tyrone Johnson Koop’s Father: Larrington Walker Jip’s Manager: Philip Rosch Lulu’s Uncle Albert: Peter Albert Lulu’s Auntie Violet: Menna Trussler Jeremy Faxman: Mark Seaman Connie: Lynne Seymour Luke: Patrick Taggart Boomshanka: Anna Wilson Casey: Robert Marable Herbie: Nick Kilroy Matt: Peter Bramhill Moff’s Mother: Carol Harrison Moff’s Grandmother: Anne Bowen Martin: Giles Thomas Jip’s Ex #2: Sarah Blackburn Doctor: Eilian Wyn Asylum Doorman: Neil Bowens Jip’s Ex #3: Nicola Davey Inca: Roger Evans Tyler: Bradley Freegard Trixi: Emma Hall Jip’s Ex #1: Elizabeth Harper Jip’s Secretary: Jennifer Hill TV Interviewer: Nicola Heywood-Thomas Casey: Robert Marrable Cardiff Bad Boy: Louis Marriot Millsy From Roath: Millsy in Nottingham Karen Benson’s Boyfriend: Robbie Newby Tom Tom’s MC: Ninjah Jip’s Mother’s Client: Cadfan Roberts Koop’s Workmate: Mad Doctor X Bad Boy: Jason Samuels Breakdancer / Bodypopper: Tim Hamilton Bodypopper: Alicia Ferraboschi Bodypopper: Sherena Flash Bodypopper: Marat Khairoullin Bodypopper: Adam Pudney Bodypopper: Mark Seymore Bodypopper: Algernon Williams Bodypopper: Colin Williams Bodypopper: Frank Wilson Film Crew: Supervising Sound Editor: Glenn Freemantle Sound Editor: Tom Sayers Dialogue Editor: Gillian Dodders Casting Director: Sue Jones Additional Editing: Stuart Gazzard Associate Producer: Rupert Preston Producer: Allan Niblo Director: Justin Kerrigan Producer: Emer McCourt Co-Executive Producer: Michael Wearing Steadicam Operator: Paul Edwards Second Assistant Director: Marcus Collier Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Craig Irving Editor: Patrick Moore Director of Photography: Dave Bennett Costume Designer: Claire Anderson Original Music Composer: Matthew Herbert Set Dresser: Ed Talfan Sound Recordist: Martyn Stevens Production Coordinator: Andrea Cornwell Post Production Supervisor: Jackie Vance Post Production Coordinator: Claire Mason ADR Recordist: Sandy Buchanan Gaffer: Andrew Taylor Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Nicolas Le Messurier Script Supervisor: Laura Gwynne Assistant Sound Editor: Susan French Music Supervisor: Pete Tong Makeup & Hair: Kerry September First Assistant Director: Charlie Watson Post Production Supervisor: Maria Walker Second Assistant Director: Matthew Penry-Davey Assistant Editor: Amy Adams Foley Editor: Miriam Ludbrook Original Music Composer: Roberto Leite Storyboard Artist: Nick Kilroy Dialogue Editor: Keith Marriner Makeup Designer: Tony Lilley First Assistant Director: Emma Pounds Music Consultant: Arthur Baker Co-Executive Producer: Kevin Menton Electrician: Mark Hutchings Boom Operator: Jeff Welch Costume Assistant: Karen Mason Casting Director: Gary Howe Production Design: David Buckingham Co-Executive Producer: Nigel Warren-Green Executive Producer: Renata S. Aly Art Direction: Sue Ayton First Assistant Director: Hywel Watkins Third Assistant Director: Tivian Zvekan Location Manager: Peter Vidler Location Manager: Frank Coles Assistant Location Manager: Roland Mercer Focus Puller: Mike Chitty Clapper Loader: Ewan O’Brien Key Grip: David Hopkins Construction Manager: Martin Dawes Property Master: John C. Reilly Set Dresser: Riana Griffiths Art Department Assistant: Jacqui Puscher Storyboard Artist: Deena Mathews Costume Supervisor: Anne McManus Makeup & Hair: Hanna Coles Still Photographer: Hector Bermejo Unit Publicist: Jessica Kirsh Movie Reviews: zag: One of my favorite films of all time, its a period movie describing the young party goers of the UK in the 1990’s. It hits the nail on the head, the lov...

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Devin Booker, que arrolló a los Dallas Mavericks con 46 puntos, y el griego Giannis Antetokounmpo, con un triple doble de 35 puntos contra los Cleveland Cavaliers, dominaron este miércoles en la NBA, en una jornada marcada por el sentido homenaje de los Golden State Warriors a su entrenador asistente, el serbio Dejan Milojevic, fallecido la semana pasada a los 46 años. WARRIORS 134 - HAWKS 112 Los Warriors y su técnico, Steve Kerr, dedicaron un largo y emotivo homenaje a Dejan Milojevic, entrenador asistente de los de la Bahía fallecido repentinamente la semana pasada a los 46 años. "El mundo perdió una bonita alma la semana pasada, Deki era un gran amigo, un gran entrenador de baloncesto, un gran hombre, y más importante, un buen nieto, hijo y padre", dijo Kerr, quien tomó el micrófono en el Chase Center antes del arranque del partido. Todo el Chase Center se unió en un fuerte y sentido aplauso para Milojevic, quien sufrió un ataque de corazón la semana pasada en Salt Lake City, donde estaba concentrado con los Warriors para un duelo contra los Utah Jazz. Jonathan Kuminga firmó 25 puntos con un perfecto once de once en tiros, una marca que igualó el récord de la franquicia, ostentado por Chris Mullin. SPURS 114 - THUNDER 140 Los Thunder sellaron su cuarta victoria consecutiva, al aplastar a los Spurs en San Antonio con 32 puntos y diez asistencias de Shai Gilgeous Alexander. Aaron Wiggins aportó 22 saliendo del banquillo, mientras que Chet Holmgren rozó un doble doble de 17 puntos y nueve rebotes. Los Spurs perdieron seis de sus últimos siete partidos, con la única victoria llegada el pasado fin de semana en Washington contra los Wizards. El francés Victor Wembanyama consiguió 24 puntos y 12 rebotes. BUCKS 126 - CAVALIERS 116 Con Joe Prunty en el banquillo como técnico interino, tras el despido de Adrian Griffin y pendiente de la incorporación de Doc Rivers, los Bucks pusieron fin a la racha de ocho victorias consecutivas de los Cavaliers. Giannis Antetokounmpo destrozó a los de Cleveland con un triple doble de 35 puntos, 18 rebotes y diez asistencias, apoyado por los 28 de Damian Lillard. Los Bucks son segundos en el Este, detrás de los líderes Boston Celtics. WIZARDS 107 - TIMBERWOLVES 118 Tras caer dos veces consecutivas en casa, los Wolves volvieron a la senda del triunfo en el campo de los modestos Wizards, impulsados por 38 puntos de Anthony Edwards. El dominicano Karl Anthony Towns, que metió 62 puntos ante los Hornets en su último partido, aportó 27 ante en el campo de los Wizards para unos Wolves que lideran la Conferencia Oeste junto a los Thunder. ROCKETS 131 - TRAIL BLAZERS 137 Los Blazers dieron la sorpresa en el campo de los Rockets al imponerse en la prórroga, liderados por 33 puntos de Anfernee Simons y 18 puntos y 17 rebotes de Deandre Ayton. En los Rockets, que perdieron cinco de sus últimos seis partidos, Alperen Sengun rozó el triple doble con 30 puntos, 10 rebotes y ocho asistencias. PISTONS 113 - HORNETS 106 Bogdano Bogdanovic brilló con 34 puntos y los Pistons sumaron ante los Hornets su quinta victoria de la temporada, en 44 partidos. Los de Detroit están hundidos en la última plaza del Este. Los Hornets, en lo que Brandon Miller (23 puntos), Nick Richards (21) y Miles Bridges (20) acabaron con al menos veinte puntos, son antepenúltimos con un balance de 10-32. Para recibir en tu celular esta y otras informaciones, únete a nuestras redes sociales, síguenos en Instagram, Twitter y Facebook como @DiarioElPepazo El Pepazo/Marca/EFE

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Margaret Tudor's Progress to Scotland to Marry James IV

Margaret Tudor’s Progress to Scotland to Marry James IV

Margaret Tudor and her husband James IV, King of Scots Traditionally, Scotland owed allegiance to the English kings but the Scots resented this state of affairs. Consequently, during the early sixteenth century, relations between the two countries remained tense with intermittent raids and attacks along the borders. James IV even went so far as to support the pretender to the English throne…

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LESS THAN A WEEK UNTIL THE PRINCE OPENS

These are some pictures of our rehearsals. I AM SO REVVED.

Tickets: https://www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/show-homepage/the-prince/

Me practicing my swordfighting!

Tyler Luke Cunningham (he/him) prepares a mighty strike!

Tianna Arnold (they/them) rehearses a scene with Mary Malone (she/her)

Director Tash Rickman (she/her) oversees an intimacy call

Movement Director EM Williams (they/them, he/him) leads a movement warmup. In the background, sound designer/composer Rodent (they/them) ponders a mix and Assistant Stage Manager Paris Linxuan Wu (she/her) watches on

Richard Rees (he/him) thinks deep Richard thoughts

Me and Corey Montague-Sholay (he/him) rehearse a scene

Mary chills out, effortlessly cool as per

Joni Ayton-Kent (she/her) and Mary rehearse a scene

Ché Walker (he/him) and Richard shake hands

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Jennet o’ t’ Dales

A tale of a holy wells, charms, witches and fairies.

I wanted to post an image of Chapel Well, a holy well near Great Ayton to accompany another story by Richard Blakeborough. Chapel Well is today a small hollow in a small patch of brambly wood called, not surprisingly, Chapel Wood. There is not much sign of any water — I suppose the hydrology has been completely altered by the railway and whinstone quarry. So that’s the corner of Chapel Wood on…

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Den mest populära online-kursen någonsin

"The Science of Well-Being" är den mest populära online-kursen någonsin från Yale University. Och via portalen Coursera är den också helt gratis. En stor fördel är också att man väljer sin studietakt själv och enkelt kan ta del av bara de delar som intresserar en. Kursen gav mig många insikter och jag rekommenderar den till alla. Här är de största lärdomarna jag tog med mig.

1. Kunskap kommer inte förändra dig.

Bara för att jag har kunskap om ett ämne kommer det inte göra att jag ändrar mitt beteende. Till exempel vet jag att det är dåligt för miljön att äta kött, men det krävs mer än kunskapen om det för att jag ska sluta. Det som krävs är att jag förändrar mina vanor, så kommer beteendet också följa med.

2. Oändligt med pengar gör en inte lyckligare.

En amerikansk undersökning har visat att glädjen ökar ju mer man tjänar - men bara upp till en viss nivå. Brytpunkten verkar ligga runt ungefär 500 000 kronor om året. Efter det ökar inte ens välmående oavsett hur mycket mer man tjänar.

3. Ens lycka är inte förutbestämd.

Forskning har visat att våra gener påverkar ungefär 50 procent av vårt välmående. Det som alltså lägger grunden till om man är en person som tänker att glaset är halvtomt eller halvfullt. Däremot står yttre omständigheter, när något bra eller dåligt händer, bara för omkring 10 procent. De resterande 40 procenten styr vi själva över.

4. Man är som lyckligast på sin bröllopsdag.

Det har visat sig att lycka inte håller i sig speciellt länge. Säg att man i normala fall är en 6:a på en skala från 1 till 10. Då är det normalt att ens välmående ökar till en 8:a när man gifter sig. Tyvärr håller det oftast bara i sig det första året. Sedan går man tillbaka till den där 6:an man var innan man gifte sig.

5. Vi är dåliga på att förutspå hur händelser kommer påverka oss.

Vår intuition om hur mycket, och hur länge, en framgång eller ett misslyckande kommer påverka oss är ofta fel. Som exempel tror vi att ett misslyckat prov, eller ett bättre jobb kommer vara väldigt avgörande, och att känslan kommer sitta i länge. Men studier har visat att dessa händelser knappt påverkar vårt allmänna välmående alls, delvis för att vi vänjer oss så snabbt.

6. Människor hatar att känna sig underlägsna.

Vi jämför oss ständigt med andra. En undersökning lät personer välja mellan att hypotetiskt tjäna 30 000 kronor/mån medan alla andra på jobbet tjänar 20. Eller att istället tjäna 50 000 kronor/mån men då tjänar de andra 80. Det visade sig att de allra flesta valde det första alternativet, trots att det skulle ge mindre pengar i plånboken.

Klicka här för att komma till kursen.

Referenser till de olika undersökningarna:

Laurie Santos and Tamar Gendler - The G.I. Joe Fallacy.

Danny Kahneman and Angus Deaton - High income improves evaluation of life but not emotional well-being.

Sonja Lyubomirsky - The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want.

Richard Lucas mfl. - Reexamining Adaptation and the Set Point Model of Happiness: Reactions to Changes in Marital Status.

Peter Ayton - Affective forecasting: Why can't people predict their emotions?

Sara Solnick and David Hemenway - Is More Always Better?: A Survey on Positional Concerns.

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FIVE

Whaur glistenin’ sands lay streikit

Ablow the sunset sky

Noo a wan wide sea is reestin’

An’ the yammerin’ sea-birds cry,

An’ a wheengin’ win’ rings eerily

I’ the salmon nets oot-by.

DOROTHY MARGARET PAULIN, Solway Tide (1936)

THREE SHAGS SLOPE about the scarred strand, and godwits graze along the wrack line. Were it not for the former MoD factory beyond the shore, Powfoot village might be a beachcomber’s paradise but, after an explosion in the 1960s, tons of rubble were dumped over the barbed wire to be slowly sculpted into something else by the waves and winds.

The better of the two beaches has an intertidal dyked paddling pool, and there were stake nets there for centuries, but they too are gone. In the 1980s, when I was jobless, I often pilfered flounders from their mesh. The fishermen only wanted salmon and left a few flounders – poor man’s plaice –flip-flopping in death’s anteroom for me to scavenge. I was told they were stuffed with Vitamin B12. They weren’t for the gourmet, but they’d do until my giro came.

Today scintillating swifts skim the sea, like a shoal of tiny hovercrafts, whimsical in their synchrony. We hear golfer’s clubs clanking in their caddy on the links beyond the gorse. Gone are the many visitors who once disgorged from trains in Cummertrees a mile away, for the seaside or to relax along a string of ornamental man-made lochs. Nowadays there’s a circular walk among the mature trees and shrubs that colonized the silted-up waterway. At Cummertrees stand the only Edwardian three-storey houses of their kind in Scotland, a reminder of the local gentry’s plan for a ‘Blackpool of the North’ at the beginning of the 20th century. The lost resort.

A sanderling sings a sea shanty, and waders twitter and tinkle to the phantoms of the firth beside a tar-boiled lane flatter than Holland. The scrubland crackles. A tractor shooms past Killers Wynd, Priestwood and Howcreek. The wind often howls across many miles of sea to these parts where pink thrift blooms, but it’s down to a whisper this glorious day. There are no verticals: just sea, sky and infinity in a dizzying dazzle, past where salt-panners once laboured.

When travel writers William Daniell and Richard Ayton passed by on their Voyage Around Great Britain in 1814, they came upon Powhillon, a cluster of a dozen mud huts.

‘Yet in these miserable hovels I found the people exceedingly decent in their manners, with their minds improved and refined by education...highly civilised, intelligent, and moral,’ wrote Ayton. ‘There was not a man or woman in the village that could not read and write, nor a single hut without a book.’ Powhillon is now a farm owned by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust.

We reach Brow Well, a former spa immortalised by Robert Burns, who came here to bathe and take the mineral waters, a prescription that hastened his death. He was thin as a rake, gaunt, shaky and weary when he visited Ruthwell manse for tea. The minister’s daughter, Agnes Craig, reportedly, offered to draw the curtains to keep the sun out of his eyes, but the bard replied: ‘Let the sun shine in upon us, my dear young lady; he has not now long to shine for me.’

When he was 12, the author Allan Cunningham saw the bard return from Brow to his house in Dumfries, and wrote: ‘The ascent to his house was steep, and the cart stopped at the foot of the Mill-hole Brae; when he alighted, he shook much and stood with difficulty; he seemed unable to stand upright. He stooped as if in pain and walked tottering towards his door: his looks were hollow and ghastly, and those who saw him then expected never to see him again.’ (James A Mackay, Burns Lore of Dumfries and Galloway, 1988)

The Southern Scottish Counties Burns Association runs an annual service at the Brow Well to commemorate his passing. The Brow Inn, where Burns stayed for three weeks, was demolished in 1863.

We make for Ruthwell church, not to say our prayers but to rewind to the golden years of the kingdom of Northumbria –and a remarkable piece of Christian heritage, an ancient Anglian cross that bears the earliest extant piece of written English, the 18-foot tall, eighth-century Ruthwell Cross. When the church is closed the key is kept in a blue box outside the adjacent bungalow.

In 1640 the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland denounced the cross as an idolatrous monument. It had survived the incursions of sea-rovers, but Reformers viewed it as a Papish totem pole to be vandalised and dumped. However, a succession of forward-thinking ministers saved it. Gavin Young broke it in three and laid it in a pit in the kirk, and the congregation sat on it for a century and a half. Then along came the Rev. Duncan, who reconstructed it and erected it in his glebe. Later the Rev. James McFarlan stopped it being moved to Edinburgh by knocking part of the church wall down to hide it. There is a piece of it missing, alas. Robert Nicol, the parish minister in the 1980s, told me he lived in hope that someday he would pop into someone’s byre and see it above a door being used as a lintel.

Visitors come from around the world now to see the cross, and to stop at the Savings Bank Museum. For Duncan founded the world’s first savings bank in Ruthwell in 1810. The TSB planned to shut it down and move it to Edinburgh in 2022, but there was a successful protest.

Seventeen saltpanners were swept to their deaths in a flash flood in 1627. Thirteen bodies were recovered and were buried in Ruthwell kirkyard.

 

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Deandre Ayton out for Suns vs. Lakers due to ankle soreness

By Adonis Richards

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Phoenix Suns Center Deandre Ayton Is out for the Monday night matchup against the Los Angeles Lakers due to ankle soreness arizonasports reports. The Phoenix center was playing the best basketball of his career up until that point. Deandre Ayton out for Suns against the Lakers. Warriors vs. Heat Recap Head coach Monty Williams reported […]

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Goldman Sachs' new managing-director list is out — and it's the largest class in the firm's history (GS)

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Goldman Sachs announced its largest-ever class of managing directors.

Of the 509 promoted, 44% are millennials.

The firm announces managing-director promotions every two years.

It's one of the most coveted positions on Wall Street, a step below partner at the premier investment bank.

Goldman Sachs just announced a new class of 509 managing directors — the largest class in the firm's history.

The position is one of the most coveted on Wall Street, one step below partner at the prestigious investment-banking firm. The firm now has 2,148 managing directors, making up 7.1% of the company's workforce.

It's also one of the youngest classes the bank has promoted — 44% are millennials, up from 30% in 2015.

Other headline stats about the class:

66% started their careers as analysts or associates at Goldman Sachs.

24% of the class is women, down from 25% in 2015.

130 were promoted in the securities division, up from 102 in 2015.

101 were promoted in investment banking, up from 97 in 2015.

52 were promoted in technology, up from 38 in 2015.

Eight were promoted in consumer and commercial banking — the division that houses the bank's online-lending business, Marcus — compared with zero in 2015.

Here's the full statement:

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE: GS) today announced that it has selected a new class of Managing Directors, effective from January 1, 2018, the start of the firm's next fiscal year.

"Our new Managing Directors have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to our people, clients and culture during their tenures at the firm, and we wish them continued success as they take this important next step in their careers," said Lloyd C. Blankfein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs.

The following individuals have been promoted to Managing Director:

Gregg Abramson Sanjay Acharya Khalid Albdah Amal Alibair Karthikeyan Anbalagan Rolf Andersson Volker Anger Jonathan Armstrong Ken Ashley Lavanya Ashok Sebastian Ayton Jonathan Babkow Julio Badi Amitayush Bahri Soren Balzer Robert Barlick Jr. Philip Barreca Santiago Bau David Bauer Oksana Beard Lee Becker Virender Bedi Stuart Beer Christian Beerli Amanda Beisel Yumiko Bekku David Bell Pierre Benichou Andrew Benito Marco Bensi Laura Benson Stephen Bergin Daniel Berglund Greg Berry Shital Bhatt Dipanjan Bhattacharjee Anu Bhavnani Carissa Biggie Vineet Birman Daniel Bitel Anne Black Richard Blore Emmanuel Bodenstein Timothy Braude Sean Brenan Hugh Briscoe Nathaniel Bristol Leo Brito Troy Broderick Levee Brooks Eric Brothers Robert Bruns III Anthony Bunnell Meg Burke Susan Burt Sean Butkus Russell Byrne Edward Byun Adam Cahill Alessandro Calace Cristiano Camargo Ken Cawley Swapan Chaddha Patrick Chamberlain Richard Chambers Daphne Chan Lily Chan Ben Chance Ginger Chang Vikram Chavali Alex Cheek Jae Joon Choi Ken Choi Paul Choi David Clark Denis Cleary Daniel Cleland-James Ayanna Clunis Pamela Codo-Lotti Jesse Cohen Paul Coles Simon Coombes Jenny Cosco Philip Coureau Nathan Cowen Matthew Cox (Securities) Shaun Cullinan Christine D'Agostino Emile Daher Hiren Dasani Russell Day Pierre De Belen Merche del Valle Caitlin DeSantis Jack Devaney Thomas Devos Mats Dewitte Hristo Dimitrov Tim Dinsdale Isabella Disler Christian Ditullio Terence Doherty Yakut Donat Nicola Dondi Brian Dong Jason D'Silva Stefan Duffner Jane Dunlevie Marie Duval Julien Dyon Rohini Eapen Zach Eckler Sayaka Eda Jason Eisenstadt Chris Emmerson Tiffany Eng Chendan Esvaran Erkko Etula Liz Ewing Michael Fargher Matteo Farina Leigh Farris Sarah Faulkner Tom Favia Brett Feldman Jennifer Feng Jon Ferguson Alex Field Herbert Filho Alex Finston Dean Flanagan Greg Flynn Trip Foley Andrew Ho Kwon Fong Moran Forman Michael Fox Caroline Fraser Daniel Freckleton Tim Freeman Reto Frei Giles French Kirsten Frivold 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The Thunder beat up Jusuf Nurkic and HE’S the one who got ejected

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Thunder vs. Blazers was a hoot, finishing with an Oklahoma City victory in overtime, giving the visitors a season sweep over Portland. The game was really won at the end of regulation when Jusuf Nurkic, the second-best Blazer and a crucial combatant against OKC, got ejected. And Nurkic wouldn’t have gotten ejected at the end of regulation if he hadn’t been body-checked by Russell Westbrook earlier in the game.

Let me explain.

First of all, these dudes have real beef. Westbrook called Nurkic a clown earlier this season, which led to the Bosnian Beast referring to his foe as “Westbrick” on Twitter. Uh oh.

In the second quarter on Thursday, Westbrook smashed into Nurkic as the players switched ends of the court behind the play, knocking the big man to the ground. Refs whistled the obvious foul and reviewed the play to determine whether to assess a flagrant foul on Westbrook. They did. But when reviewing the full play, they noticed that Nurkic intentionally tripped Westbrook near the baseline, before the cross-check. They assessed Nurkic a technical foul for that.

Replay Review (Game Crew): if foul committed by Westbrook met criteria for a flagrant foul in Q2 of #OKCatPOR. Ruling: Technical foul assessed to Nurkic, flagrant foul penalty 1 assessed to Westbrook. pic.twitter.com/KkjPmBnCYk

— NBA Official (@NBAOfficial) March 8, 2019

That would never have been seen, reviewed, or called without Westbrook picking up the flagrant.

The rest of the game was chippy -- Paul George, probably inadvertently, hit Nurkic with a tough elbow that went uncalled -- on one drive.

Nurkic took a Paul George elbow right to the chin pic.twitter.com/wsnkj0AIDm

— Dime (@DimeUPROXX) March 8, 2019

With less than five seconds left in regulation, Nurkic grabbed an offensive rebound and was fouled with the Blazers down two. George said something to him, and Nurkic went chest to chest and headbutted George, though not very hard. Refs reviewed it and assessed the dreaded double technicals.

Replay Review (Game Crew): player altercation in Q4 of #OKCatPOR. Ruling: Double technical foul assessed to Nurkic and George, Nurkic ejected (second unsportsmanlike technical foul of the game). pic.twitter.com/TSBwP1HYN8

— NBA Official (@NBAOfficial) March 8, 2019

Being Nurkic’s second and George’s first (because the elbow was never caught but Nurk’s trip was), Nurkic got ejected. The Blazers were still able to send the game to overtime, but the Thunder dominated there, in part by attacking Enes Kanter, who had to play in place of the much more defensively stout Nurk. In the end, Nurkic did far less damage in his two violations than either Westbrook or George did in their shoulder smash and elbow, respectively. But this is how it goes sometimes, especially for imposing big men.

So there you go. The Thunder won a big game in part because Westbrook jacked Nurkic in plain sight in the second quarter.

Scores

Pacers 98, Bucks 117 Thunder 129, Blazers 121 (OT)

Schedule

Here’s the national TV lineup for this weekend. All times Eastern. Full schedule can be found here.

Friday: Sixers at Rockets, 8, ESPN Nuggets at Warriors, 10:30, ESPN

Saturday: Celtics at Lakers, 8:30, ABC

Sunday: Pacers at Sixers, 3:30, ABC Pelicans at Hawks, 6, NBA TV Suns at Warriors, 8:30, NBA TV

Links

How very tall and long basketball players find clothes that fit. Nice investigation by Matt Ellentuck.

Examining Giannis Antetokounmpo’s unique defensive game.

Otto Porter missed the end of a 1-point game because of a drug test.

Can DeMarcus Cousins do less? (In my experience, the answer is no. This is likely asking a Finnish black metal band to play a John Mayer song. It’s just not possible.)

Sam Amick is convincing me that the Bucks could win the title.

Why LeBron passing MJ on the all-time scoring list was pretty anticlimatic.

Wait, there is a fourth Ball, but he’s a cousin and he’s pursuing a more normal ball to the pros?

Brian Windhorst on Adam Silver’s forthright comments, especially on the impact of shorter contracts.

Now that the Lakers’ playoff dreams are basically done, LeBron will be on minutes restrictions and won’t play back-to-backs.

LITTY Committee.

You are probably not watching Deandre Ayton’s big breakout. On a related note, the top five picks in the 2018 NBA Draft might make up the entire first team All Rookie. Perhaps one will get bumped to second team. That’s pretty impressive!

And finally: Richard Jefferson and Channing Frye mercilessly trolling LeBron over his big scoring achievement this week.

Be excellent to each other.