Musicians Nimo Patel and Daniel Nahmod brought together dozens of people from around the world to create this beautiful, heart-opening melody. Inspired by the 21-Day Gratitude Challenge, the song is a celebration of our spirit and all that is a blessing in life. For the 21 Days, over 11,000 participants from 118 countries learned that "gratefulness" is a habit cultivated consciously and a muscle built over time. As a famous Roman, Cicero, once said, "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." This soul-stirring music video, created within a week by a team of volunteers, shines the light on all the small things that make up the beautiful fabric of our lives.


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JetBlue tickets go on sale to everyone, but you have to be a JetBlue customer to qualify for free airline tickets
Now, JetBlue is offering free travel on all of its flights with the launch of its new JetBlue Travel App.
The airline said Thursday that people who have been with JetBlue for at least three years will be able to sign up for the app, and that people can apply for a free JetBlue trip up to the first $1,000 spent.
Those who have already booked a flight will also be able access the app through the JetBlue website.
The app is currently available only for people in the United States and Canada.
Customers can apply online and select a country from a list of 50 available countries.
They can also select a time frame for travel.
The JetBlue app was created in partnership with TripAdvisor and allows JetBlue customers to book their flights and pay for flights directly through their credit cards, with JetBlack customers receiving priority access to JetBlue's credit card processing and booking system.
That means JetBlue travelers can pay for their flights as soon as they land in a destination, while JetBlack travelers have to wait for JetBlue to process the order.
JetBlue said in a statement that the app will be available starting Nov. 5 and will be integrated with JetPass, which will make it easier for customers to pay for travel as well.
JetBlue has previously said that it was looking into ways to bring its services to more people.
Jet Black has also announced a partnership with American Express to offer free travel for the first time on its flights.
The company said that JetBlack members will be eligible to purchase JetBlue flights up to $1.50, while other Jet Black customers can choose between the same fares or free flights.
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Havant & Waterlooville FC Walking Football trials!
Home PageCommunityOver 50s FootballWalking Football trials!
Havant and Waterlooville FC Walking Football hold trials for all players aged 50-plus three times a week every week (except Bank Holidays)! Monday mornings at 11.00am at South Downs College, Monday evenings at 7.30pm at Warblington School, and Thursday mornings at 11.00am back at South Downs College again. For just £3.00 per session, you too could don the famous Hawks' jersey. Those that sign on with the Many Shades following the trial (where you trial us, not the other way round) will partake in loads of banter, debate about running and quality of refereeing, as well as drinking buckets of tea and coffee and eating more biscuits and cakes (after the daytime sessions) than your doctor would give blessing to.
Away from the training ground and bar, the Many Shades partake in a series of competitions including friendly matches, Festivals, and Charity Tournaments. The team has also taken part in The FA People's Cup, reaching the semi-finals in 2016.
Want to book onto the open trial or have any other questions then contact the following: Shaun Gale or Ross Betteridge at Hawks in the Community on 02392 787822.


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Q: Ruby Rails - Structuring Nested Objects With my current project, I'm receiving a large JSON file that I'm parsing and storing into my database. The problem is I feel like I'm structuring my database in a very inefficient way.
Example of JSON:
{
    first_name: "John",
    records: {
     ids: [110, 725, 2250],
     count: [1, 1, 6]
      },
    items: {
        top: {
            title: "My top",
            values: {  value: [51, 50, 70] }
        },
        middle: {
            title: "Middle Stuff",
            values: { value: [51] }
        },
    },
    values: {
        health: 100,
        strength: 250,
        mana: 50
    }
}

As you can see the JSON is fairly complex, with nested Objects.
While building it, I started with the main Object ( user ), then slowly started adding more objects. Values was easy, so I added that as another table and just with a reference to the user_id.
Then I did records, which is a bit more complex, but works. However, I'm very worried about the most nested parts, that could be 5+ objects deep. I feel like I shouldn't have an entire column row for a simple value.
What would be the best way to improve on this? Should I somehow crunch the data and store it differently?
Thanks for your help.

A: // JSON response
{
    "name": "John Smith",
    ...
    "progression": {
        "levels": [{
            "name": "Level 1",
            "bosses": [
            {
                "name": "Boss 1",
                "difficultyCompleted": "Hard"
            },
            {
                "name": "Boss 2",
                "difficultyCompleted": "Hard"
            }]
        },{
            "name": "Level 2",
            "bosses": [
            {
                "name": "Boss 3",
                "difficultyCompleted": "Normal"
            },
            {
                "name": "Boss 4",
                "difficultyCompleted": "Easy"
            }]
        }
    }
}

In this example JSON, there is a few layers for each boss that the user has completed. What I would have thought to do initially was to create models and tables but that seemed like it would be wasteful not only in memeory, but also would take longer to fetch the current progression for Boss 4.
Example:
User has_one Progression.
Progression has_one Levels.
Levels has_many Dungeons.
Dungeons has_many bosses.

What I did instead was trying to compress the bosses into a single field, and just convert the JSON at runtime.
So, instead my structure would be like this.
User has_one Progression.
Progression has_many Dungeons.

Models:
// Progression.rb
class Progression < ApplicationRecord

    has_many :dungeons

    def self.initialize(params={})
        params = params['levels']

        prog = Progression.new()

        params.each do |dungeon|
            prog.dungeons.append( Dungeon.initialize( dungeon ) )
        end

        return prog
    end
end

// Dungeon.rb
class Dungeon < ApplicationRecord
    belongs_to :progression

    def self.initialize(params={})
        Dungeon.new(params.reject { |k| !Dungeon.attribute_method?(k) }) # Used to ignore any unused parameters that don't exist on the model.
    end

    # To convert `bosses` from JSON into a hash for easy use.
    def get_bosses
        JSON.parse bosses.gsub( '=>', ':' )
    end
end

Migration:
// xxxxxx_create_progression.rb
class CreateProgression < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0]
  def change
    create_table :progressions do |t|
        t.integer :character_id
    end

    create_table :dungeons do |t|
        t.integer :character_id
        t.integer :progression_id

        t.string :name
        t.text :bosses
    end

    add_index :progressions, :character_id
    add_index :dungeons, :progression_id
end
end

Now, when a User is updated to fetch their progression, I can set their progression.
// users_controller.rb
def update_progression
    progression = ... fetched from the response

    @user.progression = Progression.initialize(progression)
end

After that's all saved to the user, you can now fetch the progression back by going:
<% user.progression.dungeons.each do |dungeon| %>
    <%= dungeon.name %>
<% end %>

This solution seems like a decent mix, but I'm a bit worried about the parsing of the JSON. It could become too much, but I'll have to keep watching it. Any other ideas or improvements would be greatly appreicated.

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- This title fits moderately well, but I think there is a better one in the story somewhere. It will come out when revisions are done to bring forward and clarify the story problem.
Trisha and Sheila were best friends. Not only because they shared the same school since they were five, but also because a major part of their address read the same. Trisha Basu lived at Sandhead Apartments, Block III, 2nd floor, 165/G Southern Avenue, Kolkata. And every morning, when she removed the curtains of her bedside window, her eyes caught Sheila studying in her room, in the Dey's flat, in 2nd floor of Block VII. - I feel like I have to stop and figure this address thing out, better to say exactly how they are the same or different That morning, seeing Sheila study brought to Trisha's mind the Physics assignment that they had to submit by the 4th period. Plus she had to stuff her bag with the dresses which she had decided to wear at the party that evening at her boyfriend Roco's place. Trisha ran to get a bath, changed into her school uniform. After packing her bag according to that day's schedule, (Bio, Library, Phy, Recess, Maths, Chem, Eng.) she finally sat at work – the assignment. But even after a half hour's hard thinking, though in the mean time her mind did often wander off to the evening's party, Trisha wasn't able to so much as understand the questions, let alone solve them. But this class assessment test was important, if she hoped to pass the midterm exam. Now, Sheila, the darling, the intelligent babe was her only hope. - this first paragraph could be tighter – What is the most important thing we need to learn about Trisha or the story problem right now?
And as always, Trisha wasn't disappointed. She copied half the answers - from Sheila? in the school-bus, with some slight variations in the language of course (Trisha's not that stupid!), and left the rest to be copied in the Lib.
"This gal's spoiling my party mood already" Trisha murmured to herself, but obeyed.
Whatever Trisha might say, she knew inside that Sheila was right. She didn't have a particularly good reputation at school, especially among the humourless nuns.
During prayer at assembly, she had her eyes open, and spied Sister Lucy's disapproving eyes on her. She quickly shut her eyes.
Bio class, in the morning, didn't go particularly well – she couldn't answer three questions out of the five that ma'am asked. As punishment, she had to solve an extra assignment that week. But thankfully, she wasn't the only one, there were four others.
After class, the five went to collect their assignments from the staffroom in the sixth floor. They had Lib. - what is Lib? Next, and while coming down, Trisha and another girl Anita realised that they hadn't brought their books along. So they went left from the fourth floor landing while the others headed towards the Lib.
While coming down, Anita carelessly stepped on a banana-peel and slipped three steps down. As she shrieked with pain, a few students from the nearby classes came and helped Trisha take her to the Matron.
Anita had sprained her ankle, and had to stay there. So Trisha started alone for the Lib.
The Lib was just beside the school Principal, Sister Amelia's Office-room. And anyone entering had to pass across the lobby in front. Trisha hoped against hope that Sister was not in her room. "If she is, then I'm dead" she thought. Roaming in the corridors during class hours was one thing, among million others, that the Convent did not tolerate. Plus she had nail-colour on. Oh, why did that stupid gal have to slip today!
Trisha ran across the playground and peeped into the lobby. Sister's door was open, and inside, the lights were off. Trisha heaved a sigh of relief. Thank God!
"Nobody talks when I do. Do you understand?" Sister's voice reverberated across the vacant lobby. The only other sound audible to Trisha was her own heart pounding violently. "And if you follow English, you must be aware of the school rules. I will not put up with such nuisance every other day. Next time, your parents will have to answer for you, if you're caught breaking the rules again. Do you understand?" Sister strode past her briskly.
"I'm sorry Sister," Trisha murmured, and after the door closed shut, she continued, "sorry for no mistake at all." Every soul in that room heard her say that over the lingering pin-drop silence.
"Where were you?" Sheila glared, looking almost as angry as the Principal, if only not more.
"What would you do knowing that?" Trisha shouted back. "It's not like you'd go explain it to her, would you? And why does she ask for an explanation anyway, if she does not have the patience to listen! That idiot Anita sprained her ankle on the staircase, and I had to take her to Matron, and then I am scolded for the delay." Realising her voice faltering as the whole class watched her, Trisha stopped.
"Oh, darling, it's alright. Amelia's a zombie, remember?" winked Mrs. Chaudhuri, the beloved Librarian.
Phy., actually, was Sheila's subject. She was a genius and excelled at anything that was beyond the reach of the general population. She cracked Olympiads and Science Talent Exams, and always restrained herself from doing anything rash. She was least interested in anything other than science, and people saw her in the plainest trousers and T's. Make-up, to her, was like Hebrew.
But make-up meant mother-tongue to Trisha. A lovely child with loads of naughty ideas, and even more boyfriends. And an overwhelming tendency to cross boundaries. Forever in trouble, but all smiles. Her life was a roller-coaster ride. After dates and parties if she had time left, she spared some for studies. But she was extremely good with her pencil and colours, and had an artist's imagination. And a compassionate heart.
"Yes sir, I did," Trisha said, almost expecting another tongue-lashing on the earlier issue. She knew how fast gossip spread at the Convent. But nothing.
Sheila started collecting, and when she reached Trisha's seat, she winked her.
"Notorious," Trisha shook her head, handing over her copied answer-script.
Before class got over, the Phy. Teacher gave away the corrected papers back to the class. Trisha;'s one came. She got an 11 on 15. But Sheila's never reached. - what do you mean?
At last the bell rang.
"Once more Sheila has done best in class, securing a 14. Here you are, Sheila." The Teacher returned Sheila her paper.
Sheila turned and looked at with earnest, almost sorry, eyes.
"Keep well out of trouble next term, Trish, and you'll get the highest, too. I swear. They never check your answers. They almost always check only the name at the top." - This does not feel like a satisfying ending even though Trish passed her exam.
More Feedback: This is an interesting story, but it reads like a first draft. What exactly is Trish's main problem? Is is the teacher? Is it the exam? If it's a combination, that needs to be clearer. It needs some revisions to tidy up the flow of the story and bring the story problem more to the foreground.
Thank you so much Laura!! your opinion was the most helpful. I'll try to improve the story keeping your suggestions in mind. Thanks again!


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Q: How to add hidden controls to a form (not programmatically)? I used a custom "skin" or w/e you may call it for uniquely designed forms in Visual Studio, to be accurate for VB.NET.
I decided to remove the custom form and the problem is that all controls are now hidden, but they still exist within the project.
Is there any way to make them visible in designer again, so I can add them to my new form.

A: Check to Location of the missing controls , maybe it's outside bounds.


Falcon Heavy will vault a pricey communications satellite into orbit for Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat.
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy will launch the Arabsat-6A satellite from Launch Complex 39Z (LC-39Z) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Roadster and its dummy space suited pilot named "Starman" are now headed for the asteroid belt.
Tonight's launch was originally expected to light up the skies at 6:35 p.m, but is now expected to lift off at 8:00 p.m.
Part of Falcon Heavy's appeal is the fact that its hardware is reusable. These boosters will later be refurbished and re-used, which SpaceX says drastically reduces the cost of spaceflight. It has three rocket boosters, which are strapped together during launch and are created to then break apart and make pinpoint landings back on Earth. The first retrieval didn't go so well for the poor old core booster, which missed the landing and plunged into the ocean. The Arabsat 6A satellite was built by Lockheed Martin to provide television, radio, mobile and broadband services across the Middle East, Europe and Africa.
After liftoff and separation, Falcon Heavy's three first-stage boosters will return to Earth for landing. Wednesday's launch will mark the launch vehicle's first commercial mission-the Arabsat-6A telecommunications satellite.
SpaceX, based in Hawthorne, California, set a company record previous year with 21 launches for customers. At liftoff, the Falcon Heavy Block 5 rocket's 27 Merlin 1D engines are expected to produce no less than 5.1 million pounds (~2300 mT/23,000 kN) of thrust at full throttle, but that figure could rise as high as 5.6 million pounds (2550 mT/25,500 kN) of thrust depending on how one interprets rather vague official numbers from CEO Elon Musk.
The potential market should only increase as Falcon Heavy demonstrates more success. Falcon Heavy only has five missions on its manifest so far.


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How to use Gravely in a sentence
She could almost hear his gravely voice...
This appears gravely to misread history.
When he answered, his voice was gravely.
Two days after landing in the United States, Dean received a phone call from Fred O'Connor, the stepfather he'd yet to meet, informing him his mother was gravely ill.
It said it was " gravely concerned " about the absence of basic medical facilities and schools for the Roma.
Compassionate care unemployment benefits can be collected by anyone who is required to stay home and care for a family member that is either temporarily ill or gravely ill.
Volunteers on this project get involved with vital conservation work to save the gravely endangered black rhino.
Having heard Rostov to the end, the general shook his head gravely.
In early pregnancy if the baby's bilirubin levels are gravely high, PUBS (cordocentesis) is performed.
Gravely wounded, Klaatu tells Helen to take him to Gort and tell Gort "Klaatu Barada Nikto."
Violation of these rules could gravely harm the cooperation that GENUKI is obtaining from many information providers, and hence threaten its whole future.
By February, 1967, she was convinced that the study was being gravely misdirected.
A green sandpiper feed busily from the gravely beach, which will soon provide breeding areas for little ring plover and common sandpiper.
He had especially noted the distinctive Doyle rounded features, mustache and equally unmistakable gravely voice.
And if they are divided when that moment comes it will gravely weaken their bargaining power vis-a-vis Iraq and the rest of the world.
The struggle between the court and the patriarch John Chrysostom, who assumed an independent attitude and gravely offended the empress by his sermons against the worldliness and frivolity of the court, with open allusions to herself, resulted in his fall and exile (404).
When he had thus disposed of the " Paralogisms " of his more formidable antagonist in the first five lessons, he ended with a lesson on " Manners " to the two professors together, and set himself gravely at the close to show that he too could be abusive.
Several months later, a false rumor circulated through the press that Engels was gravely ill.
We are gravely concerned about increasing levels of selectivity in research funding.
The youngest Hogan, known for his affinity for fast cars and careless driving, was serving the sentence due to a 2007 accident that gravely injured his friend John Graziano.
Cast and crew of The Beast expressed their feelings of being inspired by Swayze while shooting The Beast because even though the 56-year-old actor is gravely ill, he missed only one day of work.
Jennifer becomes gravely ill, and one of the final scenes has defined the film for movie buffs.
Communion under both kinds and the marriage of the clergy were sanctioned, thus gravely modifying two of the fundamental institutions of the medieval Church.
In one of these attempts, the affair at Belfort, Buchez was gravely compromised, although the jury which tried him did not find the evidence sufficient to warrant his condemnation.
An old woman in the next bed spoke to her in a gravely voice that quavered with age.
Well-drained soils occur on the sandy and gravely material but more waterlogged soils are found on river alluvium and glacial clays.
Voluntary work with animals - Orang-utan Conservation Another gravely endangered species is the orang-utan ape - the only great ape found outside of Africa.
After our meal the vise consul paid us a visit and listened gravely to our complaints.
Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution the power and apparent finality of force are seductive.
In the first place, the little gallipot of a boat that we were in was gravely overloaded.
Intellectuals sympathetic to them gravely intone all the reasons why the old model of seizing the state no longer works.
But in these great endeavors we are gravely hampered by the political institutions of today.
For those staying home to take care of a gravely ill family member, unemployment will sustain income for a duration of 26 weeks prior to the death of the family member.
Stairway to Heaven - Izzie finally realizes that she may be gravely ill.
In a day when the penal code was still extremely severe, he argued gravely against all punishments, not only that of death.
The popes of the Renaissance were profoundly uninterested in theology; they were far more at home in an art gallery, or in fighting to recover their influence as temporal Italian princes, gravely shattered during the long residence of the papal court at Avignon in the 14th century.
It has suspected and amended its author, it has expunged his heresies; but whether it has put anything better or more tenable in their place may be gravely questioned.
The question of the real existence of incubi and succubi, whom the Romans identified with the fauns, was gravely discussed by the fathers of the church; and in 1484 Innocent III.
On the 2 1st of January 1903 Cardinal Richard publicly condemned the book, as not furnished with an imprimatur, and as calculated gravely to trouble the faith of the faithful in the fundamental Catholic dogmas.
The astonishing colours and grotesque forms of some animals and plants which the museum zoologists gravely described without comment were shown by these observers of living nature to have their significance in the economy of the organism possessing them; and a general doctrine was recognized, to the effect that no part or structure of an organism is without definite use and adaptation, being designed by the Creator for the benefit of the creature to which it belongs, or else for the benefit, amusement or instruction of his highest creature - man.
Propertius is a less accomplished artist and a less equably pleasing writer than either Tibullus or Ovid, but he shows more power of dealing gravely with a great or tragic situation than either of them, and his diction and rhythm give frequent proof of a concentrated force of conception and a corresponding movement of imaginative feeling which remind us of Lucretius.
Again, Harnack gravely differs from Catholic dogmatists in assigning a historical origin to what in their view is essentially divine - supernatural in origin, supernatural even in its declaration by the church.
Examined from this point of view the majority of domestic filters were found to be gravely defective, and even to be worse than useless, since unless they were frequently and thoroughly cleansed, they were liable to become favourable breeding-places for microbes.
Transferred to the central point of the administration, he had ample opportunity of regarding with other eyes the situation of the kingdom, and in consequence of his remonstrances he fell rapidly in the favour of Charles Both in 1710 and 1713 Horn was in favour of summoning the estates, but when in 1714 the diet adopted an anti-monarchical attitude, he gravely warned and ultimately dissolved it.
The pope had need of Frederick to defend him against the revolted Romans and to help him to recover his temporal power, which had been gravely compromised.
Thus Chalmers "reviews seriatim and gravely sets aside all the schemes usually proposed for the amelioration of the economic condition of the people" on the ground that an increase of comfort will lead to an increase of numbers, and so the last state of things will be worse than the first.
At her right sat the queerly assorted Jury--animals, animated dummies and people--all gravely prepared to listen to what was said.
Attempts to estimate the width of the gulf separating the Church of England in Elizabeth's time from the corresponding institution as it existed in the early years of her father's reign are likely to be gravely affected by personal bias.
Athenian statesmanship in the time of Demosthenes was gravely exercised to make this form of contribution more effective.
Chapelain's Sentiments de l'Acaddmie francaise sur la tragi-comddie du Cid (1638), when its arbitration was demanded by Richelieu, and not openly repudiated by Corneille, was virtually unimportant; but it is worth remembering that no less a writer than Georges de Scudery, in his Observations sur le Cid (1637), gravely and apparently sincerely asserted and maintained of this great play that the subject was utterly bad, that all the rules of dramatic composition were violated, that the action was badly conducted, the versification constantly faulty, and the beauties as a rule stolen!
The power of the crown was increased by the confiscation of the great Sturlung estates, which were underleased to farmers, while the early falling off of the Norse trade threatened to deprive the island of the means of existence; for the great epidemics and eruptions of the 1.4th century had gravely attacked its pastoral wealth and ruined much of its pasture and fishery.
Their scholastic doctors gravely discuss whether - since water is the "matter" of baptism - a soul can be made regenerate by milk, or rose-water or wine.
More jurist than theologian, John defended the rights of the papacy with rigorous zeal and as rigorous logic. For the restoration of the papacy to its old independence, which had been so gravely compromised under his immediate predecessors, and for the execution of the vast enterprises which the papacy deemed useful for its prestige and for Christendom, considerable sums were required; and to raise the necessary money John burdened Christian Europe with new taxes and a complicated fiscal system, which was fraught with serious consequences.
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The English poet Robert Graves (1895-1985) was also a very productive novelist, mythographer, critic and historian, with over 130 books to his credit. He was once nominated for the Nobel Prize.
Michael Graves (born 1934) was a leading American architect and designer, instrumental in the emergence of Post-Modernism in the mid-1970s. His classicizing and colorful buildings are intended to make contemporary architecture more meaningful and accessible, referring to past tradition while also responding to contemporary surroundings.
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#3571 elemimele
Anacrusis: that sounds so fun, and so rewarding too, but you must be utterly exhausted. Music education makes me sigh. It's good so many individuals and organisations try so hard, because in schools it seems underfunded and very hit-and-miss (with a lot more missing than hitting).
Andante-in-C, I couldn't resist having a look at the syllabus out of pure curiosity! I'm rubbish on all modern music. The two Barsanti sonatas are both delightful, and it's so nice to see something other than the third of his recorder sonatas. The whole of YouTube plays No. 3, but no one (except Barnaby Ralph!) touches anything else. I love Barsanti because every one of his sonatas is completely unique - and every movement is different too. There's so much in there. (He's not like those composers who wrote the same piece 57 times...). No. 2's opening Adagio is gorgeous beyond words (but to me, completely unplayable); the allegro is pretty and spritely, I have no idea what to do with the Largo, and the presto has charm. But No. 4 is totally gorgeous. It's odd because it's got a huge set of piano/forte contrasts in the opening Adagio (which Barnaby Ralph calmly ignores as loudness, and deals with by contrasting style - good man!), I'd guess the con spirito is super-fun (but I wouldn't dare, couldn't cope, and it needs accompaniment to work properly, which I don't have) but, beauty of beauties, the following sicilana largo is totally heavenly, and the gavotte allegro that follows is super fun to play (I've had a go, couldn't resist; and that's another bit of Barsanti's skill: a lot of his music sounds good whether it's played super-well or at an amateur level). The gavotte should be set as a piece for practicing trills in context, too. Actually one of the reasons I love Barsanti is his phrasing: he writes in a lot of slurs, and his music benefits soooo much from careful phrasing, but it's easy to think out what to do, because he's provided so much help. It's lovely to see him on the list, and makes me happy (my only Barsanti-related gripe is that absolutely no one seems to play his German flute sonatas, even though they're perfectly decent and could be done on recorder too, of course).
The Van Eyck, on the other hand, is very disappointing. Yup, Daphne and Wat zal men are both beautiful, but strewth, we're looking at the biggest collection of solo music for any instrument ever written, here. Why is it always the same two bits? And in Daphne they've chosen two variations that are very similar too.
Oops, jobs to do. Getting carried away there.
#3572 anacrusis
Member: 4852
andante_in_c - you'll have guessed I'd not be able to pass up on Bach - and that sonata is such fun to play...the Castello is another favourite, not least because it was the piece on which I first learnt double-tonguing (and then spent about five or six years getting up to any sort of performance standard on it!). It's got beautiful transitions between moods and plenty of changes of pace, with a glorious section of slow repeated notes which then turn into a bit of a romp. My favourite recording of that one is of Jeremy West on his cornett: there's also a lovely Andrew Manze version (though somehow he turns the repeated quavers into sets of five when they're really in fours). I don't know the Christopher Brown, though think I may have done one of his studies for grade 8, and enjoyed that. Fontana I love too - still trying to get my fingers round the sonata secunda from that set, and have ignored the others in my book, will have a look at it. I did the Fantasien and Scherzi by Hans-Martin Linde - I would tend to pull out at least one thing with avant-garde techniques in it just because they normally sound cacophonous, in the hope the examiner won't be able to tell the difference between my bad playing and what the composer might've intended it to sound like . Programme note writing for that one was...interesting... - I had to work out some guff about a 12 tone series for it, and then pick apart its inversions etc... Pete Rose's music is always fun - I did Mediæval Nights for one exam, despite my aversion to singing in public (had to sing and play at the same time) - and the Telemann is gorgeous..
lots to choose from on there, I don't envy you the task of whittling it down
Good to know too that we have more players in common - am finding that increasingly I know people who know people in the recorder network...
Tonight's musical adventure - my husband plays viols, and as the group originally consisted of men of a certain vintage, they've called themselves the Victor Meldrew Consort of viols. They came to our house tonight as they have a gig pending, and roped me in for some five-part Holborne once they'd rehearsed their Buxtehude. So, having a recorder in the group means of course that I made their consort into a broken one... whoops. Thankfully didn't break the music all that badly .
#3573 andante_in_c
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Thanks for your suggestions and comments, both. You'll be glad to know that I'm probably going to play the Bach, anacrusis. I steered away from it while I was still flute teaching as I knew it too well having taught the first three movements for flute grade exams. But I've never performed it myself, and it's absolutely beautiful. I'm glad I have the urtext flute version as I can compare the articulation in the Murray-edited recorder one and remove some of the slurs. I like Barsanti, elemimele, but I think Bach is going to win on this occasion!
I'm also seriously considering the Pete Rose as that will get me out of having to play anything else ultra-modern. I know the last movement, Lunch, as I've both played and taught it, and I'm now more confident with singing to attempt the second movement. After my run-through yesterday it became clear that it will be a straight choice between the Rose and the van Eyck: both unaccompanied pieces and both about the same length, so I think the van Eyck will have to go.
I'm looking at something lyrical and modern for the other piece, and think it might be Hans Gal, but I've also got a couple of own-choice options at Grade 8 level to try. If I end up with a shorter lyrical piece I might be able to squeeze in something on descant/early as well.
The good thing about the ARSM is that I don't have to justify my choices in a viva voce, so as long as the programme is varied enough I can play what I like. I'm doing it for fun so I'm going to make sure I'm happy with all my choices.
I shouldn't have expressed an opinion - all this is so far over my head that my opinion isn't worth a lot anyway - but it's impossible, just as a listener, to look at that lovely list and not feel something...
Yeah, I'll definitely forgive you for going with Bach rather than Barsanti. I'm ashamed, I didn't actually know that Bach piece, and had to go and listen to it on YouTube. That's another odd one too: YouTube is very patchy on what it contains - always tends to have 60 recordings of one piece and nothing of another.
You might have better luck listening to the flute version, elemimele (it's in E major). I'm half tempted to acquire (ahem) a 415 treble and get the accompanist to use the flute E major part while I play in F, but I don't really think I can justify that now I'm retired. If I do have any money for a new recorder it will be put in the great bass fund.
Barsanti is lovely, and I might be tempted, but I really would like a chance to play the Bach. It is interesting how I know some pieces really well through teaching (even in a different key) despite never having performed them.
#3576 Gran'piano
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The music schools have no direct equivalent in the UK - they're not conservatoires, rather places that kids can go and learn to make music from primary age on - there's no music tuition within the normal schools, but this provides it for those who want to. Although there's a cost, I understand that it's rather less than it would be for private lessons, and the kids have the bonus of getting to make music together too.
I wish there were an equivalent arrangement of music tuition for kids in the UK - these were not big communities, but they value their culture and think it worth investing in ...
is there really nothing similar in Britain? There might not be many centres but when we lived in Bucks, there was something in High Wycombe which seems to me not completely different. Our children went there to join recorder groups but the younger one later played in the beginner's orchestra and they both sang in a choir. Their homepage is under www.bucksmusic.org
I think the difference is that the music schools are a more generally available facility, even in fairly small communities: we've also seen evidence of similar in France. In the UK, that doesn't seem to happen. Edinburgh is a moderate sized city but there's no direct equivalent here - sure, you can find various groups and places to get lessons if you know where to look, just not a building which is specifically set up with music in mind, and since music provision in schools is patchy, that means it's a bit hit-or-miss to find something suitable. For a long time in Edinburgh you'd have all the kids from a feeder school for a high school having to learn the same instrument - which meant everyone in school x playing violin, in school y playing viola, and so on, the aim being then to be able to put together a strings ensemble once they got to high school. Efficient, possibly, but not exactly fair, and certainly not taking into account choice or interest.... the German music schools offer a wide range of options and are well set up to encourage ensemble playing for everyone, not just the elite - I'd love to see something like this happening here.
Yes, completely agree, especially about patchiness. Round here there is apparently nothing supporting schools at all, at least at primary level. Some, probably most good schools are providing class instrumental music in the form of ukulele lessons or similar - a handful, for a term. But basically if you want to learn an instrument at primary level, it's down to individual private teachers (many of them, of course, teaching on school premises), with parental-awareness being by word of mouth. It's not cheap. And the real problem is that it only happens if parent knows that the opportunities are there, and takes active steps to make them happen. I can't help notice that only upper-middle-class kids are now getting instrumental lessons. Perhaps it was always like that?
I'm not aware of any dedicated music facility locally. Even for the kids who are getting the private lessons, there are few opportunities to do anything outside the lessons.
It's what anacrusis wrote: "if you know where to look". A lucky few probably know and have parents with the cash. The rest don't get much opportunity. What does happen, quite a bit, is that a fair number of of very good amateurs and a large handful of enthusiastic professionals do dedicate a healthy portion of time to coming into schools and playing some music for a class to appreciate. This has been very rewarding for my kid, and I hope these people know the good they do.
I don't know the secondary world, but for many kids, my feeling is that the die is cast before they reach that stage anyway.
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#3580 Zixi
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I watched that vid (thank you) and tried the glissando as it went along. It was much easier than I thought it might be but I had to stop because the dog howled and howled and howled and I wasn't sure if I liked the sound either.
having played Shinohara's "Fragmente" for my licentiate... (has now been "demoted" to associateship) - the worst thing about all the avante garde techniques is you have to sit with the score and work out all the weird things they want you to do bit by bit, it is not something you can just busk through to see if you like it . The glissy bit she showcases is one of the more relaxing things to do - I was interested to see the bit about going over a break smoothly, and realised I ought to have got out my copy of van Hauwe before trying to learn the piece. It consists of fourteen fragments which may be played in various orders, though it's not entirely a free choice, so much photocopying and chopping up of the copies was needed to put together the piece in a way which sort of appealed to me. I'm going to be taking part in an advanced techniques workshop in a couple of weeks and am already flapping about what on earth some of the directions actually mean - one bit is supposed to be like panpipes, does that mean blow across the top of the mouthpiece? More singing/speaking whilst playing also required, am curious to see how the piece we're going to do pans out.
What's the weirdest way to make a sound from a recorder I wonder? I think the thing Evelyn Nallen once demonstrated - of getting a vibrato effect by sitting in an office chair and spinning in it has to be somewhere in the top ten
I do like the (revolutionary?) idea of the office chair. A small consort of rotating players could be fun, though difficult to conduct...
Somewhere I once found a video of someone playing a penny whistle which was powered by a piece of tubing entering a part of his anatomy that we can't mention in polite society (though it would be a discussion-point in an endoscopy unit). Yup, I think the office-chair vibrato is a better idea.
The thing that leapt out at me too, from the Sarah Jeffery glissandos, was the end-covering stuff again. Does anyone have any tips about how to block the end of a recorder with a leg without needing emergency dentistry? It's all very well doing it slowly and calmly on a niiiice loooong miiiiniiiim, but people like Telemann don't seem to feel under any obligations to write their F#s/C#s in convenient places.
I had to do that trick for the Bach I played in my last exam, elemimele (the one I was mad enough to put up on youtube) - and the top F#s in that came in the middle of runs. What I did was to start standing on one leg about half a bar before the note was required, getting my knee close to the bell, then just gently tipped my head down for the note, and up again for the next note. For Brandenburg 4, there's a fudge which works instead: I forget exactly which fingers do what, but if one is slurring upwards from the E, it's possible to get a passable (and passing...) top F# without needing to use the knee stop at all.
One of the problems with knee stopping is clothing - it doesn't work if wearing fabrics which are too textured. Bit of a pest as my current concert garb is a pair of velvet trousers.
#3584 Maizie
Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
This is essentially why I bought my E-foot treble ... Bach cello suites without the knee/tooth/falling over injuries (it goes up to third octave E flat, and down to the E below the normal bottom F, all without bell hole covering). Of course, I didn't get much further than buying it *sigh* One day...
Maizie - You underestimate that step - as Hannah Glasse said in her recipe for jugged hare - First catch your hare! I have a (small, lever) harp and I consider myself much closer to being able to play the harp than when I didn't have it!
anacrusis - if the madness hasn't passed a pointer to the linky would be nice. If it has passed then I really understand!
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US approves anti-submarine helicopter sale to India
Published at 02:01 pm April 3rd, 2019
In this photo obtained from the US Navy, sailors assigned to the Spartans of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron conduct pre-flight checks in an MH-60R Seahawk on the flight deck aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely while deployed on the North Sea on February 19, 2019 AFP
The MH-60R helicopters are designed for hunting submarines as well as knocking out ships and conducting search-and-rescue operations at sea
The United States said Tuesday it had approved the sale of 24 MH-60R helicopters to India, significantly boosting its emerging ally's firepower to target submarines as China expands in the Indian Ocean.
In a quick reply to an Indian request submitted late last year, the State Department said it was informing the US Congress as legally required that it was giving the green light for India to buy the 24 helicopters worth a total of $2.6 billion.
Nicknamed the Romeo, the MH-60R helicopters manufactured by Lockheed Martin are designed for hunting submarines as well as knocking out ships and conducting search-and-rescue operations at sea.
"This proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to strengthen the US-Indian strategic relationship and to improve the security of a major defensive partner," the State Department said in a statement.
It called India "a major defensive partner which continues to be an important force for political stability, peace and economic progress in the Indo-Pacific and South Asia region."
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Aamir Khan"s next a "beautiful story" of girl
PTI | May 20, 2016 10:36 am
Superstar Aamir Khan's next film, for which he has teamed up with his former manager, will be about a young girl who aspires to be a singer.
Aamir's former manager Advait Chandan is developing a script which he narrated to the 51-year-old actor.
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The currently untitled film is likely to go on floors this year.
Aamir is presently busy with his film "Dangal".
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    protected const string NoSegmentUrl = "https://contoso.com";
    protected const string DifferentUrl = "https://contoso.com/different.json";
    protected const string PackageUrl = "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2099561";
    protected const string DifferentUrlContent = @"
{
    ""x-generator"": ""NSwag""
}";
    protected const string PackageUrlContent = @"
{
  ""Version"" : ""1.0"",
  ""Packages""  :  {
    ""Microsoft.Azure.SignalR"": ""1.1.0-preview1-10442"",
    ""Grpc.AspNetCore.Server"": ""0.1.22-pre2"",
    ""Grpc.Net.ClientFactory"": ""0.1.22-pre2"",
    ""Google.Protobuf"": ""3.8.0"",
    ""Grpc.Tools"": ""1.22.0"",
    ""NSwag.ApiDescription.Client"": ""13.0.3"",
    ""Microsoft.Extensions.ApiDescription.Client"": ""0.3.0-preview7.19365.7"",
    ""Newtonsoft.Json"": ""12.0.2""
  }
}";

    public OpenApiTestBase(ITestOutputHelper output)
    {
        _tempDir = new TemporaryDirectory();
        _outputHelper = output;
    }

    public TemporaryNSwagProject CreateBasicProject(bool withOpenApi)
    {
        var nswagJsonFile = "openapi.json";
        var project = _tempDir
            .WithCSharpProject("testproj", sdk: "Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web")
            .WithTargetFrameworks(TestTFM);
        var tmp = project.Dir();

        if (withOpenApi)
        {
            tmp = tmp.WithContentFile(nswagJsonFile);
        }

        tmp.WithContentFile("Startup.cs")
            .Create();

        return new TemporaryNSwagProject(project, nswagJsonFile);
    }

    internal Application GetApplication(bool realHttp = false)
    {
        IHttpClientWrapper wrapper;
        if (realHttp)
        {
            wrapper = new HttpClientWrapper(new HttpClient());
        }
        else
        {
            wrapper = new TestHttpClientWrapper(DownloadMock());
        }
        return new Application(
            _tempDir.Root, wrapper, _output, _error);
    }

    private static IDictionary<string, Tuple<string, ContentDispositionHeaderValue>> DownloadMock()
    {
        var noExtension = new ContentDispositionHeaderValue("attachment");
        noExtension.Parameters.Add(new NameValueHeaderValue("filename", "filename"));
        var extension = new ContentDispositionHeaderValue("attachment");
        extension.Parameters.Add(new NameValueHeaderValue("filename", "filename.json"));
        var justAttachments = new ContentDispositionHeaderValue("attachment");

        return new Dictionary<string, Tuple<string, ContentDispositionHeaderValue>> {
                { FakeOpenApiUrl, Tuple.Create(Content, extension)},
                { DifferentUrl, Tuple.Create<string, ContentDispositionHeaderValue>(DifferentUrlContent, null) },
                { PackageUrl, Tuple.Create<string, ContentDispositionHeaderValue>(PackageUrlContent, null) },
                { NoDispositionUrl, Tuple.Create<string, ContentDispositionHeaderValue>(Content, null) },
                { NoExtensionUrl, Tuple.Create(Content, noExtension) },
                { NoSegmentUrl, Tuple.Create(Content, justAttachments) },
                { BrokenUrl, null }
            };
    }

    protected void AssertNoErrors(int appExitCode)
    {
        Assert.True(string.IsNullOrEmpty(_error.ToString()), $"Threw error: {_error}");
        Assert.Equal(0, appExitCode);
    }

    public void Dispose()
    {
        _outputHelper.WriteLine(_output.ToString());
        _tempDir.Dispose();
    }
}

public sealed class TestHttpClientWrapper : IHttpClientWrapper
{
    private readonly IDictionary<string, Tuple<string, ContentDispositionHeaderValue>> _results;

    public TestHttpClientWrapper(IDictionary<string, Tuple<string, ContentDispositionHeaderValue>> results)
    {
        _results = results;
    }

    public void Dispose()
    {
    }

    public Task<IHttpResponseMessageWrapper> GetResponseAsync(string url)
    {
        var result = _results[url];
        MemoryStream stream = null;
        if (result != null)
        {
            var byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(result.Item1);
            stream = new MemoryStream(byteArray);
        }

        return Task.FromResult<IHttpResponseMessageWrapper>(new TestHttpResponseMessageWrapper(stream, result?.Item2));
    }
}

public sealed class TestHttpResponseMessageWrapper : IHttpResponseMessageWrapper
{
    public Task<Stream> Stream { get; }

    public HttpStatusCode StatusCode { get; } = HttpStatusCode.OK;

    public bool IsSuccessCode()
    {
        return StatusCode switch
        {
            HttpStatusCode.OK or HttpStatusCode.Created or HttpStatusCode.NoContent or HttpStatusCode.Accepted => true,
            _ => false,
        };
    }

    private readonly ContentDispositionHeaderValue _contentDisposition;

    public TestHttpResponseMessageWrapper(
        MemoryStream stream,
        ContentDispositionHeaderValue header)
    {
        Stream = Task.FromResult<Stream>(stream);
        if (header is null && stream is null)
        {
            StatusCode = HttpStatusCode.NotFound;
        }
        _contentDisposition = header;
    }

    public ContentDispositionHeaderValue ContentDisposition()
    {
        return _contentDisposition;
    }

    public void Dispose()
    {
    }
}

public class TemporaryNSwagProject
{
    public TemporaryNSwagProject(TemporaryCSharpProject project, string jsonFile)
    {
        Project = project;
        NSwagJsonFile = jsonFile;
    }

    public TemporaryCSharpProject Project { get; set; }
    public string NSwagJsonFile { get; set; }
}


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'Vikings' Interview: Katheryn Winnick on Lagertha's New Relationship, Her Legacy, and Ragnar
Katheryn Winnick is not only a stunning, talented actress, but she could probably kick your ass. She plays the strong-willed, powerful warrior Lagertha on History's Vikings, but all that butt kicking isn't just acting – Katheryn is an accomplished martial artist who holds a third-degree black belt in Taekwondo and a second-degree black belt in Karate.
Winnick can next be seen on the big screen in the highly anticipated adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower, with Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba, but first fans can watch her return to Kattegat as Lagertha in Vikings Season 4B on Wednesday, November 30 at 9pm ET.
Winnick took time on a recent conference call with us (and other journalists) to discuss a new love interest for Lagertha, a reunion with Ragnar after the shocking time jump, and the big battles to come. You can check out the highlights below, but beware of mild spoilers.
On what is driving Lagertha at this point in her life:
Katheryn Winnick: Lagertha has always had a lot of different challenges. Throughout this season it's been evident for her at this stage. Going into [4B], it's really seeing how Kattegat is run and being extremely disappointed that it's not ruled by the right ruler. With King Ragnar not necessarily being there and present as a king should be, and with Queen Aslaug running the show and not necessarily running it the proper way or the strongest way as a ruler to help the people.
And I think for her, her dream was obviously to expand two different territories and also make Kattegat one of the largest trading centers. It's her dream and she saw the potential of it. So I think for her it's a personal motivation, but her heart is in the right place in wanting to do good for her Viking people.
On filming the long anticipated reunion scene between Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) and Lagertha:
Katheryn Winnick: It was certainly a very intense scene just because I, as Katheryn, hadn't worked with Travis in a long time before that, just because our story lines were very separate, so it's great to get reunited again and be face to face and working together. And of course you really don't fully know how it's going to be until you shoot it, especially when you have such a gifted actor like Travis and you, yourself could be as prepared as you can be, but at the end of the day when you are there and in the moment, emotions arise and it is what it is.
On whether a recent flashback of Ragnar looking back on his family days with Lagertha was about regret:
Katheryn Winnick: What's interesting about Ragnar's character – and this is why Michael Hirst is such a great writer – is that easy as he is our hero of the show, in a sense he is the elite type in one hand, but in the other he is more of the antihero in the sense that he is not necessarily all put together and he has flaws. That fits in the matter of him taking mushrooms with his slave or not wanting to be king and him not necessarily being a good father or a good ruler. I think that's what really makes it very interesting.
So that scene that we reshot, we remember going back and putting on the clothes from the previous seasons and we ended up having to recast my daughter, because since then, she became this gorgeous teenager, so we needed someone that was all same height and she was in the back, but that scene was really beautiful because even though he may not necessarily be able to be the man or go back in time to be that Ragnar, the husband that he wants to be in his mind, in his thoughts, in his dreams, he has a beautiful thinking that he cherishes that moment, and I know Lagertha does to, and Ragnar was her true love, and probably will always be.
On the coming clash between Lagertha and Aslaug:
Katheryn Winnick: Yes, there is definitely a big epic scene where Lagertha and Aslaug come face to face and I will say it's pretty epic, it's juicy and it's memorable. I wish I could actually give away more, but it was a great scene to shoot. Lagertha felt that she needed to take Kattegat and really try to get control back. Kattegat is being run so badly and [there has] been a lot of problems with Kattegat, like people have been dying, things are not being run in a proper way as it should be, and she feels that she is doing the right thing by reclaiming it, because nobody would rule it better than she does, because she truly cares about her people. And so we had this great scene with Alyssa Sutherland who plays Aslaug and she is fantastic in it, and it was great to finally get face to face with her and Aslaug and Lagertha together.
On The Seer's recent freak out and what that has in store for Lagertha:
Katheryn Winnick: The Seer is the Seer. You never know necessarily what's going to come out of his mouth, but he's kind of the modern day psychic I guess. Everyone goes to him to see the future and also for therapy and it's interesting to see him in a different light and in a different animated state and especially with Lagertha.
I feel that she does have a scene with him – a really strong scene – where she goes to him and he gives her some devastating news that literally changes her for not only the rest of the season but the rest of her life and it's a really big scene. And it's really a big moment for him answering a certain question and I think that what he actually answered I don't think will be expected. In every choice that I make as an actress, it is in the back of my mind. I think it's something the audience wouldn't necessarily expect.
On Lagertha's new female love interest Astrid (Josefin Asplund):
Katheryn Winnick: There is a big time jump in Season 4B, Lagertha is in a different place now and she developed this relationship with Astrid, who Josefin Asplund plays, and it's a relationship that she — Lagertha has been betrayed by so many men throughout her life – obviously Ragnar by cheating on her and asking her to be a second wife and then her second husband was abusive, and then Kalf, who she groomed, tried to use her up, and she had to kill him on her wedding day. So her relationship with men, I'm not sure it will change, I'm not sure she will ever trust a man again.
So it did make sense that she would find comfort in another human being and that that human being happened to be a woman and I don't feel that Lagertha necessarily is a lesbian. I wouldn't necessarily see that and I never really played it that way, but she did find a love with her that other men have never been able to give her.
Also, their relationship has been for over six, seven years and considerably she is very different and brings a breath of fresh air to Lagertha's life, and Josefin has a lot of humor and wit and that's evident in her character and especially her sense of style and her sense of the way she deals with Lagertha is unique and that was really a lot of fun to play.
So I think you're going to like that relationship and I think Lagertha definitely grooms her to be the warrior that she is and it was nice just to see that it's not necessarily, 'Oh here are two women that are in bed together', but there is a strong bond that is not necessarily the sexual part of a relationship, but more of an emotional bond that is evident and really beautiful to see.
On whether there is "grooming" or an endgame involved in Lagertha's relationship with Astrid:
Katheryn Winnick: No, I don't think there is any endgame. I think that she sees her as someone that is very comforting, but at this stage Lagertha truly feels alone, I feel, because of all the betrayal that she had. Even though she has Astrid, I'm not sure how emotionally close she is going to let anybody into her life and with Astrid there is no other motive other than caring for her. And she sees herself through her own journey and really trying to find her own path and own purpose in life at this stage and that's why she ends up going back to Kattegat and approaches Aslaug.
On what fans have to look forward to with Lagertha and the action of upcoming battles:
Katheryn Winnick: Great question. You have to understand we are shooting right now, so we are so far beyond what you are about to see, I'm trying to refresh my memory. Yes, there is a very big battle coming up in [4B] and it's one that's going to be in the course of double episodes and it is in the history books and it is something that you wouldn't expect and it is definitely epic. It's powerful.
It's a battle and you will see deaths, unexpected deaths. You will see challenges within the fight. You will see personal relationships getting tested, when they confront their enemies on the battlefield. And of course as an actor, for those scenes you try to be prepared as much as you can by knowing your fight choreography. Shooting in those elements of rain in Ireland, on a slop with mud, with horses, with axes, with blood, you kind of have to expect the unexpected and sometimes you find the real magic in those moments when you slip and fall and you pick up someone else's axe because yours is gone, and everything is done a bit more sporadically.
When you see those battle sequences, it's an opportunity to tell the story in a different way, and it's also a way of sharing the story in the battles through the action element. And if it's done well, which our crew is incredible in shooting those scenes and our stunt guys are incredibly talented and amazing to be able to fight against, they really give it their all and you can feel the heart going into it and understand how special this set really is, because it's those moments that fill in the reality of us being Viking warriors.
And you can't walk away from our set without getting banged up and you can't walk away without being black and blue and full of cuts, it's just part of the job and this job is not for everyone. This job is not for the divas or for the actresses that are going to be in the trailer, this is a really brutal guerilla shoot in a lot of ways, and you need a thick skin and you need to just go for it, and I think that's what makes this job so special and I wouldn't trade it for the world. I think that's what makes me love being a Viking. It's because it's raw and it's real. And some of those cuts that you see on camera are actually real blood, I'll tell you that for sure.
HISTORY's Vikings returns Wednesday, November 30 at 9pm.
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