Welcome to the channel Titus here today with Talon and I had a decent reservation myself. This is the first Rezzy I've had all season and I spent like 300 bucks and I've only got one Rezzy and that's it. Season's almost over no other chances. We picked a blind that goes like first all the time but I can see my truck like 200 yards away. It kind of looks like a bad joke. I'll show you guys when it gets light so I'm like okay is this a bad joke and only the guys that can barely walk pick this but I mean I think they have good numbers usually don't they? The passive shot good they said. I think Talon's thinking the same thing I'm thinking but you know you never know honestly. So we've got a couple pulsators out we only got about I think I've got 18 decoys out plus two pulsators. One of Talon's pulsators and one mine and I got these bad boys back. I had broke one like a dummy and I just got back so I'll be using these Tetris today. Oh nice hat Talon. Can you check it out? He's in a little dog box on the side so it's pretty slick. It's pretty nice so anyways I'm shooting my 12 gauge running a five width. Good ol' heavy business. Talon's gonna try him out today. Have you tried the heavy business yet? I shot the heavy hammer, heavy metal but never the heavy business so it's gonna be interesting see what I do today. Yeah but we got the decoys set up over here on our left it's looking like the Sun's gonna be right in our face unfortunately so I have no idea what to expect. The breeze is going from our right to our left. Could be epic. Could be a bust but that's just the game. That's duck hunting for you so give this video a thumbs up and we'll see you here in a second. Nice shot. Rocky shot dude. Good boy. Holy smokes. I should have doubled there. Did you? Yeah no you got this one right here I thought. Yeah I got this one. No I was saying I should have doubled it for so many. That was cool. Good boy. I know. Well I dropped the very first one and then come on bud. Where'd his go? Hey there bird. Good boy. That was a huge group.  Good dog. Sit. Sit hold. Leave. Good boy. Dude nice. Two drinks. Good shot. Get that one. Get him. Oh my goodness. I didn't lead him. I know I didn't. Dog gone. Sit Rocky. Sit. Sit. Rocky. Make sure that one's dead. Good boy. Stone him. Stone him. Good boy. Good boy. Sounds like he's swimming with it. Come on bud. It's deep water. Come on buddy. Good boy. Good boy. Come on. Good boy. Good job Rocky. Come on bud. I love how he does that little. Come on. Come on buddy. If you'd go around you'd like to be a lot easier. Come on. Good boy. Come on. That's the wrong way to go up that thing. That's why you're having problems buddy. Good. Good boy. Good retreat buddy. Sit. Sit. Good boy. Good dog. Sweet. Wasn't expecting that today. If the trigger's gold bird will fold. Rocky. Good boy. Come on bud. Good boy. Come on. Leave. You hit him. Do you want him? No I don't want him. That's an insult huh. The trigger wasn't gold. The trigger was gold. The trigger was gold. The bird fold. That's what you need Talon. That's what you need. You need a gold trigger. Give you guys a little update. Three green wings and a snow and Talon's got two green wings. Honestly I would almost say this is what I kind of if I was the guest and someone said how many birds do you think you'd shoot I'd say to a piece. So not complaining with this blind is terrible for a morning shoot like the sun is we're literally looking straight to the east. It'd definitely be good for the afternoon though. Get the sun to your back to be in the shadows. We're just kind of sticking around hoping maybe another volley of geese will come by and maybe get a couple more crack shots in them and I think we'll probably bounce and go get some uh some taco truck again and maybe roll into an afternoon hunt. We are gonna hunt all day see if we roll into an afternoon hunt with this video or if we cut it off but anyways either way it's still been good. I mean we beat the average. The average has been one barely over one and we're sitting at basically a three bird average right now for between both of us. That's the update. I'll talk to you guys again a little bit. I just dropped another one. Missed it when I was close flared up and shot it out there a ways. Rock here we're gonna go see if we can find it. It fell in some nasty stuff. A little stem left from the geek can usually find it. Come on bud over here as far as deep. Get him bud. Catch him up buddy. Catch the bird. Okay I'm gonna have to go around. Hey buddy. Catch up. Dead bird. Dead bird. See him? He looks like he's in here. Oh look at that blood right there. He's gotta be rocky.  Unbelievable. Good boy. Good boy. Good dog. Come here. Sit. Sit. Sit. Sit. Good boy. Sit. Good boy.   Dude he's a stud muffin.  That was a fine though and it's what's funny is wherever he starts sniffing super hard on where's that at when you see if I can find it. There was blood raggle. Oh look at there's blood right there and it's broken and then he pulled it out of there. Awesome. I would never found that. I bet he's right here. I mean right there and I was like oh yeah dead. Click.  Dude when you miss a stud Drake Pintel. 20 yards. I'm gonna have my gun. All right so I keep looking at this this green wing and I'm like man he's a stud. Wow his head's really fluffy. He's really man he looks abnormally big. Then I put two Drake side by side. Check this out. Look at the size difference in the heads and it's not because the one on the bottom is wet trust me. Look at the body size difference. These two. I see a side of a bunch of working ducks and I see them everywhere I can almost smell the powder When it's smoking from my A5 Oh dude. I'll swap it down. She loved that. Ridiculous. Is that two hands apart? Yeah. Dude what is going on? Team three. I think it was a hen but oh well of course. Got a limit and get to go so. One hour limit dude on whidgin. Solid whidgin bag. Never done it. What did I say this year earlier? I said I'd love to get all whidgin limit. Yeah. Good boy. Probably. Yeah. Number seven in one hour. It's cold too. Hey guys before I give an update on my friend Tom I just wanted to go over a couple things. We're doing an end of season sell 25% off on everything in the store. We still have a few of these left. A lot of the hats are sold out. Thanks to you guys for the support. We got t-shirts and hoodies left. So guys check it out midvalium.com. It's the best sell you're going to get anytime of the year. So update on my friend Tom. I want to say first off thank you thank you thank you from the bottom of my heart and I know Tom's family's heart and all the friends for you guys and all your prayers that video that I showed the axe the crash site and all that kind of stuff. It was tons and tons of comments praying for Tom praying for Tom praying for your friend and that truly truly means a lot. They were on their way to go duck hunting and when that happened. So it's a miracle of God. We've already talked about that me and Thomas that they're alive and really not any injuries besides Tom having a traumatic brain injury. If you guys seen the accident site it was terrible. It was gnarly. Honestly. There's no way they should have survived.  Somehow Tom really got the brunt of it on his head. I don't really show them the pictures. You see the scratches on his forehead and stuff like that. But it was really around his ear. What was the worst one he had several stitches there. January 28th will be 10 weeks since his accident. He came from basically not hardly being able to speak when he came out of it. He was never in a coma but he was innovated with the tube down his throat several days. I can't remember exactly now. Times are all mixed up for me. He went from that to him not really recognizing everybody and knowing who everybody was. I know I got to go in the hospital which was a miracle in itself and I was so thankful and treasured that moment with him in there because with the covid thing going on they really weren't letting people in there. So for me to get to go in there with them was very special to me and help me. Not that I'm the one that needed help or anything but it just I felt like I could be there for him better than just at a distance. So got a chance to pray with him and pray for him and over him and then it just progressed from there. He got better started recognizing more people instead of just saying one or two word phrases. He would start saying a whole sentence sentence and then it went from there to where you could actually kind of semi-communicate with them. He didn't remember anything about the accident. I will be honest with you guys I'm being totally transparent here and I know the family won't mind they're like family they basically are a family to me. There was lots of confusion and there was lots of anger with the traumatic brain injury has nothing to do with who the person was technically. It's whatever part of the brain was injured and his basically his brain got rattled really really bad and so it can cause all these things that are totally not like the person really is. Sometimes honestly he'd make threats and I'm kind of documenting this for him to watch later too. Sometimes he would he threatened me and it wasn't I didn't take it personally because I knew it was the injury to his brain things and situations he was confused about thinking things happen that never happened. Lot of things went on guys and then Tara just sent me this yesterday. This is this is powerful. It's Tom sitting here wanting to get back in shape and start exercising.  And I'll tell you what the Bible says that we are fearfully and wonderfully made and I've never understood that like I do now. The brain is such a thing that doctors will never fully understand. It's one thing to have a broken bone broken back have the flu. But when you have brain injury there's no doctor out there really that can do much for you it's it's God that does the work. So he's out here running exercising getting back in shape totally talks normal remembers a lot most of the accident just certain things he don't remember which is totally fine doesn't really matter if he remembers or not. He's been going to church again he's going to rehab twice a week. So there's so many good things guys I'm I just want you guys to know how much we sincerely appreciate your guys's prayers honestly from our church family to our friends to people outside of the church in the hunting community all of you guys I mean everybody it's just it just shows you what's really important and that is friendship good friends of family and God those those those things right there is all that really matters getting ducks on stuff is fun and great and stuff but when it really comes down to it we all need each other and we got support each other so again thank you guys so much for your support for everything and for your prayers continue to please pray for my friend and brother in the Lord Tom Driscoll he's getting better every single day and it's all we can say is thank you Lord and thank you guys for praying we'll see you on the next video


Did you notice SRK singing in Suede's? He was, he was taking a bath. He's not pronouncing Suede's, Reg.  It's off-corpon. We follow Instagram and Twitter for our cheesy guns. Have more caffeine, man. We're gonna do a fight scene? No. Oh. And today we're back into a trailer. A trailer! It's called... Kerabin Laden. Really? It's a comedy? I'm Sasha Baron Cohen. I know, I know it's a satire. Okay. And so it's something like that, but it's a... And I know there was two. This is the first one called Kerabin Laden. Really? Yeah. And so I know it's a comedy, and I know it's a satire. Okay. I was not expecting this. When you hear Kerabin Laden, you don't think... Comedy! Yeah! That light-hearted family fare. But, I mean, it's been done many times before. Making fun of Hitler, making fun of all these terrible people. Yeah, but is it too soon? No. Alright. It's never too soon to make fun of somebody who murdered millions of people. Yeah, sometimes it's too soon. To make fun of them? Yeah. If they had come out with a comedy about 9-11 a month later, that wouldn't have done it. Not about 9-11. About bin Laden. He did more than 9-11. I understand, but there is a point where it can be too soon to be making fun of somebody. I think they were making fun of Hitler before World War II was over. Charlotte Chaplin was. I'm saying it's never too soon to make fun of a terrible person. That's true. Their feelings don't matter. That's true. Here we go! Is a general threat to our national security. Did you see at the end they said officially banned in Pakistan? There was a seal like a film festival seal. They didn't say that. And it's officially banned in Pakistan. Did it really? Yes. This is so Sasha Baron. Face it. Fake it. This is so Sasha Baron coming. I want to see more. Well, you do know that there are these things. I want to see more though. That there's always been these, like when he was around, there were questions as to whether or not it was really him. Yeah, I remember that. And if the actor was treating him. Yeah. It's kind of like the character that Ben Kingsley plays in which of the Iron Man's was Iron Man 3. Yeah. Yeah. Where he's just an actor who was hired to pretend to be a terrorist? Yeah. People were very upset with that. They were? They were comic book fans because that actual character is really menacing. Oh. So they didn't like that character. He was just an actor. Doofy doofy actor. Yeah. Oh, I didn't realize that. Yeah, they didn't. The comic book people didn't like it. I didn't mind it. I liked Ben Kingsley. But the only issue I have is that it was so short. So short. I want to see some more zings, more punches at George Bush. He's pretty easy to make fun of. 2010. So the film is out. Yeah. No, it's quite old. Let me see if I can find anything else. Ben Laden. And there's a sequel? Yes. I think it's not subbed though. Yeah, we're not going to get it without subs. So is it these guys making a film about Osama? Is that what it is? Your guess is as good as mine. Tara. Ben. What's Tara mean anything? Order casts a fake bin Laden to act in his video message to America so he can immigrate there. Great promise. I like it. I like it. Let me see. It's directed by Abhishek Sharma. I don't recognize him. I did. Why do I know that name? Ali Zafer. We saw this guy in Gangs of Wasiper and a couple people. A lot of unknowns. I'm wondering if it was like a... Abhishek Sharma, the name is familiar. There's something of his that we know. Might have been. I don't know. But yeah, you're going to have to let us know. I mean, like I said, my only gripe is that it was so short. Me too. I would have loved to have seen much more of it. Yeah. Is it as funny as I'm hoping it is? Like a Sacha Baron Cohen? Like a Sacha Baron Cohen. I'm guessing not as vulgar as a Sacha Baron Cohen. I hope it is. India doesn't usually do that type of vulgar. That's what I know. That's why I would like to see it go a little edgy there. And most people don't go as vulgar, right? Yeah, that's Sacha Baron Cohen. That's true. Even in America, honestly. But I mean, it looks funny. It's a funny concept that somebody's just casted as Bin Laden. I want to know the connection between casting somebody as Bin Laden to get a message to America and somehow that can help you immigrate. I want to see that connection. Something tells me this is not like a true story. Yeah. But there has to be some plausibility to it in some way. I don't know. Maybe he claims he has the film. Like he's got other copies that he can show to them. And so they'll bring him to America to see the rest of what he's got, the footage he's got maybe. It's called an email. Yeah, but if he could say, I'm not going to send it to you, my life's at stake. I have to bring it to you in person. I need a person to escort. Or maybe he knows where Bin Laden is. And so he's trying to get that to America. So they, you know, we wanted to kill him for a good long while. You sure? Yeah. And didn't know where he was for a good long while. Nope. Until we found him. America! Sorry. Sorry. Patriotism took over. This looks funny. Let us know how it is. I'm hoping it's a, because that'd be, I think it's a really funny concept. Only 95 minutes. So it's a quick clip. Zip spot. We just watched Swades. We could watch four of these in the middle of Swades. Just put it on the side screen while... That's all I have to say. Bye.


Katie Morton is one of the biggest mental health YouTubers on the platform and she just released a brand new book, but is it worth buying? What is up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul where we talk about the problem but focus on the solution and if you're new to my channel what I like to do is pull different topics from the YouTube community to try to teach you how to improve your mental and emotional well-being. So make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell but today we are going to be talking about one of the other mental health YouTubers on this platform arguably one of the biggest ones. Katie Morton the licensed marriage and family therapist herself you might know her from a little series called The Mind of Jake Paul which stirred up a little bit of stuff after her episode but I've been watching Katie since I don't know since I got onto YouTube and I wanted to see who else was doing mental health stuff so it was super cool when I found out she was releasing this book and I just finished it so yeah I just want to kind of explain what the book's about without giving spoilers there's not really spoilers to the book though but yeah I just want to talk about it in case you're wondering what the book's like. Well anyways real quick funny story so this book came out on Tuesday and I've been waiting for it I've been waiting for it for a while I actually tried to email her management team to see if I can get an advanced copy but I was too late but yeah I went down to Barnes & Noble Tristan and I did the night before it came out and I asked them like are you gonna have this book available and they said yeah and the girl actually said like they already had it in stock but they couldn't sell it to me because the release date was the next day I'm like oh crap so Tristan and I usually when we go down to the bookstore we'll like check out like the psychology section and just see what other mental health books are out there and then here it was it was sitting out there the night before the release so I picked it up and I started reading it um either that night or the next morning I can't remember but yeah I'm an audiobook person so I actually downloaded this book which is narrated by Katie Morton over on Audible so if any of you want the audiobook like like it's really cool I will say that because I listen to a lot of audiobooks and a lot of audiobooks come out sometimes weeks or months after the hard copy comes out so it was really cool and it's and it's narrated by Katie so if you watch her videos it's kind of like just listening to one of her videos with this book but yeah anyways let's talk about this book so are you okay like I didn't know what to expect when coming into it um one of the first questions I had was like who is this book for right like who is this book for so the first thing I will say is this book is not for me but that's not a bad thing all right this book is phenomenal like absolutely phenomenal when it comes to helping you understand mental health versus mental illness like that was one of the first things that I really loved about this book was Katie talking about mental health versus mental illness like that's something I'm really trying to teach people on my channel even though I don't talk about it that much is that mental health does not just mean the lack of a mental illness or some kind of psychological disorder like mental health involves like managing your anger managing your emotions managing your relationships and the book kind of starts out with like separating those two she talks about the stigma she talks about why she got into therapy and all sorts of stuff like that like the main audience that I really think should pick up this book like I know I do a lot of books about going to therapy like you should get therapy therapy therapy therapy like Kenny Morton does an excellent job in this book of like helping you feel comfortable going to therapy like most of this book is answering a ton of your questions about like setting up your first appointment what kind of therapist you should look for knowing what the different licenses means like the difference between a marriage and family therapist and a social worker the difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist you know like there's so much information and like this is important like if you're somebody who is looking to get help for your mental health you should know who to go to Katie also does a great job like giving you tips on how to find the right person like just for example she talks about how some therapists out there say that they specialize in like 50 different disorders like eating disorders addiction you know depression anxiety like they talk about all these different things but they're just doing that to get the most clients in but like she gives you some tips on how to find out if they really specialize it in that field if they're really the right person for you so like even at the end of the book she talks about the different levels of care like the difference between like you know who needs hospitalization who needs outpatient who needs an intensive outpatient like this will help set your mind at ease before getting therapy like I think that's primarily the audience that this is for but that's one of the benefits of Katie Morton being on the platform like a lot of this book is like some of her videos that kind of just explain the process to help you feel more comfortable going to therapy she also talks a lot about from you know a therapist point of view like there's a lot in there about boundaries and like one of my favorite parts in there was and this is just because I've worked in mental health treatment where she talks about like why they do 50 minute sessions instead of an hour right and she kind of like explains it like we have to put in notes sometimes we got to go get something to eat sometimes you know what I mean like she explains that because so many people get angry upset like my my doctor for example spends a lot of time with me answering my questions so when my doctor is late for my appointment I notice because she's spending time with somebody else so I really think it helps give you another view so like because therapists are humans too you know what I mean like all that backlash happened with the Shane Dawson series like Katie came out and made a video like Katie Morton is a human too you know I also think this is this book is great for anybody who is considering becoming a mental health professional if you're thinking of becoming a therapist or a social worker or counselor whatever it is I think this is very very good like in this book like you'll like you know it's not like you know all of your schooling but it's a great like crash course to kind of get the information she talks about how much schooling is required for different licenses and things Katie also has some good tips on how to find the right therapist and should you get a new therapist like kind of what you should be looking for and something that she kind of dives into is like knowing if you should stick with a therapist and something I like that she touched on real quick is that she talks about how sometimes it's going to take you time sometimes it's going to take you more than one session to know if you click with that therapist so one thing I will say like so first off in case I haven't made that clear or if you're new to my channel I am not a licensed therapist or anything I'm currently in school um I've you know gone through my own mental health stuff and overcome addiction and everything but I have worked in treatment I have worked with clients more like peer support type stuff but anyways what I will say is like for example Katie Morton and I have two very different styles of working with people right and and I think it's important that you you figure out who's the right person that you work with as a therapist like Katie is much sweeter than I am right like a lot of you who know me and have been subscribed like I come from that kind of tough love angle I've seen I've seen Katie get a little tough on some people before but um but yeah she's a lot so a lot like sweeter and kinder and some of you need that right like me personally like I need somebody who's a little bit harder with me gonna call me out on my crap all the time and like kind of like shove it in my face you know like that kind of like it's just what works for me so like that's kind of a difference so like some of you are subscribed to both me and Katie so you see the two different styles of the way that we talk to people but I should give you some great like tips on how to find the right therapist and to know if this therapist is the right person and if you should stay with that therapist all right a lot of that you know is the positive things I don't really have much negative to say about this like I like I said this book is you know a lot of stuff that I just already knew you know about you know therapy and schooling and the different levels of care and different treatment methods and everything but as far as like the the content of this book so the first like eight chapters I believe discuss like you know therapy and helping you understand what it's like and actually it's the first seven chapters and then chapters eight and nine eight and nine are about relationships right so that that to me it's just it kind of like messes up the flow of the book and maybe I'm just being picky but like it goes from like you know just educating you about like what therapy is in the treatment process and you know how to find the right therapist and then it kind of like just starts giving you some like tips now now don't get me wrong there is some amazing advice in here about toxic relationships and like you know there's some parts in there about dealing with like crappy co-workers there's a very great advice for me it just didn't seem to flow with the rest of the book but like I said it's like the last few chapters of this book one thing that I will say is interesting is like some of you saw that I did a reaction to Katie Morton doing like couples therapy with Jason Nash and Trisha and like it was interesting to me because when you read this book and how much Katie knows about toxic relationships I'm like kind of sitting there thinking as I was listening to that section I'm like it's really it's really intriguing like because like Katie didn't call them out on a lot of stuff that she talks about in this book now I will say this like there's probably reasons for that maybe a YouTube video isn't the right place to call Trisha and Jason out for all their toxic behaviors but in this book like going through it like Katie kind of recommends that Trisha and Jason should not be together but overall like would I recommend this book like gauging by my audience is seeing your comments like absolutely 1000% yes like a lot of you who know me I'm really big on like support groups and stuff that's why we have the Facebook group and the discord server and all of that but like a lot of you need to work with a professional and Katie talks about that in here if you read this book like whether whether you've never been to therapy before or you've had a bad experience with therapy but you need therapy like get this book it will help you feel more comfortable you'll you'll understand it a little bit more she has tips and advice if you feel that therapy is not working and she also like talks about some like journaling exercises and some coping skills for in this book so like this is a very good book like if you are watching this video and you're part of my audience like I do think you should go out and get this book either like the the physical copy or it's actually on the kindle like my book and it's on the audible version as well but anyways I would love to know all all of your thoughts down below like just on therapy in general like have you had good bad experiences or anything like that like let me know talk to me or or let me know if you're a subscriber to Katie Morton how many of my fans are Katie Morton fans and how many of you think that Katie Morton should tweet at me and we should do a collab together let me know down in the comments anyway that's all I got for this video if you liked this video please give it a thumbs up if you're new make sure you subscribe and ring that notification bell and a huge huge huge thank you to everybody supporting the channel over on patreon you are all amazing and in case you didn't know I have a brand new book out over on the amazon store as well but both the books will be linked down below check them out all right thanks again for watching I'll see you next time


Hello, this is Dr. Bansi Sawzani and my topic is diagnostic efficacy of MRI in cerebellum pontine-angle lesion. Now, what is a CP angle? It is a system of subarachnoid space which containing cranial nerves and vessels within the CSF. CP angle is bounded anteriorly by the bones, posterior by the anterior aspect of the cerebellum and the pitrus temporal bone covered by the deuterometer. It is centered by internal auditory canal, extended cordially from the 5th cranial nerve to the 9th, 10th and 11th cranial nerve complexes. Three most common lesions of CP angles are swanoma, meningioma and epidermoid cyst, in which the swanoma is accounted for 70 to 80 percent. Most common tumor of CP angle. The tumor of CP angle may be arising from the various anatomical structures, primarily originating from the internal auditory mediators, counter-ceribular system, lateral recesses of fourth ventricle, brain stem, cerebellum nervous tissue and the clinical symptoms of all the CP angle tumors are mainly headache, vomiting, what I call. So we cannot differentiate the pathology or extent of CP angle by this. So we need some neurological imaging modality to assess the extent and the type of lesion allowed for the proper treatment. MRI is considered as a superior in differentiating the different types of CP and masses. So the typical characteristic features, more specific features like ice cream cone obedience in case of swanoma, adjacent hyprostasis, dural dales and in case of meningioma, enlargement of internal auditory canal, this helps in limiting the differentiation. Recent reports of MRI in normal anatomy of lesions of the CP angle and internal auditory canal is most important. Why MRI? Because of absence of beam hardening artifact, multi-planar imaging capability and greater intrinsic soft tissue contrast have a significant advantages of MRI in compared to the city. The aim of my study is to evaluate the current role of MRI in the diagnosis of CP angle lesions as is the effectiveness and accuracy of the MRI in case of CP angle lesions and evaluate the role of MRI and the contrast enhance MRI as imaging modality in the diagnosis of CP angle lesions. In my study, I carried out 25 patients into period of one and a half year. I include the patients who are willing to participate in the study with the CP angle lesion detected on contrast MRI in all age group. Patients who are not willing to participate are excluded from the study with having a history of claustrophobia and the contraindications to MRI.  Study is carried out with the patient in lying down supine position. We use a D1-P2 sequences, flare sequences, post-contrast images, diffusion weighted and FFP. Contrast imaging is performed by using a getyrinium DTPA contrast agent. Now the distribution of patients according to the age. So most common age group involved is 45 to 55 year of age. Young adults like 15 to 35 years of age are less commonly involved. Distribution of patient according to sex. The female are most predominant than the male. Distribution according to the clinical symptoms out of 25, 16 patients shows a headache. So headache is the most common clinical symptoms followed by vomiting. Distribution of patient according to the type of lesion. As I say, the swanoma is the most common type of lesion of safety angle. So out of 25, 11 patients shows a swanoma. While adiconoid cyst and peregrinoma is very less common. In my study, the commonest lesion found is a swanoma in 44% cases. Most common age group involved is 45 to 55 years with women predominance. Most common symptom is headache followed by vomiting. The first pathology is meningioma. Meningioma is the benign lesion arising from the meningis. So it is on the flared image. As you can see in A image, there is a well-defined broad-based hyperinduced lesion in left Cp angle. On B image, you can see it obliterate the course of 7th and 8th node. On post contrast image, there is a homogeneous post contrast enhancement and butyl tail sign, which is a pathognomy for meningioma. Adiconoid cyst. Adiconoid cyst is the benign cystic lesion present in the sub-adiconoid space, which contain a CSF. So it follows a CSF signaling all the sequences. So on T1, it is the hyperintense. T2 is hyperintense. On flare, there is a suppress completely on the flare images and there is a no diffusion restriction. Epidermoid cyst. It is a very rare congenital cystic lesion. It shows a CSF intensity in both T1 and T2, which flare image shows a heterogeneously hyper-intense lesion with no post contrast enhancement and there is a diffusion restriction. This point is very helpful to differentiating between the adiconoid cyst and epidermoid cyst. There is a diffusion restriction is seen in epidermoid cyst. Now, swanoma is the most common lesion of Cp angle and it is a nerve-sit tumor which is arising from the cranial dose. So on T1 images, as you can see in A image, there is a hypo-intense lesion. On T2 and flare, there is a heterogeneously hyper-intense lesion with post contrast heterogeneous enhancement and it is extending to the internal auditory canal which gives it a ice cream cone appeal. This is a pathogromic feature for the swanoma. Now, glomus jubilare or para gengioma, it is mainly seen in the jubilar fossa. So it shows a heterogeneously hypo-intense on T2, heterogeneously hyper-intense on T1, heterogeneously hyper-intense on T2 and on GRE, there is an area of blooming of micro-hemorrhages and post-contrast intensive enhancement. Salt and pepper appearance is the pathogromic for the para gengioma. So these are the characteristic and suggestive features of Cp angle lesions to differentiate the various types of Cp angle lesions. Like in swanoma, there is an ice cream cone appearance. In meningoma, there is a dual date sign. We can differentiate epidermal cysts and adecanoids by the diffusion-rated images as diffusion restriction in epidermal. And there is no diffusion restriction in adecanoid. And para gengioma, there is a salt and pepper appearance, which is a pathogromic feature for the para gengioma. There is an heterogeneously hypo-intense on T1 and heterogeneously hyper-intense. It gives a salt and pepper appearance. So the MRI is very useful method to improve the sensitivity of Cp angle lesion detection. And it is very cold standard method to differentiating the lesion by its site of origin, its shape, its signal intensity, behavior after the injection of contrast media. So in some cases, a complementary MRI technique like diffusion. As I say that epidermoid and adecanoid differentiate it only by diffusion-rated images. So diffusion-rated images is complementary useful in some lesions. MRI has excellent diagnostic accuracy and sensitivity in specificity in Cp angle lesion diagnosis. And also extent and surround of adjacent structures for the pre-operative planning. So MRI is the best. Contrast MRI is the modality of choice in case of Cp angle tumors and differentiating the Cp angle tumors. Thank you so much. And special thanks to my co-author. Thank you so much.


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From Las Vegas, it's theCUBE. Covering VMworld 2018. Brought to you by VMware and its ecosystem partners. Hello everyone, welcome back to theCUBE's live coverage, day three of three days of coverage. VMworld 2018 here in Las Vegas. CUBE, Wall-to-wall covers 94 interviews, two sets, our ninth year covering VMworld. I'm John Furrier, my co-host Stu Miniman. On this segment, our next guest is Milan Desai, who's the Vice President and General Manager of Cloud Services at VMware. Formally driving the NSX business, been there for multiple years, eight years. Great to see you, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Pleasure to be here.  NSX on a good path, doing really well. Cloud services, very clear visibility on what strategy is, private and public, hybrid, multi-cloud, validated by the leader, AWS and Andy Jassy, again for the second year. So pretty clear visibility at least on what the landscape looks like. Multiple clouds, software driving all the value. What's the cloud services piece that you're running now? Take a minute to explain what the landscape looks like, what's your charter, what are you trying to do and what's happening with news and announcements? Sure, so about two years back, we started on this journey around cloud services. And the premise was that, increasingly, there are two trends that are taking place, which is SaaS delivered experiences for on-prem. So how can we deliver SaaS experiences on-prem as well as the partnership with AWS for VMware Cloud on AWS? So the two things started coming together, both in terms of a product opportunity, which is VMware Cloud on AWS, but overall, delivering our capabilities as SaaS, both hybrid, as well as in the public cloud. So cloud services is a portfolio that delivers VMware services from management to security to operations as SaaS services to the private cloud as well as to the public cloud. Tom Korn, the Senior Vice President General of Security Props, was just on theCUBE today as well before you came on. He said, I asked him for a prediction and I'll ask you at the end too for a 2019 prediction. But he said, I'd see the conversation starting to be security as a service someday. And it was kind of like connecting the dots but that proves the point. It's a SaaS business model. The services need to be consumable and scalable. This is a key design criteria and a product guiding principle, right, for you guys? Yeah, so increasingly, SaaS makes it easy. The value benefits on that is I don't need to operate. It just works and I can get the value out of what we are delivering. And that's really what's driving the adoption of SaaS. It's easy to use. It gets you to outcomes quicker and I don't need to worry about the management elements of that. And so whether it's, you take our updates to cloud management, we announced cloud assembly, service broker and code stream, all delivered as SaaS to our hybrid infrastructure as well as if you want to deploy workloads in AWS or Azure, same thing. App defense, Tom's product is delivered as a SaaS service. VMC on AWS is a managed SaaS service. So you're seeing that come together as VM where the idea is, can we bring that experience on-prem as well as in the hybrid cloud? Yeah, Milan, it's a really interesting topic because often what gets lost when we're talking about multi-cloud is what really matters is applications and the data that sits on top of it. Maybe walk through a little bit. You know, my on-premises versus my SaaS-ified stuff versus the cloud native in PKS. How much of the business is driven from all of these pieces? So the majority of our business right now is on-premise software, where customers are building and operating the infrastructure with our software. Now the first evolution into SaaS was actually with our service providers who were using the subscription model to deliver VMware as a service to their end customers. And then the second iteration of that is VMware cloud on AWS, which is growing really well, both in terms of adoption as well as number of customers. And now you're seeing the next evolution. So I would say from a number standpoint, you know, it's low, but in terms of number of customers adopting it, that number is high. So whether it's cloud operations with Wavefront or the whole automation suite that was launched, app defense, you're starting to see the shift to SaaS, but I would say the majority of our customers are on on-prem software with VMware Cloud Foundation, which includes NSX, and our V-realized management portfolio, which has been driving the majority of revenue. I got to ask you about NSX relative to the cloud services because one of the things we've been pontificating and analyzing is how multi-cloud is really going to work. And we always try to compare and contrast to networking because Stu and I love networking and storage and some of the infrastructure stuff. But you know, if you go back into the evolution of TCP IP and what that did for the industry, and Gelsinger loves to talk about this too, is NSX the kind of enabler that TCP IP was, TCP and then you had IP create a lot of value in internet working? What does the customer challenge look like when you're doing multi-cloud? It's not trivial, it's hard to do. Is there a interoperability framework and is it NSX? What could that be? Great question. I think, you know, as we go from private to public, to the edge, the virtual cloud network is what connects it all together. And so, definitely from a, within the data center, with now the fellow cloud acquisition, the WAN, and then layering it with analytics and observability with we realize network inside the portfolio of NSX allows you to connect these disparate data islands and operate very seamlessly in this hybrid cloud world. Now the same construct applies when you go native public cloud where you can connect into AWS or an Azure and that's where again the fellow cloud acquisition alongside how NSX is extending its security policy into AWS and Azure so that you can get the same security posture on-prem at the edge in VMC on AWS with our VCPP providers as well as in native AWS and native Azure. So definitely NSX is that connective tissue, which, you know, that's what we call it, the virtual cloud network, connects the hybrid cloud to the multi-cloud. Seamlessly. Seamlessly. Yeah, one of the feedbacks I get from users is, you know, multi-cloud is challenging. There's that big elephant, how do I get my arms around all the pieces, where my data live, maybe give us the update there. And I did have a chat with Joe Concello on theCUBE yesterday. So if cloud health technologies fits into that overall cloud management piece, I'm sure it does.  I'd like to understand how that fits. Yeah, so, you know, we talked a lot about SaaS and delivering VMware services as SaaS to vSphere customers. But there is this other world where people are going native AWS, native Azure, native GCP. And the interesting thing I tell folks is it's very easy to consume cloud, but as you start consuming it, you start dealing with tens of thousands of objects across multiple projects, hundreds of projects across thousands of users. And when you start looking at the problem statement, same things, visibility, lack of visibility, resource management, you tend to over provision to in the cloud, right? But now you're paying by the drip. So there's a definite impact to the bottom line. End-to-end observability. And then configuration compliance. Think about this. You're operating a 10X in terms of changes. The chances of making a configuration mistake, like leaving an S3 bucket open, are quite high. We've seen examples of that too. Exactly. Many as CIO have been fired because of that issue. So what we've been seeing with our customers is this has become a data problem, right? And so the acquisition of cloud health allows us to essentially provide a platform that has that data and then deliver to our customers in the native cloud. Visibility. I say cost management. So using reserved instances over on demand. Resource management. Hey, you're over provisioned on your elastic block storage. We can reduce the storage capacity and save money. I can optimize RDS better. SQL rightsizing in Azure. So resource management becomes very interesting. Returns on a typical customer with cloud health are upwards of 60%. When you take that into consideration with real-time security configuration, secure state was just announced in beta this week. So real-time security configuration, when that mistake happens with an S3 bucket being open, sub 10 seconds, we will notify the user that there's a misconfiguration in the cloud. Please go fix it. I'm curious, one of the other challenges is when I have, especially using lots of different SaaS providers, public cloud, private cloud, data protection is a big challenge there. I know VMware has a lot of ecosystem partners, one of the hottest things over the last couple of years. Is that primarily an ecosystem play? How does VMware position there? Yeah, so in the hybrid cloud world, like you said, we have a very strong ecosystem, multiple vendors here exhibiting. There will be some default elements that we bring into vSAN to help kind of the basics of data backup and management. But we will definitely continue to partner with the ecosystem when it comes to an aggregate stack of data management. But there will be pockets of just simple backup capabilities that you'll start seeing in vSAN. I think we announced the beta of that this week. Tell about your organization, you're the general manager, do you have a product loss, profit loss responsibility? So do you have revenue? Yes. So talk about the team, how you guys are set up, how big is the team? What's the focus? So we, our team, so there's two elements to my team. One is my team drives cloud services across VMware. So there are folks developing services themselves. The size of the team is now 70 strong across product, marketing, and engineering. And then I also work with my counterparts like Mark Lawmire, Ajay Singh, who are building services on our common platform. And so in aggregate to the customer, they come to cloud.vmware.com, they federate their enterprise identity, they log in, they see a catalog, it's like a Netflix-like catalog. You can subscribe to it, you get a common experience in terms of billing, and essentially start using the services. So it's not only what my team builds, but in aggregate what VMware is building and offering to our end users. And what go-to-market do you have, which products are you doing the go-to-market for? So it's all of our SaaS-based cloud services. We collectively drive the go-to-market for that as a team, working with our corporate marketing team. So that would be a combination of VMware Cloud on AWS, App Defense, now Secure State, Wavefront, and very soon Cloud Health. Yeah, a lot of pressure. The SaaS products there, do they live in the AWS marketplace, IBM, Docker, what kind of, where can they get all of them? So today you go to cloud.vmware.com and subscribe to them. Certain offers are starting to get into like AWS marketplace. So Cloud Health is actually in the AWS marketplace, and we're looking at Wavefront, which is a hidden jewel in our portfolio, is also, you're thinking about how we can get it into the respective marketplaces of Azure, GCP, and others. But today, if you want to access any of these services, you simply go and trial it by just going to our website and starting a trial. So they're giving you all the new stuff, make it happen, AWS VMware and AWS, vice versa, RDS on-premises, you're doing that as well? Yes, so RDS on vSphere, I mean, it's been, since the announced, we've had phenomenal conversations over here. Yeah. It's exciting, I think people don't understand how big this is. John, I had a phenomenal conversation with Yen Bing and Christos from the storage and availability business use, really broke down how all of that worked in detail. The customer interest is high. Someone asked me, why RDS? And they said, it's such a hard problem. And that was my point exactly. There is such a pain when it comes to managing databases. And just like everything else, we started off the conversation, customers want to manage service. They don't want to deal with the intricacies of managing databases. They just want the outcomes from how they access databases. And so Amazon has solved it very elegantly with RDS. It's one of their most popular services. Why not bring it on-prem? And so that's been a great engineering partnership and I'm really excited to bring it to market shortly. Well, we're looking forward to keeping in touch. We want to actually follow up with you on that. It's a story we're going to be following. It's certainly developing. It's big news, we love it. Thanks for coming on and spending the time. I got to get you to put a prediction out there for 2019. What do you see happening in 2019 that we're going to be talking about next year at VMworld? Personal prediction could be a VMware prediction. You've seen a lot of what's going on with NSX. You see what's going on in the big picture holistically. What is the prediction for 2019? It might be a boring prediction, but I fundamentally believe this notion of hybrid being bi-directional in nature. I think we'll see more of that. Even Google announced GKE on vSphere as an example. So I think you'll see more of that come through and it won't be a one-way destination conversation that we keep having. And you will see VMware truly be a multi-cloud company. It won't matter if you're deploying an application in the native cloud or on a vSphere-based cloud. We will help the customer where they land the application. My firm belief is next year when we are here, we'll be talking about stories about how we are helping scale customers in Azure and AWS and GCP on one end and about how we've brought cloud on-prem with services like RDS. Final question I want to put you in the spot. What do you think is the biggest disruptive enabler for the next 10 years in this bi-directional, multi-cloud world? Can you point to one thing that says that's going to be the disruptive enabler for the next 10 to 20 years? Is there something out that you can point to, trend, technology, standard? So the way I think about the world is a little bit differently in terms of, I truly believe that we are getting inundated by data. I'm not going to think about the data that you store in terms of running your business, but in terms of the metadata that you run your operations in your infrastructure with. And I believe that the layer that will control that portion, the metadata of infrastructure and applications, we have not even begun to understand where that goes. And then you apply AI and ML techniques to that. The idea of, you know, you will throw a term around here is self-driving data centers and self-optimizing applications. I get really excited, but it all begins with that data layer. And we are starting to put the beginning signs with cloud health, our private cloud assets to start that process. I'm really excited about how AI ML meets that data layer to achieve those outcomes. It automates IT operations, sounds like. Automation is coming. No, thanks for coming on. Long to size, the Vice President General Manager of VMware's cloud services, the hottest area. It's emerging, it's got a lot of attention. Will you be following it? Of course, on SiliconANGLE and Wikibon and theCUBE. We're day three coverage here in the broadcast booth in Las Vegas in the VM Village. I'm John Furrier with Stu Miniman. Stay with us for more after this short break.


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For the NCB Manila, Red Lotus is really very helpful to us, especially in the management of our borders. With the Red Lotus, the N-Tripul have trained us in the way how to process these people crossing our borders from other countries, especially from Indonesia, Malaysia and other parts of the ASEAN region. This is a conglomeration of law enforcement agencies such as the Bureau of Immigration, the Customs, the National Police and other law enforcement agencies with police functions. That is why we are very, very glad that N-Tripul have given us this opportunity to have trained with them with the N-Tripul assistance. We can have this coordination with other countries. We are being warned from Indonesia or Malaysia or other parts of the ASEAN nation if there are some persons of interest coming into our country. We are very grateful for this because it is the efforts of the N-Tripul. Now we are also having this collaboration with other countries through ASEAN, but it was the N-Tripul that first introduced this kind of coordination with other countries.


Hi and welcome to the session. I am Deepika here. Let's discuss a question. If x is equal to a cos t plus t sin t and y is equal to a sin t minus t cos t find d2y by dx square. So let's start the solution given x is equal to a cos t plus t sin t on differentiating with respect to t we get we have dx by dt is equal to a Now derivative of cos t is minus sin t plus for this portion, let's apply the product rule t into cos t plus sin t into 1 So this is equal to dx by dt is equal to a t cos t Now y is given to us y is equal to a sin t minus t cos t Again differentiating with respect to t dy by dt is equal to a derivative of sin t is cos t again for this portion let's apply the product rule we get minus now t into derivative of cos t that is minus sin t plus cos t into into 1 therefore dy by dt is equal to a cos t plus t sin t minus cos t We have dy by dt is equal to a t sin t Now by chain rule we have dy by dx is equal to dy by dt Into dt by dx dy by dt is equal to a t sin t so this is equal to a t sin t Into dt by dx that is 1 over a t cos t So this is equal to we get tan t So this is our dy by dx Now again differentiating with respect to x we have d2 y by dx square Now derivative of tan t is secant square t Into derivative of t with respect to x that is dt by dx so this is equal to therefore d2 y by dx square is equal to secant square t Into dt by dx is 1 over a t cos t So this is equal to qt upon a t where t is between 0 and pi by 2 So hence we have Find d2 y by dx square and our answer is secant cube t upon a t 0 is less than t t is less than pi by 2 I Hope the question is clear to you by and have a nice day


War and Peace, Book 7, Chapter 10, red for LibriVox.org, by Elena. CHAPTER 10 Does it ever happen to you, said Natasha to her brother when they settled down in the sitting room?  That everything good is past, and to feel not exactly dull, but sad. I should think so, he replied, I have felt like that when everything was all right and everyone was cheerful, the thought has come into my mind that I was already tired of it all, and that we must all die. Once in the regiment, I had not gone to some merry-making where there was music, and suddenly I felt so depressed. Oh yes, I know, I know, I know Natasha interrupted him. When I was quite little, that used to be so with me. Do you remember when I was punished about some plums? You were all dancing and I sat sobbing in the schoolroom. I shall never forget it. I felt sad and sorry for everyone, for myself and for everyone, and I was innocent. That was the chief thing. Do you remember? I remember, answered Nicholas, I remember that I came to you afterwards and wanted to comfort you, but you know, I felt ashamed too. We were terribly absurd. I had a funny dull then, I wanted to give it to you. Do you remember? And do you remember, Natasha asked with a pensive smile, how once, long, long ago, when we were quite little, Uncle called us into the study. That was in the old house, and it was dark, and we went in, and suddenly there stood a negro, chimed in Nicholas with a smile of delight. Of course I remember. Even now I don't know whether it really was a negro, or if we only dreamt it, or were told about him. He was grey, you remember, and had white teeth, and stood and looked at us. Sonja, do you remember, asked Nicholas? Yes, yes, I do remember something too. Sonja answered timidly. You know I have asked Papa and Mama about that negro, said Natasha, and they said there was no negro at all. But you see, you remember. Of course I do. I remember his teeth as if I'd just seen them. How strange is that? It was if it were like a dream. I like that. And do you remember how we rolled hard-boiled eggs in the ballroom, and suddenly two old women began spinning around on the carpet? Was that real or not? Do you remember what fun it was? Yes, and you remember how Papa and his blue overcoat fired a gun into the porch. And so they went through their memories, smiling with pleasure. Not the sad memories of old age, but poetic youthful ones. The impressions of one's most distant past, in which dreams and realities blend, and they laughed with quiet enjoyment. Sonja, as always, did not quite keep pace with them, though they shared the same reminiscences. Much that they remembered had slipped from her mind, and what she recalled did not arouse the same poetic feeling as they experienced. She simply enjoyed their pleasure and tried to feel in with it. She only really took part when they recalled Sonja's first arrival. She told them how afraid she'd been of Nicholas because he had on a quarter jacket, and her nurse had told her that she, too, would be sewn up with cords. And remember they're telling me that you had been born under a cabbage, she said, Natasha, and I remember that I did not disbelieve it then, but I knew it not to be true, and I felt so uncomfortable. When they were talking, a maid thrust her head in the other door of the sitting-room. They have brought the cock-miss, she said in a whisper. It isn't wanted, Petra. Tell them to take it away, replied Natasha. In the middle of their talk in the sitting-room, Dimler came in and went up to the harp that stood in the corner. He took off its cloth covering, and the harp gave out a jarring sound. Mr. Dimler, please play my favourite nocturne by field, came the old countess as away from the drum-room. Dimler struck a chord, and turning to Natasha, Nicholas, and Sonja, remarked, How quiet you young people are. Yes, we're philosophising, said Natasha, glancing around for a moment, and then continuing the conversation, they were now discussing dreams. Dimler began to play. Natasha went on tip-toe noiselessly to the table, took up a candle, carried it and returned, seating herself quietly in her former place. It was dark in the room, especially where they were sitting on the sofa, but through the big windows, the silvery light of the full moon fell on the floor. Dimler had finished the piece, but still sat softly, running his fingers over the strings, evidently uncertain whether to stop or to play something else. Did you know, said Natasha in a whisper, moving close to Nicholas and Sonja, that when one goes on and on recalling memories, one at last begins to remember what happened before one was in the world. That's Metempsychosis, said Sonja, who had always been learned well, and remembered everything. The Egyptians believed that our souls have lived in animals, and will go back into animals again. No, I don't believe we're ever wearing animals, said Natasha, still in a whisper, though the music had ceased. But I am certain that we were angels somewhere there, and have been here, and that's why we remember. May I join you, said Dimler, who had come up quietly, and he sat down by them. If we have been angels, why have we fallen lower, said Nicholas? No, that can't be. Not lower. Who said we were lower? How do I know what I was before? Natasha rejoined with conviction. The soul is immortal. Well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity. Yes, but it is hard for us to imagine eternity, remarked Dimler, who rejoined the young folk with a mildly condescending smile, but now spoke as quietly and as seriously as they. Why is it hard to imagine eternity, said Natasha? It is now, today, and it will be tomorrow, and always. And there was yesterday, and the day before. Natasha, now it's your turn. Sing me something, they heard the countess say. Why are you sitting there like conspirators? Mama, I don't want to, but all the same she rose. None of them, not even the middle-aged Dimler, wanted to break off their conversation and quit that quiet corner of the sitting room. But Natasha got up, and Nicholas sat down at the clavichord, standing as usual in the middle of the hall and choosing the place where the resonance was best. Natasha began to sing her mother's favourite song. She had said she did not want to sing, but it was long since she had sung, and long before she again sang, as she did that evening. The count, from his study where he was talking to Michenka, heard her and, like a schoolboy in a hurry to run out to play, blundered in his talk while giving orders to the steward, and at last stopped while Michenka stood in front of him also listening and smiling.  Sonia, as she listened, thought of the immense difference there was between herself and her friend, and how impossible it was for her to be anything like as bewitching as her cousin. The old countess sat with a blissful, yet sad smile, and with tears in her eyes, and occasionally shaking her head. She thought of Natasha and of her own youth, and of how there was something unnatural and dreadful about this impending marriage of Natasha and Prince Andrew. Dimla, who had seated himself beside the countess, listened with closed eyes. Ah, countess, he said at last. That's a European talent. She has nothing to learn. What softness, tenderness, and strength. Ah, how afraid I am for her. How afraid I am, said the countess, not really realising to whom she was speaking. Her maternal instinct told her that Natasha had too much of something, and that because of this she would not be happy. Before Natasha had finished singing, 14-year-old Petra rushed in delightedly to say that some mamas had arrived. Natasha stopped abruptly. Idiot! She screamed at her brother and running to a chair, threw herself on it, sobbing so violently she could not stop for a long time. It's nothing, mama. Really it's nothing. Only Petra startled me, she said, trying to smile. But her tears still flowed and stops still choked her. The mamas, some of the house served, stretched up as bears, turks, innkeepers and ladies, frightening and funny, bringing in with them the cold from outside and a feeling of gaity, crowded, at first timidly into the anti-room, then hiding behind one another they pushed into the ballroom, where, shyly at first, and then more and more merrily and heartily, they started singing and dancing and playing Christmas games. The Countess, when she had identified them and laughed at their costumes, went into the drawing room. The Count started the ballroom, smiling radiantly and applauding the players. The young people had disappeared. Half an hour later there appeared among the other mamas in the ballroom an old lady in a hoop skirt. This was Nicholas, a Turkish girl. This was Petja, a clown, was Dimla, a ha-sa was Natasha, and a circasian was Sonia, with burnt cork moustache and eyebrows. After the condescending surprise and non-recognition and praise from those who were not themselves dressed up, the young people decided that their costumes were so good that they ought to be shown elsewhere. Nicholas, who, as the roads were in splendid condition, wanted to take them all for a drive in his troika, proposed to take with them about a dozen of the serf mamas and drive to uncles. No, why disturb the fellow, said the Countess, besides, you wouldn't have room to turn around there. If you must go, go to the Melukovs. Melukova was a widow who, with her family and their tutors and governesses, lived three miles from the rust-offs. That's right, my dear, chimed in the old Count, thoroughly aroused. I'll dress up at once and go with them. I'll make Petja to open her eyes. But the Countess would not agree to his going. He had had a bad leg all these days. It was decided that the Count must not go, but that if Louisa of Novda, Madame Shosh, would go with them, the young ladies might go to the Melukovs. Sonia, generally so timid and shy, more urgently than anyone begging Louisa Ivanovna not to refuse. Sonia's costume was the best of all. Her moustache and eyebrows were extraordinarily becoming. Everyone told her she looked very handsome, and she was in a spirited and energetic mood unusual with her. Some in her voice told her that now or never her fate would be decided, and in her male attire she seemed quite a different person. Louisa Ivanovna consented to go, and in half an hour, four Troika slaves with large and small bells, their runners squeaking and whistling over the frozen snow, drove up to the porch. Natasha was the foremost in setting the merry holiday tone, which, passing from one to another, grew stronger and reached its climax when they all came out into the frost and got into the slaves, talking and calling to one another, laughing and shouting. Two of the Troikas were the usual household slaves, and the third were the old counts with a trotter from the Olof's study of the Shaft horse, and the fourth was Nicholas's own with a short shaggy black Shaft horse. Nicholas, in his old lady's dress, over which he had belted his hasarkoat, stood in the middle of the sleigh, it was so light that he could see the moonlight reflected from the metal harness discs and from the eyes of the horses, who looked around in alarm at the noisy party under the shadow of the porch roof. Natasha Sonu, Madame Chos, and two maids got into Nicholas's sleigh, Dimla, his wife and Petra, into the old counts, and the rest of the mummers seated themselves in the other two sleighs. You go ahead, Zakhar, shouted Nicholas to his father's coachman, wishing for a chance to race past him. The old counts Troika, with Dimla and his party, started forward, squeaking on its runners, although freezing to the snow, its deep-toned bell-clanning. The side horses, pressing against the shafts of the middle horses, sank in the snow, which was dry and glittering like sugar, and threw it up. Nicholas set off, following the first sleigh to move noisily, their runners squeaking. At first they drove at a steady trot along the narrow road, while they drove past the garden the shadows of the bare trees often fell across the road and hid the brilliant moonlight, but as soon as they were past the fence, the snowy plain bathed in moonlight motionless spread out before them, glittering like diamonds and dappled with bluish shadows. Bang bang went the first sleigh over a cradle hole in the snow of the road, and each of the other sleighs jolted in the same way, and rudely breaking the frostbound stillness, the troikers began to speed along the road, one after the other. A hare's track, a lot of tracks, rang out Natasha's voice through the frostbound air. How light as is Nicholas, came Sonia's voice. Nicholas glanced around at Sonia and bent over to see her face closer. Quite a new, sweet face, with black eyebrows and the moustaches peeped up at him from her sable furs, so close and yet so distant in the moonlight. That used to be Sonia, he thought, and he looked at her closer and smiled. What is it, Nicholas? Nothing, he said, and turned again to the horses. When they came out onto the beaten high road, polished by sleigh runners and cut up by rough-shod hooves, the marks of which were visible in the moonlight, the horses began to tug at the reins of their own accord and increased their pace. The near-side horse, arching his head and breaking into a short canter, tugged at his traces. The shaft-horse swayed from side to side, moving his ears as he was asking, Isn't it time to begin now? In front, already far ahead, the deep bell of the sleigh ringing farther and farther off, the black horses driven by the car could clearly be seen against the white snow. From that sleigh, one could hear shouts, laughter, and voices of the mummies. Ye up, my darlings, shouted Nicholas, pulling the reins to one side and flourishing the whip. It was only by the keener wind that met them and the jerks given by the side horses who pulled harder, ever-increasing their gallop that one noticed how fast the troika was flying. Nicholas looked back, with screams, squeals, and waving of whips that caused even the shaft-horses to gallop. The other sleighs followed. The shaft-horse swung steadily beneath the bow over its head with no thought of slackening pace ready to put on speed when required. Nicholas overtook the first sleigh. They were driving downhill and coming out on a broad trodden track across a meadow near a river. Where are we, we thought? This is Kosoi Meadow, I suppose, but no, this is something new I've never seen before. Isn't Kosoi Meadow nor the Demken Hill? And Heaven only knows what it is. It is something new and enchanted. Well, whatever it may be, and shouting to his horses, he began to pass the first sleigh.  Nicholas gave the horses the rain and Zakhar, stretching at his arms, plucked his tongue and let his horses go. Now look out, master, he cried. Faster still, the two troikas flew side by side and faster moved the feet of the galloping side horses. Nicholas began to draw ahead. Zakhar, while still keeping his arms extended, raised one hand with the reins. No, you won't, master, he shouted. Nicholas put all his horses to a gallop and passed Zakhar. The horses showered with fine dry snow on the faces of those in the sleigh. Besides them, sounded quick-winning bells and they caught confusing glimpses of swiftly moving legs and the shadows of the troika they were passing. The whistling sounds of the runners on the snow and the voices of girls shrieking were heard from the different sides. Checking again his horses, Nicholas looked around him. They were still surrounded by the magical plane bathed in moonlight and spangled with stars. The car is shouting that I should turn to the left, but why to the left, thought Nicholas? Are we getting to the Melukovs? Is this Melukovka? Heaven only knows where we're going, and heaven knows what is happening to us, but it is very strange and pleasant, whatever it is. He looked around the sleigh. Look, his moustache and eyelashes are all white, said one of the strange, pretty, unfamiliar people, the one with fine eyebrows and a moustache. I think this used to be Natasha's, thought Nicholas, and that was Madame Chos, but perhaps it is not, the moustache, I don't know, but I love her. Aren't you cold, he asked? They did not answer, but began to laugh. Dimmler from the sleigh behind shouted something, probably something funny, but they could not make out what it was. Yes, yes, some voices answered, laughing. But here was a fairy forest with black moving shadows and a glitter of diamonds and a flight of marble steps and the silver roofs of fairy buildings and the shrill yells of some animals. And if this really is Melyukovka, it is still stranger that we drove heaven knows where and have come to Melyukovka, thought Nicholas. It really was Melyukovka, and the maids and footmen with merry faces came running out to the porch carrying candles. Who is it, asked someone on the porch? The mummers from the counts I know from the horses replied the voices. Chapter 10 In Peace Book 7 Chapter 11 Read for LibriVox.org by Elena Pelagia Denilovna Melyukova a broadly built energetic woman wearing spectacles sat in the drawing room in a loose dress surrounded by her daughters whom she was trying to keep from feeling dull. They were quietly dropping melted wax into snow and looking at the shadows the wax figures would throw on the wall when they heard the steps and voices of the new arrivals in the vestibule. Hussars, ladies, witches, clowns and bears after clearing their throats and wiping the whorefrost from their faces in the vestibule came into the ballroom where candles were hurriedly lighted. The clown, Dimla and the lady, Nicholas started to dance surrounded by the screaming children and the mummers covering their faces and disguising their voices bowing to their hostess and arranged themselves about the room. Tim, me, there's no recognising them and Natasha see whom she looks like she really reminds me of somebody but Herr Dimla isn't he good? I don't know him but he dances Dim, me, there's a circassian really how becoming it is to do Sonja and who is that? Well, you have cheered us up Nikita and Vanya clear away the tables and here we were sitting so quietly ha ha ha the Hussar, the Hussar just like a boy and the legs, I can't look at him different voices were saying Melikov's favourite disappeared with them into the back rooms where a cork and various dressing gowns and male garments were called for and received from the footmen by bare girly shams from behind the door ten minutes later all the young Melikovs joined the mummers Pelgya Danilovnya having given orders to clear the rooms for the visitors and arranged about refreshments and the serfs went about among the mummers without removing her spectacles peering into their faces with a suppressed smile and failing to recognise any of them it was not merely Dimla and the Rostovs she failed to recognise she did not even recognise her own daughters or her late husbands dressing gowns and uniforms which they had put on and who is this? asked her governess her own daughter dressed up like Kazan Tatar I suppose it is one of the Rostovs well Mr. Hussar and what regiment do you serve in she asked Natasha here, handsome fruit jelly to the Turk she ordered the butler who was handing things around that's not forbidden by his law sometimes she looked at the strange bit amusing capers cut by the dancers who having decided once for all and disguised no one would recognise them were not at all shy Pella Gaia Danilovna hit her face with her handkerchief and her whole stout body shook with irrepressible kindly elderly laughter my little Sasha look at Sasha she said after Russian country dancers and chorus dancers Pella Gaia Danilovna joined in one large circle a ring a string and a silver rubel were fetched and they all played games together in an hour all the costumes were crumpled and disordered the corked eyebrows and moustaches were smeared over the perspiring flushed and merry faces Pella Gaia Danilovna began to recount the monas admired their cleverly contrived costumes and particularly how they suited the young ladies and she thanked them all for having entertained her so well the visitors were invited to supper in the drawing room and the serfs had something served to them in the ballroom now to tell one's fortune in the empty bath house is frightening said an old maid who lived with the Melyukovs during supper why? said the eldest Melyukov girl oh you wouldn't go it takes courage I'll go! said Sonya look what happened to the young lady said the second Melyukov girl well began the old maid a young lady once went out took a cock laid the table for two all properly and sat down after sitting a while she suddenly hears someone coming a slave drives up with harness bells she hears him coming he comes in just in the shape of a man like an officer comes in and sits down to table with her screaming Natasha rolling her eyes in horror yes and how did he speak yes like a man everything quite all right he began persuading her and she should have just kept him talking to a cock crew but she got frightened and hit her face in her hands and then he caught her up it was lucky the maid ran in then now why frighten them said Pelageya Danilovna Mama you used to try fate yourself said her daughter and how does one do it in a barn required Sonya well say you went into the barn now and listen it depends on what you hear hammering or knocking that's bad but a sound of shifting grain is good and sometimes one hears that too Mama tell us what happened to you in the barn Pelageya Danilovna smiled oh I've forgotten she replied but none of you would go yes I will Pelageya Danilovna let me I'll go said Sonya well why not if you're not afraid Louisa Ivanovna may I asked Sonya whether they were playing the ring and string game or the ruble game or talking as now Nicholas did not leave Sonya's side and gazed at her with quiet new eyes it seemed to him that it was only today thanks to that weren't cork moustache that he had fully learnt to know her and really that evening Sonya was brighter, more animated and prettier than Nicholas had ever seen her before I'm not afraid of anything said Sonya may I go at once she got up they told her where the barn was to stand and listen and they handed her a fur cloak she threw this over her head and shoulders and glanced at Nicholas how darling that girl is he thought and what have I been thinking of till now Sonya went out into the passage to go to the barn Nicholas went hastily to the front porch saying he felt too hot the crowd of people really had made the house stuffy outside there was the same cold stillness and the same moon that even brighter than before the light was so strong and the snow sparkled and so many stars that one did not wish to look up at the sky and the real stars were unnoticed the sky was black and dreary while the earth was gay I'm a fool, a fool what have I been waiting for thought Nicholas and running out from the porch he went around the corner of the house to the front porch he knew Sonya would pass that way halfway lay some snow covered piles of firewood and across and along them a network of shadows from the bare old lime trees fell on the snow and on the path this path led to the barn the log walls of the barn and its snow covered roof that looked as if hewn out of some precious stone sparkled in the moonlight a tree in the garden snapped with the frost and then all was again perfectly silent his bosom seemed to inhale not air but the strength of eternal youth and gladness from the back porch came the sound of feet descending the steps the bottom step upon which snow had fallen gave a ringing creak and he heard the voice of an old maid service saying straight straight along the path miss we don't look back I'm not afraid answered Sonya's voice and along the path towards Nicholas came the crunching whistling sound of Sonya's feet in her thin shoes Sonya came along wrapped in her cloak she was only a couple of paces away when she saw him and to her too he was not the Nicholas she had known and always slightly feared in his dress with tussled hair and a happy smile new to Sonya she ran rapidly towards him quite different and yet the same thought Nicholas looking at her face or lit up by the moonlight he slipped his arms under the cloak that had covered her head embraced her pressed her to him and kissed her on the lips that wore a moustache and had a smell of burnt cork Sonya kissed him full on the lips and disengaging her little hands pressed them to his cheeks Sonya Nicholas was all that they said they ran to the barn and then back again a re-entering he by the front and she by the back porch End of Chapter 11 War and Peace Book 7 Chapter 12 By Elena Chapter 12 When they all drove back from Pelagia Denilovna Natasha who always saw and noticed everything arranged that she in madame shot should go back in the sleigh with dimler and Sonya with Nicholas and the maids on the way back and Nicholas drove at a steady pace instead of racing and kept peering by that fantastic all transforming light into Sonya's face and searching beneath the eyebrows and moustache for his former and his present Sonya from whom he had resolved never to be parted again he looked and recognising in her both old the old and the new Sonya and being reminded by the smell of burnt cork of the sensation of her kiss inhaled the frosty air with a full breast and the ground flying beneath him and at the sparkling sky felt himself again in fairy land Sonya is it well with thee he asked from time to time yes he replied and with thee then half way home Nicholas handed the reins to the coachman and ran for a moment to Natasha's sleigh and stood on its wing Natasha he whispered in French Do you know I have made up my mind to be with Sonya have you told her asked Natasha suddenly beaming all over with joy how strange it you are with that moustache and those eyebrows Natasha are you glad I'm so glad so glad I was beginning to be vexed with you I did not tell you but you have been treating her badly what a heart she has Nicholas I am horrid sometimes I claimed to be happy while Sonya was not continued Natasha I am so glad we'll run back to her no wait a bit how funny you look cried Nicholas peering into her face and finding in his sister too something new unusual and bewitchingly tender that he had not seen in her before Natasha it's magical isn't it yes she replied you have done splendidly had I seen her before as she is now thought Nicholas I should long ago have asked her what to do and have done whatever she told me and all of would have been well so you are glad and I have done right oh quite right I had a quarrel with Mama some time ago about it Mama said she was angling for you how could she say such a thing I nearly stormed at Mama but anyone say anything bad of Sonya for there is nothing but good in her then it's all right said Nicholas again scrutinising the expression of his sister's face to see if she was in earnest then he jumped down and his boots crunching on the snow ran back to his sleigh the same happy smiling Circassian with mustache and beaming eyes looked up from under the sable hood was still sitting there that Circassian was Sonya and that Sonya was certainly his future happy and loving wife when they reached home and had told their mother how they had spent the evening at the Melyukovs the girls went to their bedroom when they had undressed without washing off the cork mustaches they sat a long time talking of their happiness they talked of how they would live when they were married the girls would be friends and how happy they would be on Natasha's table stood two looking glasses which Dunyasha had prepared beforehand only when will that be I am afraid never it would be too good said Natasha raising and going to the looking glasses sit down Natasha perhaps you'll see him said Sonya Natasha lit the candles one on each side of the looking glasses and sat down I see someone move the moustache said Natasha seeing her own face you mustn't laugh miss said Dunyasha with Sonya's help and the maid Natasha got the glass she held into the right position opposite the other her face assumed a serious expression and she sat silent she sat a long time looking at the receding line of candles reflecting in the glasses reflecting from tales she had heard to see a coffin or him Prince Andrew in that last dim and distinctly outlined square but ready she was to take the smallest speck for the image of a man or of a coffin she saw nothing she began blinking rapidly and moving away from the looking glasses why is it others see things and I don't she said you sit down now Sonya tonight do it for me today I feel so frightened Sonya sat down before the glasses got to the right position and began looking now miss Sonya you're sure to see something whispered Dunyasha while you do nothing but laugh Sonya heard this and Natasha's whisper I know she will she saw something last year for about three minutes all were silent of course she will whispered Natasha but did not finish suddenly Sonya pushed away the glass she was holding and covered her eyes with her hand oh Natasha she cried did you see did you what was it exclaimed Natasha holding up the looking glass Sonya had not seen anything she was just wanting to blink and to get up when she heard Natasha say of course she will she did not wish to disappoint either Dunyasha or Natasha but it was hard to sit still she did not herself know how or why the exclamation escaped her when she covered her eyes you saw him urge Natasha seizing her hands yes wait a bit I saw him Natasha could not help saying not yet knowing whom Natasha meant by him Nicholas or Prince Andrew why shouldn't I say I saw something others do see besides who can tell whether I saw anything or not flashed through Sonya's mind yes I saw him she said how standing or lying no I saw at first there was nothing then I saw him lying down Andrew lying is he ill asked Natasha her frightened eyes fixed on her friend no on the contrary on the contrary his face was cheerful and he turned to me and when saying this she fancied she had really seen what she had described well and then Sonya after that I could not make out what there was something blue and red Sonya will he come back when shall I see him oh God how afraid I am for him and for myself not everything Natasha began and without replying to Sonya's words of comfort she got into bed and long after her candle was out lay open-eyed and motionless gazing at the moonlight through the frosty window panes End of Chapter 12 War and Peace Book 7 Chapter 13 Read for LibriVox.org by Elena Chapter 13 Soon after the Christmas holidays Nicholas told his mother of his love for Sonya and of his firm resolve to marry her the Countess who had long noticed what was going on between them and was expecting this declaration listened to him in silence and then told her son that he might marry whom he pleased but that neither she nor his father would give their blessing to such a marriage Nicholas for the first time felt that his mother was displeased with him and that despite her love for him she would not give way coldly without looking at her son she sent for her husband and when he came tried briefly and coldly to inform him of the facts in her son's presence but unable to restrain herself she burst into tears of excation and left the room the old Count began irresolutely to admonish Nicholas and to beg him to abandon his purpose Nicholas replied that he could not go back on his word and his father sighing and evidently disconcerted soon became silent and went into the Countess in all his encounters with his son the Count was always conscious of his own guilt towards him for having wasted the family fortune so he could not be angry with him for refusing to marry an heiress and for choosing the dourless Sonia on this occasion he was only more vividly conscious of the fact that if his affairs had not been discovered no better wife for Nicholas than Sonia could have been wished for and that no one but himself with his Mutenka and his uncomfortable habits was to blame for the condition of the family's finances the father and mother did not speak of the matter to their son again but a few days later the Countess sent for Sonia and with a cruelty neither of them expected reproached her niece for trying to catch Nicholas and for ingratitude Sonia listened silently with downcast eyes to the Countess's cruel words without understanding what was required of her she was ready to sacrifice everything for her benefactors self-sacrifice with her most cherished idea in this case she could not see what she ought to sacrifice or for whom she could not help loving the Countess and the whole Rostov family but neither could she help loving Nicholas and knowing that his happiness depended on that love she was silent and sad and did not reply Nicholas felt the situation to be intolerable and went to have an explanation with his mother he first implored her to forgive him Sonia and consent to their marriage then he threatened that if she molested Sonia he wouldn't once marry her secretly the Countess with a coldness her son had never seen in her before replied that he was of age and Prince Andrew was marrying without his father's consent and that he could do the same but that she would never receive the intrigue as her daughter exploding at the word intrigue Nicholas raised his voice and told his mother that he had never expected her to try and force him to sell his feelings but if that was so then he would say for the last time but he had no time to utter the decisive word which the expression of his face caused his mother to await with terror and which would perhaps have ever remained a cruel memory to them both he had no time to say it for Natasha with pale and a set face entered the room from the door and she had been listening Nicholas, you are talking nonsense be quiet be quiet, be quiet tell you, she almost screamed as if to drown his voice Mama darling it's not at all so my poor sweet darling she said to her mother who conscious that they had been on the brink of a rupture gazed at her son with terror but in the obstinacy and excitement of the conflict give way Nicholas, I'll explain to you go away listen Mama darling said Natasha her words were incoherent but they attained the purpose at which she was aiming the countess sobbing heavily hit her face on her daughter's breast while Nicholas rose clutching his head and left the room Natasha set to work to effect a reconciliation and so far succeeded that Nicholas received a promise from his mother that Sonia should not be troubled while he on his side promised not to undertake anything without his parents knowledge firmly resolved after putting his affairs in order in the regiment to retire from the army and return and marry Sonia Nicholas, serious, sorrowful and at variance with his parents but as it seemed to him passionately in love left at the beginning of January to rejoin his regiment after Nicholas had gone things in the Rostov household were more depressing than ever and the countess fell ill from mental agitation Sonia was unhappy at the separation from Nicholas and still more so on account of the hostile tone the countess could not help adopting towards her the count was more perturbed than ever by the condition of his affairs the countess was called for some decisive action their townhouse in a state near Moscow had inevitably to be sold and for this they had to go to Moscow but the countess's health obliged them to delay their departure from day to day Natasha who had borne the first period of separation from her betrothed lightly and even cheerfully now grew more agitated and impatient every day the best days which she would have employed in loving him were being vainly wasted with no advantage to anyone tormented her incessantly his letters for the most part irritated her it hurt her to think that while she lived only in the thought of him he was living a real life seeing new places and new people that interested him and more interesting his letters were the more vexed that she felt that him far from giving her any comfort seemed to her a wearisome and artificial obligation she could not write because she could not conceive the possibility of expressing sincerely in a letter even a thousandth part of what she expressed by voice smile and glance she wrote to him formal monotonous and dry letters to which she attached no importance herself and in the rough copies of which the Countess corrected her mistakes in spelling there was still no improvement in the Countess' health but it was impossible to defer the journey to Moscow any longer Natasha's trousseau had to be ordered and the house sold moreover Prince Andrew was expected in Moscow where the old Prince Bulkonski was spending the winter and Natasha felt sure he had already arrived so the Countess remained in the country and the Count taking Sonya and Natasha with him went to Moscow at the end of January end of chapter 13 recording by Elena end of war and peace book 7 by Leo Tolstoy