War and Peace, Book 4, Chapter 10, Recording for LibriVox.org by Eva Harnick. Rostov's share in Dolokov's duel with Bezukov was hushed up by the efforts of the old count, and instead of being degraded to the ranks as he expected, he was appointed an adjutant to the Governor General of Moscow. As a result he could not go to the country with the rest of the family, but was kept all summer in Moscow by his new duties. Dolokov recovered and Rostov became very friendly with him during his convalescence.  Yes count, she would say, he's too noble and pure soul for our present depraved world. No one now loves virtue. It seems like a reproach to everyone. Now tell me count, was it right, was it honorable of Bezukov? And Fedja, with his noble spirit, loved him and even now, never says a word against him. Those pranks in Petersburg, when they played some tricks on a policeman, didn't they do it together? And there, Bezukov got off scot-tree, while Fedja had to bear the whole burden on his shoulders. Fancy what he had to go through. It is true, he has been reinstated, but how could they fail to do that? I think there were not many such galantsons of the fatherland out there as he, and now this duel. Have these people no feeling or honor, knowing him to be an only son to challenge him and shoot so straight? It is well God had mercy on us. And what was it for? Who doesn't have intrigues nowadays? Why, if he was so jealous, as I see things, he should have thrown it sooner, but he lets it go on for months.  What business? What meanness? I know you understand, Fedja, my dear count. That, believe me, is why I am so fond of you. Few people do understand him. He is such a lofty, heavenly soul. Dolokov himself, during his convalescence, spoke to Rostov in a way no one would have expected of him. I know people consider me a bad man, he said, let them. I don't care a straw about anyone but those I love. But those I love, I love so that I would give my life for them and the others I would throttle if they stood in my way. I have an adored, a priceless mother, and two or three friends, you among them. And as for the rest, I only care about them insofar as they are harmful or useful. And most of them are harmful, especially the women. Yes, dear boy, continued. I have met loving, noble, high-minded men. But I have not yet met any women, countesses or cooks who are not vener. I have not yet met that divine purity and devotion I look for in women. If I found such a one, I would give my life for her. But those and he made the gesture of contempt. And believe me, if I still value my life, it is only because I still hope to meet such a divine creature who will regenerate, purify and elevate me. But you don't understand it. Oh yes, I quite understand, answered Rostov, who was under his new friend's influence. In the autumn, Rostov's returned to Moscow. Early in the winter, Denisov also came back and stayed with them. The first half of the winter of 1806, which Nicholas Rostov spent in Moscow, was one of the happiest, merriest times for him and the whole family. Nicholas brought many young men to his parents' house. Vera was a handsome girl of 20. Sonja, a girl of 16, with all the charm of an opening flower. Natasha, half grown up and half child, was now childishly amusing, now girlishly enchanting. At that time in the Rostov's house there prevailed an amorous atmosphere characteristic of homes where there are very young and very charming girls. Every young man who came to the house, seeing those impressionable smiling young faces, smiling probably at their own happiness, feeling the eager bustle around him, and hearing the fitful bursts of song and music and the inconsequent but friendly prattle of young girls ready for anything and full of hope, experienced the same feeling, sharing with the young folk of the Rostov's household a readiness to fall in love and an expectation of happiness. Among the young men introduced by Rostov, one of the first was Dolokov, whom everyone in the house liked except Natasha. She almost quarreled with her brother about him. She insisted that he was a bad man and that in the duel with Bezukov Pierre was right and Dolokov wrong and further that he was disagreeable and unnatural. There is nothing for me to understand, cried out with resolute self-will. She is wicked and heartless.  So you see I do understand. I don't know how to put it. With this one, everything is calculated. And I don't like that. But Denizov? Oh, Denizov is quite different, replied Nicholas, implying that even Denizov had nothing compared to Dolokov. You must understand what a soul there is in Dolokov. You should see him with his mother. What a heart. Well, I don't know about that, but I am uncomfortable with him. And do you know he has fallen in love with Sonja? What nonsense. I'm certain of it, you will see. Natasha's prediction proved true. Dolokov, who did not usually care for the society of ladies, began to come often to the house and the question for who's sake, he came, though no one spoke of it, was soon settled. He came because of Sonja. And Sonja, though she would never have dared to say so, knew it and blushed scarlet every time Dolokov appeared. Dolokov often dined at Rostov's. Never missed the performance at which they were present. And went to Ioga's boss for young people, which the Rostovs always attended. He was pointedly attentive to Sonja and looked at her in such a way that not only could she not bear his glances without coloring, but even the old countess and Natasha blushed when they saw his looks. It was evident that this strange, strong man was under the irresistible influence of the dark, graceful girl who loved another. Rostov noticed something new in Dolokov's relations with Sonja, but he did not explain to himself what these new relations were. They are always in love with someone, his sort of Sonja and Natasha. But he was not as much at ease with Sonja and Dolokov as before and was less frequently at home. In the autumn of 1806 everybody had again began talking of the war with Napoleon, with even greater warmth than the year before. Orders were given to today's recruits, ten men in every thousand for the regular army, and beside this, nine men in every thousand for the militia. Everywhere Bonaparte was anatomized, and in Moscow nothing but the coming war was talked of. For the Rostov family, the whole interest of these preparations for war lay in the fact that Nicholas would not hear of remaining in Moscow and only awaited the termination of Denisov's furlough after Christmas to return with him to their regiment. His approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather gave zest to his pleasures. He spent the greater part of his time away from home at dinners, parties and balls. End of chapter 10, recording by Eva Harnik, Pontevedra, Florida. War and Peace, book 4, chapter 11. Read for LibriVox.org by Eva Harnik. On the third day after Christmas, Nicholas dined at home, a sink he had rarely done off late. It was a grand farewell dinner, as he and Denisov were leaving to join their regiment after Epiphany. About twenty people were present, including Dolokov and Denisov. Never had love been so much in the air, and never had that amorous atmosphere made itself so strongly felt in the Rostov's house as a debt this holiday time. Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved. That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here, said the spirit of the place. Nicholas, having as usual exhausted two pairs of horses, without visiting all the places he meant to go to and where he had been invited, returned home just before dinner. As soon as he entered, he noticed and felt the tension of the amorous air in the house, and also noticed a curious embarrassment among some of those present. Sonja Dolokov and the Old Countess were especially disturbed and to lesser the Green Natasha. Nicholas understood that something must have happened between Sonja and Dolokov before dinner, and with the kindly sensitiveness natural to him was very gentle and wary with them both at dinner. On that same evening there was to be one of the balls that Ayoga, the dancing master, gave for his pupils during the holidays. Nicholas, will you come to Ayoga's, please do, said Natasha. He asked you, and Vasily Dimitric is also going. Estrik explains, Vasily Dimitric is Denisov. Where would I not go at the Countess's command, said Denisov, who at Rostov's had jocularly assumed the role of Natasha's knight. I am even ready to dance the Puddeschall. If I have time, answered Nicholas, but I promise the Arkharovs they have a party. And you, he asked Dolokov, but as soon as he had asked the question he noticed that it should not have been put. Perhaps coldly and angrily replied Dolokov glancing at Sonja, and scowling he gave Nicholas just such a look as he had given Pierre at the club dinner. There is something up, sought Nicholas, and he was further confirmed in this conclusion by the fact that Dolokov left immediately after dinner. He called Natasha and asked her what was the matter. And I was looking for you, said Natasha running out to him. I told you, but you wouldn't believe it, she said triumphantly. He has proposed to Sonja. Little as Nicholas had occupied himself with Sonja of late, something seemed to give way within him at this news. Dolokov was a suitable and in some respects a brilliant match for the dourless orphan girl. From the point of view of the old Countess and of society, it was out of the question for her to refuse him. And therefore Nicholas's first feeling on hearing the news was one of anger with Sonja. He tried to say that's capital, of course she will forget her childish promises and accept the offer. But before he had time to say it, Natasha began again. And fancy, she refused him quite definitely. Adding after a pause, she told him she loved another. Yes, my Sonja could not have done otherwise, sought Nicholas. Much as Mama pressed her, she refused and I know she won't change once she has said. And Mama pressed her, said Nicholas reproachfully. Yes, said Natasha. Do you know Nicholas, don't be angry, but I know you will not marry her. I know heaven knows how, but I know for certain that you won't marry her. Now don't know that at all, said Nicholas. But I must talk to her, what a darling Sonja is, he added with a smile. Ah, she is indeed a darling. I will send her to you. And Natasha kissed her brother and run away. A minute later Sonja came in with a frightened, guilty and scared look. Nicholas went up to her and kissed her hand. This was the first time since his return that they had talked alone and about their love. Sophie, he began timidly at first and then more and more boldly. If you wish to refuse one who is not only a brilliant and advantageous match, but a splendid noble fellow, he is my friend. Sonja interupted him. I have already refused, she said hurriedly. If you are refusing for my sake, I am afraid that I... Sonja again interrupted, she gave him an imploring frightened look. Nicholas, don't tell me that, she said. No, but I must. It may be arrogant of me, but still it is best to say it. If you refuse him on my account, I must tell you the whole truth. I love you and I think I love you more than anyone else. That is enough for me, said Sonja blushing. No, but I have been in love a thousand times and shall fall in love again. Thau, for no one have I such a feeling of friendship, confidence, and love as I have for you. Then I am young… Mama does not wish it. In a word I make no promise cospassknáig, he said articulating his friends name with difficulty. Don't say that to me I want nothing. I love you as a brother, and always shall, and I want nothing more.  And Nicholas again kissed her hand. End of Chapter 11. Reading by Eva Harnick, Pontevedra, Florida. War and Peace, Book 4, Chapter 12. Read for LibriVox.org by Eva Harnick. Ayo girls were the most enjoyable wars in Moscow. So said the mothers as they watched their young people executing their newly learned steps. And so said the youth and maidens themselves as they danced till they were ready to drop. And so said the grown-up young men and women who came to these wars with an air of condescension and found them most enjoyable. That year two marriages had come of these wars. The two pretty young princesses Gorshakov met suitors there and were married and so further increased the fame of these dances. What distinguished them from others was the absence of host or hostess and the presence of the good-natured ayo girl flying about like a feather and bowing according to the rules of his art as he collected the tickets from all his visitors. There was the fact that only those came who wished to dance and amused themselves as girls of 13 and 14 do who are wearing long dresses for the first time. With scarcely any exceptions they all were or seemed to be pretty so rapturous were their smiles and so sparkling their eyes. Sometimes the best of the pupils of whom Natasha who was exceptionally graceful was first even danced the part de chalet, but at this last ball only the echo says the English and the Mazorka which was just coming into fashion were danced. Ayo girl had taken a ballroom in Bezukov's house and the ball as everyone said was a great success. There were many pretty girls and the rest of girls were among the prettiest. They were both particularly happy and gay. That evening, proud of Dolokov's proposal, her refusal and her explanation with Nicholas, Sonja twirled about before she left home so that the maid could hardly get her hair plated and she was transparently radiant with impulsive joy. Natasha no less proud of her first long dress and of being at a real ball was even happier. They were both dressed in white muslin with pink ribbons. Natasha fell in love the very moment she entered the ballroom. She was not in love with anyone in particular but with everyone. Whatever person she happened to look at, she was in love with for that moment. Oh how delightful it is, she kept saying running up to Sonja. Nicholas and Denisov were walking up and down looking with kindly patronage at the dancers. How sweet she is, she will be a real beauty said Denisov. Who? Countess Natasha answered Denisov. And how she dances, what grace he said again after a pause. Who are you talking about? About your sister ejaculated Denisov testily, most of smart. My dear Count, you were one of my best pupils. You must dance, said little Iogal coming up to Nicholas. Look how many charming young ladies. He turned with the same request to Denisov who was also a former pupil of his. No my dear fellow, I will be a wall flower said Denisov. Don't you recollect what bad use I made of your lessons? Oh no, said Iogal, he's turning to reassure him. You were only inattentive, but you had talent. Oh yes, you had talent. The band struck up the newly introduced Mizzouka. Nicholas could not refuse Iogal and ask Sonja to dance. Denisov sat down by the old ladies and leaning on his saber and beating time with his foot, showed them something funny and kept them amused while he watched the young people dancing. Iogal with Natasha, his pride and his best pupil were the first couple. Noiselessly skillfully stepping with his little feet in low shoes, Iogal flew first across the hall with Natasha, who though shy went on carefully executing her steps. Denisov did not take his eyes off her and beat time with his saber in a way that clearly indicated that if he was not dancing, it was because he would not and not because he could not. In the middle of a figure he began to Rostov who was passing. This is not at all the thing he said. A fort of Polish Mizzouka is this, but she does dance splendidly. Knowing that Denisov had a reputation even in Poland for the masterly way in which he danced the Mizzouka, Nicholas ran up to Natasha.  When it came to Natasha's turn to choose a partner, tripping rapidly across in her little shoes trimmed with bows, ran timidly to the corner where Denisov sat. She saw that everybody was looking at her and waiting. Nicholas saw that Denisov was refusing, though he smiled delightedly. He ran up to them. Please Vasily Dimitric, Natasha was saying, do come. Oh no, let me off countess, Denisov replied. Now then Vaska, said Nicholas. They coax me as if I were Vaska, the cat, said Denisov jokingly. I will sing for you a whole evening, said Natasha. Oh the fairy, she can do anything with me, said Denisov, and he unhooked his saber. He came out from behind the chairs, clasped his partner's hand family through back his head and advanced his foot waiting for the beat. Only on horseback and in the Mazurka was Denisov's short statue not noticeable and he looked the fine fellow he felt himself to be. At the right beat of the music, he looked sideways at his partner with a merry and triumphant air, suddenly stamped with one foot bounded from the floor like a ball and flew round the room taking his partner with him. He glided silently on one foot half across the room and seeming not to notice the chairs was dashing straight at them and suddenly clinking his purse and spreading out his legs, he stopped short on his heels, stood so a second, stamped on the spot, clanking his purse, whirled rapidly round and striking his left heel against his right, flew round again in a circle. Atása guessed what he meant to do and abandoning herself to him followed his lead hardly knowing how. First he spun her round, holding her now with his left, now with his right hand. Then falling on one knee he twirled her round him and again jumping up, dashed so impetuously forward that it seemed as if he would rush through the whole suite of rooms without drawing breath and then he suddenly stopped and performed some new and unexpected steps. When at last, smartly whittling his partner round in front of her chair, he drew up with a click of his purse and bowed to her, Atása did not even make him a curtsie. She fixed her eyes on him in amazement, smiling as if she did not recognize him. What does this mean, she brought out? Although a young girl did not acknowledge this to be the real Mazurka, everyone was delighted with Dennis's skill, he was asked again and again as a partner and the old man began smilingly to talk about Poland and the good old days. Dennis off flushed after the Mazurka and mopping himself with his handkerchief, sat down by Natasha and did not leave her for the rest of the evening. End of Chapter 12. Recording by Eva Harnik, Pontevedra, Florida. Boren piece, Book 4, Chapter 13. Recording for LibriVox.org by Eva Harnik. For two days after that, Rostov did not see Dolokov at his own or at Dolokov's home. On the third day he received a note from him. As I do not intend to be at your house again for reasons you know of and I am going to rejoin my regiment, I am giving a farewell supper tonight to my friends, come to the English hotel. About ten o'clock Rostov went to the English hotel straight from the theater, where he had been with his family and Dennis off. He was at once shown to the best room, which Dolokov had taken for that evening. Some twenty men were gathered round the table at which Dolokov sat between two candles. On the table was a pile of gold and paper money and he was keeping the bank. Rostov had not seen him since his proposal and Sonya's refusal was then uncomfortable at the thought of how they would meet. Dolokov's clear cold glance met Rostov as soon as he entered the door as though he had long expected him. It is a long time since we met, he said, thanks for coming. I will just finish dealing and then Ilyushka will come with his chorus. You called once or twice at your house, said Rostov Redming. Dolokov made no reply. You may punt, he said. Rostov recalled at that moment a strange conversation he had once had with Dolokov. None but fools trust to luck in play, Dolokov had then said. Or are you afraid to play with me? Dolokov now asked as if guessing Rostov sort. Benease his smile, Rostov saw in him the mood he had shown at the club dinner and at other times when as if tired of everyday life he had felt a need to escape from it by some strange and usually cruel action. Rostov felt ill at ease. He tried but failed to find some joke with which to reply to Dolokov's words. But before he had thought of anything, Dolokov looking straight in his face said slowly and deliberately so that everyone could hear. Do you remember we had a talk about cards? The fool who trusts to luck one should make certain and I want to try. To try his luck or the certainty Rostov asked himself. Well, you should better not play, Dolokov added and springing a new pack of cards said, Bank, gentlemen. Moving the money forward, he prepared to deal. Rostov sat down by his side and at first did not play. Dolokov kept glancing at him. Why don't you play? he asked. And strange to say, Nicholas felt that he could not help taking up a card, putting a small stake on it and beginning to play. I have no money with me, he said. I will trust you. Rostov staked five rubles on a card and lost, state again and again lost. Dolokov killed that is beat ten cards of Rostov's running. Gentlemen, said Dolokov after he had dealt for some time, please place your money on the cards, or I may get muddled in the reckoning. One of the players said he hoped he might be trusted. Yes, you might, but I am afraid of getting the accounts mixed, so I ask you to put the money on your cards, replied Dolokov. Don't stint yourself. We will settle afterwards, he added turning to Rostov. The game continued. A waiter kept handing round champagne. All Rostov's cards were beaten and he had 800 rubles scored up against him. He wrote 800 rubles on a card, but while the waiter filled his glass, he changed his mind and altered it to his usual stake of 20 rubles. David, said Dolokov, though he did not seem to be even looking at Rostov. You will win it back all the sooner. I lose to the others, but win from you. Or are you afraid of me, he asked again. Rostov submitted. He let the 800 remain and laid down a seven of hearts with a torn corner, which he had picked up from the floor. He well remembered that seven afterwards. He laid down the seven of hearts, on which with a broken bit of chalk he had written 800 rubles in clear upright figures. He emptied the glass of warm champagne that was handed him, smiled at Dolokov's words, and with a sinking heart waiting for a seven to turn up, kissed at Dolokov's hands, which held the pack. Much depended on Rostov's winning or losing on that seven of hearts. On the previous Sunday, the old count had given his son 2,000 rubles, and though he always disliked speaking of money difficulties, had told Nicholas that this was all he could let him have till May and asked him to be more economical this time. Nicholas had replied that it would be more than enough for him and that he gave his word of honor not to take anything more till the spring. Now only 1200 rubles was left of that money so that this seven of hearts meant for him not only the loss of 1600 rubles, but the necessity of going back on his word. With a sinking heart he watched Dolokov's hands and sword. Now then, make haste and let me have this card and I will take my cap and drive home to Sapa with Denisov, Natasha and Sonja and will certainly never touch a card again. At that moment his home life jokes with Petya, talks with Sonja, duets with Natasha, Piqué with his father and even his comfortable bed in the house on the Povarskaya rose before him with such vividness, clearness and charm as if it were all a lost and unappreciated bliss long past. He could not conceive that a stupid chance letting the seven be dealt to the right rather than to the left might deprive him of all this happiness newly appreciated and newly illumined and plunge him into the depths of unknown and undefined misery. That could not be. Yet he waited with a sinking heart the movement of Dolokov's hands. Those broad reddish hands with hairy wrists visible from under the shirt cuffs laid down the pack and took up a glass and a pipe that were handed him.  Yes, gentlemen, I have been told there is a rumor going about Moscow that I am a sharper, so I advise you to be careful. Come now, deal, exclaimed Rostov. Oh, those Moscow gossips, said Dolokov and he took up the cards with a smile. Ah, Rostov almost screamed lifting both hands to his head. The seven he needed was lying uppermost the first card in the pack. He had lost more than he could pay. Still, don't ruin yourself, said Dolokov with a side glance at Rostov as he continued to deal. End of chapter 13 Recording by Eva Harnick Pontevedra, Florida War and Peace Book 4 chapter 14 Recording for LibriVox.org by Eva Harnick An hour and a half later most of the players were but little interested in their own play. The whole interest was concentrated on Rostov. Így is, most of the players had a long column of figures scored against him which he had reckoned up to 10,000. But that now, as he vaguely supposed must have risen to 15,000. In reality, it already exceeded 20,000 rubles. Dolokov was no longer listening to stories or telling them, but followed every movement of Rostov's hands and occasionally ran his eyes over the score against him. He had decided to play until that score reached 43,000. He had fixed on that number because 43 was the sum of his and Sonja's joined ages. Rostov leaning his head on both hands set at the table which was crawled over with figures, wet with spilled wine and littered with cards. One tormenting impression did not leave him, that those broad-boned reddish hands with hairy wrists visible from under the shirt sleeves, those hands which he loved and hated held him in their power. 600 rubles, 8, a corner, 9, vining it back is impossible. Oh, how pleasant it was at home. The nave, double or quits, it can't be. And why is he doing this to me, Rostov pondered. Sometimes he staked a large sum, but Dolokov refused to accept it and fixed the stake himself. Nicholas submitted to him that one moment prayed to God as he had done on the battlefield at the bridge over the ends and then guessed that the card that came first to hand from the crumpled heap under the table would save him, now counted the quarts on his coat and took a card with that number and tried staking the total of his losses on it, then he looked round for eight from the other players paired at the now cold face of Dolokov and tried to read what was passing in his mind. He knows of course what this loss means to me. He can't want my ruin. Wasn't he my friend? Wasn't I fond of him? But it is not his fault. What is he to do if he has such luck? And it is not my fault either, he sought to himself. I have done nothing wrong. Have I killed anyone or insulted or wished harm to anyone? Why such a terrible misfortune? And when did it begin? Such a little while ago I came to this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that casket for mama's name day and then going home. I was so happy, so free, so lighthearted and I did not realize how happy I was. When did that end and when did this new terrible state of things begin? What marked the change? I sat all the time in this same place at this table, chose and placed cards and watched those broad-boned agile hands in the same way. When did it happen and what has happened? I am well and strong and still the same and in the same place. No, it can't be. Surely it will all end in nothing. He was flushed and based in perspiration though the room was not hot. His face was terrible and piteous to see, especially from its helpless efforts to seem calm. The score against him reached a full sum of 43,000. Rostov had just prepared a card by vending the corner of which he meant to double the 3,000 just put down to his score when Dolokov, slamming down the pack of cards, put it aside and began rapidly adding up the total of Rostov's debt, breaking the chalk as he marked the figures in his clear, bold hand. Szupper, it is time for supper and here are the gypsies. Some swarthy men and women were really entering from the cold outside and saying something in their gypsy accents. Nicholas understood that it was all over but he said in an indifferent tone well, won't you go on? I had a splendid card already if it were the fun of the game which interested him most. It is all up, I am lost, sought he. Now bullets through my brain that is all that is left me. And at the same time he said in a cheerful voice come now, just this one more little card. All right, said Dolokov, having finished the addition. All right. 21 rubles, he said, pointing to the figure 21 by which the total exceeded the round sum of 43,000. And taking up a pack he prepared to deal. Rostov submissively unbent the corner of his card and instead of the 6,000 he had intended carefully wrote 21. It's all the same to me, he said. I only want to see whether you will let me win this then or beat it. Dolokov began to deal seriously. Oh, how Rostov detested at that moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists which held him in their power. The 10 fell to him. You owe 43,000 count, said Dolokov watching himself, he rose from the table. One does get tired, sitting so long, he added. Yes, I am tired too, said Rostov. Dolokov cut him short as if to remind him that it was not for him to jest. When am I to receive the money count? Rostov flashing drew Dolokov into the next room. I cannot pay it all immediately. Will you take an IOU, he said. I say, Rostov, said Dolokov clearly smiling and looking Nicholas straight in the eyes. You know the saying, lucky in love, unlucky at cards. Your cousin is in love with you, I know. Oh, it is terrible to feel oneself so in this man's power, so trust of. He knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and mother by the news of this loss. He knew what a relief it would be to escape it all and felt that Dolokov knew that he could save him from all this shame and sorrow but wanted now to play with him as a cat does with a mouse. Your cousin, Dolokov started to say but Nicholas interrupted him. My cousin has nothing to do with this it is not necessary to mention her. He exclaimed fiercely. Then when am I to have it tomorrow replied Rostov and left the room. End of chapter 14 recording by Eva Harnick Pontavedra, Florida. To say tomorrow and keep up a dignified tone was not difficult but to go home alone see his sisters, brother, mother and father confess and ask for money he had no right to after giving his word of honor was terrible. At home they had not yet gone to bed. The young people after returning from the theater had had supper and were grouped around the clavichord. As soon as Nicholas entered he was enfolded in that poetic atmosphere of love which pervaded the Rostov household that winter and now after Dolokov's proposal and Yogle's ball seemed to have grown thicker round Sonya and Natasha as the air does before a thunderstorm. Sonya and Natasha in the light blue dresses they had worn at the theater looking pretty and conscious of it were standing by the clavichord happy and smiling. Vieira was playing chess with Shinshin in the drawing room. The old Countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house.  Some verses called Enchantress which he had composed and to which he was trying to fit music. Enchantress, say to my forsaken liar what magic power is this recalls me still what spark has set my inmost soul on fire what is this bliss that makes my fingers thrill. He was singing in passionate tones gazing with his sparkling black agadise with the frightened and happy Natasha. Splendid, excellent! exclaimed Natasha another verse, she said without noticing Nicholas. Everything still the same with them thought Nicholas glancing into the drawing room where he saw Vieira and his mother with the old lady. Ah, and here's Nicholas! cried Natasha running up to him. His papa at home, he asked. I'm so glad you've come! said Natasha without answering him. We are enjoying ourselves. Vasily Dimitrych is staying a day longer for my sake, did you know? No, papa is not back yet, said Sonja. Nicholas, have you come, come here dear called the old Countess from the drawing room. Nicholas went to her, kissed her hand and sitting down silently at her table began to watch her hands arranging the cards. From the dancing room still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade Natasha to sing.  It's no good making excuses now. It's your turn to sing the bakawala and tweet you. The Countess glanced at her silent son. What is the matter? she asked. Oh, nothing! said he, as if weary of being continually asked the same question. Will papa be back soon? I expect so. Everything's the same with them. They know nothing about it. Where am I to go? thought Nicholas and went again into the dancing room where the clavichord stood. Sonja was sitting at the clavichord playing the prelude to Dennis off's favorite barcarole. Natasha was preparing to sing. Dennis off was looking at her within raptured eyes. Nicholas began pacing up and down the room. Why did they want to make her sing? There's nothing to be happy about, thought he. Sonja struck the first chord of the prelude. My God, I'm a ruined and dishonored man. A bullet through my brain is the only thing left me. Not singing, his thoughts ran on. Go away, but where to? It's one, let them sing. He continued to pace the room, looking gloomily at Dennis off and the girls and avoiding their eyes. Nikolinka, what is the matter? Sonja's eyes fixed on him seemed to ask. She noticed at once that something had happened to him. Nicholas turned away from her. Natasha, too, with her quick instinct, had instantly noticed her brother's condition. But though she noticed it, she was herself in such high spirits at that moment, so far from sorrow, sadness, or self-approach, that she purposely deceived herself as young people often do. No, I am too happy now to spoil my enjoyment by sympathy with anyone's sorrow, she felt, and she said to herself, No, I must be mistaken. He must be feeling happy, just as I am. Now, Sonja, she said, going to the very middle of the room, where she considered the resonance was best. Having lifted her head and let her arms droop lifelessly, as ballet dancers do, Natasha, rising energetically from her heels to her toes, stepped to the middle of the room and stood still. Yes, that's me, she seemed to say, answering the rapt gaze with which Jenesov followed her. And what is she so pleased about? thought Nicholas, looking at his sister. Why isn't she dull and ashamed? Natasha took the first note, her throat swelled, her chest rose, her eyes became serious. At that moment she was oblivious of her surroundings, and from her smiling lips flowed sounds which anyone may produce at the same intervals, hold for the same time, but which leave you cold a thousand times, and the thousand and first time thrill you and make you weep. Natasha, that winter, had for the first time begun to sing seriously, mainly because Jenesov so delighted in her singing. She no longer sang as a child. There was no longer in her singing that comical, childish, painstaking effect that had been in it before. But she did not yet sing well, as all the connoisseurs who heard her said, it is not trained, but it is a beautiful voice that must be trained. Only they generally said this some time after she had finished singing. While that untrained voice in correct breathing in labor transitions was sounding, even the connoisseurs said nothing, but only delighted in it and wished to hear it again. In her voice there was a virginal freshness, an unconsciousness of her own powers, and an as yet untrained velvety softness, which so mingled with her lack of art and singing, that it seemed as if nothing in that voice could be altered without spoiling it. What is this, thought Nicholas, listening to her with widely opened eyes? What has happened to her? How she is singing today? And suddenly the whole world centered for him on anticipation of the next note, the next phrase, and everything in the world was divided into three beats. O mio crudelia feto. One, two, three. One, two, three. One, oh mio crudelia feto. One, two, three.  Now then Natasha, now then dearest, now then darling. How will she take that sea? She's taken it, thank God. Without noticing that he was singing, to strengthen the sea he hung a second, a third below the high note. Oh God, how fine. Did I really take it? How fortunate, he thought. Oh how that chord vibrated, and how moved was something that was finest and rose off soul. And this something was apart from everything else in the world and above everything in the world. What were losses and doll cough and words of honor? All nonsense. One might kill and rob, and yet be happy. End of Chapter 15. War and Peace. Book 4, Chapter 16. Read for LibriVox.org by Leon Meyer. Chapter 16. It was long since Rostov had felt such enjoyment from music as he did that day. But no sooner had Natasha finished her musical role, than reality again presented itself. He got up without saying a word and went downstairs to his own room. A quarter of an hour later the old count came in from his club, cheerful and contented. Nicholas, hearing him drive up, went to meet him. Well, had a good time, said the old count, smiling gaily and proudly at his son. Nicholas tried to say yes, but could not, and nearly burst into sobs. The count was lighting his pipe and did not notice his son's condition. Ah, it can't be avoided, thought Nicholas, for the first and last time. And suddenly, in the most casual tone, which made him feel ashamed of himself, he said, as if merely asking his father to let him have the carriage to drive to town. Papa, I have come on a matter of business. I was nearly forgetting. I need some money. Dear me, said his father, who was in especially good humor, I told you it would not be enough. How much? Very much, said Nicholas, flushing, and with a stupid, careless smile, for which he was long unable to forgive himself. I have lost a little, I mean, a good deal, a great deal. Forty-three thousand. What, to home? Nonsense, cried the count, suddenly reddening with an apoplectic flush a nek and nape, as old people do. I promised to pay tomorrow, said Nicholas. Well, said the old count, spreading out his arms and sinking helplessly on the sofa. It can't be helped, it happens to everyone, said the son, with a bold, free and easy tone, while in his soul he regarded himself as a worthless scoundrel, whose whole life could not atone for his crime. He longed to kiss his father's hands and kneel to beg his forgiveness, but said in a careless and even rude voice that it happens to everyone. The old count cast down his eyes on hearing his son's words and began bustlingly searching for something. Yes, yes, he muttered. It will be difficult, I fear, difficult to raise. Happens to everybody, yes, who has not done it. And with the furtive glance at his son's face the count went out of the room. Nicholas had been prepared for resistance, but had not at all expected this. Papa, papa, he called after him, sobbing, forgive me. And, seizing his father's hand, he pressed it to his lips and burst into tears. While father and son were having their explanation, the mother and daughter were having one not less important. Natasha came running to her mother, quite excited. Mama, mama, he has made me... made what? Made me an offer, mama. Mama, she exclaimed. The countess did not believe her ears. Genesov had proposed to whom? To this chit of a girl, Natasha, who not so long ago was playing with dolls and who was still having lessons. Don't, Natasha, what nonsense, she said, hoping it was a joke. Nonsense, indeed. I'm telling you the fact, said Natasha indignately. I come to ask you what to do, and you call it nonsense. The countess shrugged her shoulders.  That's all. No, he is not a fool, replied Natasha indignately and seriously. Well, then, what do you want? You're all in love nowadays. Well, if you are in love, marry him, said the countess, with a laugh of annoyance. Good luck to you. No, Mama, I'm not in love with him. I suppose I'm not in love with him. Well, then, tell him so. Mama, are you cross? Don't be cross, dear. Is it my fault? No, but what is it, my dear? Do you want me to go and tell him? said the countess, smiling. No, I will do it myself. No, Mama, it's all very well for you, with a responsive smile. You should have seen how he said it. I know he did not mean to say it, but it came out accidentally. Well, all the same, you must refuse him. No, I mustn't. I'm so sorry for him. He's so nice. Well, then, accept his offer. It's high time for you to be married, answered the countess sharply and sarcastically. I don't know how him to say it. And there's nothing for you to say. I shall speak to him myself, said the countess, indignant that they should have dared to treat this little Natasha as grown up. No, not on any account. I will tell him myself, and you'll listen at the door.  He jumped up at the sound of her light step. Natalie, he said, moving with rapid steps toward her. Decide my fate. It is in your hands. Vasily Dimitric, I'm so sorry for you. No, but you are so nice. But it won't do. Not that. But as a friend I shall always love you. Denisov bent over her hand and she heard strange sounds she did not understand.  At this instant they heard the quick rustle of the countess's dress. She came up to them. Vasily Dimitric, I thank you for the honor, she said, with an embarrassed voice, though it sounded severe to Denisov. But my daughter is so young and I thought that as my son's friend you would have addressed yourself first to me. In that case you would not have obliged me to give this refusal. Countess, said Denisov, with downcast eyes and a guilty face. He tried to say more, but faltered. Natasha could not remain calm seeing him in such a plight. Countess, I have done wrong. Denisov went on in an unsteady voice. But believe me, I so adore your daughter and all your family that I would give my life twice over. He looked at the countess and seeing her severe face said, well, goodbye Countess. And kissing her hand he left the room with quick resolute strides without looking at Natasha. Next day saw Denisov off. He did not wish to say another day in Moscow. All Denisov's Moscow friends gave him a farewell entertainment at the gypsies with the result that he had no recollection of how he was put in the sleigh or of the first three stages of his journey. After Denisov's departure, Nicholas spent another fortnight in Moscow without going out of the house waiting for the money his father could not at once raise. And he spent most of his time in the girl's room. Sonja was more tender and devoted to him than ever. He was as if she wanted to show him that his losses were an achievement that made her love him all the more. But Nicholas now considered himself unworthy of her. He filled the girl's albums with verses and music. And having at last sent Dolikov the whole 43,000 rubles and received his receipt he left at the end of November without taking leave of any of his acquaintances to overtake his regiment which was already in Poland. End of Chapter 16 End of War and Peace Book 4 By Leo Tolstoy


Hi everyone, I'm going to talk about SSH, what is SSH, how does work, what we can do, and some useful tools. Before starting, my name is Alessandro, I'm a lead developer at 9-th Digital World Press Agency based in London. On Twitter and GitHub you can find this right after the talk. Kaj je SSH? V vikpediju SSH je Secure Socket Shell, je protovala protokova, kaj je vsega administrativna, in je vsega opravljena vsega komputera. Kaj je to? Vsega. Vsega. Vsega. Vsega. Sveč, da svoje nas početno poslutite vse doga, zelo postavimo načinati načinati načinati. Spravnje, inkripsčne algodirne, ko vidimo, je vse inkripsčne, tukaj se zelo vse včinati načinati načinati načinati. In se je tukaj, načinati načinati na konec, ki je 1, 2, a, 2, b, 3, 2, d. Čau, tudi čau, to je ino odličen, zelo naredajte vršč, zelo naredajte vršč, zelo naredajte vršč, zelo naredajte vršč. Zelo, da se tudi tudi zelo naredajte. To je vse več vršč. Prejveno, ki smo tudi vršč, zelo najbolji, ki se zelo naredajte, zelo naredajte, zelo našli. In druga je asymmetrična. Tak je z dve kripte vzelo. In zelo je izgleda izgleda. Vzelo je, da je izgleda in izgleda je vzelo. Vzelo je vzelo, da je izgleda in izgleda vzelo. To je komplementar. The difference with the symmetric one is that this one is a slower. Public key encryption is a system where we need to generate a key pair. The first one, the first key is called public key and we can share with anyone. The second key is the private key. We must keep secret because anyone that has access to the private key, we will be able to encrypt the message used with the public one. In the example before, the key we used, they are just the public and the private key. This system is used by SSH and HTTPS and there are several encryption asymmetric algorithms. So, how does SSH work? Basically, when we do random command SSH, both our computer and server, they will start to negotiate accession, use the asymmetric algorithm. So, the first part is done with asymmetric. They do agree on which symmetric algorithm to use and they start to generate asymmetric key that only they know. So, the first part is asymmetric. Also, they carry on with symmetric just because it's faster to use. Also, sometimes it can happen the key ring. If you stay connected too long or you reach the maximum data that you can transfer, then we start to generate a new symmetric key. Because the symmetric algorithm is secure as long as you don't use for a long time. There was my reaction when I figured out what was going on. So, how we generate the... Now, we saw how SSH work, let's see how we can create our keys. The command you need to use is SSH key gen. Here, there are two useful parameters. The first one specify the type of asymmetric algorithm to use. In this example is RSA. We can choose between different... For example, DSA, ECDSA, and so on. The point is before choose a different one, make sure that either your client or your server support them. The second parameter is the size of the key we want to generate. This one also depends by the type of asymmetric algorithm we want to use. RSA is still considered as strong, it's still used nowadays. And how I said, different one might be not supported by the server or the client. So, one second. Why we choose 4096? Because some version of the RSA has been broken in the past years. For example, the 5076 in 2003, the 768 in 2009. The 1028 has not been faculated yet, as far as we know. This might happen soon. Now the standard is the 2048. If you want to create a key, use at least 2048. We just choose 4096 just because it's better, it's double size. Now that's the first... Once we run the command, maybe ask, which were to save the key, a which file name. That's up totally to you where to save a which file name. You can go with the default one. You can also generate a different key for different services, or if you want to keep your company and private key separate. It's really up to you, there is no rule here. Another thing we be asked is the protecting SSH key. How many of you already use SSH? And how many use pass freeze with SSH? That's good. As we said, the private key we must keep secret, because anyone that has it will be able to spy on us. When we use a pass freeze, we encrypt our private key using an AS algorithm. If for some reason someone is able to access to the file, they won't be able to use it unless they also know the pass freeze. The problem here is if you lose your forgot pass freeze, you won't be able to use your own key as well. So you need to change anyone. But also you can change the password in the future if you want. Also, another point is that now we protected our private key, means that every time we want to use our private key, we need to insert the password. This might be frustrating sometimes during the day, if we don't remember anything. Luckily, SSH gives us a powerful tool, it's called SSH agent. This tool just holds the private key for us. The private key in memory does not store the private key anywhere, does not write in the disk. The keys are not shared with any client programs. All the operation that requires the private key for either encrypt or decrypt data will be handled by the SSH agent. And the communication happens via socket. Socket is a special file in the Unix system. It's used to allow two different applications to communicate between them. Also, with SSH, you can add, or if you have more than one key, you can add all of them. And SSH will figure out which one to use when you're using SSH. So, to start the agent, that's the command you need to run. And also you need to add your private key. And in this case, you'll be asked to insert password. And that will be the only time until you reboot your system. OK, now let's see how we can use SSH. To use SSH is very easy. You just need SSH, which you try to log in on the server, the domain or the IP address. And once you log it in, you will see something like that. Depends by the server you log in, which shell is configured. So, what we can do with SSH? Basically, we can install application server, we can configure the remote server. But something very useful is manage files and folders. For example, a problem with SFTP is that if you try to delete a huge number of files, it's very slow. You don't have this limit with SSH, because basically you're running a command on the server set way. Also, if you need to upload a lot of files, it can take a long time. So, you can easily zip, you can just upload the zip file. And once you log in on the server, you can unzip. Or you can make a zip of the files on the server and easily download them. And this is very useful. Yeah, you can backup. You can modify files on the server. Sometimes you can also have access to the database. So, you can use MySQL Dump to adapt the database or MySQL to import the database. Also, another useful thing is it can be used to deploy your local code. A lot more. One of the tools is Arcing. Arcing is a fast versatile remote and local falcoping tool. It's very powerful, and you can easily sync whatever your local folder on the server. Some useful option is that you can only sync what has been changed on local, what does not exist on the server, and you can use the same to pull the data from the server. The other problem is not very easy to use, but luckily there are plenty of tutorials on internet. And the one is SCP. This one I usually use when I need to just copy one folder, because this syntax is easier. There is really not too much to remember. Also, we are WordPress developers, and we have this powerful tool called WordMove. This one basically under the hood uses Arcing, but the configuration is just a plain text file, where you configure your local path, the remote path, and you can pull, push, plug in, upload folder and theme, and we use Arcing and SSH for you. Another situation might be useful. If you need to copy data from server A to server B, and assume that we have access to both from our computer, the problem is that server A cannot communicate directly with server B, so we cannot transfer directly the files, so we should log in and server, copy the files, download, upload on server B, and to do the copy. Another option might be create the key on the one server, authorize the keys on the other server, and vice versa. This will allow them to communicate. But luckily SSH gives us another tool. It's called SSH agent forwarding. This basically allows us to use to forward our engine. Our local SSH keys to the server. So, in this situation basically what we need to do is we forward our agent to server A, and now from server A we'll be able to connect to server B, or just use one of the tools I said before, from server A to server B. So suppose we need to do a migration, you can forward the key on one server and use Arcing to migrate WordPress and everything you need on the other one. Also SSH can be used to, you can be changed, so you can forward from server A to server B and so on, so on, so on. And to use it's very easy, it's just you need to append the shape to the SS command, or you can configure the, you can put the configuration in the SSH config. The problem here is for anyone that on the server you forward the key that has sufficient permission, like admin, like root, they may be able to use your agent. So don't just forward all the time, just do if you really need. So, as we said, we can loop infinitely forwarding. So, that's all. Remember that wherever you have SSH access, some client might give you admin access and if you mess up the server, might be a problem. Especially if you don't have physical access to it, you'll have to be able to access any more. And here are some useful resources. The first two are, this show you, you press RSA works. The third one is a bit more in depth with real example about the algorithm. The SSH by Michael is about the server, security implication and if you want to configure your own server. And the last one is the word move, the tool for WordPress. That's all for me. Thanks. Thank you, Alessandro. Does anyone have any questions? Right, we have a microphone at work. So, I'm going to get my step count in. Hi, so obviously you're on Linux. Those sort of commands will work well on macOS as well, because that's Unix-based. Do you have any experience of doing this on Windows? Do you have any experience of doing this on Windows? Do you have any experience of doing this on Windows? No Windows at all. MacOS, yes. I haven't used it for a long time. I mean, if you install open SSH, this is the most popular improvisation, you should be... You get the... Yeah, but you should be able to use SSH without any problem. Or you can use the... There is a UI. You can try that one. I don't see why you should have a problem with Windows anyway. I've just noticed as well, sorry, just because it'll be useful for people that Ubuntu does a... Unless you run a lot of Ubuntu commands. I was just going to mention there's a... Unix, sorry. Yeah, I was just going to mention that there's now a Linux subsystem for Windows 10, I think. I don't think it works for the old ones, but gives you access to those and it is based on Ubuntu, slightly tricky with Putty, but it does work with Putty. If you don't like Putty, there's a terminal called Hyper, much nicer. Any questions from the audience? I mean, we can talk about different terminal things all day long. I'm happy for that, but questions? Is that working? You mentioned different numbers of bits that you could use to include and you said you use 1496. Is there any reason why you wouldn't use that number? If you used a smaller number, is it faster? Is there any kind of... No, it's more a security implication because some... Like the 576 has been broken. The 1024, just because the computational power our machine is getting bigger and bigger and we know how to break RSA. The problem is that it's not doable because if you want to break the 4096, you need years, a lot of years. That's the problem. We know how to do it, but we cannot do that because it's not doable. So the bigger number you use, the less chance that your key can be broken. That's the only reason. What if you're ridiculous then to have 10,000 bits? I think there is a limitation by your client and your server. Not sure about that, but I think there are limits that your machine cannot support higher. But not sure about that. Cheers. I've just been really shy. Can I do a tip that's not a question? Yeah. I was gonna say, actually, I was at a cyber security conference and you know how people say, oh, you shouldn't have a stronger password at just cyber security people or at the conference they were like, there are 50 character passwords, then it speeds up the hackers to try and break the 50 security faster. So they were like, please just do a sensible amount so that we have longer to take. And I think it's the same with the 4.0. So just a tip, you briefly mentioned the config file in the SSH folder, which is really useful if you've got a lot of different connections using different key files and you don't have to specify which key file. So in the config file you can say for this server use this key file, for this server use this key file. I find that really useful because if you get too many and you let it try and work out which one to use, you can run out of attempts and get locked out of your own server. Been there, done that, not good. Thanks. Anyone else had SSH woes? I've got a heart right now. Oh, we've got one up there. It's not a question, it's more of a similar thing, yeah. So if you're trying to connect via SSH and it's not some of the use to that command at the beginning was like SSH user at host, specifying the port number can be useful because you might need to <IP_ADDRESS> and otherwise you might not be able to get in so which can be frustrating for me. Been there, done that. Got a badge. Feel like it's like a badge collection day. Does anyone have any favourite SSH things they like to do? I did RM minus F on my machine. That was not fun. And then it slashed because I thought it meant that folder and I realised actually I think Apple has a permission doesn't grant it.  Sorry, one tip, if you are logging in run your commands using screen so if your connection drops the command will still run otherwise it will drop with your collection. Sandro, do you have any favourite things that you like to do with SSH and terminal? What past self used to know? I use a lot because I connect to the remote server or company. That's why I know enough. Also I use no standard port so I need to use the dash P parameter. But also I had to migrate website a few months ago from two different servers. Luckily I had SSH access so I did the migration between one I did the lacking for hours and we tried to use a plugin and it was estimated 16 hours. I did the same in just four hours and eventually just because we did fast migration to test if it was working so we had to do real migration. Real migration just using our sync I just uploaded the file that were changed on the file so I didn't had to do everything from scratch to collect ten minutes. So it can be very useful for that. Do you have any scripts? Sorry, since none of you have any questions.  No, at any point put your hand up if you do. I will come up. What about if you do you use anything like scripts or WPCLI when you SSH hate change? No, I use the word move. I use WPCLI but just to create I don't know too much about. Does anyone here know what WPCLI is or doesn't know what WPCLI is? Does anyone need an explanation? So yeah. So WPCLI is WordPress on the command line. WPCLI, CLI if you Google that into Google search that into any search engine of your choice. It will come up with some very useful things and does a really good search replace on databases which is one of my favourite things and makes it very easy to do it and you can also dry run which is dash dash dry dash run because we love our dashes. Last couple of questions. Thank you, Alessandro. Thanks. Thank you.


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That's she's one of the Huckabee's That's it That's the she related to the evangelical Mike Huckabee. I don't think she's a different Huckabee.  Yeah To one that says that I will always be loyal to Donald Trump and Donald Trump is innocent of anything you're accusing of being and Yeah, that's it the Senate Republicans Need 51 votes to pass their bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act because no Democrats are expected to vote Repeal Obamacare they spent nearly all of Thursday After the GOP bills release Railing against it on the Senate floor Republicans can't lose more than two of Their own members for the bill The GOP has a narrow 52 To 48 majority in the Senate But vice president Mike Pence can be brought in to great Unfortunately, yes, the vice president is That's slim up the jar margin Means a difficult job for Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell My heart leads ugly old turtle face Mitch McConnell Who must try to convince the various factions of his party to come together and back legislation that was written in secrets and It's supposed to be voted on just one week after its release. Yeah, and take away Healthcare for like 22 million Americans. Yeah Here are nine senators USA today is watching You see whether they break with their party senators ran Paul Mike Lee Ted Cruz Ron Johnson We're out the gate Just a couple of hours after the bill's release With a joint statement that said they weren't ready to vote For the bill as it is We are open to negotiation and obtaining more information It does not appear this draft has written Will accomplish the most important problem That we may do Americans to reveal a lot of care and lower their health care costs Yeah, well, it is not Obama's affordable care act that raises premiums. It is the Republican Party that wants to raise your premiums and And the health insurance CEOs, of course Paul told reporters that the goal of Releasing the statement as a block Was to get the attention of Republican leadership Now that is known that there are not 50 votes for this I hope That those who have written the bill will negotiate with us Paul said it was his hope That the four senators would keep their votes together as they'd lost but he acknowledged that The only agreement the group had made so far was to issue Thursday's joint state Senators well and Shelling more Compete them are concerned the GOP plan would undermine efforts to curb the opioid Yeah, heroin made it come back Ohio and West Virginia along with 30 other jurisdictions Expanded Medicaid in Romans under the Affordable Care Act That expansion has dramatically increased access to addiction treatment for low-income Childless adults the Senate bill would cut Medicaid funding from Planned Carnot for one year and prevent clients from using federal money for services at the group's clinics and Well, they want they want all low-income women who get pregnant So No matter how they got pregnant There were rape And why now they basically don't want the poor to have any help at all Generally speak They regard Sex education sex first-gen trial and stuff like that has Sex Getting people Yeah, you're riling them up. Yes, you know, I Went off on this woman on Facebook on the natural news Facebook page Fantastic nutritional and alternative natural health But the owner is very right wing Unfortunately, but you can't have them all I Went off on this woman Who made us the comment like the article was about was based on a question? should we Food Gardening agriculture courses for teaching children how to grow their own food in school as part of the curriculum and Of course, my answer was absolutely Grammar school high school and college absolutely this woman says It's not up to the government or the school system to teach Children how to grow food. It is personal. It is up to the parents to teach children how to grow food.  What did the what what what is so personal about teaching? Agriculture on a small scale to children that has to be done by parents, right? That's parents that are not on farms yet They live in a city they live in a city or suburbia. I mean I mean if you're talking about sex education and religion Yes Yes But but not but not growing your own food And listen What's incredible is How many right wing people that are not filthy rich?   I mean There goes the whole American dream of owning your own home can't even collect rainwater So forget about the American dream. It's meaningless So Yeah Has nothing it is not a private Personal touchy subject where parents have to do the job. It's how to freakin garden Herbs and vegetables for God's sakes and plant fruit trees That's all I have to say on that Susan Collins and Lisa Mark Kowski have defended the woman's health organization And said it should not lose government funding. I Do not like the provision that eliminates federal funding for Planned Parenthood Collins told reporters It makes no sense to single out Planned Parenthood from all the Medicaid providers and say that it can't be a Medicaid provider Nevada senator Dean Haller is Considered the most vulnerable Republican senator up for reelection in 2018 He's the only senator running for reelection in a state won by Hilary Clinton in the 2016 election and the state also expanded Medicaid under the affordable care app Multibly put heller in a tough Position gotta get every last drop of Lord Chesterfield L by in I Believe it's time for the country To stop the madness and embrace the fact that Donald Trump is The 45th president of the United States You got you stuck with him for four years I Can't disagree there as far as embracing it Accepting it. Yes embracing it In a positive light no Many people myself include Were not thrilled with president Obama But I don't believe there was ever so much resistance when he was in office. Well, he was obstructed Constantly by the Republicans and Congress and Senate but There were certain aspects of president of Barack Obama that I was not happy about it. Yes He was a corporatist No, he was not a progressive But then neither were the Clintons It is not only the so-called summer of resistance campaign That is troubles. We also had liberal members of Congress stating Liberal members of Congress that they are pleased where these protesters where we're the liberal members of Congress liberal See how people loosely Use political terms today and they want to see more This thing's a very bad message I submit that it is inconsistent with the same With some of the values that make America great The recent incidents Where Republican lawmakers were attacked while practicing for a charity game on a baseball field and Became the target of gunshots with several taking hits and One in critical condition after multiple surgical procedures should be an eye opener enough With the resistance and political spin games Americans need to focus on growing and strengthening the economy while keeping our country safe People should show President Trump the same respect That has been given to past individuals serving in the position for the greater good of the country Really? Is that so? Yeah Yeah For dinner, I'm gonna do one of two things before as the last Saturday before my my departure to the West Coast I'm either gonna have a ribeye steak Or I'm gonna order Chinese takeout Maybe maybe a shrimp in garlic sauce jumbo shrimp in garlic sauce I don't know. I know I'm having lasagna tomorrow Anyway, I digress I apologize Change of pace tomato paste Hi Then in an extra marital relationship or 10 years extra terrestrial extra My husband knows So do my close friends So is he they have an open marriage They're one of those people. I love this man dearly, but neither of us wanted to be full time My brother-in-law likes to hunt deer and he loves his venison dearly I have children at home. I don't want to disrupt anything We meet once or twice a week lovely Lovely he touches base with me several times a day and his attentive Where he is attentive where my husband never walks There was something lacking in their marriage My husband is not bitter about the relationship anymore. That means he feels guilty about His neglect maybe However, my two closest friends continually say well Why lie to yourself? You know You just say you don't want things full time. So you don't drive him away, which isn't true You know it could be also true and it's this way with a lot of women She don't want to give up the gravy train. Maybe her husband brings home Pretty penny Say at least We travel we have long discussions and I can open up to him. Oh, I'm sure you do open up to him Without any repercussions Bouncing ideas and thoughts off of each other and you're bouncing without judgment or criticism you're bouncing off of him. All right But I really don't want this to be full time.  Yeah, I'm thinking of you Well, of course if you're lying in bed with an erection, you're thinking of her But if they're communicating Look, she's a married woman.  She feels horrible. She should feel horrible of what she's doing I have reached the point where I don't want to have these discussions With my friends anymore. So I avoid it How can I get across to them? That I am fine I am happy And I am content And you are Fucked up and been ahead And of course Who is this Abby or Amy Dickinson? This is Abby. I'm sure Abby is going to be gentle with this woman You say you are happy at content And your husband is okay with the arrangement Don't you think it's time to stop Trying to sell the concept of an open marriage to your women friends By now it should be cleared They don't understand they probably never will most people don't let it lie Yeah, I agree It's between her and her husband Whether or not this marriage will continue As far as their friends go Let it lie. Why is she trying to To convert them into understanding the open marriage Who invented the open marriage anyway? What's your perverts back in ancient times? Only the hippies Well, actually, you know what? Let's go further back than the hippies of the 1960s. Let's go back to ancient times when Wealthy noblemen had their concubines the concubine The fancy way of saying the the gommata the the other woman The concubine they were uh domestic help in more ways than one Yeah, because uh there was at that time the At that time there was that schizophrenic split between The mandana and the whore You know the gommata was the whore right where I watched the wife the wife The wife the wife and the mandana was on The wife was that's how europeans view marriage like the uh Which was told to me by european man that um They um They feel that they're above the sensuality and sex They're they have this uh So-called pure image.  They are they're like a queen.  Oh The mother and a married woman She has to set this example kind of like the the actual Performing artist named madonna assumes she had a kid She cleaned up her act Which is what women tend to do That had uh, uh a risque uh reputation as soon as they become parents they clean up their act Well now i'm hiring her the image they're very image conscious Uh her and her black Boyfriend or husband or whatever he you know he is Hispanic I thought she was uh, well her her her boom Madonna Well her daughter, right? Her name is lorda. She's half lorda. She's half ispanic What's his name? I don't know I don't know but I know he's he's he's latin Yeah, but he's the the split is because he's black What?  Yeah. Yeah the Kardashians Kardashians tend to date black men In this case basketball players You know and so on and so forth. Well, what i'm saying is Madonna uh, let's aside from The part the private lives of hollywood Individuals and that's pretty wild Oh, I heard George Clooney was living in europe what is occurring the muslim Life or muslim girlfriend and they fled They flee they're fleeing europe to come back to the united states because of something that's going on there You know, uh, something that George Clooney is screaming To be anti muslim. I only thought Johnny Depp was living there in france, you know, but um, no They uh, the original point I was making was that these women that made Their fortune fame and fortune based on being very risque cleaned up cleaned up their act as soon as they had a child Which goes back to the Madonna syndrome If you want to call it that Of the married woman who becomes a mother and versus the The gumada the other woman That the the husband is cheating on with uh, and then The point the original point I was making is that the hippies did not invent the open marriage It was the ancient uh, muckety mucks That had to concubines But it was accepted the wives Accepted it as part of their society as part of their culture Kings they they probably did not like it king Solomon had 700 wives But they were not the wives the women were second-class citizens. Yeah, maybe even third class They had no say in the matter Of, you know, saying, you know, not liking it or telling the man to cease and desist They were not in that position Wow time sure flies doesn't it does What do you want to do cuts cease and desist the show? Okay, well, that's it My pre a vacation progressive discussion show is complete and uh God willing the next time you See us I think it will be the 607th A video of progressive discussions I think I think that's right I'm not very good at math, but I think that is true So listen Be safe have a an enjoyable week Um Take your antioxidants and your uncle oxidants and your optimal nutritional supplements Uh, because you're gonna need it because don't ever get sick with trump care Unless you're rich Upper middle class and you can afford your own health insurance If you if you're not don't ever get sick um I you know, I'm reading wonderful articles on nutrition supplementation all the time whether it be uh Coconut oil and Alzheimer's disease, uh Um, I read a fantastic article about turmeric Um and maca I was reading an article about maca Um great articles Um now as far as uh the vegan protein goes Yes, they did name uh, I think quinoa And chia seed were pretty high In the quality of protein, but they did also name soybeans. I think it has like 28 grams Per serving, but be very careful Only the fermented soy is safe to consume Not soy in itself There's a reason why Asian cultures consume fermented soybean products Think about it. There's a reason It's really not good to consume the Plain soybean despite the fact that it's very high in protein but um Just take the basic nutritional program that uh Reverend Dr. William J. Eisenman and myself advocate Which is mostly the primary antioxidants So that that'll be a topic of another show We also have knowledge in homeopathic medicine too We talk about herbs. Oh, uh, I told uh professor, um Dave Colter our, um craft beer expert He needs a pacemaker. Oh He needs a pacemaker I told him about Hawthorne, a berry extract standardized Hawthorne berry extract He didn't know what it what it was for Hot tonic. He was not familiar with it Hot tonic It's a heart tonic card. Well, if you're that far gone, I don't know Well, I'm saying uh Late great dr. Robert C. Atkins called it a godsend for cardio patients So I just wanted to make that statement I already told him what it was for And we we wish him well because he is our uh, well, he's the best craft beer Enthusiast and expert that I know Professor Dave Colter As seen on the web you can be seen his videos can be seen on youtube by the way So we'll see you Bye-bye


If you want to improve your touch in this video, I'm going to show you how to improve your ball control for soccer. You want to improve your ball control. You want some soccer drills that are going to give you a nice touch. In this video, I'm going to go from beginner to more advanced. Number one, what do we all do? Juggling. So, this is where everyone should start. Like I said in one of my most popular videos, how to juggle a soccer ball, five to five hundred. I said, if you cannot get to five hundred, or at least to a hundred, get somewhere where you feel like, I don't really have to drop the ball and I'm just tired of counting. But everyone in my opinion, young player, your first goal, once you really figure out how to juggle a soccer ball, get to five hundred. After that, you don't have to count anymore. You can do fancier skills, focus on different touches. I will send the better in one day soccer blueprint to anyone who comments hashtag soccer on this video. Let's come back to juggling. So, nice relaxed upper body. I'm a light on my toes if I have to react. The ball is about under knee height. Look at the backspin on the ball. Backspin on the ball. It's not going away from me. It's not going left-right. It's staying right in front of me. Left-right, left-right, nice rhythm. That's the goal. That's the objective. But if you're not there yet, what you need to start with is just getting good backspin on the ball. Okay, so maybe this is where you start. If you're at this level right now, that's totally fine. But you need to improve. Kick-catch, kick-catch, especially on your weaker foot. And as I always say, I don't like the word. I don't like the term the phrase weak foot. You have two strong feet. One just needs a little more practice. Okay, so especially on your weaker foot, let's fix it right now. If you don't know about me, I used to be a huge underachiever. But through obsessive self-improvement, I found my success. I learned to college scholarship, played for my national foot-salt team, a YouTube channel with over 100 million views. I've helped players worldwide and I'd love to help you improve faster and achieve more. It's probably too weak, as the phrase goes. But you're not flexing it strong enough. You're not making your foot hard enough. If you're practicing on your weaker foot and it keeps dying into the ground, or the contact just doesn't feel the same. On here, it's nice and sharp, it's nice and firm. Here, it feels like it's dying into the ground every time. Tighten that up, tighten that technique up. Flex your foot a little stronger. If anything, it's better for you to have a touch that's way too heavy than a touch that isn't heavy enough. So start there. But start with the kick and catch. Backspin on the ball. If you can do about 10 of those with one touch, just go two touch. Two touch. Okay, then you go right, left. Because I want you to get you into that rhythm of right, left, right, left, right, left. But very basic, that is where I would start. Okay? Next, here a little more advanced. Go into the single leg stuff for the more advanced techniques. So I just call these mini touches. Put it on both feet. Good for your balance as well. It's just a nice, delicate touch that I want to help. Single foot, but a little higher. Putting the foot down every time, getting a nice backspin on both feet. Yes, you can do the thighs. Okay, cracks in that have a better touch than that. But one thing I really like to promote is this directional juggling. So maybe you just start with walking. Because in the match, you're never juggling on the spot. You don't get the ball in the corner of the field and do this. But you might take some touches where you have to move the ball. You have to manipulate it in different ways. If you want to improve faster and achieve more this season, use the soccer success planner. It's 100% free. Players all around the world have already used it to improve. You can download it right now. There's a link in the description below. So I would start walking. And then you can add a bit of pace to running with the ball. Directional ball control. The next ball control exercise that I would encourage you to do is a foot stall. I think this is a beautiful exercise for training your weak foot. Because the problem with your weak foot, or your foot that's not good enough yet, is usually you don't have the strength. You don't know how to flex it properly. So practicing stalls, especially on your weak foot, get it in there, really flex it, turn the toes up, squeeze it in there so that ball doesn't leave. That's going to train your foot really well. But that's a good technique. And it's another good ball control drill that I like to do. Then I would move into air control. So maybe it's just popping the ball in the air, bringing it down with the toe.  But I would challenge you to always use your feet whenever possible, even if you're struggling in the beginning. Okay, so you can do with the toe, inside of the foot, getting your body over the ball. So it's the timing. Right as that ball hits the ground, boom, then you're on top of it. It's not bounce, and then try to get down on it. Read the ball, anticipate the bounce, get over it, touch, and my body control is on top of it. Outside of the foot, we always practice with both feet, don't we? But outside of the foot, you could do Croy. The next ball control exercise would be an air control. Up out of the air, keep it alive with different techniques. So you can do with laces, inside. Let me tighten up, let me tighten up that left, inside. Go with that. All right, outside of the foot, lovely. And obviously, you don't just have to use feet. You need to be able to control the ball with all parts of the body. One of the best tools you can use to improve your ball control is a wall. So start with open touch, whenever you're comfortable. Play a pass against the wall, receive, and go again. When that gets easy, play two touch. So one to control, one to pass. Control, pass. Be on your toes, so if you have a bad touch, or a soft touch, you can get there quickly. Finally, you can play one touch, which is gonna help you with your ball control, but also your passing, also your ball striking. So focus on being light on your toes, but making good contact. Practicing just as inside of the foot is a great place to start, and then you can go different techniques. Removing up divisions to making national teams, players who use the Online Soccer Academy get results. Access elite level coaching and training, become a complete player, make a difference on the field, and get noticed when you play. Limited spots available, apply today, start improving tomorrow. Link in the description below.


and who we are today as a country, as a university. Congratulations Reggie Jackson, you are CUBE alumni. From Silicon Valley, it's theCUBE, covering Google Cloud Next 17. Hi and welcome back to theCUBE's coverage of Google Next 2017. We're at the heart of Silicon Valley in our great studio in Palo Alto. We've got a team of reporters and analysts up in San Francisco with a 10,000 people attending really Google's enterprise show. It's got cloud, it's got G Suite, it's got a little bit of the devices. I'm happy to welcome back to the program some we've had on many times, Nelson Nahum, the CEO of Zadara Storage, really a company that's in there understanding this cloud transition from kind of how the enterprise gets in, multi-cloud and all those pieces. Nelson, welcome back to the program. Thank you, Stu, how are you? All right, it's good. So you and I, last time we talked, was at another cloud show, a little bigger cloud show, one that's been going on for a number of years, but let's start talking about Google. What's, you know, we think a lot of progress over the last couple of years. I mean, Diane Greene definitely has put her stamp on this company. A ton of people that have been brought in, many of them then, you know, those of us in the industry, we know these people, we've seen them grow these businesses, understand how to talk to the enterprise. So, you know, what's your take on the show so far and how Google's doing as a company and we'll get into how they are as a partner soon too. So, this is our first Google cloud show for us, for Zadara. We've been in, I think, since 2011 in Amazon Rainfemme.  This is going very well. We have a lot of conversations. We saw that there are many, many customers looking to have multi-cloud strategy that actually work very well for us because we can provide storage that can be accessible at the same time concurrently from Amazon and from Google and Azure and others. So, yeah, that's a good trend. I think most of the people we found they are either already in Amazon and looking to expand to Google or some on-premise to Google and so on. Can you help unpack that multi-cloud bit a bit for us? So, you know, maybe some of our audience might not know.  So, it's, you know, I've got kind of my storage being Zadara and there actually is physical storage there and then that plugs in to the cloud resources. Of course, we know AWS is Direct Connect. Amazon has, you know, their equivalent and Google has the same. So, can you have, you know, it's a single solution that does it just get fibers to all three of them? Is there software that takes care of it? How does that work? Yeah, great question. So, we sit in Equinex data centers and with our cloud and from there, in many cases, we use Equinex Cloud Exchange that is basically like a networking inside Equinex and can be connected to many different potential targets. So, currently we are cross-connected to Amazon, Google and Azure. So, a customer of us can create a storage and mount with NFS or CIFS or block and can mount the storage, especially if it is file storage that you can share data, can mount the same storage to virtual machines in Google and virtual machines in Amazon and at the same time, they see the same files. And what's the use case? Why are they doing that? Is that for redundancy or certain features? You know, there was a certain cloud outage a week ago, your customers riding through that based on what they're doing? Yeah, so they measure cloud outage that Amazon has last week. S3 costs many people to rethink, I guess. Fortunately for us, all our customers that sit in our storage, it wasn't impacted because they sit in our storage and we don't use Amazon infrastructure, so they could continue. No S3 for your customers, right? Right, so we are doing the block and the file storage for our customers. I think that what is important here is not the outage, but what is important is people start recognizing that you need to have the data in two locations in order to be safe. Yeah, it's, you know, people that have done architecture and understand infrastructure is, you know, I need to be thoughtful as to how I architect things. Either I need to make sure I have the availability zones and the services and, you know, can take care of that, or, you know, perhaps even multi-cloud to be able to. So multi-cloud, you're completely independent and the one to charge. So we have already many customers using us and Amazon and again, because our storage can be cross connected to multiple cloud, it's very easy to access from virtual machines in any cloud at the same time. So people that are using that is either for a kind of disaster tolerant solutions or more robust solution, as well in some cases for migration. I mean, each cloud provider has the places or the attributes that has, you can run applications better in that particular cloud. So for example, Microsoft Azure, anything that is related to Windows, they are the best. And Oracle Cloud, if you run Oracle, probably is the best way to start. So I will say that the multi-cloud is not only the disaster recovery type, but the people want to use the best cloud for the particular application they have and they have multiple applications, so use multiple clouds. I'm curious, do you get visibility as to, you know, why are your customers, you know, choosing Google? Are there, do you have customers that are, you know, using Google that aren't using the other public clouds? Is it primarily your customers who are using it as a secondary source? Any data you've got or anecdotes? So we have two types of customers, the ones that are multi-cloud and the others that are going from on-premise to the cloud. As you know, we have an on-premise business and we make it very easy from on-premise to move to the cloud. We just launched in here in Google Cloud service called Cloud Hydration, that basically we allow a customer to move the entire infrastructure from on-premise to the cloud with zero or minimal downtime. So we will ship all the storage to the on-premise facilities. The customer will pay per use. We will start doing replication to the cloud or in some cases, if it is a multiple petabyte, we will ship the equipment to the cloud and in the meantime we can do replication and at the end we can switch and failover and continue, the customer can continue from the cloud. Cloud Hydration. Cloud Hydration. Is that service and does that support all the services? Yeah, so today we are doing this for many customers and the good use case is when a customer want to move a lot of data to the cloud but they don't want to have downtime because the Amazon Snowball and all these boxes, you need to copy the data and then ship and then restore. So it's not a truck that takes three months on your location? This is what we do, we ship double amount of equipment to the customer, start doing the copy and then half of it we ship to the cloud, we connect to the cloud and resume the connection and all the time the customer continue to run. Okay, and at the last moment they do the failover. So it's minimum downtime, even if you need to ship one petabyte of storage. I'm curious, we've been going through such tremendous changes in the storage industry, do you guys sell, is it the storage person, who do you sell to and where is their mind at when they think about storage today? Yeah, we sell storage, so the storage person is the one. As I said, a lot of people, if they're buying Google or if even they're put in AWS services, the storage person, you know, has a lot of time kind of shoved out of the mix. It shoved out of the mix until they have a problem that they need to bring back the storage. Wait, are you saying that could be a problem? So what happened is that, and this is, I think how the cloud started, cloud started to say, ah, storage is just storage. Until you start running real applications and you need the performance and you need the reliability and so on. So this is why you need the storage guy to architect the solution. And this is where we come in. We actually act as a really good outsourcing team of storage experts to the customer. And we help them with this transition from on-premise to the cloud and in many cases, back and forth, the customer want to have a leg in the cloud on-premise and move data easily back and forth. So Google made a good push at the show talking about building the ecosystem, how they want to work with partners. They had companies like PWCs all over the place, SAP, very strong partnership. How have you found it to work with Google? Any things you'd say to them as to how they can accelerate and move things faster So far, our experience with Google was extremely good. The people are very dynamic. They have the Google dynamism that is very good. And for us, it was really good to have a close relationship with the Google product managers and sales people and so on. So we enjoy a really good relationship with Google Cloud. All right, well, Nelson, I want to give you the final word. Things you've learned this week, any cool customer conversation you've had, give us final takeaway. Yeah, so I guess my summary is that here in Google Cloud we have a big advantage because we have a NAS NFS SIFS with Active Directory Integration and all the snapshots and capabilities that enterprise need. And you know that Google doesn't have EFS type of functionality and our functionality is actually higher than EFS. So this is what we are talking to customers here in Google. Cloud, anybody that needs NFS and SIFS and NAS and multi-cloud and on-premise to the cloud, it's, they talk to us and we are ready to go. All right, well, Nelson, I really appreciate you coming to the studio here to share what's happening at the Google event. Be sure to check out wikibond.com for all of our cloud research and of course, siliconangle.tv to see all the shows we're going to be at as well as the replays from this lot of other cloud infrastructure, IoT and big data shows. We'll be back with lots more coverage here, day two of two, covering Google Cloud from the SiliconANGLE Media Studio in Palo Alto. You're watching theCUBE.