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Fats Waller, "Handful of Keys" (Proper, 2004; tracks recorded 1922-43)
A wonderfully selected chronological taste of Fats Waller from his first piano solo up through the glorious ensemble swing of 1935. Many recent U.S. attempts at a Waller sampler seem haphazard by comparison. Ever since the deletion of his entire Bluebird catalog, the European labels have been a great source of consolation for disgruntled admirers of this man's music. One irritating shortcoming of most American reissues has been an apparent reluctance to include more than a thimbleful of Waller's exciting material from the 1920s. Nearly half of the sides included here date from before 1930. This allows the listener to follow the growth of the young Thomas Waller and to arrive at a greater appreciation of his impact upon the world. Here is Fats cutting a hot piano solo at the age of 19, daring to play such stuff on the pipe organ a few years later, and incorporating both instruments into hot ensembles, resulting in some of the toughest records of the entire decade. (All that's missing is the knuckles 'n' know-how piano solo "Blue Black Bottom" of 1927, but you can't have everything.) Waller was the first jazz organist, and the inclusion of two organ solos makes this disc all the more valuable, even if the liner notes imply that he didn't record with the organ between the years 1929 and 1942. (On the contrary, Waller's 1935 recording of "Night Wind" is among the loveliest of his organ performances, and he trundled the instrument out on a regular basis throughout his career, particularly during the year 1939.) Only three of the 1929 piano solos are included, but they illustrate perfectly why all of Waller's piano solos need to be made available and kept in circulation for the rest of time, possibly protected by an act of Congress or a United Nations resolution. For these are masterpieces worth contemplating over and over again. For the purposes of this CD, three will do, but there are plenty more piano solos where these came from, and one can never have enough. The inclusion of a piano duet with Benny Payne comes as a surprise, as previous compilers have often seemed to resent the presence of a second pianist, but indeed there is something exciting about hearing Cab Calloway's piano man interacting with Fats. "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby" from 1930 (like "Red Hot Dan" of 1927) is an early glimpse of Fats the Vocalist. Even more than his piano, it was Thomas Waller's voice that made him into a nationally famous recording artist by the middle of the 1930s. Nine examples of Fats Waller & His Rhythm (recorded in 1934 and 1935) round off the album beautifully. Nearly every side they made in these first couple of years as a working unit had this fresh and cheeky quality. As time passed, some of the charm would occasionally fade as producers kept handing Fats ridiculously lousy material. Waller in 1939 or 1940 could sometimes sound just a little bit tired of Tin Pan Alley rejects. "A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid," on the other hand, is the perfect example of this artist's undiluted joie de vivre. What you have here then is Waller at his very best. Hopefully it will inspire some folks to go out and pursue the rest of his recordings, even if they have to purchase them from the French or the Dutch or the Swedes.
Fats Waller: Piano and Vocals
Herman Autrey: Trumpet
Gene Sedric: Clarinet and Tenor Saxophone
Al Casey: Guitar
Cedric Wallace: Bass
Slick Jones: Drums
Recording:
Recorded live at NBC Studios and The Yacht Club, New York, New York in 1938.
Disc 1:
1 Muscle Shoals Blues 3:11
2 Birmingham Blues 2:56
3 Henderson Stomp 2:54
4 Rusty Pail 3:02
5 Blue Black Bottom 2:54
6 Fats Waller Stomp 3:22
7 Savannah Blues 2:56
8 Geechee 3:11
9 Thou Swell 3:02
10 Handful of Keys 2:50
11 The Minor Drag 2:42
12 Harlem Fuss 3:27
13 Numb Fumblin' 2:54
14 Gladyse 2:54
15 Valentine Stomp 3:25
16 Smashing Thirds 3:07
17 Lookin' Good But Feelin' Bad 2:34
18 Won't You Get Off It Please? 3:02
19 I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby 3:09
20 A Porter's Love Song to a Chambermaid 3:24
21 I Wish I Were Twins 2:43
22 Do Me a Favor 3:13
23 Then I'll Be Tired of You 3:15
24 Don't Let It Bother You 2:56
25 Have a Little Dream on Me 2:50
1 Serenade for a Wealthy Widow 2:44
2 How Can You Face Me? 2:51
3 Sweetie Pie 3:10
4 Believe It, Beloved 2:42
5 Dream Man 3:00
6 Breakin' the Ice 3:17
7 African Ripples 3:10
8 Alligator Crawl 2:44
9 Viper's Drag 3:00
10 I'm a Hundred Percent for You 3:05
11 Night Wind 3:16
12 I Believe in Miracles 2:52
13 I Ain't Got Nobody 2:49
14 Clothes Line Ballet 2:31
15 Lulu's Back in Town 2:41
16 I'm Going to Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter 3:36
17 You're the Cutest One 3:26
18 Dinah 3:08
19 My Very Good Friend the Milkman 3:33
20 Twelfth Street Rag 2:50
21 There'll Be Some Changes Made 3:09
22 Sweet Sue 2:55
23 Truckin' 3:20
24 Sugar Blues 2:51
25 Rhythm and Romance 3:16
1 I'm on a See-Saw 3:05
2 When Somebody Thinks You're Wonderful 3:39
3 I've Got My Fingers Crossed 2:40
4 A Little Bit Independent 2:57
5 Fat and Greasy 3:10
6 I Got Rhythm 3:11
7 All My Life 2:50
8 Christopher Columbus 2:55
9 It's a Sin to Tell a Lie 2:55
10 Black Raspberry Jam 2:39
11 Fractious Fingering 2:42
12 Paswonky 2:34
13 Until the Real Thing Comes Along 3:25
14 The Curse of an Aching Heart 2:30
15 S'posin 2:53
16 I'm Sorry I Made You Cry 2:48
17 Nero 2:43
18 Spring Cleaning 2:28
19 Honeysuckle Rose 4:35
20 Smarty 2:41
21 Blue Turning Grey Over You 4:27
22 Keepin' Out of Mischief Now 3:09
23 The Joint Is Jumping 2:48
24 Everyday's a Holiday 3:20
25 Two Sleepy People 3:06
1 Yacht Club Swing 3:03
2 The Spider and the Fly 3:07
3 A Good Man Is Hard to Find 2:58
4 Hold Tight 2:17
5 'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That Cha Do It) 2:52
6 London Suite: 17:15
7 Squeeze Me 3:09
8 Your Feet's Too Big 3:08
9 Darktown Strutters' Ball 2:47
10 I Can't Give You Anything But Love 2:58
11 Fats Waller's Original E Flat Blues 3:16
12 Pantin' in the Panther Room 3:04
13 Carolina Shout 2:19
14 Chant of the Groove 3:05
15 Buck Jumpin' 2:38
16 Your Socks Don't Match 3:06
17 The Jitterbug Waltz 3:23
18 Swing Out to Victory 2:35
19 Ain't Misbehavin' 3:59
20 Waller Jive/Hallelujah 2:44


Xonikk (aka Mighil Mohan), born September 29, 1990. a music enthusiast from Calicut,India. Even though he was inspired by Metal artists during childhood, he was a 'good listener' of all kinds of music. In 2011, he started experimenting electronica by creating Psychedelic Trance mashups of his favorite artists. Later he started a project called 'BASE32' in 2011 end for experimenting music in his style. BASE32 project took him to the next level where he began to write his own music rather than mashups and remixing. He made a number of local and international collaborations with underground artists throughout 2012. In late 2012, he joined the net label 'Stone Fish Records', a group of underground electronic music artists gathered with the aim to learn, enhance and share their musical skills. In early 2013, he left the project BASE32 and started his new (and existing) project Xonikk. Xonikk was entirely a different spin for him, which was a dedicated "drum and bass"/"bass music" project. He blended various genres from old school jungle to Dubstep throughout 2013. In the same year he contributed the track "Happy Me, Happy You" to Dance4Syria compilation (a music project to help the Syrian Civil War Victims) which was released Worldwide on all major online music distribution platforms. The past psychedelic music influences began to invade his music production style and thus he began producing Psy- Dnb/Psy-Break tracks, by fusing Psy/goa elements to Jump- Up/DNB drum patterns which blend perfectly creating a unique and distinct powerful sound.


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Q: Finding periods of a plot I've constructed a figure containing 3 different plots representing a position of 3 different masses over some time range. I want to find the period of each. I'm not familiar with the FFT function that I've come across while searching for ways to find the period online. How do I go about this?
Below is the kernel for the plot and the figure; I won't include the code used to build all these variables as it would be quite extensive.
I know I code just start making vertical lines and then estimate by eye, but I'd much rather do it through coding than with that method.
#using the times in days
T9 = 500
dt9 = 0.5
num9 = T9/dt9
times9 = np.linspace(0, T9, num9)
xpos_q9_m1_AU_new = xpos_q9_m1_AU[:-1]
xpos_q9_m2_AU_new = xpos_q9_m2_AU[:-1]
xpos_q9_m3_AU_new = xpos_q9_m3_AU[:-1]
plt.plot(times9, xpos_q9_m1_AU_new)
plt.plot(times9, xpos_q9_m2_AU_new)
plt.plot(times9, xpos_q9_m3_AU_new)
plt.xlabel('Time (days)')
plt.ylabel('X Positions (AU)')
plt.title('X Position of the Kepler 16 System over Time')
plt.legend(['Body 1', 'Body 2', 'Body 3'])
plt.savefig('q9_plot.png');

A: What you're looking for is a Fourier Transform. This function determines what frequencies make up a wave. Scipy has a module that does this for you nicely:
from scipy.fft import fft
# Number of sample points
N = 600
# sample spacing
T = 1.0 / 800.0
x = np.linspace(0.0, N * T, N)
y = np.sin(50.0 * 2.0 * np.pi * x)
yf = fft(y)
xf = np.linspace(0.0, 1.0 / (2.0 * T), N // 2)
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot(xf, 2.0 / N * np.abs(yf[0:N // 2]))
plt.grid()
plt.show()

This gives you a graph showing the predicted frequency.

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Early Leaving: A Novel
by Judy Goldman
Some memories we ignore. Others, little half-stories, we tell again and again, trotting them out for friends -- and even people we barely know -- like scrubbed children. We love what they say about us, the rosy image they project, exactly what we hoped and imagined our lives would be: bringing the baby home from the hospital, making up silly jingles about the shops and people we passed, turning everything into song. The baby's first lopsided smiles, definitely not gas, real smiles. Steadying him, that day in the park, as he took his first steps, the rolling Charlie Chaplin gait, the sun playing around us in the grass like a goldfish. The time we were at the lake and skipped rocks across a clean, calm surface. Later, when he dove in, water quickly erasing the path he'd taken.
See how the events of a child's life can appear no more complicated than photographs in silver frames?
Early's sentencing is October 6, tomorrow. Our lawyer, Donald Sanders, worked out a plea to second-degree murder with the district attorney, and Early agreed to take it. Which means that tomorrow morning, our son will plead guilty.
Donald says we have to prepare ourselves for the possibility that Early could get the maximum sentence. Life, with eligibility of parole.
It's also possible, Donald says, that Early could get a lesser sentence, fifty years, forty, maybe as low as fifteen years. The sentence is up to the discretion of the court.
Prepare ourselves for a life sentence? Life is what is given to a child by his mother. Not a judge.
If he gets forty or fifty years, I probably won't be around when he's released. Fifteen years? He'll be thirty-three when he's set free. That's almost as many years in prison as he's spent with us.
Just for tonight, I'm going to stop being terrified. I'll sink into the past, let memories fold over me, haphazard and slow. Not just the ones I tried to believe in all those years. The ones I tried to forget, as well. If the truth makes my reflection stare back at me, I'll tell myself, Get an eyeful. I realize that if I go deep, I might find that I should have seen the end coming. Which raises the question, Was there a point where I could've come between my son and the things that lay in wait for him? Should I have paid closer attention? Stepped in, instead of holding back? Or is it all just a matter of choices and chance, the way every one of us drifts close to danger but only some get sucked in? The question I don't want to ask myself: Was I the cause?
At five, Early's favorite bedtime story was the one I made up about the night he was born. I'd lie slant across the foot of his bed and say that on May 7, 1969, mothers and fathers from all over Charlotte rushed to the hospital to get a baby. I'd lightly squeeze his toes through the blanket, clear my throat to build suspense, and keep going. We heard there were dozens of newborns available for pickup in the nursery, I'd say. But instead of each set of parents choosing a baby in a levelheaded, orderly fashion, there was a huge ruckus. Mothers started shoving mothers, fathers punching fathers -- everybody was red-faced and yelling -- because we all wanted the same baby. And you know who that baby was (my exact words, Early's favorite part).
When the battles were finally over, I'd tell him, we'd beaten out the Dunhams, who begrudgingly settled for the baby one bassinet over, a howler named Chip. The Jacksons had reluctantly taken Eddie and gone home. The Todds sulked off carrying Steven, but not yet resigned to the idea of Steven. (I would keep going until I'd named all his friends.) Yes, your dad and I were clearly the winners, I'd say. We paraded through the halls of that hospital, out the front door, across the parking lot to our car, holding our sleeping baby aloft, like a trophy, for everyone to see and admire.
Over and over, Early would ask me to tell the story. The second or third time, I'd escalate the drama a notch -- wrestling one of the mothers to the floor, her shoes flying off like in a cartoon, arms and legs in the air like a bug, her cries: "Okay, okay, take Early! He's yours!" My sweet son would sit straight up in bed and wiggle with excitement. The idea of his birth causing such commotion! Imagine how much that little baby was wanted! His sheet and blanket would rustle, his head bob. That full head of fair hair he got from me.
Then I'd tuck him in, making sure the covers were snug under his arms and along both of his sides. The pin-oak leaves out the window would be moving slightly, causing the moon to crack into pieces and fall over his shoulders like silver confetti.
Finally, Peter would take over. He'd pat Early on the arm -- Peter believed it made a boy "soft" for his father to kiss him -- and say in his no-foolishness-about-it way, "Now go to sleep." My husband, setting limits.
Peter's a formal person, self-contained and private. A patent attorney with the oldest, most respected law firm in Charlotte. Board of trustees at the Y. Head of a million committees. Franklin G. Caldwell Award for "outstanding service to the community." All his life, a star. Handsome, with that straight hair falling naturally into place, giving the impression it's just been combed. Fit, five-ten, strong and compact, his muscular arms veiny. Nothing wasted, no extraneous anything. He looks like one of those men who are already seated in first class when you're passing through the plane to coach, the way they're so settled in, comfortable, even though you know they boarded just minutes before. They appear entitled, reading their Wall Street Journals, sipping their hot coffee.
by by Judy Goldman
Publisher: William Morrow
Judy Goldman

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On 3 May 2013, the Supreme Court of Victoria handed down its decision in Lockwood v PSP Investments Pty Ltd [2013] VSC 10.
This decision considers when an amendment to a proposed plan of subdivision by a vendor gives a purchaser the right to rescind a contract of sale.
In January 2010, Mr Lockwood entered into eight contracts with PSP Investments Pty Ltd ("PSP Investments") for the sale of land off-the-plan. Four of the contracts related to the purchase of apartments, and four related to car parks to be constructed on a development known as 'Ecosquare.'
In early 2012, the City of Port Phillip required the car park lots to be deleted from the Plan of Subdivision ("the Plan") and converted into common property. Lot 800 on the Plan was also deleted and merged into common property. Mr Lockwood was not informed of these amendments until after the Plan had been registered.
Mr Lockwood commenced proceedings for a declaration under section 9AC(2) of the Sale of Land Act 1962 ("the Act") that the four contracts for the purchase of the apartment lots had been validly rescinded, and for the return of the deposit monies paid in respect of the contracts. Mr Lockwood contended that the apartment contracts had been materially affected by the amendments to the Plan.
The issue before the Supreme Court was whether the amendments to the Plan materially affected the lot, and therefore entitled the purchaser to rescind the apartment contracts under section 9AC(2) of the Act.
The Victorian Supreme Court Decision
Justice Judd in the Supreme Court referred to the decision of Justice Pagone in Besser v Alma Homes Pty Ltd1, and stated that there is no requirement in section 9AC(2) of the Act that the material effect be deleterious or adversely affect the lot or the rights of the purchaser.
The Court stated that the material effect required under section 9AC(1) is a change in the subject matter of the contract of sale. Here, Justice Judd stated that the deletion of the car parking lots and lot 800 from the Plan had the effect of enlarging the common property relating to each apartment lot, and therefore changed the corresponding rights and obligations of the owners of each apartment.
Justice Judd also indicated that when considering the impact of the amendment, the car park and apartment contracts should be considered together. He found that both parties would have understood that the car parks were purchased for use with the apartment lots and that the car park lots enhanced the value to the purchaser of each apartment. Justice Judd found that the deletion of the car park lots and the inability of the vendor to complete those contracts, materially (and adversely) affected each apartment lot. The Court declared that the apartment contracts had been validly rescinded pursuant to section 9AC(2) of the Act. The Court ordered the return of the deposit monies paid in respect of these contracts under section 9AF(1)(b) of the Act.
Impact of the Decision
When considering whether an amendment to a plan of subdivision has materially affected a lot, vendors should be aware that:
The effect need not be detrimental to the purchaser, any material affect may give rise to the right to rescind a contract of sale
Consideration must be given to the subject matter of the contract, and whether the amendment has changed the context in which the purchaser entered into the contract
Contracts between the purchaser and vendor that appear to be related should be considered together when determining the impact of the amendment on a lot.
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Rigord of Rigordus (circa 1150 - circa 1209) was een Frans monnik, geneesheer en kroniekschrijver.

Hij was vermoedelijk afkomstig uit de Languedoc en werd geestelijke in Argenteuil en dan in Saint-Denis. Hier schreef hij een korte kroniek van de koningen van Frankrijk (regis Francorum chronographus), die voor de bezoekers van Saint-Denis als gids zou dienen.

Hij kreeg de opdracht een biografie van de Franse koning Filips II te schrijven. De Gesta Philippi Augusti is een hoofdbron voor het leven van deze koning, waarover Rigord ons van zijn kroning in 1179 tot het jaar 1206 informeerde. Vanuit de opvatting dat een waardevolle koning een "vergroter van het rijk" was, "verleende" hij hem de keizerlijke titel "Augustus", die ook de  bijnaam van de koning  werd: Filips Augustus. Ook omgaf hij de koning met een aura van wonderdadigheid, door drie vermeende wonderen aan hem toe te schrijven. Dit werd na de dood van de koning door zijn aanhangers als argument voor een heiligverklaring naar voren geschoven, maar dat werd door de Romeinse Curie afgewezen wegens de tijdelijke excommunicatie van de koning op grond van diens jarenlange bigamie.

Rigords werk werd in 1214 door Willem de Bretoen verdergezet, die de biografie aanvulde voor de periode van 1206 tot 1220. Het werk werd overgenomen in de Grandes Chroniques de France en werd in 1825 door Guizot naar het Frans vertaald (in Collection des mémoires relatifs à l'histoire de France). H. F. Delaborde gaf een editie van zijn werken uit in 1882/1895 in Oeuvres de Rigord et de Guillaume le Breton.

Noot

Edities
 Gesta Philippi Augusti, in  (ed.), Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France, XVII, Parijs, 1878², pp. 4–62 (Rigords werk, Latijn).
 Gesta Philippi Augusti, in  (ed.), Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France, XVII, Parijs, 1878², pp.  62–116 (voortzetting door Willem de Bretoen, Latijn).

Referenties

 , art. Rigord, in Lexikon des Mittelalters VII (1995), coll. 849 f.
 , Walter of Châtillon, Rigord of Saint Denis, and an alleged quotation from Juvenal, in Classical folia 24 (1970), pp. 89–95.
 , Notice sur la vie et les ouvrages de Rigord, moine de Saint-Denis, in Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Chartes 45 (1884), pp. 585-614.
 , art. Rigord, in Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche VIII (1999), coll. 1188–1189.
 , A la recherche du ban perdu. Le trésor et les dépouilles de Waïfre, duc d'Aquitaine († 768), d'après Adémar de Chabannes, Rigord et quelques autres, in Cahiers de civilisation médiévale 42 (1999), pp. 343-382.
 , Die Frankenchronik des Rigord von Saint-Denis. Geschichtsschreibung in Frankreich um 1200, Heidelberg, 2012.
 , Faut-il en rire? Le médecin Rigord, historien de Philippe Auguste, in Revue historique 305 (2003), pp. 243-265.

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Q: show con_name command returns SP2-0158: unknown SHOW option "_name" I'm using SQL*PLUS with Oracle g11 express edition.
SQL> show con_name;
concat "." (hex 2e)
SP2-0158: unknown SHOW option "_name"

Why does this error happen?

A: That's not a valid option in 11g. It shows your current container, and multitenant databases weren't introduced until 12c.
The CON_ID and CON_NAME options were added in Oracle 12c.
Edit: if you want to display the database SID / Instance name, you have a couple options:
prompt &_CONNECT_IDENTIFIER.

select instance_name from v$instance;

See also this similar question.


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Police Car Chase At Gun Point
When the policemen turn on their siren, another passenger flees. Before we had time to get out and film, the policemen
hidden by the gray car has already taken out his weapon. The red vehicle takes off. The chase begins after. After a minute long chase… -He was running in the woods, outbound. The vehicle is found empty, the passengers have all vanished. He scaled the fence. I got a real good look. He had no gun on him. And then he just tore himself up. No weapon has been found. No officer has been threatened, yet all of them pulled out their firearms,. -Go after them. -I am going to get the car and get them. We went around one corner and I didn't see him go around the corner. I didn't see him keep running straight. So at that point, I don't know if he's
waiting around the corner with a gun or not. So just pretty much just assume he's waiting around the corner with a gun. You never know. Better safe than sorry. I don't know that someone else isn't going to pull a gun out. So, unfortunately, around around here, we end up pulling our guns a lot. How do you say? Better safe than sorry. The chase ended with no one injured. But this is not always the case. None of the suspects were armed, but the police chased them with guns out. Apparently, the American police can draw their guns almost at will. But what are the rules, they are taught to follow? They want to get it ingrained in them, that it's muscle memory, that
they're able to do it without even without even having to think. And it just becomes like a natural type of thing for you to do. So it's like a reflex? Exactly. They're able to respond like that. Basically, we would rather take the chance of us going home and shooting someone
rather than being placed in a casket because we had to second guess. Which is that the police are not afraid of being
sentenced because they are rarely convicted or even charged. The law allows them to shoot as soon as they feel threatened,
as soon as a police officer is afraid he can shoot. But when does fear begin? And the feeling of being threatened is
subjective criteria can legitimize many abuses. In the U.S. there are no official statistics on
the number of people killed by the police. The police are not forced to provide this data. So associations compile reports listing the victims case by case. The figures are frightening.
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The Most Lethal Special Forces Units From Around the World
Special forces- the elite of a nation's military,
tasked with missions too delicate or difficult for large, conventional forces to undertake. These elite warriors operate in small unit
sizes, and are specialized in a variety of tasks to include recon deep behind enemy lines,
hostage rescue, counter-terrorism, and direct-action missions such as sabotage or assassinations. But of all the world's elite forces, which
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past performance, overall capabilities, and training plus equipment. Some units listed here such as Germany's GS9
are world renowned as top counter-terrorism operatives, but we're looking for the total
package, the best warfighters any nation on earth can field who can tackle a variety of
missions, and come out on top each time. 10 – Sayeret Matkal – Israel Israel is a nation born from conflict and
surrounded by enemies, thus it's no surprise that some of the most elite warfighters in
the world would come from this tiny, but formidable nation. Winning stunning victory after stunning victory
against superior forces across the second half of the 20th century, Israeli soldiers
quickly developed a reputation for being amongst the world's best, and few IDF service members
can match the skills of General Staff Reconnaissance Unit 269, otherwise known as Sayeret Matkal
or to their enemies: The Unit. Founded in 1957, The Unit was originally tasked
with reconnaissance and gathering intelligence behind enemy lines, a vital need for a nation
surrounded on all but one side by hostile neighbors. Given their expertise operating behind enemy
lines, The Unit soon was tasked with the proactive elimination of hostile enemy leaders before
they could stir up trouble against Israel. In a practice still considered controversial
to this day, operatives of Sayeret Matkal penetrated into Lebanon and other nations
and assassinated or kidnapped top Palestinian terror leaders. The Unit has also undertaken several successful
hostage rescues, but one black mark on their elite record comes from a hostage rescue mission
undertaken in an Israeli school in 1974, resulting in the deaths of twenty civilians. Capable of blending into any population and
masters of reconnaissance, assassinations, and snatch-and-grabs, The Unit firmly clenches
the top 10 spot amongst the world's most elite special forces. 9 – MARCOS – India Formerly known as the Marine Commando Force,
India's MARCOS are amongst the world's most elite amphibious units. Born out of a need for a maritime special
operations force, India's MARCOS have their roots in India's war against Pakistan in 1971,
when a critical need for combat divers that could support amphibious landings was discovered
by India's military forces. After the war, several infantry units were
converted to amphibious units similar to America's Marines, and in 1987 India's fist MARCOS soldiers
were sent to train with American SEALs and British SAS. Capable of operating in any terrain, MARCOS
nevertheless are specialized in maritime operations, a critical need for a nation whose primary
regional adversary- Pakistan- holds a large coast line with vital military targets to
eliminate in the case of war. Starting in the 2000s though MARCOS began
to undertake many counterterrorism operations, and their enemies began to call them the 'bearded
army' for their bearded, distinctly non-military disguises as they hid amongst the civilian
population. With close ties to American, British, and
Russian special forces, MARCOS operatives are amongst the best in the world, and enjoy
the benefit of training under three distinctly different SOF units from three different nations,
adopting the best that each has to offer. Unfortunately their relative lack of global
experience and narrow operational focus versus some of the other units on this list though
sees them rest at the number nine spot in our top ten of the world's best. 8 – Joint Task Force 2 – Canada Canada, America's fashionable top hat and
a land full of people always ready to respond with a polite word- but for all that politeness
and civility, Canada operates one of the world's best counter-terrorism forces in the world. Known as Joint Task Force 2, or JTF2, these
elite soldiers have their roots in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Special Emergency
Response Team. Given the greater recruiting pool within the
Canadian armed forces though, a request by Deputy Minster of Defense Robert Fowler to
have a new counter-terrorism unit established within the military was approved, and thus
the JTF2 was born. Since its inception, the JTF2 has operated
alongside its American allies, and on its own, all across the world. During the Bosnia-Herzegovina war in the 90s,
JTF2 operatives hunted for snipers targeting UN troops in the infamous sniper alley, where
dozens of civilians and UN troops met their end at the hands of snipers. In Haiti, JTF2 supported the security forces
of President Rene Preval by providing training for the Haitan military and police in their
conflict against revolutionary forces. They also assisted local SWAT teams and even
lead operations against weapon smugglers in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. In Afghanistan JTF2 worked alongside American
special forces in neutralizing targets across the country, in missions so secret that even
the Canadian prime minister was unaware of the details. Hands down one of the world's best counter-terrorism
forces, JTF2's narrow focus nonetheless ultimately limits their position to number 8 on this
list, though it doesn't make them any less fearsome a fighting force. 7 – New Zealand Special Air Service – New
Zealand With their roots in the legendary Long Range
Desert Group in World War II, New Zealand's Special Air Service may be small in size,
but their reputation is legendary. Back in World War II their soldiers roamed
the deserts of North Africa, carrying out recon and daring raids against German and
Italian bases and airfields, often attacking in the middle of the night and disappearing
back into the sands by sun-up. After the war, New Zealand formed their own
version of the British Special Air Service, and assisted British efforts in counter-insurgency
across their former colonies and commonwealths in asia. During the Vietnam war, NZSAS operatives were
working behind enemy lines, pinning down North Vietnamese and Vietcong lines of communication
and supply routes. With a wide range of disciplines, NZSAS troopers
are capable of carrying out any mission from reconnaissance behind enemy lines, to counter-terrorism,
and even asymmetrical warfare operations. They are however famously capable jungle warriors,
with skills honed in the inhospitable and dangerous jungles of south east asia. 6 – Special Air Service Regiment – Australia Training closely with their New Zealand neighbors,
Australia's very own Special Air Service Regiment has earned a fearsome reputation for their
incredible flexibility and lethality both. The SASR was formed in 1957 and was, alongside
with New Zealand's SAS, modeled after the British SAS, even sharing their motto, "Who
Dares Wins". These elite troopers have seen combat everywhere
from Borneo to Somalia where they fought alongside American troops, as well as Iraq and Afghanistan. The SASR specializes in long-range, on-the-ground
recon, working in small groups and operating deep behind enemy lines, but also maintains
specialized commando units capable of carrying out large-scale raids against fortified targets. While operating as recon elements, SASR commandos
are experts in infiltrating enemy territory, and are trained to remain unseen, operating
invisibly behind enemy lines where they can call in devastating air strikes against targets
of opportunity and time-sensitive targets. Infiltration and camouflage specialists, the
SASR firmly clenches the number 6 spot as one of the world's deadliest fighting forces. 5 – Delta Force- USA There are few units in the world more feared,
and more notorious, than America's Delta Force. Secretive warriors, Delta Force operatives
are unique amongst global special forces, as they very often operate in plain clothes
within the heart of hostile foreign cities. These highly skilled soldiers are amongst
the best in the US Army, and have a wide repertoire of skills to back their reputation. When General Norman Schwarzkopf needed bodyguards
in the middle of a war zone during the first Gulf War, it was Delta Force that met that
need. When one of Al-Qaeda's top recruiting and
propaganda leaders was marked for elimination, it was Delta Force operatives who snatched
him in a now-legendary operation that plucked the man from a busy street in mere seconds. Best known for operating amongst hostile populations,
Delta Force training includes everything from land navigation at night to spycraft techniques,
taught by CIA operatives. While a broad-spectrum capable force, Delta
Force's specialized operational scope nonetheless limits their spot on this list to number 5. 4 – Alpha Group- Russia There is no more notorious, and feared, counter-terrorism
unit in the world than Russia's Alpha Group. A famously aggressive unit of special forces
operatives, Alpha Group has its origins in the old Soviet KGB as a response to the 1972
Munich massacre. With terrorism on the rise globally, the Soviet
Union saw a pressing need for an elite counter-terrorism unit along the lines of West Germany's GSG
9. Primarily a counter-terrorism task force,
Alpha Group has nonetheless been tasked with a variety of very high-profile missions outside
of the scope of their counter-terrorism training. Just prior to the Soviet Union's invasion
of Afghanistan, Alpha Group operatives infiltrated President Hafizullah Amin's palace and killed
him along with his mistress and young son- as well as many other Afghani nationals. Famous for disregarding civilian casualties,
Alpha Group operatives have a brutal efficiency, but their inability to operate with subtlety
has often caused unnecessary casualties and massive political fallout for Russia and the
former Soviet Union, ultimately limiting Alpha Group to the number 4 spot. 3 – Shayetet 13 – Israel Managing a feat only shared by one other nation
on this list, Israel manages to land not one, but two elite units in our top 10 of the world's
most deadly special forces outfits. Shayetet 13 commandos are often compared to
American SEALs, and are without a doubt the deadliest fighting force in the Middle East. With a wide range of disciplines, there's
no mission that Shayetet 13 can't handle, and they have undertaken everything from hostage
rescues to target elimination and even boarding actions against hostile vessels. Their most famous feat however is likely the
hunting down and elimination of Black September terrorist leaders who had orchestrated and
carried out the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes. Some of the world's deadliest hunter-killers,
Shayetet 13 commandos are also fully capable of carrying out traditional direct-action
missions during wartime, and in the Yom Kippur war, its commandos infiltrated Egyptian ports
and sunk five Egyptian navy vessels while causing heavy damage to another. Known as the "people of Silence", Shayetet
13 is Israel's answer for any mission too dangerous, or too difficult for anyone else
to undertake. 2 – SAS – United Kingdom The grandfathers of modern special operations
forces, Britain's SAS laid the groundwork for what special forces should be, and became
a model that every other nation on earth followed. Originally created in 1941, Britain's SAS
conducted reconnaissance and raids in Nazi-held territory, and was given one simple task:
raise hell for Jerry any way you can. And hell they indeed raised. The exploits of Britain's SAS is by now the
stuff of legend, and today they remain one of the most formidable special operations
forces in the world, with operational expertise across the globe. Their incredible heritage and long list of
accomplishments should rightly place them at the number one spot on our list, and in
truth they are ultimately nearly neck and neck with our top special forces unit in the
world. Capable of operations across the spectrum
of modern war, SAS troopers are as equally skilled at counter-terrorism operations as
they are in direct-action missions. While the British military steadily shrinks
in size and capabilities, the SAS nonetheless remains stalwart protectors of Britain's interests,
and deadly allies to her friends. 1 – Navy SEALs – USA Britain's SAS has a historical legacy well
known and feared by their enemies, but in the modern age no military force is more feared
than America's Navy SEALs. Their training is legendarily brutal, and
they suffer the most casualties during training of any American unit, and sport a washout
rate of 98%. For those that make it through initial training,
they must still survive a year or more of training before being declared combat-ready
to join an existing SEAL team. Operating from the sea, air, and land, there
is no terrain on earth SEALs can't operate, and thrive in, and their clandestine missions
are so secretive, that little is actually known about their service record. What is known is that they pack cutting edge
technology unmatched by any adversary, and unlike many other special operations units
on this list, have no single specialty but rather are masters of the wide spectrum of
special operations missions. Capable of inserting into enemy territory
from submarines, or jumping behind enemy lines from the edge of space, SEALs have been both
guardian angels to those in need, and harbingers of wrath against those who threaten the United
States or its allies. With constant ongoing operations supporting
the interests of the USA, or those of her allies, SEALs are indisputably the most experienced
special operations force in the world today, and the constant high operational tempo is
enough to keep Navy SEAL skills sharp and earn them the number one spot on our list. Do you agree or disagree with our list? Who do you really think deserves the top spot? Let us know in the comments! And as always if you enjoyed this video don't
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Motivational Talk – Overcoming Great Odds – Mary Dague (US Army Vet & Purple Heart Recipient)
Dague: So, my name is Mary. And I should start off, I want to tell you all I'm not being paid to share my story with you. This isn't something I do for money, I do it because it seems to help people. It's not for the attention, to be honest, I'm shaking, I'm so terrified right now. (Laughs) There's a lot of people here. (Crowd Laughter) Audience Member: They don't pay us either (laughter)
Dague: Um, but I do this because I have watched way too many people just give up and they give up on their dreams, their aspirations, on their own lives and I'm sick of it. I can help in a very small way so I'm doing what I can. And I hope that you'll leave here going, "Man, if that armless girl can do it, I got this." (Crowd laughs) Um, it's better for me to tell a story. I learn better that way. But before I tell you how I, my little process for adapting, overcoming, 'cause sometimes, you know, bad things happen, little bad things, big bad things, utterly crazy things will happen in your life. Um, and if you're one of those people who don't adapt too well it's gonna be quite a trial for you. And I mean that, how many of you have heard the phrase, "just deal with it." Like it's that easy (laughs) So first, and this is the hardest part for me personally, not for everyone, first you have to not only identify the problem, you have to accept and acknowledge that it's actually a problem. Um, and, what I mean by that, yeah, this is pretty obvious, but the first couple of weeks I was like, "no, it's not that bad. I'm fine, it's just my arms." (Laughing) But after that, it requires you swallowing your pride and everyone in the military that's pretty tough. You learn so often in the military, and my experience too, bottle it all up. You don't want to burden the people you love and you care about with your problems so you keep it inside. That is a terrible plan. Um, you have to acknowledge it and often time you have to ask for help and that's ok, seriously, it's ok to ask for help. Um, and then, after that you have come up with a purpose. What do you want to do? Why do you want to do it? You'll see it all the time with high school kids, like, "I want to be a veterinarian. "Like, why do you want to do that? Oh, I love animals. "You know you're going to have to put that little puppy down right. "I don't want to do it. "You have to come up with a purpose why you want to help animals. You probably will end up going into conservation instead. A lot of people think that when they have a goal that there is only one way to get there. That is not the case. (laughs) So you find your purpose, you can create a plan. To create the plan, you have to make sure it's not such a rigid plan that you can't move a little, you can't adapt, you have to be able to roll with the punches. And this stuff is completely applicable to little things, big life changes, um life long goals or just what you are gonna major in. So, uh, after you formulate your plan, comes most peoples hardest part and that is sticking with it. Not quitting. Don't give up. Don't give up on yourself, don't think you can't do it 'cause you hit an obstacle. Just keep trying and when you get to that point where you're like, I can't do this anymore, just ask yourself, "why, why can't you do it?" Find that problem, identify that problem and then address that. You don't have to quit you don't have to give up on what you want to do. So now that I've told you the basics of dealing with it, I'm going to tell you how I got here. 'Cause this doesn't, you don't learn how to do this just one day when something goes wrong.
This is not the first, or worst, thing to ever happened to me. Um, mine started when I was a little girl. And I know know you're like, "what up Mary, this has nothing to do with your arms." No, it really doesn't. But so many people have a childhood trauma that they tend to fall back on, they tend to make it an excuse. It's the reason they can't advance. When I was a little girl, I was probably six or seven, we had a guy in our trailer park, I grew up very poor. And this guy was an utter dirt bag. He molested little kids. My sister and I were two of those little kids, and I didn't know it was wrong at the time, you know, I was a little girl, I didn't understand but when he threatened to kill my sister was when I realized it was bad. So, I told my parents who told the cops who started an investigation found out he'd done it to every little kid in the trailer court and I was the only one that ever told. So he tried to kill me. He ran me over with his truck. Tried to back over me but a neighbor intervened saved my life. You know, it went to trial. He went away for a very long time. But I still had to deal with that. You know, as a little kid, it's kinda easier, you bounce. But I still had to go through therapy. I went through a phase where I lied about absolutely everything because I thought if people knew anything about me they'd have a weapon they could use against me.
And that's not healthy either. But these are situations people, all people have, not just military. These things come up and you have to learn to deal with it. So my family and I moved to a smaller town in Montana and it's, when I say small, I graduated with twenty kids. Like, it's itty bitty. But I still had to have the same thing you have in high school, a high school sweetheart, I'm like, "I'm gonna get engaged and get married." It was really dumb. (laughter) So, I waited, I'm like, "I'll wait a year," and then I lost my scholarship and then I'm sitting there, you know, with what I'd planned for life, going down the drain, thinking, "I've gotta give up on my goals, to do this one stupid thing," and I almost did it and then one day, I'm chopping vegetables with my soon-to-be mother in-law, and so nonchalant, she goes, "Don't worry, Mary, I'm going to train you to be the perfect housewife. It's like, "no, no." (laughs) I joined the army two weeks later. I'm not even kidding. (audience laughing) Uh, you know, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. But the army gave me options I could choose and I 'd have some time to think about it and I could still make a difference while I was mulling it over. So they offered me Explosive Ordinance Disposal and for those of you who don't know, uh, it's the military's version of the bomb squad. And if I had known back then how awesome that job is I would've done it when I was eighteen. I would have left before I graduated. But it was, to this day, and I say that fully knowing what happens the best job ever. But I went through my year of training and I actually got run over again in training. A taxi like parked on my leg and I tried to rip it out and tore my achilles tendon. I'm telling you, I'm the luckiest person on the planet (laughing) So I did my training and I got stationed here in Fort Lewis, the 707th. And it was only a 13 man company and I was the first female and I've had a lot of people like oh that's such an accomplishment, no it's just a fact. I wasn't the first female EOD, just here. It's not awesome. But when I got to my unit I completely assimilated. Like I became one of the guys. They called me Steve after two weeks. I was just one of their brothers. And I'm cool with that. Like I loved it because I trained at one standard, you know, I never made excuses, they didn't do stuff for me. There was none of that crazy chivalry. We were all brothers. And it kept us in check. Everything was a competition. Like to be better than each other. And in our job you need that because your lives literally depend on each other. So within, we spent a year together before the deployment and within that year, I don't know, like I re-learned the meaning of family. Like you have your blood family but in the military or in EOD was just, it's such a deeper brotherhood. So we deployed and a lot of people think oh you go to Iraq and that's really scary and I mean yeah a little sometimes. Not really. But I'm to a point where people shoot at you and your like why? But war in EOD, I can't speak to the other MOS's but In EOD that's the best part of our job. Like that's where we absolutely shine. Like we get to make such a big difference over there. I was only their for 11 months and 4 days before I got blown up and the rest of my unit was there for 15 months. In that 11 months and 4 days, just my team alone ran over 167 IED's. That's not including caches, ordinance, other stuff you probably don't want to hear about. But it was, you know, that's the point where you look back and you go I made a difference, you know. And in EOD, bombs don't discriminate. They don't care who they kill, men, women, children, the elderly, innocence, combatants, it doesn't matter. They just destroy. And our job was to stop that. And you know like a little bit of you see's yourself as this superhero in your head like the cape billowing like yeah I'm awesome. (laughter) But it was amazing. And then 11 months and 4 days into it we got a call from the Iraqi army. They'd found an IED and they were just driving around with it in their truck for some reason and we were like hey take it to this disposal area. And they were like yeah sure. No, they brought it to a school, as you do. (laughter) So we get out there and we're like legally, yeah we could blow it up here, morally, there are kids freaking everywhere. Like no were not going to do that. So we take it apart and I throw it up on my shoulder and I bring back to the truck and I laid it down. When I had thrown it up on my shoulder my weapon was slung and it kind of like flew around me so it's choking me a little bit on my sling. So I laid the device into the truck and then I relinquished positive control of the device and I fixed my weapon and I looked up and it was rocking. So I grabbed it and it detonated. And anything could have happened in the last few seconds before it detonated. I could have scooted it, I could have pushed it, I could have dropped it, I could have just pissed it off, it's and explosive. What we think happened after talking to the forensics team was that it was on a lip and before I actually got the chance to catch it, just because of the way my injuries were, it looked like I was still in the process, it fell off the lip and that's what caused it to detonate. We didn't find out til later that it had a very, very sensitive explosive in it. So it, when it detonated it threw me about 15 feet into a humvee. It had sympathetically detonated a bag of explosives that was next to it, which actually saved my life. Because when it detonated it threw me before the frag could really shred me. I mean, it got my face a bit, it perforated my eardrums, I lost my arms, but it gave my team time to get to me, put turnicates on before I could bleed out. Which only takes about 7 seconds. So they did that. My team leader ran up, asked me if I was ok. And I was like hey are you ok? Where's Mick? Cause Mick was in the truck, he was married, had a kid, freaked me out. I thought he was dead. He was like no, no, no he's right here. Turns out he's the one that flew out after me and saved my life. But after that, once they told me every body was ok, like, I was good, I was calm. I just laid there and talked to people, trying not to go into shock. Like, they covered my eyes so I couldn't see everything but as soon as they took my flack vest off, like, I knew. I didn't admit it, I was like, no, just rung my bell. I was just really close, I'm fine. And then you know the flack vest comes off and I was like, Oh my god. No. So I stayed awake all through the med evac. They got me to the cache. And the med-evac, I mean anybody whose served knows, it got there in 14 minutes. That's unheard of. Almost before I was ready to get loaded. So they get me to the cache, the doctor tells me, ok we've got you, your going to be ok. And I'm like alright. And I go to sleep. And I woke up in Germany and the very first thing I did was like lifted my arm and I was like, oh that ones gone. Agh, it's even shorter, crap. Like really? So you know, boo, sad, got back to center my now ex-husband was able to fly back with me. He's that half face in the chair there. That's me on the med-evac actually, I was pretty. (Laughter) So I got home, and I started doing my therapy and it took ten days for it to break me. For me to actually realize that this was a real problem. And I'll tell you how it broke me and it's, this is like the most embarrassing story of my life. I was 23 years old, hooked up to all sorts of machines and IV's and god knows how many drugs and I finally had to go to the bathroom and then I realized, how am I going to do this. And I broke. I cried for a half an hour just sitting on my little porcelain throne of shame. Like, really? I had to ask my husband to help me. And talk about swallowing your pride. You know, don't get me wrong, everyone thinks you know, when I'm 80, 90 I'll be in an old folks home like come wipe my ass. (laughter) You know? At 23? Well like. So my, basically, my entire life changed in the time it takes for a bomb to detonate. And my husband became my caretaker which was such a switch in a dynamic that he eventually cheated on my and I don't even blame him. We had such a nurse/ patient dynamic like it wasn't only I that was effected by this. You know, this kind of thing effects everyone around you for a long time. I became a burden on the people I cared about the most. And that was probably the hardest part to get past. I had to admit that I was a problem and that I had to learn to overcome it. So I did my therapy and I started to notice that I was helping the other soldiers. And you know there are guys with missing legs, burned, you know, forearm down. You know, they got issues with their hands and they're like oh how do you do it? And we start comparing notes and like at first I was like oh I'm not that bad off. You know, I walk in and there's a guy, not kidding, Matt, he's still a friend to this day. He has no legs, and only his left arm. And I walk in and he's in a wheel chair and he wheels back and looks at me and he goes, oh glad I'm not you. I'm like dude, you have one arm. (laughter) I'll never forget, he looks at me and goes, yeah but I can still touch my dick. And I'm like man. (Laughter) Really. Like, then it dawns on me, NO! (laughter) But you know, I learned there that you can be in a really, really bad situation and it inspires other people to do more with there lives. And pretty soon I'm talking to other veterans who lost their eyesight and they're like how do I get out of this? And first your going to have to break down, get it out, admit that this sucks, and then embrace the suck and make a plan after that. And that kind of became my purpose. You know, all of a sudden I wasn't the one that needed help anymore. I was the one that was helping people. That gave me a drive. So my husband and I at the time moved back up here to Washington, cause my unit was still here. They're still my brothers. This was were I felt at home. And I decided I wanted to go back to college. And then my husband cheated on my for the fourth time and I was like alright, how long am I going to take this? And you know for a while it was like why does he keep doing this, blah blah blah, you know, what's wrong with these, was it the arms? No, it wasn't that, it was me. It was my self esteem. I was letting that happen. Yeah he's the cheater, whatever. I'm the one that's just taking it. You know. And I realized it was because I had such a poor self image. I legitimately thought whose ever going to love the scarred armless girl. I am so much baggage. Like, no one wants to get involved with that. Which is wrong, but that's what I thought. So finally I was, you know, I sat down and I was like what will I lose if I lose him, am I even happy? Like, no. And so we got a divorce and I was happy. Like even being alone and terrified, I was happier. And then it turns out if your a chick in EOD, and you hug a bomb to save your team, the guys think your hotter. So I got a date. (laughter) So yeah, it actually wasn't as hard as I thought it'd be. So I started dating an EOD tech and it got pretty serious and he gave me a lot of confidence. And I was like yeah I'm going to go back to school and I started college and I was like this will be awesome, I remember school. And then, you know, I was the one in class like every five seconds like, what, no, I had an experience that doesn't go with that. Or five million questions. And then you've got the 16 year olds like, well soldiers really do in war… And your like…(Laughter) So it was a culture shock for me. But you know, it was going good and I was in my third semester and my boyfriend deployed with my unit. Which was rough because it was my brothers and my boyfriend all going at the same time. And at the time, and EOD it's not about if you lose somebody, it's whose it going to be. And that's just the reality of our job. So it became kind of stressful at first and then in one weekend, two days, five of my friends were killed. And if anybodies lost one friend, it's, man it's rough. But five? I don't care how strong you are, you will break. I closed my self off, I stayed inside, I was like I'm not doing anything. Every time my boyfriend called, like hey you fine? Yeah I'm fine. Listen I gotta go, I'm playing Dragon Age. Like I didn't deal with it well. So finally he, you know, I quit college, I was like I'm going to take this next semester off, I'm going to take a break, this is too much for me. I'll go back when James, my boyfriend, comes back. So we get through that deployment, he comes back, two weeks later I'm filling out the paperwork, start my new semester. I go in for an annual exam, they find a lump. I get diagnosed with stage one breast cancer. And I'm like just sitting there. And talk about bad things accumulative. And it's a two sided coin. The more it happens, the worse it gets. Because you start to ask yourself, what the hell did I do? Like, what did I do to deserve this? But on the other side, the more bad things that happen, the better equipped you are to deal with bad things. You just have to learn from each bad thing rather than letting it destroy you. Which is hard. It's not just like you, oh, this is the lesson. No. It takes years. So I went through chemo and we, we, you know, we formulated a plan. You know, what are we going to do? You know, what's the ultimate goal. Am I going to go back to college after this because you know stage one cancer isn't that bad. But anybody tells you, oh hey you have cancer. I don't care what stage it is, it feels like getting punched in the stomach. Like really, why? So when I was, you know, going through chemo, I was posting all over Facebook, like hey, this is updates, but I'm not like that person who's like my cancer is awful guys, pity me. I'm like holy crap I hate chemo Mondays. Like you know, it's light hearted, still kind of real but light hearted and it was helping people. It was helping them deal with it. Cause there's this armless girl going through chemo. You know, just got divorced and like how do you do it without losing your mind? I'm like, well, you know, beer and video games. (laughter) And then all of a sudden, you know, I started getting calls from people that I didn't even know. Just asking me for help. You know, how are you going through this? What would you do in this situation? And that kind of became my day to day, was helping other people. So I changed my major from forensic psychology from forensics to just psychology so I could help more people. You know, I have the experience, you know, but now I need the knowledge. So I started doing that. I started writing a book. Which I don't know if anyone's ever written a book about themselves but it's really freaking weird. Like, there's, I mean, there's times, like everyone makes mistakes in life, and we think about it and we're like oh that was dumb. But when you write it down your like so dumb. Like, what was I thinking? And then you drink more. So it kind of became my thing. I started speaking. And I'm not, like, I'm an introvert. Like after this I'm going to sit in my man cave and play video games and just ignore the world because I get peopled out. I get scared of this kind of stuff. But it, again, it's a purpose. It's what's given me a drive, it keeps me going out. And every veteran needs that. Especially, I've talked to three of you now. You get out, and you lose your purpose and then it's so easy to fall into that whole to trap yourself in a box, where no one else can touch you, you've already done what you've wanted to do in life. And you lose yourself. You know, I don't have to tell you the suicide epidemic. It's a freaking plague on the military. And it's exactly that. And people lose their purpose and they all go about it in different ways. I can't stress finding a purpose more enough in life. It uh, it keeps you going. And that's important. So it started, it helped me live again. And I don't mean survive, just existing, doing my thing. No, it helped me live again. You know, I drive, I cook, I play video games, like some would call it an addiction. But whatever. Semantics. But I've become me again. I've become whole. I'm not just this sad dependant husk of a human that has to ask for help with everything. Yeah I still have to ask for stuff but I'm independent. People ask me for help too. I've become a productive member of society to a point. And it's something that because I decided long ago that my bad, my bad experiences, my bad situations would not define me. I wouldn't let them break me. Yeah I would learn from them. And you have to keep them with you otherwise you'll do it again. But I wouldn't let it change me. And so I'll quit with this. The father of analytical psychology, Karl Young, once said, I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become. And so, I put it to you to choose what you are going to become. And go after it. That's all, I'm done. (applause) Kuljam: We have Q&A's. And anybody? I asked Mary, you know, if certain questions are off limits and she says no, they're not. Dague: Fire away. Kuljam: Fire away. Any questions? Audience Member: I know that as someone's who's, like people that are at that point in their lives where their considering suicide, and they call you, you through your training, is there any specific places you've gone for training like that or? Dague: There's a couple sites that you can go to that they offer free, I think it's an 80 hour course, on suicide prevention for people who want to work on hotlines and stuff. If you give me your email after this, I don't know it off the top of my head, but I can get it for you. And it's, it just gives you training on how to talk people down. Cause it, especially in the military people tend to be like suck it up. But you can't do that, don't do that. But yeah, there's websites, there's classes. There's actually, you know, little local satellite places that you can get the training at. Other than that, I would, just college. Audience Member: Are you one of the (inaudible) Dague: Um, I mean, to a point. I don't…I mean, you don't necessarily need a degree to help people. With me it's different because I've got a lot of life experience. And especially veterans, they tend to value that more than a degree. You know, because somebody with a doctorate, you know they'll be like, here's what you need to do. And you'll be like, doc what have you done. When have you ever been through it. Audience Member: It's your humor. And last week I read an article (inaudible) and they didn't appreciate your dark humor and I know that, I've known a tough spot, a tough situations and that's always the thing that I've noticed is that you do not lack in, and your not belittling or anything like that and its always that humor that breaks their train, their own spiraling down if you make them laugh. And you've got change. Dague: Yeah humor is so important in survival. Like, in anything. If you go through a bad situation and you can be that person who laughs about it in five years or you just keep crying about it for the rest of your life. Personally I prefer to laugh. You know. This isn't like new. I've always been like dark humored. But now I've got more terrible arm puns that I can use. (laughter) Audience Member: Thank you so much. Dague: Go ahead. Audience Member: As you know there's been a lot of bad headlines about the VA many months ago, how has your experience with the VA? Dague: My experience has been phenomenal but, in all honesty, it's not like if I walk up they're gonna be like ah you're faking it. Like. (laughter) I hate to say if they send the armless girl away that's really bad PR. But I have had friends who have had just a terrible experience. Partially due to them not going to their appointments, not being honest with their docs, and partially due to just falling through the cracks. But my, personally, mine has been phenomenal. Audience Member: Do you go through an anger, rage phase and would you, if you did, care to discuss that at all on how you got through that? Dague: Yeah, probably, I only spent two weeks in the hospital, I'm a real quick healer. But about the first week after the hospital I had like that big breakdown. That wasn't just sad because I couldn't do one thing. Like, it was full on rage. And it, like, you cry, you scream. You hate the whole world. Cause why you and not them? But that's something that you have to go through. You have to. If you bottle that up, when you finally blow, you might not survive it. And now, like you know, especially in therapy, I would try something five, ten, a hundred freaking times and it would just keep failing. And, you know, I'd keep telling myself, like, one more try and then you hit that wall and I'm not kidding you. I would go into a room, shut the door. And I would scream and stomp my feet like flash dance. And then I'd be like, whoo, alright, lets try this again. And then go back out there and submit myself to more torture, you know, until I finally got it. But man, rage happens. I prefer to rage on my own because then people can't be like, man you are crazy. Like, but, yeah. Is that? Do you want? Audience Member: I actually did have a follow up in regards to, you know, they talked about forgiveness and, you know, that helps with addictions and sometimes our addictions are, you know, running from something and that addictions are– or forgiveness is what sets us free, and in one of your cases I could see where, like– what do you– how do you forgive that, what I mean– you just got burnt? Or you know, like say okay I'm not mad at you anymore dude. Dague: No, no, to me the only ones that should ever bear the blame for what happened to me were the bomb makers. You know, the terrorists themselves, and I've had to forgive people for– my medic, my teammate, my team leader, they all blame themselves. Survivors guilt is real, you know, and they went into a dark, dark place because of it and I had to spend years with my teammate, because he's a bigger dude, you know, and so we were working on the device and I grabbed and threw it up on my shoulder and our security team was kind of like, you know, making jokes because we had all worked together for about a year, and they know I didn't need help, they were like oh you're gonna let that little girl carry that big ass bomb? And he's like oh she's got it, and then you know, I lose my arms. So he– you know, to him he was like I should've taken it. And that was never his fault, it was my job, you know, it's something that I accepted, I always knew that I could die as an E.O.D. tech, I was always willing to give my life for my brothers, why wouldn't I be willing to give my arms for them. Audience: I actually have to leave to go teach, but I wanted to just say that listening to your story was– it was just so inspirational, I really really do love the perspective that you can sort of get hit with something and then suddenly just kind of having that be a downward path, you can just simply sort of see it as almost like a strength building exercise, so I really wanted to say that it was inspirational, so thank you. Dague: Thank you, I appreciate that. Now I'm gonna smile all day. Kuljam: Hey Mary, Before you should go, is there a higher being that you pray to or keep– Dague: No, I'm not particularly religious, although I will say that it's important to find your center. I do get overwhelmed by stuff, but when that happens I just– because I'm an introvert, you know, a lot of people if they have God, if they have, you know, what religion they have, they have their friends, that's what brings them back to center. For me, it's just being alone, reading some comic books, playing a video game, doing something that's kind of always been comfortable to me that just kind of makes me feel back in my bubble and I'm good. Yeah, I've never– like even– you know, everybody says there's no Atheists in a fox hole, I didn't even pray on the med-evac, like just didn't occur to me I guess. Yeah. Is that weird? Sorry. Like it got really quiet, but I'm like I'm not an Atheist. Kuljam: Not at all. Would you do it again? Dague: Oh yeah, oh are you kidding me? If they gave me bionic arms I would be signing that line tomorrow. Well I mean, they've got to be like Luke Skywalker arms but– Anyone else? Kuljam: So is E.O.D. a different animal than as opposed to– Dague: We walk around with our hands in our pockets, I've– I chewed out a Colonel on site once because he was– this idiot, we get up to this– I know right? I'm gonna tell you this story, so this guy, we roll up to an I.E.D. that we had been called out to for, 45 minutes it took us to get out there because our security just takes a while. We get up there and it's like from me to that little black thing away. And there's a guy just pointing at it, just standing there, and there's another guy next to him. We park pretty far away, and so I like grab our P.A. system and we're like is that the device? And the guy goes– And I go get the away from the device. And he's like what? And I went oh this mother and so I kick my door open and I'm like check, and I get out and I run up to him and as I get up there I realize he's shiny and he's got this little E2 next to him holding security, and it is 2 in the afternoon in Iraq, and the I.E.D. is in a giant hole. We don't need him to point at anything. It's right there dude, we got it. And he was like well you need to know where it is. And I knife handed him, I'm like screaming at his face, I'm like I don't care if you kill yourself but if he gets killed because he doesn't know what's going on, like do you know when this is gonna go off? Do you even know it's a bomb? Do you? Like– This– Yeah, it's– like you don't get to do that in other MOS's. But you know, you get on site with a bomb and you're like, I am the subject matter expert, bow. I'm just kidding, we're not that big headed, just a little bit. Audience: So what do you want to do as far as like, where do you see yourself in the next 5 years? Dague: The next five years, well we're moving to Florida because my husband got a teaching gig at E.O.D. school, oh yeah. The boyfriend, he proposed. It was sweet. Audience: Does it come with a ring? Dague: I know right? I don't wear it in public. Kuljam: He's a marine, so– Dague: Awesome, I promise I'm not offended. But yeah, we're gonna be doing that, I'm helping start up a– like a satellite charity, it's not a new charity, it's one that raises funds and gives to other charities, because there's plenty of charities you know, I've got nothing new to offer to that. And then I've got to finish up this book which means I have to write this book, but yeah, I don't know, this public speaking thing has been kind of really kicking up lately. But it's– I mean it's good though, because it breaks me out of my shell, and it's– that's important in life. Try new things. Even if it makes you uncomfortable, actually especially if it makes you uncomfortable. But not that uncomfortable. Yeah, that's it, like my biggest thing in life is just helping people and mostly I try to be open for that. Yeah. Oh we got two, back to back. Cool, in the back first. Audience: Were you a candidate for prosthetics? Dague: Oh yeah, I have one that I use for driving. But the thing is like I don't have elbows and that– to use an elbow you need a whole set of muscles for it, so that takes away from the functionality of the wrist and claw, whatever. So I use the one for driving and it just comes off right here and it's just a hook, body powered, I didn't want anything that could fail in traffic. But I– you know, I did like the bionic one, the myoelectric one for a while and it's just not my jam. Go ahead, sir. Audience: By the way, terrific presentation, you're a terrific speaker and I think that's a great career choice for you going forward and I'm just wondering if you've had a chance to speak to kids at all about your life experiences. Dague: Only at my high school, well and the elementary school too, that one's harder for me because I swear a lot. Audience: I'd be happy to be a proof reader before. But you have a compelling story to tell and I think kids would really benefit from hearing your message. Audience: I agree, especially today's time and kids. Dague: Go ahead. Audience: I also think you could moonlight as a standup comedian. Dague: Go ahead. Audience: I have to ask, because I saw– I see the shirt you're wearing and I saw a couple of the pictures, and I'm thinking there's a viable business opportunity. How many T-Rex T-shirts do you have? Dague: Like a dozen? Audience: So when you go on the speaking tour I think, you know, you set up the concession (inaudible) Audience: Thank you, anymore questions? Kuljam: I have one more question and then we'll sign off. When you– A lot of Vietnam vets will go back to Vietnam to basically forgive and forget everything. Would you want to go back to Iraq and just see, and just– Dague: I feel like it's simple with me, I don't blame the Iraqis or the people, I blame the insurgents, the terrorists and– man this is being recorded, but whatever. I'm sorry, like, Iraq was a shit hole. Like there was trash that lined the road that's taller than me for days and just– it smelled awful, the dust storms are terrible, I'm cool. Kuljam: So anymore questions anybody? Audience: So you mentioned, you know, that you have a significant other, but I'm really curious because parents are– how are your parents or your sister or your immediate family how are you connected and are they doing– They're pretty good, my mom got a little crazy for a while and was like oh, you know the Pentagon has this pixie dust that they keep in a secret lab that will grow your arms back, and like– No ma, that doesn't exist. But you know, and she fainted when she first saw me but that was– I gather, that's pretty– a natural reaction, I don't know if kids or anything would, but I think I would probably faint too. But I think it helped them just seeing me be like happy and spunky and the same as I was before. It like– at first you know, they were– actually all my friends, my family were like really kind of you know, take a step back, like hey Mary, you okay? Like I'm not gonna bite your head off, I'm good. But after, you know, after that they're fine. Actually my dad every now and then he'll be doing something and he'll still toss something to me and I'll just like let it hit me in the chest like really dad? Yeah. Kuljam: If there's no more questions I'd like to present Mary with a T-Rex. Because she's peacing to Florida right? Florida. We just want her to remember UW Tacoma, so here's a T-Rex you know. And also, a UW scarf, I don't– like she really needs it in Florida right? But anyway, then also we also want you to remember Tacoma so we– I bought you a T-Shirt that says paramount Tacoma. It's a small but it should fit. Dague: Don't worry, I wash everything on hot, it'll get smaller. Kuljam: Okay so then also, it is grit city here, so we got the brass knuckles, yeah. Dague: That's awesome. Kuljam: And as you guys probably know, she– Mary likes to drink coffee, so we bought– got her two cups, two mugs for– UW Tacoma coffee mug, okay. Then you know, I went to the– our advancement people and they started giving me swag, and I go– and they gave me a pen, and I go really? A pen? What the hell is she gonna do with a pen? But it has a stylus on it so I mean– but anyway, hey Mary, thank you. What a true American, I mean I appreciate you and you always have a family here. Dague: Thank you. I'm gonna name my T-Rex Fingers.
POLICE CHASE: Woman in Volvo repeatedly escapes police blockades
National anthem of United States of America – civil war stanza
Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof thru the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected now shines in the stream: 'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. When our land is illumined with Liberty's smile, If a foe from within strike a blow at her glory, Down, down with the traitor that dares to defile The flag of her stars and the page of her story! By the millions unchained who our birthright have gained, We will keep her bright blazon forever unstained! And the Star-Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave While the land of the free is the home of the brave. Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war's desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation. Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: "In God is our trust." And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Bill Nye: Want to Combat Climate Change? Talk about It.
So people say to me Bill Nye, what can I do
about climate change? And these days I acknowledge that not wasting water bottles, not throwing
newspapers away, recycling, that's all good and important. Driving less, driving smaller
cars or more efficient cars, electric cars. But the main thing we can all do about climate
change right now is talk about it. We just talk about climate change and raise awareness
of it. Then the world's biggest economy, the United States, might lead the world in
addressing climate change, creating resources of renewable energy, wind and solar, most
notably titled energy. Than we can export those technologies and change the world. So
if I – since I believe that talking about it's really important I talk about it all
the time. And that's – the more you think about it everybody – 97 percent of the world's
scientists – not 97 percent of some institute that somebody started in a remote part of
the world and is making or releasing press releases. Ninety-seven percent of the scientists
in the world are very concerned about climate change. And you can look at the graphs. You can study
the stuff for yourself. If nothing else do this. Wherever you live get access to the
coldest temperature of each year for the last century. Unless you live in just very few
places you will see the coldest temperature where you live is steadily increased. There'll
be some dips. There'll be some ups but overall you'll find it – and that's just almost
everybody who has Internet access can get those data that are available. And just look
at that one thing and you'll see the world's getting warmer everybody. The ocean's getting
warmer so it's getting bigger and those people are going to get displaced and we're
going to have to change our economy and where we do business. We're going to be abandoning
– heck there's acres and acres of asphalt, roadways, copper plumbing. We're going to
be abandoning all that and it's going to be expensive. So the sooner we get to work
the better.


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"It's an insult to Cablevision customers that, with literally hours to go before losing access to ABC7, Cablevision is personally attacking Disney executives," reads the statement.
"There is one man who is going to decide whether New York gets to see the Oscars, and that's Disney President and CEO Bob Iger," says Charles Schueler.
The returning programs join the previously announced "Parks and Recreation" that also will return for next season.
The one-hour special will air as part of CMT's BIG NEW COMEDY WEEK.
MONSTERS INSIDE ME and THE HAUNTED will both return later this year.
The show's first season wraps Saturday, March 20 at 9:00/8:00c with season two bowing on a new night, Tuesday, March 23 at 9:00/8:00c.
CBS spins the numbers for Thursday, March 4.
ABC spins the numbers for Thursday, March 4.
Each cast member will be featured over the course of the encore schedule through Friday, May 21.
The new cycle of "Dancing with the Stars" rolls out Monday, March 22.
MSLO also will preview a new eight-episode, unscripted series "Help Me, Martha!" in association with Mark Burnett Productions.
The veteran drama will join previous pickups "The Vampire Diaries," "Gossip Girl," "90210," "Supernatural" and "America's Next Top Model."
Kathy Baker also stars in the project, the sixth "Jesse Stone" film.
Rochette, a Canadian figure skater, won the bronze medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
The series moves from Wednesday nights, where it aired last summer.
Carson Kressley and Beth Ostrosky Stern will join returning host/judge Vanessa Minnillo, taking over for Cheryl Tiegs and Nol Marin.
The Upfront presentation for TNT and TBS is scheduled for May 19.
Thursdays to feature three new series: "Tough as Nails," "My First Sale" and "Selling New York."
ABC spins the numbers for Wednesday, March 3.
Ellie Kemper, Angela Kinsey and Brian Baumgartner co-star in the show's latest online series.
CBS spins the numbers for Wednesday, March 3.
Updates include: Debra Messing is "Wright" for ABC; Blair Underwood to play "The Event's" president on NBC; and Scott Porter is one of The CW's "Nomads."


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As part of this Home Office Minister, Victoria Atkins, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Crime, Vulnerability and Safeguarding, visited the Enthusiasm Trust's community centre on Cotton Lane, in Derby to speak to volunteers and young people.
While we applaud the Home Office for addressing the issue, we tried to communicate to the minister and the media, that the only way to effectively tackle and reduce knife crime is by a more joined-up approach. Where the work of organisations like the Enthusiasm Trust work in partnership with city councils, housing trusts, schools and the police.
As part of a regional ITV news report, Nikita, Joe and Caleb were interviewed and you can see what they had to say about the campaign in the clip below.
Caleb Jackson, North West Regional Lead, for Enthusiasm, spells out his thoughts to ITV news.
Nikita Biggs, Enthusiasm volunteer, on youth mentality towards carrying knives.


Built in 1983, Eagle Nest Condo is a 60 unit condominium located in the Miami Lakes submarket in Miami Lakes, Florida. For more information on Eagle Nest Condo, explore the other tabs at the top of this page. If you are interested in buying or renting a unit, click the "Condos for Sale and Rent" tab to see what is currently available.


Today I would like to show you how to change or setup location of VMware ESXi System Logs to local or remote datastore.
Quite recently I reinstalled my Home Lab and I faced following notification in vSphere Web Client.
First of all we should ask ourselves why do we want to do it? The answer is quite simple – in case of disaster or troubleshooting we need access to ESXi logs. If you don't store system logs at all it will be not possible to investigate issue without logs. In case you want, System Logs can be moved away from local to remote (FC, iSCSI or NFS) datastore.
Go to Manage \ Settings \ Advanced System Settings. In search field type Syslog.global.logDir and hit Enter.
Double click on Syslog.global.logDir and enter name of the datastore where you want to store logs in format [datastore_name]folder. In my case it looks like that: [ESXi01-local]logs. After you commit change alert on ESXi disappears.
Browse datastore where we store ESXi logs to check if settings are applied correctly.
As you see it was quite easy and we achieved our goal to store ESXi logs on datastore.


This glittering city has high-rise building, and among them comprise of education centres that offer both diplomas, undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Campuses are over the city, so it up to students to make a choice.
Imagine Education Australia's College of English welcomes students from all over the world. At Imagine College of English, we follow the CEFR assessment system used throughout the world as recommended by NEAS. Teachers focus on the development of learning skills and encourage independent language learning. Learners learn at different rates and in different ways, and teachers take this into consideration when planning their lessons.


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Q: Questions about Activity and Fragment lifecycle I trace lifecycle method's callback from Activity and Fragment components and i have a lot of questions. I need you help to understand some points.
Situation 1:
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A: Fragment and Activity lifecycles work in parallel. The linear dependence between their lifecycle ends as soon as both activity and fragment are created.
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Note that onStart and onResume (and similarly, onStop and onPause) for both fragment and activity execute in parallel and there is no guarantee of order. Sometimes fragment will take precedence over activity, and vice versa.
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Please enjoy, view and share video content from available segments of the 2017 Symposium.
Keynote: Pedro Noguera, "Creating Inclusive Environments for All Children"
Panel: "Serving Vulnerable Children: Is California on the Right Track?"
Panel: "School Climate and Conditions: Creating Safe, Supportive and Inclusive Schools So All Students Can Thrive"
Panel: "Schools and Immigration: Responding to the Current Crisis"


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        ->fields(array(
        'userid' => $user->uid,
        'nodeid' => $nodeid
        ))
        ->execute();
        //Update the like value , which will be sent as response
        $like = 1;
    }

    $total_count = likepost_get_total_like($nodeid);
    drupal_json_output(array(
        'like_status' => $like,
        'total_count' => $total_count
        )
    );

}

/**
* Return the total like count for a node.
*/
function likepost_get_total_like($nid) {
    $total_count = db_query('SELECT count(*) from {likepost_table_for_likes} where nodeid = :nodeid',
    array(':nodeid' => $nid))->fetchField();
    return (int)$total_count;
}

/**
* Return whether the current user has liked the node.
*/
function likepost_get_like($nodeid, $userid) {
    $like = db_query('SELECT count(*) FROM {likepost_table_for_likes} WHERE
    nodeid = :nodeid AND userid = :userid', array(':nodeid' => $nodeid, ':userid' => $userid))->fetchField();
    return (int)$like;
}

/**
 * Implementation of hook_node_view
 */
function likepost_node_view($node, $view_mode) {
    if ($view_mode == 'full'){
        $node->content['likepost_display'] =  array('#markup' => display_like_post_details($node->nid),'#weight' => 100);

        $node->content['#attached']['js'][] = array('data' => drupal_get_path('module', 'likepost') .'/likepost.js');
        $node->content['#attached']['css'][] = array('data' => drupal_get_path('module', 'likepost') .'/likepost.css');
    }

}

/**
* Displays the Like post details.
*/
function display_like_post_details($nid) {

    global $user;
    $totalLike =  likepost_get_total_like($nid);
    $hasCurrentUserLiked = likepost_get_like($nid , $user->uid);

    return theme('like_post',array('nid' =>$nid, 'totalLike' =>$totalLike, 'hasCurrentUserLiked' => $hasCurrentUserLiked));

}
/**
* Implements hook_theme().
*/
function likepost_theme() {
    $themes = array (
        'like_post' => array(
            'arguments' => array('nid','totalLike','hasCurrentUserLiked'),
        ),
    );
    return $themes;
}

function theme_like_post($arguments) {
    $nid = $arguments['nid'];
    $totalLike = $arguments['totalLike'];
    $hasCurrentUserLiked = $arguments['hasCurrentUserLiked'];
    global $base_url;
    $output = '
';
    $output .= 'Total number of likes on the post are ';
    $output .= '
'.$totalLike.'
';

    if($hasCurrentUserLiked == 0) {
        $linkText = 'Like';
    } else {
        $linkText = 'Delete Like';
    }

    $output .= l($linkText, $base_url.'/likepost/like/'.$nid, array('attributes' => array('class' => 'like-link')));

    $output .= '
';
    return $output;

}

Also the css is not working when I enable the module. I am new in Drupal, hope you can help me. Here is the js file
jQuery(document).ready(function () {

    jQuery('a.like-link').click(function () {
        jQuery.ajax({
            type: 'POST',
            url: this.href,
            dataType: 'json',
            success: function (data) {
                if(data.like_status == 0) {
                    jQuery('a.like-link').html('Like');
                }
                else {
                    jQuery('a.like-link').html('Delete Like');
                }

                jQuery('.total_count').html(data.total_count);
            },
            data: 'js=1'
        });

        return false;
    });
});