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Blast in Margao-Goa, Near Grace Church

19 OCTOBER 2009

A second man injured in a scooter bomb blast in Madgaon on October 16, Yogesh Naik, died on Tuesday morning. He had been hospitalized at the Goa Medical College on Friday after the blast and had been in a critical condition since. Malgonda Patil, who was injured in the blast alongwith Naik, had died on Friday night.

Both the men were suspects in the blast and the police had registered a case against them under sections of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act and the Indian Penal Code for waging war against the nation. Malgonda was from Sangli district of Maharashtra, while Yogesh Naik was a Goa resident. Goa’s Transport Minister, Sudhin Davalkar, meanwhile, finds himself fighting off allegations that his family may in some way be linked to last Friday’s blast.Davalkar’s wife spends three hours every day with Sanatan Sanstha, the Hindu right-wing group that’s accused of the blast.

The scooter used to trigger the blast belonged to Nishad Bakle, a man related to the minister. Davalkar has claimed that his wife volunteers with the Sanstha, and visits their ashram to meditate. Davalkar also says the scooter used in the blast was sold by his relative a few months ago.

There are also reports of the Goa Government considering a proposal to ban the sanstha for its alleged illegal activities.

17 OCTOBER 2009

Two persons were detained today in connection with the explosion in Margao town in Goa in which a member of a right-wing Hindu group allegedly linked to Malegaon blast accused Sadhvi Pragya Singh was killed and another critically injured.The second person succumbed to his injuries on Saturday raising the death toll in the blast to

Goa Home Minister Ravi Naik said police were probing the links of right-wing group Sanatan Saunstha with the blast. “The scooter which was carrying the explosives belongs to Saunstha’s disciple Nishad Bakle,” he said.

A man named Melgunda Patil was killed in the blast while another, identified as Yogesh Naik, underwent treatment at the Goa Medical College hospital. He died on Saturday.

Police said both belonged to the Saunstha, which is allegedly linked to Pragya Singh.

The Sanatan Saunstha headquarters at Ramnathi in Ponda, 20 kms from Margao, was raided last night following the blast and two persons have been detained from that town in the wee hours of the day, police said. Further details about the detained persons were still awaited.

The blast, which occurred a few metres away from the site of ‘Narkasur’ effigy competition, a ritual held on the eve of Diwali, gutted three vehicles. Police have also found a bag containing a watch and an electric circuit about 20 kms from the explosion site.

16 OCTOBER 2009

It has been reported that there has been a blast in Goa – Near Grace church , close to the collectors office here in Margao around 9:30 IST.

2 people are seriously injured and shifted to Goa Medical College and Hospital where their condition continues to be critical, adding that the two have been identified as Melgunda Patil and Yogesh Naik Also 2 cars were damaged in this incident. Margao is the constituency of the Chief Minister of Goa Mr.Digamber Kamat.

The blast is during the Diwali season, when the Narkasur celebrations and competition were going on, the streets were crowded with people. The incident is reported as explosive hidden in a scooter found to be involved in this blast, there are no confirmed reports from police and officials as if now, the extent of damage is Low and the blast is been seen as a low intensity blast.

There are also unconfirmed witnesses that say this was a scooter fuel tank blast , where in someone lignite the fuel may be by mistake using a cigar bud. The police have cordoned off the area and got the bomb squad. People are not allowed to take their vehicles as if now.

May be the entire episode will be clear by day break tomorrow morning.

Goa Not safe:Bomb Blast report…

Goa Not safe:Bomb Blast reported in the heart of Margao

Oracle Apex upgrade from 3.0 to 3.2 in 11g

Here is what I did on 11g

Preliminary Steps

1. backup database consistently , specifically backup schemas FLOWS_030000,FLOWS_FILES,APEX_PUBLIC_USER.

using exp/expd in this case expd (How to configure expd click here)

C :\> expdp backup/***@ORCL directory=backup dumpfile=apex_bkp.dmp schemas=(‘FLOWS_030000’,’FLOWS_FILES’,’APEX_PUBLIC_USER’)

Step 1: Run the install script.

Note: You need to have downloaded Oracle APEX 3.2 already, to download go to ORACLE APEX

1. Copy the ‘apex_3.2’ directory to the ORACLE_BASE directory on the database server. (:\oracle\product\11.1.0). When completed the following two directories should exist in the ORACLE_BASE directory.

apex – The original version 3.0 directory.
apex_32 – The new directory 3.2.

2. At the database server console change the working directory to the ‘ORACLE_BASE\apex_3.2\apex’ directory. (:\oracle\product\11.1.0\apex_3.2\apex)

3. Start SQL*Plus and connect to the database where APEX is to be installed. Connect as SYS and specify the SYSDBA role.

C:\set ORACLE_SID =
C:\sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL>

4. Select the appropriate installation option :

Full development environment:
@apexins tablespace_apex tablespace_files tablespace_temp images

tablespace_apex is the name of the tablespace for the Oracle Application Express user.
tablespace_files is the name of the tablespace for the Oracle Application Express files user.
tablespace_temp is the name of the temporary tablespace
images is the virtual directory for Oracle Application Express images. To support future Oracle Application Express upgrades, define the virtual image directory as “/i/”.

Enter the following to begin the installation: @apexins APEX APEX_FILES TEMP /i/

When Oracle Application Express v3.2 is installed it creates one new database account (schema):APEX_030200: The account that owns the Oracle Application Express schema and metadata.

It will take some time to upgrade and during that all you need to do is to sit back and watch (better start reading something). After it is completed it will create a new user as above and will update APEX metadata to 3.2. There a will be crystal look in interface of APEX which will distinguish it from previous release.This can be confirmed for the table dba_registry.

Step 2: Update the Images Directory When Upgrading from a Previous Release

If you are upgrading Oracle Application Express from a previous release, you must run the ‘apxldimg.sql’ script to update the images directory.

Start SQL*Plus and connect to the database where Oracle Application Express is installed as SYS specifying the SYSDBA role:

SYSTEM_DRIVE:\ sqlplus /nolog
SQL> CONNECT SYS as SYSDBA
Enter password: SYS_password

Run ‘apxldimg.sql’ passing the file system path to the base directory where the Oracle Application Express software was unzipped as shown in the following example:

@apxldimg.sql D:\oracle\product\11.1.0\apex_3.2\apex

Step 3: Configure Oracle HTTP Server Distributed with Oracle Database 11g or Oracle Application Server 10g

Copy the Images directory

Note: Whether a new installation or upgrade is being performed, the ‘images’ directory from the top level of the ‘ORACLE_BASE\apex\images’ directory, needs to be copied to the location containing the Oracle home for Oracle HTTP Server. This directory contains all of the APEX necessary images, templates, cascading style sheets, java scripts, etc.

1. Copy the directory ‘apex_3.2\apex\images’ to the appropriate location:

xcopy /E /I ORACLE_BASE\apex_3.2\apex\images ORACLE_HTTPSERVER_HOME\Apache\Apache\images

Step 4: Log In to Oracle Application Express

To access APEX as the Application Express administrator use one of the following URLs:

http://charleshost/apex

Workspace: INTERNAL
Username: ADMIN
Password: ********

http://charleshost/apex/apex_admin

Username: ADMIN
Password: ********

Step 5: Drop Previous Version Schema

Backup the database.
Drop the ‘FLOWS_030100’ schema. ( DROP user FLOWS_030100 CASCASE; )

Do not panic, Remember that your old applications, workspaces and users etc will still remain intact after upgrade.So ask users to log in as before

Bored here.. need help..

Bored here.. need help..

APEX upgrade to 3.2.1 SUCCESSF…

APEX upgrade to 3.2.1 SUCCESSFUL. ! ! !

Goa Floods – Poinguinim,Agonda,Khotigao

As the incessant rains continued lashing the state , several people remained trapped in their houses in the border taluka of Canacona where over 250 houses have collapsed so far in the flood. (See pics as below)

Goa floods

The Goa State administration has confirmed that other 400 houses were inundated due to rains which has been hitting the state for last three days.Also Goa chief minister Digamber Kamat has rushed with other ministers as usual, to the affected area where the district administration coupled with army and navy has initiated intense rescue operations.The Official figures confirmed the death of two people who were washed away in the flood waters.

The CM addressing a press conference in the south district headquarters of Margao said that no efforts were spared to bring marooned people to safety.The villages Poinguinim, Partagali, Delem, Agonda and Khotigao remained under water. The sign of normally is near with brighter days Now..

Chillin .. October HEAT.. :)

Chillin .. October HEAT..

back to work after a LONG week…

back to work after a LONG weekend.

Back to Work. .

Back to Work. .

Tribute To Father Of the Nation – Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), also known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born in Porbandar in the present day state of Gujarat in India on October 2, 1869. He was raised in a very conservative family that had affiliations with the ruling family of Kathiawad. He was educated in law at University College, London. In 1891, after having been admitted to the British bar, Gandhi returned to India and attempted to establish a law practice in Bombay, without much success. Two years later an Indian firm with interests in South Africa retained him as legal adviser in its office in Durban. Arriving in Durban, Gandhi found himself treated as a member of an inferior race. He was appalled at the widespread denial of civil liberties and political rights to Indian immigrants to South Africa. He threw himself into the struggle for elementary rights for Indians

Gandhi became a leader in a complex struggle, the Indian campaign for home rule. Following World War I, in which he played an active part in recruiting campaigns, Gandhi, again advocating Satyagraha, launched his movement of non-violent resistance to Great Britain.

When, in 1919, Parliament passed the Rowlatt Acts, giving the Indian colonial authorities emergency powers to deal with so-called revolutionary activities, Satyagraha spread throughout India, gaining millions of followers. A demonstration against the Rowlatt Acts resulted in a massacre of Indians at Amritsar by British soldiers; in 1920, when the British government failed to make amends, Gandhi proclaimed an organized campaign of non-cooperation. Indians in public office resigned, government agencies such as courts of law were boycotted, and Indian children were withdrawn from government schools. Throughout India, streets were blocked by squatting Indians who refused to rise even when beaten by police.

Gandhi was arrested, but the British were soon forced to release him. Economic independence for India, involving the complete boycott of British goods, was made a corollary of Gandhi’s Swaraj (from Sanskrit, “self-governing”) movement. The economic aspects of the movement were significant, for the exploitation of Indian villagers by British industrialists had resulted in extreme poverty in the country and the virtual destruction of Indian home industries. As a remedy for such poverty, Gandhi advocated revival of cottage industries; he began to use a spinning wheel as a token of the return to the simple village life he preached, and of the renewal of native Indian industries

Gandhi became the international symbol of a free India. He lived a spiritual and ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and meditation. His union with his wife became, as he himself stated, that of a brother and sister. Refusing earthly possessions, he wore the loincloth and shawl of the lowliest Indian and subsisted on vegetables, fruit juices, and goat’s milk. Indians revered him as a saint and began to call him Mahatma (great-souled), a title reserved for the greatest sages.

Gandhi’s advocacy of nonviolence, known as ahimsa (non-violence), was the expression of a way of life implicit in the Hindu religion. By the Indian practice of nonviolence, Gandhi held, Great Britain too would eventually consider violence useless and would leave India. The Mahatma’s political and spiritual hold on India was so great that the British authorities dared not interfere with him. In 1921 the Indian National Congress, the group that spearheaded the movement for nationhood, gave Gandhi complete executive authority, with the right of naming his own successor.

The Indian population, however, could not fully comprehend the unworldly ahimsa. A series of armed revolts against the British broke out, culminating in such violence that Gandhi confessed the failure of the civil-disobedience campaign he had called, and ended it. The British government again seized and imprisoned him in 1922. After his release from prison in 1924, Gandhi withdrew from active politics and devoted himself to propagating communal unity.

Unavoidably, however, he was again drawn into the vortex of the struggle for independence. In 1930 the Mahatma proclaimed a new campaign of civil disobedience, calling upon the Indian population to refuse to pay taxes, particularly the tax on salt. The campaign was a march to the sea, in which thousands of Indians followed Gandhi from Ahmedabad to the Arabian Sea, where they made salt by evaporating sea water. Once more the Indian leader was arrested, but he was released in 1931, halting the campaign after the British made concessions to his demands. In the same year Gandhi represented the Indian National Congress at a conference in London.