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Priyanka Chopra posted a message on her Instagram account on Mother's Day with the first photo of her newborn daughter and the news that she had to stay in the NICU for more than 100 days after she was born.
The singer, who is 39 years old, posted a picture of herself and her husband, Nick Jonas, spending time with their new baby girl, Malti Marie.
The woman who used to be Miss World also wrote a long message to tell her fans about her daughter's trip home.
Chopra started her message by saying that she and her 29-year-old husband had been talking about the past few months.
She said, "On Mother's Day, we can't help but think about the last few months and the rollercoaster ride we've been on, which we now know so many other people have also been on."
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"Our little girl is finally home after being in the NICU for more than 100 days. She said, "Every family's journey is different and takes a certain amount of faith."
Chopra said that she and Jonas had come to realize that they were just happy to be able to spend time together as a family.
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Williams v. United States
Five trials were had on this charge between 1950 and 1956, three of them resulting in convictions…
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The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has had occasion to consider the…
Full title:Dallas O. WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee
Court:United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit
Date published: Nov 1, 1957
250 F.2d 19 (D.C. Cir. 1957)
102 U.S. App. D.C. 51
In Williams v. United States, 1957, 102 U.S.App.D.C. 51, 57-58, 250 F.2d 19, 25-26, we clearly stated that imprisonment was wrong in the case of a mentally ill person, as well as a remedy which could not possibly secure the community against repetition of the offense.
Summary of this case from Overholser v. Lynch
Argued October 8, 1957.
Decided November 1, 1957. Petition for Rehearing In Banc Denied November 22, 1957.
Mr. Nestor S. Foley, Washington, D.C., (appointed by this Court) with whom Mr. George Rublee, II, Washington, D.C., was on the brief for appellant.
Mr. John D. Lane, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Messrs. Oliver Gasch, U.S. Atty., Lewis Carroll and Thomas Flannery, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee. Mr. Milton Eisenberg, Asst. U.S. Atty., at the time record was filed, also entered an appearance for appellee.
Before BAZELON, FAHY and WASHINGTON, Circuit Judges.
BAZELON, Circuit Judge.
Appellant, having waived jury trial, was convicted on May 4, 1956, of assault with a deadly weapon, on an indictment returned in November 1949 for a shooting on September 26, 1949. It was his fifth trial and third conviction for that offense. The case is here for the third time.
His first conviction was reversed when the Government confessed error. The second and third trials resulted in mistrials. The conviction resulting from his fourth trial was reversed by this court, sitting in banc, because the trial court had denied appellant's motion for an adjudication of his competency to stand trial, as required by Perry v. United States, 1952, 90 U.S.App.D.C. 186, 195 F.2d 37. Between his first and second trials appellant was adjudicated incompetent and committed to St. Elizabeths Hospital. He was again adjudicated incompetent and committed to the hospital between his third and fourth trials and between his fourth and fifth trials. On his first conviction in February 1950, which was on three counts, appellant was sentenced to two to seven years on counts 1 and 2 and one year on count 3, all concurrent. The second conviction in December 1953 brought a sentence of three to nine years. The present sentence is one to three years. He has already been confined for a total of about seven years in the course of this long prosecution — about six years in jail and about a year in St. Elizabeths Hospital. With time off for good behavior, his present sentence will have been served by September of 1958.
The principal defense at the trial under review was insanity. Appellant claimed that his mental illness had started long before 1949 and that the crime was a product of the illness. The Government's theory was that appellant had not been mentally ill at the time of the crime, but had developed "prison psychosis" as a result of subsequent confinement.
The grounds of this appeal are (1) that Williams was denied the speedy trial required by the Sixth Amendment and (2) that the prosecution failed to sustain its burden of proving his sanity.
This constitutional question was raised by appropriate motion at the outset of the trial under review. Though it had also been raised by motion before the fourth trial, the question was not brought before us when the case was last here on the appeal from the conviction in that fourth trial. Therefore, in reversing that conviction and remanding the case for a new trial, we cannot be understood to have made any judgment as to whether such new trial was constitutionally permissible under the circumstances. We consider the constitutional question for the first time on this appeal.
Whether long delay of prosecution requires dismissal of an indictment even if there is no showing that the delay prejudiced the accused need not be determined here. The question here is whether, when such delay does result in prejudice to the accused, it is just to try him. The Government states that it would have moved for a dismissal of this indictment, were it not for its concern with appellant's dangerous recidivism. It seems, therefore, to have recognized that it is unjust to try an accused after long and prejudicial delay.
See Petition of Provoo (United States v. Provoo), D.C.D.Md. 1955, 17 F.R.D. 183, 203.
The prosecutor told the court, at the opening of the trial, "This man has the worst criminal record for violence I have ever seen.' We are informed by the Government that he was convicted of attempted robbery in 1933; twice of assault and battery in 1934; of manslaughter in 1936; of assault and battery with intent to kill in 1940 and in 1941; of shooting with intent to kill in 1942; of assault with a pistol in 1944; of assault in 1945; of assault with intent to kill, assault with a dangerous weapon and carrying a dangerous weapon in 1949. In 1952, twelve days after he was released on bail to await his second trial for the present offense, he threatened someone with a pistol and was convicted of that offense. While on bail before his fifth trial in 1956, he committed another crime involving a pistol and was convicted of that crime a month after the present conviction. Williams told one of the court-appointed psychiatrists who examined him in 1953 that he had spent about 20 of his 39 years in jail.
The Supreme Court said in Beavers v. Haubert, 1905, 198 U.S. 77, 87, 25 S.Ct. 573, 576, 49 L.Ed. 950:
"* * * The right of a speedy trial is necessarily relative. It is consistent with delays and depends upon circumstances. It secures rights to a defendant. It does not preclude the rights of public justice."
To hold that delay occasioned by the accused's mental incompetence to stand trial always requires dismissal of his indictment would be to ignore the "rights of public justice." On the other hand, to resume the prosecution of the accused after long delay may in some circumstances violate his rights beyond the requirements of public justice. To sustain its right to try the accused seven years after the crime, the Government must show two things, in my view: (1) that there was no more delay than is reasonably attributable to the ordinary processes of justice, and (2) that the accused suffered no serious prejudice beyond that which ensued from the ordinary and inevitable delay. My colleagues do not reach the question whether the Government must make the first showing. They agree, however, that it must make the second where the delay has been substantial. Since the delay has been substantial and we are all agreed that the Government has failed to make the second showing, we hold the conviction should be reversed and the case remanded with instructions to dismiss the indictment. For my part, I would reverse upon the additional ground that the Government has failed to make the first showing. The remarks which follow relating to the nature of the delay are those of the writer alone.
The Nature of the Delay
Undeniably the bulk of the seven-year delay in bringing appellant to the trial which resulted in his present conviction was a direct or indirect consequence of his mental incompetency. The accused's incompetency necessarily slows the judicial process. Such delay is inevitable. By the Government's construction of the facts, however, appellant's mental illness had not existed at the time of the crime or even at the time of the first trial, but was brought on by the pressure of imprisonment some time after his first conviction. If the judicial process could and should have been completed before appellant became ill, his eventual illness will not excuse a long-delayed prosecution.
Appellant's 1950 conviction was reversed on the Government's admission that it could not sustain it "because of the total lack of any instruction on the elements of the offense charged." The prosecution's recognition of its duty to confess error when error is clear is commendable. But the prosecution's confession came only after the lapse of more than two years. Except for this, there is no reason to believe that, if appellant was not ill at the time of the offense, a second trial could not have been completed before he became ill. Exactly when appellant's illness began, by the Government's theory, is not clear. The prison authorities noticed bizarre behavior on appellant's part some time in 1950, but it was not until June 28, 1951, that the Government filed the lunacy petition which led to appellant's incompetency adjudication on July 2, 1951. Instead of speedily admitting the invalidity of the first conviction and bringing appellant on for a second trial without delay, the Government postponed as long as possible the necessity of confessing error. It first contested the sufficiency of appellant's notice of appeal. Appellant had handed his notice of appeal to the deputy marshal for transmittal to the clerk of the District Court. The deputy marshal held the notice for five days before filing it, so that it reached the court on the eleventh day after sentence. On the ensuing issue of whether there was an effective notice of appeal, the Government contended in the negative until on February 23, 1951, we held the notice effective. Williams v. United States, 1951, 88 U.S.App.D.C. 212, 188 F.2d 41. When the time came for the Government to file its brief in the appeal, in which it would have had to take a position on the validity of the conviction, it moved instead that the appeal be held in abeyance pending restoration of appellant's competency, appellant having been declared incompetent just the previous month. It was not until April 17, 1952, after appellant was discharged from St. Elizabeths Hospital to the jail and moved for release on bail, that the Government made its confession of error. In the circumstances of this case, I cannot hold that there was no more delay than was reasonably incident to the ordinary processes of justice.
Prejudicial Effect of Delay
Whether or not the Government unreasonably extended the delay, we are agreed that the delay in this case was beyond the ordinary and that the extraordinary delay resulted in serious prejudice to appellant.
When prosecution is delayed because of the accused's mental incapacity to stand trial, the difficulty of determining whether the accused was mentally responsible at the time of the crime is increased. Passage of time makes proof of any fact more difficult. When the fact at issue is as subtle as a mental state, the difficulty is immeasurably enhanced. Courts must on occasion risk the increased difficulty of proof. But the interest of justice requires that there be no difficulty which is reasonably avoidable. There is a duty to minimize the difficulty so that the judgment, when ultimately reached, may be relied on as the closest approach to truth of which the judicial process is capable. That duty rests upon the accused as well as upon the Government — upon the accused because his is the burden, in the first instance of making some showing of insanity, Davis v. United States, 1895, 160 U.S. 469, 16 S.Ct. 353, 40 L.Ed. 499; Tatum v. United States, 1951, 88 U.S. App.D.C. 386, 190 F.2d 612; Durham v. United States, 1954, 94 U.S.App.D.C. 228, 214 F.2d 862, 45 A.L.R.2d 1430; Douglas v. United States, 1956, 99 U.S. App.D.C. 232, 239 F.2d 52; upon the Government because it has the burden, once there has been some showing of insanity, of establishing beyond a reasonable doubt that the crime was not the product of mental illness. Ibid.
The preparation of the psychiatric evidence which is required to prove an individual's mental condition at some past date is a very difficult task. It is a task for which the accused generally lacks both financial and intellectual capacity. The facts required by way of psychiatric testimony are a "description and explanation of the origin, development, and manifestations of the alleged disease * * * how it occurred, developed, and affected the mental and emotional processes of the defendant * * *." Carter v. United States, 101 U.S.App.D.C. ___, ___, 252 F.2d 608, 617. The examinations conducted by the psychiatrists must be of a character they deem sufficient for the purpose of determining the facts required. If brief jail interviews with the defendant are inadequate for the purpose, the defendant should be committed to a mental hospital where he can be examined under clinical conditions and for a long enough time to satisfy the psychiatrists. If the psychiatrists require more information about the defendant's background and history than they can obtain from him, an investigation should be conducted to obtain such information. If there is reason to doubt the accuracy of information supplied by the defendant or his family or friends, the information should be checked by investigators. If physical tests can help to determine the existence or character of illness, such tests should be made.
See United States ex rel. Smith v. Baldi, 3 Cir., 1951, 192 F.2d 540, 565-566 (dissenting opinion of Chief Judge Biggs).
As is almost invariably true in these cases, appellant is a pauper.
The Government concedes that appellant's intellect, as measured by tests at St. Elizabeths Hospital, is no better than "dull." Earlier tests taken at D.C. General Hospital had indicated that he was a moron.
Drs. Groh and Cavanaugh testified at Williams' third trial, after a jail interview, that he was then grossly psychotic, but that they could not tell either how long he had been ill or what likelihood of recovery there was, unless they were given an opportunity for adequate examination and observation.
See, in this connection, the dissenting opinion of Chief Judge Biggs in United States ex rel. Smith v. Baldi, supra note 4.
Dr. Cruvant of St. Elizabeths Hospital testified at the third trial in 1953 that he would not be able to ascertain Williams' 1949 condition merely by examining him, but would require information from reliable sources about his background and behavior.
Dr. Gordon testified at the last trial, in 1956, that he had learned from Williams' sister that Williams had a long history of grand mal epileptic seizures. He said, further, that "if this information is at all valid," he might be able to be more definite about Williams' condition. It does not appear that any effort was made to ascertain whether the information was "valid."
Dr. Gordon testified that "it is generally believed that epilepsy is the result of some, although not clearly definable organic lesion in the brain. Surely, there is what can be diagnosed cerebral disrhythmia, and that can be proven by electroencephalography, if it is at all there." On cross-examination, Dr. Gordon admitted that he knew of no electroencephalographic tests having been made on Williams. It does not appear from the record that such a test was made.
Indigent defendants of questionable mental capacity are obviously in no position to conduct these inquiries and whatever others may prove necessary. Their court-appointed attorneys are given no funds for the purpose. If the relevant facts are to be presented to the court, therefore, it must ordinarily be as a result of inquiries instituted by the Government. If, because the Government fails to sustain its proper burden, a case is left to be decided on less than the best possible psychiatric evidence, the inadequacy of the evidence is not a point in favor of the prosecution.
See Blunt v. United States, 1957, 100 U.S.App.D.C. 266, 275 note 23, 244 F.2d 355, 364 note 23.
In the case at bar, the Government not only failed to take any steps to ascertain the facts which would determine appellant's mental condition as it bore upon guilt or innocence, but resisted every defense attempt to produce those facts. The first psychiatrists to examine Williams after the date of the crime were Drs. Perretti and Gilbert whose reports led the Government to institute the lunacy proceeding on June 28, 1951. At the hearing on July 2, 1951, Williams' counsel sought to obtain from Dr. Gilbert a statement of opinion as to what Williams' condition had been in September of 1949. But the Government objected that the lunacy inquest was designed to determine only Williams' state of mind "as he comes before this Court, and I don't think counsel ought to inquire into whether or not he was insane at the time he committed a crime." The objection was sustained. A similar objection prevented the defense from eliciting Dr. Perretti's opinion. At the second lunacy inquest, on April 28, 1953, the Government again objected when the defense sought to question Dr. Perretti about Williams' September 1949 mental condition, but the court allowed the question over the objection. The witness replied that because of Williams' "confusion," "it is impossible at this time to estimate the duration of this illness." When Williams was brought to trial for the third time, the doctors' testimony about his 1949 mental condition was concededly relevant. But too much time had already passed for the testimony to be useful. Dr. Perretti was unavailable and Dr. Gilbert had very little recollection of his early examinations of the defendant. He testified only to what had been recorded in his files about those examinations and he said the purpose of the examinations had been "to determine * * * was he sick enough to be in a hospital, or was he well enough to remain in jail."
Clutching for some way of establishing the insanity defense at that third trial, Williams' counsel filed motions for (1) appointment of psychiatrists to conduct new examinations to determine his condition at the time of the crime; (2) leave to employ psychiatrists of his own choice at the expense of the Government; and (3) leave to take the deposition of Dr. Perretti who had examined Williams "in 1950 and 1951 at various times but is, at the present time, incapacitated in the hospital." On the Government's opposition the second and third motions were denied and the first motion was at first denied but then granted in severely limited form. The court ordered that Drs. Robert H. Groh and John C. Cavanaugh examine Williams at the jail "at any time on January 31 or February 1st, 1953, in order to determine his mental condition as of September 26, 1949, and that upon completion of said examinations Doctors Groh and Cavanaugh shall report to the Court on Monday, February 2, 1953." The doctors examined Williams at the jail on Sunday, February 1, but their examination was futile in the light of its purpose. They found Williams then so hallucinated, delusionary and disoriented that he was unable to supply any of the facts about his background which they would need to determine the duration of his illness. Since they lacked the necessary facts, the doctors could state no opinion about Williams' mental condition in September 1949. So far as physical examination is concerned, Dr. Groh made a limited one, "because of our limited time and opportunity." Dr. Cavanaugh stated that to judge how long Williams had been ill would require more examination and observation than was made under the court's order. This one examination, limited as it was by time, circumscribed as it was by the absence of clinical facilities, and inhibited as it was by total lack of background information, was, so far as appears from the records of this long and repeated prosecution, the only examination ever made of Williams for the purpose of determining his 1949 mental condition.
At the opening of the fourth trial, the defense again requested the court to order a psychiatric examination to determine Williams' 1949 mental condition. The Government objected that "some new psychiatrist could [not] come into this case new and presume to give an opinion as to his mental condition in September of 1949" and "it would [not] serve any good purpose." The examination was not ordered.
Although the Government knew that Williams' guilt or innocence would turn on the issue of his 1949 sanity and although it was informed by at least one of the St. Elizabeths doctors that the determination of his 1949 condition would require reliable data about his background, it made no effort to obtain any such data or to verify the data supplied by Williams himself or by his family. For example, appellant claimed to have epilepsy and Dr. Gordon testified at the last trial that appellant's sister had informed him that appellant had been an epileptic. Yet the Government not only failed to investigate this claim, but, in cross-examination took Dr. Gordon to task for the limited extent to which he accepted the claim. Dr. Gordon, in the same connection, testified that electroencephalographic tests might disclose whether, as a result of epilepsy, Williams had a "cerebral disrhythmia." The Government, on cross-examination, made the doctor admit that, so far as he knew, no such test had been made. The Government itself never had such a test performed on Williams.
Dr. Bernard A. Cruvant of St. Elizabeths Hospital, testifying at the third trial on February 2, 1953, analogized the problem of determining a defendant's past mental state to the problem of determining testamentary capacity after the testator has died. What is required, he said, is information from unbiased sources about the individual's behavior at the time in question and "observations of background from among impartial and disinterested persons"
That the evidence produced by a proper and adequate investigation of the facts relating to the accused's mental condition at the time of the crime may prove that he was not mentally responsible will not, we assume, influence the Government in its pursuit of the facts — and, of course, it should not. Under our criminal jurisprudence, mentally responsible law breakers are sent to prison; those who are not mentally responsible are sent to hospitals. To that end the District Code makes possible a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity, and directs that under such a verdict the defendant is to be confined in a hospital for the mentally ill until it is determined that he "has recovered his sanity * * * [and] will not in the reasonable future be dangerous to himself or others." D.C. Code, § 24-301(c), (d) and (e), as amended by the act of August 9, 1955, 69 Stat. 609, ch. 673, § 1. Two policies underly the distinction in treatment between the responsible and the non-responsible: (1) It is both wrong and foolish to punish where there is no blame and where punishment cannot correct. (2) The community's security may be better protected by hospitalization under D.C. Code, § 24-301 than by imprisonment. Douglas v. United States, 1956, 99 U.S.App.D.C. 232, 240 note 12, 239 F.2d 52, 60 note 12. If Williams' violent act in 1949 sprang from mental disorder — if, indeed, he has a mental illness which makes it likely that he will commit other violent acts when his sentence is served, imprisonment is not a remedy. Not only would it be wrong to imprison him, but imprisonment would not secure the community against repetitions of his violence. Hospitalization, on the other hand, would serve the dual purpose of giving him the treatment required for his illness and keeping him confined until it would be safe to release him. Society's great interest in the proper disposition of such cases would be deserved if the Government, in prosecuting them, adopted an attitude of passivity or resistance to the production of evidence.
Under his present sentence, Williams may be released by September 1958.
Williams' previous confinements in St. Elizabeths Hospital were solely for the purpose of restoring sufficient mental competency to permit him to be tried. On none of the three occasions when the hospital discharged him was he certified as fully recovered and no longer dangerous. See Durham v. United States, 1956, 99 U.S.App.D.C. 132, 237 F.2d 760; Lyles v. United States, 101 U.S.App.D.C. ___, ___ F.2d ___.
In the light of the foregoing, we hold that appellant was denied a speedy trial. We reverse the conviction and remand the case to the District Court for dismissal of the indictment.
Appellant also contends that his conviction should be reversed because the evidence overwhelmingly establishes insanity at the time of the crime. Since the conviction is reversed on a different ground, we do not reach this contention. We may note, however, that if a judgment of acquittal by reason of insanity were entered, appellant would be committed to a mental hospital under D.C. Code, § 24-301, supra, until it should be determined that he would not "in the reasonable future be dangerous to himself or others." Considering the pattern of violence characterizing appellant's behavior since his adolescence and the Government's justifiable concern with his criminal recidivism, commitment of the appellant to a mental hospital might well have been the wisest and most desirable disposition of this case. In his three previous commitments to St. Elizabeths Hospital, appellant received medical treatment only to the extent necessary to restore the cognitive powers thought to be required for trial competency. If he were committed under D.C. Code, § 24-301 after acquittal by reason of insanity, he would presumably receive more therapy than in any of his previous commitments. Release from such commitment, requiring a determination of safety, would provide some assurance that, as a result of the therapy administered to him, he would not be likely in the reasonable future to pursue his former violent course. The present disposition of the case sets the appellant free some months before he might go free if he completed the sentence we hold to be invalid. It is open to the Government, however, to proceed for a civil commitment under D.C. Code, § 21-326, if it considers that, with Williams at large in his present state, "the rights of persons and of property will be jeopardized or the preservation of public peace imperiled and the commission of crime rendered probable."
Reversed and remanded with instructions to dismiss the indictment.
FAHY, Circuit Judge (separately concurring).
I am in general agreement with the analysis of the case made in Judge Bazelon's opinion and concur in reversal with directions to dismiss the indictment on the ground that appellant did not have the speedy trial to which he was entitled under the Sixth Amendment. The delays which preceded the last trial were substantial and seriously prejudicial to the defense. And as pointed out by Judge Bazelon appellant has been confined for a total of about seven years, six of them in jail and more than a year in St. Elizabeths Hospital, though his original sentence was only from two to seven years.
The suggestion that the appropriate authorities consider proceedings looking toward a civil commitment under D.C. Code, § 21-326 holds promise of a disposition of the problem conducive to the interest of the public as well as of appellant.
In Williams, a seven-year delay, occasioned largely by his mental incompetence to stand trial, was held to entitle defendant to discharge.
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Q: Using paramiko to tunnel an MySql port when django starts I am trying to connect to a remote MySql server from my local machine.
I want to run it whenever the DEBUG constant is set to true.
Here's the script:
import select
import SocketServer
import sys
import threading
import paramiko

SSH_PORT = 22
DEFAULT_PORT = 4000

g_verbose = True

class ForwardServer (SocketServer.ThreadingTCPServer):
    daemon_threads = True
    allow_reuse_address = True

class Handler (SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler):

    def handle(self):
        try:
            chan = self.ssh_transport.open_channel('direct-tcpip',
                                                   (self.chain_host, self.chain_port),
                                                   self.request.getpeername())
        except Exception, e:
            verbose('Incoming request to %s:%d failed: %s' % (self.chain_host,
                                                              self.chain_port,
                                                              repr(e)))
            return
        if chan is None:
            verbose('Incoming request to %s:%d was rejected by the SSH server.' %
                    (self.chain_host, self.chain_port))
            return

        verbose('Connected!  Tunnel open %r -> %r -> %r' % (self.request.getpeername(),
                                                            chan.getpeername(), (self.chain_host, self.chain_port)))
        while True:
            r, w, x = select.select([self.request, chan], [], [])
            if self.request in r:
                data = self.request.recv(1024)
                if len(data) == 0:
                    break
                chan.send(data)
            if chan in r:
                data = chan.recv(1024)
                if len(data) == 0:
                    break
                self.request.send(data)
        chan.close()
        self.request.close()
        verbose('Tunnel closed from %r' % (self.request.getpeername(),))

def forward_tunnel(local_port, remote_host, remote_port, transport):
    # this is a little convoluted, but lets me configure things for the Handler
    # object.  (SocketServer doesn't give Handlers any way to access the outer
    # server normally.)
    class SubHander (Handler):
        chain_host = remote_host
        chain_port = remote_port
        ssh_transport = transport
    ForwardServer(('', local_port), SubHander).serve_forever()

def verbose(s):
    if g_verbose:
        print s

HELP = """\
Set up a forward tunnel across an SSH server, using paramiko. A local port
(given with -p) is forwarded across an SSH session to an address:port from
the SSH server. This is similar to the openssh -L option.
"""

def forward():
    client = paramiko.SSHClient()
    client.load_system_host_keys()
    client.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.WarningPolicy())

    try:
        print 'connecting'

        client.connect('*******', username='***', password='****!')

        print 'connected'
    except Exception, e:
        print '*** Failed to connect to %s:%d: %r' % ('*****', 22, e)
        sys.exit(1)

    try:
        forward_tunnel(3306, '127.0.0.1', 3306, client.get_transport())
    except SystemExit:
        print 'C-c: Port forwarding stopped.'
        sys.exit(0)

I have two problems here:
1) I don't know how and when to call my forward function when django raises.
2) When I access django locally and run the script from the console I get the following exception:

exception happened during
  processing of request from
  ('127.0.0.1', 41872) Traceback (most
  recent call last):   File
  "/usr/lib/python2.6/SocketServer.py",
  line 558, in process_request_thread
      self.finish_request(request, client_address)   File
  "/usr/lib/python2.6/SocketServer.py",
  line 320, in finish_request
      self.RequestHandlerClass(request, client_address, self)   File
  "/usr/lib/python2.6/SocketServer.py",
  line 615, in init
      self.handle()   File "/home/omer/Aptana Studio 3
  Workspace/Website/src/ssh_tunnel/tunnel.py",
  line 51, in handle
      verbose('Tunnel closed from %r' % (self.request.getpeername(),))   File
  "", line 1, in getpeername
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/socket.py",
  line 165, in _dummy
      raise error(EBADF, 'Bad file descriptor') error: [Errno 9] Bad file
  descriptor

Was this a bad idea to begin with?
Should I do this manually every time?

A: I don't think it's a bad idea.
I don't think you need to do it manually.
The exception is a bug in paramiko's forward code sample. This has been addressed by jhalcrow in the pull request here:
https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko/pull/36
This post has some code to do it in a more event driven way, i.e if you wanted to call it via some web event hooks in your django code or the like:
Paramiko SSH Tunnel Shutdown Issue

A: humm, i didn't try this, but if you are on linux, could you run
ssh -L 3306:localhost:3306 remote.host.ip

through python system call when DEBUG is set?
also if you are on Windows, try putty with port forwarding

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Loosing the energy game
By Thebftonline.com
It's been a long journey from the dark, power crisis-laden days of 2007 when poor quality and unreliable electricity supplies hit hard the bottom-line of many energy-intensive industries whilst devastating most marginal manufacturing enterprises.
Now the outlook is brighter, with Ghana poised to become a regional power hub…except for an emerging uncanny lethargy from government threatening to deflate the enthusiasm of local entrepreneurs.
Pragmatic measures, obviously driven by a sense of urgency and aimed at energy-use efficiency and energy conservation, taken by government which included the strict implementation of a raft of legislations banning the importation, distribution and sale of inefficient incandescent electric bulbs, as well as laws on standardisation of electrical products, led to stunning outcomes including savings estimated at US$38.6million annually; a peak electricity load reduction of 124 megawatts (MW)' and a reduction of 116,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions per annum.
But perhaps the most outstanding development was the opportunity identified and seized by some local entrepreneurs to move into the production of highly efficient compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), a product promoted by the Energy Commission in its drive towards energy-use efficiency to complement increased investments in electricity generation and distribution capacity to ensure power supply security.
That, obviously, is the ultimate prize for all the efforts aimed at pushing the country into a commanding position in the energy industry of the West African sub-region -- a region notoriously deficient in electric energy supply and use.
Generally, local manufacturing creates more new job; perhaps more than any of the other broad economic activities.
Additionally, and more importantly, it provides an opportunity for the country to stay at the forefront of technological developments; as Ghanaian workers stay on the factory floor and hone their skills and gain more knowledge, they will drive innovations; they will be emboldened to explore new frontiers in value addition, and they will control the high value end of the industry.
Ghana, however, is on the verge of losing this ultimate prize to its neighbouring economic juggernaut, Nigeria, which incidentally is Ghana's most serious competitor in the race for dominance in the energy industry in West Africa.
Local producers of CFLs may soon move manufacturing operations to Nigeria, a country that hosts about half of the sub-region's 300 million people.
At least two major reasons account for this. Firstly, the Ghanaian market is increasingly being inundated by cheap CFL imports from China and elsewhere; and secondly, Nigeria has succeeded in effectively blocking its vast market to most Ghanaian manufactures. And worryingly, government's attitude toward these developments has not been aggressive and decisive enough to inspire confidence among local manufacturers.
Data from the GCNet shows that CFL imports have been growing significantly since 2008, following government's ban on the importation and sale of incandescent bulbs. The 2008 figure was 14.8 million pieces, increasing to 20 million the following year and rising to 35 million in 2010.
Currently, Ghanaian manufacturers supply to just over one percent of the domestic market -- though their products are of superior quality and their installed production capacity means they could do better.
Locally manufactured CFLS are designed to withstand a wide range of power fluctuation, between 110 and 270 watts, to accommodate the Ghanaian power situation; but most imports, even the good quality ones are manufactured to withstand only a narrow range of fluctuation.
Worse still, the inferior quality types from China are usually not certified and their labeling is mostly falsified. A lamp labelled 30W, for instance, could actually be only up to 10W -- thus not producing the luminescence expected.
To ensure that CFLs imported into the country are of the expected quality, the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA) has taken delivery of a test facility to facilitate enforcement of quality and standards regulations.
Either this is a bit late in the day, or unscrupulous importers have found a way around this measure as the local market is being flooded with sub-standard CFLs which get spent quickly.
Tellingly, consumers are beginning to complain about the wisdom in spending more on CFLs whose retail prices are about five times but last only as long as banned incandescent bulbs.
Even more worrying, the cheap imports are pushing local manufacturers out of the domestic market.
"Though our products are superior, long-lasting and come with a year's warranty -- which means any of our lamps would be replaced or repaired should it be spent within a year -- we're still disadvantaged," says Mr. Raphael Felli, Managing Director of Wellamp, one of the two local manufacturers of CFLs.
This disadvantage stems from, first, price undercutting. Importers and distributors of cheap CFLs are able to retail at far lower prices than local products. Secondly, consumers of imported CFLs try to take advantage of Wellamp's warranty policy by submitting spent foreign CFLs as Wellamp products for replacement.
The second challenge confronting Wellamp is the difficulty that the majority of local manufacturers generally face in exporting to the ECOWAS market. An underdeveloped export infrastructure and especially cumbersome administrative procedures greatly hinder intra-West African trade.
For instance, Nigeria -- justifiably or otherwise -- has placed an import ban on more than 70 of Ghana's non-traditional export products, which include most of Ghana's manufactured products.
The Nigerians argue that most of those products are being dumped onto the West African market by Asian countries, notably China. While every possibility exists that some items could be exported to Ghana and re-exported to Nigeria as though they were manufactured in Ghana, provisions could and should be made to distinguish genuine Ghana-made products from those manufactured in Asia.
Of course, at the sub-regional level, measures have been instituted to address such challenges. Under the ECOWAS Brown Card scheme, which allows card-holding corporate bodies to export unhindered, Nigerian officials will have to come and inspect the local manufacturers' factories to ensure that they are not indeed importing but actually manufacturing what they supply to the Nigerian market.
This process is however fraught with administrative bottlenecks, making it almost ineffective practically.
Yet another bottleneck is the payment system within West Africa. The banks have difficulty coordinating their activities. The same bank operating in a number of West African countries see their country operations as independent of each other; therefore transactions by a Ghanaian exporter with a bank in Ghana, for instance, would not automatically be picked up by the mother company of the same bank in Nigeria, the destination of the Ghanaian exporter's products, and vice versa. For the exporter, therefore, transaction costs with the banks are escalated.
Now, beleaguered Ghanaian manufacturers, confronted with an ever-shrivelling domestic market may buckle under pressure from Nigerian businessmen seeking to partner Ghanaian entrepreneurs to relocate their manufacturing operations into Nigeria so as to have easy access to that country's huge market.
"Of course, as with most manufacturers in Ghana, we have been approached by Nigerians encouraging us to enter into joint ventures with the aim of moving our factory operations to Nigeria to enable us circumvent the export barriers encountered by most Ghanaian exporters to that market."
"We would expect government to play a more meaningful role in preventing this from happening," Raphael Felli said, explaining that government agencies need to stringently implement standard regulations to ensure that inferior products do not flood the domestic market and thus crowd out local manufacturers.
While at it, government should also use its procurement processes to purchase a substantial percentage of its CFL requirements for public organisations and institutions from local manufacturers.
"We're not asking to be pampered. We expect government to give us quality and price targets within which local manufacturers produce and sell to government and public institutions.
"Here, an added advantage to creating much-needed jobs and retaining wealth in the country -- as against encouraging the importation of energy-efficient lamps -- is that local manufacturers can give warranties that are otherwise not available, or difficult to obtain, with the imported products. Increasing local manufacturing could also help spawn a new industry of recycling, which is relatively more difficult with imported products," Felli said.
Obviously Ghana, arguably West Africa's most efficient economy currently, has a lot more to do to ensure that it reaps the true benefits of its efforts by preventing the migration of its manufacturing enterprises from the country.
For while tackling the phenomenon of an influx of cheap, sub-standard products from China and elsewhere may indeed be daunting, allowing the few surviving manufacturing concerns to be persuaded to relocate outside the country would be suicidal to an economy that is battling with extremely high unemployment rates.
"Thankfully, Ghana enjoys a lot of goodwill in the sub-region. It is now imperative for government to leverage on that to open up the ECOWAS market to Ghanaian manufactures. Government needs to intervene and have bilateral arrangements to certify some Ghanaian goods that are easily taken into Nigeria," Felli opined.
While this may be easier said than done, it is the growing belief among an increasing number of Ghanaian entrepreneurs that it is the logical step toward ensuring a thriving, efficient economy. It is time for Ghana to play hardball.


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Chief among them is lightweight lightning rod Sage Northcutt, who blew up his foot — among other things — with a trip up to the 170-pound weight class (replay). Joining him on the list of indefinite suspensions are Diego Ferreira and Damon Jackson, just to name a few.
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It's safe to say that nearly everyone in business today has at some point has heard the acronym GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). Many in the digital industries and services arena are either preparing for the changes on the horizon, or are dreading the work that still needs to be done to prepare.
In the United States, we've already seen the implementation of the email regulations for Can-Spam, but GDPR is something else entirely. In my presentations to marketers, I often refer to the US law as the YOU-CAN-SPAM Act, because in essence, it does not require spammers to get permission before they send junk email and it prevents states from enacting stronger anti-spam protections. That's not the case with EU regulations or GDPR.
GDPR's recent portrayal in the press is frightening. Much of the commentary surrounding GDPR has focused on the burden for businesses. The negative sides of its implementation, and the stiff penalties for compliance failures. I, for one, actually think GDPR can be positive for your business. Here are a few reasons why.
Companies need to get ready for the new regulation, but it's not there to make a quick buck in fines or to cause panic. GDPR builds on and replaces the long standing Data Protection Directive and was designed to harmonize data privacy laws across Europe and eliminate confusion. By doing so, GDPR will protect and empower all EU citizens' data privacy, and reshape the way organizations across the region approach data privacy.
To be fair, many companies that use panel data already use explicit consent and hyper-transparent notice because of the nature of the data they collect. But we seldom hear about these examples of companies that do a great job of protecting users' data; we tend to only hear the bad.
GDPR focuses on first-party data (data directly acquired from a customer), which means that the data you are storing about your customers is of the highest quality — since it came directly from them, with their permission. Clean data that is provided voluntarily is a direct path to better leads and higher conversions.
This lends itself perfectly to inbound marketing, which nurtures leads by providing marketing material that's valuable to those potential customers. So collecting data through inbound marketing efforts can help get you GDPR compliant, while also optimizing your emails to increase conversions.
GDPR certainly isn't the end of email marketing, and can actually provide the push businesses need to create a responsive, valuable email marketing strategy that will engage leads and delight customers.
GDPR will require a review of data handling and processing procedures; this presents a great opportunity to review and map your data flows or clean house and restructure them not only for compliance, but also for business efficiency around costs.
According to a study done by Veritas, 85 percent of all data stored by companies is considered redundant, obsolete, or trivial — and the cost of server space and time for managing this data is immense.
The physical presence of data is so small that sometimes we don't think of it as clutter. We accumulate massive amounts of it, and some of it can be harmful if it gets lost or stolen. In my family, the first signs of spring have always been our cue to fling open the windows and let in the fresh air, thus beginning the ritual of spring cleaning. It seems appropriate that organizations should do much the same thing when it comes to data.
GDPR introduces a new concept in European data protection — "pseudonymization" — for rendering data neither anonymous nor directly identifying. Pseudonymization is the separation of data from direct identifiers so that linkage to an identity is not possible without additional information that is held separately.
Pseudonymization, therefore, may significantly reduce the risks associated with data processing, while also maintaining the data's utility and creating incentives for controllers to pseudonymize the data that they collect.
It might seem like a lot of extra work, but with the right planning your organization can become GDPR compliant — and improve your business in the process. GDPR is great reminder to businesses that information about individuals is simply on loan — not owned — and organizations have a responsibility to look after it.
It's not just a matter of confidentiality; it's about integrity, accuracy, and availability — and it's just plain good business practice.


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The 1960–61 Northern Rugby Football League season was the 66th season of rugby league football.

Season summary

Leeds won their first Championship when they defeated Warrington 25-10 in the play-off final.

The Challenge Cup winners were St. Helens who beat Wigan 12-6 in the final.

Swinton won the Lancashire League, and Leeds won the Yorkshire League. St. Helens beat Swinton 15–9 to win the Lancashire County Cup, and Wakefield Trinity beat Huddersfield 16–10 to win the Yorkshire County Cup.

Championship

Play-offs

Championship final

This match was Warrington loose forward Albert Naughton's last appearance.

Challenge Cup

St Helens reached the Challenge Cup Final by beating Widnes 29–10 on 16 Feb away in round one after a 5–5 draw at home on 11 Feb; Castleford 18–10 away in round two on 25 Feb; Swinton 17–9 at home in the quarter-finals on 11 Mar and Hull 26–9 on neutral ground in the semi-final on 15 Apr.

St Helens beat Wigan 12–6 (5–2 at Half Time) in the Final played at Wembley Stadium in front of a crowd of 94,672 on 13 May 1961.  St Helens' points were scored by Alex Murphy (try), Tom van Vollenhoven (try) and Austin Rhodes (one conversion and two drop goals).  The Lance Todd Trophy winner was St Helens' second-row forward, Dick Huddart.

This was St Helens' second Challenge Cup Final win in six Final appearances.

References

Sources
1960-61 Rugby Football League season at wigan.rlfans.com
The Challenge Cup at The Rugby Football League website

1960 in English rugby league
1961 in English rugby league
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Recently it was the talk of the town and just after a week it seems it has become yet another story that we read with our morning coffee and easily forgotten. Im tlkn abt the shornur train incident. We all wailed abt the system and for d martyr of societys negligence for a while(or for the sake of it) and its al old story now. May be if this article helps the few people who read it to remind abt the incident n if im able to make it linger a bit longer in ur mind il be successful in my motive. Though we call ourselves gods own country and us the 'advanced' people it reminded us dat how we are still a crude bunch of people who are reluctant to attend to a helpless girls cry. The question everywhere was how safe is our train for women. If even at an early time that too with a crowd of mighty men just few feet away a girl was slaughtered how are we going to call us civilised. So its almost a fixed fact now that we cannot expect neither the people around or the railway to take some actions themselves. The incident tells us something else too. The phone you carry with you all the time can be used for other thngs more helpful than texting ur frnds. It can turn to be ur saviour when required.
- You need to hav the railway alert numbers stored on ur phone.
So if ever u feel unsafe in a train don't hesitate to make a cal, an action at right time can make a lot of difference.
Today in London, our two companies announced plans for a broad strategic partnership that combines the respective strengths of our companies and builds a new global mobile ecosystem. The partnership increases our scale, which will result in significant benefits for consumers, developers, mobile operators and businesses around the world. We both are incredibly excited about the journey we are on together.
So what is Live Commenting? If you are a regular user of Facebook, recently you must have noticed that comments are getting posted faster. But it does not get updated at the same time, previously it was like you had to click on 'Comment' and wait for some time for it to get updated(On slow connections). But now it gets updated instantly, but in fact it gets registered on the site only after a slight delay, often neglected. Another feature is that the comments get updated live, as in a chat. Now you can keep commenting as in a conversation. That's really fast for a Social Network website to do.
Just wanted to share the statistics of Browsers and Operating Systems I found on my site as of date 4/2/2011. I started this blog late in October 2010, and have about 13000 views, I know its not much to make an in depth analysis, but this is how it turns out to be.
Apparently the chart makes it clear that Windows is still unrivaled with above 90% of views on my blog being done from a Windows Operating System. Linux Operating System occupies 5% of the views. I'm surprised to have even more Operating System's on my page view list. Mac OS has about 111 views, which I probably think would've come from my Lockerz friends in US. Apart from this, Ive got hits from Mobile Operating systems as well, including iPhone and Blackberry. And to my surprise even Playstation 3 - proud to know that a variety of people have actually bothered to click on my blog.
The Browser statistics are more diverse compare to Operating systems. Around 52% using Chrome, apparently the best browser around. A slight modified version of Chrome - Rockmelt has a share of 1%(224 views). Firefox holds the second position with 30% and Internet Explorer is pushed down with a mere 11%. All the other browsers hold less than 1% of the share.
Messengers have been around for really long now, I still remember using Yahoo Messenger while I was back in 9th Grade. Then came Gtalk which is the most used messenger nowadays. I never got much into Windows Live Messenger though, from what I have heard, its awesome too. But all these messenger's basically allows you to chat with people you know, mostly friends and family. But a great deal has been changed since the launch of Facebook. Atleast 50% of your friends will not be personally knowing you, its not the same for all. But definitely for me, almost 80% of the my friends on Facebook are not 'real' friends, they are online friends. And I have communicated with tons of strangers as well. So what's the difference in talking with your friends on a Messenger and talking to a total stranger on Facebook.
One point to be duly noted on Online chatting is that, people don't see your face, and have no idea the emotion you are in. Words can be easily misinterpreted, words of joke can be taken serious - even ending a relation. Even the way you type depicts your personality and approach towards your friend. But people seldom care about all these, and specially newbie's, they tend to make public posts, which would completely shatter their personality. You should take lot of care while posting in a public community, different people interpret things in different ways - as the saying 'Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder'. Your comment maybe taken as absolutely absurd, stupid or irrelevant. Its important on how you present your ideas, words of love maybe mistaken as words of anger, ending a whole nice friendship.
I would like to quote down a few points that you should keep in mind while making public posts. These are my own observations and can be wrong, please feel free to correct me.
Yes, you heard that right, how would it be if a class was scheduled to be on Facebook? That's what has happened recently at America University.
Wish our teachers, any of them would try to implement the experience narrated by R.S. Zaharna, an associate professor of communication at American University. His class was cancelled due to storm, but R.S. Zaharna made an improvisation in his class, making it an interactive one, on the Facebook Community of his class - AU International Public Relations/Communication. You can scroll down to see how students have responded to the Facebook class, let us read through his experience.
WikiLeaks have been spreading chaos all over the world recently, even the arrest of Jullian Assange has been highly popularized. Well, do you think WikiLeaks have done the right thing so far? Here is what Snorre Valen, Member of Parliament thinks about WikiLeaks, and why he nominated WikiLeaks for Nobel Peace Price.
It is always easier to support freedom of speech when the one who speaks agree with you politically. This is one of the "tests" on liberal and democratic values that governments tend to fail. For instance, western governments have a long history on tolerating oppressive regimes that are "friendly-minded". Internet companies assist China in censoring search engines. And many countries respond to Wikileaks' obvious right to publish material that is of public interest, by seeking to "shoot the messenger".
Publishing material that is deemed classified by the government is an obvious right that newspapers and media have practiced for many, many decades. This way, the public has become aware of abuses of power that governments should be held accountable for. The internet doesn't change this – it merely makes information more accessible, easier to distribute, and more democratic in the sense that virtually anyone with an internet connection can contribute.
Now I found this really interesting article on engadget.com, Google is accusing Bing for 'Cheating'. Google Blog later posted a detailed article regarding this. I felt funny reading it, felt like school students trying to copy on their neighbor's answer sheets to get good marks. Well, Bing has been caught now, and very cleverly done. Checkout how it was revealed.
You could say Bing is taking a cue from its competition, but it seems to be more literally taking search results as well. Google Fellow Amit Singhal is claiming so much and has provided some amusing (if not totally clever) results from its "Bing Sting." Here's how it works: find a search term that returns no matches for either site, make a "honeypot" page manually appear for the term, then have about 20 Google employees make the search (and click the top link) using Internet Explorer with both Suggested Sites and the Bing Toolbar on. Within two weeks, Singhal claims, a handful (about 7 to 9) of the 100 or so "honeypot" results were popping up in Bing. Bizarre choices, too, like mbrzxpgjys, hiybbprqag, and indoswiftjobinproduction.
Google Blog posted the following snippet recently, Technology is coming together to help the people in Egypt and to make clear their struggles. Hope this reaches to Egyptians as well. Well done Google, Twitter and SayNow.
This is the paper on General aptitude. This paper is very very important as far as ones selection is concerned. you have to be very fast and accurate and U have to score at least above 80 to be selected for interview. The criteria for the test was 60% throughout in 10th,12th, grad and MCA upto IVth sem.Here about 150 students sat for the test and 15 were short listed for the interviews. So you can see the degree of the competition.The company is good and work hard U can get through. Start practicing Mental ability from RS Agarwal Specially PUZZLES,NUMBER SERIES,MIRROR IMAGE,3D and FIGURE SERIES. Though I am sending U the technical paper also but that will be available to almost all of U and so that is not so important for selection.Just attempt about 60 questions out of 75 in that paper.
I guess almost all of us knew when Obama landed in India, or even Bill Gates lands on our land, but the most popular person in the world right now(With his own world called Facebook) had spent time in India, and not many knew about it. A few sites realised this fact and even put up a contest in which Money would be offered to anyone who provided snaps of Mark Zuckerberg. His story is being wild spread through the movie The Social Network which has hit millions of hearts.
"I'm in India this week for vacation. I'll be attending a good friend's wedding and checking out a few cities while I'm here." And apparently he enjoyed the time in India. Even more pics were spread on the net, in which Mark Zuckerberg shook a leg on the marriage.
Head of Security - Kaspersky HACKED!
Facebook is evolving everyday, from a Social Network platform, it launched the Facebook email recently. And now its getting ready to go bigger. Facebook is now offering certain attractive offers from certain firms in UK. This is how Facebook put launched the feature.
That's the new Dell Inspiron Duo, which looks exactly like a Netbook, and performs pretty well too. Powered by a dual-core Atom N550 processor, with 2GB of RAM, and Broadcom Crystal HD accelerator, the specs look decent too. Heading towards the software it runs on Windows 7 Home Premium and Dell's new Stage interface, priced at a high amount of $550! Hold on, 550$ - isn that a bit high for a netbook, which of course has an awesome red colored attire and all the normal features of a Netbook. Well, this is just half of what the gadget is ought to be.
The looks are awesome, with a standard keyboard, glazing laptop head. So any guesses on what the surprise is? Make a guess, and scroll down to see the next pic. Hold your breath! It's true!


What is Difference between DATE and TIMESTAMP, TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE and TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE in Oracle pl/sql?
TIMESTAMP was added as an ANSI compliant in Oracle.
But most important, additionally TIMESTAMP allows you to store FRACTIONAL SECONDS.
In stock markets for maintaining real time data of highly traded stocks.
How to use/insert/select DATE in Oracle pl/sql?
How to convert DATE to TIMESTAMP in Oracle pl/sql?
How to use/insert/select TIMESTAMP in Oracle pl/sql?
FF appended with numeric digit is the number of digits that will be displayed in fractional seconds.
What is TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE ?
TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE - does not store TIME ZONE in database. When TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE is stored in database it converts it into database time zone.
When it is fetched from database Oracle converts it into the local session time zone.
How to use/insert/select TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE in Oracle pl/sql?
Scroll down the post to find out your current TIME ZONE.
TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE didn't store TIME ZONE in database. When TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE was stored in database it converted it into database time zone.
When TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE was fetched from database Oracle converted it into the local session time zone.
But, TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE doesn't have anything to do with local session time zone it stores the TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE of current database and retrieves the TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE stored in database.
Advantage of using TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE ?
It helps in solving time zone related issues across databases existing in multiple locations.
How to find my current database TIME ZONE in oracle?


Il s'agit d'une (d'un) location de vacances avec 1 chambres à coucher et 1 salles de bain. Le prix de ce bien immobilier est: 39 EUR.
New luxurious fully furnished spacious studio apartment peacefully situated in Podgorica on the bank of Moraca river in the New City, just a short walk to the City Centre.
It's very sunny, immaculately clean and tidy. Consists out of an open space living room size 20 m2, fully fitted open kitchen with dining room, bathroom, hall and 2 French balconies. Apartment is on the 2 floor out of 6. The building has underground garage with a lift to the apartment, security cameras, fire alarms. Apartment is a 5 minute walk from the city.


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Q: Error: spawn EMFILE Node js I am getting this error. While a person logs in to the application, logs are entered into a file using utilityWrapper. This file is read/Written when ever some activity is happening in the application. Then suddenly after some time
'throw errnoException(process._errno, 'spawn');
Error: spawn EMFILE
    at errnoException (child_process.js:988:11)
    at ChildProcess.spawn (child_process.js:935:11)
    at Object.exports.spawn (child_process.js:723:9)
    at Object.Logger (/web/utilityWrapper.js:21:17)
    at process.env.NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED (/web/server.js:141:17)
    at process.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
    at process._fatalException (node.js:272:26)

This error come up.
Please Help me.

A: This had happened due to various reasons. The code had many console.logs, which was printing many things on the command prompt on which the server was running. As it was writing to a file, it was using a file descriptor(fd). The ulimit of file descriptor is 1024.
using the command
lsof - -i -n  -P | grep nodejs

I was able to capture the information about each fd.
Fd count used to increase when a user loogged into the application.The ldap sockets and mysql db connections also consumed  a large amount of fd's.
So guys keep these points in mind when you get this kind of Error.


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Jack Parow shared a shocking image on Instagram over the weekend of a friend, who the singer claims was stabbed in the face by a taxi driver in Mellville, Joburg.
In his caption, the 35-year-old first apologised for the "graphic nature of the photo" before alleging his friend Dirk Agenbag had ordered an Uber and when he tried to get, a taxi driver "stabbed him three times in the face".
The singer described the incident in greater detail to YOU on Monday.
"He told me that he was getting inside his Uber when someone came out of nowhere and stabbed him in the face," Jack said.
"As he was bleeding, the Uber driver came out of the car and told him to 'get out of the car because he was bleeding all over his seats'.
"These are criminals, they are gangsters, they are killers," said an emotional Jack.
In spite of the incident, the father of one said he is a fan of Uber adding he believes that instead of being violent meter taxis should be upgrading with the times.
"They really shouldn't be doing this to people because it is not just about a war between them now, they are involving innocent passengers and it is so wrong and unfair.
See Jack's full post here.YOU approached Uber for comment on the incident.
"Our incident response team is reaching out to all parties and will provide whatever support is necessary. We will support the police in their investigation in any way that we can.