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The 1997–98 NBA season was the 76ers 49th season in the National Basketball Association, and 35th season in Philadelphia. The 76ers selected Keith Van Horn from the University of Utah with the second overall pick in the 1997 NBA draft, but soon traded him to the New Jersey Nets in exchange for Jim Jackson, Eric Montross and top draft pick Tim Thomas, and signed free agent and former All-Star forward Terry Cummings during the off-season. In November, the Sixers acquired former All-Star forward Tom Chambers from the Phoenix Suns. However, after only playing just one game for the team, Chambers retired in December.

Under new head coach Larry Brown, the Sixers got off to a rough start losing their first five games. In late December, the team traded Montross along with Jerry Stackhouse to the Detroit Pistons in exchange for Theo Ratliff and Aaron McKie, then later on acquired Eric Snow from the Seattle SuperSonics in exchange for a draft pick. At midseason, they traded Jackson along with Clarence Weatherspoon to the Golden State Warriors in exchange for Joe Smith and Brian Shaw, while Cummings was dealt to the New York Knicks in exchange for Herb Williams, who was released by the 76ers, and re-signed with the Knicks. With a 14–31 record at the All-Star break, the Sixers showed improvement posting a 17–20 record for the remainder of the season, finishing last place in the Atlantic Division with a 31–51 record, missing the playoffs for seven straight seasons.

Second-year star Allen Iverson had a stellar season leading the team with 22.0 points, 6.2 assists and 2.2 steals per game, while Derrick Coleman provided the team with 17.6 points and 9.9 rebounds per game, but only played 59 games due to an irregular heartbeat, and an ankle injury, and Thomas contributed 11.0 points per game, and was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team. The start of the rebuilding of the franchise began with the acquisitions of Ratliff, McKie and Snow. These three players blended well with coach Brown's philosophy, and this would be the last season in which the Sixers missed the postseason until 2004. Following the season, Coleman signed as a free agent with the Charlotte Hornets, while Smith signed with the Minnesota Timberwolves, and Shaw and Mark Davis were both released to free agency.

For the season, the Sixers revealed a new primary logo with the team name "76ers" in gold, and changed their uniforms, replacing the red and blue colors with black and gold in their color scheme. The jerseys were slightly redesigned in 2000, while the logo remained in use until 2009.

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Roster

Regular season

Season standings

z - clinched division title
y - clinched division title
x - clinched playoff spot
° - did not make playoffs

Record vs. opponents

Player statistics

NOTE: Please write the players statistics in alphabetical order by last name.

Awards and records
 Tim Thomas, NBA All-Rookie Team 2nd Team

Transactions

References

See also
 1997–98 NBA season

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Sikh Youth Join President Obama's Mentoring Lunch at the White House and Get Mentoring lessons from American Icons
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White House Photo: Sikh Youth seen behind President Obama; Inderbir Singh, Kabir Singh, Sukhpreet Singh and Vikram Singh
Nine Sikh boys from the Washington Metropolitan area met with President Obama at the White House shortly after he delivered a major address on fatherhood on Monday, the day after Father's Day. It was during the Father's Day "mentoring barbecue" lunch on the South Lawn of the White House, President Obama, the father of two daughters, played host.
From left to right: Daven Singh Basra, Amarinder Singh Pandher, Gurpreet Singh, Rajdeep Singh, Guransh Singh, Sukhpreet Singh Saran, Vikram Singh Mangat, Inderbir Singh Pandher, Kabir Singh Gumer and Paul Monteiro, Associate Director of the Office of Public Engagement at the White House.
The Sikh boys were among 150 high school students who attended this event that promoted mentoring. These high school students had the extraordinary opportunity to attend President Obama's Barbeque lunch to discuss the importance of fatherhood and taking personal responsibility.
President Obama addressing the young people at the White House
A day after Father's Day, Obama announced the President's Fatherhood and Mentoring Initiative to press the point that addressing fatherlessness has been a priority of the Obama administration. The President spent his day reflecting on fatherhood, how it shapes kids, and the responsibilities fathers face. He spoke in the morning at an event in Washington, DC before hosting Mentoring Barbeque on the South Lawn later.
These young men along with other students from all across America had the opportunity to meet and speak with successful men during the event. They included James Gates- American theoretical physicist; Swim Cash- WNBA All-star; Ethan Thomas- NBA player; Robert Wolf- Independent Financial advisors of President Obama; Steve Harvey- American comedian.
Some of the Mentors at the White House
"It is significant that the President of the United States touches this critical issue facing the American society and giving it so much importance," said Dr. Rajwant Singh, Chairman of the Sikh Council on Religion and Education and who coordinated Sikh youth presence at the White House. He added, "We look forward to working with President Obama in the coming days on behalf of children, families and communities around our great nation."
All of the Sikh boys go to Guru Gobind Singh Foundation (GGSF) gurdwara, a Sikh congregation, based in Rockville, Maryland. In addition to being focused on their education, they all are involved in youth activities at GGSF and many of them learn kirtan (sikh hymn singing), tabla and gatka - Sikh martial art.
Daven Singh with Steve Harvey
Daven Singh Basra, a rising senior at Quince Orchard High School from Gaithersburg, Maryland, has singing kirtan as his passion. While praising his mentor Robert Wolf who is one of 12 independent financial advisors to Obama, said, "The real inspiration that I found came from Wolf's story of success. Robert Wolf always strived to be a scholar athlete as a young high school student and he managed to come 4th in his graduating class in academic excellence while juggling baseball, football, and basketball in his extracurricular activities. As he went on to college he was rather close to becoming a doctor until he came upon the buying and selling of securities on wall street. This erased my fear of picking the wrong line in college, I found comfort that if I find something that I have more of a passion for I can still switch careers. Surprisingly I was just as inspired, if not more, by my fellow students then the mentors. Hearing the stories of fellow students of colleges they've gotten into, things that they have been doing over the summer. It really inspired me to do something over the summer and not sit idle. I would want to tell others is that one of the most important things to do over the summer is to keep yourself relatively busy and not let your brain rot from continuous exposure to video games and TV."
Sukhpreet Singh with Etan Thomas
Sukhpreet Singh Saran, also a rising senior at Quince Orchard High School, and who plays in his school's Lacrosse and football team and wants to be an engineer, said, "I was given the chance to take up a once in a lifetime opportunity, to meet the president. It was an amazing experience. I got to shake hands with the first African American President of the United States. What an honor! Not only did I meet the President, but I also had the chance to have a deep, intellectual conversation with Al Houston. I thought this whole situation was extremely moving. Never would I have thought I would be able to meet the president of the United States! Just think about it! How unreal does it sound? All this talk with these superior role models motivated me to make a change in the world and actually get out there and make something of myself. All these role models left their mark on the world. Now it's my turn."
Guransh Singh with Etan Thomas
Guransh Singh, 8th grader from Herbert Hoover Middle School going to 9th grade at Winston Churchill high School and who has tabla, kirtan, books and basketball as his passion and wants to be a lawyer, said, "While I was there, I was in complete awe because I never imagined meeting Mr. Obama and other celebrities. I met a current NBA player in Ethan Thomas, a retired NBA player Allan Houston, and the secretary of Energy. I was very excited before we reached the White House because meeting celebrities is not something everyone does on a daily basis. However, after meeting them and conversing with them, I felt comfortable and realized that the only difference between us and them is the level of success. Meeting these people impacted my life and I left the White House a humbled person. I was inspired to keep working hard at my life. When school starts again in the fall, I will strive to do my best and study for all my tests and do all the work that is asked me. Also, I had the privilege to play on Mr. Obama's basketball court at the White House. It was an amazing experience that I will cherish for the rest of my life. One song kept repeating itself in my head. It is called my generation and it goes: My generation will make a change; this generation will make a change. This will indeed happen if we spread what we learned and we apply it to our lives."
Gurpreet Singh, an academic high achiever and 10th grader at Quince Orchard High School, and who has robotics engineering as his passion, said, "Though I didn't realize it at first the trip to the White House actually encouraged me and inspired me. When I went to the White House I felt a little nervous, knowing that I will see the President in person and also knowing that I will meet famous people. Though, as the day continued, I felt a bit more at ease, especially when I realized that these famous people were just normal regular people. I met an NBA player Allan Houston, who is now retired. He started off by asking us what we wanted to do in college and what jobs we wanted to have in the future. He asked us about whom we look up to and asked us other questions related to that. But, the more and more the group talked the deeper and deeper the conversations got. My group started to talk about life and religion and in fact my group and I started teaching him about our religion. We started talking about Sikhism and what we believe in. He actually had a lot of questions about our religion and he seemed very interested in it. I just thought that I was going to the White House to talk about my career in the future, but actually I was able to aid in teaching an NBA player about my religion. This actually inspired me and encouraged me because if I was able to help teach an NBA player about my religion then I feel like I can teach anyone. A message I would give to friends and other Sikh boys of my age who were not there is that it doesn't matter who asks you about your religion don't feel hesitant to answer any questions they may have."
Daven Singh, Rajdeep Singh and kabir Singh and Swim Cash
Rajdeep Singh with James Gates
Rajdeep Singh, 11th grader at John F. Kennedy High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, who has kirtan and Neuro-science as his passion, said, "I Never would have thought..." is a motto that I repeated constantly throughout the visit at the White House, because it represents exactly what I was feeling.
It was an amazing, unforgettable day in my opinion. We entered and about 5 minutes later, President Obama, along with the mentors, came out. When President Obama came out, I was excited. I was about 5 feet from him, something I hadn't ever thought would happen. I looked to my right and saw celebrities, the likes of comedian Steve Harvey, NBA player Etan Thomas, physicist James Gates, Tracee Ross from "Girlfriends" and many more, something I never even thought of as a possibility, ignoring the fact that I had the opportunity to talk with them as well. I believe that the 2 highlights of the day for me were shaking President Obama's hand and meeting and talking with Steve Harvey. It took about 2 minutes for it to kick in that I had actually shook the President's hand. Another 2 minutes later, when I look down the lawn and saw the tourists taking pictures, I was immediately overtaken with humility. I could not believe that I was on the inside looking out instead of what it normally is. I had the opportunity to meet the President, come to the White House, and meet many celebrities, something people, including myself, wish for. I feel very lucky, even now, at the fact that I was allowed into this extraordinary event. Steve Harvey truly inspired me today. If I took away anything from Mr. Harvey, it was that the difference between the words "ordinary" and "extraordinary" is a much greater difference than that of their spellings. I learned that I must strive to be "extraordinary", and that I should, and I will, always think positive and big, for if I do, then I will surely succeed. One example that he gave really hit me. Mr. Harvey said "It doesn't take any more effort to say 'First Class' rather than 'Coach', so why do people say coach? I personally say 'private aircraft". Although the crowd that had started with 6 and had grew to about 20 plus started laughing, I grasped what he was trying to say. Success comes from attitude, and if you believe that you want something, then you can get it. Always think big and believe in yourself and believe in God. By doing these things, one will succeed. I learned alot from a comedian who I thought was just going to crack jokes, and I was truly motivated to strive for excellence and to broaden my horizon.
In conclusion, the event was again unforgettable and inspirational, not only because I got to meet so many celebrities and people who have succeeded, but because the students attending the event were just like me: aspiring students who just need some guidance and some motivation. As I looked around at the conclusion of the event, I felt really grateful and out of the many things going around in my mind, 4 things came up the most: 1) I am going to be successful and make a difference in this world. 2) I am going to be invited to White House events like these celebrities when I grow older. 3) I really want Steve Harvey to speak at my graduation and 4) Thank you, God, for giving me this wonderful, humbling opportunity. I will never forget this day because it truly opened my eyes and motivated me to always think big and strive for excellence."
Vikram Singh Mangat, a tall and a rising 11th Grader from Winston Churchill High School, in Potomac, Maryland, and who is playing for his basketball team in school, said. "It was a life changing experience for me. It made me realize how fortunate I was to be sitting on the White House lawn eating lunch. not only that but furthermore it made me realize how special my peers and I are and how lucky we are to be living in a country with so much opportunity. After long conversations with my celebrity mentor former NBA player Allan Houston I concluded that we as kids have the tools to do anything we want in this world. We have all the tools and resources to make change but we just need to have the right mind set. This mind set is not easy as it involves many responsibilities and a lot of commitment and devotion but with such a mind set the possibilities are endless. Everyone at this event was so genuine and welcoming. Obama shook any one's hand and just the overall environment felt very welcoming and sincere. My mentor Mr. Houston and I had a very interesting conversation and we both learned a lot from it. This was truly a life changing event and I am very thankful to the White House for the invitation. To any of my peers or friends that could not make it the one message I would like to convey is that we are living in the greatest country in the world. We can do anything as a community as long as we put our mind to it. I mean to be at the lawn of the White House eating hamburgers? What are the chances? One in almost a billion. But that statistic in the end is ultimately just a number and doesn't mean anything. We as kids of minority races should ignore the statistics and just pursue anything we have a passion for in this world."
Amarinder Singh Pandher, 12th grader from Quince Orchard High School, Gaitherburg, Maryland, and who learns gatka and who wants to be a physician, said, " I had the privilege to go to the White House to celebrate Father's Day. The first thing everyone did was stand in front of the South Lawn to see President Obama. It was funny to see them get excited every time someone came out of the building. When Obama finally came out, he gave a welcoming speech and shook everyone's hands. I couldn't believe it; the whole time, I thought I was watching TV.
After, shaking everyone's hands, he introduced the celebrity guests and sent them to each group. The celebrity guest that was in my group was Allan Houston, a retired NBA player. We had a real heart-to-heart conversation. The first topic he asked our group was about Sikhism. He asked why we wore out turbans, the values Sikhism upholds and if we were made fun of when we were kids. The next topic we talked about was President Obama. We talked about his policies, his views and how he deals with political attacks such as the ones from the Tea Party movement. The last topic we talked about was who influenced our lives the most. After that, we went to the basketball court and played 21. We even saw the President Obama's Ball and the White House basketball court.
From left to right: Sikh youth enjoying desert at the White House: Guransh Singh, Inderbir Singh, Vikram Singh, Gurpreet Singh and Amarinder Singh
This experience has been extremely memorable for me. I was able to go to the White House and meet Obama in person and it has taught me that I can accomplish anything if I work my hardest. I would give the same message to anyone who tries to accomplish something in life."
Inderbir Singh, 11th grader from Quince Orchard High School, Maryland, and who has soccer as his passion and wants to be an engineer, said, "I thought that I was lucky just to be picked out of 10 kids from Gurudwara, but when I reached the White House I learned that there were only 100 kids from all of America to be there. I immediately realized that this was a very special occasion this was and that I was lucky at all to be there. I thought that there were probably people more deserving then me who should be here.
The event at the White House started with a speech from Obama. He explained that he had brought "mentors" from all over the country. These mentors were supposed to sit with us during lunch and share experiences and help guide us through the future. In my opinion I think they did more than that, they inspired us to change the world. The mentor that was sitting at my table was Allan Houston. Al Houston is a retired basketball player who now is the Assistant to the President for Basketball Operations for the New York Knicks. He advised on not only on life but on the problems of life. We talked about hate in the world and how to educate people about what is right and what is wrong.
This inspired me to believe that if one man can change a group of kids then each of us could change another group of kids which creates a domino effect that can change the world"
Kabir Singh with Swim Cash
Kabir Singh, 11th Grader from Quince Orchard High School, Gaitherburg, Maryland, and who plays basketball for his school and who is an academic high achiever, said, "I was one of the privileged high school students in America, out of 100, to celebrate Father's day at the White House with President Barack Obama and several other well known guests. First, President Obama came outside to the South lawn and gave us a welcoming speech. He later introduced us to his famous guest speakers, who we had the chance to personally talk to. Our discussion was mainly on the importance of responsible fatherhood and mentoring to build healthy families and communities.
I personally had an inspirational discussion with American theoretical physicist, James Gates and comedian Steve Harvey. Mr. Gates and I had a discussion about the challenges that we will face in our futures and how to overcome those challenges and make them a learning experience. He persistently emphasized the importance of higher education and transferring the knowledge we acquire to be beneficial in our work environment. Mr. Gates was very sincere during his discussion, that it had a lasting expression on me personally. After talking to Mr. Gates, I went to the famous comedian Steve Harvey. Mr. Harvey had a different approach then Mr. Gates, but equally as inspirational. We had a discussion about how to become successful. Mr. Harvey was very straight-forward with us about the difference of having a diploma and being successful. He strongly emphasized that having a diploma will not guarantee success. He said that the way to become successful is to by training your mind to "think positively" and "think big". Mr. Harvey was very passionate during his discussion which also left a lasting expression on me personally.
Both of the guest speakers I had talked to have had an inspirational effect that I believe will have a positive impact for my future. Both speakers spoke from experience and both talked about the importance of what I do now, because it will affect my future. Just as President Obama said in his morning speech, these guest speakers are here to help us and mentor us.
This experience was a memorable experience that I wish I could share with all my friends, especially the ones in the Sikh community. When reflecting on this experience, I realize that I am fortunate to be in the position that I am in and it is my job to make every situation into a positive one. Being a Sikh, I only see the positives that come with keeping my identity and this experience made that more clear. Difficulties do come but that is a part of growing up and we have to deal with them."
Earlier in the morning before a crowd of faith leaders, fatherhood experts, women's groups and everyday moms and dads, President Obama delivered a major address on fatherlessness in America. He joined dads everywhere in a call to action on behalf of nation's families and kicked off The President's Fatherhood and Mentoring Initiative, a nationwide push to address father absence and ensure that all kids have positive role models in their lives. Mr. Obama said, in a call to action with states, cities and non-government organizations to raise awareness about responsible fatherhood.
Rajdeep, Vikram, Sukhpreet, Etan Thomas, Guransh and Kabir
Striking a personal note the day after Father's Day, President Obama announced a set of new proposals to help fathers become more engaged in their children's lives.
Speaking at an arts and recreation campus in Washington, Mr. Obama also proposed a Fatherhood, Marriage and Families Innovation Fund, which would provide funding for community projects that assist fathers. Those programs could include job training, parenting skills classes and domestic violence prevention.
He also outlined a transitional jobs initiative for men leaving prison so they can meet their child support obligations, as well as a plan for special re-entry courts for fathers leaving prison.
Mr. Obama said there are "too many fathers missing from too many homes," and that "when fathers abandon their responsibilities, there's harm done."
He added, "I say this as someone who grew up without a father in my own life."
While government can't force fathers to be present in their children's lives, Mr. Obama said, it can send a message that there's no excuse for failing to meet parental obligations.
He spoke fondly of his own experiences of a father, saying, "The most challenging, most fulfilling, most important job I will have in my time on this earth is to be Sasha's and Malia's dad."
Over the past year, officials from the Obama administration held a six-city listening tour on responsible fatherhood to help develop programs that address fatherlessness. On Monday, Mr. Obama announced next steps via a President's Fatherhood and Mentoring Initiative, including:
"We can do everything possible to provide good jobs and good schools and safe streets for our kids, but it will never be enough to fully make up the difference."
"That is why we need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child, but the courage to raise one."
Mentors at the White House
Steve Harvey began doing stand-up comedy in the mid-1980s, which eventually led to a long stint as host of "It's Showtime at the Apollo." His success as a stand-up comedian led to multiple TV sitcoms, including: "Me and The Boys" on ABC from 1994-1995, "The Steve Harvey Show" on the WB from 1996-2002 and "Steve Harvey Big Time Challenge" on the WB from 2003-2005. Currently Harvey hosts the nationally syndicated Steve Harvey Morning Show, which airs in over 64 markets and has over 7 million listeners from 6-10 AM
Robert Wolf is the Chairman & CEO for UBS Group Americas, President for the UBS Investment Bank and a member of the UBS Group Executive Board. Robert served as Global Head of Fixed Income from 2002 – 2004. He joined the firm in 1994 after spending approximately 10 years at Salomon Brothers.
James Gates, Jr. is an American theoretical physicist. He received BS and PhD degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the latter in 1977. His doctoral thesis was the first thesis at MIT to deal with supersymmetry. Gates is currently the John S. Toll Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park and serves on President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He is known for his work on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory. In 1984, working with M. T. Grisaru, M. Rocek, W. Siegel, Gates co-authored ``Superspace, the first comprehensive book on the topic of supersymmetry.
Gates has been featured extensively on many NOVA PBS programs on physics, most notably The Elegant Universe in 2003. In 2006, he completed a DVD series titled "Superstring Theory: The DNA of Reality" for The Teaching Company composed of 24 half-hour lectures to make the complexities of unification theory comprehensible to laypeople. During the 2008 World Science Festival, Prof. Gates narrated a ballet "The Elegant Universe" where he gave a public presentation of the artist forms connected to his scientific research.
Swim Cash, Two-time WNBA All-Star, Olympic gold medalist ,Most Outstanding Player at 2002 Final Four. Her full name, Swintayla, means "astounding woman." Call us astounded. Tall, toned and sexy, she's the cover girl of the WNBA. Hey, who wouldn't want to be posted up inside by the All-Star forward?
Cash recently was named one of college basketball's top 25 female players in the past 25 years as ESPN.com celebrated the silver anniversary of the women's NCAA Tournament. On the court, her achievements include leading Connecticut to an undefeated national championship season in 2002, helping the Shock win the 2003 WNBA title and winning Olympic gold in 2004. Off the court, she has received an array of honors, including an ESPY nomination for best WNBA player among numerous awards. She constantly gives back to the community through her foundation and donates money to the Children's Tumor Foundation.
Ethan Thomas graduated from Syracuse University as a two-time Big East defensive player of the year and the school's all time leader in block shots. Picked by Dallas in the first round of the 2000 NBA Draft, he eventually ended up playing for the Washington Wizards, where he became impressed with the political activism surrounding him. He has been invited to speak at the Congressional Black Caucus and has worked heavily with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as a vocal opponent of the death penalty.
Thomas has a passion for young people, speaking at community organizations, high schools and prisons across the country. He has performed alongside Nikki Giovanni, Edward Hirsch, The Last Poets, Kevin Powell and others. Refreshingly humble and remarkably talented, Thomas is determined to change the face of poetry, politics and professional sports with his own brand of legacy and an honest sense of urgency that resonates off every page of his first collection.Etan Thomas is More Than An Athlete. He's been called a "gentle giant". A "rebounder with a cause". Now the world can add published author to that list! With the release of his first collection of poems, Thomas defies the stereotype of the A-political athlete, and plants his roots in his budding literary career.

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   DELETE FROM agent_view_closure WHERE Agc_Path IN
    SELECT CONCAT(savc.Agc_Path, CONCAT('-', 8)) AS path FROM agent_view_closure savc WHERE savc.Agc_Oag_Id_Desc = 4

11:40:56 Kernel error: Error( 1064 ) 42000: "You have an error in your
  SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server
  version for the right syntax to use near 'avc WHERE avc.Agc_Path IN

Теперь пишу по отдельности
DELETE FROM agent_view_closure avc WHERE avc.Agc_Path IN ('4-8')

11:43:05 Kernel error: Error( 1064 ) 42000: "You have an error in your
  SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server
  version for the right syntax to use near 'avc WHERE avc.Agc_Path IN
  ('4-8')' at line 1"

Вот так срабатывает
DELETE FROM agent_view_closure WHERE Agc_Path IN ('4-8')

Но пишет Warning
11:44:07 Warning: 1681. 'EXTENDED' is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

Дело в том что это нужно написать на Symfony
$into = $qb->select([
            $qb->expr()->concat('savc.path', $qb->expr()->concat("'-'", ':descendant'))
        ])
            ->from(AgentViewClosure::class, 'savc')
            ->where('savc.descendant = :agent')
            ->getDQL();

        $qb->resetDQLParts();

        $qb->delete()
            ->from(AgentViewClosure::class, 'avc')
            ->where($qb->expr()->in('avc.path', $into))
            ->setParameters([
                'descendant' => $descendant->getId(),
                'agent'      => $agent->getId()
            ]);
        $test = $qb->getQuery()->getResult();

Получаю ошибку схожу с первыми

SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1093 You can't specify target table
  'agent_view_closure' for update in FROM clause

Есть у кого мысли как это решить?

A: В mysql нельзя удалять и одновременно выбирать из той же таблицы. Обходится через вложенный from-подзапрос или многотабличную форму delete. Подробней см MySQL error 1093 и 1235

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The climate and energy targets for 2030 which EU leaders are to finalise at a Brussels summit on Thursday (23 October) will not be set in stone, according to a leaked document.
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Draft conclusions distributed to government leaders on Thursday afternoon, seen by EUobserver, now include the option to change the targets in the so-called climate and energy framework for 2030, in case 'Paris 2015' fails.
"The European Council will keep all the elements of the framework under review and will revert to them as appropriate, notably with respect to non-ETS, interconnections and energy efficiency", says the document.
"Non-ETS" refers to sectors of the economy which are not currently obliged to pay for their carbon emissions.
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It softens new powers for the European Commission in EU countries' bilateral talks with energy suppliers.
Last week's conclusions said countries must "ensure" the commission is kept informed and take its "advice".
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Amid fears that Russia will use gas cut-offs to exert influence on neighbouring EU countries, Thursday's draft text says EU states agree to "implement critical projects of common interest in the gas sector, such as the North-South corridor, the Southern Gas Corridor".
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"This is a big deal for Portugal and Spain because they are an electricity island and they want better connections to the rest of Europe", an EU source noted.
Another EU contact said a third draft of the summit conclusions, circulated on Thursday evening, put "in brackets" a target of 10 percent for 2020 and 15 percent for 2030, indicating it is back on the table, however.


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Johnners' Cricketing Gaffes, Giggles and Cakes (Barry Johnston)
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SKU: 9781408409480 (PRH) Category: Comedy
Running Time 1hr 10mins
A compilation of Johnners' famous cricketing gaffes and giggles from the BBC archives, selected and presented by his son Barry Johnston.
Brian Johnston, known to everyone as Johnners, was as well known for his on-air gaffes as for his Test Match Special commentaries. Here are his most famous and funniest cricketing mishaps, which have been chosen by his son, Barry. Among Johnners' laugh-out-loud clangers are "joined by the Balls", "sitting on a shooting stick" and a streaker's cheeky performance… waving her flag and other things?. There's also Mr Titt's letter… More giggles from the archives include Johnners' notorious Ashes comedy song, his appearances on Quote, Unquote and Trivia Test Match, plus Fawlty Towers insights from John Cleese. From leg-pulling to leg-overs, inflatable parrots to chocolate cake, this special recording is not just for cricket lovers, it's for anyone who loves a laugh!
Barry Johnston is the eldest son of legendary cricketer Brian Johnston. He was educated at Eton before becoming a songwriter for Apple Publishing, and in 1969 he joined the vocal harmony group Design. He sang with them for the next eight years (under his stage name, Barry Alexander) and appeared on over 50 TV shows in the 1970s, as well as writing several of their hit singles and many album tracks. After the band split up, Barry continued writing and, for two years, was manager of The New Seekers. He left the music business in 1983 to start a career in broadcasting, first on Californian breakfast show KLOA-AM and later with Radio Sussex and Radio 5. In 2006, he established Barn Productions, and has since produced over 100 audiobooks, including the award-winning Johnners at the Beeb and An Evening with Johnners. He has also edited several books and is the author of two biographies, Round Mr Horne: The Life of Kenneth Horne and Johnners: The Life of Brian.
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DVD Review: Hellraiser Triple Feature
Simon Abrams
Selling people junk in bulk isn't a new sales tactic, but in the case of this Hellrasier box set, which bundles together the third, fourth, and fifth entries from the popular horror series, it feels especially cruel. Though the Hellraiser films were never really capable of properly conceiving their own grisly visions of gore-soaked BDSM sex fantasies, none of these three sequels have the novel charm of their predecessors. The series, produced by creator Clive Barker until Hellraiser: Inferno, had by the time of the third film entered permanent creative reruns.
No matter where he is, in Hellraiser: Hell on Earth's decadent New York or Hellraiser: Bloodline's outer space, the villainous Pinhead (Doug Bradley) is always spluttering about how all-powerful he is. He does this while ripping the skin off of his victims using his signature black chains and fishhooks. Complaining that a conceit isn't scary is surely the last bastion of stumped horror fans everywhere, but Barker's baddy isn't even a little frightening.
Then again, Pinhead was never designed to be anything more than a hypersexual, bondage suit-clad update of H.P Lovecraft's Elder Gods. Traditional morality doesn't apply to Pinhead: "There is no good, there is no evil[…]there is only flesh." He accordingly floats around torturing anyone with even a slight interest in hedonistic pursuits. Pinhead's always thwarted when his victims figure out how to manipulate the Lament Configuration, an intricate toy box that alternately summons and banishes Pinhead to and from Earth.
In that sense, the trouble with these films is that they're just extremely tacky variations on an already lame formula. Barker wasn't even able to make the first Hellraiser an unnerving, blood-soaked chiller. As in his source novella, The Hellbound Heart, Barker has a nasty habit of building up the action in the first film and losing his edge in a series of diarrhetic climaxes that proved his lack of creativity. The same is true of Hellraiser: Hell on Earth, where you can almost imagine an even more infantilized version of Barker's authorial voice narrating events if you're bored enough: "And then these hooks come out and they rip the skin off the girl and Pinhead's laughing and there's, like, blood everywhere and she's moaning and Pinhead shoves her between his legs and absorbs her energy and the sculpture he's trapped in starts oozing and breaking apart and there's blood and it looks like cum and sex stuff but horrifying sex stuff."
Even with Barker at the helm, the Hellraiser series was always stillborn, so it's no surprise that its later sequels' attempts to expand the franchise's mythology proved futile. For instance, while Hellraiser: Inferno is clearly just an unrelated, Z-grade version of Shutter Island that was rewritten to include Pinhead, both Hellraiser: Hell on Earth and Hellraiser: Bloodline give Pinhead and the Lament Configuration a backstory. In Hellraiser: Hell on Earth, Terri (Paula Marshall), the daughter of the WWI soldier that would later become Pinhead, tries to set her restless father's spirit free, but only after she watches a man's head explode while blue electricity shoots out of a set of chains dug into his flesh.
Similarly in Hellraiser: Bloodline, Paul Merchant (Bruce Ramsay), the far-flung descendant of Philippe L'Merchant (also Ramsay), the original creator of the Lament Configuration, must stop Pinhead in a space station in the year 2127. After explaining—spoiler alert!—how his ancestors unsuccessfully fought Pinhead through a series of flashbacks that comprise the vast majority of the film's narrative, Merchant stops Pinhead by reconfiguring the space station into a giant cube that looks like the Lament Configuration. The series may have vaulted over several sharks by this point, but a line of dialogue as cheesy as "Pain has a face, allow me to show it to you. Gentlemen, I am pain" could have just as easily been taken from Barker's first Hellraiser movie. Creative stagnation is the real killer in these sequels, though their terrible dialogue and lousy acting certainly help.
Echo Bridge did nothing to clean up the image quality on all three films, which all look as if they were ripped from high-quality VHS tapes. The audio soundtracks aren't much better: The monaural soundtrack on all three films is sufficient, but the individual dialogue and sound effects tracks would have benefited from some cleaning up. The post-dubbed dialogue soundtrack on Hellraiser: Bloodline sounds especially tinny.
There are no special features included in Echo Bridge's new bargain-bin release, but then again, what would you expect from a release that crams together three films on a single double-sided disc?
The Hellraiser Triple Feature box set is guaranteed to give you buyer's remorse.
Cast: Doug Bradley, Terry Farrell, Adam Scott, Nicholas Turturro, Craig Sheffer, Bruce Ramsay, Valentina Vargas, Paula Marshall, Kevin Bernhardt Director: Anthony Hickox, Alan Smithee, Scott Derrickson Screenwriter: Peter Atkins, Scott Derrickson, Paul Harris Boardman Distributor: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment Running Time: 283 min Rating: R Year: 1992 - 2000 Release Date: April 11, 2011 Buy: Video
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Synagoga Młodsza w Brahiłowie – bóżnica znajdująca się na Ukrainie w Brahiłowie na terenie zamkniętego zakładu przemysłowego.

Została zbudowana na początku XX wieku. Architekt nadał jej kostium historyczny. Jest budynkiem jednopiętrowym, murowanym cegłą o kolorze piaskowym. Na szczycie fasady znajduje się gwiazda Dawida ułożona z cegły o innym kolorze. Zachowało się wiele ozdób: m.in. pilastry, gzymsy, drzwi i obramienia okien.

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Hand/arms making contact with the ball.
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Teams must maintain an overall rating of 3 to play in the finals. Play Sask managers will encourage teams that have a rating of less than 3 to improve their sportsmanship. Low spirit scores may be used as an indicator of how well a team adheres to the code of conduct; if your score is too low and does not improve, your team may be penalized.
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"And I'm not making this up," she said.
No Theresa, the Telegraph and the Mail did that for you.
This week saw Theresa May announce her plan to repeal the Human Rights Act, citing the two year old story of the immigrant who was allowed to stay in the country because he owns the cat.
"What's really worrying is that this Government is making policies on the basis of false Daily Mail stories."
The Mail reported May's plans with glee, in a classic case of "Mail reports on Home Secretary quoting made-up Mail story".
This is the same Mail who the day before accidentally posted their pre-prepared and entirely fictional "Amanda Knox guilty of murder" article, complete with invented quotes and reactions, just after Knox was found guilty of slander, and not guilty of murder.
Nice to see our glorious leaders allying themselves with the right people, as usual.
The full terrifying "lock 'em up and throw away the key" text of Theresa May's speech can be found here.
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I believe too that the message behind the resurrection is good, but I really think it is just symbolism and allegory as most things written in the bible (Adam and eve, talking snakes, creation).
Liz, I love that you are big on LISTENING!!! I believe wholeheartedly in that. However, I feel I've ran across some verbally dominant people. Honestly, they are hard to listen to, but then I remember in my heart that they are probably just as wounded and hurt on the inside as I am and need to be listened to.
Sometimes I do good at listening and sometimes I don't but I do think I am better than I used to be.
I love this post, Liz! I chuckled at that line too, even though I really do still "fit" that bit of "orthodoxy". There are so many like Thomas who would need to see it to believe it, and yet live in the way Jesus called us to live out of real love for Him and their fellow disciples.
I imagine my kids answering my questions about why they didn't follow my clear instructions for a day with me at work with "We thought you were alive and would come back home at least!". Huh? You didn't think I was dead or permanently absent and you think I'm going to use that "faith" to excuse you in living as if you actually thought I wouldn't show back up and care whether you'd done what I asked you to do?
I didn't post this month because I'm done ranting & back to living, & I couldn't make this topic encourage that in others. You did, though! Thanks, Liz!
Maria – Thanks so much for your encouraging words and thoughts. I always enjoy your take on things!
I appreciate your bold & honest thoughts on this subject. I struggle, in my family, being the only "non-Christian". Yet, I feel I live closer to the tenants of Jesus' teachings then most "real" Christians I know. I feel it is more important to follow his ways, than to argue about whether or not he did "this" or accomplished "that". To me, the question at the end of each day is this: Do you live a Christ-like life, follow in his example to the best of your abilities, feel badly when you miss the mark, & try to repair your failings on a daily basis? If the answer is yes, which for me it is, then I feel I get to wear the label of "real" Christian. After all, we dress ourselves, do we not? The label someone else slaps upon me doesn't have to be the label I choose to define who I am as a person or where I am in my spiritual journey.
Andi-Roo, YES! I agree! Your ideas about what it means to be a real follower of Christ is right on!
Thank you, Liz … I had a similar response to "we firmly believe …" It's not something I would even get in a discussion about, but it is something I question and do not hold onto as a tenet of my faith. I love the way you put it, "I believe that the work of God and the way of Jesus brings life out of death." For me, that's the more important point.
Sonja – To be honest there are still moments when I believe in the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ but I can't remember the last time that I could describe that belief as "firmly". I just don't embrace that kind of certainty about much anymore.
…because Jesus is the resurrection and the life and Christ is Risen Indeed! thanks–Joyous Easter!


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Posted on April 10, 2019 by Miriam Sharpe
Paul Gardner and moa skeletons at the Otago Museum.
The kiwi, the emu, the moa, the cassowary, the rhea, the ostrich. They're all part of a group of flightless birds from the Southern hemisphere known as ratites, and they're giving us some very cool lessons on how animals evolve.
Otago Biochemistry's Dr Paul Gardner and his bioinformatic colleagues from Harvard University, the Welcome Sanger Institute, and the Universities of Texas and Toronto have been using DNA sequences from these birds to figure out how species evolve, at the DNA level.
An ex-kiwi at the Otago Museum.
Ratites are all related. You might therefore assume that all flightless ratites all evolved from one flightless ancestor, but you would be wrong. Yes, they did all share the same distant ancestor, but that ancestor could fly. It turns out that the ratites didn't all lose the ability to fly at one time. Instead, the ancestors of these birds diversified into different flying species and then, independently of each other, lost the ability to fly.
When separate species all evolve the same characteristic independently of each other, like flightlessness in ratites, it's called convergent evolution.
You can see the convergent evolution in the bodies of the ratites; they all have smaller wings, smaller pectoral muscles, feather modifications, and larger bodies (even the smallest of the bunch, the kiwi, is pretty big compared with most flying birds). All of the instructions for a bird to grow these features are found in the bird's DNA. So, that means there will be convergent evolution at the DNA level as well.
An emu, a cassowary, and a rhea (or at least they used to be) at the Otago Museum.
But what parts of the ratites' DNA has changed from that of their ancestors? What are the changes in the DNA instructions for building a body that mean the birds grow big but have little wings?
Dr Gardner and his colleagues compared DNA sequences from 44 species of birds, including nine flightless ratites, and carried out some serious number crunching to answer these questions.
What they found was unexpected.
Put very simply, bird DNA (and our DNA, and the DNA of every living thing) is made up of two parts.
There are short bits of DNA, sprinkled throughout a creature's genome, that we call genes. Many genes are the instructions for making proteins, the micromachines that do everything that needs to be done in our bodies: breaking foods down, building cells, etc (Kahn Academy has a nice introduction to proteins here).* When evolution changes the protein gene DNA, it gradually changes the shape of these micromachines, changing what they do.
The rest of the DNA, in between the protein genes, was in the past called junk DNA, because we didn't know what it did. However, some of it we can't call it junk anymore. Many of the bits in between, it turns out, have the very important role of regulating the genes – controlling when and where the genes are turned off and on.
The researchers compared DNA sequences between the different flightless and flying birds. They found that the parts of DNA that have become similar in the flightless ratite birds are not the protein gene DNA, as people originally thought would be the case. Instead, the parts of DNA that 'converged' were mostly DNA in between the genes, the regulatory DNA.**
In other words, the flightless birds have the same genes as the flying birds they evolved from, i.e. the protein micromachines that the genes encode have the same shapes and functions. But when and where these proteins are made in the body is what makes the birds' wings small and bodies big and means they can't fly.
We used to think that differences between related species, like for example, those between humans and our cousins the chimpanzees (compare the small groups of chimps living their hand-to-mouth existence and the amazingly complex cities of millions of humans), come from changes in our protein-encoding genes. There is now more and more evidence that these differences boil down to changes in the DNA between the genes, ie the bits that regulate the genes.
It's fascinating to find out how quirky birds like the kiwi and moa left the sky behind and made the ground their home (why they took this evolutionary path is a question for another study). But the implications of these findings reach far beyond birds, helping us to understand ourselves, and everything living thing that evolves.
* Genes can encode either proteins or non-coding RNAs.
** A lot of junk DNA really is junk. The researchers found 'signal' in the conserved (i.e. non-junk) non-coding regions.
Read the paper here:
Convergent regulatory evolution and loss of flight in paleognathous birds. Sackton, et al. (2019) Science 364, 6435, pp. 74-78 DOI: 10.1126/science.aat7244
Abstract: A core question in evolutionary biology is whether convergent phenotypic evolution is driven by convergent molecular changes in proteins or regulatory regions. We combined phylogenomic, developmental, and epigenomic analysis of 11 new genomes of paleognathous birds, including an extinct moa, to show that convergent evolution of regulatory regions, more so than protein-coding genes, is prevalent among developmental pathways associated with independent losses of flight. A Bayesian analysis of 284,001 conserved noncoding elements, 60,665 of which are corroborated as enhancers by open chromatin states during development, identified 2355 independent accelerations along lineages of flightless paleognaths, with functional consequences for driving gene expression in the developing forelimb. Our results suggest that the genomic landscape associated with morphological convergence in ratites has a substantial shared regulatory component.
Media coverage:
How emus and ostriches lost the ability to fly – Science News
Dr Paul Gardner: Kiwis used to fly – Interview on RNZ National
Kiwi and moa may have flown to New Zealand – Newshub video
Dr Gardner enjoying a good old-fashioned moa panorama (again at the Otago Museum).
This entry was posted in Uncategorised and tagged bioinformatics, DNA sequencing, Dr Gardner, evolution, genetics, kiwi, moa, proteins, ratite by Miriam Sharpe. Bookmark the permalink.


In preparation for Health:Refactored, our code and design focused conference taking place May 13–14, we sat down with Jeff Schox patent attorney and founding member of Schox Patent Group. His talk "When You Should Worry about Digital Health Patents" will take place during the Scary Acronyms: HIPAA, USPTO, FDA, EHRs track on May 13th. Follow the Health:Refactored speaker interview series here.
Jessica Goldband: Why don't we start off by talking a little bit about your background.
Jeff Schox: I have been a patent attorney for 15 years. I have written about 600 patent applications. After working at a big firm for about five years I broke off and started my own. The focus of the last 10 years of my career has been solely on startups. How do you build a patent portfolio in the early stage of a startup that scales with that startup?
Goldband: Can you touch a little bit upon what you are going to focus on during your talk at the conference?
Jeff Schox: Sure! The digital health space is confusing from an intellectual property standpoint. Half of it is consumer Internet, or maybe iPhone applications, and from that particular angle, it doesn't look like there is anything that both coders and developers don't think of as intellectual property.
You have this interesting tension. Some digital health companies will need to focus on intellectual property. That's what their investors will focus on, that's what partners would focus on. That will be a strong aspect of their exit.
And there is another portion of digital health companies that can completely ignore intellectual property. They probably don't have anything that's patentable. Their investors are not going to ask those questions, the partner is not going to ask questions, and the exit isn't going to be affected at all, whether or not they have intellectual property. I try to figure out where a digital health startup is within that spectrum. There are a couple of factors, and those factors I will explore during my talk.
Goldband: Can you touch on what is protectable and what isn't? Some patents might be more focused on design, others might be focused on functionality. Can you talk a little bit about some of the differences there and how developers and designers should be thinking about what's protectable?
Schox: The patent office doesn't necessarily care about what type of data is being passed through data channels. They don't necessarily care about the titles that people are using. So here is an application that allows doctors to share information with nurses and family members. The patent office isn't going to see that as a communication platform for doctors and nurses and families, rather they will see that as, this is a communication platform. The fact that it's health information and the fact that it's health providers is something that the patent office will not give any patentable weight to.
But there are lot of issues around communications and health. There are a lot of interesting opportunities with mobile devices, and putting sensors on it, or doing computation, or being able to do certain task on that, that wasn't necessarily intended to, but now it can because of the processing power that it has. So thinking a little bit more about it from a technological standpoint, what are some of the problems that we are now solving, that's kind of one category.
The second category would be, we are providing a different user experience than has ever been done before.
Goldband: And what about timing? I think that a lot of developers and designers out there might assume that you want to file a patent as soon possible. Are there other tradeoffs to that timing, and should people be thinking a little bit more carefully about when they choose to file?
Schox: Yes. We recommend all of our clients to file provisional applications first. Provisional is much cheaper, it's much shorter, it's much faster, and now that we are in a first to file patent system, filing first gets very important.
The timing is not just let's get there first, but a provisional application has a 12 month expiration date. We need to convert that provisional application to a utility type application within that 12 months, before it expires.
And so also think about this timeline of 12 months on to a development timeline and a funding timeline. That we want to be able to file a provisional application on one side of a funding event, and converting it to a full patent application on another side of the funding event, and that's the best way to preserve cash at an early stage startup.
We also want to be able to ensure that the development all occurs during that 12 months, or at least it's done before the end of that 12 months. We don't want to split the application. We don't want to file multiple patent applications on a particular invention. We want to be able to grab all that we can and file a full patent application on it.
Filing a provisional application at one point, finishing the development of it, and the implementation details, and then converting it within 12 months is ideal. So technology is going to be developed longer than the 12 month period; one strategy might be to delay that provisional application.
Goldband: So any other advice for developers and designers before Health:Refactored?
Jeff Schox: There are a lot of startups worrying about patent controls, and they shouldn't. And they don't worry enough about what their competitors own and they should.


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