Areskoug Josefsson, K., Winberg, C., Perry, M. & Ramaswamy, B. (2019). Co-production: long-term conditions. In: : . Paper presented at World Confederation for Physical Therapy Congress, Geneva, Switzerland, 10-13 May, 2019.
Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, The Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and Welfare. Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ. IMPROVE (Improvement, innovation, and leadership in health and welfare).
University of Otago, School of Physiotherapy, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK.
This seminar focuses on co-production in physiotherapy practice and the co-constructive learning processes in this professional development. Co-production between physiotherapists and persons with chronic disease exists, but needs to be further acknowledged. Examples and discussions show how coproduction can be used in clinical practice to improve quality of physiotherapy service and how persons with chronic diseases want to be involved. The seminar will define the concepts of co-production as well as co-constructive learning processes. Co-production is about involving patients as equals and this seminar will involve input from persons with patient experience. We will bring forward clinical and management perspectives of coproduction in physiotherapy and show how co-production can meet present and future demands of rehabilitation needs from the population in various contexts.
The Public Health Agency of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden.
Karolinska Institutet, Department of Public Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.
Knowledge of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) by health care, police, legal and social work professionals has been shown to be insufficient. This lack of competence is likely to affect the quality of services. The aim of this study was to describe SRHR indicators in educational programmes in health care, police, legal and social work higher education in Sweden. A text-based analysis was conducted of written material from all educational programmes in law, midwifery, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, police work, psychology, social work and undergraduate medicine (93 educational programmes at 27 universities and university colleges). Representation of different SRHR indicators varied, but most were poorly covered in the educational programmes. Existing educational programmes lack comprehensiveness in their coverage of SRHR and are unequal both within and between the professions and universities. This situation creates the risk of inequalities in SRHR competence and suggests that needs within this field may be unmet. There is an urgent need therefore to enhance the presence of SRHR in health care, social work and law enforcement education in Sweden.
Thapa, D. R., Krettek, A., Areskoug Josefsson, K. & Ekström- Bergström, A. (2019). Exploring nurses' experiences of their work-related health in a Swedish context – A qualitative study. In: : . Paper presented at 9th Nordic Health Promotion Research Conference, 12-14 June 2019, Roskilde, Denmark.
Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ. ADULT.
Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ, Dep. of Social Work. Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ. CHILD. Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ. SALVE (Social challenges, Actors, Living conditions, reseach VEnue).
Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ, Dep. of Social Work. Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ. SALVE (Social challenges, Actors, Living conditions, reseach VEnue).
Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ, Dep. of Social Work. Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ. SALVE (Social challenges, Actors, Living conditions, reseach VEnue). Futurum - akademin för hälsa och vård, Länssjukhuset Ryhov, Jönköping, Sverige.
Previous research regarding social work related to sexual health and sexuality shows the importance of competence in this field for social workers and therefore is a need to explore students´ attitudes, knowledge and view on working with sexual health in their future profession. This project aims to psychometrically test the questionnaire Students' Attitudes towards Addressing Sexual Health (SA-SH) for students in social work. The results show good content validity, construct validity, internal consistency and intra-rater reliability for the SA-SH for students in social work (response rate of 91%, 242 students). The SA-SH can therefore be recommended to be used to measure attitudes, believed competence, and knowledge regarding sexual health among social work students, and to follow up educational interventions.
Fysioterapeuter har en viktig roll i att främja sexuell hälsa genom helhetssyn på hälsa och livskvalitet. Befintlig forskning visar på fysioterapeuters betydelsefulla roll, samtidigt som det finns brister i kompetens och utbildning.
Occupational Safety and Health Care, Region Jönköping County, Sweden.
Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, The Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and Welfare. Occupational Safety and Health Care, Region Jönköping County, Sweden.
Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ, Dep. of Social Work. Futurum – Academy for Healthcare, Region Jönköping County, Sweden.
BACKGROUND: Occupational health services (OHS) are rarely involved in preventive issues and systematic work environment management. The Structured Multidisciplinary Work Evaluation Tool (SMET) questionnaire was created to address the lack of multidisciplinary/multifactorial OHS tools with the aim to be used in preventive issues and systematic work environment management.
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to evaluate trustworthiness of the inter-rater reliability in the qualitative analysis of the open-ended items and intra-rater reliability of the self-estimated items in the SMET questionnaire.
METHODS: A qualitative comparison of the inter-rater reliability in the qualitative analysis of the open-ended items was performed to evaluate trustworthiness. The intra-rater reliability of the self-estimated items in the SMET questionnaire were analysed with Elisabet Svensson method.
RESULTS: Qualitative analysis of the open-ended items showed good trustworthiness. The self-estimated items showed a high percent agreement (PA), 0.98-0.99 in the physically, 0.99 in the environmentally and 0.98-1.0 in the psychosocially demanding items. A low degree of systematic errors and individual variability were found.
CONCLUSIONS: The SMET questionnaire shows good trustworthiness and intra-rater reliability and can be used to follow up and evaluate work environmental interventions.
Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, The Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and Welfare. Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ. IMPROVE (Improvement, innovation, and leadership in health and welfare). Department of Behavioral Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Oslo Metropolitan University, Oslo, Norway.
Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ, Dep. of Social Work. Futurum Academy for Health and Care, Jönköping County Council, Jönköping, Sweden.
Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ, Dep. of Social Work. Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ. SALVE (Social challenges, Actors, Living conditions, reseach VEnue). Department of Social Work, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.
Sexual health is an important area for social work. Social workers' failure to address sexual health issues in social work practice, due to experienced discomfort, may create barriers toward clients, and lead to their decreased health. Investigating social work students' attitudes toward sexual health, and their perceived competence in this area is crucial for developing social work education on sexual health issues. The aim of the present study was to explore Swedish social work students' attitudes and perceived competence and educational needs regarding communicating about sexual health in their future profession. A quantitative study using the Students' Attitudes toward Sexual Health (SA-SH) in a Swedish sample of 242 social work students. The students considered knowledge about sexual health as important for their future profession. The response patterns indicated that students considered themselves uncomfortable and insufficiently prepared to handle issues related to sexual health in their future profession, which may affect how they succeed in addressing the needs of their future clients. The conclusion of this study is that social work students are insufficiently prepared to address issues concerning sexual health in their future profession. Social work programs need to increase sexual health education as well as training in communicating about sexual health issues in order to meet the needs of the clients.
Areskoug Josefsson, K. (2019). Value of performing a Rasch analysis on a reliable and valid instrument – case study of the SA-SH.
Research Unit of General Practice, Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
Department of Physiotherapy, University College Lillebaelt, Odense, Denmark.
Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ, Dep. of Social Work. Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, HHJ. SALVE (Social challenges, Actors, Living conditions, reseach VEnue). Futurum, Academy for Health and Care, Jönköping County Council, Jönköping, Sweden.
This pilot study aimed to explore if healthcare professional students participating in a 2-week elective course, Sexual Health in Rehabilitation (SHR), led to significant and sustained change in experienced competence and attitudes towards addressing sexual health in their future professions, when measured with the Students' Attitudes towards Sexual Health-Danish version (SA-SH-D). Comparison-group design, using the SA-SH-D at baseline, after the 2 weeks course and 3 months after completing the course. Participation in the SHR course significantly changed the students' attitudes; decreasing their fears of offending the patients and increasing their feelings of comfort in communicating about sexual health, and the results sustained during the follow-up period of 3 months. The results of the intervention suggest that a 2-week elective SHR course leads to sustained change healthcare students' attitudes towards addressing sexual health in their future profession. Sexual health education positively changed the students' attitudes, decreased their fears of offending the patients and increased their feelings of comfort in communicating about sexual health. The SA-SH-D is a useful tool to measure results of educational interventions aiming to change healthcare students' attitudes towards addressing sexual health in their future profession. Future research is recommended regarding students' attitudes towards addressing sexual health with persons living with disabilities. There is also a need to further research the effect of elective versus compulsory sexual health education in healthcare programs, to lessen the risk that healthcare students in their future profession will not be able to give equal care due to variation in competence and attitude.


WHAT WILL next Sunday be like in North America? How will the day be spent in Mexico, Italy, Germany and Sweden?
High above the earth — some 22,500 miles away — is an intriguing piece of ironmongery which will supply the answers to these questions.
It can bring us television pictures of events in various parts of the world as they take place.
The official name of this scientific piece of equipment is "Public Satellite No. 1", known less alarmingly as Early Bird.
This spacecraft, shaped rather like a hat box, will be in full operation this Sunday when Post Master General Anthony Wedgwood Benn introduces a special Early Bird showcase programme called Out of This World.
Transmissions will be "live" and two-way between the continents of Europe and North America.
Broadly speaking, cameras will be going out in the open air for their material. Britain will be taking a look at amongst other things, the band of the Grenedier Guards and the bustling Information Room at Scotland Yard.
In addition to music, sport and variety spectaculars from all of the specially chosen centres, there will be constant news bulletins — a significant advance in the history of factual television.
Viewers may quite reasonably ask: But haven't we already seen this sort of thing via Telstar? This is very true. But the Important thing about Early Bird is that It is the first permanent link between North America and Europe.
Unlike Telstar and similar satellites, Early Bird stays in a fixed position over the Atlantic. Transmissions are no longer restricted to times when a satellite is passing between the two continents.
The 85 lb. Early Bird is already in position for Sunday's transmissions. It has enough power to carry TV pictures among all the countries on both sides of the Atlantic.
Picture quality is said to be even better than Telstar. In time, it is hoped to launch another two similar satellites which will then give world coverage.
If there's time during the transmission of Out of This World, there will be demonstrations of the variety of ways in which Early Bird can be used.
Its electronic equipment, for example, will pick up radiotelephone signals from earth, amplify them and transmit them back to earth far beyond their normal range.
On Sunday, there'll be an opportunity to see just how perfected "Public Satellite No. 1" really is. There'll also be a unique chance to view one of the most exciting breakthroughs in TV history.
(3) Travelling wave tube ferrite switch.
(4) Thermal shields sealing electronics from space environment after solar panels are mounted.
(5) One of four hydrogen peroxide tanks used for Jet control system.
(11) Separation interface for Delta rocket.
(1) Lift-off from Cape Kennedy.
(2) Second stage burnout orbit.
(3) Injection into transfer orbit near Equator after third stage burn.
(5) Six hours, 10 minutes after lift-off satellite reached first apogee.
(6) Second perigee above Equator.
(7) Second apogee above South America.
(6) Third perigee over Africa.
(9) Third apogee above Equator over Indonesia.
(10) Fourth perigee over Equator in mid-Pacific.
(11) Fourth and final apogee over South America at 60 degrees west longitude, apogee motor ignited and satellite injected into nominal drift orbit.
(12) Spacecraft is reoriented and propelled with on-board gas jet system to final position at 27½ degrees west longitude.


Citation: FAN ZHEN (2015-07-24). MULTIFERROIC BIFEO3-BASED THIN FILMS AND DEVICES: MANIPULATION OF CRYSTAL STRUCTURES AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES. ScholarBank@NUS Repository.
Abstract: MULTIFERROICS, WHICH EXHIBIT SIMULTANEOUSLY COUPLED TWO OR MORE FERROIC (FERROELECTRIC, FERROMAGNETIC, AND FERROELASTIC) ORDERS, HAVE ATTRACTED ENORMOUS RESEARCH INTEREST IN THE LAST DECADE. THE CELEBRATED RENAISSANCE OF MULTIFERROICS PROBABLY BEGAN WITH THE STUDY OF A PARADIGMATIC MEMBER ? BIFEO3 (BFO). A VAST NUMBER OF PREVIOUS INVESTIGATIONS INTO BFO HAVE REVEALED ITS VERSATILE CRYSTAL STRUCTURES AND A BROAD PALETTE OF PHYSICAL PROPERTIES. THE COEXISTENCE OF INTRIGUING STRUCTURAL, FERROELECTRIC, MAGNETIC AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES, AND THE CROSS-COUPLING BETWEEN THEM, ENDOW BFO A UNIQUE POTENTIAL FOR MULTIFUNCTIONAL DEVICES. IN THIS THESIS, SEVERAL APPROACHES INCLUDING STRAIN ENGINEERING, B-SITE SUBSTITUTION, AND IN COMBINATION WITH OTHER FUNCTIONAL SEMICONDUCTORS, HAVE BEEN STUDIED TO TUNE AND MANIPULATE THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURES AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF BFO.


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When the Waugh is over, Got to start again
The Sydney Test of January 1984 was a special event, as announcements came through during the match that both Greg Chappell and Dennis Lillee were to play their last Test for Australia. Although the match itself was nothing spectacular – Australia beat Pakistan by ten wickets – there was plenty of emotion as Chappell ended his career with a big century and Lillee ended his with a five-fer. Twenty years later, the Sydney Test of January 2004 will be no less special.
When Australia meets India in the Fourth Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground, it will be the last Test match appearance of Stephen Rodger Waugh. That most successful of Australian captains announced his forthcoming retirement at the SCG yesterday.
By choosing a graceful exit and giving six weeks notice, Waugh has added an extra theme to the Australia-India series, which becomes for him a personal farewell tour of the eastern states (his last Test at the WACA was against Zimbabwe last month – Hayden's 380 game). And in case the series happens to be looking lop-sided after the first three Tests, Waugh has surely guaranteed a sellout at the SCG as his hometown crowd comes along to say goodbye.
By setting his own agenda for departure, Waugh has avoided the anticlimax of some of the other recent greats of the Australian game. While Chappell and Lillee went out triumphantly at the SCG in 1984, the fact that it was also Rod Marsh's final Test was not made clear for several weeks afterwards.
Allan Border's international retirement in 1994 was an abrupt off-season announcement, though he did hang around with Queensland long enough to take part in their first Sheffield Shield win the following year. When Mark Taylor walked off the SCG in 1999 having retained the Ashes, we all feared it was the end, but hoped that he would hang around a bit longer. However, with his batting form fast evaporating, he made the only sensible decision a few weeks later.
Ian Healy made a sudden decision to retire just before the start of the 1999-2000 Test season, as did Mark Waugh three years later. Both ended their illustrious careers in low-key circumstances, in Zimbabwe and Sharjah respectively. And both had almost certainly got the tap on the shoulder from head of selectors Trevor Hohns telling them to go before they were dropped.
Hohns may well have had the whisper in Steve Waugh's ear as well, his dreams of playing on for another twelve months in hope of winning a Test series in India having now been abandoned. But he had already been down a similar road in early 2002, standing down from the ODI side to tour South Africa when it became clear that there was no guarantee that he was going to be chosen.
At the age of 38, the signs are there that the Steve Waugh machine is starting to wind down. In between some brilliant innings at the start of the 2003-04 season – two match-winning centuries against WA in the ING and Pura Cups, and a big ton against Tasmania – Waugh has made three ducks in six Pura Cup innings. His bowling is slow-medium these days, even though he has not lost his love of the bouncer, much to the disdain of Michael Hussey who fell victim to a Waugh waist-high short-pitched ball in a Pura Cup game that I witnessed a few weeks ago.
The captaincy, though, is still sharp. He is, statistically, Australia's most successful Test captain ever. He'll come close to matching Allan Border's record for the most Test runs, though Australia's expected dominance over India will mean that his batting opportunities in the coming series should be limited. He has provided so many great memories over the past eighteen years, that extraordinary moment of theatre with his last-ball-before-stumps century against England last season being just one.
There will be more eulogies during the coming Test series, one can be sure, for the man who quite possibly is Australia's most loved cricketer since Bradman.
As to his successors, the next Test captain of Australia can be no one else but Ricky Ponting. He has shown outstanding leadership in the limited-over arena, and a World Cup is testimony in itself. I would have liked to have seen Waugh step down from the captaincy straight away and play out his career as a specialist batsman under Ponting's leadership, however that's not to be.
Looking at his successor in the Australian batting order, I see only one logical name. While Martin Love and Brad Hodge are showing highly consistent form at state and county level, both turn thirty in 2004. True generational change will be achieved by passing the role over to a young batsman, now 22, also from Sydney's western suburbs, one of exceptional talent and maturity – already displayed to great effect in the one-day game. A cricketer already seen as, perhaps, the Australian captain following Ricky Ponting.
It would indeed be fitting for the Australian Number Five baton to be passed from Steve Waugh to Michael Clarke.
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As feminists, let's discuss the fact that lip fillers are everywhere.
You know the ones.
From corner to corner, the skin is smooth, the pout plump and the grin wide.
They saturate your social media feeds, the reality TV landscape, and even the big screen. They are hers, and hers look like all the others, but perhaps they don't look like yours.
In a realm where beauty is currency and a carefully curated social media account like a modern-day trophy, it's little surprise the rise and rise of lip fillers would coincide so perfectly with our fixation on the virtual. We spend so much time online and so, in a world where people are only ever living their best lives, the concept of real is as foreign as the technology holding our online personas together.
When a typical young woman sees big lips all over her screens, she thinks, well, that must be beautiful. For her, it's almost transactional. I'll have a bit of what she's having, and with that, I'll be a little more beautiful. I'll be a little bit more like the person society tells me I should be.
According to Australian Skin Clinics' Medical Director Dr Adam Cho, the organisation has seen a "dramatic increase" in demand for lip fillers in the last year.
Why are more and more young girls altering their faces to look like Kylie Jenner? The Mamamia Out Loud team discuss on this week's episode. Post continues after audio.
"Lip fillers are the most common and the most commonly performed injectable fillers. Approximately 70 per cent of our dermal fillers are lip fillers," he tells Mamamia.
He considers the "absolute" rise multi-faceted. The first is the relative non-invasive nature of procedure.
"The beauty of dermal fillers is that there is no downtime. Most patients come in during their lunch time and resume work and normal activities immediately after their treatment.
"It's safe, has minimal complications and is a non-permanent procedure. If anything goes wrong with the shape, it can all be reversed. The price is very competitive these days, it's come down a long way."
The second? Ah, the Kardashian effect, of course.
"Back in 2015, Kylie Jenner made a confession that she has had lip fillers and this made a huge demand for the procedure. I also feel that patients are becoming more comfortable with discussing it and at the same time we are able to safely perform what patients are looking for."
According to Dr Lauren Rosewarne, a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne's School of Social and Political Sciences, there's no doubt the Instagram aesthetic has an impact on the lens in which we see the world, and our overarching ideas about beauty.
"Generally fashion as related to on-trend body parts tend to be associated with features that aren't natural to most people, but rather necessitate surgical enhancement or, at the very least, cosmetic purchases. Big lips is one of these examples: most women don't have them naturally a market exists to sell things to those who want them [and] women have to spend money to achieve the latest on-trend look.
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"Another aspect to this is that big lips are part of the Instagram aesthetic: a highly polished, highly manicured look. To carry off some of the lip looks that are popular on Instagram – think ombre lips – the effect only works if you have more lip real estate, hence fillers," she tells Mamamia.
In short, none of us are going crazy. The prevalence of the perfect pout punctuates our feeds and distorts what we consider to be normal.
Dr Rosewarne considers their exponential rise part FOMO-effect (the sense that if everyone has bigger lips than her, she's left behind) and part "high-level exposure".
"Just as the contouring trend was fuelled by social media (of which the Kardashians hold huge sway), ditto big lips. It's no surprise that social media darling Kylie Jenner – known for her own surgically enhanced lips – also sells a lip product line."
If it seems a little hyperbolic to dub the Kardashians' every move a catalyst for a tsunami of international trends, consider Kylie Jenner's hold on Snapchat. On Friday, it's reported with a single tweet ("Sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore? Or is it just me… ugh this is so sad") she wiped $1.7 billion from the tech giant's value. Her cultural relevance is far-reaching and, at times, financially devastating for the products she deems done.
Of course, there's more to it, like there always is. Cost, for one.
"The price varies, but we normally charge $389 [per session]," Dr Cho tells Mamamia. "The longevity also varies, but it normally lasts somewhere between six and 12 months."
Then there's old-age advertising legacy: Sex sells.
"Lips are sexual; throughout history women have painted them to draw attention to them," Dr Rosewarne says. "Once upon a time sex workers specifically painted their lips red to signify that they were selling sex. Equally, even in times of economic downtown, women will still scrounge together money for a small luxury item like lipstick – it's seen as important and indulgent without being excessively so."
Interestingly, Dr Cho tells Mamamia women who come to Australian Skin Clinics for fillers aren't after noticeable enhancements. They're after something that makes them feel better, without sending a signal to the world that they have had work done.
"The majority of our patients want subtle, defined lips. They don't want huge Pamela Anderson lips. They don't want to be noticed by others. They're looking for natural, subtle lips as if they haven't done anything and they are they only ones to notice them selves. We inject 1ml on average, which is very small amount of product," he says.
It does then play in to a common narrative that social media tends to celebrate: Be beautiful, but not too obvious. Be like the beautiful people, but don't look like you're trying too hard. It's just another cog in the churning machine that the is unattainable, unfair and unhelpful standards of beauty for women.
"Social media – like advertising – exposes audiences to images of unattainable beauty. This doesn't however mean women won't try and attain them," Dr Rosewarne concedes. "Personally I don't have a problem with cosmetic surgery so long as customers understand that it's not a panacea but part of a cycle – and an industry – where women are perpetually made to feel in adequate no matter what they look like."
Naturally, we all have agency, and with that agency, we have the desire to pick the parts of ourselves we'd like to change. We get to the choose the way in which we present ourselves to the world and that can, in some instances, be empowering. On top of that, no woman should be judged for the decision she makes regarding beauty, cosmetics and enhancements.
However, it's as important for us to paint the big picture: one where women are forever told they're inadequate, one where we're told we should be more, and one where young girls are growing up thinking they'd be worth more to the world if they looked more like the reality stars shining bright on their phones.
Because next year, Kylie Jenner could decide it's the nose. And the year after, she could say it's the arms.
And, well, then what?
Listen to the latest episode of Mamamia Out Loud here:
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NBA, PRO HOOPS, Sports	 1 Jun 2019 1 Jun 2019
Why This Won't Be the Warriors' Last Dance
What are the odds the Warriors are back in the NBA Finals next season?
Pretty damn high, if you ask me, since there's no reason to believe the smartest, savviest franchise in the NBA won't make the right moves this off-season to keep the good times rolling.
Before the 2019 NBA Finals kick off in Toronto Thursday night, one of the most popular narratives surrounding the Warriors will be whether we're witnessing the end of their dynasty. And it's legit, of course, since we all know the Warriors could experience a seismic shift in fortunes when two of their top four players become unrestricted free agents.
But as long as the Warriors retain the services of their homegrown sharp-shooting star and No. 1 priority Klay Thompson—and there have been zero reports or indications that Thompson and the Warriors won't come to a lengthy and lucrative agreement—what makes you think Golden State still won't be one of the best teams in the Western Conference next season? Even if they lose the game's best player in Kevin Durant. Because keeping the core of Steph Curry, Draymond Green, and Thompson intact, while allocating dollars to beef up the supporting cast, easily makes Golden State NBA Finals material, if not the favorites to win it all again. Yeah, the Warriors are undoubtedly better with Durant than not. Anyone making that argument is a clown. The Warriors would be fools not to try to retain him for another year or two. But with Thompson back, they'll be just fine without KD—who reportedly has his sights set on other squads—and we're not coming to a knee-jerk conclusion after watching the Warriors dispatch the Rockets and Blazers while Durant was sidelined with his calf strain. Real talk, Durant has always been a luxury item for Golden State. They know it. Basketball fans know it. So spreading the money that could go to Durant and instead dispersing it to a dynamic veteran or two while upgrading a bench that isn't what it used to be is certainly the fiscally responsible thing to do. It also might be savvier than blindly re-signing KD. With at least two all-time greats ripping nets from long distance in Klay and Steph, and a motivated Green looking to cash in big time as an unrestricted free agent in the summer of 2020, tell me how Golden State isn't still going to be a beast. We didn't even mention the widely respected front office, support staff, and coach that set the Warriors apart from everyone else. Culturally speaking, they are unlike any franchise in the NBA right now. Everyone wants to play for them. Maybe they can even entice DeMarcus Cousins to comeback on another team-friendly contract, since Cousins raved to us about how "first class" the Warriors are. The Warriors loved how he fit into the locker room, and we didn't really get a great taste of the Boogie experiment as he worked his way back from the Achilles injury midway through the regular season and then went down with a quad injury in the first round of the playoffs. I'd easily contend that the hypothetical version of the 2019-20 Warriors outlined above would be just as formidable as any squad in the league and certainly in the Western Conference—unless maybe, just maybe, KD formed a new super squad with the Clippers. Of course, that's a big if, and accurately predicting what Durant is going to do is an exercise in futility. Durant could end up in Los Angeles, he could end up in New York, or he could even return to Golden State, since the Warriors have actually planned for years to be able to fit him into their budget—even with Thompson's significant raise on the immediate horizon. The opening of their new arena in San Francisco is projected to bring in tons of extra cash. They should be able to cover just about any cost they deem reasonable. READ MORE: https://www.complex.com/sports/2019/05/why-this-wont-be-the-warriors-last-dance
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NBA, Sports, warriors	 29 May 2019
For the Warriors, a Lack of Doubt Should Create Some Doubt
2019 N.B.A. Finals Preview
This N.B.A. season has been treated as a foregone conclusion, but Golden State will not want to get too comfortable against Kawhi Leonard and his loaded Toronto Raptors.
Game 1: Thursday, 9 p.m.
The games will air on ABC and will be streamed on Watch ESPN.
The Matchup
The Warriors, for better or worse, have always fed on doubt. No matter how invincible they have seemed, they have managed to find slights to inspire them — often going to somewhat comical lengths to do so.
The last time they faced significant doubt — and even then, it was hardly from a majority of pundits — was before the 2015 finals when, as a group of upstarts, the Warriors had to prove their mettle against LeBron James's Cleveland Cavaliers. But over the last four seasons, as they made the shift from powerhouse to dynasty, they have used injuries, inexplicably sloppy performances and some apparent figments of Draymond Green's imagination as ways to make winning feel less inevitable and more like a chance to prove "everyone" wrong.
Even last year, as they pulled off one of the most dominant sweeps in finals history, they seemed to be powered by a reserve of doubt created by the team barely having survived a clash with the Houston Rockets in the Western Conference finals.
As Golden State comes out of a nine-day break, looking to win its third consecutive championship and a fourth in five years, the doubt created by injuries to Kevin Durant and DeMarcus Cousins — doubt that helped inspire some of the best basketball of Green's career — has faded away. In what should be ringing the "lack of doubt" alarm in Green's head, the players and coaches have spent the last few days being asked about the possibility that Stephen Curry will finally win a finals M.V.P. Award.
Shaun Livingston and Curry both answered questions about the award on Monday, playing down the importance of Curry becoming the M.V.P., while neither pushed back against assumptions that the Raptors have only a slight chance of winning the series.
Steve Kerr, for his part, seemed to understand that the line of questioning could be counterproductive for his squad. "We're trying to win" the series, the coach said when asked two consecutive questions about the award. "So we're not talking about any awards, we just want to win four games."
This Raptors team, after all, is far more complete than any of the James-led teams that faced off with the Warriors in their previous four trips to the finals.
After five years of watching his team dominate in the regular season only to fall apart in the playoffs, Masai Ujiri, the Raptors' president, blew things up, trading DeMar DeRozan to San Antonio for Kawhi Leonard and Danny Green. The move did not pay tangible dividends in the regular season — the Raptors played slightly worse over the 82-game grind than they had the season before — but the killer instinct they had previously lacked became a defining characteristic of the team once the playoffs began.
You saw it in each series, as the Raptors systematically eliminated Orlando, Philadelphia and Milwaukee, playing suffocating defense as Leonard led the way on both ends of the court.
Leonard, who has a finals M.V.P. Award on his shelf from his days in San Antonio, has already justified the cost of trading away DeRozan, a franchise icon. Even if Leonard signs elsewhere as a free agent this summer, he has taken Toronto farther than it has ever been before.
His buzzer-beater to end the second-round series against the 76ers was the most important shot in franchise history, and Leonard followed it up by averaging 29.8 points and 9.5 rebounds a game against the top-seeded Bucks in the Eastern Conference finals, thoroughly outplaying Giannis Antetokounmpo, the presumptive winner of the league's Most Valuable Player Award.
And Leonard is hardly alone. Pascal Siakam, who has the makings of a superstar, is a worthy sidekick on offense and defense. Marc Gasol, a rugged veteran acquired during the season when Ujiri sensed yet again that his franchise needed a shake-up, could be a problem for the undersize Warriors. And Kyle Lowry, once a centerpiece of the franchise along with DeRozan, has looked like his old self in spurts, even if he has had more mediocre playoff games than great ones.
Fred VanVleet probably can't keep up the 82.4 percent he shot from 3-point range in the final three games of the series against the Bucks, but he will still provide a scoring threat from the bench that has to be accounted for.
The Raptors have more length than the Warriors and, at least until further notice, better health. They have home court advantage — a luxury Golden State had in each of the previous four finals — and, with help from their raucous fans, could win Games 1 and 2 before Durant's anticipated return.
If Green and Curry can pick up where they left off in the Portland series, Durant's return might be a formality. In the last six games, Curry has quieted talk about his "disappearing" in the playoffs by averaging 34 points, 7.3 rebounds and 6.3 assists. In those same six games, Green, in the best shape of his career thanks to some late-season weight loss, has nearly averaged a triple-double, with 13.4 points, 11.5 rebounds and 8.8 assists, while also playing elite defense at multiple positions. The Warriors' ability to go galactic, and the likelihood that Thompson has a few big scoring nights in him as well, could make quick work of Toronto.
But Curry's game is mercurial enough to make one wonder if he is due for a rough stretch, and Green is volatile enough that the task of tangling with Leonard and Gasol could put him in consistent foul trouble — or worse if he were to get three more technical foul points, earning a one-game suspension.
If both of those things happen, the Warriors have to hope they can count on Durant, currently reduced to being an extremely tall fan, to fly in for the rescue, putting the team on his back and securing the three-peat. The only problem, of course, is that Durant's return has been a moving target. Pinning too much hope on a player who has been out since May 8 seems unwise.
As it stands, these two teams are more evenly matched than the average fan might assume, though a combination of top-shelf talent and finals experience should give Golden State a slight advantage. However, if Green is looking for some motivational doubt, there is no need to manufacture it this time around. The Warriors, the first team to play in a fifth consecutive finals since the Celtics appeared in their 10th straight in 1966, are nowhere near a sure thing.
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CIVIL LIBERTIES, Commentary, NBA, RACE RELATIONS	 12 Apr 2019
When the police break your teammate's leg, you'd think it would wake you up a little.
When they arrest him on a New York street, throw him in jail for the night, and leave him with a season-ending injury, you'd think it would sink in. You'd think you'd know there was more to the story.
You'd think.
But nope.
I still remember my reaction when I first heard what happened to Thabo. It was 2015, late in the season. Thabo and I were teammates on the Hawks, and we'd flown into New York late after a game in Atlanta. When I woke up the next morning, our team group text was going nuts. Details were still hazy, but guys were saying, Thabo hurt his leg? During an arrest? Wait — he spent the night in jail?! Everyone was pretty upset and confused.
Well, almost everyone. My response was….. different. I'm embarrassed to admit it.
Which is why I want to share it today.
Before I tell the rest of this story, let me just say real quick — Thabo wasn't some random teammate of mine, or some guy in the league who I knew a little bit. We'd become legitimate friends that year in our downtime. He was my go-to teammate to talk with about stuff beyond the basketball world. Politics, religion, culture, you name it — Thabo brought a perspective that wasn't typical of an NBA player. And it's easy to see why: Before we were teammates in Atlanta, the guy had played professional ball in France, Turkey and Italy. He spoke three languages! Thabo's mother was from Switzerland, and his father was from South Africa. They lived together in South Africa before Thabo was born, then left because of apartheid.
It didn't take long for me to figure out that Thabo was one of the most interesting people I'd ever been around. We respected each other. We were cool, you know? We had each other's backs.
Anyway — on the morning I found out that Thabo had been arrested, want to know what my first thought was? About my friend and teammate? My first thought was: What was Thabo doing out at a club on a back-to-back??
Yeah. Not, How's he doing? Not, What happened during the arrest?? Not, Something seems off with this story. Nothing like that. Before I knew the full story, and before I'd even had the chance to talk to Thabo….. I sort of blamed Thabo.
I thought, Well, if I'd been in Thabo's shoes, out at a club late at night, the police wouldn't have arrested me. Not unless I was doing something wrong.
Cringe.
It's not like it was a conscious thought. It was pure reflex — the first thing to pop into my head.
And I was worried about him, no doubt.
But still. Cringe.
A few months later, a jury found Thabo not guilty on all charges. He settled with the city over the NYPD's use of force against him. And then the story just sort of….. disappeared. It fell away from the news. Thabo had surgery and went through rehab. Pretty soon, another NBA season began — and we were back on the court again.
Life went on.
But I still couldn't shake my discomfort.
I mean, I hadn't been involved in the incident. I hadn't even been there. So why did I feel like I'd let my friend down?
Why did I feel like I'd let myself down?
A few weeks ago, something happened at a Jazz home game that brought back many of those old questions.
Maybe you saw it: We were playing against the Thunder, and Russell Westbrook and a fan in the crowd exchanged words during the game. I didn't actually see or hear what happened, and if you were following on TV or on Twitter, maybe you had a similar initial viewing of it. Then, after the game, one of our reporters asked me for my response to what had gone down between Russ and the fan. I told him I hadn't seen it — and added something like, But you know Russ. He gets into it with the crowd a lot.
Of course, the full story came out later that night. What actually happened was that a fan had said some really ugly things at close range to Russ. Russ had then responded. After the game, he'd said he felt the comments were racially charged.
The incident struck a nerve with our team.
In a closed-door meeting with the president of the Jazz the next day, my teammates shared stories of similar experiences they'd had — of feeling degraded in ways that went beyond acceptable heckling. One teammate talked about how his mom had called him right after the game, concerned for his safety in SLC. One teammate said the night felt like being "in a zoo." One of the guys in the meeting was Thabo — he's my teammate in Utah now. I looked over at him, and remembered his night in NYC.
Everyone was upset. I was upset — and embarrassed, too. But there was another emotion in the room that day, one that was harder to put a finger on. It was almost like….. disappointment, mixed with exhaustion. Guys were just sick and tired of it all.
This wasn't the first time they'd taken part in conversations about race in their NBA careers, and it wasn't the first time they'd had to address the hateful actions of others. And one big thing that got brought up a lot in the meeting was how incidents like this — they weren't only about the people directly involved. This wasn't only about Russ and some heckler. It was about more than that.
It was about what it means just to exist right now — as a person of color in a mostly white space.
It was about racism in America.
Before the meeting ended, I joined the team's demand for a swift response and a promise from the Jazz organization that it would address the concerns we had. I think my teammates and I all felt it was a step in the right direction.
But I don't think anyone felt satisfied.
There's an elephant in the room that I've been thinking about a lot over these last few weeks. It's the fact that, demographically, if we're being honest: I have more in common with the fans in the crowd at your average NBA game than I have with the players on the court.
And after the events in Salt Lake City last month, and as we've been discussing them since, I've really started to recognize the role those demographics play in my privilege. It's like — I may be Thabo's friend, or Ekpe's teammate, or Russ's colleague; I may work with those guys. And I absolutely 100% stand with them.
But I look like the other guy.
And whether I like it or not? I'm beginning to understand how that means something.
What I'm realizing is, no matter how passionately I commit to being an ally, and no matter how unwavering my support is for NBA and WNBA players of color….. I'm still in this conversation from the privileged perspective of opting in to it. Which of course means that on the flip side, I could just as easily opt out of it. Every day, I'm given that choice — I'm granted that privilege — based on the color of my skin.
In other words, I can say every right thing in the world: I can voice my solidarity with Russ after what happened in Utah. I can evolve my position on what happened to Thabo in New York. I can be that weird dude in Get Out bragging about how he'd have voted for Obama a third term. I can condemn every racist heckler I've ever known.
But I can also fade into the crowd, and my face can blend in with the faces of those hecklers, any time I want.
I realize that now. And maybe in years past, just realizing something would've felt like progress. But it's NOT years past — it's today. And I know I have to do better. So I'm trying to push myself further.
I'm trying to ask myself what I should actually do.
How can I — as a white man, part of this systemic problem — become part of the solution when it comes to racism in my workplace? In my community? In this country?
These are the questions that I've been asking myself lately.
And I don't think I have all the answers yet — but here are the ones that are starting to ring the most true:
I have to continue to educate myself on the history of racism in America.
I have to listen. I'll say it again, because it's that important. I have to listen.
I have to support leaders who see racial justice as fundamental — as something that's at the heart of nearly every major issue in our country today. And I have to support policies that do the same.
I have to do my best to recognize when to get out of the way — in order to amplify the voices of marginalized groups that so often get lost.
But maybe more than anything?
I know that, as a white man, I have to hold my fellow white men accountable.
We all have to hold each other accountable.
And we all have to be accountable — period. Not just for our own actions, but also for the ways that our inaction can create a "safe" space for toxic behavior.
And I think the standard that we have to hold ourselves to, in this crucial moment….. it's higher than it's ever been. We have to be active. We have to be actively supporting the causes of those who've been marginalized — precisely because they've been marginalized.
Two concepts that I've been thinking about a lot lately are guilt and responsibility.
When it comes to racism in America, I think that guilt and responsibility tend to be seen as more or less the same thing. But I'm beginning to understand how there's a real difference.
As white people, are we guilty of the sins of our forefathers? No, I don't think so.
But are we responsible for them? Yes, I believe we are.
And I guess I've come to realize that when we talk about solutions to systemic racism — police reform, workplace diversity, affirmative action, better access to healthcare, even reparations? It's not about guilt. It's not about pointing fingers, or passing blame.
It's about responsibility. It's about understanding that when we've said the word "equality," for generations, what we've really meant is equality for a certain group of people. It's about understanding that when we've said the word "inequality," for generations, what we've really meant is slavery, and its aftermath — which is still being felt to this day. It's about understanding on a fundamental level that black people and white people, they still have it different in America. And that those differences come from an ugly history….. not some random divide.
And it's about understanding that Black Lives Matter, and movements like it, matter, because — well, let's face it: I probably would've been safe on the street that one night in New York. And Thabo wasn't. And I was safe on the court that one night in Utah. And Russell wasn't.
But as disgraceful as it is that we have to deal with racist hecklers in NBA arenas in 2019? The truth is, you could argue that that kind of racism is "easier" to deal with.
Because at least in those cases, the racism is loud and clear. There's no ambiguity — not in the act itself, and thankfully not in the response: we throw the guy out of the building, and then we ban him for life.
But in many ways the more dangerous form of racism isn't that loud and stupid kind. It isn't the kind that announces itself when it walks into the arena. It's the quiet and subtle kind. The kind that almost hides itself in plain view. It's the person who does and says all the "right" things in public: They're perfectly friendly when they meet a person of color. They're very polite. But in private? Well….. they sort of wish that everyone would stop making everything "about race" all the time.
It's the kind of racism that can seem almost invisible — which is one of the main reasons why it's allowed to persist.
And so, again, banning a guy like Russ's heckler? To me, that's the "easy" part. But if we're really going to make a difference as a league, as a community, and as a country on this issue….. it's like I said — I just think we need to push ourselves another step further.
First, by identifying that less visible, less obvious behavior as what it is: racism.
And then second, by denouncing that racism — actively, and at every level.
That's the bare minimum of where we have to get to, I think, if we're going to consider the NBA — or any workplace — as anything close to part of the solution in 2019.
I'll wrap this up in a minute — but first I have one last thought.
The NBA is over 75% players of color.
Seventy-five percent.
People of color, they built this league. They've grown this league. People of color have made this league into what it is today. And I guess I just wanted to say that if you can't find it in your heart to support them — now? And I mean actively support them?
If the best that you can do for their cause is to passively "tolerate" it? If that's the standard we're going to hold ourselves to — to blend in, and opt out?
Well, that's not good enough. It's not even close.
I know I'm in a strange position, as one of the more recognized white players in the NBA. It's a position that comes with a lot of….. interesting undertones. And it's a position that makes me a symbol for a lot of things, for a lot of people — often people who don't know anything about me. Usually, I just ignore them. But this doesn't feel like a "usually" moment.
This feels like a moment to draw a line in the sand.
I believe that what's happening to people of color in this country — right now, in 2019 — is wrong.
The fact that black Americans are more than five times as likely to be incarcerated as white Americans is wrong. The fact that black Americans are more than twice as likely to live in poverty as white Americans is wrong. The fact that black unemployment rates nationally are double that of overall unemployment rates is wrong. The fact that black imprisonment rates for drug charges are almost six times higher nationally than white imprisonment rates for drug charges is wrong. The fact that black Americans own approximately one-tenth of the wealth that white Americans own is wrong.
The fact that inequality is built so deeply into so many of our most trusted institutions is wrong.
And I believe it's the responsibility of anyone on the privileged end of those inequalities to help make things right.
So if you don't want to know anything about me, outside of basketball, then listen — I get it. But if you do want to know something? Know I believe that.
Know that about me.
If you're wearing my jersey at a game? Know that about me. If you're planning to buy my jersey for someone else…… know that about me. If you're following me on social media….. know that about me. If you're coming to Jazz games and rooting for me….. know that about me.
And if you're claiming my name, or likeness, for your own cause, in any way….. know that about me. Know that I believe this matters.
Time for me to shut up and listen.
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lakers basketball, NBA, Sports	 4 Mar 2019 4 Mar 2019
Playoff Mode? LeBron James and the Lakers Are Failing to Activate A move West came with dire warnings, but the reality is setting in that a James-led team might miss the playoffs.
LeBron James can't say that he wasn't warned.
Lots of us were crowing in the summer, and pretty loudly so, about what would greet the unquestioned Lord of the Eastern Conference if he dared to defect.
Sign with the Los Angeles Lakers if you wish, for the sunnier Hollywood life and all the perks, but brace yourself for the most trying regular season of your career if you decide to go West.
That was the gist of the scouting report — which in retrospect could not have been much more prescient.
On cue: The most daunting and, yes, disappointing season of James's career is right here, right now, for the biggest name in basketball.
And it appears he will soon have to stomach that it's going on his ledger in the most permanent ink that he was unable to bring a halt to the longest postseason drought in Lakers history — barring an unforeseen resurrection from a fractured group that sits four and a half games out of a Western Conference playoff berth with 19 games to go.
No matter how much culpability you wish to assign James for what is poised to go down as the Lakers' franchise-record sixth successive trip to the draft lottery, he's going to have to own this as much as the front-office tandem of Magic Johnson and Rob Pelinka as well as the under-fire coach Luke Walton.
The LeBron Way, for years and years, has worked something like this: He inevitably gets most of the credit when his team flourishes; his teammates absorb the bulk of the blame when things unravel. But this is different. This would be the jarring sight of James, fresh off his eighth consecutive finals appearance, actually missing out on the N.B.A. postseason for the first time since his second professional season in 2004-5, when he was just 20.
Even though he can rightly point to his recent groin strain as the biggest standings-altering disruption these Lakers have endured, James surely understands that his maiden campaign in Los Angeles is bound to be recorded in many precincts as a failure to make the playoffs that belongs to him. The Lakers are 4-7 since James returned from the groin injury that sidelined him longer (17 consecutive games) than any previous injury in his 16-year career. They have followed up an unsightly road loss to Atlanta in their final game before the All-Star break with harder-to-rationalize road losses to New Orleans, Memphis and Phoenix since the break.
After Saturday night's humiliation against a 13-51 Suns team, which dropped the Lakers to 30-33, James's gang only sports a 1.3-percent chance of reaching the postseason, according to Basketball-Reference.com.
They also have the league's eighth-toughest remaining schedule, according to Tankathon.com.
We'll never know if the Lakers, who had risen to a heady fourth in the West at 20-14 when James sustained the groin injury in a Christmas Day rout of Golden State, could have kept building upon that promising start with a healthy LeBron. But we most certainly do know that James's mere return to the lineup, at 34, wasn't enough to rescue a roster that has been assailed since conception for its lack of perimeter shooting and its defensive deficiencies. Nor has he been able to galvanize a locker room that was deeply destabilized by the Lakers' trade pursuit of the New Orleans superstar Anthony Davis, which became all-consuming in late January, and has never recovered.
It obviously doesn't help that James, after missing two key free throws in the final minute Saturday, is also converting a substandard 66.9 percent of his attempts from the line to give his critics more handy folder.
Leaving his home-state Cleveland Cavaliers for the Lakers last July without the accompaniment of a second superstar meant that James, in a far deeper conference, would have little margin for error just to reach the playoffs. When you combine James's injury absence with the continuing post-Davis malaise and the team's declining ball movement since Lonzo Ball (ankle) was sidelined six weeks ago, it adds up rather quickly to a margin that is long gone.
The calls for Walton's dismissal, as they were in January, remain nonsensical. A coaching change now, much like New Orleans's decision to fire General Manager Dell Demps shortly after the trade deadline, would have no discernible effect on the Lakers' short-term prospects beyond providing their frustrated fans with a "See? We did something" sacrifice.
The prevailing assumption in league coaching circles remains that Walton will almost certainly be dismissed after the season, followed by the Lakers resuming their trade quest for Davis. But denying Walton an opportunity to at finish out a season wrought with drama and distraction since James's first dribble in purple and gold would be cruel and needless.
Changes are coming, though. It's an open secret that a big off-season reset looms in Lakerland. James always knew that his new club would not be in the title mix until his second campaign as a Laker, but his patience predictably faded quickly — one more reason desperation has become so palpable around this team.
Many of us know-it-alls in the news media indeed wrote in our preseason forecasts that the playoffs were no certainty for these Lakers, as constructed, but very few of us were actually willing to outright predict that they would miss out. Reason being: It's not very smart to bet against LeBron Raymone James.
Yet we've suddenly reached that unprecedented juncture where it would be wholly irresponsible to advise you that James can extricate himself from this jam just because he's LeBron. Whether it's the lingering effects from his groin injury, or his own unmistakably waning spirit in the face of increasingly bleak odds, James has been lacking the zip you associate with his well-chronicled playoff mode — which he assured us on Feb. 21 had been "activated" earlier than usual.
I briefly stood beside James on the floor in Charlotte, N.C., before the All-Star Game tipped off and bought into the idea a surge was coming when he insisted he was eager to embrace "the challenge" of hauling the Lakers out of their hole.
"And I'm getting healthy, too," James said that night.
A mere two weeks later, it's already time to start imagining the N.B.A.'s first spring without King James after watching him for eight straight Junes — and wondering how on Earth he's going to cope with not being a part of it.
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Magazine News, NBA, Sports, Trending Right Now	 6 Nov 2018 6 Nov 2018
Before The Fame: Ball Players & Their Lifelong Friendships with Rappers
Athletes and rappers tend to have a kinship that runs deep. It could be the similar lifestyles or simply pure admiration but over the course of time, we've seen some of the best friendships happen between these two entities. Subscribe to Complex News for More: http://goo.gl/PJeLOl
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NBA, Today' News Headlines, Trending Right Now, Warriors Basketball	 1 Nov 2018 1 Nov 2018
The scripted chaos of Stephen Curry
Like a seasoned yogi realizing he can deepen his stretch, there is a zen-like quality to Stephen Curry's exacting hunt for the perfect shot.
On Sunday against the Nets, he continued his streak of making at least five threes in the first seven games of the season, breaking the record George McLoud set in 1995. Curry is on pace to shatter the single-season record in three-pointers made, which he set at 402 in 2015-2016, which shattered his own the previous record of 286 in 2014-15, which shattered his own previous record of 272 in 2012-13.
In the offseason, he told the Wall Street Journal, "I might be delusional, but I feel like I can get better at putting the ball in the basket." His personal trainer, Brandon Payne, added that "he's not even close" to his peak. Together, to hear it from Pablo Torre on ESPN's High Noon, Curry and Payne devised a drill in which Curry had to hit 20 sets of shots, differing in spot and style, from the perimeter, and swish six of 10 free throws. It was called "Perfection."
Up against the Warriors' decadence, tried-and-true theories about the professional athlete's insatiable drive fall away. It's hard not to wonder why they're not satisfied when they're already deemed unbeatable. What an extravagance. And what do they have left to improve?
But the difficulty of Curry's shots aren't mere theatre. If he wants to actually shoot the ball, defenses are going to force the world's best decoy to chase perfection and master chaos.
Consider: Opponents would rather allow Kevin Durant to play one-on-one against mismatches and let Jordan Bell throw down alley-oops than allow Curry to shoot threes. Hell, they'd rather let him get lay ups: the Warriors often free Curry up by running him off screens as he cuts to the rim, usually as a fake-out before he sprints to the corner pocket. Against the Jazz on Oct. 19, Curry was aggressively chased off the three-point line by Dante Exum and hounded on pick and rolls by Ricky Rubio and Rudy Gobert, whose 7'9 wingspan gave Curry pause. They tugged at his jersey and laid him out with hard screens. Royce O'Neale even gave him a nosebleed. Curry didn't hit a three until more than halfway through the second quarter, on a uniquely unguardable play illustrated by NBA analyst Jared Dubin.
Curry tried to push the game to devolve into chaos, his high-risk way of forcing the issue: boxing out for offensive rebounds, throwing dangerous outlets, whipping rainbow passes across the floor. But the Jazz's length, athleticism, and discipline tipped the scales in their balance, up until Jonas Jerebko's game-winning putback for the Warriors.
As though he took note, Curry had, to put it lightly, more success against the Wizards on Oct. 24, scoring 51 points and drilling 11 threes. The Wizards tried to switch and trap Curry mercilessly, forcing the ball out of his hands. The only problem: he got rid of it by flinging it into the basket.
READ MORE: https://www.sbnation.com/2018/10/31/18047242/stephen-curry-highlights-golden-state-warriors-mvp
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NBA, PRO HOOPS, Today' News Headlines, Trending Right Now	 26 Jul 2018 26 Jul 2018
N.B.A. Power Brokers Gather, With No Men Allowed
LAS VEGAS — As the sun set on another day at the N.B.A. Summer League this month, a group of 60-odd power brokers gathered at an upscale restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip. They were among the league's elite: executives who help engineer blockbuster trades, salary-cap gurus who devise contracts and scouts who identify prospects.
They sipped wine, nibbled hors d'oeuvres and made conversation; perhaps an unremarkable scene except for one thing: They were all women.
"This is the first time, to our knowledge, that this has ever happened," said Liliahn Majeed, the N.B.A.'s vice president for diversity and inclusion.
Long known for its progressive approach toward social issues, the N.B.A. has emerged as an industry leader among men's professional sports leagues when it comes to hiring and promoting women. Richard Lapchick, the director of the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, recently released a study that found that the N.B.A. had the highest percentage of women working at the league office and with individual teams, outpacing the N.F.L. and Major League Baseball. Women hold 31.6 percent of team management positions in the N.B.A., according to the study.
SOURCE: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/sports/nba-women-hiring
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    flex-direction: row;
    flex-wrap: wrap;
    flex-shrink: 0;
    flex-grow: 1;
    flex-basis: auto;
    justify-content: space-evenly;
    align-items: end;
    padding: 3px 20px 3px 20px;
    background-color: rgba(117, 190, 218, 0.5);
     }

ul li a{
    width: 200px;
    text-decoration: none;
    color: white;
    background-color: rgba(117, 190, 218, 0.2);
    font-family: "Agency FB", sans-serif;
    font-size: xx-large;
}
ul li a:hover{
    background-color: black;
    transition-delay: 300ms;
    transition-property: background-color;
}
ul{
    margin-left: 400px;
    z-index: 5;
}
.baniere{
    /*position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left:0;
    right:0;*/
    z-index: -1;
    width: 100%;
    height: auto;
}
.title{
    position: relative;
    top: -40px;
    padding: 10px;
    margin: 0 0 0 10px;
    font-size: 80px;
    width: 400px;
    height: 170px;
    border-radius: 20px;
    z-index: 6;
    background-color: rgba(117, 190, 218, 0.5);
}

.fondu{
    display: block;
    position: absolute;
    top:0;
    left:0;
    width:100%;
    height:366px;
    z-index: 2;
    background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(0,0,0,0.8), rgba(255,255, 255,0.3));
}
.fondu2{
    display: block;
    position: absolute;
    top:366px;
    left:0;
    width:100%;
    height:366px;
    z-index: 2;
    background-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(255,255, 255,0.3), rgba(0,0,0,0.8));
}

.ul{
    position: relative;
    left: 200px;
}

.MonTitre{
    /*width: 100%;
    position: absolute;
    top: 600px;
    left: 20px;*/
    color: aqua;
    z-index: 3;
}

/*.section1{
    position: relative;
    top: 500px;
    left: 20px;
}
*/
div .section1{
    margin: 500px 10px 10px 20px;
    display: grid;
    grid-template-columns: 200px 200px calc(100% - 600px) 200px;
    grid-gap: 10px;
    padding: 10px;
}

.paragraphe_arround{

    width: calc(100% - 200px);
    /*float: left;*/
}

.aside{
    /*position: absolute;
    top: 700px;
    right: 10px;*//
    position: relative;
    top: -200px;
    right: 0px;
    float: right;
}

A: The example below produces the following result:

Maybe something like this, it is combination of what I found on Stackoverflow about floating text around flexbox items and an example I could find on https://www.sitepoint.com/css-layouts-floats-flexbox-grid/ (within the abstract called 'Enhancing Grid Templates').
As far as I understand this, the images are now floating elements within the first grid item and the text will just float around the 2nd item. The aside just gets the display flex attribute.
<!DOCTYPE html>

      <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet">

                A propos du restaurant

                Terminologie
                Selon le dictionnaire de langue française le Larousse1 ainsi que l'Office québécois de la langue française2 (mais inconnu du Centre national de ressources textuelles et lexicales3), le terme « développeur » s'applique en informatique à une personne ou une société qui développe et conçoit des logiciels. Cependant, s'agissant d'une personne, il est possible de distinguer les développeurs par secteurs d'activités, ceux spécialisés dans le métier du logiciel, ou ceux spécifiquement spécialisés dans les métiers de l'Internet4, et du secteur des technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC) qui compte à lui seul les deux tiers des activités de développeurs sectoriel :
                Le développeur informatique (Web), développeur web 5,6 responsable des codes sources constituant les différents langages de programmation Web, composées entre autres des langages de balisage tel que le HTML, le CSS ou le XML, des langages interprétés notamment composé des langages PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, ASP Active Server Pages, Pascal, Perl ou encore du JavaScript, ou des langages à objet (POO) composée entre autres de C++, de Java, de Ruby, ou de Python.
                Le développeur multimédia, designer graphique, chargée des graphismes (le WebArt, Web design), ou de l'encapsulation dynamique audio/vidéo.
                Le développeur logiciel ou concepteur de logiciel, chargé de construire pour une entité ou pour une finalité un programme spécifique tel que les applications mobiles pour les environnement nomades, logiciels sur des systèmes embarqués ou la Domotique.
                [réf. nécessaire]
                Dans la langue française, il n'y a pas de mot spécifique aujourd'hui pour parler d'un auteur de logiciel, le terme de développeur sectoriel s'est progressivement imposé.
                Contrairement à logiciel, qui a fait son apparition en 1972 pour traduire software, et qui cohabite encore avec « programme informatique », développeur remplace dans le langage courant l'expression « programmeur informatique »[réf. nécessaire].

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  display: grid;
  grid-gap: 10px;
  grid-template-columns: auto auto auto;
}

img {
  float: left;
  margin-right: 1em;
}

.container {
  background: red;
  position:relative;
  float:left;
}

.inner-container {
  width:80%;
  min-height: 400px;
  background:yellow;
  float:left;
}

.aside{
  background:green;
  display: flex;
}

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The Market Access and Rural Enterprise Development Programme (MAREP) through an agreement with Courtney's Training Agency commenced a Cruise Ship Services Training Program for 50 rural young men and women on Tuesday, 17 May 2016, at Annandale, St George.
On Wednesday, 11 May 2016, a Youth Motivational Symposium and Orientation, which served as an avenue to disseminate information to the trainees and introduce the facilitators, was held at the Grenada National Stadium for the selected young persons from rural communities islandwide.
The provision of this training is in keeping with MAREP's commitment to rural development, and in particular to provide access to employment opportunities and assistance with job placement in competitive fields.
The main objective of the Cruise Ship Training is to ensure the trainees are fully equipped with the knowledge and skills for the hospitality, travel and service industries worldwide.
Feature remarks at the Symposium from the MAREP Programme Manager emphasized that "positive expectation and high level of discipline are expected of each trainee". This was in line with the keynote from the service provider which highlighted that punctuality and a good personality are key international standards outlined by service-oriented organizations and cruise ship companies.
Approximately $42,000 (tuition and transportation) will be spent for the 50 trainees to obtain the 3-month training which will cover areas such as Hospitality, Customer Service, Administration, Life Skills, and Health & Safety. On successful completion, trainees will receive Competency Certificate, interviews and employment opportunities suitable for the said industries.
MAREP is proud to have reached this stage of implementation, with 50 youth embarking on training in one of the fastest growing sectors in the travel/service industry with career paths to follow on land, at sea, on small or mega ships and yachts.
The programme is well on its way to fulfilling its commitment to development, employment and sustainable livelihoods.
For further information, please call 442-0100 / 0105, or email: marepgrenada@gmail.com, or fax:442-0104.


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Glasgow named top state's attorney for fourth time
5/5/2015, 10:43 a.m.
Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow
The Will County State's Attorney's Office issued this news release:
Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow has been named the 2015 State's Attorney of the Year by the Illinois State Crime Commission, which is recognizing his many initiatives to protect children.
This year marks the fourth occasion that the Illinois State Crime Commission has bestowed this prestigious honor on State's Attorney Glasgow over the past two decades. The Crime Commission named him its State's Attorney of the Year for the first time in 1996. The State's Attorney will be honored at the Crime Commission's 19th Annual Salute to Those Who Make a Difference Awards Dinner on June 17 at the Drury Lane Conference Center in Oakbrook Terrace.
"I am deeply honored that the Illinois State Crime Commission has recognized the important work my office has performed on behalf of children over the years," Glasgow said. "My prosecutors, legal secretaries, victim advocates and supporting administrators work tirelessly to protect these vulnerable victims and prosecute the predators who would do them harm."
Glasgow has launched many creative programs to serve children over his long and distinguished career. His most recent initiative is the creation of the Will County State's Attorney's High Technology Crimes Unit, which has a primary focus on investigating and prosecuting crimes against children. The specialized unit, which he formed in 2012, tracks down predators who use the Internet to produce, distribute and download child pornography. The unit has investigated and arrested 80 individuals who were in possession of child pornography or who were actually sexually abusing a child.
The State's Attorney also is collaborating with community leaders in some of Will County's most troubled neighborhoods to create an afterschool program where children can receive homework assistance and mentoring in the sanctuary of a local community center.
Glasgow and Bettye Gavin, executive director of the Forest Park Community Center in Joliet, are working together to develop the program, which will include academic mentors from the State's Attorney's staff. Recently, Glasgow, former Joliet Police Chief Mike Trafton and Terry D'Arcy, the president of D'Arcy Motors in Joliet, joined forces to fund the purchase of two vans to shuttle youngsters to the Center for the program.
In addition, the State's Attorney established the Will County Children's Advocacy Center in 1995 to stop child sexual predators in their tracks. The Center, which has improved the way allegations of child sexual abuse are investigated, has put literally hundreds of predators behind bars over the past two decades. He recently created the Paws 4 Kids pet therapy program to comfort sexually abused children who visit the Children's Advocacy Center to provide statements that are used to convict predators.
Jerry Elsner, the Illinois State Crime Commission's Executive Director, described State's Attorney Glasgow as one of the most innovative State's Attorney's in Illinois. "Jim Glasgow has launched many creative programs to improve the way crimes are investigated and prosecuted," Elsner said. "As a prosecutor and as a community leader, he is on the cutting edge when it comes to creating programs that enhance the safety of all citizens."
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