Being cut from a sports team can be one of the most devastating events in a youth's life.

If being told they're not good enough isn't painful already, many youths feel angry, embarrassed and confused with their feelings and how they should process the news about being deselected. Being cut can be humbling, and it can lead to pessimistic thoughts about trying out for the team again in the future -- or any sports team, for that matter.

The process of being cut

Being "cut" is the slang term used for when a student athlete is deselected from a sports team. Usually, the reason a student is cut from a team has to do with lacking sport skills, but other reasons could relate to being academically ineligible, physically injured and unable to play, or perhaps the toughest reason of all, "politics." Regardless of why a student gets cut from a team, it's safe to assume the vast majority of them were not anticipating being cut, and even fewer will be unaffected in a negative way from the news.

There are differences in the ways in which coaches deliver the news of being cut, from simply taping a list on the coach's office door to more sensitive measures that include delivering the news to youths privately. The net result, regardless of how the news is delivered, is that youths who are cut will need to face the reality that for this upcoming season, they will not be a part of the team or be around their teammates. As you can imagine, this is often really heavy stuff for them to work through and rebound from moving forward.

What you can do

Although it is true that when a youth gets cut from a sports team, it's an intimate experience that only the individual can experience and process. Still, family, friends and even coaches can help by using the following tips:

Talk frankly, but show sensitivity. When talking to youths who have been cut, it's OK to talk about the experience openly and honestly. Remind them that this is just one of the many hurdles and challenges they will face in life but also allow a shoulder to lean on when needed. You might also use the expression, "it's not how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up," as you discuss the value of resiliency and perseverance.

Reflect using an internal locus of control. Try to prevent youths from finger-pointing and calling out "politics" as the reason they were cut from the team. Rather than spending time blaming the coach (and others), try to instead encourage them to look inward and ask powerful questions like "What could I have done better?" "What are my areas of weakness that need improved?" "How can I come back again next time and perform better?"

Solicit feedback. Although it might not be a pleasant thought, youths who follow up with the coach to learn where they fell short often receive invaluable feedback that can be used to set future goals. Steer clear of pointing at other athletes and making comparisons and instead simply seek to learn what you can do for future self-improvement.

Set goals. As you receive feedback from the coaches, put that information into action with new goals that are specific, measurable and controllable.

Final thoughts

Being cut from a sports team is never fun, but it can be an invaluable learning experience that can lead to future success. Try to avoid assuming "politics" were to blame and instead learn the specific areas that need improved for the next time there are tryouts. And finally, it's important to remember that many great athletes -- including Michael Jordan -- were once cut from sports teams, making it important to stay positive and optimistic for future success.

Dr. Chris Stankovich is the founder of Advanced Human Performance Systems, an athletic counseling and human performance enhancement center. Sports parents, please check out The Parents Video Playbook and sports counseling services at drstankovich.com.

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It is worth remembering, particularly right now, that High Fidelity was never just a story about record store nerds ranking their days away. Part of what made Nick Hornbys 1995 novel such a hit, leading to a 2000 movie adaptation, was its uncensored view into the psyche of stunted, self-pitying, supposedly sensitive straight men who obsess over stuff. This fundamental male-ness was well-noted in reviews at the time. Hornbys books reveal a fascination with the sheer voodoo of what so often passes as masculinity: the weird ritual facts, the useless objects... wrote The New Yorker, while lad mag Details was a bit blunter: Keep this book away from your girlfriendit contains too many of your secrets to let it fall into the wrong hands. Those secrets include a deep fear of sexual inadequacy, including a passage where the record-store owner protagonist Rob self-deprecatingly longs for his fathers era, because back then a man wasnt expected to make a woman cum. Theres another, more famous part where this same middle-aged man feels the need to warn other men that women dont wear sexy underwear 24/7.

Hornbys book is laden with Robs interior monologues, which are boiled down to a few key philosophies delivered straight to the camera by John Cusack in the movie: Theres the link between being sad and loving pop music (What came first, the misery or the music?), the rules for properly sequencing a mixtape, and the guiding principle that you are what you culturally consume.

The rom-com format also emphasizes Robs quest to track down his Top 5 All-Time Most Memorable Heartbreaks, starting with a girl he made out with for two afternoons in middle school, who apparently married the next boy she kissed. Later, Rob meets up with his high school girlfriend and asks why she slept with another guy so quickly after they broke up, since she was such a prude with him. She reminds Rob that he actually broke up with her and reveals that she was too tired to fight [the other guy] off, and it wasnt rape, because I said OK, but it wasnt far off, adding that she didnt have sex for many years afterward. To which Rob responds, quoting the book verbatim, Thats another one I dont have to worry about. I should have done this years ago. His pathetic need to know why these women dumped him presumes that they owe him some kind of explanation, often at their own expense.

Now 20 years after the movie, High Fidelity has been rebooted as a 10-episode Hulu series centered around a womana woman named Rob (short for Robin). Shes played by Zo Kravitz, who at least looks way cooler in a baggy leather jacket and beat-up Dickies tee than Cusack ever did. Still, I found myself wondering how the show would deal with the outdated aspects of its source material. Would Kravitz drop ugly truth-bombs about women in the same way that the book did about men, or be forced to turn her tastes into Top 5 lists? And could this ode to music superfandom really get away with not acknowledging the advent of streaming?

Kravitz, it turns out, makes for a more dynamic, likeable Rob. She still owns Championship Vinyl, a perpetually empty used record store (this time in Brooklyn), where she employs two fellow pop-culture junkies who channel their passions in wildly divergent ways (DaVine Joy Randolph and David H. Holmes, both in heart-filled, star-making turns). Their world is strewn with useless trivia from the High Fidelity universethe kinds of details these characters might obsess over, only turned into easter eggs: The main hangout is a bar named DeSalles, as in Marie DeSalle, the singer-songwriter character once portrayed by Kravitzs mom, Lisa Bonet. The shows musical canon centers around classic artists like David Bowie, whos something of a spiritual guide to Rob, along with Prince and Fleetwood Mac. Echoing a memorable scene from the movie, there are multiple nods to folktronica group the Beta Band, as well as a moment where they remake said scene with a song by outsider icon Swamp Dogg.

There are other modern updates to key comedic bits as well, some more eye-roll-inducing than others. The out-of-touch dad who comes in looking for tacky, sentimental crap like Stevie Wonders I Just Called to Say I Love You for his daughter is replaced by a woman trying to buy Michael Jacksons Off the Wall for her boyfriend. (Rob argues that its OK because the album is as much the work of producer Quincy Jones as it is MJ.) While debating whether to cancel great artists who did very bad things is indeed top of mind these days, its not exactly a discussion that lends itself to laughs. And just like the movie, there are direct quotes from Hornbys book in the script (the author served as an executive producer, alongside Kravitz, the team behind Ugly Betty, and more).

The series opens a year after a devastating breakup, just as Robs putting herself out there again. Her ex Mac (Kingsley Ben-Adir) is back in town and engaged, which prompts a similar search for past relationship closure as the source material. In the beginning of the season, Kravitzs characters personality seems a lot like the Robs of the past: self-involved, secretly sentimental and not-so-secretly sad (there are so many shots of her poutily smoking and listening to records), equally terrified of commitment and loneliness. While Robs journey in previous versions offered only slight personal progress (with his off-on girlfriend Laura actually facilitating much of the change), Kravitzs Rob shows the real-life challenges and vulnerabilities of self-improvement. By the last episode, shes taken the first steps toward treating the people in her life better, and makes a decision that plants her firmly pointed forward.

A generous reading might consider the show a corrective to the original, particularly because women, people of color, and queer folks now work the stacks at Championship Vinyl. A more skeptical take is that even this well-meaning shift is morally suspect. As the New York Times Amanda Hess wrote two years ago of Hollywoods thirst for gender-flipped remakes, These reboots require women to relive mens stories instead of fashioning their own. And theyre subtly expected to fix these old films, to neutralize their sexism and infuse them with feminism, to rebuild them into good movies with good politics, too. They have to do everything the men did, except backwards and with ideals. Why spend all this time, money, and energy updating and changing the gender on source material that, in hindsight, is pretty dodgy about women? Is High Fidelity really so beloved (or its brand name so powerful) that they couldnt have started from scratch on a series about music obsessives who arent exclusively straight white men? What is the point of paying homage to all this ephemera?

Theres a specific strain of toxic masculinity that lurks underneath the surface of, and is core to, the music fandom in High Fidelity. Its the kind where men who struggle with conveying their feelings turn to their record collections as emotional support blankets. They dole out their music knowledge like baseball-card statistics and treat women as fair-weather fans who dont even know the rules. (Many women critics I know prefer not to publicly rank their favorite music, which likely has something to do with how weve been condescended to in the past.) It doesnt exactly help that the moviearguably the first quintessentially 00s-hipster rom-comwas successful enough to turn this argumentative mode of listenership into a full-blown clich.

Reading High Fidelity recently, I noticed that nearly all the women characters were perceived as outside the realm of record-collecting. Love interests require a recalibration of taste (timid shop employee Dicks new lady friend cant possibly stay a Simple Minds fan), or a correction (Robs music journalist crush needs to be schooled on Top 5 list distinctions). Over the course of the book, Rob essentially schools girlfriend Laura to understand the differences between good pop music (authentic, soulful, largely old and American) and bad pop music (Tina Turner, Mike Oldfields Tubular Bells), distinctions that by todays poptimist standards seem positively arbitrary. (Which the show, to its credit, appears to realize: Tina Turners Private Dancer is on display behind the cash register, alongside Jay Reatards Matador Singles 08 and Tyler, the Creators Goblin.)

With all this in mind, its hard to even enjoy the series turning point, the moment when it dawns on Rob that maybe she shouldnt be such an asshole. The realization arrives, like a seed being planted, at the end of the episode Uptown, which turns a five-page passage in the book and a deleted scene from the movie into one of the seasons centerpieces. A woman calls Championship Vinyl saying shes selling a record collection, so Rob and her kinda-boyfriend Clyde (Jake Lacy) go uptown to check it out. The woman, a performance artist delightfully played by Parker Posey, is offering up her husbands prized collectionlikely worth tens of thousands of dollarsfor a mere $20, as a conceptual stunt seeking revenge for his infidelity. Rob isnt sure what to do, so she and Clyde go down to the fancy hotel where the cheating husband is staying, in an attempt to casually discover if this guy indeed sucks. Turns out hes even worse than expected.

Played by Jeffrey Nordling, aka Laura Derns spectacular man-child of a husband in Big Little Lies, the dude is a total shitheel, replete with a midlife-crisis ponytail and a young girlfriend who doesnt speak. He cuts off Rob at every turn, name-dropping rock stars and talking exclusively at Clyde. It all comes to a head when Rob challenges him on the release year of Wings live album Wings Across America; she knows its 1976. No, sweetpea, youre wrong, says the smug jackass, whos sticking by 1984 as the answer. What comes next is, briefly, one of the best moments in the whole first season: Rob flexes her knowledge by critiquing the LPs backing vocal overdubs (At what point is a live album not a live album?) and praising its version of Maybe Im Amazed. Kravitz plays it perfectly, meeting the mans growing indignance with an unbothered coolness. Ponytail guy responds by turning to Clyde and saying, Youve got yourself quite a little firecracker there, dont you pal? Word of advice: Its all cute now but it gets old fast, trust me.

Rob should absolutely buy this mans records at a deep discountboth because she owns a freaking record store in this musical economy, and because he deserves it. But she bails at the last minute, telling Poseys character that music should be for everyone. Really, as Clyde points out on the ride home, its because of her own fear that, if shes bad enough, someone could take away her records, too. I suppose it wouldnt be High Fidelity if it didnt treat music fanaticism like the ultimate form of tribalism, but the show only adds fuel to the fire by making Robs adversary perfectly emblematic of a certain insufferable strain of wealthy, recreational music expert. The Robs of the past were showing off their collector code of ethics when they balked at the purchase, but Kravitz is motioning vaguely towards personal betterment. The female twist on High Fidelity? Growth and maturity.

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As the Democratic primaries unfold, many African Americans are dissatisfied with the undue influence of white, liberal forces on their political leaders. So, this election season may be a good time for representatives of black districts to pay heed to the legacy of the Pan-African project. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World, a galvanizing event in the politics of Pan-Africanism after World War I.

The declaration was adopted at an August 1920 conference of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), a Pan-African movement founded in Harlem by Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey. The event was held at Madison Square Garden and summoned members from different states and countries. Of prime concern was the question of black development in the context of Jim Crow oppression in the U.S. and European dominance in the West Indies and Africa.

The declaration demanded African independence and civil rights for blacks of the diaspora. It issued a political manifesto seeking control of black institutions, fair employment and wages, unlimited educational opportunities, training of doctors and medical technicians, safeguarding of women and children, and trade links between the black peoples of the world.

The declaration also promoted a cultural agenda of instruction in black history, a holiday to commemorate African culture, establishment of the Pan-African flag with the symbolic red, black, and green colors of the Negro race, and the Pan-African anthem, Ethiopia, Thou Land of Our Fathers.

UNIA was a populist movement led by the charismatic Garvey. However, Garveyism was only one episode in the broader politics of Pan-Africanism. Parallel to the UNIA program were the Pan-African Congresses organized by black elites. The first was sponsored in London in 1900 by the Trinidadian barrister Henry Sylvester-Williams. By 1920, the meetings were conducted under the American scholar and civil rights leader, W.E.B. DuBois.

In totality, the movements addressed a broad program of African unity. After the third Pan-African Congress in 1923, DuBois took measure of the fledgling efforts in The Negro Mind Reaches Out.

Pan-Africanism as a living movement, a tangible accomplishment, is a little and negligible thing, he acknowledged, adding, And yet slowly but surely the movement grows and the day faintly dawns when the new force for international understanding and racial readjustment will and must be felt.

The goals of the American civil rights and African liberation movements were forged in these associations. Influenced were Presidents Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Leopold Senghor of Senegal, Sekou Toure of Guinea, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, and singer Miriam Makeba of South Africa, among others. Martin Luther King Jr. was an honorary guest at the inauguration of Nkrumah in 1957 and commemorated on a Ghanaian postage stamp. The leaders responded with divergent approaches to the Pan-African challenge; they confronted the mean realities of under-development and white neo-colonial control. All were indebted to the visionaries of 1920.

Today, black political leaders are enmeshed in a quagmire of unrequited liberal alliances. Witness the current black experience in the Democratic presidential primaries: Their concerns are marginalized in a selection process that entitles white regions; their authentic candidates are neutered in a system that rewards white billionaires and financial interests. No doubt some viewers found it ironic that the State of the Union address was more attuned to a black agenda federal criminal justice reform, Historically Black Colleges and Universities funding, empowerment zones than the Democratic response.

The centennial of the Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples is an opportunity for the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) to reassess the merits of a Pan-African outlook. How can government resources build on the goals of self-reliance, community development and global outreach? How can policies further the needs for self-improvement, strong families, community networks, business investment and state political participation? How to strengthen anti-discrimination laws and programs of uplift for young black males?

In this election season, representatives must consider whether there is more to gain from attention to politics in key southern states than to the Democratic presidential primaries. The Georgia imperative is the most important of all: In the 2018 gubernatorial election, Democrat Stacey Abrams proved that a winning black-led political coalition is well within reach. It took practices of alleged election fraud to thwart victory. Congressional representatives of black districts should demand a House inquiry into such allegations it could provide valuable information on the means of voter suppression in 2020 and ways to update the Voting Rights Act.

Finally, the establishment of a black-led alliance in Georgia could create opportunities for future generations. The states are laboratories for innovative laws and health and education policies, training grounds for aspiring political leaders, and settings for small business development, trading with overseas markets, and representation in the Senate. Surely, other majority-minority groups have used state power to advantage the Mormons in Utah, Hispanics in New Mexico, and Asians in Hawaii are examples.

The centennial of the declaration is a moment for black congressional leaders to consider anew the Pan-African project. As the U.S. equivalent of a Pan-African Congress, the CBC could build on the awareness of a shared history awakened in the symbolic 2019 Year of Return. Whatever steps they take should reignite the promise of the old declaration to encourage our race all over the world and to stimulate it to a higher and grander destiny.

Roger House, Ph.D., is an associate professor of American studies at Emerson College in Boston. Since 2014, he has published VictoryStride.com, a multimedia library resource on African American history and culture. He has produced radio programs on African American history for NPR, and is the author of Blue Smoke: The Recorded Journey of Big Bill Broonzy.

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As we settle into the new year and face new career challenges, our minds often turn to personal improvement. In this depressed economy, workplace performance is more important than ever before, and most of us are eager to excel. With better job performance, we can move up in our company, increase our salary, and begin to save for the future.

But one of the biggest barriers to improving our job performance is finding the energy and motivation to do so. Without these qualities, our attempts to enroll in continuing education courses, take on extra shifts, or excel at work projects can often fall flat. Theres no question about it moving up in the professional world requires a drive and focus that eludes many people who are trying to juggle child care, daily errands, and relationships as well as full-time jobs.

So what can you do to ensure that you can earn a higher salary, improve your job prospects and increase the balance in your bank account? Take heart these six mood and energy hacks can help transform you from a lethargic underachiever to an energetic go-getter. Implementing just a few of these tips may very well take you from being on the verge of unemployment to being a top performer.

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With our planets atmosphere under relentless siege, the quality of our daily sunlight has become more corrupted than ever before. Not that it matters most of us are too busy working to notice. And yet Vitamin D3, which is the byproduct of sunlight, is essential to our bodys functioning.

Most people are Vitamin D3-deficient, and suffering tremendously for it. Supplementing with Vitamin D3 has consistently proven to 10x your productivity, reducing your need for sleep, minimizing your appetite and turbocharging your energy levels. While the FDA recommends dosages of 800 IU per day, studies advise dosages in the minimum range of 2000 IU. Ive personally found success taking 6,000 IU daily, and feel like a 15-year-old again. Vitamin D3 begins to become toxic at 10,000 IU per day, so theres plenty of room for error. Source Naturals is a fantastic brand for Vitamin D3.

As a health supplement, 5-HTP has a myriad of positive health effects. Dr. Daniel Amen of the Amen Clinics recommends 5-HTP for regulating sleep cycles, which helps with energy levels. 5-HTP is also known for being an effective antidepressant, more effective than prescription medication in some cases. Dr. Amen recommends a dosage of 50 to 100 mg, twice per day, for best results. Try the Source Naturals brand for best results.

CBD, which is derived from the cannabis or marijuana plant, has a strong reputation for helping users manage high stress and anxiety levels. Taken in gummy bear, lollipop, tincture, capsule or oil form, even a small dose can have nuclear effects. Hemp Bombs is a high-quality brand to try, although you can find good CBD products at any reputable retailer. At the high end, the most potent Hemp Bombs oils cost over $300 and contain more than 4,000 mg of CBD, making them a great choice for even the most severe stress and anxiety.

New Years resolutions about squeezing back into your sports bra or workout belt and hitting the gym are so passe as to be laughable at this point. But did you know that exercising just five minutes a day can have powerful effects on your mood, energy levels, and health? With just a few minutes daily of YouTube exercise videos, jogging or sports, youll feel like a new person.

A good diet can do wonders for your mood and energy levels. But eating well doesnt have to mean getting neurotic about fats and carbs. Everyone knows the basics try to stay away from sugar and fried foods, eat lots of lean proteins and whole grains, consume more produce. But you dont have to overhaul your diet right away start with a few more servings of fruits and vegetables daily, or begin drinking more water. And dont forget to treat yourself!

Getting enough sleep is essential to any self-improvement plan. Although taking Vitamin D3 will reduce your need for sleep, make sure you get your seven to nine hours most nights if at all possible. Develop a bedtime routine, and invest in new sheets, comforters, and pillows for your bed maybe even a comfy featherbed if youre so inclined. Make sure you get home at a decent hour every night and eat a good healthy dinner two to three hours before bed.

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People invest in luxury experiences for various reasons and at different points in their life. While for some, a once-in-a-lifetime vacation to a five-star resort is just that, others invest in the best-of-the-best as a way of their lifestyle.

However, as more and more activists stand up for Mother Nature and her suffering, many luxury brands are tasked with creating unique, incredible opportunities, travel moments and products that raise the barbut do not create more waste.

Many strategic brands have not only thought about sustainability, but theyve made it the cornerstone of the experience their customers have. From electronics and clothing to travel and beyond, here are ways to stand out from the rest of the noiseall while promoting goodwill.

NAD Electronics

Who they are: This company was founded in 1972 and produced high-fidelity music systems, and made their way to North America in 1979. Twenty years later, Lenbrook international purchased them, and invested in new audio and video technology.

Their sustainable practice: When you have a piece of technology that works just fine when you first start using it, but then starts to suffer when a new, shiny option is released, its frustrating. And also pretty terrible for the environment. NAD solved this by introducing Modular Design Construction, that places the complex digital circuitry on replaceable and easily updatable slide-in modules for TVs and audio systems. They first implemented this practice in 2007and have been improving it ever since.

How it changed the brand: Not only were their customers happy, but they saved money. it allowed us to innovate constantly and keep our products fresh in the market. At the same time renewing just 30 percent of the product saved the development costs required when creating a completely new product. It also allowed our customers to stay current with new technology while protecting their investment in a product that wont become prematurely obsolete. About a third of our customers have upgraded their products to newer technology!, shares Greg Stidsen, the chief technology officer for Lenbrook International/NAD Electronics.

Sun Child

Who they are: This luxury clothing company offers gorgeous and one-of-a-kind silk sundresses, jackets, and jumpsuits.

Their sustainable practice. No matter what you purchase from this company, you can feel good about it since everything is created from upcycled saris. In fact, every single last scrap of the fabric is used in the design process, with nothing going to waste. Anything thats left over is turned into a silk bag thats included with every purchase, for easy traveling. Those scraps from the hang tags are turned into labels that are sewn into the garments. Going a step beyond sustainability, they are also promoting goodwill, since they provide jobs to people throughout a small village in Goa, employing individual artisans rather than large factories. The brands founder made this change a few years ago, after visiting Goa and seeing scraps on the floor. She was inspired to turn them into a bag. She realized she could do no wasteand still be successful.

How its changed the brand: We are always striving to be better, to learn and do what we can. We started this brand to help a family, and at the stressful moments we always come back to why we are doing what we are doing. We love it when women come to the showroom and cry tears of joy over the silks.this happens often. Theres a palpable energy to our pieces. Elissa Kravetz, owner and designer of Sun Child.

Studio Three

The brand: As the name suggests, this boutique and elite fitness studio brand offers three disciplines: interval training, indoor cycling and yoga. With two locations in Chicago, its become a favorite with a cult-following.

Their sustainable practice: Every part of their business touches on green initiatives, from the locker rooms and the laundry to building systems and their front desk operations. They do not sell plastic water bottles, only communicate with members via digital mediums, they turn off electricity when its not needed, only run full loads of laundry and encourage members to bring their own, and so on. Right now, theyre also working to implement other sustainability principles, including movement sensor ambient lighting, paperless restrooms, greener cleaning supplies and so on.

How its changed the brand: It hasnt changed the company as much as its made us better: more creative, more mindful, more holistic in our approach to self-improvement. Its not only about coming to the club to work or workout. Its my hope and belief, as we have witnessed, that people will generally do what is right if presented with the opportunity. David Blitz, Studio Three president & CEO.

Soneva Fushi

The brand: Dreamy and elegant, this Maldives boutique property is about as picture-perfect as you can imagine. But this five-star hotel also makes an effort to support Mother Nature and its local delicate ecosystem.

Their sustainable practice: Since 2017, Soneva Fushi has been hyperfocused on their environmental footprint, and today, it recycles 90 percent of its waste on-site through a robust waste management strategy. This starts with their Plastic Recycling Program, which made the resort the first in the Maldives to recycle plastic on site. They also provide guests the opportunity to be part of this goodwill, where they can use recycled glass to create a take-home masterpiece. Most recently in February 2020, they launched Soneva Namoona, which is a project aimed to reduce plastic waste from their neighboring islands. This partnership works with local government and Eco Centro facilities to promote the purpose and value of effectively handling waste.

How its changed the brand: Maalhos can now produce wealth from its waste. This is just the beginning; and we will roll out the Eco Centros to Dharavandhoo and Kihaadhoo this year, and working with the government in hopes to extend the project to the whole of Baa Atollmaking it truly Namoona Baa.Sonu Shivdasani, Sonevas CEO and co-founder.

Brilliant Earth

The brand: Brilliant Earth is a global retailer of responsibly sourced bridal and fine jewelry. Founded in 2005 by Beth Gerstein and Eric Grossberg, Brilliant Earth is dedicated to creating exquisite fine jewelry while promoting a more ethical, transparent and compassionate jewelry industry.

Their sustainable practice: When you read about conflict-free diamonds, usually it means a brand is following the Kimberley Process definition. This is a narrow approach, since it defines conflict diamonds as those that finance rebel movements against recognized government. However, Brilliant Earth takes it a step further by ensuring their supplies meet a long chain of custody protocol, giving them the ability to track and segregate diamonds by origin. This means supplies are required to source diamonds from specific mine operators who follow internationally-recognized labor, trade and environmental standards. In addition to this, they also craft jewelry from recycled metals, hoping to protect both human life and the planet. And, to offset their carbon footprint, they contribute to the Tropical Rainforest Conservation in Brazil, protecting 750,000 acres of tropical rainforest.

How its changed their brand: Our strong social mission to give back and provide jewelry sourced in an ethical and sustainable manner is central to who we are as a company. While we have evolved to become one of the fastest growing jewelers, our focus on sustainability has remained at the forefront of our brand and our company. We are just as passionate about cultivating a more transparent, sustainable, and compassionate jewelry industry today as we were when we first began.Beth Gerstein, co-founder & CEO of Brilliant Earth.

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"1776" is an assembly of independent voices who uphold our countrys authentic founding virtues and values and challenge those who assert America is forever defined by its past failures, such as slavery.

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In 2019, marking 400 years since the first known Africans arrived on these shores from West Africa as slaves, the New York Times launched its ambitious 1619 Project. It aimed to reexamine U.S. history through the lens of black history as if American history began with the arrival of the first black folks.

The concept was well-intended, and the execution of its first episode well-documented. Yet, it left me feeling that the New York Times missed at least half of the story. By looking through the lens of black victimization, it paid too little attention to what I call black overcoming our victories over adversity and achievements of success, sometimes in conflict but also often in cooperation with people from other races and ethnic groups.

The New York Times incorrectly assumes that the challenges facing particularly inner-city blacks are related to a legacy of slavery and discrimination. This is patently untrue. Lets look at the issue of poverty and how were treated.

Our perceptions are distorted by the colorization of poverty in the mid-1960s. Media images of President Lyndon B. Johnsons war on poverty focused mostly on poor whites in Appalachia, where LBJ announced his initiative and where I later would work with mostly white teens in the Upward Bound program as a college student in 1967. But with the outbreak of riots in Watts, Harlem, Chicago, and other urban centers, news media images of rural poverty were replaced by images from the ghetto.

Colorization has had a profound impact on other issues too. In the 1980s, for example, crack cocaine was perceived as a mostly black problem and a law enforcement issue. In the 1990s, opioid addiction was perceived as a mostly rural white problem and a public health issue.

J.D. Vance, writing in Hillbilly Elegy about growing up in the same Ohio town where I had grown up almost two generations earlier, ignited a new discussion from the grassroots of white poverty and drugs that showed me the important similarities between poor blacks and whites in America, despite the tribalism encouraged by demagogic leaders in both races. I have known many welfare queens, Vance writes. Some were my neighbors, and all were white. His candor is refreshing.

Vance tends to view poverty in the way many people in the traditionally Republican town of Middletown, Ohio, as a problem of culture, morality, character, and personal responsibility. I agree that personal character matters, but I also have witnessed those values undermined by what William Julius Wilson called the disappearance of work of Ohios well-paid, low-skill industrial jobs that lured Vances family from Kentucky and mine from Alabama.

Vances book forced me to take a new look at my life and hometown and about our similarities and our differences. Vance explains in his introduction how personal stories offer cultural insights that are essential to any serious discussion of equal opportunity.

Nobel-winning economists worry about the decline of the industrial Midwest and the hollowing out of the economic core of working whites, he writes. What they mean is that manufacturing jobs have gone overseas and middle-class jobs are harder to come by for people without college degrees. Fair enough I worry about those things, too. But this book is about something else: what goes on in the lives of real people when the industrial economy goes south. Its about reacting to bad circumstances in the worst way possible. Its about a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it.

Its not laziness thats destroying hillbilly culture, says Vance. Its what psychologist Martin Seligman calls learned helplessness. Too many of us African Americans have picked up that malady as well.

Where should we go from here? Similarities between Vances life and mine showed me how much we need to desegregate our poverty discussion, to learn across the lines of race and class the true causes of poverty and inequality and, more importantly, what works to solve them.

Yes, blacks have fought to make true the ideals in our nations founding documents, as the New York Times says. But its statement that the founding ideals were false is misleading and even counterproductive to our understanding of the founding documents as aspirational. The principle that all men, or people, are created equal was true in early American law only for white, property-owning men. But the Founders, as a minority themselves, wisely took that principle of equality very seriously in the abstract, understanding that they themselves might need it someday. They established a tradition: Guarantee inalienable rights to some but also establish the legal mechanisms to extend those equal protections to others without and this is important taking those rights away from those who have them.

Our project, 1776, puts less of an emphasis on history and more on the question prophetically raised by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the height of his civil rights revolution: Where do we go from here? Mindful of the inevitable criticism that his movement was subversive, King made a special effort to ground his historic 1963 I Have a Dream speech in a dream as old as the American dream by repeated references to the nations founding documents, including Abraham Lincolns Gettysburg Address. He assured friends and foes alike that his civil rights movement had come not to deny the gospel of the American dream, but to fulfill it.

We must disrupt the long-held stereotypes of black people as helpless bystanders in their own history. We have had entrepreneurs, skilled tradesmen, military officers, inventors, organizers, and many others who responded to adversity by marshaling resources, building local enterprises, and creating jobs. We organized and acted to defeat slavery, segregation, and deprivation, and then we persevered to build businesses that included banks, hotels, small factories, and a black-owned railroad.

In addition to the consequences of slavery, these contributions of black Americans should be at the very center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are. Even in bondage, slaves had agency in various amounts, or to varying degrees, and they acted on it in a variety of ways. Those who prefer to focus on our victimization dont always want to recognize it, but the ways our ancestors exercised agency in bondage formed the foundation of their successes (or failures) after they were freed.

Americans are optimistic people, but we care more about the future than the past. We care about the past mostly as much as it helps us to deal with the uncertainties of our future. Changes, demographic and otherwise, are tearing us apart. Our historic victimization must never be forgotten, but it is best remembered through the stories of our groundbreaking victories over oppression through faith, courage, talent, persistence, ingenuity, and hard work.

It may be a clich these days to note that our differences should not be allowed to stand in the way of what we share in common, but too often they still do. We must find ways to appreciate the contributions that our diverse population contributes to American life. We need to study not only the atrocities of U.S. history but also Americas magnificent capacity for self-improvement as we seek the tools and knowledge to help us face our shared future with new hope together.

Pulitzer Prize-winning news columnist Clarence Page is a columnist and senior member of the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune.

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Could the humble kitchen timer help end productivity woes?

Carl Cederstrm, a business school academic, thinks so. Having tried and ditched several high-tech tools, he credits the analogue Pomodoro Technique for helping him get work done.

This simple system, developed in the 1980s by Francesco Cirillo, is named after the tomato-shaped kitchen timer Mr Cirillo used to help him study. The idea is to set a timer for 25 minutes to focus on one task, have a five-minute break, work another 25 minutes, and so on.

Ive been using it for years and its the most revolutionary method I have tried, says Mr Cederstrm, associate professor at Stockholm University.

The great irony is that we talk about work taking over our lives, but one of the greater sources of work-related stress is that we dont actually get to do any work

It is particularly useful in todays open-plan workspaces, he says. They are designed to help workers be social and to network but there are so many distractions.

The great irony is that we talk about work taking over our lives, but one of the greater sources of work-related stress is that we dont actually get to do any work.

Even when we manage to remove all distractions, we still have to wrestle with our greatest enemy ourselves.

Technological advances promised to help lift global productivity rates, but this has not yet happened. We have all the tools and technology to make us more productive, but do they actually help?

So-called productivity hacks and tools offer remedies to our troublesome tendency to procrastinate. At one extreme are products such as Kitchen Safe. You put your phone in the plastic box and set a time. The only way to retrieve the phone before the time limit is to break into the box.

The problem with such tools is that their goal is not to improve your productivity, but to make you use the application more, says Laszlo Bock, chief executive of tech company Humu and former head of people operations at Google. The companies that build these products are measured by their investors on engagement, not on how productive the user becomes.

People love dials and knobs, and bells and whistles. There are lots of things that make it feel like work, but are in fact noise and distraction, says Mr Bock.

There is no measurable return on investment on productivity with these tools, says Mr Bock. Many rely on notifications, triggering positive reinforcement to keep you checking, releasing a dopamine hit to your brain. The risk is that you spend more time managing the tool than doing productive work.

What can corporate leaders of the future learn from todays experts at getting work done? We asked five users of productivity tools and hacks what helps and what does not.

Carl Cederstrm, associate professor at Stockholm University, and co-author of Desperately Seeking Self-Improvement

The only time I really relax is on an aeroplane, when there is no way for people to reach you. Now I check email only twice a day: 9am-10am and then 3pm-4pm.

It is difficult to stay focused on one task when you are alone, so having someone there to speak to when you have a break helps. I often work with a freelancing friend at the kitchen table and we listen to the same playlist each time we havent changed it for years.

When I feel panic-stricken about a task, I repeat a mantra I read in Haruki Murukamis memoir, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, which the author uses when he feels he cannot run any further: Im not human. Im a piece of machinery...Just forge on ahead.

I also keep a strange notebook, which I write in like a grown-up speaking to a child. I write things like OK, so what really is it that you should be doing right now? and respond with answers...Im a little embarrassed speaking about it, but it works.

What works: The Pomodoro Technique to help me focus. And the word processing app Scrivener for writing, diaries and calendars. I try to minimise my technology use, but when something pops up that I want to record I use Braintoss, a tool to capture information you take a photo or record a voice memo, which the app sends to your email.

What doesnt: Flowstate, a writing app that deletes your work if you stop for more than a few seconds. It was really stressful. Sometimes I want to go slow.

Laszlo Bock, chief executive and co-founder of Humu, former senior vice-president of people at Google, and author of Work Rules!

Notifications are a nightmare. I have them turned off on every device. I keep Gmail and Slack open at my desk, but Twitter and LinkedIn are in a folder so that its harder to get to them.

I keep three folders in Gmail: one is checked quarterly, one monthly, and one on Thursdays. At Google, I worked with a guy named Jonathan who ran the product team. For the first year, he would always be following up with me on tasks, hounding me, and I felt like I was failing because he was always one step ahead.

Then I realised he always followed up on a Friday, so I set up a folder called check Thursday. Two months later Jonathan said, I dont know whats happened but youve really turned things around. (It turns out he had a check Friday folder).

What works: Email folders: I either respond within 12 hours or it goes into one of the folders. It feels polite to let people know youve received it.

What doesnt: One colleague tried tracking time with Toggl but it was too much effort; another tried Getting Things Done, but spent too long making lists.

Marcela Sapone, chief executive and co-founder, Hello Alfred

Tech is often the biggest distraction. Unplugging from the noise and going offline helps catalyse different ways of thinking and really boosts creativity. I set out to accomplish outcomes versus tasks or to-dos. I visualise the end-state of what my team and I need to achieve; and that becomes the North Star that keeps all those steps or tasks along the way on track and in perspective.

What works: My daily go-to is the note-taking service Google Keep I like the simple list user interface. It also syncs across my devices and copies straight to my email and Google docs, which my team and I rely on.

What doesnt: Ive tried Asana and Trello but they didnt stick. Theyre great platforms for cross-functional projects but I found them overkill for what I needed.

Josh Bayliss, chief executive, Virgin Group

Problems that arise out of nowhere can feel like a challenge to your productivity, but any leader needs to be agile and responsive. Sometimes I turn off emails, freeing myself up to get on with the real to-do list. If there is a true emergency and somebody really needs your input urgently, they will find you.

Hour-long meetings are often booked out of habit. I make sure everyone is clear on why they are in the room and what everyone wants to get out of it.

What works: Shorter meetings, letting emails wait and making time for exercise.

What doesnt: A few years ago at Virgin we introduced a digital detox policy switching off the email server for a couple of hours each week. Some embraced it more than others. Now we have adapted the policy so it is not so strict, but still nudges teams to leave their screens and get social for a little while.

Pocket Sun, co-founder and managing partner, SoGal Ventures

Its important to figure out what motivates you, whats your purpose and do people you work with share the same purpose? If these things are figured out, productivity itself is easy, because your work has significance.

Phone notifications stop me being productive I now leave my phone somewhere I cant reach it when Im working on my laptop. Listening to classical music or podcasts helps me focus and I also have a morning routine deep breathing when I wake up, putting on upbeat music.

Setting goals, breaking them down into quarters, months, and specific tasks with deadlines helps bring clarity to what needs to happen when.

What works: the Chinese superapp, WeChat, which people do everything on, from text and video conversations with family, friends and colleagues, to running online communities, transferring money or documents, or booking flights and hotels.

What doesnt: Project management software hasnt worked for me so far. I still like writing things down on paper or in the notes app on my phone.

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Few, if any, athletes have the power of LeBron James. Hes been the face of the NBA ever since he joined the Miami Heat in 2010. There was a time when James wasnt such a big deal. The most important moment of his career involves the 2011 NBA Finals, and more specifically, how James reacted to the worst performance of his career.

Since James entered the league with the Cleveland Cavaliers, his career has had the rosiness of a feel-good Hollywood movie; a local kid fulfilling the dreams of fans who never experienced championship glory up close. But the issue with being a hometown hero is that any disappointment will lead to intense emotions for everyone involved.

James was spectacular in the 2009-10 season, averaging 30 points on 50% shooting, seven rebounds, and nine assists. He earned his second MVP trophy and led the Cavs to the best record in the NBA for the second straight season.

But things fell apart in the second round of the Eastern Conference Playoffs against the Boston Celtics. In Game 5, Cleveland was blown out by 32, with James only scoring 15 points on 14 shots. His dismal display drew criticism.

James seemed to shrink after missing his first seven shots. And this couldve been the last time Cavaliers fans saw him play at home. James was better in Game 6, putting up27 points, 19 rebounds, and 10 assists. But the numbers look better on paper than they did in real-time. The Celtics won the series.

Then, James and his business partners put together a TV show to announce that he was leaving the franchise and taking his talents to South Beach. Everything changed.

It wasnt bad enough that James left one of the best teams in the NBA. He also left for the Miami Heat, whod finished fifth in the conference the year before. No player had ever asserted their agency like this before, and it made people furious.

Once James made the announcement, fans burned his jersey and called him soft for joining up with other All-Stars. The Heat quickly became the team every other fanbase loved to hate. And this was before the pep rally where James proclaimed that the Heat would win, Not two, not three, not four, not five, not six, not seven championships. It wasnt a great look.

Miami started slow but got it together in time to make the NBA finals in their first year of the Big Three era. Amidst the noise, James had a terrific season: 27 points, eight rebounds, and seven assists. But no one remembers this, because the finals were a total disaster.

James gave his haters the mental collapse they were waiting for. The Heat were favorites against the Dallas Mavericks. But the Mavs Dirk Nowitzki had the best postseason of his career and James collapsed under the pressure.

It wasnt just that his points per game decreased by nine points so suddenly. (Dallas deserves credit for their championship. However, Deshawn Stevenson and Tyson Chandler shouldnt be enough to put the most talented NBA player into such a funk.) LeBron became more passive and less effective as the series went on.

Game 4 was the low point. Miami had the chance to get a grip on the series. But the Mavericks won, bringing it back to 2-2. James relegated himself to the role of a pure passer. He led the team in assists but only had eight points on 11 shots. He stopped going to the rim or challenging the defense in any real way.

The true humiliation came when James matched up with the allegedly 5-foot-10 J.J. Barea in the post and had no idea how to score.James improved in the following games because it couldnt get worse. Dallas got the trophy; the Heat got a flamethrower of scorn.

The summer after this defeat proved to be a fork-in-the-road moment for James.

He had to get mentally stronger and develop his game. James became more comfortable playing as a power forward and earned the NBAs regular-season and Finals MVP for two straight years. He even returned to Cleveland and delivered the most improbable championship in recent history, forever silencing the detractors.

In 2020, James is nearly unimpeachable in the eyes of many as long as he doesnt talk about China. Hes lived up to the hype and then some. Hes also become a worthy spokesman for important causes and has built a landmark Ohio school. LeBron took his setbacks in stride and used them as a tool for self-improvement.

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Queer Eye for the straight guy is an American reality television series and is released on Netflix. The show calls attention to the team of gay professionals in the fields of fashion, personal grooming, interior designing, entertaining and culture, which are collectively known as fab five. Season 1 was released on 7 February 2018, followed by season 2 on June 15, 2018. Season 3 came out on 15 March 2015, followed by season 4 on 19 July 2019, with a special name, Yass Australia! .Fab five came with a special name, Were in Japan! on November 9, 2019. The show has won many Emmy awards. Netflix has confirmed the production of the fifth season of the show, but the official date is not yet announced. We can expect the fifth season between February to April 2020 by looking at the pattern of previous seasons. In this season original cast of Fab Five is returning with their incredible skills. This includes Antoni Porowski as a food and wine expert, Tan France as a fashion expert, Karamo Brown as a culture and lifestyle expert, Bobby Berk as a design expert, and Jonathan Van Ness as a grooming expert. It is confirmed that this season would be filmed in a very surprising location, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Previous seasons were filmed in Kansas City and Atlanta, but this time fab five went to the east coast. Season 5 is expected to be much different from the past four seasons. They have successfully conquered the lives of people in the two cities, and this season, they are all set for the third city, which will be for sure heroic. After the four seasons of self-love, self-improvement, self-reflection, and self-care, season 5 will soon be back with heroes in need of few changes in their lives and involving positivity in the lives of others.

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That some sportsmen - and women - can be hot-headed is no secret. Some players have become just as famous for their outbursts on court as they have for their game, perhaps none more so than John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors.

At the ATP Challenger Bengaluru Open, I witnessed not one, but two matches that were all but lost with on-court outbursts. Czechias Vaclav Safranek, locked in a battle and being sent through the wringer by Japans Yuichi Sugita, was being tested to the hilt, with an agile, quick-moving Sugita serving flawlessly throughout. Perhaps it was the fact that he had been pushed, perhaps it was the heat - or perhaps it was just the player himself. Even through the second set, Safranek looked as though he had still been trying, in some way, to keep himself in the game. And then, pushed completely to the wall by Sugita, it was as if the Czech fell apart. Skying balls into the park in rage, Safranek exchanged a few words with the chair umpire, and with the spectators around. It was clear: the match had been all but lost.

Sugita had already looked more convincing, fitter, even moving quicker than his Czech opponent. But even until the final games of the first set, with Sugita having been up a break of serve at one point, Safranek had looked firmly in the reckoning. Matching shot for shot, his serves just as fluid as his Japanese rival. The 25-year-old Safranek despite being the younger, less experienced, and even lower-ranked of the two, had never really seemed the underdog.

Having sealed the first set 6-4 despite a solid fightback from his rival, Sugita, whose restrained reaction was simply restricted to bowing to a smattering of applause, was a study in contrast to his opponent on the other side of the net. Safranek, who had still kept his composure until then, began to get incensed. That anger began in the form of shots sent into the net, errors galore and finally, halfway through the second, and what would be the final set, Safranek skied a ball that went straight over the roof of the court, and into the expanse of the park behind it. And whether it was from that shot, or the beginning of the argument with the umpire, it was clear from deameanor alone that Sugita had won, even with half a set yet to be played. Until then, Safranek had still been in the reckoning and that outburst until then held in and translated into the game, had broken a dam.

On centre court, as the Safranek-Sugita battle was underway, was yet another study in just how keeping calm wins matches. Former Indian No 1 Saketh Myneni was playing the sixth seed Evgeny Donskoy, who in 2017 defeated Roger Federer in Dubai. Donskoy, the higher-ranked of the two players, looked physically in form, even moving better across the court at times than his Indian competitor. After Donskoy squandered the lead to Myneni despite looking to be in good nick, he became incensed fairly quickly, with angry yells directed at himself, the chair umpire, and no-one in general echoing across the KSLTA. On the other side of the net, Myneni simply continued his game seemingly unperturbed by the outbursts from the other side of the net. By the time the second set had begun, Myneni, who has struggled with a number of injuries over his career, even looked to be flagging slightly on movement. But the Indian eventually won the match having remained almost a picture of composure, with Donskoy mentally checking out of the match following his loud outburst at the chair umpire.

One might argue that anger is a sign of emotion, and that emotional investment in ones game, and ones sport, is essential to win. There is much to be said about the fact that it is important to be emotionally invested in what you are doing, and in the case of professional sportspersons, that is truer than ever. With adrenaline pumping, crowds watching, and indeed, the progression of your ranking based on your performance at these matches, it is no wonder that players do get emotional.

There is perhaps no better example for losing ones temper - and subsequently, concentration than Nick Kyrgios. AP

But many of the best players are in fact proof to the contrary. Rarely if ever has one seen the likes of Roger Federer or Venus Williams fly into an incandescent rage onto the court. And then again, there are those with tempers - but tempers that rarely, if ever, are directed at officials. A great example of this is the former World No 1 Andy Murray, who often directs his anger at himself, rather than anyone else on the court. And therein lies the rub. Having emotions run high on court is but natural and human, but using those emotions to lash out is one of the most counterproductive things a player could do.

In his autobiography, Serious,John McEnroe - who won a solid seven Grand Slam singles titles among his other laurels, said he would have been a much better player had he known how to control his temper on the court.

Neither is useful; the rage that is expressed externally: at chair umpires, line judges, ball boys and girls and surroundings is directly harmful to others, while internalised rage, far from helping a players game become more aggressive, can completely destroy focus and confidence - something that one could see translating directly from Safraneks on-court demeanour to his eventually and rapidly deteriorating game.

There is perhaps no better example for losing ones temper - and subsequently, concentration, than the black sheep of new-age tennis: Nick Kyrgios. The Australian has lost his temper all too often on court, losing concentration and tanking matches - most famously at the Shanghai Masters of 2016. Upset with a line call, the mercurial Australian berated the umpire, the crowd, and proceeded to intentionally tank the match. But for Kyrgios - and for McEnroe, and Ilie Nasty Nastase, that anger was routinely directed at others. There is also the case of Mikhail Youzhny, whose rage led him to harm himself with a racquet.

Both are harmful, but external rage is also significantly more counterproductive. Blaming external conditions: opponents, line judges, chair umpires, crowds and even weather for ones rage only serves to shift all the blame from oneself, taking away from any room for self-improvement. While internalised anger might help in that regard - and indeed, many in the top leagues of the game can often be seen berating themselves after a particularly bad shot or point, it still takes away focus that is best applied on bringing oneself back into the reckoning.

One might argue - correctly so, that nobodys perfect. Fans might rarely see it now, but the ever cool and composed Roger Federer has himself been victim to a rare on-court outburst. Playing Novak Djokovic at Miami in 2009, Federer committed forehand error after forehand error, and took the blame out on a racquet that ended up more bent than a contortionist in a carnival, a sight one might be more used to from his countryman Stan Wawrinka. The Swiss former No 1 would end up losing that match to Djokovic 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, unable to recover from that bout of anger.

To err and indeed, to let your emotions get the best of you, is only human, but when that happens more often than not, it risks tarnishing the legacy of a player who might otherwise be teeming with talent - Kyrgios, again, being a prime example. Although the Australian is immensely talented, a mention of his name brings only his many on-court tantrums to mind.

Anger, channeled correctly, can turn into the kind of aggression that improves serves, games, and focus; it is finding that delicate balance between rage and raw adrenaline that separates the good from the best.

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