Thursday, March 31, 2022
How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? - The New York Times
Jerrod Carmichael has a potent new special and Christopher Walken is doing community service.
This weekend I have … an hour, and I like intimacy.
‘Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel’
When to watch: Friday at 9 p.m., on HBO.
The comedian Jerrod Carmichael digs deep in a new special that winds up being a monologue about the burdens of family secrets much more than a traditional stand-up set. (He actually sits in a folding chair the entire time.) It’s a powerful piece, often funny but also profoundly sad; usually I’d recoil at audience members shouting “We love you!” mid-set, but here it feels caring and maybe even essential. Confessional comedy is one of the dominant forms of the moment, but sometimes it can feel too packaged and thus perversely inauthentic. This is the opposite: Carmichael’s brilliance radiates from the raw and unresolved.
… a few hours, and I like emotional dramas.
‘Love Me’
When to watch: Arrives Friday, on Hulu.
Talky domestic dramas live and die by the quality of their fraught dinner party scenes. The first episode of this Australian import contains a blistering one — nasty but for good reasons, the kind of family squabble where no one is on the same team. “Love Me” follows Clara (Bojana Novakovic) her brother and her newly widowed father as they seek and accept love and make the mistakes people make. It’s not as sudsy as “The Split” or as overwrought as “Brothers & Sisters,” but if you like those shows, or you like kissing and family squabbles in equal measure, watch this.
… a few hours, and I like quirky ensembles.
‘The Outlaws’
When to watch: Arrives Friday, on Amazon.
Christopher Walken co-stars in this British dramedy about a disparate group doing community service hours. For some, it’s their first brush with the criminal justice system; for others, it’s old hat, and as with “Orange Is the New Black,” we learn everyone’s back story as individuals. The show has a fun, bouncy vibe and comic pacing, but there are crime-thriller plots, too, and they’re not played for laughs. All six episodes drop at once, and the show has already been renewed for a second season.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Texans win both WAC weekly awards for 4th time, Makantasi, Vaudiau, Palatte honored - Tarleton State University Athletics
The Texans swept the awards for the fourth time this season with Martha Makantasi named WAC Singles Athlete of the Week, and the duo of Celia Vaudiau and Faustine Palatte earning WAC Doubles Team of the Week honors.
The Texans went 2-0 in matches played March 21-27, beating UTEP 6-1 on Friday and defeating fellow WAC opponent New Mexico State 4-3 on Saturday. The Texans are 15-4 on the year, matching their most wins in a season over the past 15 years (15-6 in 2006-07). They've won four straight matches, eight of their last nine and 14 of their last 16.
Makantasi went 2-0 in the No. 3 position to earn her second weekly singles award of the season, her fifth total. On Friday, she defeated UTEP's Lina Sachica 6-4, 7-5. On Saturday, it came down to Makantasi to decide the team win with the team points tied at 3-3. Makantasi defeated New Mexico State's Natsuki Nishimura 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 in comeback fashion to clinch the team victory for Tarleton, sending a great crowd at the Potishman-Lard Tennis Courts into a frenzy.
The Tarleton sophomore is 14-4 on the season (11-4 at No. 3, 2-0 at No. 2, 1-0 at No. 1).
Vaudiau and Palatte went 2-0 as a pair in the No. 3 flight this week, clinching the doubles point in their first match against UTEP's Kathleen Percegona and Elena Dibattista with a 6-3 win. On Saturday, they defeated New Mexico State's Bella Nguyen and Miranda Bishard 6-2. Tarleton won each doubles point 2-1, so each match at No. 3 was vital.
As a pair, Vaudiau and Palatte have won four straight matches to improve to 7-3. They are undefeated in the No. 3 position at 4-0. Vaudiau has now won three weekly awards this season, although this was her first in doubles. This was Palatte's first such honor of the year.
The WAC has dished out weekly awards 11 times this tennis season. Seven times out of the 11 weeks, Tarleton has earned at least one of the two awards distributed, winning both awards four times, resulting in 11 weekly awards total. Grand Canyon has earned four weekly awards this year for second most in the conference.
Tarleton's 2022 WAC weekly honors:
Week 1: Celia Vaudiau, Singles; Deniza Marcinkevica and Jemi Aguilar, Doubles
Week 3: Deniza Marcinkevica, Singles; Deniza Marcinkevica and Jemi Aguilar, Doubles
Week 6: Martha Makantasi, Singles; Martha Makantasi and Elsa Boisson, Doubles
Week 8: Celia Vaudiau, Singles
Week 9: Deniza Marcinkevica and Martha Makantasi, Doubles
Week 10: Deniza Marcinkevica and Martha Makantasi, Doubles
Week 11: Martha Makantasi, Singles; Celia Vaudiau and Faustine Palatte, Doubles
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It’s time for a digital trade agreement - Fortune
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HYBE's Bang Si-hyuk Is Looking for the Next BTS - TIME
This April, Las Vegas might feel a little different. For two weekends, the stars of South Korean supergroup BTS will play concerts to sold-out audiences at Allegiant Stadium, filling the city with tens of thousands of passionate fans of their brand of high-energy K-pop. It’ll be a return to live-performance form for BTS, whose global touring schedule has been mostly stalled in the face of the pandemic. Despite the setbacks, the group has thrived. That ongoing success is a direct product of the shrewd management agency behind the world’s most popular musical act. Initially founded as Big Hit Entertainment in 2005 by musical mastermind Bang Si-hyuk, the company listed publicly on the Korean exchange in 2020 as HYBE; it’s valued at $9.5 billion today. And while BTS takes the stage in Vegas, HYBE will also host auditions there, on the hunt for the next decade’s stars.
HYBE is not just a record label or a management company. “HYBE’s vision has always been ambitious—to the point of being presumptuous,” says Bang over Zoom from its headquarters in Seoul. (It also has bases in the U.S. and Japan.) “Our vision is to become the world’s leading entertainment lifestyle platform, with music as our foundation.” A former artist himself, nicknamed Hitman for his surefire musical instincts, Bang is thoughtful and earnest in his answers—even as he is bold in his goals. These days, he prefers a behind-the-scenes role, and has handed over CEO duties to Jiwon Park while he remains the company’s chairman. As HYBE has evolved, it has grown from a small artist incubator—Bang handpicked the seven performers of BTS from around Korea—into what he calls a “360-degree business,” in the mode of brands like Disney that own and operate a catalog of intellectual properties (IPs). Over the past year, HYBE acquired U.S.-based media company Ithaca Holdings—which manages the likes of Justin Bieber, J Balvin, and Ariana Grande—for over $1 billion, invested over $420 million in a crypto venture, and scaled up business in Japan and the U.S. It also runs Weverse, a fan-to-artist social media app with nearly 7 million monthly users. “We are in a stage where we have expanded the boundaries of our industry itself,” Bang says.
HYBE consists of three sectors: artist IP, technology, and world building. BTS leaned on all of that infrastructure to find a new path to global dominance even in lockdown. “The idea was to release new music to console people and heal their minds through our music during these hard times, when it’s difficult to physically meet and interact,” BTS leader RM tells TIME. “The results were ‘Dynamite,’ ‘Butter,’ ‘Permission to Dance.’” Each of these upbeat, dance-ready singles, released strategically over the course of two years, became record-breaking hits and solidified BTS’s place in the pop firmament. BTS has been, Bang says, “the king of the K-pop scene for a very long time,” but HYBE’s newer acts, including ENHYPEN, TXT, and SEVENTEEN, are on the brink of breakout moments themselves. Plus, HYBE is prioritizing launching fresh talent out of Korea, Japan, and especially the U.S. “The essence of our company is IP—we are a music business company. We need to make our IPs bigger and also create more,” Bang says.
Where HYBE has differentiated itself is in investing in technology that makes it possible to stream concerts virtually and own the artist-fan relationship, from ticketing to merchandise shops to live artist broadcasts, shows, and message boards. Weverse, where fans can go for all things related to HYBE artists, is what Bang calls a “great innovation.” HYBE also recently acquired VLIVE, a tech platform that allows for live video streaming to audiences.
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That technology, RM says, carried the group through the disappointment of canceled tours and kept their fans engaged. “During the pandemic, the company put together online concerts and has been building the fan communities [around the world],” adds BTS member Suga. The group’s virtual concerts, streamed to over a million paying ticketholders worldwide, broke records for live viewership. It was HYBE that owned and operated the virtual platform for them to perform, and HYBE, in which the members of BTS are shareholders, that reaped the rewards. VLIVE is currently being integrated into “Weverse 2.0,” set to release in the first half of this year.
But Bang recognizes that one innovation isn’t enough. “The market is constantly telling us to come up with something new already,” he says. So he did. One of 2022’s rising market trends in music is the sale of NFTs—nonfungible tokens that exist on the blockchain—of songs and other assets, like tradable photocards of artists. In late 2021, Bang announced HYBE would pursue building an NFT exchange of its own as a joint venture with fintech company Dunamu. But fan backlash was quick, with concerns about such tokens’ environmental impact. “All I’d like to say to fans is, as of now, we haven’t announced anything,” Bang now says. The point of the proprietary exchange, he says, is to have greater control over how NFTs are created and distributed—and to address fans’ concerns directly with “policies and technical measures” that would better reflect their priorities. He is cryptic for now, but seems bullish on the future of NFTs for his artists. “We have some interesting projects in the works,” he says, adding that the result may persuade skeptics who are now saying, “These guys don’t understand why we hate this.”
The NFT question is just one piece in Bang’s vision of a new, better-functioning business model for artists. One of the primary challenges in the global music industry is the tension between artists, labels, and streaming platforms for fractional payouts. Bang’s method of evading that minefield is to diversify HYBE artists’ income streams. “While contemplating questions like: ‘How can we satisfy fans and expand the artist’s reach, and at the same time create a longer life span for music through narrative structure?’ we came up with a new model last year,” Bang says.
It’s called the “Original Story Business,” through which HYBE is developing everything from animated cartoons to Korean-language educational materials that all connect to the music, message, and personalities of HYBE artists. So far, the company has announced three projects in collaboration with Naver Webtoon, with at least three more to come this year.
“Our company structure is so unique,” Bang says; it’s able to capture revenue from multiple points. That’s a contrast to many other labels. “The music industry is losing quite a lot in the value chain. I feel the music industry should be making a lot more money and their value as a service should be recognized more,” he says, referring to the artists’ work. “Mr. Bang and HYBE have always prioritized the essentials—the music,” says BTS member J-Hope.
Meanwhile, HYBE’s model has already irrevocably altered the global music landscape. “In a lot of cases people just do things because that’s the way things have been. I have a hard time accepting that,” Bang says. “And so in running a company, I always try to focus on: Why are we doing this?”
For BTS, that meant ignoring the limitations placed on earlier K-pop groups and establishing themselves as the princes of global pop. For HYBE, it means evolving as a music agency, a tech innovator, and a creative powerhouse all at once. Bang, like BTS, has always dreamed big. So why is he doing this? Well, why not?
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Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Permanent daylight saving time is a dumb idea, a CU sleep expert says - The Colorado Sun
On the darkest morning of winter, the sun rises across Colorado — depending on where you are — sometime between about 7:05 a.m. and 7:40 a.m.
You roll out of bed, get dressed, make coffee or eat some breakfast. If you are like the average person in Denver, the sun is probably rising along with you as you do these things.
Now imagine that your morning routine stays the same, but the sun stays in bed an hour later. You would head off to work in the dark. School for many children would begin in the dark.
This is the situation Colorado would be facing during the darkest days of winter if the nation switched to permanent daylight saving time, and it’s why University of Colorado sleep science professor Kenneth Wright thinks the idea is so horrible.
“Every morning, sunlight helps us to reset ourselves,” said Wright, who teaches integrative physiology and the head of the university’s Sleep and Chronobiology Lab. “And that way we are in sync with the 24-hour light-dark cycle of Earth.”
Standard time — what Wright believes the country should be on full-time — roughly tracks the sun in each time zone, with the sun at its highest point in the sky around noon. Colorado and most other states observe standard time during the winter months. Daylight time, meanwhile, pushes the clock ahead an hour during the spring, summer and fall, meaning people will see later sunsets — something advocates for changing to permanent daylight time tout as a benefit that will allow people to be more active after work or school.
The idea of switching Colorado to permanent daylight saving time is an old one, with efforts in the state legislature stretching back more than a decade. On Monday, a Colorado state House committee gave approval to the latest effort — a bill that would make daylight time permanent in Colorado but only if either the federal government authorizes it or if four other states in the Mountain time zone do the same.
But the idea of going to daylight saving time full-time really gained new momentum earlier this month when the U.S. Senate passed a measure to make daylight saving time permanent across the country.
Wright said there is no debate about the idea among sleep experts globally. At the same time the Senate voted to make daylight saving permanent, Wright was in Rome, attending World Sleep 2022, an annual conference that is so big that the World Sleep Society dubs it a “congress.”
The reaction among attendees at the meeting? It’s a really bad idea.
“There is expert consensus here that, if we have to choose one of these, permanent standard time is the healthier choice,” Wright said.
Ending the spring forward
Wright wants to be clear: He is not in favor of clock-switching, the most loathsome feature of the nation’s annual change from standard time to daylight time and back again.
A robust body of research shows that the annual springing forward, when we shift clocks an hour ahead at the start of daylight saving time, causes a surge in fatal car accidents, heart attacks and strokes.
“No question, we need to stop the change, going back and forth,” Wright said.
Changing to permanent daylight saving time will compound the problems by interrupting our bodies’ natural circadian rhythms, Wright said.
As he explains it, light in the morning is different to our bodies than light at night. The morning light signals to our circadian clocks that it’s time to get moving. The ebbing of evening light tells our clocks it’s time to slow down. So stealing light from the morning to give to the evening, especially in winter, pushes that clock rhythm back.
This would likely lead to later bedtimes in the winter, especially when coupled with the impact of artificial light at night on sleep. (A CU study published earlier this year found that even minor exposure to light in the hour prior to bedtime can disrupt the sleep of preschoolers.)
This might not be such a big deal if our schedules were fungible and we could just plan to wake up later in the morning. But they’re not. School start times are fixed, as are most people’s work start times. Both could be changed, of course, but it would require a big cultural movement to do so.
That means, when alarm clocks start going off during those dark morning hours, our circadian rhythms would likely rather we still be fast asleep. The resulting sleep deprivation could lead to greater risk for a litany of health problems, from weight gain, heart attacks and cancer to poor mental health and substance abuse.
“This change,” Wright said of a move to permanent daylight saving time, “is likely going to make these types of problems worse.”
Be glad we’re not Idaho
Colorado, though, wouldn’t get the worst of it if the nation moved to full-time daylight time. That’s because the state sits on the eastern side of the Mountain time zone.
The latest the sun will rise in Denver this year is 7:32 a.m., which will happen in early November right before the clocks fall back to standard time. Things stay darker a little longer as you go farther west and north. But, even in Grand Junction, the latest the sun will rise this year is 7:45 a.m.
If daylight saving time were made permanent, those latest-sunrise times would change to 8:19 a.m. and 8:31 a.m., respectively, and they would fall right around the first of the year. Wright said switching to daylight time year-round would mean about two months out of the year when the sun wouldn’t rise before 8 a.m. in the state. (It wouldn’t change the latest sunset times because those occur in summer when the state is already on daylight time, but it would push the earliest sunset times back an hour — to about 5:36 p.m. at the earliest in Denver, occurring in early December.)
This year, with both standard and daylight time in place, Denver will see 107 days without a sunrise before 7 a.m. If daylight saving were made permanent, that number would rise to 166 days without a sunrise before 7 a.m.
The number of days with late sunset times in Denver — those after 7 p.m. — would remain virtually unchanged under permanent daylight time, rising to 198 this year instead of the 193 we will see under the status quo. There would be a greater increase in the number of days with sunset times after 6 p.m. — 291 under permanent daylight time, instead of 238 with the status quo.
This is nothing, though, compared to what people in Boise, Idaho, on the western edge of the Mountain time zone, would experience. There, residents would endure roughly two months out of the year without a sunrise before 9 a.m.
But, to Wright, this just underscores the problem with permanent daylight saving time. Some places will see greater impacts than others, but all places will see more darkness on winter mornings.
“It’s not that we won’t be impacted, we certainly will be impacted,” he said. “And others further west they will be impacted more by this. That doesn’t mean that because we’re less impacted is the right thing to do.”
It appears that Congress might be starting to come around to that thinking. At last report, the Sunshine Protection Act — the bill passed in the Senate to make daylight saving permanent — is facing a much, ahem, dimmer outlook in the U.S. House.
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Why “I Don't Have Time For Training” Is A Lie - Forbes
After a client rolled out a new training program recently, they did something interesting. They surveyed everyone who chose not to participate, and asked them “why not?” The top three reasons people opted out of the program were:
- Being too busy
- Bad timing
- Irrelevant content
What’s interesting about the results is that, while the responses appear different on the surface, they actually all mean the same thing: “the value of this training isn’t worth my time.”
Most everyone is busy at work, but they always make time for what’s important to them. It’s easy to claim you don’t have time to go to the gym if you don’t value exercise as much as you value an extra hour of work or watching a basketball game. Every decision about how you use your time comes at the expense of something else.
Not having enough time isn’t the real reason people are skipping out on training. It’s just another way of saying the training isn’t valuable to them.
This points to a gap between what employees want from training and what organizations are actually delivering. SurveyMonkey found that 86% of employees say job training is important to them, but eLearning Industry reports 33% of U.S. workers say their current company-provided training doesn’t meet their expectations.
If you want to increase participation in learning and development programs, the question isn’t how to make people less busy—that’s a nonstarter. What will actually move the needle on participation is increasing the value of training and then communicating that value in a way that makes people realize they can’t afford not to make time.
Here are 3 ways you can increase and communicate the value of training:
1. Start at the top and align training to broader company strategy. Aligning training with company strategy is one way to create enormous value. No company is doing this better than Keysight Technologies. Every year, Keysight’s CEO holds an executive development meeting where top company leaders discuss the company’s strategy for the next 12 months and define the behaviors needed to deliver on that strategy. Then, the content is cascaded down throughout the company. During training, people receive important information about where the company is headed and also learn the behaviors and skills they need to help the company hit its goals and objectives.
“We design something new every year based on the company’s strategy and what is happening during the year,” said Leslie Camino, Senior Director of Corporate Leadership Development, Culture, and DEI at Keysight Technologies. “For example, during the pandemic, we realized that we would need to find new ways to develop our dispersed employees. We focused on engagement and innovation, and our employees responded very positively.”
Tying strategy and training together will create programs that people must make time to attend in order to effectively do their jobs. If your content is newly aligned with company strategy every year like it is at Keysight, the program will be especially relevant.
It’s also a lot harder to find an excuse not to attend training when your boss, your boss’s boss, and their boss have gone through the training. Using leaders as teachers creates accountability. Most people will show up to a training run by their boss’s boss.
2. Create personal interest. When it comes to training, you must be prepared to answer the question, “what’s in it for me?” Many employees appreciate training programs that don’t just help them do their job better, but also help them build skills to advance their careers (regardless of the organization). Others, like those seeking a promotion or looking to increase their commission, may want hyper-targeted or personalized training that will help them reach those goals faster. To increase the value of training, ask people what they want to get out of it.
Bettina Koblick, chief people officer at the Robotic Process Automation company UiPath, puts it this way: “How are you going to bake someone's favorite birthday cake if you don't ask them what cake flavor they want? It's so simple, but you have to ask. We don't know best, [the employees] know best. It’s on us to ask.”
As you survey or initiate those conversations with employees, keep in mind that people likely care less about the skills themselves, and more about the outcomes they're trying to achieve—like a promotion, or the increased credibility that would come with completing a certification. With the outcome top of mind, the value of the training will be obvious from the very beginning.
3. Communicate value through managers. What’s valuable to a manager is inherently valuable to the employee. So when an employee’s manager includes training as a priority alongside their other work, they'll be much more likely to see and understand the value—especially if it’s tied to the employee’s goals. For instance, if a sales manager’s goal is to retain all her reps for 12 months, her boss may suggest an e-learning program about how to increase employee engagement. That program is now worthy of her time because it’s tied to a goal, and because her manager made it clear that the training will help her reach the goal.
This, of course, requires that managers regularly have development conversations with their people—which means managers must, first and foremost, go through training themselves on how to lead and develop their employees.
“All roads lead to managers and leaders,” Melanie Foley, Executive Vice President and Chief Talent and Enterprise Services Officer at Liberty Mutual, expressed in a recent interview. “Think about how to strengthen your leadership capabilities aligned to what your expectations are and how you're going to achieve your own mission and purpose. And remember that people are multidimensional. It's about supporting the whole person and taking a holistic approach to continuous learning and providing employees with as many resources as you can.”
Showing Participants the Value of Training Shows Your Value Too
When you take the time to show participants the value of training, you also show the value of the work you do. Instead of a nice-to-have program, your training becomes a necessary piece of the bigger picture and the company’s strategy. This will help you to win interest and engagement from employees and to win a seat at the table with senior leadership.
Kevin Kruse is the Founder + CEO of LEADx, a platform that scales and sustains leadership habits through micro-coaching and behavioral nudges. Kevin is also a New York Times bestselling author of Great Leaders Have No Rules, 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management, and Employee Engagement 2.0.
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