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Finally! The XFL has come back to St. Louis!

The XFL announced the eight cities that will host teams in 2023, and Washington is among them.

In 2020, the XFL had teams in the New York, Los Angeles and Tampa areas, but they had lackluster attendance. Next year will mark the first season of XFL action in San Antonio, and the league will return to the Las Vegas and Orlando regions, where the original XFL had teams in 2001. The next month, the league filed for bankruptcy and sought a sale. In February 2020, the DC Defenders hosted the first game of XFL 2.0, providing an alternative for the dwindling fan base of Washington’s NFL franchise. Kaiss coached with Barlow at Alabama State. Hutchins, selected in the sixth round of the 2004 NFL draft, played defensive back for the Indianapolis Colts and Houston Texans. The league announced several coaching and front-office positions for each team in June, but it didn’t specify where each group would coach.

Five cities from the 2020 version of the XFL will once again have teams in the 2023 reboot, as will Las Vegas, Orlando, Florida, and San Antonio.

"We can’t wait to share in the electrifying excitement from fans once they meet their new 'hometown team.' We’ll see you at kickoff." Washington: Head coach Reggie Barlow But it has not yet announced team names or logos. Houston: Head coach Wade Phillips The XFL has revealed the home venues for all of the teams, and which of its previously announced head coaches will be based in which cities. The XFL announced Sunday that one of the eight teams in its rebooted spring football league will be located in Las Vegas, while five other teams will be based in cities that were part of the previous iteration of the league in 2020.

PRNewswire/ -- The XFL is excited to announce the cities and venues that its teams will call home, starting with the upcoming season which will kick off on.

The XFL's ownership group, led by Dany Garcia, Dwayne Johnson, and Gerry Cardinale's RedBird Capital Partners, is building a fan-first, fast-paced global professional football league with innovative rules and enhanced 360 game experience. I've been extremely impressed with not only the turnout at all of these events, but the level of skill and talent these players exhibited. We have been working on cool, new logos and innovative uniforms, that match the dynamic and innovative vision of our league. In each of these cities we will co-create with our fans and build these teams from the ground up so that they represent the unique fabric of our communities. "We've had a clear vision for the XFL – the values to instill, the diversity of our leaders, the innovation of the game and how we want to deeply engage with our communities so they can help bring this vision to life. NEW YORK, July 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The XFL is excited to announce the cities and venues that its teams will call home, starting with the upcoming season which will kick off on February 18, 2023.

Most teams are back to full strength after a few Origin-affected weeks. The Sea Eagles are set to have a trio of players return, whilst the Knights will ...

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Former Alabama State standout and coach Reggie Barlow will work as the head coach of the XFL's Washington franchise, the spring football league announced on ...

The venues for the 2023 season will be: · Houston: TDECU Stadium The 2023 franchises in Las Vegas and Orlando mark a return to the XFL for those cities. · Arlington: Choctaw Stadium In 1998, Barlow led the NFL with 555 punt-return yards. “We know the last time we were there, the fan participation was outstanding there.

Each team was then randomly primed for one of four different conditions: paradoxical framing with high or low (control) epistemic motivation, and low or high ...

Just as in the first study, we found that teams in the paradoxical frame-high epistemic motivation condition were significantly more creative and able to balance novelty and usefulness better than other teams. Teams in the control group were instructed to simply review their various perspectives and ideas without recognising and embracing their contradictions. In short, they were primed to scrutinise their contradictory ideas and perspectives. Ensure that we consider all the interests, all the competing elements. Teams in the control condition were not told that they would be interviewed about their strategies. Their products were assessed by two independent judges as more novel and useful than the other teams, who tended to focus on novelty or usefulness, and to settle for subpar compromises. When teams adopt paradoxical frames, we hypothesised, they collectively recognise the contradictions inherent in the task at hand, yet understand that the contradictions could feed off each other to the team’s benefit. We theorised that, to be really creative, the paradox mindset must go hand in hand with what we call epistemic motivation. Each team was then randomly primed for one of four different conditions: paradoxical framing with high or low (control) epistemic motivation, and low or high epistemic motivation without paradoxical framing. Put simply, team members must be motivated to thoroughly understand the task and their competing perspectives and demands, as well as how these are interconnected, and then integrate their ideas in the best way possible. We showed that people who adopt paradoxical frames – or recognise and embrace the simultaneous existence of contradictory elements – could be very creative, even radically creative. In a new paper, we show how teams are more creative when members recognise and embrace differences, and systematically explore members’ opposing perspectives.

Ruby's Patti Crume explores how customer service teams can serve as brand ambassadors to embody your brand and build customer loyalty.

Remember: customer service teams are the ones who actually speak to customers. Across her 10 years at the company, Patti has built necessary process flows between customer marketing and service to tightly align their efforts and better reach and serve customers. By knowing the brand – and better yet, believing in it – customer service teams help earn customer trust and loyalty. This is why, like marketers, customer service teams need to know the brand (and product or service) so intimately that they become the only expert a customer needs to reach. The best representatives – and the best brand ambassadors – have values that align with the company’s, so by letting them be themselves, organizations naturally allow these representatives to embody the brand. And they can be a marketer’s greatest ally. Frontline staff should feel empowered to lean into their individual personalities, especially when it means empathizing with a customer and skipping canned responses. For customer service representatives, brand ambassadorship means acting as the human embodiment of the brand. Service reps should know – without having to go ask in the middle of a conversation. If not, then what are the other ways the company can meet the customer’s needs? This alleviates a customer’s concerns about whether they’re speaking to the right person. Frontline service employees are often a consumer’s first human interaction with a company.

Asset manager Schroders has teamed up with an environmental organisation to set up a Singapore-based fund house to invest in projects that seek to halt and ...

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The company has announced it is working on a new update that will make it more straightforward for users to turn their webcam on or off when on a call. Although ...

Trained on 30,000 hours of speech samples, the model's improvements include echo cancellation, better adjusting audio in poor acoustic environments, and allowing users to speak and hear at the same time without interruptions. This does, however mean that only desktop users will be able to enjoy the new feature when it is released. Teams calls will no longer have an awkward echo when someone talks over another participant, meaning conversations should flow much more easily.

Microsoft introduced the “Intelligent Camera” concept in September 2021, and it got a call out at the recent Microsoft Inspire (July 2022).

Some cameras compose the people into a single video feed; others can output separate streams for truly separate video squares. Each OEM vendor has a different name for its version of the technology: Also, these cameras can use a separate video stream to deliver a panoramic view of the room, so remote participants have the full context of the space.

The company has announced it is working on a new update that will make it more straightforward for users to turn their webcam on or off when on a call. Although ...

Trained on 30,000 hours of speech samples, the model's improvements include echo cancellation, better adjusting audio in poor acoustic environments, and allowing users to speak and hear at the same time without interruptions. This does, however mean that only desktop users will be able to enjoy the new feature when it is released. Teams calls will no longer have an awkward echo when someone talks over another participant, meaning conversations should flow much more easily.

Researchers have developed a method to train multiple agents such as robots or drones to work together using multi-agent reinforcement learning, a type of ...

The algorithms the researchers developed can also identify when an agent or robot is doing something that doesn't contribute to the goal. We also focused on situations where it's not obvious what the different roles or jobs for the agents should be." When communication lines are open, individual agents such as robots or drones can work together to collaborate and complete a task.