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Running back dreams
Noah Hart, a second-string running back for the Westfield Wildcats, has to rely on his knowledge and skills to win the game against their rival, the East Lake Eagles.
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Metaverse Marketing
Some activities you do alone in a virtual environment might be better or substantially cheaper in the metaverse than on the 2D internet. Yet the real value of the metaverse is the social component of its environment. Companies can harvest this potential in various contexts. At work, the metaverse can be used for meetings and trainings in atmospheric settings, equipped with various tools and with zero travelling costs. For consumers, it offers joint consumption opportunities, encompassing many fields of entertainment such as movie watching, playing games and attending events, as well as shopping. And many services can benefit strongly from the unique “closeness” of customers and employees. The metaverse will grow strongly but not exponentially. Companies should get familiar with the new space and start small, exploring what works and what doesn’t. They should try to understand what the metaverse shares with the physical world and what sets it apart.
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Hit count
Arlo Brodie loves being at the heart of the action on the football field, and while his dad cheers him on, his mother quotes head injury statistics and refuses to watch, but Arlo's winning plays, the cheering crowds, and the adrenaline rush are enough to convince him that everything is OK--in spite of the pain, the pounding, the dizziness, and the confusion.
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Psychosis and Intelligibility
When interacting with other people, we assume that they have their reasons for what they do and believe, and experience recognizable feelings and emotions. When people act from weakness of will or are otherwise irrational, what they do can still be comprehensible to us, since we know what it is like to fall for temptation and act against one’s better judgment. Still, when someone’s experiences, feelings and way of thinking is vastly different from our own, understanding them becomes increasingly difficult. Delusions and psychosis are often seen as marking the end of intelligibility. In this article, I argue first for the importance of seeing other people as intelligible as long as this is at all possible. Second, I argue, based on both previous literature and my own lived experience, that more psychotic phenomena than previously thought can be rendered at least somewhat intelligible. Besides bizarre experiences like illusions, hallucinations, and intense feelings of significance, I also explain what it is like to lose one’s bedrock, and how this loss impacts which beliefs one has reason to reject. Finally, I give an inside account of some disturbances of reason, and show that there are important similarities between certain psychotic reasoning problems and common non-pathological phenomena.
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A Game of Inches
Billy Hopper's life is pretty damn good. He's a wide receiver for the Los Angeles Lobos and he's just been named Rookie of the Year. But he's about to lose it all. On a frigid March morning at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C., Billy wakes up to find that he's been sleeping with a dead girl. And now he's got her blood on his hands-- literally. But he's also got Jack Patterson: a D.C. lawyer who's determined to get to the bottom of the murder and prove Billy's innocence. There's only one problem. They're at war with a powerful, sinister man, and the people closest to Jack are in the line of fire. Can Jack and his team solve this case before his family pays the ultimate price? This latest Jack Patterson thriller exposes the underbelly of the NFL and the role of big money in shady D.C. politics. Believe it or not, murder is just the tip of the iceberg
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Understanding Leadership from the Inside: Using Ethnographic Methods to Examine How the Interplay between Leaders, Followers, and Group Context Shapes Leadership Outcomes
This paper outlines a novel method for leadership researchers and practitioners to understand how and why effective and ineffective leadership look different in different groups. Leadership is a complex and contextually dependent process influenced by the interplay between leaders, followers, the group, and their environment. The social identity approach to leadership describes how a group's identity shapes the ways in which people can lead effectively. It also implies that (in)effective leadership looks different across diverse groups and teams. Accordingly, it follows that there is no single correct way to lead. To explore these ideas, we propose ethnographic methods, where researchers and practitioners immerse themselves in a group environment, as a novel type of method for examining leadership in action. We suggest the social identity approach as a framework to help guide researchers' data collection and sense-making of leadership behaviours. Additionally, we explain that ethnographic data can be represented well through creative non-fiction stories that capture the context surrounding leadership behaviours. These stories could support leadership consultancy and development programs to demonstrate the complex interplay between leaders, followers, and the group context.
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Sacking the quarterback
When Grayson Knight, a popular quarterback with a squeaky-clean reputation, is arrested for drug possession, lawyer Melissa St. James struggles to prove his innocence in spite of the unsettling secret he is hiding.
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AI Experience Predicts Identification with Humankind
Artificial intelligence is becoming a potential outgroup of humans, which, according to social identity theory, may make humanity more salient. To explore how identification with humankind correlates to being exposed to artificial intelligence, we developed an AI Experience Questionnaire to measure this relationship and demonstrated that AI experience positively predicted human identity (Study 1a, N = 806). This correlation held when controlling for AI threats, educational level, international mobility experience, gender, and age (Study 2, N = 981, Mage = 27.55 ± 6.74; 448 males, 533 females). Study 1a also demonstrated that AI awareness—consisting of perceived anthropomorphism and perceived proximity—mediated the relationship between AI experience and human identity. This mediation model was replicated half a year later (Study 1b, N = 886). Moreover, a moderation analysis demonstrated that for both Easterners and Westerners, the correlation between AI experience and human identity was significantly positive; however, Western culture amplified the correlation (Study 3; N = 177, Mage = 32.35 ± 10.99; 90 Easterners, 87 Westerners). To conclude, persons with more AI experience may be more inclined to perceive AI as an outgroup of humans, and therefore AI experience positively predicts identification with humankind.
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The rivalry : mystery at the Army-Navy game
Eighth-grade sportswriters Stevie and Susan Carol up to solve a mystery at the famous Army-Navy football game.
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Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson’s Activist Literature
This article illuminates how the meshing of key aspects of Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson’s life and work—writing political activism, teaching—has been obscured by American literary studies’ traditional overreliance on three related assumptions: that diachronicity suffices in accounts of an author’s life, that periodization suffices in accounts of literary history, and that authors are coherent beings. Discussing a range of Dunbar-Nelson’s work—an early sketch, an essay, and published and unpublished fiction— this essay combines synchronicity and diachronicity to engage with the multi-facetedness of her writing about such issues as racial identity and Black involvement in U.S. political parties.
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