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As someone with experience in public relations, I advocate for as much transparency as possible when organizations make negative announcements. So, in that respect, I commend Kentucky Wesleyan College and its athletic department’s brutally honest press release last week disclosing the need to cut eight varsity sports from its offerings. Since the pandemic began, I have tracked the number of sports programs added and dropped across four-year institutions, invariably arriving at the same conclusion: enrollment-driven institutions (primarily at the Division II, Division III, and NAIA levels) use athletic teams as a way to grow enrollment on their campuses.

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Hello readers, in this weekly issue, I’d like to discuss the implication of Llama 3 for China’s AI industry. Baidu’s ERNIE Bot reached a milestone of 200 million users. According to Stanford University’s latest report, China has produced 15 notable models in 2023, compared to the 61 models from the U.S. What’s New: On April 18, Meta unveiled its latest open-source Llama 3 series, which showcases superior performance over Llama 2.

PopPoetry is poetry and pop culture Substack written by Caitlin Cowan. You can learn more about it here. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, subscribe so you won’t miss a post! Let’s take a stroll through this beautiful shithole. Have you read this poem before? Good BonesLife is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,

Larry David weaves more stories into his sitcom than anyone else. Even masterful shows like The Simpsons and The Office usually have no more than an A story, a B story, maybe a C story, and a runner. Curb Your Enthusiasm has an A, B, C, D, E, and F story. Runners are promoted to stories. And they all connect and culminate in a surprising and hilarious fi… ncG1vNJzZmirk6TBtbDIpKKeqqNjwLau0q2YnKNemLyue89orqGZpGK6orfErGScraKXerq71KtknqakncK0tcCspGarnw%3D%3D

Hey guys, it's Scott. It is Friday, September 15th. I can't believe we are halfway through September. My God. The kids are fully in school, we're back in that routine, and there's part of me that's kind of sad about it. I miss them. I mean, as much as I was ready for them to go back to school, I miss having them around the way they were over the summer.

📈 Welcome to the 55 new subscribers! Now at 977 subscribers, almost at the magical 1.000 subs barrier! ➡️ Today: What makes a great beachhead market? 🗓️ Planned: Five expansion strategies from your beachhead market 🗓️ Planned: Getting traction in your beachhead market 🗓️ Planned: Performance-based beachhead: lessons from the steam engine Finding your first customer is important, obviously. Ideally, the needs of that first customer are not unique and there are many customers like that first one.

I knew that Matthew Salesses had a new novel coming out, but for some reason I didn’t realize that it was inspired by Jeremy Lin, the source of “Linsanity” when he had a relatively brief period as a supernova-level superstar for the New York Knicks. Salesses novel, The Sense of Wonder, has an apparent stand-in for Lin in Won Lee, the first Asian-American NBA player who drives the team to a seven game win streak, launching the phenomenon of “The Wonder.

Photo by Jez Timms on Unsplash(An eight-minute read.) It’s a question I get asked a lot. As I’m hanging out with people from all different Christian persuasions, or no persuasion at all; as I’m interacting with Jews or Buddhists or even non-religious people, inevitably the question comes up: what is it that makes Seventh-day Adventists “different” from other Christians? What are the beliefs and practices that distinguish my particular faith community from others?