These two stories caught me eye:
First, the DA senior who committed to play for Northwestern (Div 1, Big Ten!) without having played any football this fall -
https://www.recorder.com/DA-NLI-Signings-football-Donnie-Gray-Grant-Jones-37853862
and
the redshirt junior at Boston College who is a top TE in the nation who has just declared for the NFL Draft.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/17/sports/bc-tight-end-hunter-long-declares-nfl-draft/
Great news all around...
Another apple has fallen right next to the Morley Tree. One of our class Olympians, David Morley, swam for the Bahamas in the 1984 Olympics.
His daughter Emily was the first Bahamian rower to participate in the Olympics (2016).
Now daughter Laura is training night and day in Indiana to make the 2020 (2021) Olympics in the pool.
GO LAURA GO!
Here's another stellar example of the depth of Denison President Adam Weinberg's thinking on the role of liberal arts colleges and the challenges they face.
I don't know how much editing there is in this podcast, but Adam doesn't miss a beat for 30 minutes straight! Rockstar level...
Denison University President Adam Weinberg talks with EAB’s Thomas Fringer about how the pandemic has impacted Denison and about what Dr. Weinberg believes liberal arts colleges can do to stay relevant. Despite their reputation for teaching students to examine ideas from multiple points of view, solve problems, adapt, and collaborate, liberal arts colleges face growing challenges. Increased demand for highly specialized degree programs, stackable credentials, and certificate programs are forcing virtually all colleges to adapt to some extent.
Dr. Weinberg shares how Denison has embraced change through innovations like their Denison Launch Lab, which offers students access to specialized boot camps and skill-building experiences to make them stronger job candidates. Finally, Thomas and Adam discuss the three most important areas of focus that all higher education institutions have to commit to regardless of their mission, to survive the present challenges.
https://soundcloud.com/officehours-with-eab/what-liberal-arts-colleges-must-do-to-stay-relevant
https://www.wealthadviser.co/2020/10/27/291393/cambridge-associates-adds-private-client-practice
Global investment firm Cambridge Associates (CA) has added Charles B Grace III to its private client practice, who will serve as Managing Director of Family Enterprise Solutions.
He will be based in New York and report to Mary Pang, the Head of the Global Private Client Practice.
Family Enterprise Solutions is a dedicated team within Cambridge Associates’ private client practice which is devoted to supporting wealthy families in establishing family office strategy, goals, structure, governance and other considerations of importance. Grace will partner with investment teams and clients to develop the structural building blocks needed to best complement each family’s unique goals and long-term investment program with CA.
“I’ve had the pleasure of engaging with CA throughout my career and have long admired the firm’s talent and strong commitment to the family office space,” says Grace. “I’m excited to be part of such an exceptional team, and I look forward to helping CA’s world-class clients prepare for generational wealth transfers, establish governance processes, and educate family members on how to preserve and grow their wealth.”
Grace has been active for 20 years in the family office community advising ultra-wealthy families and serving as a resource to multigenerational families and family offices. He joins CA from the Family Office Exchange (FOX). Prior to FOX, he spent almost 10 years working inside $1 billion multi-family and single-family offices.
“We’re delighted to welcome Charlie to the firm. His expertise, hands-on experience and thought leadership will be instrumental in helping our investment teams across the US, Europe and Asia to solve the distinct challenges of managing private wealth,” says Pang.
Nearly 40 years ago, Cambridge Associates began applying its endowment model to the intricacies of private wealth. Today, the firm serves 230+ wealthy individuals and families, working to help each realise their investment goals and fulfil their legacies.
If the writing on Facebook wasn't vivid enough for you, then lament no longer. Hank has just released his new podcast on Society and Culture.
Check it out!
Listen to "Hank LeMieux's podcast" on Spreaker.
From Jim Wareck: As I bring LA 1.0 to a close, in advance of a several month hiatus starting in Idaho, I went exploring and caught my first glimpse of the elusive Al Kerr in his natural habitat."
Want to learn exactly how Dave Madden is going to change the console/PC gaming world?
Watch this for 8 minutes!
Or read this:
LOS ANGELES – TV-like advertising is starting to find a place in video games that people play on consoles like Sony PlayStation and Microsoft’s Xbox as the entertainment software industry undergoes a massive shift in the way games are distributed.
Pioneering the effort to put commercials into video games is Simulmedia, an advertising technology startup whose financial backers include venture capital funds and AT&T’s WarnerMedia. The company recently began testing video ad inserts in console games — one of the last vestiges of ad-free gaming — in a move that could revolutionize the way marketers reach target audiences who are elusive to other media channels like linear TV.
Dave Madden, who used to oversee in-game advertising and brand partnerships for video game giant EA, this summer joined Simulmedia to lead its push into console gaming advertising. In this conversation with Beet.TV, he describes how a growing number of gamers are willing to trade a few seconds of their time to watch a TV commercial for in-game rewards.
“That’s the big opportunity for video game publishers and advertisers to work together,” he said, describing console games as ripe for a more modernized business model that includes advertising. “Games are maybe the largest media format worldwide right now.”
Advertisers including credit-reporting company Experian, Unilever’s Dollar Shave Club and Turner Broadcasting have tested Simulmedia’s platform to connect with target audiences, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Traditionally, console games have been ad-free, with video game publishers making almost all their money from sales of compact discs or downloads. As smartphones become gaming devices, video game publishers started to experiment with different revenue models including “freemium” games that were free to download, but charged money for in-game content.
They also started to experiment with ad formats like rewarded video, which asks players to watch a commercial in exchange for rewards like upgrades, vanity items and virtual currencies to help progress more quickly through the game. Simulmedia is bringing that revenue model to console games that are in millions of households.
“The big opportunity and area for brands to participate is building a scalable model around helping unlock all that valuable added content for free in exchange for engaging with a 15- or 30-second ad,” Madden said. Video ads also look much better on a bigger TV screen than on a smartphone, he said.
More than 214 million Americans play video games, and 73% of them own a game console, according to the Entertainment Software Association, a trade group for the gaming industry. Thirty-eight percent of gamers are ages 18-34, compared with about 23% of the general population, making them a key audience for advertisers.
Increasingly, those gamers are playing “live-service games” like “Fortnite,” the multiplayer battle royale game from Epic Games that has 350 million players worldwide. “Fortnite” has experimented with different kinds of advertising including sneak peaks of movies and an award-winning effort by burger chain Wendy’s, whose ad agency VMLY&R created a branded avatar in the game.
With so many people playing video games on consoles, phones, tablets and personal computers, they’re harder to reach through traditional media channels like linear TV — and that’s where Simulmedia sees opportunity.
Simulmedia is mindful of the sensitivities of gamers who don’t want their gameplay to be interrupted with intrusive ads. That’s why its platform only shows ads to audiences who have opted-in to see them. The company found in a survey that 75% of console gamers would be willing to watch commercials in exchange for content.
“The difference with gaming in terms of an advertising medium is that it has to be permission-based,” he said. “If you were to insert an ad into a video game that was interruptive and the player didn’t expect it, by and large you would expect some pretty big backlash from the playing audience.”
“promoting” me to the next stage of treatment, which included CT, PET and MRI scans (all of which came back negative for additional metastasis). I did have an anaphylactic reaction to some radioactive contrast dye during the MRI - got violently ill within 30 seconds of being injected, swollen eyes (Edema - no fun at all), hives, the works. 
after that visit, so it wasn’t all bad 
I start prophylactic (i.e. preventative) IV immunotherapy treatment on Wednesday, July 15, every six weeks for the next year. The treatment is designed to wipe out any lingering malevolent cells and to prevent any recurrence or further spread. 
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