The Sunday of summer: Welcome to the end, dear readers, as we wrap up this latest five-day socioeconomic sprint and the whole of July – well, almost – and unwrap another well-earned weekend.
With August on the horizon, let’s finish strong.
Say cheese: It’s National Cheesecake Day (toppings optional).
Friendly reminder: It’s July 30 out there – the UN’s International Day of Friendship, an annual effort encouraging Earth’s citizens to forget their differences and play nice.
Here in the States, it’s also National Whistleblower Day, remembering the first American whistleblower law – protecting those who call out misconduct and fraud among elected officials – passed by the U.S. Continental Congress in 1778.
Let them eat cake (OK, that’s cheesy): But that’s all right on National Cheesecake Day, also celebrated this and every July 30.
A little flakey: Speaking of interesting edibles, William Kellogg – then superintendent of Michigan’s Battle Creek Sanitarium – accidentally invented corn flakes on July 30, 1898.
For those keeping score, the creation of the uber-popular breakfast staple had a lot to do with sex – abstinence, actually.
Because you’re worth it: Featuring a range of inventive hair dyes, French chemist Eugène Schueller founded the Safe Hair Dye Company of France – it would do business, and still does, as L’Oréal – on this date in 1909.
Soft launch: Happy anniversary to the modern paperback – providing quality literature at affordable prices, the first Penguin paperbacks were published 86 years ago today.
Wheelie big deal: Despite the debut of the moon buggy, Apollo 15 garnered little attention.
Been there, done that: Garnering little media attention, NASA’s Apollo 15 lunar module – carrying astronauts David Scott and James Irwin, officially the seventh and eighth men to walk on the moon – touched down on Mare Imbrium on July 30, 1971.
By all accounts: And it was this date in 2002 when President George W. Bush signed the anti-fraud, pro-investor Sarbanes-Oxley Act into law.
The act – Sarbox, for short – championed new oversight of public companies, mandated auditor independence, strengthened financial-disclosure requirements and otherwise dropped the hammer on corporate responsibility.
Built Ford tough: Needs-no-further introduction American industrialist and business magnate Henry Ford (1863-1947), whose focus on assembly lines dramatically reduced production time and turned his Ford Motor Co. into an all-time enterprise, would be 158 years old today.
Flying Solo: Hope for the best.
Also born on July 30 were English novelist and poet Emily Brontë (1818-1848), known best for “Wuthering Heights,” her only published novel; American physicist Henry Louis Smith (1859-1951), who oversaw America’s first X-ray experiments; Russian-American physicist and electronics engineer Vladimir Kosma Zworykin (1889-1982), the “father of television”; American businessman and philanthropist Henry Wollman Bloch (1922-2019), who cofounded tax-preparer H&R Block with his brother, Richard; and Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, activist and politician Arnold Schwarzenegger (born 1947).
Hope floats: And take a bow, Hope Amelia Solo! The American soccer goalkeeper (a World Cup champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist), spokeswoman (for Nike, Gatorade and others), activist (for women athletes’ rights, among other causes) and philanthropist (a booster of the Boys and Girls Club and other organizations) turns 40 today.
Give the retired soccer star your best at editor@innovateli.com, where we always get a kick out of your news tips and calendar events.
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BUT FIRST, THIS
Risk is their business: Citing curveballs such as the dot-com crash and the COVID-19 pandemic, the New York Institute of Technology is taking a chance on a new advanced-degree program – designed, ironically, to help graduates and their future employers take fewer chances.
The Master of Science in Risk Management program, set to debut in the Spring 2022 semester, aims to create highly trained experts capable of navigating changeable business environments by going beyond traditional risk-management areas like cybersecurity and insurance and deep into enterprising topics such as market development and human capital. Graduates “will be prepared to pursue a variety of jobs,” according to New York Tech, “including positions such as financial advisor, risk analyst, employee risk manager, cybersecurity expert and many others.”
Offered by the university’s AACSB-accredited School of Management, the MS program – to be taught at the school’s Old Westbury and Manhattan campuses – will be chopped into standard daytime classes or evening/weekend/online classes better suited to working professionals. “The events of the past 20 years have underscored why … 21st Century businesses need the insight and acumen of these qualified experts to address future challenges,” New York Tech said in a statement.
Grabowski: Ethics for everyone.
Ethically speaking: An Adelphi University professor has penned the first cyber-law textbook geared toward non-law students.
Mark Grabowski, an associate professor of communications at the Garden City-based university (specializing in cyber law and digital ethics) and occasional columnist for the uber-conservative Washington Examiner (specializing in right-wing whoopla), teamed with University of South Carolina Law Professor Eric Robinson to pen “Cyber Law and Ethics: Regulation of the Connected World.” The 248-page guide, published this month by British multinational academic publisher Routledge, is a primer on legal and ethical issues relating to IT and cyberspace, and the first of its kind written specifically for laypersons and undergraduate students.
Available in paperback, hardcover and e-book formats, it’s Grabowski’s second book, following “Cryptocurrencies: A Primer on Digital Money,” also published by Routledge. “With a growing list of varied colleges … now offering undergraduate courses devoted to this topic, we believe [“Cyber Law and Ethics”] fills an important void in the field of study,” Grabowski noted. “Legal issues relating to cyberspace and technology are becoming more and more important to everyday people as the world becomes more connected.”
TOP OF THE SITE
Dreams of fields: How an industrious Ward Melville High School graduate became a player-development coach in the Houston Astros organization.
Northern front: A Canadian VC firm committed to cleantech has doubled down on Stony Brook-based ThermoLift and its revolutionary heat pump.
Escape pod: Take a break from your day-to-day and enjoy a crash course in awesome innovation – Season 1 of Spark: The Innovate Long Island Podcast is standing by.
ICYMI
SUNY battles depression with funding; Albany battles gun violence with jobs.
BEST OF THE WEST (AND SOMETIMES NORTH/SOUTH)
Innovate LI’s inbox overrunneth with inspirational innovations from all North American corners. This week’s brightest out-of-towners:
From Massachusetts: Littleton-based liquid-cooling startup JETCOOL Technologies floats innovative solution to global semiconductor-chip shortage.
From California: San Jose-based operational-intelligence software ace OpsVeda overcomes pandemic-based supply-chain shortages with speedy app engine.
From Canada, eh: Vancouver-based digital-product innovator Neon is all smiles with iPhone app that allows users to try on braces via augmented reality.
ON THE MOVE
Jay Bishoff
+ Jay Bishoff has been named director of urology for New Hyde Park-based Northwell Health’s Central Region. He is a professor of urology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and previously served as director of the Intermountain Urological Institute at Intermountain Health Care in Utah.
+ Julia Lee has been hired as an associate attorney at Mineola-based Schroder & Strom. She previously served as deputy county attorney and deputy bureau chief for tax certiorari in the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office.
+ Mike Savarese has been appointed a trustee of the New York State American Water Works Association’s Board of Governors. He is a senior associate at Woodbury-based D&B Engineers and Architects.
+ Bohemia-based Cerini & Associates has promoted Nicholle Mezier to manager and Jaclyn Hahn to senior accountant, and hired Courtney Pryhocki as a senior accountant.
+ Suzanne Zahn has joined New Jersey-based Valley Bank as vice president/team leader of commercial lending for Long Island, Brooklyn and Queens. She previously served as a vice president at Flushing Bank.
BELOW THE FOLD (Look Before You Leap Edition)
Are we there yet: Space tourism is becoming a reality. Should it?
Spaced out: Things to consider before you blast off into outer space.
Ready … or not: America is woefully ill-prepared for extreme events. Here’s proof.
Not playing around: College athletes eager to cash in on NIL rights better think twice.
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