Final thoughts: You made it, intrepid innovator! Not just the end of another busy workweek but the Friday before Labor Day weekend – truly, the official unofficial end of the Summer of 2022.
All good things: Farewell, Summer of 2022 … we hardly knew ya.
With that well-earned three-day weekend on tap, this quick scheduling note: The labor of love known as the Innovate Long Island Calendar Newsletter is taking a holiday this Monday. Back on schedule theretofore, or forthwith, or some such.
Slam we am: Speaking of scheduling essentials, seats are filling up fast for BrandSLAM, our free, interactive brand-building event taking the stage Oct. 6 at LaunchPad Huntington.
Presented with Stony Brook University Economic Development and Huntington-based marketing master Brandtelling, our networking-rich audience-participation extravaganza is part poetry slam, part marketing masterclass and all fun – a fast-paced, from-the-hip strategy session filled with business pitches, expert slogan creation, elevator-pitch perfecting and all kinds of on-the-fly creative collateral (with a few adult beverages greasing the skids).
Sponsorship opportunities are available, pre-registration is required and an “AfterSlam” is afoot – here’s the skinny!
Cuckoo for coconuts: Back here on Sept. 2, the festivities begin and end with World Coconut Day.
Master of coin: Completely unrelated to coconuts in any plausible way, the U.S. Congress created the U.S. Treasury Department on Sept. 2, 1789.
The new department – including a treasury secretary, a national comptroller and other key officers – was a dire necessity, with angry Americans openly protesting the complete devaluation of more than $240 million in circulating Continental Dollars.
Stick and move: Turning to foreign policy, then-U.S. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt – who’d be promoted just two weeks later – introduced his “speak softly and carry a big stick” strategy on this date in 1901.
Dispense with the formalities: Those who prefer to carry a big wad of cash were thrilled on Sept. 2, 1969, when America’s first automatic teller machine opened inside a Chemical Bank branch in Rockville Centre.
Cue Celine Dion: The Titanic’s fore, after the disaster.
Hull of a discovery: A day after their unmanned submersible stumbled across a pair of massive sunken boilers, oceanic explorers discovered the wreck of the Titanic – 73 years after its infamous 1912 sinking – on this date in 1985.
Comrades in spaaaaace: And the Cold War space race officially ended on Sept. 2, 1993, when U.S. Vice President Al Gore and Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin inked an agreement to invest money and materials in an International Space Station.
The first ISS components would blast into orbit just five years later.
Old flame: American engineer Lysander Button (1810-1898) – innovator of several improvements to early hand- and steam-powered fire engines, many of which are still in use – would be 212 years old today.
Prototype princess: Disney legend Marjorie Champion, in character.
Also born on Sept. 2 were industrious American baseball player Albert Spalding (1850-1915), a mediocre pitcher but an exceptional entrepreneur; Russian astronomer Nikolay Kozyrev (1908-1983), who mistakenly “discovered” auroras on Venus and active volcanoes on the moon; American businessman William Harrah (1911-1978), who founded Harrah’s Hotels and Casinos (now part of Caesars Entertainment Corp.); American dancer and actress Marjorie Champion (1919-2020), the original “dance model” for Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”; and American schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe (1948-1986), who made joyous history and tragic history.
Excellent! And take a bow, Keanu Charles Reeves! The Canadian actor – born in Lebanon, given a Hawaiian name (“cool breeze over the mountains”), raised in Toronto and beloved globally – turns 58 today.
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BUT FIRST, THIS
Net gain: Add another name you know to the long list of notables sharing their insights at AEC 2022 – former New York Rangers goalie-turned-clean energy empresario Mike Richter.
Now minding the net for Armonk-based sustainable-construction consultancy/VC firm Brightcore Energy, Richter is slated to host the conference’s Sept. 9 breakfast plenary session. The 15-year Ranger, three-time National Hockey League All-Star and one-time Stanley Cup Champion – Brightcore Energy’s president since 2016 – joins an elite list of conference speakers including Deputy Assistant U.S. Secretary for Reactor Fleet and Advanced Reactor Deployment Alice Caponiti, regional energy icon Robert Catell and NYSERDA President/CEO Doreen Harris, among others.
The ex-goalie is scheduled to appear alongside Harvard University climate policy expert Daniel Schrag to discuss the national trends and global contexts affecting the clean-energy future. The three-day AEC 2022 – a program of Stony Brook University’s Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center – is scheduled for Sept. 7-9 at the Marriott Marquis in New York City; more info here.
The drowning dead: Living on an island has its zombie-apocalypse advantages.
Walking dread: Only the 200 largest U.S. population centers were ranked, so no Long Island town made the cut – but considering the factors determining 2022’s Best Cities For Surviving a Zombie Apocalypse, Islanders should be in decent shape.
Lawn Love, a homeowner hub focused mostly on DIY landscaping tips, leveraged actual zombie-preparedness data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – and the well-documented basics of zombie survival, including access to guns and good cardiovascular health – to determine the best and worst U.S. cities for surviving the inevitable undead invasion. By Lawn Love’s math, Orlando, Salt Lake City and Honolulu offer the best survivability odds (something about large arsenals and plentiful hospitals) while four Nevada towns and Paterson, NJ, are the bottom-five worst.
New York City placed 180th out of the 200 ranked cities, with population density, the absence of a military base and below-average overall health overcoming an overabundance of hospitals, food and firearms. For the record, those factors all favor Long Island survivability, as does one of Lawn Care’s most important analytical criteria: access to water (zombies, as everyone knows, can wade but not swim).
TOP OF THE SITE
On Point: Garvies Point on the Glen Cove waterfront is a blueprint for innovative mixed-use redevelopment, according to The EGC Group’s Jim McCune – and it only starts with a cool new brewpub.
Also on point: Spark: The Innovate Long Island Podcast gets right to the things that matter most to the regional innovation economy. Great guests, dynamic dialogues and lotsa laughs, 30 minutes at a time.
ICYMI
Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences celebrates the remarkable comeback of the Shinnecock Bay estuary.
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 New York City: Triumphant graphic novel “We Survived the Holocaust” delivers forceful anti-hate message by chronicling the Nazi invasion of Poland.
From California: Los Angeles-based podcast network Lemonada Media partners with Penguin Random House to create innovative book club.
From Illinois: Glendale Heights-based golf-swing guru WaggleWeight tees up how-to guide “forever changing the most foundational aspects of golfing for the better.”
ON THE MOVE
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+ Sophy Lu has been promoted to chief information officer at New Hyde Park-based Northwell Health. She previously served as deputy chief information officer.
+ Julie Allegretti has joined Uniondale-based Forchelli Deegan Terrana as marketing manager. She was previously marketing coordinator for The Russo Law Group in Garden City.
+ Linda Tierney, director of office management at Forchelli Deegan Terrana in Uniondale, has been named president of the Association of Legal Administrators.
+ Ronkonkoma-based Campolo Middleton & McCormick has announced three new hires:
- Taylor Lininger is a legal assistant; she previously held the same position at Jenner & Block in Manhattan.
- Renna Guadalupe is marketing manager; she was previously vice president of operations at AccuHealth Medical Group in Hauppauge.
- Kathleen DiLieto is assistant controller; she was previously controller at A-1 Family Group in Florida.
+ Giancarlo Dellanzo has been hired as executive chef for Claude’s at the Southampton Inn. He was executive chef for P.J. Harbor Club in Port Jefferson.
+ Eugene Perry has been elected first vice president of the Firefighters Association of the State of New York in Albany. He is a retired Patchogue Fire Department emergency services dispatcher.
+ Irene Navas has been hired as assistant principal at Southampton High School. She was previously coordinator of Native American education and student services and a liaison for the Center Moriches School District.
+ Richard Margulis has been appointed chairman of the Nassau-Suffolk Hospital Council. He is president and CEO of Long Island Community Hospital.
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BELOW THE FOLD (Sounds Better In Latin Edition)
Ace: Serena Williams is as tough as they come.
Buyer beware: Caveat emptor – shady car “stealerships” are on the rise.
Seize the day: Two-thirds of Americans embrace a “carpe diem” mentality.
Came, saw, conquered: Serena Williams veni, vidi, vici’d them all – including her sport’s most brutal demands.
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