Thanks (to you): Welcome to Friday, dear readers, as we wrap up this latest workweek and look ahead to Thanksgiving week, when even cutting-edge socioeconomic innovation bows to family and tradition.
With that, a gentle reminder that Innovate Long Island is spending next week in holiday mode – back at you Monday, Nov. 28, with a fresh Calendar Newsletter and new online content.
Be safe, be reasonable (with family and Black Friday deals) and have an otherwise wholesome holiday week – we’ll be raising a cup to you, the most important members of the Innovate Long Island family.
We’re not gonna take it: Nothing new about bullies … or the best ways to beat them.
Bully pulpit: With the fourth Thursday of November on tap, this must be the month’s third Friday – making it International Stand Up To Bullying Day, an Anti-Bullying Week culmination observed in schools, workplaces and anywhere else there’s a Biff Tannen, Draco Malfoy or flock of Heathers throwing their weight around.
Revenge of the pureed leeks: Today’s menu is a little light – the best we’ve got is National Vichyssoise Day, best served cold every Nov. 18.
Things warm up nicely, though, with National Apple Cider Day, a richly seasoned joy of autumn also sipped annually on this date.
The Day of Two Noons: Speaking of seasonality, sunlight-based local times – an ongoing disaster for interstate railroads and commerce – were replaced by four national time zones on Nov. 18, 1883, when Standard U.S. Time took effect.
Flipping out: Daring young Beachey, making the rounds.
Over the top: It was late afternoon Pacific Time on this date in 1913 when daredevil pilot Lincoln Beachey completed what’s recorded as the first aerial loop-de-loop, somewhere over San Diego.
Sea mouse: From trains to planes to boats, where we find Disney cornerstone Mickey Mouse making what’s remembered as his first appearance – though it was not actually his first appearance – as “Steamboat Willie” 94 years ago today.
Button up: Back on dry land, the tone-dialing push-button phone began replacing traditional spin dials on this date in 1963.
C minus: And it was this date in 1970 when Vitamin C and the common cold were inexorably linked in a now-infamous scientific lecture by American chemist Linus Pauling.
For those keeping score, many consider Pauling’s theories about Vitamin C’s medicinal properties to be pure poppycock.
Holy Darwinism! American botanist Asa Gray (1810-1888) – the most important U.S. plant scientist of his day, who tempered unrivaled taxonomic knowledge with efforts to reconcile theology and Darwinian evolution – would be 212 years old today.
Bird brain: Cheng, arguably China’s smartest-ever ornithologist.
Also born on Nov. 18 were English physicist Patrick Blackett (1897-1974), who earned a Nobel Prize for classifying cosmic rays; American statistician George Gallup (1901-1984), an uber-influential survey-sampling pioneer; Chinese birdwatcher Tso-hsin Cheng (1906-1998), considered the founder of modern Chinese ornithology; American astronaut Alan Shepard (1923-1998), America’s first man in space and one of only 12 humans (known) to walk on the Moon; and American track-and-field star Allyson Felix (born 1985), a five-time Olympian who collected seven golds, three silvers and a bronze.
Life imitates art: And take a bow, Margaret Eleanor Atwood! The versatile Canadian writer, teacher, artist and environmental activist – whose masterwork “The Handmaid’s Tale” has become a frightening cautionary tale – turns 83 today.
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BUT FIRST, THIS
Bountiful ‘Harvest’: One of Long Island’s busiest human-services organizations is acknowledging its supporters following a successful annual fundraiser.
The Garden City-based Family & Children’s Association raised more than $180,000 at its 2022 Fall Harvest Celebration, held Nov. 10 at the Cradle of Aviation Museum. The funds are critical to the 30,000-plus Long Islanders serviced annually by the FCA, which fêted three event honorees: Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder, Nassau Community College Professor and FCA Board Member Donna Bacon and gun-safety advocate Linda Beigel Schulman, a Dix Hills resident whose son, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School teacher Scott Beigel, sacrificed himself to save dozens of students during the 2018 Parkland massacre.
The efforts of these community-minded leaders were especially critical during the COVID-19 pandemic, which “put a giant spotlight” on socioeconomic inequalities between Long Island communities, according to FCA President and CEO Jeffrey Reynolds. “Mental-health issues came to the forefront … people are struggling with the cost of childcare, medication, fuel,” Reynolds told attendees. “We are confident we can help fill many of those gaps … we do hard things at FCA and we tackle these problems.”
Theodoros Zanos: Keeping it real-time.
Bold prediction: A new artificial-intelligence technology can predict the severity and outcome of individual COVID-19 cases – and might provide a framework for significantly enhancing future clinical care.
That’s the word from the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, where Theodoros Zanos – an associate professor in the institutes of Health System Science and Bioelectronic Medicine – led researchers on a two-year study of 35,000 COVID-related inpatients, en route to an AI-powered clinical tool that predicts changes in patient conditions and outcomes across numerous coronavirus variants. That’s beyond the scope of current COVID-19 predictive models, which don’t account for real-time shifts in patient characteristics or various “performance drifts.”
The data, published this month in the scientific journal Nature Communications, details how bloodwork and other basic vitals can be used to accurately predict outcomes and improve clinical decision-making. “Information about how to care for (COVID-19) patients was constantly evolving,” noted Zanos, senior author of 12 listed on the paper. “By harnessing data and developing a real-time auto-updating clinical tool, we set out to … account for these developments and help clinicians make the decisions they need to deliver better care.”
TOP OF THE SITE
Hot wheels: Already an interstate pacesetter, an EV shuttle service founded by two East End pals has followed an $11 million funding round with a $7 million state award.
Day to remember: Quick thinking and next-generation Stony Brook Medicine technologies saved the life of an 80-year-old U.S. Army veteran – on Veterans Day.
Fill up right: Season 3 of Spark: The Innovate Long Island Podcast resumes after Thanksgiving – before then, gorge yourself (mentally) on dozens of amazing conversations from the innovation economy’s front lines.
ICYMI
The community comments on ambitious offshore wind plan; Dr. Fauci funds SBU’s Laboratory for Comparative Medicine.
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 Arizona: Phoenix-based hospitality-tech trailblazer Qwick refreshes its industry-centered staffing-as-a-service brand.
From California: Sunnyvale-based edu-tech advancer Prof Jim converts textbooks into dynamic “cinematic lessons” starring Aristotle and other icons.
From Florida: Miami-based health-tech startup Weo enhances water with cutting-edge, electrolysis-enabled “smart bottles.”
ON THE MOVE
Dawnette Lewis
+ Dawnette Lewis has been named director of Northwell Health’s Center for Maternal Health. She is currently associate director of maternal-fetal medicine and associate director of patient quality and safety at North Shore University Hospital and associate program director of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Fellowship at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.
+ Ryan Hild has joined Uniondale-based Farrell Fritz as a partner its Tax Certiorari Practice Group. He was a partner at Mineola-based Koeppel, Martone & Leistman LLC.
+ Laura Curran has been appointed to the Bethpage-based Safe Center LI’s Board of Directors. She is the former Nassau County executive and host of the Cut to the Chase with Laura Curran podcast.
+ Nicole Albruzzese has been hired as artistic director of the New York Dance Theatre/Ohman School of Ballet in Commack. She is the founder and artistic director of MOVING ON and the Gold Coast Dance Festival in Glen Cove.
+ Laurie Delgado has been promoted to chief community engagement officer at the Medford-based Suffolk Independent Living Organization. She previously served as government liaison and director of special projects.
+ Uniondale-based Forchelli Deegan Terrana has added attorneys Myrna Cadet-Osse, Carol Rizzo and Jason Penighetti to its Tax Certiorari Practice Group. All three were partners at Mineola-based Koeppel, Martone & Leistman LLC.
+ Victor Montanez III has joined the Village of Islandia Board of Trustees. He is an IT specialist at Stony Brook University and the founder of Islandia-based Gemini Total Solutions.
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BELOW THE FOLD (Below The Fold Edition)
Don’t look up: Tick, tick, tick…
Florida man makes announcement: Behold, the most damning below-the-fold headline of all time.
Subterranean supplies: Below-ground water is essential to future environments – but how much is needed?
Look out below: Science calculates a 10 percent chance that someone, somewhere, will be killed soon by falling space junk.
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