Five by five: Welcome to Friday, friends, as we reach the fifth day of the workweek, the fifth Friday of the month and the bustling end of both.
You deserve a five-star weekend. But before you five-hole your Friday, enjoy this high-five to innovation (a great way to, you know … take five).
Alienated: “No One Will Save You” innovates the silent-film genre.
Ssssshhhhh: We begin our Sept. 29 review with a whisper-out to Silent Movie Day, admiring the purest form of the art (and just in time for “No One Will Save You” – now playing on Hulu – which is not so much silent as dialogue-less and absolutely, positively fantastic).
Meanwhile, you’ll probably want to speak up about the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, brought to you by the United Nations General Assembly – and just try to keep quiet on jittery, outburst-ish National Coffee Day, mainlining caffeine every Sept. 29.
On patrol live: Among the earliest and best silent-film standouts were the Keystone Cops, humorously incompetent and nothing at all like Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel’s “Bobbies,” the UK’s first-ever police force, which took to London’s mean streets on this date in 1829.
At your service: Also standing out were the veterans of the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection who united to found the Veterans of Foreign Wars – ensuring benefits and rights for U.S. military servicemen (and later servicewomen) – on Sept. 29, 1899.
On the air: Future military veterans were in the mix on this date in 1915, when the first transcontinental radio transmission connected U.S. Navy radio stations in San Francisco and Honolulu.
Tunnel vision: The Large Hadron Collider is one of CERN’s nicest toys.
Make science, not war: The military was nowhere in sight when the European Organization for Nuclear Research – known best as CERN – was created 69 years ago today. (In fact, the organization’s Articles of Convention note specifically CERN “shall have no concern with work for military requirements”).
On hold: And it was Sept. 29, 1950, when Bell Labs announced the first commercial telephone answering machines were being field-tested by customers in New York and Ohio.
The trial run came nearly two decades after Danish inventor Valdemar Poulsen developed the world’s first magnetic-recording answering machine (long story, filled with paranoia).
Quixotic life: Spanish novelist, playwright and poet Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) – the “Don Quixote” creator widely consider the foremost Spanish-language writer and one of history’s greatest novelists – would be 476 years old today.
Fermi footing: Enrico’s cutting-edge science was on solid ground.
Also born on Sept. 29 were American physician Hermann Biggs (1859-1923), the first to apply bacteriology to public health; American botanist Joseph Rhine (1895-1980), who founded the field of parapsychology; Italian American physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), a Nobel Prize-winning shepherd of the atomic age; American aeronautical engineer Paul MacCready Jr. (1925-2007), a pioneer of human-powered aircraft; and Australian politician Julia Eileen Gillard (born 1961), the first woman to serve as Australian prime minister.
Language, please: And take a bow, Andrew Clay Silverstein! The American standup comedian and actor – known best as the deliberately offensive, unabashedly misogynistic and unapologetically homophobic Andrew Dice Clay, whose highlight reel is definitely NSFW – turns 66 today.
Send your best to the Sheepshead Bay native – the first comedian to sell out Madison Square Garden on two straight nights – at editor@innovateli.com, where your news tips are no joke (but your calendar events do put asses in the seats).
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BUT FIRST, THIS
Manufacturing defenses: Stony Brook University has primed the big guns in cyber-defense of regional manufacturers.
The university’s Manufacturing and Technology Resource Consortium hosted a Sept. 19 Cybersecurity Workshop focused on the U.S. Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, with experts from statewide manufacturing nucleus FuzeHub and SBU’s Center of Excellence in Wireless Information Technology joining representatives of the Utica-based Advanced Institute for Manufacturing and New York City-based nonprofit manufacturing consultancy ITAC for high-level presentations and panel discussions on the latest cyber threats and best digital defenses.
Noting the consortium’s mission to provide “innovation resources” to regional manufacturers – and the workshop’s strong attendance – MTRC Interim Director David Hamilton applauded a progressive joint effort that also included an in-person cybersecurity debriefing by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “This exciting program … provided companies the support needed to achieve certification and compliance through consultant experts and workforce training,” Hamilton added. “That’s at the core of what we’re looking to accomplish here at the MTRC.”
Towering achievement: South Shore University Hospital’s coming-soon addition will transform patient care across the South Shore.
Upward mobility: Northwell Health’s Bay Shore campus is growing by leaps and pavilions.
The New Hyde Park-based health system has broken ground on a six-story, 190-square-foot South Shore University Hospital pavilion, adding up to 90 additional private patient rooms and 10 new operating theaters at the low, low price of $468 million, according to Northwell estimates. Also slated to include modern public accommodations and “green spaces,” the new tower – including a “sky bridge” connecting it to the existing hospital – is scheduled for completion in mid-2025.
The ambitious addition exemplifies SSUH’s progressive transformation since the former Southside Hospital – part of the Northwell and North Shore-Long Island Jewish health systems since 2005 – rebranded in 2020. “This pavilion is a symbol of what is happening here at South Shore University Hospital,” noted Northwell Health President and CEO Michael Dowling. “We saw the enormous potential in this community to convert SSUH from a community hospital to a premier tertiary campus.”
TOP OF THE SITE
Westward ho! What started eight decades ago as an exclusive benefit for Grumman employees is now the nation’s 15th largest credit union – and Bethpage Federal is just getting started.
Personal questions: Dozens of great innovators have shared their stories on Spark: The Innovate Long Island Podcast, our engaging series of purposeful, personal one-on-ones with the leaders of the Long Island innovation economy. Get to know them.
ICYMI
Negative, Ghost Rider, the 2020 election was not stolen – but crackpot conspiracy theories persist thanks largely to “negative bias” in social media sharing.
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 Nevada: Las Vegas-based biotech Heligenics bets big on functional genomics in pursuit of new multiple sclerosis therapies.
From Minnesota: Minneapolis-based personal-care pacesetter Nomo International energizes digital Smart Care Essential Kit for caregiving kin of independent seniors.
From Washington: D.C.-based scholarship maker 1,000 Dreams Fund partners with gamemaster Riot Games to mentor women in esports production and broadcasting.
ON THE MOVE
Vicky Dong
+ Vicky Dong has been hired as a legal assistant at Ronkonkoma-based Campolo, Middleton & McCormick. She held the same position at the Queens-based Kasen Law Firm.
+ Frank Palopoli has been hired as director of facilities at the Commack Union Free School District. He held the same position at the New Hyde Park-Garden City Park Union Free School District.
+ Nicole Vacchiano has been hired as an associate copywriter at Hauppauge-based Austin Williams. She was a content specialist and copywriter at Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty in Cold Spring Harbor.
+ Jessica Nowak has been hired as an associate attorney in the Commercial Lending and Banking Group at East Meadow-based Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman. She was an associate attorney at Brown Altman & DiLeo in Melville.
+ Donald Hills has been elected to the Albany-based New York State Dental Association’s Board of Trustees, representing the Nassau County Dental Society. He owns a private dental practice in Woodbury.
+ Cynthia Doerler has been promoted to executive director of the Suffolk County Bar Association in Hauppauge. She previously served as director of the Hauppauge-based Suffolk Academy of Law.
+ Danielle Coysh has been appointed managing director of the Hauppauge-based Suffolk County Bar Association Charity Foundation. She is founder and principal of The Law Office of Danielle Coysh in Central Islip.
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BELOW THE FOLD (Military Might Edition)
In a pinch: King crabs to the rescue.
Pincer maneuver: An eight-legged army is defending coral reefs.
Shock and awe: The looming government shutdown will hit the military hard.
Battle of the bulge: Science now knows why you weigh less in Indiana than in Illinois.
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