Reward system: Congratulations, intrepid innovator! You’ve dodged those persistent Spring showers (here on Long Island), successfully completed another busy workweek (almost) and earned yourself another glorious weekend (yeah, baby).
Just one more workday to navigate – and a few more raindrops – before you can enjoy your warm and sunny reward. Bonus prize: This innovative week-in-review to help you finish strong.
Morning pick-me-up: But you better pick up only one mimosa today (it’s a workday, after all).
Holiday road: Before we dive in, a quick note from Innovation Command: Your favorite thrice-weekly newsletter will be twice-weekly for the next two weeks, as we hit the pause button on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend and, of course, on Memorial Day itself.
Please watch for your regularly scheduled newsletters on Monday (May 19) and Wednesday (May 21), then enjoy the long holiday weekend – we’ll return Tuesday, May 27, with all-new awesomesauce (which happens to go great with leftover barbecue). More reminders next week.
Well, it does contain Vitamin C: Back here on May 16, we kick things off with National Mimosa Day, part of a nutritious breakfast! (No, not really … but a terrific start to the day. Well, no, not on a workday … but there it is.)
Fortunately, today’s dinner is more of a can’t-miss – it’s also National Barbecue Day, firing up the grill every May 16.
Hires aspirations: Chase those burgers and dogs with a frosty root beer – and raise your mug to Philadelphia-based pharmacist Charles Hires, who invented the popular pop on this date in 1866.
All aboard: The world’s first electric tram debuted in Germany 144 years ago today.
Rail Europe: Also powering up on May 16 was the world’s first electric tramway, a two-and-a-half-kilometer route through Berlin’s Lichterfelde neighborhood that sparked to life in 1881.
Sound familiar? More shutting things down was the Sedition Act of 1918, which went into effect 107 years ago today and made it a crime to speak ill of the federal government. (Along with the Espionage Act and a third decree providing for the deportation of aliens who opposed organized government, the draconian laws ultimately jailed nearly 1,000 people.)
Is it live, or…? Other recorded history associated with this date includes … well, recording history, which was made on May 16, 1946, with the first public demonstration of an audio tape recording.
The most infamous shower scene since “Psycho”: And it was this date in 1986 when nighttime soap opera “Dallas” retconned its plotline, rewrote its destiny and forever altered the ethos of storytelling continuity by resurrecting the dearly departed Bobby Ewing.
Actor Patrick Duffy had decided to leave the show a year earlier and his character was bumped off by vehicular homicide, but declining ratings encouraged producers to bring him back (discovered in a steamy shower as if nothing had happened) – and to write off an entire season of “Dallas” as another character’s lengthy “dream.”
Very Fonda him: American actor Henry Jaynes Fonda (1905-1982) – the Academy Award-winning, six-decade star of stage and screen who portrayed a wide range of personalities, but is known best for embodying the American everyman – would be 120 years old today.
Interplanet Janet: Ms. Jackson, if you’re nasty.
Also born on May 16 were Italian mathematician and philosopher Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799), remembered as the Western world’s first woman mathematician; American politician William Seward (1801-1872), who served as New York governor, a U.S. senator and secretary of state under two U.S. Presidents, and may have briefly suffered buyer’s remorse; American pianist, singer and actor Władziu Valentino Liberace (1919-1987), who needed only the last name; Irish American actor, producer and environmentalist Pierce Brosnan (born 1953), a once (and future?) Bond (spoiler alert: probably not); and American singer, songwriter, actress and dancer Janet Jackson (born 1966), a 1980s-1990s megastar and King of Pop Michael Jackson’s most successful sibling.
The Sparrow from Minsk: And take a bow, Olga Valentinovna Korbut! The retired Belarusian American gymnast – who earned four Gold Medals and two Silver Medals for the Soviet Union across the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics, and later emigrated to the United States to become a gymnastics instructor – turns 70 today.
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BUT FIRST, THIS
End of an era: From the All Good Things Must Come To An End file comes Michael Dowling, who announced this week he’s stepping down as Northwell Health’s president and CEO.
Eight days after sealing the deal on Northwell’s acquisition of Connecticut-based Nuvance Health – a $22.6 billion megamerger that adds seven new hospitals and thousands of providers to Northwell’s rolls, and another jewel to Dowling’s impressive crown – the longtime head honcho said he’ll officially end his tenure Oct. 1, transitioning into the advisory role of CEO emeritus. John D’Angelo, currently executive vice president of the New Hyde Park-based health system’s Central Region, will ascend to president/CEO.
Dowling has led the former North Shore-LIJ Health System for 23 years, through its aggressive “Northwell” rebranding, multiple national recessions and the teeth of the COVID pandemic. “It has been an extraordinary privilege to lead Northwell through a period of unprecedented growth and clinical transformation that has enabled our team members to make a meaningful difference and improve the lives of the tens of millions of patients and families,” he said Wednesday. “In Dr. D’Angelo, the Board of Trustees has selected a tremendous leader who will lead Northwell to greater heights.”
There’s the hub: East End Food Executive Director Marci Moreau is praising the $5 million New York State grant that’s breathed new life into the ambitious East End Food Hub.
Good enough to eat: Good news for our friends at East End Food, which has landed a much-needed $5 million New York State grant.
The “transformative” award will be used to complete the purchase of the East End Food Hub in Riverhead – a “vital step” for an organization that “has weathered countless storms in its effort to nourish community, food producers and farmers,” East End Food said in a statement. The grant was made through Albany’s Regional School Food Infrastructure Grant Program, which has earmarked $50 million for projects that utilize New York State farm products in meal preparation for K-12 students, reduce food insecurity, increase market opportunities for statewide producers and/or strengthen the resiliency of the state’s food system.
The East End Food Hub checks several of those boxes by sourcing local foodstuffs for regional schools and institutions, boosting Island-based farmers and strengthening community-based anti-hunger efforts. “This grant doesn’t just fund the purchase of a building – it anchors our mission in place and time,” noted East End Food Executive Director Marci Moreau. “It’s a win not only for East End Food, but for every farmer, food producer, schoolchild and family that calls Eastern Long Island home.”
TOP OF THE SITE
All heart (and kidney): An AI-powered imaging technology and a seven-figure National Institutes of Health grant have propelled Stony Brook Medicine to the front lines in the wars against heart and kidney diseases.
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ICYMI
With its $22.6 billion merger complete and Connecticut-based Nuvance Health now in the fold, Northwell Health is bigger and bolder than ever – and steaming toward an ambitious bi-state future.
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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 Minnesota: Minnetonka-based water-care wunderkind King Technology solves common pool-owner problems with dry, concentrated FROG Pool Pods.
From Colorado: Westminster-based technology transformer Trimble integrates and streamlines forestry operations with comprehensive data platform.
From New York City: Sports-and-fitness artificial intelligence innovator IdeasLab measures and modifies golf swings with markerless augmented reality app.
ON THE MOVE
Barry Barish
+ Barry Barish has been elected to the American Philosophical Society. The Nobel Prize laureate is the Distinguished Endowed Chair in Physics at Stony Brook University.
+ Kevin Rice has been hired as an associate attorney at McCabe, Collins, McGeough, Fowler, Levine & Nogan in Jericho. He was a Nassau County deputy attorney.
+ The Retreat in East Hampton has appointed three new members to its Board of Directors:
- Anne Kothari is the owner of Anne Kothari Clothing in New York City.
- Renee Turner is an attorney at Thoughtful Lawyering in Huntington.
- Irma Negron is a surgical coordinator at Long Island Women’s Healthcare Group in Bellmore.
+ Anthony Forzaglia has been promoted to partner at Garden City-based Schroder & Strom. He was an associate attorney.
+ Claudia Opel has been promoted to managing associate at New York City-based TPG Architecture’s Melville office. She was a senior healthcare architect.
+ Jason King has been named senior vice president for legal affairs and general counsel for Hofstra University, effective June 16. He is currently associate vice president of strategic risk management and chief legal officer at The University of Texas at San Antonio.
+ Northwell Health has announced two key nursing leadership changes:
- Theresa Dillman has been promoted to chief nursing officer and associate executive director of patient care services at Plainview and Syosset Hospitals. She was the CNO at Glen Cove Hospital.
- Tameka Wallace has been promoted to CNO and associate executive director of patient care and perioperative services at Glen Cove Hospital. She was the hospital’s associate executive director of peri-operative services.
+ Sang Sim has been named vice chairman of brachytherapy in the Northwell Health Cancer Institute’s Department of Radiation Medicine. He was an attending physician specializing in radiation oncology and brachytherapy at the Monmouth Medical Center.
+ Adam Browser has joined Uniondale-based Forchelli Deegan Terrana as a partner in the Construction Practice Group. He was of counsel at Uniondale-based Ruskin Moscou Faltischek.
+ Nicholas Renna has been hired as a marketing manager at Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace in Melville. He was a marketing director at Rooted Hospitality Group in Center Moriches.
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