No. 788: Hi, Mom were getting ready for your big day with dirty … – Innovate Long Island

Shes worth every penny: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and not just any Friday but the Friday before Mothers Day but you already know that, with your reservations made and shopping done and all that.

If you havent yet gone to any Mothers Day expense, you will, according to the National Retail Federation, which projects American consumers will spend $35 billion on Mothers Day this year a year-over-year hike of $30 per person, according to the NRF.

Care package: Speaking of Mothers Day (sorta), today is National Child Care Provider Day, an annual Friday-before-Mothers Day celebration of the nannies, babysitters and other providers who let moms (and dads) do their things.

Super fudge: Things might get a little nutty today.

Other important providers honored today include therapists, psychiatrists and social workers, stars of the show on National Mental Health Provider Appreciation Day.

Prose (and pecans): If someone comes at you today with There once was a lady from Venus, run fast no telling what comes next on National Limerick Day, an annual homage to English poet and May 12 birthday boy Edward Lears (1812-1888) unique nonsensical style (more birthdays below).

If that doesnt make you nuts, this will: May 12 is also the salty-sweet National Nutty Fudge Day.

Heres the scoop: Fudge-nut flavors would come later, but it was this date in 1777 when New York City confectioner Philip Lenzi ran the first known ice cream advertisement (available almost every day) in the New York Gazette.

As north as it gets: Dont know about cream, but there was plenty of ice about when the airship Norge with Italian aviator Umberto Nobile at the stick and famed Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (among others) on board flew over the North Pole on May 12, 1926, marking the poles first human crossing.

Just your type: Also iced out was University of Washington Professor August Dvorak, who fed up with his typewriters QWERTY keyboard patented the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard on this date in 1936. (It didnt really catch on, though its still beloved by some.)

From the shadows: Definitely catching on was the Z3, the first automatic programmable computer, presented May 12, 1941, by German civil engineer Konrad Zuse to his Nazi overlords quietly sparking the digital revolution.

Hole hearted: The center of the Milky Way Galaxy is a hole lot of fun.

Centerpiece: And it was one year ago today when astronomers released the first pictures of Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole swirling at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Produced by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, the stunning images solidified Einsteins Theory of General Relativity and confirmed numerous scientific beliefs about galactic structures.

Anthro-go-go: American ethnologist, geologist, explorer and activist Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1849-1915) who occasionally adopted the pen name Tilly E. Stevenson and always encouraged other women to pursue careers in anthropology and other sciences would be 174 years old today.

Board chairman: Hawk, at the height of his powers.

Also born on May 12 were British social reformer Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing; British engineer Sir Christopher Hinton (1901-1983), who led the development of Britains nuclear energy industry; American geophysicist Maurice Ewing (1906-1974), who dove deep into ocean basins; American actress Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003), a headstrong individualist who enjoyed six decades of leading-lady status; and Lawrence Peter Yogi Berra (1925-2015), the eminently quotable Major League Baseball icon.

On board: And take a bow, Anthony Frank Tony Hawk! The American professional skateboarder and entrepreneur a vertical skateboarding pioneer and professional brand-building posterchild turns 55 today.

Wish Birdman well at editor@innovateli.com, where your news tips take flight and your calendar events roll on.

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BUT FIRST, THIS

Dans archive: One of Long Islands most recognizable publications has achieved a measure of immortality at Stony Brook University.

Publisher Dan Rattiner has gifted a complete archive of Dans Papers, the weekly lifestyle publication focused primarily on the East End, to Stony Brook University Libraries specifically, to the Special Collections division curating the universitys rare books and manuscripts, historical maps and other archival collections. Rattiner has presented a personal collection of his namesake publication, spanning 1960 (the year Dans Papers launched) to 2023 and comprising the most complete print run of Dans Papers held by a research library, according to SBU.

The archive is currently undergoing a preservation assessment, with the university planning to store print and microfilm copies and digitize the entire series for free online publication. Dans Papers is an important addition to the librarys distinctive collections because of its depth and coverage of the social, political and environmental history of Long Island, noted Stony Brook University Archivist Kristen Nyitray. It benefits the mission of the universitys libraries and the wider research community.

Mutual distrust: The failures of Washington Mutual and other major banks have understandably spooked middle-market CEOs.

Bank stare: Amazing how one little national financial disaster can bring down the room.

Three months after its first edition of 2023 struck a largely optimistic tone, the Marcum-Hofstra CEO Survey has returned with a downer of a top story: Middle-market CEOs quizzed byMarcum LLPand Hofstra UniversitysFrank G. Zarb School of Business in April, just weeks after the 2023 banking crisis nearly boiled over are concerned about the collapse of three major banks and its potential implications for their corporate finances, with more than 62 percent indicating they were at least somewhat concerned about their own banks stability (and 21.2 percent saying they were very concerned).

Belying the banking bummer, the 255 surveyed CEOs (of companies with revenues between $5 million and $1 billion-plus) remained largely optimistic about the current business environment, with 37.6 percent rating their outlook between 8 and 10 (on a 10 scale). However, remote-work policies are on the ropes, with 12.9 percent of respondents noting theyve discontinued the option and another 28.6 percent considering discontinuation. Full results here.

TOP OF THE SITE

Clearing roadblox: Determined to bring detailed brain mapping to her fellow neuroscientists, a well-funded SBU researcher is going where Roblox has gone before.

Gift rap: A hip-hop whos-who will help the LIMEHOF celebrate the music genres unofficial 50th anniversary and the Islands unique role in its evolution.

Suggestion box: Hey, youre a big thinker is there a one-on-one youd like to hear in Season 4 of Spark: The Innovate Long Island Podcast? Name an innovation economy leader at editor@innovateli.com and meanwhile, catch up on these classics.

ICYMI

Northwell Healths overachieving retina scans from down under; Farmingdale States futuristic science lab from the past.

BEST OF THE WEST (AND SOMETIMES NORTH/SOUTH)

Innovate LIs inbox overrunneth with inspirational innovations from all North American corners. This weeks brightest out-of-towners:

From California: San Francisco-based plug-and-play financing solution Triumph brings $14 million pot to skill-based competitions for startup game developers.

From Michigan: Auburn Hills-based automotive infotainment insider Alps Alpine Co. launches audio-enthusiasts virtual park on mass-multiplayer Roblox platform.

From California: Brea-based visual-solutions provider ViewSonic Corp. keeps an eye on gamers and workers with anti-tear, anti-blur high-performance monitors.

ON THE MOVE

Brad Hibbard

+ Brad Hibbard has been promoted to chief strategy officer for the Guide Dog Foundation & Americas VetDogs in Smithtown. He served previously as chief program officer.

+ Bernadette Riley has been elected assistant secretary of the Medical Society of the State of New York in Westbury. She is director of New York Institute of Technologys Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Hypermobility Treatment Center in Old Westbury and an associate professor of Family Medicine at NYITCOM.

+ Cheryl Katz-Erato has joined Uniondale-based Forchelli Deegan Terrana as a partner in the Tax, Trusts & Estates Practice Group. She was a trusts and estates senior associate at Melville-based Cona Elder Law.

+ Lonnie Ostrow has been hired as marketing and communications director at the Garden City-based Family & Childrens Association. He was director of marketing and communications for the American Friends of Bar-Ilan University in Manhattan.

+ Paul Pipia has been elected president of the Medical Society of the State of New York in Westbury. He serves as deputy medical director and chairman of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow.

+ Mary OReilly, co-chairwoman of the Trust & Estates Practice Group at Mineola law firm Meltzer Lippe, has been elected a 2023 fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

+ Chris Dodd has been hired as first vice president/middle market relationship manager at Valley Bank in Jericho. He was senior vice president/team leader at Merchant Financial Group in Manhattan.

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