Close shave: Welcome to Friday, dear readers, and the end of another bustling workweek.
It’s Nov. 4 out there – the first Friday in November, meaning we change the clocks Sunday (still falling back the first Sunday of November, thanks to Congress), Election Day is next week (always “the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November,” according to federal statutes) and many of the men we love are starting to look scruffy, for a very good reason.
What’s not to love: Cuddle a counselor today.
Candy coated: However you wear your facial hair (or prefer your partner’s profile), you collect a sweet reward today – Nov. 4 is National Candy Day, which seems like overkill just days after Halloween, but there it is.
Attorney at love: The first Friday of November is also National Love Your Lawyer Day, extending affections to barristers routinely bashed since Shakespeare.
Sign on with a modern no-dip Montblanc – the ink-packing weapon of choice on National Fountain Pen Day, also writing itself into the books on November’s first Friday.
Mutually assured destruction: Speaking of choice weapons, the machine gun – the 19th Century’s ultimate armament – was patented on this date in 1862 by inventor Richard Gatling, who actually hoped to create a weapon so savage it would prevent war.
Nature’s course: Sadly, the science of war has its own moralities … but the science of everything else found a home on Nov. 4, 1869, when the esteemed British journal Nature – still a weekly, peer-reviewed smorgasbord of leading lab work and A-plus academia – published its first issue.
Tomb raiders: British academicians were busy 100 years ago today, when famed Egyptologist Howard Carter began the excavation of the hidden tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun – known best by the stage name King Tut.
Air apparent: The classic Packard One-Eighty was the first car packing an AC.
Cool ride: Carter was a legendary hothead – too bad air-conditioned cars didn’t arrive until this date in 1939, when the Packard Motor Co. introduced the technology at the annual Chicago Automobile Show.
Better ideas: And following two world wars in less than a generation, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization enacted its constitution on Nov. 4, 1946.
While other agencies focused on post-war political and economic agendas, UNESCO has promoted global peace through moral and intellectual solidarity.
Strong will: American vaudevillian and social commentator Will Rogers (born William Penn Adair Rogers, 1879-1935) – a popular humorist, pundit and “cowboy philosopher” raised on Cherokee land and remembered as “Oklahoma’s favorite son” – would be 143 years old today.
Algorithm section: Child prodigy Devi out-calculated the tech of her time.
Also born on Nov. 4 were Canadian American engineer, industrialist and philanthropist James Douglas (1837-1918), a master metallurgist who helped develop the U.S. Southwest; American broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite Jr. (1916-2009), his day’s “most trusted man in America”; American businesswoman and inventor Ruth Handler (1916-2002), who created Barbie and became Mattel’s first president; Indian numerologist and astrologer Shakuntala Devi (1929-2013), the legendary “human computer”; and Long Island’s own Ralph George Macchio Jr. (born 1961), known best for portraying a karate hero, an outsider and Vinnie’s cousin.
His name is Mud: And take a bow, Matthew David McConaughey! The Oscar- and Golden Globe-winner – a busy entrepreneur and brand spokesperson who doesn’t intend to run for governor of Texas, until he does – turns 53 today.
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BUT FIRST, THIS
Memory lane: A new senior assisted-living facility featuring specialized “memory care” will rise on vacant East Northport land, with a nod to the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency.
The IDA has issued preliminary approval for a tax-incentives package benefitting Sunrise of Northport LLC, which is planning a 77,500-square-foot construction project on 6.1 empty acres along Pulaski Road. The $54.6 million effort will create a 90-unit assisted-living facility featuring several units designed specifically for residents with Alzheimer’s disease and other memory-related conditions – a substantial addition to Virginia-based Sunrise Senior Living’s stable of senior communities across the United States and Canada (including 18 in New York State).
The tax breaks must undergo a full agency review and final vote, but Suffolk County IDA Executive Director Tony Catapano is already praising a deal supporting new senior housing, 150 construction-phase jobs and dozens of permanent full-time positions. “The IDA is pleased to … help provide a needed housing option with supportive services and care for Long Island’s senior population,” Catapano said. “This project will be … a significant tax generator for the region by transforming this vacant piece of property.”
Sandra Castro: Experience matters.
Adult situations: Adelphi University is looking to pace the busy schedules of nontraditional adult learners with “asynchronous online programs” in business and liberal studies.
The College of Professional and Continuing Studies programs include a range of fully remote classes taught by accredited faculty – each an intensive, seven-week sprint affording the enrolled full access to Adelphi student-support offices, campus libraries and University Writing Center services. Qualified applicants also work with university advisors to personalize their learning experience, including “evaluat[ing] their resumes to determine what credit for prior learning from their life experience and certificates they might be eligible for,” according to CPCS Associate Dean Sandra Castro.
Most importantly, the online programs – which kicked off this week with an inaugural half-semester cohort of business and liberal-arts students – are designed to work around the modern professional’s work schedule, which is demanding and anything but 9-to-5. “Our goal is to provide adult students with the support they need for their future success,” Castro added.
TOP OF THE SITE
Front court: The children lead in Riverhead Youth Court, a weekly docket of real-world crime, professional mentoring and innovative volunteerism providing multiple socioeconomic benefits.
Premature decision: Already hailed for its baby-friendly services, South Shore University Hospital has opened a state-of-the-art neonatal intensive care unit.
Stimulating conversation: Feinstein Institutes President and CEO Kevin Tracey graces Spark: The Innovate Long Island Podcast to discuss life as the “father of bioelectronic medicine” – and the unparalleled potential of electric nerve stimulation.
ICYMI
Posthumous praise for a beloved Long Island leader; highest hopes for socially just sustainability.
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 California: Los Angeles-based coffee-cup startup Bruvi breaks the mug mold with patent-pending single-serve brewing system.
From California: San Jose-based battery developer Enpower Greentech sets energy-density record with new cylindrical batteries.
From California: Los Angeles-based neurotech trailblazer Roga promotes wellness with wearable brain-stimulation/stress-prevention device.
ON THE MOVE
Eric Cruzen
+ Eric Cruzen has been appointed senior vice president and executive director of the Emergency Medicine service line for New Hyde Park-based Northwell Health. He is the founding chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Lenox Health Greenwich Village.
+ The Dean’s Executive Advisory Board of the New York Institute of Technology’s College of Engineering and Computing Sciences has installed three new members:
- David Antar, president of IPVideo Corporation and A+ Technology & Security Solutions
- Chad Bouton, vice president of advanced engineering and director of the Neural Bypass and Brain Computer Interface Laboratory at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research
- Anil Kapoor, president & CEO of SVAM International
+ Ronkonkoma-based Sasserath & Co. has announced two new hires: Tracy (Rui) Gong has been hired as a tax associate and Pasqualina Mirabito has been hired as executive assistant to the managing partner.
+ Thomas Catinella has been hired as an associate in the Construction Practice Group at Uniondale-based Forchelli Deegan Terrana. He was an associate at Morici & Morici in Garden City.
+ Ashley Rose has been hired as a production artist at Hauppauge-based Austin Williams. She is a recent graduate of Farmingdale State College.
+ Kristy D’Errico has been hired as chief people officer at Gurwin Healthcare System in Commack. She was director of human resources at Catholic Charities of Long Island in Hicksville.
+ Carmine Vetrano has been hired as marketing manager for Liberty Moving and Storage in Commack. He was a digital marketing manager at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Laffey Real Estate in Williston Park.
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BELOW THE FOLD (Spam Edition)
Spam filter: Too late … you’ve been spammed.
Spam: Google has rolled out the big anti-spam algorithms.
Spam: How canned cooked pork became a global sensation.
Spam: Will Weird Al’s “Stand” spoof be in his biopic? We’ll find out today.
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