Standing invitation: Well done, intrepid innovator – the first workweek of Unofficial Fall 2024 is just about in the books, and you’re still standing.
It is indeed Friday on Long Island and around the world, with a well-earned weekend on final approach. Just one last workday to navigate, and this snappy innovation review to lead the way – onward!
Page-turner: Read a book today … and don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t.
Reading rainbow: Today is Sept. 6 and we kick things off with a bouquet to literature lovers – National Read a Book Day, all about fanning knowledge (as opposed to banning knowledge).
Here’s something worth reading about: National Food Bank Day, a first-Friday-in-September spotlight on food insecurity and the liberal-minded activists working to end it.
Ready for some football: And while it’s not a national holiday, per se, it’s the next best thing – the National Football League’s 2024 season is upon us, kicking off last night with the Baltimore Ravens visiting the Super Bowl LVIII champion Kansas City Chiefs (at press deadline, Taylor Swift was listed as “likely” to attend).
While Friday football is weird (unless you’re in high school), the new season continues tonight with the Green Bay Packers facing the Philadelphia Eagles (in Brazil). Both the Giants (1 p.m., hosting the Minnesota Vikings) and the Jets (8:15 p.m., visiting the San Francisco Forty-Niners) are scheduled to kick off Sunday.
Dead in the water: He never battled Vikings, but crusading Portuguese captain Ferdinand Magellan did plenty of fighting in his day – in fact, he was killed raiding a Filipino village before the remains of his fleet returned to Spain on this date in 1522, completing the first global circumnavigation.
Ship shape: Anchored in Massachusetts’ Plymouth Harbor, the Mayflower II is a faithful replication of the original.
Third time’s the charm: Other famous expeditions associated with this date include the historical voyage of the Mayflower, which finally set sail from England on Sept. 6, 1620, after setting out for the New World and turning back – twice – because its sister ship was leaking. (The Speedwell was ultimately left behind, for those keeping score.)
Good call: Other successful English endeavors include Telephone Company Ltd., the first public British telephone exchange, which opened in London on this date in 1879.
On the air, eh: Back in the New World, Canadian television became a thing 72 years ago today, when Montreal-based Canadian Broadcasting Corp. station CBLT went on the air.
Atom balm: And it was Sept. 6, 1954, when a groundbreaking ceremony in Shippingport, Pa., kicked off the first full-scale U.S. atomic electricity-generating station devoted exclusively to peaceful uses.
President Dwight Eisenhower – spearhead of the “Atoms for Peace” initiative – participated in the groundbreaking remotely, beaming in from his summer residence in Colorado.
Sane Jane: American social worker, reformer and pacifist Jane Addams (1860-1935) – who founded the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and became the second woman (and first American woman) to win the Nobel Peace Prize – would be 164 years old today.
Rohde scholar: Ildaura Murillo-Rohde held academic appointments at several universities.
Also born on Sept. 6 were English chemist, physicist and meteorologist John Dalton (1766-1844), leading pioneer of atomic theory; Austrian American engineer Ernst Weber (1901-1996), a leading developer of microwave-based communications; English physicist Louis Essen (1908-1997), who invented the first practical atomic clock; Panamanian American nurse and educator Ildaura Murillo-Rohde (1920-2010), the psychotherapist who founded the National Association of Hispanic Nurses; and English actor, rapper, singer and DJ Idris Elba (born 1972), who’s basically aged out of the race to become the new James Bond.
Shine on, you crazy diamond: And take a bow, George Roger Waters! The English singer, songwriter and musician – frontman for Pink Floyd, one of the most conceptually unbound and commercially successful groups in rock history – turns 81 today.
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BUT FIRST, THIS
The more things change…: Things will mostly stay the same at Marcum LLP after the accounting firm’s acquisition by CBIZ Inc., according to Marcum Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Weiner.
Marcum merger: A top regional accounting firm (and socioeconomic watchdog) has beamed aboard a new mothership.
New York City-based Marcum LLP – which maintains three Long Island offices, among 51 offices in 17 states (and the District of Columbia) and around the world – has signed a “definitive agreement” to be acquired by Ohio-based business-advisory/CPA firm CBIZ Inc. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the merger – slated to close this Fall – is projected to create the “seventh-largest accounting and advisory-services provider in the nation,” according to Marcum, known best in these parts for the popular and influential Marcum-Hofstra CEO Surveys.
Marcum Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Weiner predicted little change – he noted that existing Marcum clients will “continue to work with the same professionals and partners you have come to know and trust,” with current contact information and offices expected to remain intact – but trumpeted “an exciting step for Marcum,” now part of a team of 10,000-plus professionals. “CBIZ and Marcum share a dedication to high-quality, innovative, professional services, investor protection and personalized local-client relationships,” Weiner said in a statement. “Have no doubt, you will continue to receive the premier level of service you have come to expect from Marcum.”
Healthy returns: A leading Long Island liberal arts college has achieved an important and impressive federal accreditation renewal.
The Bachelor of Science Degree in Public Health offered by SUNY Old Westbury’s Public Health Department has been granted a seven-year re-accreditation – good through 2031 – by the Council on Education for Public Health, a U.S. Department of Education-recognized accrediting agency. The accreditation renewal is the first since SUNY Old Westbury launched the degree program in 2019 and follows a comprehensive “self-study” conducted by college faculty, staff, students and community partners, as well as an on-site CEPH inspection conducted in April.
Tied into roughly 160 majors, the public health degree program focuses on underlying social determinants to proper health and teaches students to critically assess – and proactively address – various factors contributing to the health (or poor health) of various populations. “[The re-accreditation] reinforces our role as a leader in undergraduate public-health education on Long Island and in the greater New York metropolitan area,” noted SUNY Old Westbury Public Health Department Chairwoman Sarah Smith. “Our students have meaningful, applied educational experiences in this program, which lead to jobs … [as] public health advocates and leaders in their communities.”
TOP OF THE SITE
Computer control: Quantum entanglements, teleportation and new physical phenomena await as Stony Brook University leads a world-class team of physicists and mechanical engineers on an ambitious scientific quest.
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ICYMI
Fresh ideas (and fresh bagels) marked the grand opening of Port Washington-based Helen Keller Services’ state-of-the-art kitchen for deafblind chefs.
BEST OF THE WEST (AND SOMETIMES NORTH/SOUTH)
Innovate LI’s inbox overrunneth with inspirational innovations from all North American corners. Thisweek’s brightest out-of-towners:
From Virginia: Charlottesville-based home-improvement innovator House Doctors promotes senior safety, comfort and independence with Aging in Place services.
From Maryland: Columbia-based enterprise-app developer Joget fosters creativity and community growth with new Education, Innovation, Entrepreneurship program.
From New York City: Modern-lifestyle leader Timeflys seamlessly integrates childcare and home security with groundbreaking Baby Monitor and Doorbell 2-in-1 device.
ON THE MOVE
Tyleana Venable
+ Tyleana Venable has been hired as an associate at Nesconset-based Volz & Vigliotta. She was an attorney at Garden City-based Jaspan Schlesinger Narendran.
+ Christopher Berger has been appointed Stony Brook University’s associate vice president for procurement. He was chief procurement officer for Suffolk County.
+ Abhisek Swaika has been appointed medical director of the Northwell Health Cancer Institute at Rego Park. He is also chief of hematology/oncology at Long Island Jewish Forest Hills Hospital.
+ Peter Ciccone has joined the Long Island Advancement of Small Business Board of Directors. He is cofounder of All Save RX.
+ Jaclyn Guidice has been hired as assistant superintendent for human resources in the Levittown Union Free School District. She was assistant superintendent for curriculum, instruction and personnel in the North Merrick Union Free School District.
+ Eugene Perry has been elected president of the Albany-based Firefighters Association of the State of New York. He is a retired emergency services dispatcher for the Village of Patchogue.
+ Robert Becker has been promoted to chief operating officer of electrical business at Melville-based Leviton Manufacturing. He was executive vice president and general manager of the Residential Business Unit.
+ Kimmy Zhong has been hired as an associate in the Real Estate Practice Group at East Meadow-based Certilman Balin Adler & Hyman. She was an attorney at the Law Office of Z. Tan in Queens.
+ Julie Robinson-Tingue has been elected secretary of the Centerport-based Public Relations Professionals of Long Island Board of Directors. She is vice president of development communications at the New Hyde Park-based Northwell Health Foundation.
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