Did thhhhheeeee Yankees win?!? Welcome to Friday, fans, as another busy Autumnal workweek peaks and another jam-packed sports weekend looms.
Any Devils fans out there?: Sure, why not … everyone is getting their game on this weekend!
If the Bronx Bombers won last night, they kick off the American League Championship Series Monday … if they lost, it’s a do-or-die AL Division Series Game 5 on Saturday. Either way, this is one of those rare weekends that kicks off with college football and delivers action in all four major sports leagues – with the Long Island-favorite Mets, Islanders, Rangers, Giants, Jets (Monday night, new coach and everything) and Knicks (preseason, but still) also suiting up (plus the Nets, we think). Get the leaf-raking done and hit the couch!
Girls, interrupted: Today is Oct. 11, and only one more workday stands between us and all that couch-potatoing. Before we plant ourselves, let’s stand up for the International Day of the Girl Child, which envisions a future when gender equality is the norm and our daughters are empowered to make their own choices – a slippery slope at best, even here in the United States.
Out-standing: Speaking of populations struggling for equal rights, today is also National Coming Out Day, celebrating and supporting members of the LGBTQ+ community as they introduce their authentic selves to the world.
One thing that’s (over-)easy to agree upon: Breakfast is the best meal of the day (hush, it is). So get cracking on World Egg Day, a soft-boiled second-Friday-of-October scramble honoring the devilishly good centerpiece of a million great meals.
Full steam: Some people even steam their eggs – also boiling water into vapor was pioneering inventor John Stevens, whose first-of-its-kind steam-powered ferryboat, the Juliana, began service between New York City and Hoboken, NJ, on this date in 1811.
It all adds up: Other groundbreaking machines associated with this date include the comptometer, the first commercially successful mechanical calculator, which was patented on Oct. 11, 1887, by Illinois-based inventor Dorr Felt.
Alaska Davidson: Agent of change.
Very special agent: Also breaking new ground was Alaska Davidson, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s first-ever female special agent, who was issued her badge on this date in 1922.
Back in the saddle: Leaving the ground altogether was Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission (and first crewed spaceflight after 1967’s Apollo 1 tragedy), which carried astronauts Walter Schirra Jr., R. Walter Cunningham and Donn Eisele into the heavens and the history books 56 years ago today.
Saturday night’s all right for laughing: And it was this date in 1975 when “Saturday Night Live” premiered, live from New York.
Known first as “NBC’s Saturday Night,” the sketch show – still plugging away 49 years later, and now the subject of an origin-story major motion picture – featured the classic Not Ready For Prime Time Players and welcomed guest host George Carlin (with musical guests Janice Ian and Billy Preston) for its big debut.
First among ladies: American political figure, diplomat and activist Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) – the longest-serving First Lady of the United States and a staunch human-rights crusader – would be 140 years old today.
Early riser: Success would prove elusive. but Michelle Wie was only 14 when she won her first USGA event in 2003.
Also born on Oct. 11 were English businessman and philanthropist Sir George Williams (1821-1904), who founded the YMCA (for Young Men’s Christian Association); German American entrepreneur Henry John Heinz (1844-1919), who regaled us with 57 varieties (but none so popular as his tomato ketchup); English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist and pacifist Lewis Richardson (1881-1953), the first to apply mathematics to weather forecasting; American dancer, choreographer, film director, theater director and producer Jerome Robbins (1918-1998), who racked up Oscars, Emmys and Tonys; and American physician and author Robert Gale (born 1945), the noted medical researcher and humanitarian known best for his leukemia and bone-marrow breakthroughs.
Wieeeeee! And take a bow, Michelle Wie West! Still enjoying her legendary Ladies Professional Golf Association ride, the American professional golfer – who qualified for the United States Golf Association Amateur Championship at age 10(!), was the LPGA’s 2009 rookie of the year and has scored numerous tournament victories (though only one major) – turns 35 today.
Wish the queen of clubs well at editor@innovateli.com, where your news tips and calendar events always keep us in the swing of things.
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BUT FIRST, THIS
Targeting terrorism: Nassau and Suffolk counties will each get a cut as Albany beefs up its Domestic Terrorism Prevention Grant Program.
Recalling the “racist and horrific” May 14, 2022, mass shooting in Buffalo – in which a White teenager targeted Black supermarket shoppers, killing 10, wounding three and earning 11 concurrent life sentences on murder and domestic-terrorism convictions (federal prosecutors are still seeking the death penalty) – Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced a $10 million DTPGP funding round. New York City and 55 statewide counties will each receive a $172,413 stipend, helping offset the costs of developing Threat Assessment and Management teams and updating each county’s Domestic Terrorism Prevention Plan.
The governor also announced the formation of New York’s first-ever Domestic Terrorism Prevention Unit – part of the state’s Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services – to oversee the assessment and planning processes. “New Yorkers deserve to feel secure in their communities,” noted Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Commissioner Jackie Bray. “This funding is a tool to help … mental-health professionals, educators and law enforcement work together to help prevent domestic terrorism and other acts of mass violence before they occur.”
Business development: One of the world’s most prestigious business-focused honor societies has chartered a chapter at the SUNY Old Westbury School of Business.
Founded in 1913 at the University of Wisconsin, the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society boasts 980,000-plus members through more than 600 collegiate chapters based at business schools accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. That now includes SUNY Old Westbury’s business school, which earned AACSB International accreditation in August and on Sept. 26 inaugurated its first four business scholars: President’s Medal for Scholarship winner Pooja Aiyar (Class of 2024), Novak Francella Partner Patrick Stines (Class of 1998), Advance Convergence Group CEO David Antar and SMG Consulting Group co-founder Maleka Stephens (Class of 1995), who was awarded posthumously.
The launch of the Beta Gamma Sigma chapter is a major accomplishment for the SUNY Old Westbury School of Business, according to Dean Shalei Simms. “Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society is the leading business honor society globally,” the dean noted. “Membership is reserved for the top students from AACSB-accredited business schools … we look forward to expanding our membership in the years to come.”
TOP OF THE SITE
Sensational translational: Northwell Health’s Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research has launched its sixth distinct institute, this focused on translational research that will rush new discoveries from the laboratory to the clinic.
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ICYMI
Election 2024 is deeply concerning to middle-market executives, according to the latest Marcum-Hofstra CEO Survey, with everything from devastating tariffs to foreign influences to new corporate tax structures weighing on their minds.
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 Illinois: Morton Grove-based fermented-probiotic pioneer Lifeway Foods bolsters single-serve menu with organic Kefir Flavor Fusions.
From Connecticut: Consumer-financing ace Synchrony links health-payment platform CareCredit and insurer Pets Best to create a seamless pay experience for pet parents.
From New York City: Creative media mover Raptive offers advertisers “proprietary mindset targeting” with groundbreaking suite of intelligent-data solutions.
ON THE MOVE
April McCarthy
+ April McCarthy has been promoted to director of prevention and community engagement at the Garden City-based Family & Children’s Association. She was program coordinator of the FCA’s Hempstead Prevention Coalition.
+ Lisa Caselles has been hired as director of educational services/principal at The Children’s Center in Commack. She was preschool education site/curriculum coordinator at Alternative for Children in East Setauket.
+ Christopher Mansfield has been hired by Hauppauge-based King Kullen Grocery Co. as general counsel. He was a partner at Uniondale-based Cullen and Dykman.
+ Arthur Binyaminov has been hired as a law clerk at Woodbury-based Salenger, Sack, Kimmel & Bavaro. He is a recent graduate of the Hempstead-based Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University.
+ Brittany Adikes has been hired as an associate at Uniondale-based Ruskin Moscou Faltischek. She held the same position at McGlinchey Stafford in Manhattan.
+ Patrick Meade has been elected to an American Physical Society fellowship. He is a professor in Stony Brook University’s C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics.
+ Michael Schiff has joined Ronkonkoma-based Sasserath & Co. as a tax associate. He is a recent graduate of SUNY Old Westbury with a bachelor’s degree in accounting.
+ Gabriella Amato has joined Uniondale-based Harris Beach PLLC as an associate in the Business and Commercial Litigation Practice Group. She was an associate at Garden City-based Jeffrey S. Schecter & Associates P.C.
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