{"id":937,"date":"2019-05-12T17:03:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T22:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/?p=937"},"modified":"2019-05-14T17:09:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T22:09:39","slug":"roys-ramble-may-12-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/roys-ramble-may-12-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy&#8217;s Ramble, May 12, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/RDK-Facebook-Image-March-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-938\" width=\"254\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/RDK-Facebook-Image-March-2019.jpg 160w, https:\/\/roykessel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/RDK-Facebook-Image-March-2019-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Julia\nbirthday<\/strong>\u2014My daughter Julia is turning 18 next Friday.&nbsp; Due to her busy schedule, we decided to\ncelebrate this past Saturday night at Tsukasa in Vernon Hills.&nbsp; It is one of our favorite birthday places\nbecause it is fun to have everyone in one place and getting a bit of a show\nwhile they cook the meals at the table.&nbsp;\nI have been to other Japanese steakhouses but this one seems cleaner and\nhas better food than most. I am always happy to have time with my kids and feel\nfortunate to be able to celebrate their happy occasions together.&nbsp; We also had my parents, Sharon and my Uncle\nDudley from Israel and his wife Sarah.&nbsp;\nSpecial opportunity to have everyone together.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Howard\nMoore<\/strong>\u2014Working in the Sports Philanthropy Network I have the pleasure of\nmeeting and working with many passionate people who really want to make a\ndifference in their communities.&nbsp; Howard\nMoore and his energy are right near the top of the list.&nbsp; His track record as a basketball coach is\nimpressive and his recruiting abilities are some of the best.&nbsp; But what I love the most is the \u201cLegends\ntaking back the Streets\u201d program that he has put together in Chicago.&nbsp; His ability to garner support from such a\nwide-array of legendary basketball players showcases his recruiting abilities\nand his passion for reducing gun violence is driven by his tragedy suffered\nwhen his uncle was killed in a drive-by shooting.&nbsp; Howard is expanding his programs to Madison\nnow and hosted a terrific event at Blackhawk Country Club.&nbsp; Among the supporters at the event were former\nBadger stars Roy Boone and Alando Tucker.&nbsp;\nGreat to meet all of these players giving back to the community.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Mother\u2019s\nDay<\/strong>\u2014I feel very fortunate that my mom is still alive.&nbsp; So many of my friends have lost their parents\nin recent years.&nbsp; My mom has always been\nthere for me and especially over the last 10 years she has been an incredible\nsupport.&nbsp; Though we squabble at times,\nthe love is never in question and we each do so many things to help the other\nthru their respective struggles.&nbsp; She has\nalways taken on a large burden of helping others thru their struggles and\nespecially in raising Sharon.&nbsp; I wish her\na healthy year and wish that there was more that I could do to help improve her\nquality of life.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>O\u2019Hare\nparking<\/strong>\u2014It has been a few years since I have used the remote parking at\nO\u2019Hare.&nbsp; Wow.&nbsp; What a mess.&nbsp;\nORD has been way behind the times of getting a Car Rental Center like\nmost other major airports have had for a decade or more.&nbsp; Now, some of the parking lot areas are\nclosed.&nbsp; The shuttle bus system means you\nreally need to arrive over 2 hours before a domestic flight.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Miami\nairport<\/strong>\u2014While I thought ORD was bad, the Miami airport internal transit\nsystem was really not much better.&nbsp; The\nlong walk just to get to the train is a huge burden for elderly people and\nthose with kids or a lot of bags.&nbsp; I do\nwant to thank the nice lady at Advantage Rent-A-Car who gave me a bottle of\ncold water!! That was very helpful.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Airline\nmeetings<\/strong>\u2014a friend from law school works for an aviation company and had\nme come down to Miami to consult on some difficulties they are having. Quite an\nexperience seeing jet engines ripped apart and observing the painstaking\nprocess that they go thru to rebuild the engines.&nbsp; The FAA regulations are oppressive but the\noverriding safety concerns justify the burden that they place on the\nindustry.&nbsp; Very interesting seeing the number\nof tools and parts that are needed to perform these services.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Bi-polar<\/strong>\u2014had\na chance to have dinner with a friend from National Young Leadership Cacbinet\nwho suffers from bi-polar disorder.&nbsp; It\nhas been a few years since I have seen him and especially see that he is more balanced\nthan he has been in many years.&nbsp; The\nchallenge with i-polar is how difficult it can be to regulate.&nbsp; I hope he continues to maintain his status\nand continue to build up his business.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Steve<\/strong>\u2014Many\npeople are struggling in their businesses so it is a pleasure to see someone\nwho is doing well and still makes so much time to do things in the community\nand help others.&nbsp; My friend Steve from\nNational Young Leadership Cabinet treated me to an afternoon of golf at\nTurnberry.&nbsp; It was nice to catch up and\nspend some time together on a beautiful afternoon, one which was marred only by\nthe errant golf shots we each sprayed into the water and bushes.&nbsp; I feel fortunate to have so many good friends\nlike Steve.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Aleph\nInstitute<\/strong>\u2014While I was at Oxford, the Aleph Institute was a great\nsupport for me.&nbsp; They focus on serving\nthose Jewish inmates who are incarcerated as well as Jewish members of the\nmilitary.&nbsp; I had not had the opportunity\nto get together with Rabbi Katz in person to thank him for his help and support\nso while I was in Miami for meetings I wanted to sit down with him and express\nmy appreciation.&nbsp; So much more work needs\nto be done to help those being released from jails and prisons and restore\ntheir confidence and their earning capacities.&nbsp;\nI am going to work with Rabbi Katz to look at their program and see what\nI can do to help them put together a job placement type of re-entry program.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Irwin\nGoldman<\/strong>\u2014One of my clients is Anthem which has developed a fantastic\nsystem for agriculture applications.&nbsp;\nThis light allows you to customize light cards so that each crop gets\nits the specific light that it needs instead of a standard light bulb or\nsunlight.&nbsp; The benefit of the Anthem\nsystem is that allows a greater yield and produces a stronger, healthier\nplant.&nbsp; Meeting with the Chair of the\nHorticulture Department at the University of Wisconsin, Irwin Goldman, it\nbecame apparent that there is a great need for this system.&nbsp; It can benefit so many different crops,\nclimates and growing environments.&nbsp; It\nwill be interesting to watch this process develop because it will ultimately\nchange how agriculture is conducted and it will expedite the opportunities for\nindoor farming.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>United\nAirlines<\/strong>\u2014I have to say that I am generally not a fan of United Airlines.&nbsp; Service was not terrific and the check-in\nprocess seemed much worse than American Airlines.&nbsp; Once on the plane, the flight was okay and\nthe service was pretty good.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Dudley\/Sarah<\/strong>\u2014It\nwas great to see my Uncle and Aunt from Israel. It has been at least 5 years\nsince I have had the chance to see them and it was special to have that\nopportunity to reconnect and to spend some time together. It was also nice to\nshow them some of the sites around Chicago as we did a great drive down\nSheridan Road starting from Lake Forest all the way down thru the Museum\nCampus.&nbsp; They also got to see the Art\nInstitute and parts of Millenium Park.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A busy week of travel and houseguests leads to some observations about airports, birthdays and friendships.  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