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Fatherhood on Friday: Living From Home will get weirder, but when it's over we'll emerge with a new appreciation for the privilege to gather.
Mar 19, 2020·4 min read
Remember BBC Dad, the political science professor who went viral when his kids burst into his office during an online interview? Today we are all him, trying to work from home and help manage our kids and maybe look professional from the waist up for that Zoom conference.
We're reacting to the Now and trying to prepare for the Later, which changes almost as fast as the Now does. It's hard enough to kick a field goal when the goalposts keep moving, but now the ball has grown legs and is scurrying around the field. And there's an earthquake, and our shoes are made of concrete.
We're all looking for some level of constancy amid the chaos, and we hope this weekly column can serve that goal in whatever small way possible, as a reminder of the family stories that struggle for sunlight amid a news cycle filled with dire warnings. We also wouldn't mind changing the term "social distancing" to something like "physical distancing," because even though we're trying not to breathe on each other, it's important to stay as socially connected as possible.
For every dad who's desperate for a little space while he's working from home and his kids are furloughed from school indefinitely, there's another without a job, without a partner, without his kids, without a community. Our minds are on them, because before this is over we're going to learn a lot about the mental impact of isolation. And when this is over, and we're permitted once again to gather in groups of ten or more, we'll appreciate the privilege as never before.
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Rather than emphasize sports and other events, the nonprofit Dads and Kids in Louisiana focuses its big dad energy on education.
Author and ER nurse Gavin McDonald wrote his new children's book, "Until Forever Is Done," to show how a father can love with compassion.
From Families of Multiples, 100 arts and crafts projects, DIY games, cooking fun, science projects, and other activities that will excite and educate your kids and help stave off the cabin fever.
This dad started a line of swimwear for trans girls after his child Ruby, who'd been transitioning for a couple years, wanted to wear a bikini at the beach.
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Many of us are looking out for the most vulnerable people in our lives. "He likes to talk to me, and I know he misses me when I am not around and he gets worried if I'm not here. So this way, I'm here."
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It may be hard to consider, given the uncertainty of what's ahead, but we can preserve our empathy by remembering that every statistic is a story.
"All I can do is sit, wait and hope that updates from the wonderful people at the biocontainment center will tell me she's improving." — Father of coronavirus patient, "Will I Ever See Her Again?"
"While my wife is putting our 3-year-old daughter to bed, I read and do funny voices and the boys listen and crunch and munch on saltine crackers and we forget how mixed up our days are right now." — Andrew Knott, Parenting and Reading in the Time of Coronavirus
"With the schools closed, I dove right in to this homeschool thing. Not because I crush it and I'm awesome, but to manage my own feelings of anxiety with this uncertainty around us." — Matt Dudzinski, Instagram post
"The only way we can see these nouns like love and honor and respect and integrity is when they are acted out in front of us." — Bill Peebles, Be Nice, Kids. Better Yet, Be the Things You Want in Others
"Even though I am married with two kids, I was trying to find my sense in the world, and a meaning to what the situation our family had been met with meant." — Ryan Peck, Trying To Find God
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A dream kitchen. An idyllic life on the Canadian Prairies. The untangling of generations of secrets. In her debut novel Want, Barbara Langhorst reconsiders the family drama in the age of climate change and global conflict.
Funny and crisp, Want is the brilliantly relatable story of a woman who has to choose between the lifestyle she's always wanted and the one that just may mean her family's survival. Barbara Langhorst's Want will keep you laughing and guessing until the end.
A cast of characters we can all recognize - trying to hide a secret which almost destroys them. What we all 'Want' is peace of mind and acceptance. Langhorst weaves this pathway - both for the reader and the characters she creates. -- CAROL ROSE DANIELS
In comical parody and solemn realism, Want constructs a cogent narrative of our time. It compellingly speaks of a home that is lost and ardently sought. Its nimble wit and strong realism unnervingly depicts a world dangling, personally and environmentally, on the edge of disaster. -- DENNIS COOLEY
Want is an intimate meditation on our modern spiritual dilemma: what it means to both want and to be found wanting. Barbara Langhorst offers a witty account of interiors and interiority, an illumination of all the places we call home. -- MÉIRA COOK
This timely novel turns corners unexpectedly, like most renovations. An engaging and humorous family portrait of life on the Canadian Prairies where past collides with present and "want" leads to what really matters. Brimming with energy—from the everyday to the otherworldly—a story packed with feeling and light.
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Oh, this is a rollicking ride of a novel as a woman buffeted by the terrors of the modern world tries alternately to buy or run her way out of the collapse to come.
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The parents and children usually all sleep in one room on mats; those who can afford decent bedding sleep on thin mattresses. Most of the families are peasant farmers who grow crops (rice, ground nuts, cassava, potatoes, maize, beans) for food. Makimoth means: Taking it slow. And these members have embodied that motto by being purposeful, focused and patient. They have participated in organic farming training, literacy and business training and have received small grants and interest free loans through Give Us Wings' Building Businesses for Family Sustainability (BBFS) program.
Geoffrey has benefited from all three phases of grants, loans and trainings from the Building Business for Family Sustainability (BBFS) program. He has been trained in business management, record keeping, organic farming, and enterprise selection and analysis. He has been able to expand his crops, and his tree-seedling business in particular is doing very well. Here is a photo that was taken of Geoffrey in January 2015 during a BBFS meeting with Give Us Wings during a volunteer trip. Geoffrey brought his seedlings to show the group.
Geoffrey with some of his seedlings.
Some of Geoffrey's family members get malaria on occasion, but the rate has been reduced now that the family sleeps under treated mosquito nets. Their house has also been sprayed so that has helped as well. When the family members do "fall sick" they access treatment from St. John's Kayoro Health Center.
He and his wife Lakeri Nyandun have many children. His daughter Prisca who is now in Primary 7 is enrolled in a private school and doing great. Although they have made some positive strides, it is still a struggle for the parents to pay for high quality education for their children. Many children are "chased from school" for not paying fees.
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Cdn. beef gains increased access to Japan
Japan lifted its ban on imports of beef over 30 months of age
Japan has further opened its trade borders to Canadian beef.
On Tuesday, Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau and International Trade Minister Jim Carr announced that Japan will immediately allow imports of beef cattle older than 30 months of age.
Japanese restrictions on the age of Canadian beef imports have been in place since 2005, after the country closed its borders following Canada's 2003 BSE outbreak.
The 30-month age distinction is important because of research from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).
A study of 180,000 cattle in the United Kingdom diagnosed with BSE found that only 0.05 per cent of the animals (90) were 30 months of age or younger.
More access to Japan means more revenue for the Canadian beef industry.
Canadian beef exports to Japan totaled about $215 million in 2018 and the additional access could increase exports by 20 per cent, the federal ag ministry said.
The CPTPP will also contribute to better opportunities for the Canadian beef industry.
Under the agreement, Japan has already dropped its tariffs on beef imports from 38.5 per cent to 26.5 per cent. The country will further lower its tariffs to 9 per cent over the next 14 years.
Gaining increased market access to Japan will affect several industries, Minister Bibeau said.
"I was pleased to advocate for and represent our hardworking farmers and processors in Japan last week," she said in a statement. "Our government is committed to creating good middle-class jobs by helping our farmers and processors compete and succeed in markets at home and around the world."
The Canadian beef industry is pleased with the latest development in Japan.
Japan is seen as a leader in Asia and if it has lifted the beef age restriction, others may as well, said Dennis Laycraft, executive vice-president of the Canadian Cattlemen's Association.
"South Korea and China still have the 30-month restriction in place," he told Farms.com. "Hopefully with Japan taking the lead on this, we'll see discussions on the last remaining restrictions advance."
The increased access is also a signal that Canadian beef remains some of the world's best.
Over 40 countries shut out Canadian beef after the 2003 BSE situation, but the narrative seems to be changing.
"I think we're coming out from the dark shadow that BSE had cast," Laycraft said. "We'll be eligible to apply for Negligible BSE risk status (through the OIE) next March. It'll be 11 years since the last case we had was born."
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One of the big problems in our election coverage is the tendency for journalists to focus on descriptive questions (who will be president?) rather than normative ones (who should be president?). This is understandable, given journalism's focus on objectivity, but the result is that we often spend much more time talking about whether a candidate is electable than we do about whether or not the candidate would actually do a good job. Voters need to know which candidates support policies that will help them and those they care about–they don't need to know which candidates pundits think are likely to prevail. So my response is to continue my Candidate Evaluations series, which considers a candidate's background, policy history, and explicit statements to determine whether or not the candidate would actually be any good at being president. Previously, I did Ted Cruz. Today, I tackle Rand Paul, who declared his intent to run earlier this week.


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Shreyas takes its biggest boxship to date
October 4th, 2017 Hans Thaulow Asia, Containers 0 comments
Shreyas Shipping & Logistics, the Indian flagged vessel owning unit of Transworld Group, is linked to its biggest ship to date.
Brokers say it has added the 4,253 teu Queens Quay from ER Schiffahrt, paying $8.5m for the 2003-built ship.
Shreyas is a transhipment company providing coastal container shipping services in India. The services include Indian coastal feeder services and a weekly coastal service between India's main ports and direct connections from India to the Middle East. The company is listed with ten containerships, all of which are no bigger than 3,000 teu in size.
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North Dakota Is Now Lucky 13
March 24, 2017 by John Richardson 0 Comments
North Dakota became the 13th state to have constitutional concealed carry signed into law. Yesterday, Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND) signed House Bill 1169. As the excerpts from the governor's press release below make clear, it only applies to North Dakota residents. Out-of-staters will still need a carry permit if they wish to carry concealed.
From Gov. Burgum's press release:
BISMARCK, N.D. – Governor Doug Burgum today signed legislation allowing law-abiding citizens to carry a concealed handgun if they have possessed a valid North Dakota driver's license or state ID card for at least a year.
The "constitutional carry" authority provided under House Bill 1169 applies only within North Dakota's borders. Those wanting concealed carry reciprocity with other states must apply for a Class 1 or Class 2 North Dakota concealed weapon license, for which the requirements remain unchanged.
Current law only requires an applicant for a Class 2 license to complete an open-book test, at a cost of up to $50, and undergo a criminal history records check. Class 1 licenses require firearms training and additional requirements. Both licenses carry a $60 application fee.
Under HB 1169, anyone who is eligible to possess a Class 2 firearm license and has had a valid driver's license or state ID card for at least a year may carry a concealed firearm. Law enforcement officials recommended the state ID language, as well as the bill's requirement that anyone carrying a concealed weapon inform law enforcement of the weapon during a traffic stop or other contact.
Someone who has been convicted of a felony or crime of violence will still be precluded from carrying a handgun under this new law. Individuals who initiate the purchase of a handgun from a federally licensed dealer are still required to undergo a federal background check, which runs their name and descriptive information through three national databases.
"North Dakota has a rich heritage of hunting and a culture of deep respect for firearm safety. As a hunter and gun owner myself, I strongly support gun rights for law-abiding citizens," Burgum said. "House Bill 1169 allows citizens to exercise their Second Amendment right under the U.S. Constitution. It also is consistent with the North Dakota Constitution, which declares in Article I that all individuals have the inalienable right 'to keep and bear arms for the defense of their person, family, property, and the state, and for lawful hunting, recreational, and other lawful purposes, which shall not be infringed.' "
At the same time, Burgum – who has a Class 1 concealed weapons license that requires applicants to demonstrate firearms proficiency – noted that neither the existing Class 2 requirements nor HB 1169 have a firearms training component. He encouraged anyone considering carrying a concealed weapon to enroll in one of North Dakota's many certified gun safety courses.
"Gun ownership is both a right and a responsibility, and that responsibility begins with individuals and families," Burgum said.
House Bill 1169 passed the State House with a vote of 83 yeas to 9 nays and the State Senate by a vote of 34 yeas to 13 nays. No law enforcement organization or group opposed the law when it came before the legislature. The bill itself may be seen here.
According to the Bismarck Tribune, the number of carry permits in the state more than doubled in the past five years to over 48,000 permits.
A similar bill passed the South Dakota legislature but it has been or will be vetoed by Gov. Dennis Daugaard (R-SD). Unfortunately, it does not appear that the majorities that passed the bill are not high enough to override the governor's veto. Gov. Daugaard has said he thinks the present process is sufficient and that "the inconvenience to the law-abiding citizen is so minimal."
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Sarah Qidwai, a U of T graduate student, builds online community to promote diversity and accessibility
U of T PhD candidate Sarah Qidwai created the Virtual History of Science, Technology and Medicine group (Virtual HistSTM), a digital community focused on diversity and accessibility for academic discussions, conferences and events (photo by Meng Lim)
When the global pandemic cut short her research trip to the United Kingdom in March, Sarah Qidwai tweeted an idea about a new online community for scholars feeling isolated and disconnected.
She received an enthusiastic response. So, she created the Virtual History of Science, Technology and Medicine group (Virtual HistSTM), a digital community focused on diversity and accessibility for academic discussions, conferences and events.
Within just a few months, Virtual HistSTM amassed hundreds of members from all over the world and was presenting a full slate of planned events.
"It ended up snowballing into something much bigger than any of us who were involved could ever have imagined," says Qidwai, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto's Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science & Technology in the Faculty of Arts & Science.
"I started it, but it became a success because everybody joined in and contributed. It shows what a community-oriented approach can achieve in the middle of such a chaotic year."
Qidwai and her team, working alongside members of the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS), put the group's ideas about accessibility and diversity into practice when co-ordinating content for the BSHS Global Digital History of Science Festival in July.
Organizers of Virtual HistSTM events at the conference reached out to people who needed accommodations. They provided transcripts as well as audio/video material as alternative ways to access the conference.
"I think everyone should be an accessibility advocate," says Qidwai. "People who require those accommodations need a way to talk about it without being outed, and we should not make it their responsibility to advocate for accessing these spaces."
The conference also provided an opportunity to challenge some of the Western bias and elitism that freezes many young Black, Indigenous and people of colour out of the professional mainstream, according to Qidwai.
"It's not as simple as bringing someone through the door; it's about how we are helping them stay in the field. That's something we need to think through with all these initiatives that we're doing," she says.
After working on the BSHS conference, the Virtual HistSTM advisory board saw the opportunity to encourage more diversity and accessibility in their own events, addressing things such as participants with restricted internet access.
They also blended ideas like traditional paper-and-discussion panels with master classes and publishing workshops.
Qidwai hopes the innovations they introduced will influence others.
"It's not enough to bring in women of colour or scholars from low-income backgrounds, for instance. It's about what we are doing to support them and seeing them succeed in the future," she says.
Qidwai says she is grateful to be receiving support from her institute and its director, Associate Professor Edward Jones-Imhotep. She is working as a research assistant under the Faculty Arts & Science Pedagogical Innovation Fund and has access to video conferencing and transcription services. Her group is also reaching out to the wider community for support.
Qidwai says the project would also not be possible without her Virtual HistSTM advisory board, a group of students and professors from across North America. They include: Kelcey Gibbons, PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Megan Baumhammer, PhD candidate at Princeton University; Edward Guimont, adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut-Stamford; and Daniella McCahey, assistant professor at Texas Tech University.
"We're hoping what we're doing will expand and we'll be able to bring more people into the discipline itself, and continue to grow," says Qidwai.
"I think the next step is to turn the Virtual HistSTM group into a pedagogical resource."
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Breaking Bad actor Bryan Cranston, who stars as Zordon in the upcoming Power Rangers film reboot, actually didn't want to do the film. The star wasn't initially interested in returning to the Power Rangers franchise for fear it was a series that might not transcend a major motion picture adaptation.
This convinced Cranston to read the script and he found Israelite was right.
"The kids sound like real kids and not everyone is this great athlete and everything is working out. I thought, 'This might be a nice bookend to what I was doing before,' since I started out doing voices," said Cranston.
Cranston did a lot of voiceover roles early on in his career and his history with the Power Rangers franchise goes back to its beginning. He voiced two of the monsters in the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV series after getting a call from producer and co-creator of the franchise, Haim Saban. The two have a 35-year-long friendship going and Saban even named the original Blue Ranger Billy Cranston as a tribute to the star.
In the film reboot, Cranston will play the live-action role of Zordon, the Power Rangers' mentor and the original Red Ranger. Cranston described Zordon as a frustrated coach of sorts who must break down the individuality of each Ranger to help them grow as a team.


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Sequel - Migrants and ISIS: Proactive Measures
Posted: 2nd May 2015 | Written By: Rod Hatch
Sequel to my OnboardOnline article of 21st April 2015 - On 22nd April SuperyachtNews.com included in its news bulletin a feature giving an update from MYBA regarding the Dryad analysis of 18 March 2015.
I quote in part:
"Since then Ian Millen, chief operating officer at Dryad Maritime, has been approached to comment on any changes in the situation. On 14 April 2015 he made the following statement:
"There is an unhelpful and inaccurate picture of concern building in the Mediterranean with regard to threats to shipping. Whilst there is no doubt that certain port and inshore areas should be avoided, for example in Libya and Syria, the narrative that the Med is about to fall prey to a wave of terrorists and pirates engaged in maritime attacks is not one that is underpinned by hard evidence. Mariners of all types should continue to take sensible precautions, based on good situational awareness, regardless of where they are operating, including the Med. The problem with media speculation, which we saw back in February, is that it understandably generates discussion and concern amongst the yachting community; the viral effects of social media spread these concerns widely and at some speed. The situation is further exacerbated by those who have a commercial interest in a deteriorating security situation or the fear that springs from it and also by journalism that seeks to make two and two add up to five.
Since we issued Dryad's analysis of the ISIS threat on 18 March 2015, we have no reason to believe that the situation has changed in any material way, other than in a positive one, as the Italians who have shouldered the greatest burden in coping with the humanitarian situation with Mediterranean migrants, have committed to a force of naval, marine and air force assets, forward deployed, to monitor the situation in Libya in operation 'Mare Sicuro' (Safe Seas). In Dryad, we will continue to monitor developments and report on any emerging concerns."
MYBA's action is commendable in asking Dryad to reconsider their earlier assessment, and also in checking on ISPS Security Levels with some major Flag states for yachts. Dryad has a multiplicity of sources, and their assessment of Low Risk is not contended. And Security Level 1 is not something to lose sleep over: it does not demand much more precautionary alertness than would be shown by a prudent householder.
Security Level 2 is a big step up, and if ever issued for the SE Med basin it would no doubt happen in sync with an upgrade from Dryad and other security consultancies. However, Low Risk does not mean zero risk. It is transparently obvious that in 2015 to have no plan at all for a SE Med terrorist security level upgrade, and for a migrant boat encounter, is unconscionably imprudent.
Consider an extract from the above quotation from Dryad: "Should a threat develop against any form of shipping from Libya it would inevitably be met with an extremely robust response by these and other regional and international maritime and air forces."
Easier said than done. Remember how long it took to establish a "No-fly" zone in Libya, and how long the arguments raged on about establishing the same over Syria?
Further, does anybody recall the USS Cole incident in the port of Aden, in the year 2000? Suicide attackers rammed an explosives-laden small craft into the side of this guided-missile destroyer, crippling its operational capacity, killing 17 US sailors and injuring 39 others.
The combined might of the US 6th Fleet and other NATO naval assets committed to the Med., are helpless against a Cole type attack on a single vessel in transit across the potential danger zones. Any action on their part would be a reaction. The initiative lies always with the aggressor.
There is just one particular sector of the SE Med. basin where a pro-active policy is feasible and in force. Have you ever approached the coast of Israel from seaward? I've done so several times over the years. There are requisite checks and call-ins to be made with the authorities and your agent and the port or marina, at 100 miles and 25 miles from the coast.
Notwithstanding these preliminaries, as you close the coast a fast gunboat will appear, order you to stop, and circle you with its foredeck gun constantly trained on you while you repeat all your data via VHF. Once the gunboat is satisfied, you will be given permission to proceed.
If not satisfied, you will be boarded (no argument), a helicopter will be only minutes away, and an F-16 will already be en route. It is not feasible to police the entire SE Med basin in the same manner.
(As an aside, one of the ICTS instructors referred to in my articles had been a Master with ZIM, the Israeli shipping company. He told me that it was ZIM policy always to fly a large Israeli ensign while at sea, and to illuminate it with floodlights at night. The implied message was very clear, and would-be villains stayed well clear).
1) From your onboard Ship's Security Plan perspective re an IS threat, (i) draw up a risk assessment; (ii) keep it updated; (iii) list all sources for pre-voyage advisories; (iv) delineate what you consider to be particularly high risk zones and mark them on your passage plans as appropriate; (v) establish a routine for regular situation appraisals in your high risk zones (could be as simple as monitoring CNN every hour on the hour); (vi) consider amending the bridge standing orders re calling the master, to give an OOW discretion in the event of an alert to wind up to full speed and bring the ship's head away from a suspected danger before the master even arrives on the bridge after being called; and (vii) have your SSO consult with your CSO and/or other security adviser on the preceding items.
2) Draw up a similar preparedness plan for a migrant boat encounter, including the items set out in my 21st. April 2015 article.
Then go about your lawful occasions and enjoy a summer's cruising. But make your plans, don't leave home without them, and don't conceal from owners or guests why you have such plans in place. No matter your role, shore-side or onboard, if you conceal and things go wrong, then a vulnerable part of your anatomy will be in a sling.
*Image credits: UK Reuters.com Wikipedia Wikipedia CC2.0
Migrants and ISIS: Whatever the Risk, are you Prepared?
Captain Rod Hatch, B.A. (Hons.) Econ., AMNI
MCA Master (Yachts) < 3,000 GT, Master (LEA) <10,000 GT, OOW Unlimited
ILO certified Trainer of MLC Inspectors
MCA approved Maritime Auditor and Lead Auditor, ISM and ISO
CSO, Vectis Maritime, West Palm Beach, Florida


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271. Tommy Roe – Dizzy (1969)
August 9, 2019 January 13, 2020 / robbarker
By 1969 the kids that were caught up in Beatlemania were outgrowing pop singles. Thanks to the Fab Four, and their contemporaries, albums had replaced singles as the music art form for young adults. Record labels recognised this and pumped money into LPs.
All this left something of a void, and you only have to look at some of the number 1s from the last two years to see that. One genre making waves in the singles chart was 'bubblegum pop', largely an invention by labels eager to fill a void. If the teenagers and beyond were mainly buying albums now, then that left a whole new generation to be persuaded into buying pop singles. Bubblegum pop songs tended to be short and upbeat. Gone were overt drug references. Producers were often in charge, churning out material by an assembly line of acts backed by session musicians. One of the most successful of 1969 was an American whose first hit was back in 1962.
Thomas Roe was born on 9 May 1942 in Atlanta, Georgia. Upon graduating, he went to work for General Electric, where he soldered wires. By 1960 he had become Tommy Roe, and unusually, his first album was split between him and another singer, hence the name Whirling with Tommy Roe and Al Tornello. On the album were his first two singles, Caveman and Sheila, in which Roe mimicked the vocal stylings of Buddy Holly. Neither charted.
However, two years later, the latter was re-recorded, made the title track of his first full album, and became a resounding success. It topped the charts in the US, Canada and Australia, and reached number three in the UK. ABC-Paramount asked him to go on tour to promote it, but he was reluctant to give up his day job until they gave him an advance.
The Beatles were fans of Sheila, and began covering it. In early 1963, they supported Roe and Chris Montez on their joint headlining tour. New Musical Express reported that both singers were being upstaged by John, Paul, George and Ringo. He had two further UK hits later that year – Everybody and The Folk Singer. Roe decided to move to London, but the Beat boom was happening so fast, he couldn't keep up, and there were no further chart appearances on these shores, even though Sweet Pea and Hooray for Hazel did well elsewhere in 1966.
Then came Dizzy. Roe had co-written this pop tune about budding love with Freddy Weller, guitarist with US rock band Paul Revere & the Raiders. Weller had ambitions to be a solo artist, and around this time he released his debut single, a cover of Joe South's Games People Play. Top US session musicians The Wrecking Crew provided the backing on Dizzy, including the late, great Hal Blaine on drums.
I adore Dizzy. But not this version. The first single I ever bought on cassette was the number 1 cover in 1991 by my favourite comedian at the time, Vic Reeves, with Brummie indie outfit The Wonder Stuff.
Roe's Dizzy is a rare instance of an original being worse than a cover. I was so disappointed to hear a slight, awkward attempt at psychedelic pop, that is, by comparison, terribly leaden. Very odd for The Wrecking Crew to sound so dull. It has a slightly sickly feeling to it, making the title rather appropriate. Everything is slightly off, apart from Jimmie Haskell's string arrangement, which was neatly copied in 1991.
Amazingly, six years after being upstaged, Roe got his revenge, and he knocked The Beatles from the top spot, and Dizzy went to pole position in the US and Canada too. Despite its weirdness, it was catchy enough to capture the public's imagination after all. And yet, after one week, he was knocked off his perch by… the bloody Beatles.
Although Roe continued to have hits elsewhere, his chart action in the UK was soon over once more. Eventually he ended up on the nostalgia circuit with acts like Bobby Vee. In the late-70s and 80s he moved into releasing country material.
Roe's final album, Confectioner's, was released in 2017. He announced his retirement on his Facebook page in 2018.
Written by: Tommy Roe & Freddy Weller
Producer: Steve Barri
Weeks at number 1: 1 (4-10 June)
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A Server's Journey
Local Politics: Sean Parks on City Growth
Rocky DeStefano
Learn from Lake County Commissioner Sean Parks on how to servant lead in your local government.
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Start off your day inspired by Sean Parks' story, from Eagle Scout to current Lake County Commissioner. In the seventeenth edition of A Server's Journey, immerse yourself in an insider's perspective on local politics and leadership. "All levels of government are equally important," Parks says. Join in a deep dive into term limits, job creation, and managing growth the right way.
Welcome to this edition of a survivor's journey with rocky destefano. The foundation of the show is that everyone is leading some thing or someone that we're all on a journey, a server's journey. Thanks Larry. And I hope that everybody listening will be able to walk this journey of leadership with us and you know, as we travel around the country and meeting all different types of leaders in all different types of companies or organizations, we're really starting to kind of see that each company, each person, they kind of have a different philosophy around leadership. You get back to Larry and I were just on a plane heading to dc and we met a wonderful woman who knows all about lean
practices and lean traction and uh, she's going to be joining us shortly and one of our shows to talk about her style of leadership. And it's all in different, different categories. It's not just in the food service industry now. In fact, this young woman is a director over a half of the country for pharmaceutical sales, but she manages a team and I'm wonderful. And so we're gonna learn a lot from a different different industry. Brucie I understand you've got a guest in the studio today. Yes, we do. Mr Sean Parker. He's a business leader and a county commissioner here in central Florida and I am really looking forward to hearing what a county commissioner has to say. But first, you know, I was looking at your facebook page the other day where he and I ran across something. Well, you know, I know I just have to keep up with you because I can't get ahold of you and the other way here.
You. Yeah. So you posted something about fathers and hugs for their children and could you read that for us? Yeah, I'm going to. Even though you're kind of put me on the spot here and I am a little bit of software. I'm a father of three daughters, so bear bear with me, but you know, it, it kind of didn't dawn on me until several years after my father died. But you know, whenever I would leave after visiting my father, he would always give me this great embrace. And there was always something very strong about the way he hugged me in better than that embrace where all the things we need to fill as children. I felt loved, I felt grace, I felt this great unconditional support and I never even realized that until two years after he was gone. One truth in my life is that every child needs to feel that from his father.
And I believe a lot of the world's problems can be fixed if more children got those things from their fathers. I hope that my girls feel that from my hugs when they let me hug him. I mean they're getting older and that isn't rarer and rarer. I kind of have to take the hugs as they give them, but I say all this to encourage and remind everyone, anybody who's a parent and who has a still around, that they should embrace them today. And for every parent of a child that they should hug their children this way too. Oh, thank you for sharing that rocky. Uh, I share that with you as well. On my 35 year old son. Gives me a very good hug every time we meet and leave each other. There's something about, I think a parent's love, you know, it's different. Even I love my wife.
I chose my wife. I didn't choose my kids, but God gave him to me and there is a level one conditional. It's even different than how I love my wife and I think that hopefully they feel that when I hug them, when I show, you know, I think servant leadership really should start in the home. I asked so. And then it's passed on. Yeah. It's time now for an epic moment in leadership. I like when you do that, Larry. So much better than when I do it. So thank you for that. Well, I've got a bigger candor yelling. Yeah. Well, okay. Today we're talking about Stephen King. How come? So he's of course one of the most recognizable novelist of the modern era. In fact, I kind of believe if he didn't curse and if is John Rowe wouldn't, was in horror. He probably would be like one of those authors that we, we'd be reading about 30 or 40 years ago or after in school.
Um, well, I think we're still going to. Yeah, probably. So. He's definitely widely regarded as a master of the horror genre horror right now. He has dozens of financially and critically and, and hundreds of really hundreds of popular books and movies in circulation. His first novel, Carrie, was almost a complete failure, you know, that's an amazing thing. You know, it's Kinda weird. He actually used to write under a pseudonym because he thought it was his name that was the curse, but it wasn't. But a carrie was rejected by over 30 different companies before it was finally accepted and published. And really it kind of led to his breakout I'm going through in his career. He considered quitting. Uh, and many people probably would have quit. I mean 30 rejections is pretty tough, but his perseverance lead to greatness. And I, he, he says that there's a lesson he learned and sometimes it's that simple adjustments can turn a failure into a success.
It's not always the idea, but you might have to revise your idea or target a different audience or redefined your brand identity. All of these can easily take a fell concept and turn it into something very successful. So the object is keep on moving and keep moving forward if you got an idea, work on it. Yeah, absolutely. Well, that's our moment in leadership for today. You know, again, I think about Thomas Edison who didn't give up on the light bulb. No, that was a very enlightening idea. Don't give up. Don't give up, you know. All right, so with us today studio is Sean Parks and Sean is a, he's a man of many talents and we're going to kind of learn all this about him, but right now as well, he's also a lake county commissioner. So, uh, we're going to have shown a welcome to our show.
I'm anxious to hear how a politician and a businessman worked together. John, thanks for being here and welcome to our show or our humble broadcast. Thank you rocky, and thank you Larry. I appreciate it. It's great to be here at Chick Fil a. it's our pleasure and Sean's taking the looks quoting of our show way up. Do you know? I don't know about that. Come on. Hey Sean. We've known each other for a long time, but probably a lot of our listeners don't. So what I wanted to ask you is how did you get your start talking about your childhood and kind of where you went to school and so forth and all that stuff.
No, no. Yeah, no problem. Thanks again. Well, I mean for me, uh, I'm a central Florida native, so I was born in Orlando, born at a back window over. I'm so used to be called Orange Memorial hospital. Wow. Yeah. And, and, uh, grew up in seminal county and maybe about a mile from the ultimate mall area. Dirt roads grew up at the time, uh, when that part of the, you know, that part of the, the area was starting to grow rapidly, but we still had, we still had a lot of woods and you know, different kinds of rural areas that we could go to. My Dad started a plumbing company when I was two years old, actually, as I understand the story, he came home, he used to sell insurance and he came home one day. It's surprised my mom and said, I'm starting a plumbing business. Smarter man.
Yes. Yeah. And there was some tough times. I remember growing up, uh, it was, uh, it was really tough, you know, and the, and uh, you know, um, you had the ups and downs, but he did very well. I worked in his business as a kid. I was probably the only five or six year old that would run and go fetch a pair of channel locks or pipe wrench or go look for water meters and, and I would actually literally help them in the business. And so that's kind of where I got the small business mentality. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So now did you have a big family or was it. I got I, it's five total. I got, I'm the oldest, I'm the oldest of three boys. So my poor mother,
it's impor. Rocky's got three girls and four rocky has three girls. Yeah. It's amazing how that happens. But, so, uh, okay, so talk about that. So that was kinda how you got your small business mindset,
small business mindset. Um, you know, I grew up a two and I got involved with scouting at an early age and I'm so thankful that my parents did that at an early age and they were involved. They worked side by side with me as a kid. When you talk about servant leadership, you know, that's not an easy thing to do as a parent to spend a lot, always try to spend a lot of time with your kids. So I'm so happy that my parents got involved with me in scouting. They actually had gotten me involved with scouting at an early age and you know, you mentioned servant leadership and they were a great example of servant leaders. I will add a, because they spend a lot of time with me and they spend a lot of time with my brothers, but they spend a lot of time with me early on in scouting and uh, I, you know, hey, I went on and actually got my eagle scout is going to ask you about that.
Um, yeah, you didn't have to get your eagle scout here. You hear me talk about. It's a little something to brag about I guess because not everybody does it. What was your project? What was your big. My project was I did a equipment and playground equipment, built it, raised the money for it, a design it of course with the assistance of my dad and for a school called Morning Star school, which is a for real unique, unique children, unique kids that uh, need to go to a special school. They've got different needs. Wow. That's so. Yeah. And it was uh, it was um, it was great. It was a great experience. It's a real sense of accomplishment when you do that at old. Were you then? I will, I got my eagle scout when I was 15, so that would've been when I was either 14 or 15 years old now. Now, do you ever go back to that playground or. I have not seen in a while. You know, I got asked that recently. I have not been back there in years. I think you need to go back and just check it out if it's still standing and maybe I need to go into the playground equipment business.
But it sounds like that was kind of where you, you, you kind of like a little engineer there. I mean, you definitely enjoy that.
Yeah. I like tinkering, you know, it, it, I, I, I guess I got that from my dad, you know, my dad is very mechanically inclined. He's actually had some patents. I, I'd like to brag about that a little bit. He's got some, some patents that he had, he thinks he invented and I do have that. I do kind of have that engineering mindset, although I'm not an engineer. Um, but, but, uh, yeah. And so I, I have that, I think a little bit of that ability. I see it within my son, by the way, Eli really all already at an early age. I see. I see him kind of tinkering with things and yeah.
So then now take us. So you're, you're, you're an eagle scout, so you're probably already in high school. So what were you looking toward as far as far as a career and in colleges and so forth? I, I know you're an fsg
fan. I'm an Fsu fan that's going to probably. You're going to lose the gator audience here now. Um, but in, in politics we say a, we liked the team from Florida. Oh, okay. That's the political team from Florida, lead team, from Florida as I know that you probably liked the team from Ohio. I do. I love the team from Ohio. Yes. Uh, I'm an, I'm an Fsu fan where I went to school for instance, Institute of Technology in Melbourne. Did Not have a football team at the time. Now they, uh, interestingly they do a as well, but there's not quite as good as Florida state now. They're probably not there now. They're not in that league yet. So yeah. So what did you study in a fit? Studied environmental science. I have a bachelors of science and Environmental Science, which is from the school of Engineering there as well as an engineering management master's degree. Wow.
So now what about environmental science interests
interested you? Well, and that goes back to probably my scouting background and then even my grandmother parks at an early age, you see my grandmother parks. I'd go over to her house and visit and she was always growing something. Oh cool. She was talking to, she had a huge garden, was talking about a growing the vegetables and then, you know, she had trees that she planted. He has, she had kind of a big lot that she lived on and at an early age really got me interested in the environment agriculture and then might come kind of combining that experience with a camping that way we were always camped and we were always, you know, as kids, we were walking down those dirt roads to go fishing somewhere and you know, it's much different these days unfortunately. But that's back in the undiscovered Florida. Yeah, exactly. So, you know, I, that's where I got my background, my concern for the environment.
And you know, I, I have that to this day. I mean, I worry as much as the, uh, you know, as much as we're developing and, and the economy is awesome in Florida is a great place to live, but, you know, hey, what places are we gonna have left for our kids needs to be protection of at least, you know, big tracks of land for sure. But yeah, I think there's a mindset that we have to have a conservation mindset. Absolutely. Okay. So you've graduated fit and I, I'm kinda trying to steer you toward, I know you've got a great family and I, I'd love to know how you met your wife and. Oh, I'll go in. I'll go into all that. Um, yeah, just kind of inbetween there. You know, I worked for St Johns River Water Management district. I don't know that for a couple of years and I had a wonderful job.
I was driving atvs. And here's something you didn't know about me. I used to, uh, would drive airbook Oh really? I'm going to say pilot, but Dr Airboats at times in the upper basin doing water quality monitoring and uh, it was a fun job, but, you know, hey, it was basically working the but just right above poverty level so I could only do that so long. Right. And, uh, moved on into, into consulting and worked for an engineering firm in Orlando for many years before I started my own business. Now is it a large firm or was it a smaller firm? A large, a larger firm who relatively, you know, I had maybe 200 people at the time. Wow. Yeah. So how, what was the leadership management style like at this from the. Well, the leadership was great. I thought, um, we, we were encouraged to be creative.
We were encouraged to speak out, of course, in a respectful way. I think there was a good sense of camaraderie that was built at that firm. And you could tell because we were growing, we were getting lots of work. We were, it seemed very much like a team. Right? Yeah. And I, you know, you can tell when you're on a good team when you're not on a good team. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. All right, so what, so what's next? Well, you want to, let's go back to my family. So, you know, here's, here's kind of a funny little story. I tell people this and they get a chuckle, but, you know, I met my wife Ivy on a blind date. Okay. So as I say, you know, she must've been bump bump. Right? But no, I, I, yeah, I can agree with that. I met her the day that I got.
I passed my, um, my private pilot's license desk. Um, so it was kind of neat. It was really neat. And I tell people this, but you know, I had this, um, and I'm sure you know, some people will get a chuckle out of this, but you know, I had a dream the night before that I was going to meet my wife the next day. Oh really? So, and sure enough, I did. So now who set you up on this blind date? Because it was always somebody a lot. I do, yes. I already it. She's a good friend. Her name is Bonnie. I'm from uh, I went actually went to high school with her. Yeah, they were, they ivy and Bonnie were in class together. They were working on their master's together. So while and now. How long have you been married? We had been married nearly 19 years.
No, I'm sorry. Overnight. Ten years you are in trying that out. I'd be. He did not know how long you been married. I guess maybe that's good because it doesn't seem like that long. Thank you very much. Rocky. You know, it's been, it's been wonderful the whole time so I can't even keep track of the time. Yeah, good luck with that. Alright. So talk about your, your, a kids then you mentioned. Oh yeah, of course. Your son. My favorite. My favorite thing to talk about kids and as I'm sure it is for you too, but you know, my daughter Reagan, of course she's named after after President Ronald Reagan. We love her to death. She's 16 years old now. Literally the big rig and Larry's thumbs, you know, and that's in La and I agree with you, Larry and Reagan. Reagan is, there's a lot of good things to talk about his leadership style, but yeah, for sure.
But she, she, uh, she's a wonderful child. She's learning how to drive or I will. She's driving now. She actually has her license and so, um, you know, Lord help us keep us in prayer, but she's doing it. She's an extremely responsible and the way to describe her, to sum it up very quickly with Reagan as is just always in search of excellence. She just wants to be everything that she tries to do. She tries to be perfect at it, which I think that that's a trait that she learned from you or your wife or neither or both. I think she probably gets a lot of that. She gets maybe a little for me, but she gets a lot of that from, from Ivy. Ivy Likes to be very particular inexact. Yes, exactly. Yeah. That's you're. She looks a lot like ivy. Thank God. Thank.
Thank God. Yeah. And I, she mirrors ivy. Like I could the, the, the other day they were in the store and I was watching them too. And you know, the, the interaction, they, she could almost be a little ivy. Yes, she is. Yes, I could, I can be outnumbered at times. Now I'll put it to you that way. Um, but she is doing, she's wonderful. She's doing great. It's excellent grades. Um, we just, we just couldn't ask anything more. So willow is our 13 year old daughter. Willow is a absolutely wonderful to very smart. And she was named president will. Yes. No, the future president willow somewhere down the line. Right? Well, I thought you were going for a trench. I was expecting, you know, that's the environmental side. So she appropriately so she dresses a little more hippie, like she's a little more free spirited.
She won't like me saying this, but her nickname we call her Willie Mack because mckayla's or mit has as their middle name. So I will do that next time I see your color color will imac and she is a same thing. Just a just wonderful, great student. Works very hard. And uh, um, you know, her, her thing right now, by the way, rock is sheet, so maybe there's a, maybe there's a future at chick filet with this. She loves trying all different kinds of things with cooking and baking. So that's good. Yes. She experiments and looks up recipes and does all this stuff. She a good cook or you know, it's very good. I mean I've gained some weight because my daughter wants to cooked a cake without sugar and we didn't know what to do with it, but we really, I mean we tried to be nice but politely that that's called a fish food.
Yeah. Yes, yes. It did it, it was bland, very bland. And then, you know, eli is a, is of course our nine year old boy and a eli is the extreme extrovert. We don't know where we get, where he gets that from. I am slightly extroverted on the scale. Um, and, and ivy's may be kind of like right in the middle. Right. And so, but he's, he's, he would be off the charts compared to us because, you know, this boy could talk to 100 people in a room if you, if you challenged them to at nine years old. Yeah. So three different schools that makes, that makes us a bit of an uber driver. But I let the kids go to public, go to public schools. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We're very, we're very pleased with the, they've, these schools are great. I mean, we're having a great experience there.
That's awesome. Yeah. So talk to me about, because I know that now you run your own business along with being in politics. Yeah. See, I have my small business, um, it's, it's consulting we call parks consulting services. And as I joke, it helps support my county commission habit. So it is a, is a business that ivy helps out with me and I do have some people that also are wonderful that helped me with, um, graphic work, cad, autocad, which is design and uh, you know, helping me with some of the reports that are due sometimes out in the field as well. So how do you try it? If I were to put you on the spot and ask you what your management style is, how would you describe yourself? And maybe we should call ib and asked her how she might get a different story from now.
And I know she's not here, so we'll ask you. So I asked me. Yes, yes. Well I am definitely the um, I, I trust people first. Um, I believe I will, I will take them for their word, especially at first and put my trust in their abilities. And so, you know, so there's some of that delegation, I guess leadership style. So you're not a micromanager. I'm not a micromanager. I, there's a, there's some small, you know, there's some small points in it, there's some small things that I think are important and I'll convey those. Right. And, and, and sometimes I know, I realize it's maybe just me focused maybe on some of the small things, but I had this, this phrase where I say you take care of the small things, the big things will follow. Yeah. And so I, you know, there's some of those little things that I think are important and I can tell are important. And uh, I will, I'm pretty pretty, uh, I want to say forgiving, but yeah, I mean I, forgiving is a good word and we're all human. I mean, I know I've, I've messed up at times, uh, early on in my career. Still mess up now. Yeah.
But y'all do. But I think it's, it's good to know. I think people have to build safe, otherwise they're not going to try. And I know that one of your points before was, um, how your previous firm encouraged creativity. If you encourage creativity, you're also going to allow people to make mistakes. No,
it happens. Yeah, exactly. I'm a, I just really believe I want people to be successful to. Yeah, I want, I want people to be, to feel good about what they've done.
So talk to us now because I am always shocked and I have a lot of friends who are in politics and I always am shocked that somebody would take on this role. It is a tough role. And you know, I, I see how mad people get about chicken sandwiches. I can't imagine how mad they get about taxes and so forth. So what, what made you decide to run for office?
No. Great question. Yes. Politics today is in a terrible state. I believe it. It's um, you know, everybody knows I don't have to just sit here and describe it for you. It's very divisive and argumentative and know there's fights over some of the stupidest things sometimes so that it does, it does beg the very appropriate question you just asked, why would you get involved with that and yeah, what I mean, what he was pretty simple for me, I had this, I've always had service in my heart and it goes back to my scouting days, right? And I've always, I always have this deep love of this country is the importance of what the United States stands for. I had that at an early age both through scouting and my grandfather who was actually a lieutenant colonel in the US army, served during World War II and my dad and my, my grandfather and my other grandparents do early on.
We would, we would talk history, this is funny because at the, at family gatherings are probably quite different today. People are devices and everything, but I would sit around and listen to stories about things that would happened that happened during World War Two. Yeah. Which has been fascinating. I mean, yes, considered the greatest generations. Oh totally. Yes. Totally. Totally agree. And so I got an appreciation by listening to that through my grandparents and my parents too about the importance of history and knowing it and then what the meaning of this country, what it stands for. And so I had that combined with what I call my nine slash 11 a moment.
Yeah. And I was going to ask you about that because it seems like the people that get into politics with a servant's heart, they always have that moment where, you know, they're struck with I need to do.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. No, no. So, so this is what it was. Uh, it was, we were in the capital Ivy and I were in the capital. We were going to tour the capital about a month after nine slash 11. And uh, ivy is a pregnant with Reagan at the time and I prayed on the steps of the Capitol and mind you, this is the same day that there was pictures of people running out of the capital because of the anthrax scare. Yeah. And so I prayed on the steps of the capital that day, um, for God to make me useful somehow and serving my country in my community. And I believe, um, you know, I believe he, he put me to work. Yeah. And, and so my calling, it was, you know, I thought about going into the military at the time, but there was an age limit.
And with that being with Reagan on the way, I didn't know if that was appropriate. Right? I mean, but you did think about it. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely. Um, and, but I decided I would just start by serving locally and kind of one thing led to another. I, I actually volunteered for some boards and then ran for Lake County water authority in 2004. Right. And you know it. And you won that race. I did. So how long did you serve as the lake county water? I served for four years. Okay. Yes. Yeah. Um, and uh, you know, that was great because I got to kind of serve and the technical, the technical world that I had been involved with water resources, the environment.
Right. And, and, and you, you do love that aspect of the, you know, as far as the environment, the old Florida, I'm sure you felt like you had a hand in detecting a little bit.
Yeah, I, I think so. Definitely. Yeah. And you know, it wasn't just that, but it was, it was the realization, you know, on the steps of the Capitol there that, you know, the community is what you make it. And you know, as you, I think you've said this earlier on and you've said it in your other shows, you know, everybody, everybody's got a leadership moment. Everybody's got. Everybody is a leader. Yeah. It just, the situation's different. But, and so I realized that I had, you know, I could make my community what it is, I just needed to do it. And, you know, here I am today and I, you know, I, I, uh, this is why I love serving locally. I don't, I don't, there's a, you know, there's a mess that's going on in the capital, in, in, you know, some of this is a whole nother show I'm sure about, about media and where are, are, um, you know, who we believe and what we know, what, what we look at and, and, and what we let into our hearts. Uh, that is a whole nother topic. But, you know, I just know that I'm just, when I'm trying to say is I know that I can serve here locally best right now.
So now that brings me to a point because right now you're, you're a two term a commissioner in Lake County. You're running, running for your third and um, and you don't seem to have because a lot of times people do local politics as a stepping stone to more.
Yeah, that's correct. Yeah. They, yeah. And, and, and you know, and unfortunately I'm hearing something these days, now that, that is a little troublesome. It's understandable, but it's a little trouble somewhere. There's this idea that, you know, you should serve a couple of terms locally, like at city council, Maybe County Commission, and then, you know, move your way up and as if that's not, you know, that's the right thing to do. Right. That's good enough. Yeah. They call them for war. Exactly. Like, uh, like start, start low and, and, and I'm sorry, but I disagree because I think all levels of government and this might, I might be the one of the few that say this are equally important.
Well, and I, and I think you can actually make the argument that as far as impacting people's lives, yes, probably have a greater chance to do that at a local level than you do at state or federal for sure.
Correct. Yeah. And I, and I get um, I, I get the whole the term limit thing and let's keep, let's keep people moving through. But I will say this, you know, you do have people that stay at Congress and in there in the Senate that had been, you know, 20, 30, 40 years and I get how that's not right. Um, but, but at the same time, um, if we as a nation think that I'm putting term limits at every level of government is going to solve the problems that we have. Um,
I just, I think that's, that's too much of an easy fix. You know, it's funny to me because I, I think that we have a way to get rid of inefficient, ineffective and Deborah narcissistic of politicians that, that aren't doing their job. That's just with the vote. I mean, we can vote them out.
You can vote every two to four years and every two and every four years and that's, you've hit the nail on the head when it comes to that whole topic.
Um, you know, you can, we need to roll up our sleeves a little bit and, and, you know,
politics and being involved at every level. It's, it's a, it's um, it's, yes, it's a right for us to vote, but it's a responsibility for us to know who we're voting for
and not just a vote, a party line, but to actually know the individuals who are voting for and to decide if they're actually doing their job, Mingo
and, and also the, uh, the issues. Yeah. And that takes work. Democracy as a, let me be clear. Every public with democratic values that we are takes work at for everybody. We, you can't just sit aside and just,
I saw something on TV. This is who I should vote for. Right? So when, you know, the crazy thing to me is there's all this talk about term limits and it will always struck me, as you know, when I look for a mechanic, I look for the most experienced mechanic I can find. I look for somebody who's going to build me a cabinet or is it going to fix my lighting system? I'm looking for the most experienced person possible. It, the issue has never been that experience is bad. It's Kinda like bad experiences, bad. Somebody who's doing it for the wrong reasons or doesn't really care. Correct. Or do they it as a stepping stone or to get a pension that's wrong, but if you can find the rare politician and I believe you're one of them, who cares, is doing it with the right intentions and you've kind of mentioned your nine slash 11 moment. Who's doing it to truly serve. We want those. In fact, I want those to be an office for a long time because they're efficient and they're effective. And one thing I wanted you to talk about what? Sure. You know, there there's a lot of talk about how our governments becoming bloated and, and it's, it's, it's not very efficient, but I know you've got a pretty strong record not only around job growth but also around a cutting, cutting money from
I budget. Yeah. Yeah, exactly it, you know, everybody has this image of the county, you know, we're in it in the city stew I suppose, but you know, the four guys three sitting around and holding up a shovel in one. Actually doing the work. Yeah. And I'm sure you can find those cases where that has happened. No, nothing is perfect. But you know, here's, here's the kind of the facts or the deals with the deal with Lake County right now. We last year we cut the week, we found about one point 2 million in savings. The year before is about one point three. We're operating right now with the same number of employees as we had in 2005. And we have about 80,000 more people. Wow. That's crazy. So that's a good. I mean, it's a good thing. I'm a, I'm a believer in lean and efficient government. Just like you, you run the restaurant, you run, you can't have, you can't have bloat, you can't have, you can't have dead weight. Yup. Um, that you're, you're not going to make your numbers, you're not going to make your goals. So I'm, I'm, I'm proud of that. I've been a part of it. It's not just me. I will say that it's, it's a, a team of commissioners that have also made good decisions on that as well. But we're very good here. This is a good, a good, a good county for efficiency.
So let's talk about, tell us about some of the things that you care deeply about or maybe some concerns that you have that are facing lake county right now.
Well, the, you know, definitely the. Being careful with how we manage growth.
Okay. Yeah. Because growth is happening and there's no way. You know, I've, I've always been shocked at the people that are like no growth, no growth. It just doesn't work. You have to have growth,
correct? Yeah. You do. You do. You're gonna. You're gonna have to have growth or you're dying. We've got a thousand people a day that are moving to Florida. Yeah. This is the silver tsunami, as they call it. Yeah. That is a, that is happening and you know, people from the Midwest and the northeast are moving to Florida because we got a great, a great economy, or it's a great place to live, right? That's going to happen. We have to handle that growth the right way. We need to make sure that I'm the Lake County we love is protected as I tell people. I want Reagan, willow or Willie Mack and Eli too, they love Lake County. Now they may, they may go off somewhere else and they may not come back. Um, but I want them to be. If they do choose to come here, I want them to have a good choice. I want them to stay here in the mark of a good community I think is when you have generation after generation staying.
Right. Well, and, and the crazy thing to me is I think, you know, even going back 15, 20 years, it was hard to come back and find a great job, you know? And I think that that's one thing that you've worked really hard as yes, growth is going to happen, but how can we create unique growth and growth that's going to help us employ our kids and our kids' kids?
Correct. Good job. Yeah. Yeah, I know exactly. I mean 16,000 new jobs in the course of, you know, six, seven years now. I mean that's, that's been pretty good. And then in 900 new startups, because I love small businesses, you do 900 new startup businesses net in, in Lake County since then. And uh, that's, that's impressive number.
Well, and, and, and a lot of those 16,000 jobs, you know, you can have a huge employer come in and, and that happens sometimes and it's fantastic, but the reality is most jobs are created by small businesses and they might only employ five or six or seven people, but they provide a living for a lot of people in a lot of new job.
They do. Yeah, exactly. Yes. And you know, there, there is um, there's a lot of other good measures to, you know, average wages increasing in lake county and wages is important measure because it, it's a prosperity and people were able to afford a home, buy a car. So those. Yeah.
Which, uh, Duffy moves the economic or the economy of Lake County. Exactly. Exactly. Okay. So we talked about a few things that you've kind of learned along the way and I've heard that, you know, you've worked with people that have encouraged creativity and also encouraged. I'm giving you the right to speak out, but doing so in a way that you felt still part of a team and, and had that great comradery, um, your own leadership style. You kind of mentioned that you love to trust people and that you love to give clear direction, but you're okay to delegate once you do and that you love seeing people succeed once, you know they take on a job and they do it. So have you had any bad experiences with leadership? Have you ever done something where you're like, oh darn, how did I do that? Or maybe worked for somebody that you know, you, you vow to never be like,
yeah, I, I definitely have had the exact opposite hand. I've had people when I will not, I will not name names, show, but yes, we're, we're, uh, literally it's a, you know, it's every hour, every other hour I'm checking in. Yeah. And I'm a micromanaging. But then also kind of the office politics part that goes along with it and the, you know, the, the snip, snip, Enos and the gossip. I think so. And when you combine that boy, you just, um, you know, anybody would, would lose, lose faith in the person that they're supposed to follow. Now, have I been guilty of that? I'm sure I have been guilty of micromanaging.
I think we all have. I honestly think that like as a young leader, it's kind of, it's easy to fall into that trap. It is, but then I think is a growth there and I, and I'm sure you've grown as you've led
more and more people you get to the point we realize it's an effective. But I think we've all been guilty of that. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. So I want to ask you now if you have a favorite quote or favorite verses there, anything that you really kind of motivates you and gives you a reason, uh, when you get up in the morning? Yes. I have a lot of favorite quotes. Um, I love, I loved history. There's a lot of great lessons in history, um, particularly American history, a lot of quotes from presidents and great leaders of the nation. But I will go, especially I think for the, for this show, since you're asking me and we're talking about servant leadership, I'm going to go actually go to the Bible. Okay, cool. And I will, I will actually, if you'll allow me. Yeah, I will. I'll give you like a couple verses so when just be one verse, but it's, it is, uh, it's from Romans Chapter Twelve, nine through 21 there.
This is often called the marks of a Christian are the mark of a Christian. Sure. And, and I'll just, if you don't mind me and I can just read it a little bit. Yeah. And just tell you how I think this is important, how it totally is, I think defines in a lot of ways. Servant leadership. Yeah. And, and they also call this love and action to love must be sincere. Hate what is evil, cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. And this is where we start getting into the servant leadership. Honor one another above yourselves. That's key. Never be lacking in zeal. So it's great to have and it's great to have passion, but keep your spiritual fervor serving the Lord. So that means not serving yourself. Yeah, your motivation is going toward something else, right? The serving the Lord.
Be Joyful, be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer, share with the Lord's people who are in need. Practice hospitality. So yeah, and then it goes on. Bless those who persecute you. Bless those, uh, and bless and do not curse. So A, and I'll paraphrase the rest of that, but essentially it's, it's, um, servant leadership can, can mean that you're striving to be in harmony with another, right? It means putting your, putting the, each others' needs above your own. Yep. A certain disability and humbleness. Yeah. Practice hospitality. Like what you do. I mean, I, I've never met. I don't think I've met a friendlier person than you and more. It's been more hospitable, hospitable, the right word. That's a good word, right? Yeah. Yeah. No, it's definitely a good word. Yeah. So, and you, you are that way. So, um, I, I think that's a, that's servant leadership. So I look at this, this Bible verses one of my most favorite. Yeah, they really want. It's definitely a guiding principle and I think that it is sometimes when you know, anytime you or later there's going to be days where you wonder why you're doing it in politics, I would imagine there are times when you're getting yelled at by somebody who doesn't quite understand things and you have to have something to fall back on to remind you why you do it. And I think that that burst where talks, putting others above
yourself and that means people that persecute you had mentioned, is that, I mean it, it means that even though they're not maybe seeing the whole point, I still have to serve them. And that's a great verse, Great Group of verses for a politician to live by.
It is. I mean, you know, it goes on and it says, even here, you know, do not repay anyone evil for evil. That's hard to live these days because way we are, we are vengeful, vengeful, vengeful, right now. And, but, but putting it in the context of, of leadership and servant leadership, you know, of an instance for me might be as a, as serving the people of Lake County, sometimes it's just having patience because I have to realize that somebody's going to send me a nasty email and I, I do get those or somebody's going to get on the phone or somebody is going to approach me at a meeting. Sometimes people were really upset and they say they say some bad things. And so the servant leadership part of that is just patients and saying, I have to tell myself, okay, they might've had a bad day. Right? Um, and, and the listening part of this, uh, you know, I've got to go ahead and listen to them and um, and, and just be patient with it and try to try to help them. But you may not be able to hear.
I'm always now and honestly it's it, you know, that verse talks about how it, it tells you what you gotta do. It doesn't say that if you do that, everything works out. Or people suddenly magically see your point. You still have to do it correct now. And so I think it's a great party, a guiding principle. That's true.
Alright, so we have this fun segment that we call this one or that one and get to put you a little bit on the spot. Great. And I'm a little nervous now. Well, I know you're like an Uber nerd like me, which is an Uber nerd is a good thing now by the way. Come to find out, but we're going to give you, um, some people and, um, some franchises and asks you to pick which one you prefer and maybe give us some reasons why. Okay. All right. So the first one is elan musk or Richard Branson.
I will definitely go with the Elon Musk, Elon musk, Tammy, what you love about them? Oh my gosh. That guy just, he's just so I just innovative and what I, and I like his leadership style, you know, he'll, he'll get, he'll get somebody, you know, a young person out of school, you know, a genius. Somebody that's really worked hard. It's has gotten great grades or whatever he puts in the work immediately on these systems as I understand this for, for the rockets that are building and he'll say literally to that person, come in and see them and say, I am trusting you. This is going to be your function. You're going to build this particular particular function to launch this rocket and I'm counting on you. He says this personally. I just think it's really cool.
I think we needed to find a counterpart because everybody's choosing Elan Musk. So I think maybe Richard Branson's not.
But now you've got to find a counter. Yes. Alright,
so go, go and kind of with that and with technology. How about Steve Gates or a straight wow. Steve Jobs or bill gates
or you can combine them. Like I just said, I will go with a
jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. Now I'm going to go with jobs because you're a politician. You Trade Jackie. I can create the jobs in there. Yes. I worked that into the line of. No, I just. Because you know, hey, I had an apple when in college back when there was a, I mean, technology's changed so much what they call back then they were the apple macintosh I think. But you're right. Yeah. Yes. And it had 80 megs of Ram, which was impressive at the time. Now your watch has a five times. Exactly. Yeah. So I will go with jobs for sure. I'm a little bit mad at him right now because my phone is not working quite right and I'm blaming him personally, but normally I would go with jobs, tips and I just spent five and a half hours at the apple store yesterday. All right. So Steven Spielberg or Walt Disney.
I love Steven Spielberg. So you're, you're putting me in a bad position but trying to. But I will go with Walt Disney. Okay, good. Again, yeah, you local. Here's a little interesting tidbit about Walt Disney. His mom, years ago lived in Paisley, which is a North Lake County. Well. And so this story, which can be a, is this true? There's at least a lot of truth to this is that, uh, he had been for a number of years or number of months maybe trying to actually buy the land around Paisley really for Disney world. So. Oh, La county could have been home to Disney world in north white county.
Wow. You had a better politician back then we would have gotten. We would have, yes, exactly. This commissioners didn't know what they are now. Back then. What was wrong with them? Exactly. Oh, excuse me. I don't want all the traffic. Okay. Alright. So how about a star wars or Harry Potter?
Oh, that's not even close star wars for sure. That my kids love Harry Potter. So there'll be a disappointment. Yeah.
Okay. And the last one is going to be Broadway or rock and roll. And I only asked that because I have three daughters who love Broadway. So,
you know, broadway is good and there's some great shows. I'm sure
politician here, but I know you were going. Yes. But uh, there's no way it's rock and roll for sure. You know, like a favorite group is, or what am I? I'll put in a plug for some, for some of the gen x bands is you're Gen X. Yeah. Um, you know, journey. Oh Wow. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, journey. Um, the ivy likes DEF leppard. She'll probably kill me for saying that, but definitely need def leppard concert. That is, I think we should go to A. Yeah, yeah. All right. You guys, let's man up here. Okay. So I'm not sure. I'm not sure if sean passed the test, but we're going to go onto her manliness. Well, no, no, you definitely, I think you're in trouble with ivy from some earlier comments. So you might want to get rid of the DEF leppard journey tickets. Yes. You know. Well she's going to go see Taylor swift, so. Oh Gosh. So I'm not know my daughters are going. So she got. Hey Sean, real quick before we, um, and we really do appreciate you coming on the show and kind of sharing us a little bit about yourself and kind of what makes you tick. How does somebody contact you or how can they find out more about what you stand about? R stand for
sure. Yeah. I have a, there's a couple different ways. Um, of course. Anybody that still does the facebook thing that you can, you can friend me on facebook. I know facebook is still popular. Well, it is with rh for sure. It is Gen xers. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I, I, um, I do. I am on twitter. That's shawn parks 89 at Yahoo Dot com. So s e a n p a R K s eighty9@yahoo.com email. All right. Are you controversial on twitter or now? You know, I don't have, I don't have the president trump thing going now. I can't, I could not compete with that at all if I try that. Anybody could. You don't even try. You just let, let, let trump be trump. Yes.
Very good. Very good. Alright, Sean, will, we really do appreciate you coming on this journey and we've enjoyed getting to know you some. No, it's an honor. Thank you. Thank you, rocky. Thank you Larry. That's all right. Well, thank you everyone for joining us here on a survivor's journey. Remembered, just subscribe to the podcast and you can hear all of what rocky wants to share with you to be a good leader. Learning to lead by serving. And if you subscribe, subscribe. Can I say that word again? If you subscribe, you're know what you're gonna get you're gonna. Get a server's journey moment and that comes out on Tuesday and that's that quick pick me up starter for your day. Yeah, that's that reminder. Just to kind of keep it going. So if you like what you've heard, tell a friend like us and sheriff's a servers journey. So rocky, until next time I am, you're ever faithful companion Larry as in Starsky and Hutch. But listen, I was going to use Simon and Garfunkel. Oh I, I mean I do like Starsky and Hutch but we are definitely dating ourselves.
How about Beau and Luke? Oh Wow. That you know what, there's so many, you know, save one for no show. Simon and Garfunkel. That's before start seeing that much. But, but they are coming back with a vengeance. My daughters, is that right? Oh my goodness. I'll have to pull up my old vinyls. She'd be happy to do. You Got Vinyl. Oh yeah. Up. Hey listen. We are all on a journey and we do believe it's. It's how you serve while you're in that role, and that's why every week for sharing these servers journey. I'm rocky desteffano. I want to thank you for joining us and together I want us to become better leaders.
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Zoning Entitlement Process
This project is currently under construction as of July 29, 2019.
Village Board Approval
This project received zoning approval for the Conditional Use request for a Planned Unit Development and approval of a Redevelopment Agreement at the March 5, 2019 Village Board meeting.
Planning and Zoning Commission Public Hearing
The Mount Prospect Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing on this item at their Thursday, February 14, 2019 meeting. The proposal received a recommendation of approval by a 5-1 vote to the Village Board.
View the Planning and Zoning Memo with Complete Application and Plans | PZ-03-19 | February 14, 2019
Proposed Development | 10 N. Main
Village staff has been working closely with First Equity Acquisitions, LLC and Harlem Irving Companies on the Central and Main Proposal. The original plan for the apartment style building, as initially presented to the public, was a 4-story, reverse E shape design with 3 overhanging drive through canopies, which had a 25' 7" setback to the adjacent single-family homes. Resident concern indicated a need to increase the rear setback from the adjacent neighbors.
Plan Update
The revised plans removed the overhanging canopies, added a 5th floor and a rooftop amenity. The new setback to the adjacent single-family homes is now just under 67'. Staff received newly updated elevations and renderings (see image, above), which were included in the proposal reviewed by the Planning and Zoning Commission on February 14, 2019.
The proposed development consists of 97 rental apartment units (includes 14 studio, 51 one bedroom, 28 two bedroom and 4 three bedroom units) and features two amenity areas including a rooftop deck. 130 parking spaces are supplied at-grade and partially enclosed. The developer will also be providing improvements to the roadway and streetscape in a manner consistent with the existing downtown aesthetic.
Questions? Contact Jason Shallcross, Development Review Planner, 847-818-5314


Huggable Nature is a community workshop through DIY activities. With Dr. DiSalvo, I recently planned and conducted a workshop titled "Huggable Nature," in which community participants design wearable devices and leave voice messages for trees, flowers, or bushes that play back when they hug any of the three. Any community member can participate in the activities of the Huggable Nature workshop, designing simple sensors and producing crafts, because they are easy to perform.