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Board Members

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Board Members

You can read about the Board members and their thoughts on the ILF and leadership by clicking on their photos. Their thoughts might help you frame a better grant application.

Colin Peters AM

Honorary Immediate Past President

David McNeil

David McNeil

Honorary President

Paul Haysman

Paul Haysman

Honorary Deputy President/Treasurer

Richard Colebatch

Richard Colebatch

Honorary Vice President

Stephen Myatt

Stephen Myatt

Honorary Board Member

Bernie Kavanagh

Bernie Kavanagh

Honorary Board Member

Mark Canny

Mark Canny

Honorary Board Member

Chris Stathy OAM

Honorary Board Member

David Heaslip

Honorary Board Member

Stephen Ludlam

Honorary Board Member

Geoff Vogt

Geoff Vogt

Chief Executive Officer

    Honorary Chairman

    Col Peters joined Castalloy in 1962 and retired in 2002 after forty years having been promoted to become Managing Director. During this period the company grew from a small plant in Adelaide to a major industrial force with plants in Adelaide, Albury and Auckland turning over $600m pa with 2500 employees.

    Colin contributed to industry success in a number of ways. He was a member of the National Executive of the Federation of Automotive Products Manufacturers for 20 years, including terms as National Vice President and State President in South Australia. He was a member of the Committee of Management of the Engineering Employers Association of South Australia for 15 years and became President. He has also been a board member of WorkCover Corporation of SA, a board member of Business SA, a member of the National Executive of AIGroup , and has been a member and chairman of a number of government industry advisory boards.

    He has always been passionate about skills development for our younger Australians. He was a board member of EEASAGTS (Group Training Scheme) Board for many years, elected Chairman in 1993. In June 2009 the business of EEASAGTS was transferred to the Australian Industry Group Training Services and Mr Peters was appointed to the AIGTS board. At the same time Mr Peters was appointed inaugural Chairman of the Industry Leaders Fund Inc.

    Col Peters explains, “I am Chairman of the ILF because the entire Board morphed into this new entity following the transfer of the apprentice training activities of the EEASA – GTS to the AI Group in July 2009. I have remained in the role because I believe there are many individuals in Industry right now who have the potential but not the opportunity to become really outstanding leaders. If the fund operates as planned those people will realise their potential to the benefit of themselves and industry in South Australia.

    I sincerely hope that by giving meaningful and focused grants to deserving individuals with leadership potential we can help them obtain key roles in major industries and to make an impact on South Australia in coming years.

    I believe a leader is a person who has the self confidence, the charisma, the passion and the will to take a team into an endeavour and to focus their various abilities into a culture aimed at achieving a successful outcome. Examples of successful leaders I admire are:

    • Mahatma Ghandi
    • Nelson Mandela
    • Winston Churchill
    • John F Kennedy
    • Maggie Thatcher

    Honorary Treasurer

    DAVID MCNEILWith experience in a variety of manufacturing companies in a range of industries at CEO level and on boards, including Laubman and Pank, Tytronics and a number of Government boards, David is well placed to understand how tough business can be and what a true leader needs to be able to do. David’s vision to see South Australia rise again as a leading centre of smart competitive manufacturing with head offices and wealth created here, and firmly believes the ILF is an initiative that will become recognised as a major contributor to this renaissance.

    Manager Finance and Adminstration Honorary Board Member

    Carol Dean completed 30 years service as the Executive Officer Finance and Administration with the Australian Industry Group (previously Engineering Employers Association, South Australia) in February 2010. During that time she also provided services as the Public Officer to the EEASA Group Training Scheme, in fact Carol was there from day one, up until the business was transferred to the Australian Industry Group Training Scheme at the end of the June 2009, 28 years in total. Carol also served on the GTS Board of Governance as the Deputy Chairperson and Treasurer during that period.

    Carol was also the Company Secretary of Enterprise House Pty Ltd and the Corporate Secretary of Innovate SA (formerly the South Australian Centre for Innovation Inc).
    From March 2009 to May 2014 Carol worked with the Industry Leaders Fund on a part-time basis. Her duties included overseeing the day to day operation of the fund and assisting the Chief Executive Officer.

    Carol was delighted to continue as a member of the Board.

    Having seen where we started and what we have learnt along the way, I am really excited to see where our new path will take us. We have the opportunity now to influence and guide future industry leaders. To help them achieve their goals, fulfil their dreams and maybe even exceed their expectations.

    There will be challenges for both the Industry Leaders Fund and the grant applicants, but that is what stretches people, makes them grow and develop and that is what makes leaders. Leaders whom we hope will benefit the future of South Australia. It is going to be very exciting.

    Honorary Board Member

    Sue Frazer brings to the Industry Leaders’ Fund (ILF) Board extensive experience in both the public and private sector. Sue has played a key role in the vocational education and training sector for over 25 years in South Australia.

    Holding qualifications in vocational education and training, Australian Company Directors’ Course and Professional Development, Sue is a strong advocate for the role that training and mentoring can play in developing the careers of young people.

    Sue recently retired from full time work after 6 years as the General Manager for the Engineering Employers Association SA Group Training Scheme (now the Industry leaders Fund) and the Australian Industry Group Training Services. Her particular interest has been in ensuring that apprentices regardless of their background have opportunities to develop their leadership potential. Sue fostered a number of leadership development programs through the apprenticeship system.

    In the past, Sue has been a member of the Construction Industry Training Board and the Senior Secondary Assessment Board of SA. She has been involved in a number of state and national committees that have shaped the current vocational education system within South Australia and Australia.

    Currently, Sue is a Board member of the Industry Leaders’ Fund, a member of the State Advisory Committee for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and is an Assessor for the SA Industrial Relations Commission.

    Sue has been inspired by a number of leaders and continues to be inspired by the resilience and capabilities of young people today. Having a very strong social conscience, Sue has found people like Dame Roma Mitchell inspirational. People who are high achievers but still find time to make a contribution to the community are important role models for her as well. She admires the elite cycling athlete, Lance Armstrong’s ongoing commitment to encourage and support cancer sufferers.

    Sue believes that leadership is not just about getting to the peak of any role; it is also about fostering the leadership capacity of others in industry and in the community. Sue is pleased to be a part of the Industry Leaders Fund and believes that the ILF should make a difference in developing the leadership capacity of South Australians.

    Honorary Board Member

    Bernie Kavanagh graduated from the University of Adelaide as a Civil Engineer. His early working life was as a draughtsman and then engineer with the Highways Department of South Australia. This early excellent experience was followed by 15 years with Quarry Industries Ltd where Bernie rose to the position of General Manager, and was an Executive Director of the Company for about 10 years. During this period the Quarry Industries grew from a local South Australian operation to become a national quarrying, concrete and asphalt company with vertically integrated operations and branches in every state of Australia.
    Bernie spent the last 8 years of his working life as General Manager at Perry Engineering, a heavy engineering operation in South Australia. He is currently a director of A Noble and Son Ltd, a national engineering company considered to be a leader in its field of lifting equipment and the provision of lifting solutions.

    During his working life Bernie consistently contributed to the industries in which he was involved. He has been a member of the Institute of Quarrying for 35 years, including a term as State President and a member of the National Executive. For a number of years he was a member of the Board of Examiners for the Mine and Quarry Managers South Australia. He was a member of the Engineering Employers Association of South Australia for 22 years and was President for a term.

    At both Quarry Industries and Perry Engineering, Bernie was very supportive of and actively involved in apprentice selection and training as well as mentoring young engineering graduates. He was a director of the Engineering Employers Association SA Group Training Scheme for many years and following the transfer of the EEASAGTS apprentices to the Australian Industry Group Training Scheme he became an interested and passionate Honorary Board member of the Industry Leaders Fund Inc.

    “It is exciting to be involved with the ILF as it offers the chance to continue to help and foster individuals who demonstrate leadership potential”, says Bernie. He expects that the ILF will provide the extra impetus to deserving recipients to enable them to emerge from the pack and become significant industry and community figures.

    Bernie believes a leader must have the ambition and passion to succeed for their personal gain and that of their community. Necessary characteristics are fairness, honesty, self-confidence, and the ability to take others to common goals.

    Leaders who Bernie admires include Sir Arvi Parbo and Sir Eric Neal.

    Honorary Board Member

    Stephen Myatt is the Director of the Australian Industry Group South Australian Branch (Ai Group)
    The AI Group South Australia Branch was established on 1 July 2009 resulting from a merger between the Engineering Employers Association South Australian and the AI Group.

    AI Group is a leading industry association in Australia. AI Group member businesses employ around 750,000 staff in an expanding range of industry sectors including: manufacturing; engineering; construction; automotive; food; transport; information technology; telecommunications; call centres; labour hire; printing; defence; mining equipment and supplies; airlines; and other related service industries.

    Stephen was previously the Director of the Engineering Employers Association South Australia and had held that position since 1997.

    He has an interest in training and education matters being a longstanding director of the Engineering Employers Association Group Training Scheme, which has now been combined with AI Group Training Scheme and of which he has now become a director.

    In the past he has been an alternate on the Training and Skills Commission and also a member of the SA Accreditation and Registration Council.

    He is also an immediate past Chairperson and present member of the Manufacturing Industry Skills Advisory Council.

    Stephen strongly supports the Industry Leaders Fund as it will be a practical opportunity to provide the next generation of industry leaders in South Australia with assistance to develop the skills necessary to lead companies and provide employment opportunities into the future.

    Honorary Board Member

    Grant Tinney started his professional life as an apprentice toolmaker. After taking the reins of a small mould making business in 1982, the business has grown to supply prestigious domestic and international clients across a wide range of growth industries. Today Grant is the owner / Chief Executive of a number of Advanced Manufacturing businesses which range from mould / die manufacture, automation, engineering services and precision machining.

    Grant’s major role over the last 15 years has been business and strategic development. In this role Grant has travelled extensively to Europe, Asia and in particular the USA, a market to which he has travelled 43 times to date. As Chief Executive one of his prime focuses has been to reposition his businesses away from a highly automotive / whitegoods focus to a diversified non traditional industry focus of defence, aerospace, mining, medical and renewable energies focus with increasing export exposure.

    Grant has been a board member of many industry and government initiatives over the past 20 years including Engineering Employers Association ( EEASA ), EEASA GTS ( Group Training Scheme ), AusIndustry Networks Program ( ANP ), Advanced Manufacturing Action Agenda ( AMAA ), Manufacturing Consultative Committee ( MCC ), Advanced Manufacturing Australia ( AMA ), Advanced Manufacturing SA ( AMSA ), Australian Industry Group SA ( AIG SA ), etc

    Grant offers, “In my years of being involved with industry, training and my extensive travels, I have seen first hand the results achieved by fine young individuals who are provided the opportunities to shine. The future of South Australian industry will be shaped and steered by the brightest, most energetic, most charismatic leaders. Future Leaders who are not afraid to challenge pre conceived ideas and notions; leaders who will not accept second best. I am passionate about working to identify individuals with that certain spark and to provide opportunities not normally available to accelerate their growth and add value to their potential to influence, in a positive sense, the development of this state. Being a director of the Industry Leaders Fund allows me to further my passion to contribute in this way.

    Grant says “Leadership for me is all about providing a vision that is clear, together with a vivid picture of where to go. Good leaders have a firm grasp on what success looks like and how to achieve it.

    Good business leaders create a vision, present the vision to all stakeholders, passionately own the vision and relentlessly drive it to completion.

    Leaders must keep abreast of what is happening in the environments which can shape their future and be able to identify and implement course corrections that are timely and appropriate to maintain success.

    The leaders that Grant particularly admires are individuals who have achieved results well beyond what was thought possible and in difficult circumstances under pressure.

    • Martin Luther King Jr. who fought against huge odds to bring about change
    • Field Marshall Erwin Rommel who often out of favour with high command, with small forces at his disposal continually outmaneuvered and outfought opponents
    • Winston Churchill for his dogged determination and fighting spirit who willed Britain to successfully defend herself

    Honorary Board Member

    David Wilson completed an electrical apprenticeship with Simpson Pope in 1973 and stayed in the trade for six years. He then moved into sales and training as an Area Manager for Hoover and progressed rapidly from there through roles as Marketing Manager for Spotless Ensign, Sales Manager for Anitech, State Manager for Austral Engineering Supplies, General Manager SA/NT for Skilled and General Manager SA for Kone Elevators. He is now Regional Manager for RecruitPack, a recruitment software service for the SME employer.

    David has contributed to industry development by being a member of the Committee of Management of the Engineering Employers Association South Australia for 12 years, Chair of the Greater North Adelaide Regional Development Organisation (GNARDO) and Chair of the Western & Inner Northern Network for Economic Recovery (WINNER). He founded the Labour Hire Association of SA to improve safety across the industry. He became one of the inaugural Directors at Harness Racing SA when that industry was privatised.

    David has always been passionate about training and development of staff and was a board member of EEASAGTS (Group Training Scheme) Board. At both Skilled and Kone he introduced apprentice programs coupled with further advanced training and development to provide long term succession plans in those organisations.

    David Wilson says, “I have been helped throughout my career by having access to training and development opportunities and am particularly grateful to Hoover for their in-house programs, to Skilled for the Mt Eliza Executive Management program and to Kone for sponsoring my MBA at UniSA. I want to now be part of an organisation that provides similar opportunities to people who, through their achievements, passion and presentation, have shown themselves to be potential leaders of the future.

    I want the ILF to be held in high regard as a body that has sensibly identified people with great potential and provided them with significant and meaningful assistance. It will be highly satisfying sometime in the future to hear one, hopefully many, prominent, highly successful leaders acknowledge the assistance received from the ILF as a foundation for their career.

    Key attributes I see in great leaders are the ability to articulate a clear vision that inspires people to follow, respect for people and the environment as the cornerstones of any sustainable vision, charisma, drive and a passion to achieve.

    Some leaders who have inspired me include Steve Jobs, Andrew Carnegie, Mike Terlet, Rob Gerard and Frank Hargrave.”

    Chief Executive Officer

    Geoff Vogt has extensive experience in the financial services and insurance industries. He was for nearly 12 years until July 2008 Chief Executive Officer of the Motor Accident Commission in South Australia, a Statutory Authority which has responsibility for the monopoly compulsory third party insurance scheme in our State.

    Previously Geoff had worked in branch and head office financial positions in a major Australian life insurer, in merchant banking money market and advisory roles, as manager group funding for a major listed Australian corporation, and had shorter periods of experience in a home building company and as an advisor to the Deputy Premier.

    In addition to his role at the ILF Geoff is a Director of Beston Corporate Services, SA Director for interim executive management placement firm, Hamilton Rich, a Director of KeyInvest Ltd, member of the Centennial Park Cemetery Authority Board, Director of United Way SA Inc., and a Director of United Way Australia. He served for approximately 30 years in the Australian Army Reserve in a variety of roles reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and currently provides facility and governance services to certain Australian Defence Force units. He has also served as an office holder on a number of community based Committees and Boards.

    Geoff has been a lecturer and examiner for professional bodies and TAFE over many years.

    Geoff Vogt was delighted to be offered the opportunity to be CEO of the ILF. He said, “I believe this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to establish and nurture an organisation that has the potential to make an enormous difference to the lives of aspiring captains of industry with demonstrated potential. It will do this by allowing them to gain training or an experience opportunity that would not otherwise have been possible for them and that will enable them to quickly reach their potential. My hope and expectation is that such leaders will be the catalyst and backbone for revived growth in the South Australian economy leading to new job opportunities for, amongst others, the trades people who were the basis of the business of the ILF until 1 July 2009. There is no reason why over time these leaders should not match or exceed the performance of some of the leaders who have contributed their stories to this website. I am inspired by the vision of the Board members who fought to create the ILF and are driving it forward and honoured to have been entrusted to make their vision a reality.

    I believe the characteristics exhibited by true leaders include vision, superior communication skills, passion, a powerful drive to succeed, strong inter-personal skills, charisma, inspirational team building capacities, strong moral ethics and a willingness to contribute to their community.

    Industry leaders whose achievements I believe deserve great respect include Bill Gates, Sir Eric Neal, Lindsay Fox, Bill Cooper and Robert Gerard. Other leaders who I admire for their significant contribution to South Australia include Dr Roger Sexton and Stephen Baker. Over time I would hope that ILF grant recipients will be able to meet and even exceed the achievements of these people. If the ILF were to get really lucky we might facilitate the development of a modern day industry leader and creator who could emulate a Bill Gates for example whether in the IT industry or some other industry. I believe this is not impossible and the growth in SA if this were to happen would be a crowning glory for the ILF, for the State, and for Australia.

    In summary my hope is that the ILF can help people with real potential, and dedication to realise their leadership dreams for the benefit of our community”.

    Honorary Board Member

    Richard has a long history of contribution to industry through senior Board and committee roles in a number of national and local industry associations including the Australian Industry Group, the Plastics Industry Association and Business SA. These roles have included being an office bearer up to the level of President on at least two occasions.

    He has always been passionate about developing his leadership skills through formal one off training programs such as the Company Directors Course and by continuous improvement through ongoing membership of The Executive Connection (TEC). He says that following through the TEC processes is like doing a working MBA. He is an avid reader of leadership books and keeps himself up to date in current affairs developments in order to be able to make fully informed leadership decisions.

    He believes that the cornerstone to success in business leadership is applying energy and effort from establishing a vision to implementation, in an ethical way. His motto is “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”. If you wish to be successful some of the best money invested will be obtaining the best professionals to provide the best advice possible. The benefit of good advice cannot be overstated.

    If we are to develop a suite of modern profitable growing wealth creating industries for the benefit of South Australians we need to leverage our leaders and those with real leadership potential and help them grow. I believe the team based approach of the ILF is an outstanding way to developing the leaders we need to create head offices and wealth creating industries in South Australia. The success of any organisation is directly proportional to the ability of the chairman, and the ILF has a Chairman with an outstanding achievement record. In summary I believe the ILF is an excellent incubator for aspiring and current leaders to leverage themselves from each other, to grow success as individuals and as a group.

    Aside from the developmental opportunities the ILF offers to fund, I would highly recommend joining Toastmasters. I personally found it to be one of the most beneficial things I have ever done and the cost is minimal. Toastmasters is all about positive improvement through better listening, thinking and speaking. Different clubs have different characteristics and are at different stages of development. The secret to gaining the maximum benefit is to choose a club that is best suited to you and to do that I recommend visiting three clubs before deciding which one to join.

    I believe a true leader is someone who has the wisdom to see what is required, the ability to inspire those who need to act to achieve the aim and the courage of his/her convictions to overcome all obstacles.

    Four leaders I most admire are:

    • Sir Eric Neil who is a great South Australian who has created more wealth in South Australia than most South Australians will ever realise.
    • Winston Churchill who lead Britain through its darkest hours.
    • Ronald Reagan who had the strength of conviction to sack the air traffic controllers when they threatened to bring the USA to a halt and bring the dispute to a successful conclusion for the benefit of the travelling public.
    • Bob Hawke who took on the pilots Federation to ensure air travel would be available and affordable to most Australians.

    Honorary Board Member

    Paul Haysman commenced his professional career with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., Chartered Accountants in 1981. Paul worked primarily in the areas of taxation and general business services, and a highlight of his time with what was to become KPMG included a three month secondment to Goroka, in the highlands of PNG.

    In 1985, Paul left Peat Marwick and joined Philmac Pty Ltd as an Accountant. Philmac is a world leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of fittings and valves for water and gas pipeline systems. With its head office and manufacturing facilities located at North Plympton, South Australia, Philmac has branches in each state of Australia and an extensive network of agents around the world.

    Paul was appointed to the Board of Philmac in December 1988. He held the positions of Finance Director and Director & General Manager before being appointed Managing Director in December 1995, a position he held until his departure in October 2002.

    During Paul’s time with the company, Philmac was a finalist in the South Australian Manufacturer of the Year Award in 1992, 1994, 1998, 1999 and 2000, won the Water Industry Category award in 1996 and 1997, and won the Large Company Category Award in 2000. Philmac has also been a recipient of numerous awards for innovation and business excellence from customers and a number of high profile public and private institutions.

    In addition to his responsibilities at Philmac, Paul was co-opted by the international parent company to manage all of the global Group’s activities in Japan and Korea, which included the establishment of an office in Tokyo. He was also seconded to a sister company in Switzerland during 2001 to advise them on enterprise improvement opportunities.

    In October 2002, Paul left Philmac and acquired Hillmark Industries Pty Ltd, a company primarily involved in the development, manufacture and distribution of specialised cleaning products for domestic appliances. Paul rapidly grew the business, which brought it to the attention of larger players in the industry. In October 2008, the majority of the business, including the Hillmark brand, was sold to Selleys, a division of Dulux Group Ltd.

    The remaining part of the Hillmark business, which imports and distributes electrical and other small appliances, was retained by Paul and re-named Ezi Concepts Pty Ltd. Paul has gone on to acquire further business interests, including Accredited Window Tinting Pty Ltd (November 2010) and Statewide Appliance Spares Pty Ltd (September 2011). Paul continues to be actively involved in all aspects of each of these businesses, as well as being the independent Chairman of the Jeffries Group.

    Paul holds a Bachelor of Business and is a Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors. He has held a number of Board positions in public and private corporations, including Jeffries Group, Royal District Nursing Service SA, Williams Refrigeration Australia Pty Ltd, the Manufacturing Industry Advisory Board, Business S.A., President of the Engineering Employers Association of South Australia, and on the National Executive of the Australian Industry Group.

    Paul believes that an important element of future economic and social success for South Australia will be good leadership.

    “It is essential that we equip our current and future leaders with the skills and knowledge that will allow them to drive their enterprises to succeed and grow. This will provide wealth for our State and jobs for our children.”

    “My hope is that the ILF will add substantially to the leadership capital of industry in South Australia by making world class management education accessible to many more people than would otherwise be the case.”

    In Paul’s view the ideal leader would have “the grace and humility of Nelson Mandela, the creativity and vision of Steve Jobs and the energy and healthy disrespect for authority of Fred Hollows.”

    Honorary Board Member

    In the first ten years of his career, David worked on the family farm in the mid North of South Australia. He then completed a business degree at the University of South Australia as a mature aged student.

    After completing studies at the University of South Australia David worked for one of Australia’s largest seafood retailers selling product within Australia and subsequently, into Europe. He later held a role as Sales Manager for a division of AWA that serviced mining and transport companies, before joining the Century Group as General Manager. He is presently Managing Director and controlling shareholder of the Century Group.

    In his current role David has been responsible for reshaping a traditional manufacturing business and expanding Century through developing high level capability and new markets within the organisation and also expanding the group by business acquisition. The Century Group now provides a diverse range of general engineering solutions and water treatment services to infrastructure and utility markets in Australia.

    Honorary Board Member

    Mark Canny

    Mark Canny began his industrial career with Tubemakers BTM Kilburn in 1985. Two years later he became Purchasing Manager at Hills Limited in Adelaide.

    In 1989, Mark moved to Wales and spent 6 years as Managing Director of Hills UK (a wholly owned subsidiary company of Hills Australia). The UK business designed and manufactured clotheslines and garden sprayers that were sold in the UK, Western Europe and Scandinavia.

    Mark returned to Australia to head up the Home and Hardware Division of Hills. The business manufactured and sold consumer durable products under the brands of Bailey, Hills, Kelso and Triton, The Division had 550 staff in factories in Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane and logistics operations in each Australian state and the north and south islands of New Zealand. There were 3 R&D teams totalling 40 staff and a sales and marketing team of 60 spread across Australia and New Zealand.

    In 2007 Mark became CEO of Intercast & Forge, Australia’s largest independent iron foundry operation. The Adelaide and Sydney foundries produced 70,000 tonnes pa of iron castings with primary markets being automotive and rail track systems. The key shareholder was the Sydney based private equity group CHAMP Ventures. The Sydney operation (together with the automotive supply contracts) was sold in 2010 to an Australian automotive supply group. In 2012 the Adelaide foundry was sold to its largest rail customer, a French based industrial group.

    Since the 2012 sale, Mark has undertaken a number of project roles with a focus on manufacturing and marketing strategy.

    Role and hopes for ILF
    Mark believes that the future for business in South Australia lies with great management and leadership.

    “We have a great standard of living in South Australia and, to maintain that, we must innovate at all levels – especially our business models. Our future lies in high value added niche businesses and this requires outstanding leadership.”

    “My hope is that the ILF can help to foster a pride in business leadership and a community wide desire to develop and nurture our potential leaders. ILF can only be a catalyst but this is a critical role in the process.”


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The Counter-Revolution In Egypt

The protests continue in Tahrir Square, angering the miltary

It’s just six weeks since US-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak was forced from power by the Egyptian working class, and replaced by a military junta. In that time, the military has succeeded in passing a new repressive constitution, and now effectively banning strikes and protests – the very tools which brought down Mubarak in the first place. While many Egyptians initially had some belief that the army were guardians of their revolution, these illusions have rapidly evaporated. But the material needs which forced poor Egyptians into battle two months ago remain unmet, so the stage is set for yet another confrontation.

Though ousting Mubarak was a major aim of the ‘January 25th movement’, it was ultimately driven by economic imperatives, rather than personal hatred of the man at the top. It was widely believed that once Mubarak had gone, the people could present their demands to the new officials, who would respond favourably. This has not proved to be the case, and a certain disillusionment is setting in. Ali Fotouh, a public transport driver, told AhramOnline:

“We really had hopes that the new government will support us and look into our demands. We expected them to say we have all of your legal demands on our desks and there is a timeline of a month or two within which they will be achieved.”

However in the context of working people struggling to make ends meet, disillusionment can quickly turn into anger rather than despair. Fotouh continued:

“This is not fair, why don’t you solve our demands so that we don’t go on strikes? This tone reminds me of the old days of Mubarak, threats and oppression used by the regime. This is no longer valid after January 25 Revolution.”

Safi – brought to you by the same people who brought you a strike ban

In trying to satisfy their own post-Mubarak needs, the working class are coming face to face with the material interests of the military brass, which owns vast swathes of the factories and land throughout the country. As head on the junta, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi is effectively CEO of the military businesses. Just one of these – the Ministry of Military Production – employs forty thousand civilians and takes in hundreds of millions of dollars per year. Military companies sell everything from medical equipment to laptops, and sewing machines to Safi – Egypt’s most successful bottled water brand. It has been estimated that the military account for more than ten per cent of the country’s owning class.

The land owned by the generals has been converted into gated communities over the last decade or so, providing luxury housing for the obscenely rich, including Mubarak himself, at his Sharm el-Sheikh palace. Other plots are converted into water-intensive golf courses, in a nation where millions lack running water.

From this outline of the generals’ interests, it is obvious that any new workers’ movement would directly threaten the miltary elite’s parasitical lifestyle. With this in mind, it is not surprising that they were quick to urge protesters back to work after the fall of Mubarak. A week after the dictator fled for the safety of Sharm el-Sheikh, generals warned against those who “organise protests that obstruct production and create critical economic conditions that can lead to a worsening of the country’s economy.” They said this warning was necessary because “The continuation of instability and its consequences will lead to harming national security.”

There is strong suspicion that the state is trying to whip up tensions between people of various religious backgrounds – a classic ‘divide and conquer’ tactic. Mounir Megahd of Egyptians Against Discrimination claims that: “Recent reports released have shown the close ties between the state security apparatus and the Salafist movement […] It has been reported that state security has used them to bomb the Two Saints Church in Alexandria”.

Earlier this month, thousands of demonstrators successfully raided the offices of the secret police in Cairo, Alexandria, and other cities. They seized many documents related to state attacks on Coptic churches while Mubarak was in power, and orders for the phone tapping of callers to political talk shows were also uncovered.

Last Saturday, only 30% of Egyptians bothered to vote for a new rubber stamp constitution, with the remainder showing their growing distrust of the military caste by either abstaining or – in a smaller number of cases – voting against the proposals. But the changes were swiftly followed by a visit from US Defense Secretary Robert Gates – who pledged millions more in ‘aid’ would flow to the new dictators of Egypt – and by the ban on political action, which threatens jail terms and huge fines for those ‘guilty’ of fighting for their needs.

Just as in Tunisia, workers in Egypt are discovering that the new boss is pretty much the same as the old boss, and is backed by the same US imperial machine which is bombing its way through Libya. With pro-democracy movements growing in Bahrain, Yemen and Syria, the conditions are ripening for militant, trans-national class struggle throughout the region.

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Bioorthogonal Oxime Ligation Mediated in vivo Cancer Targeting

Current cancer targeting relying on specific biological interaction between the cell surface antigen and respective antibody or its analogue has proven to be effective in the treatment of different cancers; however, this strategy has its own limitations, such as the heterogeneity of cancer cells and immunogenicity of the biomacromolecule binding ligands. Bioorthogonal chemical conjugation has emerged as an attractive alternative to biological interaction for in vivo cancer targeting. Here, we report an in vivo cancer targeting strategy mediated by bioorthogonal oxime ligation. An oxyamine group, the artificial target, is introduced onto 4T1 murine breast cancer cells through liposome delivery and fusion. Poly(ethylene glycol)-polylactide (PEG-PLA) nanoparticles (NPs) are surface-functionalized with aldehyde groups as targeting ligands. The improved in vivo cancer targeting of PEG-PLA NPs is achieved through specific and efficient chemical reaction between the oxyamine and aldehyde groups.

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IBM Storage with OpenStack Brings Simplicity and Robustness to Cloud

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Let me tell you what I need

I would love to have someone take care of me for a day.

Do we spend our lives yearning for our parents?
Seeking the safe nest?
I’m 28. Is it selfish to want to be taken care of?
Just a little bit, just sometimes?
Just when you’ve had 3 horrible days and you’re alone and you almost cried at work and you finally come home feeling OK but meanwhile your dog has eaten your beautiful black leather shoe?

I’m a grown up now, I have to do this myself.

A warm dinner (roasted chicken and green beans?) and a cool glass of milk. Set it out on the table for me.
A warm bed to crawl into. Tuck me in and sit on the edge of my bed, rubbing my back gently.
Hug me so tight
The other stuff will still be there but it can go away because we’re squeezing the whole world.

Is it wrong to need some nurturing? Is it really so bad?
Must I add guilt to the list of inadequacies that’s causing my thirst for coddling in the first place?
Let’s snap the vicious cycle
You take care of me, and let it bring you joy
I promise I will return the favor.

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Opie the foster

It was just another day. Concrete below me, bars surrounding. A cacophony of barks assaulting my ears so hard I had to respond. I waited for the man to arrive. He’d clean my mess out of my cell. The kibble scramble would come next. Yes, food. Finally. There was nothing else to wiggle about. My days were punctuated only by the occasional appearance of the man’s face and the diurnal delivery of dry food.

The day wasn’t a hot day, not yet anyway. I breathed comfortably with just my nose, which felt good. I hadn’t been sleeping well because it felt like soup at night, and I had to keep my mouth open all the time, and mosquitoes and flies pestered my peace. At least it was quieter at night, unless a fox came up and set everyone on edge.

I had been there for 2 months, or forever. I hadn’t met all of the other dogs in the kennel yet, and I probably wouldn’t. They came and went, some back to their owners, some to an unknown place. All I knew is that sometimes a cell went quiet and I stopped hearing a familiar bark in the chorus. It made me uneasy.

I knew a few, though: Marty the beagle, Joe the pitbull mix, Mel the shepherd/lab. Mostly black dogs or furry matted ones. Occasionally there was a crisp boxer or a sharp, clean dachsund, but it wasn’t real because their owners would come back for them in a week after their vacation. Usually.

There was the man. He was friendly and I liked him, I wished he could have spent more time with me. He set down my bowl of food. I inhaled my cup and a half of kibble. The best part of my day, gone in 10 seconds. I sat back and panted, feeling my stomach expand, fresh energy coursing through me. It would have been marvelous to jump out of my cell and gallop the yard; I could see the grass and longed to till it with my paws. Instead I waited to feel sleepy enough to lie down.

Hours passed, and I waited for my next bowl of kibble to arrive. I had to poop, so I pooped. Whatever. I returned to the front door bars where I spent most days pressing myself eagerly, hopefully.

The hot July sun finally started to lower; I knew because the bar shadows got longer. Earlier it had rained and thundered and that was very scary. I had wanted to cuddle up against someone, but there was no one except walls and bars, so I went to the corner but that’s where I pooped last, but then it boomed again and I got scared so I curled up with my poop. I didn’t care if I was dirty anymore. It didn’t matter.

The man appeared, earlier than usual and without food. Odd. I cowered in confusion, but he made some friendly noises and guided me from my cell into his office. I hadn’t been in there since I first arrived! It smelled ripe and marvelous. I started exploring and forgot my apprehension.

A car door slammed, which usually means someone coming or going. I jolted out of my sniff trance, and remembered when it was me, and how I had been so scared. If it was a newcomer, I would make this dog feel welcome. Was that why the man had brought me out here? To welcome a new dog?

A girl’s head appeared at the door and she looked kind. Her hair was the color of my ears, so I liked her. She came in and crouched down to me so I didn’t have to jump up to smell her breath. I appreciated her consideration, even if I really do like to jump up and stretch out my long body on people. Her face twisted a little bit, just for a second – I surmised it was the face she made when there were marvelous smells.

She and the man talked and I wiggled back and forth between them. This situation was so strange and exciting that I peed! Suddenly there was a strange band around my neck and a long string attached to it that she held the other end of. It was weird to feel attached to her, and I didn’t like it when we got too far apart because it pulled tightly around my neck and I felt like I was choking. I tried to stay close enough so that this didn’t happen, but I didn’t always know where she was going and sometimes she didn’t go where I needed her to go, which was always wherever the next new smell was.

The man crouched down and whispered kind things into my big, long ear and then quietly dropped his head to get back to work, to go give Joe, Marty, Mel, and the others their evening meal. I tried to follow him, because I knew him and I knew he would feed me. But I was attached to the girl now, and she was taking me out front where there was a car! So I followed happily.

She opened a door and it smelled interesting in there so I jumped inside. That must have been the right thing to do, because she shut the door behind me and got in through another door. Soon we were moving down a bumpy road and it felt wild and strange to be in motion but not moving my legs. It had also become comfortable and breezy, even though before I got into the car the day was hot and still. I loved having a wide vista of all we passed, farms and mountains and animals and new buildings and even a sleek man on a bicycle.

After the initial thrill of the ride wore off, I started to feel a little nervous again. Where were we going? What would happen when she let me out of the car? Would it be like the place I was before, where there were so many trapped dogs like me? Or worse, would it be like the place before that, where the two bad people locked me outside without food and didn’t care if I died? We passed another farm, and I fantasized she was taking me to a huge field to run through and chase rabbits and squirrels. My heart leapt even though I was only using my imagination.

The girl talked friendly to me while she steered, and that was nice, but I still didn’t know her. Finally we slowed down in a place where there were more houses than grass. She opened the car door and I bounced out hesitantly. Asphalt. My field dream vanished and I was just scared: this place reminded me of the first bad place and I looked for the chain I would be tied to.

But then something weird happened: she went up to one of the doors, opened it, and let me inside! Tentatively, I followed her into her den. It smelled wonderful – animals lived in here! A surge of joy flooded me, from the tip of my velvet ear to the length of my tail, because maybe I would be able to stay here, too. What must have been a cat (I’d never seen a real one before) sauntered past, and I tried to get to know her but she hated me right away.

As I explored this strange new interior, the girl set out a bowl of food and water for me. I couldn’t believe it. The man must have told her what to do, because she knew exactly what I like. Kibble and fresh, cool water! After dinner she led me outside again and we tried not to choke me. When I peed and pooped on the grass she danced so extra friendly and even gave me a treat. I liked that.

Back inside, we played catch with a tennis ball and I even found a bone in a corner. It smelled like another dog, but I didn’t see anyone else there to claim it so it was mine. I loved to carry it around and chew on it, it tasted so good.

That first night, the girl took me outside another six times, which was really nice because there were a LOT of interesting smells to pursue. I sensed there were more dogs behind the other doors.

Later, when the girl was putting dishes away, I had to pee again and tried to get her attention so she could throw me another party and treat me. She didn’t notice, which was unfortunate, but I went anyway and felt better. When she finished in the kitchen, I was excited because maybe when she saw the proud puddle I had left in the hallway she would give me another treat? I watched her expectantly, keeping my long body still except for my thumping tail.

But when she saw my work, she didn’t react the way she had before. Her face turned to stone and she just cleaned it up with paper and spray and ignored me. I didn’t understand why she did that, and I didn’t like it as much as the party.

It got dark outside, I could see through the window. The girl started to act sleepy, and I waited for her to take me outside or back past the farms to the cell with the man.

She had something else in mind. With banana treats and a toy, she lured me into an impossibly small cage. I went nose first like a dummy, looking for the treat, and she tucked my long butt in behind me and shut the door! I whimpered with incredulity and turned around to get out of the cramped quarters, but couldn’t because there was no exit. This was way smaller than my other cell, nowhere to poop even, if I needed to.

As I made my case more insistently to be released, she stoically put a blanket over my cage and turned off the light. What had I done wrong? Why had she stuck me in here?

Before she went upstairs and turned out the light, she stuck her hand in and stroked my head softly. It felt really nice, and friendly. Maybe she wasn’t mad at me after all.

I still wanted out, but when I saw her climb the stairs I felt those chances receding along with her. I cried half-heartedly for another 15 minutes, hoping she’d respond, but she didn’t.

Once I stopped feeling upset about being in there, I discovered it was actually rather comfortable. Just the right size for me to curl up and sleep, like I used to do in the corner of my cell. It was dark out and I liked to sleep around this time anyway, plus it had been a big day. I curled up and rested my heavy head on my paws. I was not sure when I would have to leave again, but I felt happy to be in this nice house with a girl who fed me and stroked my head and said friendly things. Even though it was very quiet without the other dogs, I drifted off to sleep easily feeling safe, full, and comfortable.

Opie the foster basset

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Nature vs. nothing

Energetic storms rolled through with what epic gloriosity the likes of which such stale, desert concretescape had never seen. Hail smashed onto the pavement and fat raindrops gathered into puddles, moving with the purpose of a river and pooling around sleepy gutters suddenly called to function.

The cars carrying the patrons of Big Box Retail sloshed and skidded through stop signs, still trying to get to Target, Wal-Mart and Kroger before turning back – no inclement weather could interrupt a consumer Sunday already underway. The lesson of the ensuing rash of traffic accidents was lost on them; the habit to spend money earned (or not) during the week and to accumulate more was deep and essential in their small, narrow worlds

The poor, pinched trees, planted by some inept developer hastening to manufacture landscape and ambience, buckled and smarted from the unfamiliar pelts of water. Attention from Mother Nature was as foreign to them as the watering vast plains of concrete was fruitless to her. The trees were strangled in ruffs of bark chips and had never known a breath of fresh air. It occurred to me that might be why I always feel short of breath here. There are too many of us, we inhabitors of suburban sprawl, for the oxygen available. A parking lot here feels more natural than a park. As the cars dimpled from hailstones and buckled under a suicidal tree, I felt keenly the incongruity of this use of the world.

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You do the best you can

“Ultimately, I believe, whether you choose one way or the other doesn’t matter. If you’re present when you make your decision, then you’ll be present in the next situation—and be ready to make choices as the need comes up. Of course, you always could have done things differently. But the ultimate importance is not what you do, it’s how you do it—the state of consciousness brought to the process, which hopefully will let you feel the aliveness of all your experiences.” -Eckhart Tolle (who looks like Yoda…appropriate resemblance?)

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I’m afraid of squandering the tools I have been given and earned by chasing “happiness” and still ending up unhappy.

Maybe the secret is that you are most likely to find happiness (however you define it) by putting those very tools to use. The tools and the happiness are both means to their own ends.

This idea could be thickheadedly obvious but, like a memorable nightmare, it felt powerful and sharp like a new blade when it bumbled into my thoughts and then sliced right through them.

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Today’s match-up in the internal ring:

The relief of leaving something behind dukes it out with the struggle of starting over.

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Creative Problem Solving: Figure out how to eat the cake

Here is a familiar exchange:

Me: Blah blah, here is my dilemma, what do you think?

Conversant: “Sounds like you want to have your cake and eat it, too.”

If I give the impression that I am anything but human, who wants anything less than the most of the best I can possibly have, please allow me to hereby set the record straight: I want to have my cake. And eat it too.

Speaking of food, I love going out to eat. I admit I can be a bit scientific when it comes to ordering – I assay my own appetite and degustatory desires, considering the menu’s specialties, season, price-to-value ratio, and the rest of my party’s choices. All that, before landing on the correct beverage pairing. It’s not always easy, but it’s lovely when it works. It’s just that I don’t love when the person sitting next to me orders the exact same thing, I don’t love when the table orders 5 glasses of wine instead of a bottle, I don’t love finding out that the halibut was $2 more than advertised because if I’d wanted to spend $14 I would’ve had the tuna.

The way I engineer these things can be pretty obnoxious, and overthinking this kind of thing can ruin an otherwise simple pleasure. This rarely happens, but I feel a childlike glee when I simply want a slice of pizza. When at least one constant can be cemented down among a cloud of variables, it feels a lot better. Of the zillion restaurants we could go to tonight, we can narrow it down to five because I definitely want pizza.

I struggle with black and white – the world is most alive in gray. When I have a dilemma, I know that the best solution is not this OR that; it is one that incorporates the best part of this with the best part of that. When I find the solution, it’s always compromise among options. This is why even after I have the menu of choices before me, I spend some time considering and marinating and imagining. I may appear idle, but there are actually combinations and permutations firing off in my head, hunting for the right answer.

In my experience, the right answer reveals itself slowly, and then all of the sudden. It begins by nudging and shouldering the other options until EUREKA! I finally pay attention to it and acknowledge its superiority over other options.

Life does not often afford the time required to make decisions this way.  Sometimes, the waitress comes before I’m ready for her, and I just have to pick something on the fly. When this happens, I always feel a little bit anxious after ordering and may even try to change it. Sometimes you just don’t know you want something until its no longer an option. If I change it, sometimes I wish I hadn’t.

But it seems perfectly natural to want time to slow down if you could use more of it, or to want two seemingly mutually exclusive opportunities to be possible simultaneously. Of course I don’t want choosing Door A to mean that I will never, ever be able to open Door B.

So instead of, “Which?” isn’t the question better question, “How?” Instead of “Do I want what’s behind Door A or Door B?” why not, “How can I get what I need from behind Door A and Door B?” An imaginative approach to a dilemma can unglue useless assumptions, clarify wants and needs, and yield an altogether better choice than first imagined.

If I sound like I want it all, it’s because I do. The only way I can be sure not to have it all is to ignore even the possibility. This is why I like the gray area, where asking “How?” turns a clash into a collaboration. Even if the possibilities only start as hypothetical – well, how does anything real begin? That’s how bridges get built, right? From prototypes? Why not embrace solution prototypes? Non-physical solutions can follow the same process.

If you want to have your cake and not eat it, too…well, no problem. I’ll take your slice. And have mine, too.

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Headcheese August 15, 2011

Posted by inspiredbywolfe in Charcutepalooza, Innards, Pork.

Note: the photos below include some somewhat graphic images of preparing headcheese – if you don’t want to look, don’t scroll beyond the orchid!

Photo by Flickr user Galileo55

It may surprise you to learn (given the other things I’ve cooked) that I have never cooked a pig’s head. For some reason, I’ve not felt ‘ready’. I think maybe because the head is such a symbol of nose-to-tail cooking for me. Anyway, with the amount of offal I’ve cooked by now, I was now confident in my ability to cook a head. Well, half a head.

Having seen pig’s heads for sale many times, I was thrilled to finally be buying one. I was concerned that I didn’t have a large enough saucepan for a whole head, so I settled on half a head. As it turned out, my concerns about saucepan size were justified…

As you can see, even half a head didn’t fit. While I was super excited that the brain had been included with the head, I wasn’t so excited about the need to start hacking bits off to make the head fit. I started with the ear, which I’d been intending to remove anyway, and cut some pieces off the snout. Somehow, I was able to jam the head far enough in that it could be covered.

I added water, garlic, parsley, carrot, onion, star anise, ginger, salt, and some other spices. I should note I didn’t really follow a recipe, but just made it up after reading a few. After I brought everything to a boil, I realised that I was not using the half head to my advantage, and flipped the head over so that the fleshy side was more in the water. I removed the ear after about 1 hour of cooking, and left the rest of it for about 4 hours to cook – admittedly, I didn’t check it as closely as I could have.

Being so well cooked, I was easily able to pull the flesh off the bones, and shred it to go into the terrine moulds. And here an interesting question was raised for me. I have no specific terrine or pate moulds – I usually just use my small loaf tins. However, Mrs Wheelbarrow had asked us to find some beauty in cooking some typically unattractive items. My mind turned to other things I could use as moulds – and I realised the only mould I had was a jelly mould, shaped like a brain. Was it in bad taste? Probably. Did I find it hilarious? Absolutely. Sorry. After lining the moulds with plastic wrap, I filled them with shredded meat. And obviously the universe was on my side with the use of the brain mould, as I had just enough meat to fill the brain mould, and about half my loaf tin.

A note about the liquid: by the time the head was cooked, the liquid had reduced so much I didn’t bother reducing it any further. This turned out to be fine as the headcheese set with no problems.

After bashing them on the counter to remove air bubbles, I put the terrines in the fridge overnight. When I went to unmould them, I took photos of both (I had not decided at that point if I’d reveal my brain terrine to the world!). Here’s the more traditional, ploughman’s lunch-type shot, with some pickled veggies and octopus, and some olives (all homemade).

And here – is the brain. I was very happy with the way it came out! Such detail and shaping! Such texture and contrast!

The terrine was absolutely fantastic. It was rich, with meat that seemed to just melt away, and flavours such as the star anise came through nicely. It was beautiful to eat on its own.

I decided I wanted to use the essential characteristics of the headcheese to make one of my favourite type of dumplings: xiao long bao. Xiao long bao are dumplings where jellied soup stock is added as well as other filling, so that when the dumpling is cooked, the soup is liquified. They are delicious – although there is a technique to eat them without the soup escaping on the first bite! I used this recipe from Steamy Kitchen to make the dough, and began the process of filling the pieces of dough with the headcheese.

I know mine aren’t very pretty, but at least I got a few pleats into the dumplings! I steamed them for about 5 minutes – as the filling was already cooked, I was only concerned with heating the headcheese enough for the jellied stock to liquify again.

I also took this opportunity to slice up the cooked pig’s ear, and fried them until they were crispy. I made a salad of spinach, rocket, red cabbage, parsley and some celery leaves, added the pig’s ears and served the dumplings on top.

While the headcheese was fabulous on its own, these dumplings were brilliant. The dough was thick enough to contain the soup, and the taste and texture was perfect. The somewhat ‘dour’ salad (to borrow a word from Fergus Henderson) was a great contrast to the rich dumplings, and the ears were crispy and tasty.

I find this kind of cooking very interesting as it essentially consists of ‘put something in water and leave for many hours’ – but the transformation that occurs is incredible. I would suggest that everyone should cook a pig’s head at least once in their life, to see how easy and delicious the results can be!

1. cathy - August 15, 2011

I adore the brain terrine. It’s just ironic enough. And the dumplings are fantastic!

inspiredbywolfe - August 15, 2011

Thankyou! I am also amused by the fact that the brain mould is the only one I own. It does seem appropriate, somehow!

2. Nic - August 15, 2011

Thank you again for a wonderful post. I shied away from this option for two reasons:

1. I can’t stand the word ‘head cheese’, it just sounds wrong and I’d rather call it brawn; except brawn leads me on to reason 2

2. when working on a deli I found a pigs eyelid in the brawn, not much meat in the supermarket version!

Now I have seen real meat come from a pigs head I’d happily give it a go, you make it look very appetising.

inspiredbywolfe - August 15, 2011

Yes “headcheese” is how I know it but I agree not the most appetising! I was actually suprised about how much meat I got off my half head. Every time I thought I’d found it all, there was more!

3. Adelaide - August 15, 2011

I’ve probably got a big enough pot for a whole head – and certainly for a half head. If you promise to wash it REALLY well, you can borrow it next time…

inspiredbywolfe - August 15, 2011

Maybe I got an extra wide head? I don’t know. One day, I’ll own my own giant pot – it’s on my list of ‘things to buy when we move house’ – which is getting to be a rather long list…

But I’ll let you know when the urge to make headcheese suddenly comes upon me!

4. mosaica - August 15, 2011

Needless to say, I’m altogether smitten with your brainy terrine. And the xiao long bao, what a perfect idea! Stellar post, as usual 🙂

inspiredbywolfe - August 15, 2011

Thanks! The only problem with the dumplings is that we ate them all very quickly and soon there were none left. They were a lot of fun to make.

5. eda benjakul - August 16, 2011

my initial thought about the pig head was exactly the same–i didn’t have a pot large enough. what size did you wind up using? i love the post and the pictures. and the dumpling idea–brilliant.

inspiredbywolfe - August 16, 2011

Thankyou! The pot is a 24cm (approx 9.5 inches?) Le Creuset. Although I made the head fit, I really needed a wider – and deeper – pot.

6. Peter - August 16, 2011

Wow… I made head cheese and crispy ear salad too… great minds, right?

inspiredbywolfe - August 16, 2011

Great minds definitely think alike! And, in this case, two (pig) heads are better than one!

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CLion fails to find some of my headers. Where does it search for them?

CLion searches through the same places CMake does. Set the include_directories variable in CMake to provide the headers path to the IDE. More details on CMake configuration can be found in our Quick CMake Tutorial.

Since CLion 1.5 EAP there is also a new feature ‘Mark Directory As’ that allows to mark directories as:

  • Excluded
  • Libraries
  • Project sources and headers

Read more about use cases and details in our blog.

I hope this helps.

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.6)

#Set your directories. The dot representes the root application folder.
#Thus my the path to my domain folder:
set(APP_DOMAIN ./domain)
set(APP_CALC ./calc)

#Include the directories and now your cpp files will recognize your headers

add_executable(untitled ${SOURCE_FILES})

In my CMakeLists.txt I tried

include_directories( ./src )

But still the line

#include <module.h>

is grayed out and GoTo Definition / Declaration doesn't work. When I change that to

#include "module.h"

it does work as the .cpp file is in the same folder as the header. But I'm not allowed to use "". How do I make CLion find my headers included with #include <> ? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have the same issue: my header files are included as #include <xxx.h> and they are not recognised and all my struct definitions are red

I have included

include_directories( ./src/include )
which is where my header files are

We can't reproduce the problem on our side. Could you please file a bug report and attach an isolated sample project?

Thanks in advance.

I have a project which builds inside an "SDK" in chroot environment. Project CMake build system is designed to be used from inside the SDK. I managed to build the project by specifying CMake from inside the SDK in CLion->Settings->Build,->Toolchains.

Problem is that build is working now, but proper indexing is not. CMake cache contains paths to includes relative to the SDK root. It makes make happy, but CLion can't resolve them.

Question is if there is any CLion configuration file where I can specify include paths for indexing?

V Krikun, could you please describe your configuration (and if possible, attach the generated cmake files) in CPP-2519?

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It´s all about relationships continued

Sunday 31th of October
We will continue our “It´s all about relationship”-series talking about how to develop a good and Godly self-image and relationship to ourselves. Our guest speaker will be prison minister Jens Fredrik Brenne.

Sunday 7th of November
This Sunday is All saints day and we will mark it by focusing on our relationship to the people who has gone before us. Lately the media has raised the debate if it is possible to contact and speak to the dead. How should a Christian relate to our dear ones who has passed away, and to our fellow Christians who has gone before us? Pastor Bjørn will talk about the topic in this Sundays communion service.

The board has decided to move the prayer meeting to every first Sunday in the month at 4pm. We encourage all of our members to join us for prayers for OIC, the world and the needs of the individual church members on this Sunday before church.


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San Diego Harbor

San Diego Harbor is undergoing a major revamp these days. As you can see from my pictures below there is construction equipment in the background and old buildings being torn down to make way for the new. It is hoped that the future harbor will rival big city waterfronts like San Francisco or Seattle at some point. The most recent projects to have completed were the cruise ship terminal and the visitor information center and kiosks such as the popular Carnitas Snack Shack.

Phase 2 and 3 remain to move forward on what is known as the Embarcadero re-development project. If you are interested, you can find out more here: and here:

The San Diego harbor is really a gateway to San Diego and downtown though, so it is a great place to either start your visit to San Diego, check out what is happening as a local, get some exercise on the walking paths, take the kids for some low cost fun at the new waterfront park or even head on over to Little Italy for some great dining options.

Waterfront Park

Parking can be a bit tricky in this area, the waterfront park pictured above has some underground parking for a fee, otherwise you may have to lace up those walking shoes and be prepared for hitting the blocks down here or opening up the wallet for some pricey downtown parking fees–whichever eases your mind the most is up to you.

One of the biggest attractions here is the San Diego Harbor tours–Hornblower and Flagship are the two main ones and they are all located just to the left of the above photo. You can do a 1-hour tour or go out further for some whale watching which is a nice, relaxing way to see San Diego from another perspective.

Tour Boats lined up

The Embarcadero walking path also tells a little history of San Diego’s military and its contributions. At the southern end of the walking path, you will see one of San Diego’s more famous landmarks, (which can also be seen in the background of my homepage ;-)) along with other memorials and sights to see.

All in all, there is a little something for everyone at the Embarcadero and is an area with a lot of history for San Diego.

Nice, new dog park in Mission Valley

Living in central San Diego, there are few options for dog parks if you have a small to medium-sized dog that cannot go off-leash without fencing. Until now. The Civita development

as part of the master plan for this 14.3 acre park located off of Friars Road and Russell Parkway has recently unveiled the first phase of a large, open space park with multiple attractions with plans to open the next phases in the coming months. When completed it will include an outdoor, small amphitheater, a museum of Mission Valley history, community garden, recreation center and pools for the homeowners of the Civita community, walking trails, basketball court, ping pong tables and more. You can find out more information here.

Bathroom signOutdoor Amphitheatre

While exploring this new park, I saw an interesting crysal sculpture and learned on the Civitas blog of a pop-up art exhibit coming to town in the next two weeks. It looked intriguing so I purchased tickets. You can find out more on the exhibit’s website–Wonderspaces. It proclaims to be an event with food trucks, beer and interactive art spaces. Lots of exciting stuff!

This article mainly focuses on the dog park, which just opened about two weeks ago. It is located at the top of the park, after climbing several flights of steps or coming from Murray Ridge Road, you can park at the top. The park has two runs, one for small dogs and one for larger breeds. In the dog parks are drinking fountains, trees that provide shade, several structures for agility training or play and plenty of grass.

Large Dog Run

It is nice to have something as equally nice as the dog park up in Encinitas without having to make that long drive.

Bliss Path

Yesterday, I had woken up remembering my dream from the night. In my dream, I had gone into a dark temple which was empty except for the Priest who I could not see. I sat down in this circular space and crossed my legs and the Priest started the chant, “Ommm”. I joined along with the chant “Ommmm”. It sounded empty and dull at first. Soon after there was another voice joining in and gradually the chant multiplied and before I knew it the room was full of people chanting and forming dance circles.

This was the right frame of mind to start off my day and serendipity led me to this trail that I had no idea existed. I found the San Dieguito River Trail by chance, I had planned on going to Del Mar dog beach but the tide was so unusually high that there was not much of a beach for the pooch to run around. So we ventured down the road to look over the marsh that was now a large body of water on the east side of the road. I crossed over the road to that side and saw a walking path and took the road less taken. Apparently, many people are also not aware of this trail because it was virtually empty save for the three to four people I came across in the 3 miles that I walked this trail.

Not long after I started walking you come upon the train tracks for the Coaster and so the trail does not officially start until after the train tracks. I cannot endorse crossing the train tracks, there is little warning of an oncoming train and they are fast so best to start after the train tracks. There is parking, I believe just where the path starts, you can consult the map I linked here or find parking just outside of the Del Mar Public Works building.

Continuing on this path were landscaped trails, benches, tranquility, peace and all kinds of different varieties of birds that crossed my path. There are signs posted allowing fishing in certain areas as well. The fog tempered any glare from the sun and made me feel that I was up in the Pacific Northwest, perhaps walking along the Deschutes or some other river trail in a cooler climate.

There are informative signs posted along the trail and I learned that this is a newer portion of the Coast to Crest trail and work began on this portion in May 2016. There was a walkway that also goes down into the middle of the marsh but it was closed at this time for construction to protect the wetland habitat.

As I crossed Jimmy Durante Blvd. to get to the other side of the trail, I passed what looked to be a new brewery being constructed. That will make for a nice riverside summer stop for a local brew and relaxing views.

Along this stretch of the trail, it looked more landscaped and more signs were posted listing volunteers and the history and biology of the area. One engraved plaque on a stone really caught my eye though..

It is hard to read from the photo, but it says, “This Riverpath made possible in part through the generous donation of land by Mary Lou Jefferson in memory of her husband Philip Jefferson”. I thought what a loving tribute to her husband to share this beautiful space with others in memory of her husband. So fitting for Valentine’s Day coming  around the corner. Evidently, many volunteers and donors put a lot of work into making this path a reality.

At this point, the trail or path seems to end at an overlook, former site of the  ‘Grand Avenue Bridge’. The Del Mar Sandpiper, a local paper, provides some interesting information on the origins of this former bridge, which is now a wetlands overlook deck.

I look forward to the completion of this ambitious Coast to Crest trail project. For more information on that, the San Dieguito River Park website has a plethora of info by clicking on the hyperlink under Coast to Crest trail project.

After my dream, I truly found my bliss on this path and that my friends in these crazy times is much-needed. Namaste.

Hipster Gustatorial Guilt

So, it’s January 2017, been a while since I posted here. Sorry about that. Life. School. Work. Times, they are a-changing. I have some guilt about that…but on that topic of guilt–baked goods. January is supposed to be the time of the year of New year’s resolutions, getting out that gym card membership and putting it to use, buying some new yoga pants with the Christmas or Hanukkah Geld. Not.hitting.up.the.bakery. Oh, but yes, this one, Yes!!!

Blackmarket Bakery, this one, don’t worry about the guilt. We are living in stressful times and sometimes we need a little guilty pleasure, a little indulgence. And if we are going to blow the bank calorie wise, it had better be worth it, right? And this place is. The morning I came here after a rough work shift, I had the homemade biscuits, egg and cheese sandwich with sausage gravy. Mmmm, mmm, mmmh! For my other half, I chose the dark chocolate croissant and the espresso–en pointe, my friends, en pointe!

The space is also a feast for the senses, especially if you are of a hipster nature. We have the fixie bike all decked out with maker gear, the back patio that looks like a theme park playground almost and all kinds of other delicacies and hipster t-shirts and coffee mugs for sale with just the right saucy phrase to sport around North Park.

And as for the cherry on the top, dedicated parking in North Park, just south of the building. It really doesn’t get much better than that. So, for a stealth mission for some contraband this dieting season, it is all laid up for you here.

A Fiesta of Flavors in San Marcos

I was looking up an after summer camp ice cream spot for my daughter and admittedly pulled up Yelp. Being that we were in San Marcos, many of our options were Mexican frutas or tostilocos. Immediately, I was transported to a month I spent in San Felipe as a child and the paleteria (popsicle shop) that I would get taken to on a weekly basis. It was rows upon rows of a myriad of flavors of paletas and it was a sweet memory of that time–limon, coco, pina, leche–the possibilities were endless…

I decided to take my daughter to try this paleteria called La Michoacana in San Marcos and a new generation fell in love. I had a chamoya, which was mango and pineapple ice cream with lime and chile powder for some heat to balance out the sweet and my little one was pretty adventurous with some ice cream fruit flavor called “Soursop” which is supposed to have a strawberry with coconut type flavor. The next day she was clamoring for more and altogether we visited the shop three times that week.

In addition to the ice cream and popsicle flavors they also serve up “tostilocos”, which is a Mexican snack of corn chips topped with different toppings like lime juice, chile, avocado and hot sauce.

It looks like La Michoacana is a well-oiled chain of ice cream shops throughout Mexico and the southwest. The shop was very clean, the workers were very friendly, local teenage girls and don’t let language be a barrier to opening up a whole new world of new flavors. I got to practice some of my Spanglish and one of the girls spoke fluent English if that was not possible.

Korean Kool in Hillcrest

Hillcrest has a new Korean quick service restaurant, HoM KOREAN KITCHEN | HōM Made From Scratch. They took over the former ‘Which Wich’ space and it is a welcome addition to keep Hillcrest up there as a food destination. We had some tough contenders on this block, but Hom offers fresh, quick and unique offerings that ultimately drew us in.

The vibe there is light and airy and young. It makes one feel like you are in some trendy district of Seoul where the young people go with the modern interior, modern pop music and the unique, yet traditional toppings or ‘banchan’, as they call it.

Portions were very large, enough for an extra meal and they also have homemade ginger soda, which is really, really good. Definitely recommend.

With the menu offerings, you can get as intricate or as simple as you’d like, from Nori chip tacos to beef bone soup.

I am already hankering to go back soon to get my Korean Bibimbap fix.

*New Trail Alert*, Annie’s Canyon Trail-San Elijo Lagoon

A friend on Facebook recently posted about this new trail and that is how it got on my radar. I watched the virtual trail video and it brought back memories of Ho Chi Minh trail near Black’s Beach, although this is like a controlled Ho Chi Minh trail, because it has just enough excitement for my more out-of-shape physique without sending me potentially to the Emergency Department, which good luck, getting seen, by the way. So, this looked doable and interesting.

This is a good hike to do in the summer-time as it is along the coast or rather near the coast, so there is an intermittent ocean breeze that brings relief. There is a bit of shade and there are a few different points of entry depending on how long of a hike you want. You can get more info on that here.

Once you get to the sign that says, “Annie’s Trail”, you can take either the one way loop or the viewpoint trail.

I made the mistake of choosing the viewpoint trail and so when we realized at the top that we had bypassed the cool cave trail and sandstone climb, well, we just had to descend and do it again! Tip: Use the carved in foot depressions on the side of the trail to ascend in the canyon trail, don’t cross-country ski up the sand on the bottom like I did until I realized the foot depressions were easier.

Bring water, I recommend a Camel Bak or light backpack to hold your water so you have your hands free for the strenuous climb part. You will need both hands to leverage up the cliff. It really isn’t that bad though. And it is a short ascent. You will feel like Sir Edmund Hillary when you’re done though. Small risk, great reward.

Levering up

There were a lot of people out hiking the trail. With 660,000+ views on the County of San Diego website after only a couple of weeks being open, it is not a surprise. Please be courteous with extra people, especially older and younger and yield to those going downhill. Dogs must also be leashed, there are rattlesnakes out there. I know because I have seen several rattlesnakes in the San Elijo Lagoon Preserve before and you wouldn’t want your dog to get bitten by a rattlesnake because it is not a quick hike back to the road. It is, at best about 1.5 miles.

I hope this trail is around for awhile, it is pretty fun, great 360 degree views of coast, lagoon and to the east. Here are more photos below, just click on them to enlarge them.

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After a long weekend we took a look back over the events of the successful Hereford Youth Workshop which took place on the farm of Timmie & Sheila O’Sullivan, on Saturday May 3rd. The youth programme which is specifically designed to raise the skill level and confidence of youngsters took place in Ahane, Brosna, Co. Kerry with a fantastic turnout showing that the younger generations of today have great interest in the Hereford Breed.
The day started off with the stock judging competition, each participant was given their judging cards and asked to carefully judge a selection of animals that consisted of Hereford cows, calves and heifers. There were four separate tasks on the sheet that all the young handlers were required to fill out carefully with the aim being to match their answers as best they could to the Master Judge’s sheet, Matt Goulding. They would then tick off their age group underneath their answers placing them into their designated categories of Under 12, 12 – 18 and 18 – 26 making it easier to decipher the winners at the end of the day.
It was time for ‘Guess the weight of the Bull’, with everybody crowding around trying to estimate what they believed to be his weight, mumbling to friends and discussing it with others trying to suss it out in order to guess the closest answer and be declared the winner. The bull was later put on the scales and weighed in at 708 KG with the closest guess by Mr. Eamon O’Donovan guessing his weight to be 712 KG, Eamon had his skills on display throughout the day as he also placed first in the 12 – 18 Stock Judging competition.
The break followed the competitions and due to the hard work of the fantastic chef’s on the day there were chips and burgers ready for everybody when the time came. A huge thanks to Irish Hereford Prime who kindly sponsored the delicious burgers and for those very hard working chef’s who made sure everyone was fed and well looked after before taking a break themselves. Everyone sat down to enjoy their food while some of the adults just went for tea or coffee, but with the sun shining and everybody happy it was a thoroughly enjoyed rest for everybody attending.
With the crowd well rested it was time for the Guest Speaker and demonstrations to begin, it started with Mr. P.J Hegarty of Southern Milling who addressed the crowd as they listened tentatively as he spoke about Nutrition informing us of what they do, how they do it and how it can benefit your herd. With the talk over and the questions answered it was now time for Mr. Peter O’Connell to start his grooming demonstration as he washed, dried and groomed the bull speaking as he done so informing everyone step by step what he was doing and why. The Demonstration was very interesting as he talked the crowd through what equipment he was using and where you could get it. The end result was fantastic and the Bull was lookingsharp as he handed him over to Matt Goulding to continue the demonstration with showing and leading the Bull as he gave tips and tricks to how to best lead a Bull especially for shows. The young handlers paid careful attention to both demonstrators as they informed them of new skills and tips that could come in very useful in the future. He also spoke about the Stock Judging and what he wanted them to look out for when they were judging earlier that day.
With the competitions, demonstrations and talks over it was time to announce the winners of the Stock Judging competition earlier that day. Winners in the Under 12 category were: Sean O’Sullivan, Aidan O’Brien, Evan Lane, and P.J Moloney. Winners from the 12 – 18 category were as follows: Eamon O’Donovan, Clodagh Lynch, Jamie Diggins categor, and Aine Breen. Lastly the winners from the 18 – 26 category were: Eileen O’Keefe, Michelle Harnett and Gerard McGloughlin.
There was an array of prizes giving out to each of the winners on the day including trophies, t-shirts, jumpers, halters, show sticks and show coats with the intention of keeping the youth who attended on the day interested and up to date with the new equipment used. Congratulations to whose winners and to everyone who participated, there was a great effort made by all resulting in a great day.
The photography competition from the Hereford Youth Workshop is still going on, if you were there on the day and took any photos, send them to or post them to our Facebook wall, where the winner will receive our ‘Mystery Prize’. If you would like to give us feedback on how you found our Workshop and what you would like to learn in the next one please do not hesitate to contact us, we are happy to hear from everybody.

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Dr. Schenkman’s First Spartan Race

IMG_1285Lately everywhere I turn, I hear of people doing obstacle course races. It seems to have been the fad for this decade. So, I finally jumped on the bandwagon and signed up for my first race – the “Spartan Sprint” – which is between 3-5 miles containing 20-23 obstacles. The obstacles include rope climbs, spear throws, wall climbs, heavy bucket carries, monkey bars and more!  Even though the sprint is the shortest of the Spartan races, there is still a lot of endurance and strength required to finish.

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