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Smart Materials and Surfaces (SMS), Bangkok 2014 is a three-day event targeting researchers interested in the design, modification, characterisation and applications of Novel Smart & Active Surfaces and Materials. The goal of conference is to provide a global platform for researchers and engineers coming from academia and industry to present their research results and activities in the field of Intelligent Materials science and engineering. The conference will provide opportunities for the delegates to exchange face-to-face their novel ideas and experiences with the international experts during plenary & invited talks, oral presentations and poster sessions.
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General Chairs
Prof. Ashutosh Tiwari
Dr. Naveed Anwar (Conference co-chair)
Prof. Joydeep Dutta
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Takuzo Aida
Prof. Elias Siores
Dr. Paritud Bhandhubanyong
Prof. Young Hee Lee
Prof. Mikael Syväjärv
Prof. Hendrik C Swart
Prof. Suresh Valiyaveettil
Prof. Enrico Traversa
Invited Speakers
Prof. Ajay Kumar Mishra
Prof. Husam N. Alshareef
Prof. Jose Rajan
Dr. Somenath Roy
Dr. Mohit Sharma
Dr. Pussana Hirunsit
Prof. Ahmed Shuja Syed
Dr. Raju Kumar Gupta
The Smart Materials & Surfaces conference represents a powerful and unique opportunity to interact with a range of researchers all interested in creating and applying modified surfaces and materials. Sessions will include (but not restricted to) :
Development and Characterization of Multifunctional and Smart Materials/ Surfaces/ Coatings
Characterisation/ Properties of Active Materials/ Surfaces/ Coatings
Smart Materials/ Coatings Applications
The International Advisory Board of the conference is composed of the following doctors and researchers:
Dr. Takuzo Aida was born in 1956. He received his B.S. degree in Physical Chemistry from Yokohama National University in 1979 and Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry from the University of Tokyo in 1984. He then began his academic career at the University of Tokyo and developed precision polymer synthesis with metalloporphyrin complexes. In 1996, he was promoted to Full Professor of the Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. His research interests include (1) electronic and optoelectronic soft materials, (2) bioinspired dendritic macromolecules, (3) molecular and biomolecular machines, and (4) biorelated molecular recognition and catalysis. He is now the project director for the ERATO-SORST program, and also serving as the director for Riken Advanced Science Institute. He has received many awards including, as recent examples, American Chemical Society Award in Polymer Chemistry and Chemical Society of Japan Award in 2009.
Prof. Husam Alshareef obtained his PhD at North Carolina State University, USA, in 1996. Following a post-doctoral appointment at Sandia National Laboratory, he embarked on a career in the semiconductor industry, holding positions at Micron Technology and Texas Instruments, Inc. There he worked on developing new materials and fabrication processes for integrated circuit applications. In 2009 he joined KAUST, where he initiated an active research group focusing on emerging electronics and on energy harvesting and storage. The author of more than 250 articles, he has 60 issued patents. He has won the UNDP Undergraduate Fellowship, Seth Sprague Physics Award, NC State Dean's Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education Electronic Materials Fellowship, and the SEMATECH Corporate Excellence Award. He served as Associate Editor for the J. of Electronic Materials, and is currently Editor-in-Chief for the Springer's new journal Materials for Renewable & Sustainable Energy, and a senior member of IEEE. He is co-Chair of the Fall 2014 Materials Research Society (MRS) Meeting, and is a member of MRS New Meeting Subcommittee. His students at KAUST won the Dow Sustainability Award, three Academic Excellence Awards, Intel ISEF Award, and SABIC's Plastic Electronics Innovation Award, and multiple Best Poster awards. His research has been featured in several media outlets.
Dr. Naveed Anwar is the Executive Director of AIT Consulting and serves on its Advisory and Technical Board of Directors. Dr. Naveed also oversees the Asian Center for Engineering Computations and Software (ACECOMS) as Director and continues to teach structural engineering at the School of Engineering and Technology, both situated at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT).
Since 2010, Dr. Naveed has been responsible for the establishment and consistent growth of AIT Consulting marked by providing specialized services in technology, engineering, environment, development and management across a spectrum of private, public, and not-for-profit sectors in all regions. While steering AIT Consulting's commitment to nimble, high-quality solutions, Dr. Naveed is recognized for numerous honors and awards for his 30-year contribution to the field of structural engineering specifically in areas spanning the design and analysis of tall buildings, bridges and special structures, computational mechanics and the development of software for engineering applications.
As Director of ACECOMS, Dr. Naveed has thirty years of extensive experience in development of software, use of computers in engineering application, and computer programming. He is author of several programs which include ACECOMS GEAR, The SDL-1 Series, SYS DESIGNER, Frame2DX, BUILDCOST, BridgePad and main author of several user manuals and technical documentation for engineering software such as BATS 99 and BATS 2000, NichadaCAD, MonierCAD, CSIDetailer, CSISection Builder, RISA Section, CSICOL.
Dr. Naveed has been invited to participate as keynote speaker in 120 seminars and workshops, conducted in 15 countries, and attended by a combined total of 4,000 engineers from 25 countries.
He has numerous research publications in the fields of Structural Engineering, Computational Mechanics, Earthquake Engineering, Performance Based Design, Modeling and Analysis of Bridges, Tall Buildings and special structures such as Tall Stack and Masonry Structures. Dr. Naveed has also co-authored over 50 workshops presentations, covering a wide range of topics such as structural modeling and analysis, concrete design, steel design, and software development research methodology.
Dr. Naveed Anwar has extensive experience in the conception, planning, analysis, design and detailing of multi-story buildings, bridges, water retaining structures, industrial buildings and special structures. He has worked on the structural design of over 800 different projects;
Dr. Naveed earned Doctoral and Master of Engineering in Structural Engineering at AIT and holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.
Dr. Paritud Bhandhubanyong spent a long period of his career as a researcher, instructor, and consultant before taking up responsibility as a middle and top management of an R&D organization. He received D.Eng. in Metallurgy from the University of Tokyo in 1983 after obtaining B.Eng. (1975) M.Eng. (1979) in Industrial from Chulalongkorn University and MBA.(1979) from Thammasart University. He was an instructor in the Department of Industrial Engineering, Head of Department of Metallurgical Engineering, and Associate Dean for Planning at Chulalongkorn University. Then he was selected to Director post at the National Metal and Materials Technology Center since 1999.
Prof. Joydeep Dutta is currently Vice President (Academic Affairs), Director of the Center of Excellence in Nanotechnology and a professor in Nanotechnology at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand, whose faculty he joined in April 2003. He completed his Ph.D in 1990 from the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India (Calcutta University) followed by a post doctoral position at the Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL, Japan) and at Ecole Polytechnique (France) before moving to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland until 2003. His broad research interests include nanomaterials in nanotechnology, self-organization, Microelectronic devices, nanoparticles and its applications in electronics and biology. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology (IoN) and the Society of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (SNN), Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA, founding member of the Thailand Nanotechnology Society, and member of several professional bodies including Materials Research Society (MRS), USA, American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), USA, Society of Industry Leaders, USA, Gerson Lehrman Group Council, USA, Asia-Pacific Nanotechnology Forum (APNF), Australia, The NanoTechnology Group Inc., USA, UK Futurists Network, United Kingdom, The Science Advisory Board, US amongst others. He has served to review projects of various scientific organizations of different countries and has organized a few international conferences and served as a member in several others.
Prof.Dutta is an award winning author (Choice award for Outstanding Academic title of 2010 from American Library Association) of the book "Fundamentals of Nanotechnology". He has also written two other text books entitled "Introduction to Nanoscience" and "Introduction to Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" (CRC Press of Taylor and Francis Group LLC). Prof. Dutta has over 200 research publications, with more than 950 citations(h-index 19), 9 chapters in Science & Technology reference books, 5 patents (9 ongoing applications) and has delivered over 60 invited and keynote lectures.
He is in the editorial board of the Journal of Bionanoscience (American Scientific Publishers), Nanoscience & Nanotechnology-ASIA (Bentham) and regularly referees articles in international journals.
Department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India
Dr. Raju Kumar Gupta is currently Assistant Professor in Department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur. He earned his doctorate at Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore in 2010. Later, he joined as research fellow at School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dr. Gupta's research interests focus on the covalent assembly, surface modification, synthesis and characterization of multifunctional nanoparticles/nanofibers and their hybrid polymeric nanostructures for energy and environmental applications. Recently, he has developed graft copolymerization based technique in order to obtain functional cellulosic polymers from waste biomaterials such as natural cellulosic polymers which can find potential applications in packaging and bioplastics industries. Currently, his research focuses on synthesis of quantum dots utilizing greener route for photocatalysis and solar energy applications; synthesis of water soluble photoluminescent carbon nanodots from "bio-waste" and developing their metal oxide hybrid nanostructures for supercapacitor applications. He is also looking into synthesis of metal oxides nanofibers using electrospinning technique and their utilization as electrode materials for high energy/power density supercapacitor applications. He is recipient of several fellowships and awards such as IEI Young Engineer Award (2014-15) and DST Inspire Faculty Award 2013.
Dr. Pussana Hirunsit is a researcher at National Nanotechnology Center (NANOTEC) in Thailand, where she has been since 2012. She received a B.E. of chemical engineering from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand in 2001. She received a M.S and her Ph.D of Chemical engineering from Texas A&M University, US in 2010. After that, she was a postdoctoral appointee at Center of nanoscale materials at Argonne National Laboratory, US. Then, she joined NANOTEC as a researcher in nanoscale simulation group. In 2013, she was a research fellow at Research Center for Computational Science, Institute for Molecular Science in Japan, and received Thailand research funding for young researcher.
Dr. Pussana research interest focuses on applying the first principle calculation to determine structural, kinetics, thermodynamics and electronic properties of nanostructured materials and heterogeneous catalysis at atomic scale leading to the development of novel catalytic and energy-related nanostructured materials particularly metal, metal oxides and carbon based materials that are designed to tailor properties.
Prof. Young Hee Lee received his PhD in Physics from Kent State University in 1986. He was faculty of Physics at Chonbuk National University from 1986 to 2001. He joined Sungkyunkwan University in 2001, and is currently Director of Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics, and Professor of Energy Science and of Physics.
Prof Lee's researches focus on understanding the fundamental properties of nanostructures in 0D, 1D and 2D and their hybrid heterostructures, design and synthesis of various heterostructures to implement unique physical and chemical properties. His research covers carrier dynamics, carrier multiplication phenomena, hot carrier solar cell, thermoelectrics, quantum mechanical tunneling phenomena, and nanocarbon-based soft electronics. His pioneering works on synthesis and engineering of electronic and atomic structures of carbon nanotubes and grapheme, other 2D materials and their applications to field emission displays, electronic devices, and energy harvesting have led not only nanoscience but also nanotechnology industry in Korea. He has published more than 380 scientific papers in international journals and his total citation number exceeds over 17,000 times with h-index of 59.
Prof Lee received numerous awards including the Science Award from the Korean Physical Society, Lee Hsun Research Award from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Presidential Award in Science and Education, etc. He was also nominated as a National Scholar by the Ministry of Education in Korea. He is a Fellow of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology.
Prof. Ajay Kumar Mishra is the associate professor of the department of Applied Chemistry, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Jiangsu University, China.
Prof. Mishra is Associate Professor of Nanotechnology and also a winner of awards such as AVI award 2009, IAAM Scientist award 2011 and also AML Medal winner for the year 2011. He is Adjunct Professor at Jiangsu University China and also a former Director of the Centre for Nanomaterials Science at University of Johannesburg. Prof. Mishra is Head of the Nanomaterials and Nanocomposite Group at the University of Johannesburg at Department of Applied Chemistry.
Dr. Somenath Roy is a Senior Scientist in the Sensor & Actuator Division of CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata, India. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India in 2004. Subsequently, he joined Swedish Sensor Center (S-SENCE), Linköping, Sweden as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. During 2005-2007, he worked as a Coordinator, Research Programs at Florida International University, Miami, USA. In January 2008, Dr. Roy joined Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), Singapore and worked there until May 2012 as a Research Scientist in the Biosensors & Biodevices group. He has authored/co-authored 2 book chapters and about 50 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. In addition, he has been granted 1 US patent and 2 Indian patents and has filed 2 PCT and 1 Singapore patent.
Dr. Roy's present research interest is focused on synthesis of nanostructured materials, surface functionalization and fabrication of micro-/nano-scale sensor platforms for ultrasensitive detection of chemical and bio-molecules.
Dr. Mohit Sharma is working as Scientist at (A-Star) Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Singapore. His current interests are on materials innovations technologies for aerospace, marine and offshore applications. He is actively participating in industry liaison programme for new commercialization of technology projects. Dr. Sharma has obtained his PhD in 2011 from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi) in the area of advanced composites materials and tribology. He has worked as postdoctoral researcher at Institute of Lightweight Structures, (ILK) Technical University Dresden and Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research (IPF) Dresden, Germany in the area of hierarchical polymer matrix composite with nano-structured interphases. He has published 20 papers in peer reviewed International journals; contributed in three book chapter related to the area of advanced polymer composites. He has participated in reputed International conferences in United States and Singapore for oral presentations.
Dr. Sharma's present research interest is focused on advanced nano-composites, bio-tribology, surface modifications/coating techniques, nano-structure interfaces, light weight structure, fiber reinforced composites, CNTs/graphene coatings, composites repair and recyclability, polymers, ceramics, bio-materials applications, sustainable green materials, aerospace, marine and offshore application, materials science.
At the Institute for Materials Research and Innovation (IMRI), Prof Elias Siores recent R&D work concentrates on Smart / Functional Materials and Systems development. In this area, he has developed electromagnetic and piezo-elecric smart materials for applications ranging from Micro-power Re-generators and Energy Conversion Systems to Medical and Health Care Devices. His R&D work in the past concentrated on advancing the science and technology in the fields of: Non-Traditional Manufacturing Processes including Microwaves Plasmas, Abrasive Ice Jet and Solar Joining; Intelligent Manufacturing Systems including Real-Time Expert Systems and Artificial Neural Networks; and Automated Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation including Ultrasound, Acoustic Emission, and Microwave Thermography. He has over 300 publications, 15 Keynote Addresses and 8 International Patents. Supervised successfully 32 PhD students. He also served on editorial board of various international journals and active reviewer of grand agencies and funding councils.
Board of Directors: 2013 - To date FibrLec Ltd. 2005 – To date KCMC (UK), 2000 – 2002 Consultant to the Minister for Manufacturing Industry Advisory Board (AUS) , 2001 – 2003 Cooperative Research Centre, Innovative Wood Manufacturing (CRC-IWM), 2000 – 2003 SFI Ltd (HK, China), 1999 – 2001 Cooperative Research Centre, Microtechnology (CRC-Microtechnology), 1999 – 2002 Cooperative Research Centre, Cast Metals Manufacturing (CRC-CMM), 1997 – 1999 Cooperative Research Centre, Intelligent Manufacturing, Systems and Technologies (CRC-IMST), AUS.
Prof. Hendrik C Swart is a B2 NRF rated researcher and currently a senior professor in the Department of Physics at the University of the Free State. Over the past 19 years he has led research in the area of the degradation of phosphors for field emission displays, as well as developing materials for nano solid state lighting. He has been key in the development of processes to synthesise and deposit thin films of various types of semiconductor nano-particles which will enhance the colour, luminescent intensity and lifetime of such displays. He has more than 270 publications in international peer reviewed journals, 40 peer reviewed conference proceedings and 3 book chapters and books with more than 1450 cited author references and more than 390 national and international conference contributions (authored and co-authored). He has an ISI H-index of 18 (rid=g-2696-2012). He is a reviewer for about 30 international and national professional journals in his field (or in related fields), and a member of the editorial board of the high impact factor journal 'Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences. He has received the South African National Science and Technology Forum (NSTF) award in 2009 for research capacity development of students in the niche area of nanophysics. His commitment to the next generation of scientists is also reflected by the awards he received from the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of the Free State, South Africa for excellence (2012), mentorship (2008) and for academic entrepreneurship (2009).
Prof. Swart received honorary membership of the Golden Key Association (2012). He was chair of national and international conferences. He has supervised 45 PhD and MSc students successfully in the past with another 16 in progress and has established a National Nano Surface Characterization Facility (NNSCF) containing state of the art surface characterization equipment. Interdisciplinary results obtained with these systems were recently selected for the cover of Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS) Yeast research journal for 2013. A research chair in Solid State Luminescent and Advanced Materials was awarded to him from the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) at the end of 2012. The main focus of his research group will be the improvement of luminescent materials for applications in Flat Panel Displays and Solar Cells; the development of Organic light emitting diodes (OLED) materials as well as materials for power saving solid state lighting devices.
Prof. Dr. Ahmed Shuja Syed is currently the Executive Director of Centre for Emerging Sciences, Engineering & Technology (CESET), Islamabad, Pakistan; Advisor on the Engineering Programs to the Higher Management of International Islamic University (IIU), Islamabad, and the Principal Investigator of Islamic Development Bank's Funded Advanced Electronics Laboratories International Project. He is also the former Dean of Faculty of Engineering & Technology at IIU, Islamabad. He is also Member Board of Governors, Indus University Karachi.
As guest scientist and visiting professor, Dr. Shuja maintained very close collaborative linkages with some of the world's most renowned scientific facilities such as Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Department of Energy, USA; Lucent-Bell Labs, USA and Nano-electronic fabrication engineering facilities at MIT, KSU and Michigan, USA. Dr. Shuja also co-founded two companies in 2006 and 2012, which are now having presence in UK, USA and Pakistan. Higher Education Commission of Pakistan has also focused and highlighted Dr. Shuja's contributions as an academic leader of Faculty of Engineering at International Islamic University in its official newsletter in February 2011. Dr. Shuja instituted and chaired three international conferences in Pakistan, one each in Microelectronics and Photonics (2007; Islamabad), Power Generation Systems and Renewable Energy Technologies (2010; Islamabad), and Sensing for Industries, Control, Communication, and Security Technologies (2013; Karachi). He is currently on the Editorial board of Journal of Nanosystems and Technology, Michigan, USA. With a track record of winning competitive projects funded both on national and international level and development of institutional academic infrastructure including the instructional and research laboratory facilities; Dr. Shuja has published numerous international research communications including the book chapters, indexed journal papers as well as peer-reviewed international conference proceedings.
Dr. Shuja is an active member of national S&T strategic committees/think tank and dedicated forums. He works in the broader area of Micro and Nanoelectronics/Nano-scale Semiconductor Process Engineering with a special focus on designing and fabrication of next generation electronic and photonic devices, sensors and micro-systems. Most of the work in public domain deals with the real-time applications of ion beam induced damages for applications in future electronic and photonic industry.
Professor Jose Rajan is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Faculty of Industrial Sciences and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP). He supervises the Nanostructured Renewable Energy Materials Laboratory in the UMP. He conducted his doctoral research at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Trivandrum, India and received PhD degree in the year 2002 for his work on nanostructured perovskite ceramics for microwave and superconducting electronics. He has worked at various capacities at the Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (India), AIST (Japan), Toyota Technological Institute (Japan), and the National University of Singapore (Singapore) before joining UMP. He has published over 100 papers in SCI journals which are cited nearly 2700 times. He holds over 20 patents nationally and internationally. His h-index is 29 and g-index is 50 currently. He is an editorial board member of the "Journal of Ceramics" "International Journal of Innovations in Electronic Engineering and System" and "International Journal of Nanoelectronics and Materials". He sits at various policy making committees including Senate of the Universiti Malaysia Pahang and National Professors Council of Malaysia.
His research interests include nanostructured materials and renewable energy devices.
Prof. Mikael Syväjärvi received a PhD degree in materials science from Linköping University, Sweden in 1999. His expertise is in materials growth and technologies of SiC, graphene and related materials. His scientific focus area is material for energy and environment. He initiated a European research collaboration in fluorescent and photovoltaic SiC, and has co-organized several symposiums at E-MRS. He has published more than 200 journal and conference papers. He is a co-inventor of The Cubic Sublimation Method for cubic SiC and the Fast Sublimation Growth Process that is applied for industrial development of fluorescent hexagonal SiC. He is also co-inventor of the High Temperature Graphene Process and a co-founder of Graphensic AB that manufactures and supplies graphene on SiC.
Prof. Ashutosh Tiwari is Associate Professor and Group Leader, Smart Materials and Biodevices at the world premier Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre, Linköping University, Sweden; Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Materials Letters; Secretary General, International Association of Advanced Materials; a materials chemist and docent in the Applied Physics from Linköping University, Sweden. Prof. Tiwari is honoured as visiting professor at National Institute for Materials Science, Japan; guest Professor at University of Jinan, China; Adjunct Professor in the DCR University of Science and Technology, India; and Founder Director, Vinoba Bhave Research Institute, India. Just after completed his doctorate degree, he joined as young scientist at National Physical Laboratory, India and later moved to University of Wisconsin, USA for postdoctoral research. He is actively engaged as reviewer, editor and member of scientific bodies around the world.
Prof. Tiwari obtained various prestigious fellowships including Marie Curie, The European Commission; JSPS (regular and bridge fellow), Japan; and SSF & SI, Sweden. In his academic carrier, he has published over 350 articles, patents and conference proceedings in the field of materials science and technology. He edited/authored more than 25 books on the advanced state-of-the-art of materials science with several publishers. He becamethe book series editor of Advanced Materials Series, working group member of the technology integration of TD1003, European Cooperation in Science and Technology and a founder member of Advanced Materials World Congress, Indian Materials Congress, famous international events of materials science and engineering. Prof. Tiwari is receipt of high-status 'The Nano Award', 'Innovation in Materials Science Award' and 'Advanced Materials Medal'.
Prof. Enrico Traversa in 1986 got his "Laurea" (Italian Doctoral Degree), Summa cum Laude, in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rome La Sapienza. From March 2013 he joined the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) as Professor of Materials Science and Engineering. From April 2012, he is the Director of the Department of Fuel Cell Research at the International Center for Renewable Energy, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. He joined the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 1988, where he is since 2000 a Professor of Materials Science and Technology, now on leave of absence. In the same University, from 2001 to 2008 he was the Director of the PhD Course of Materials for Health, Environment and Energy. From January 2009 to March 2012, he was a Principal Investigator at the International Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan, leading a unit on Sustainability Materials. Since 2005 he is Graduate Faculty at the University of Florida, USA, and in 2010-2012 he was Adjunct Professor at Waseda University and at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
His research interests are in nanostructured materials for environment, energy, and healthcare, with special attention to sustainable development. He is an author of more than 500 scientific papers (more than 330 of them published in refereed international journals) and 16 patents, and edited 28 books and special issues on journals. He is listed in the Essential Science Indicators/Web of Science as a highly cited researcher, both in the Materials Science and Engineering categories, and his h-index is 46.
Elected in 2007 in the World Academy of Ceramics, he was also elected in the Advisory Board (2010-2014). In 2011 he was recipient of the Ross Coffin Purdy Award of the American Ceramic Society for the best paper on ceramics published in 2010. Recipient in 2011 of a "1000 Talent" Scholarship from the Government of China. Elected Fellow of the Electrochemical Society in 2013. He is Past Chair of the High Temperature Materials Division of the Electrochemical Society. From 2003 to 2009, he was Member of the International Relations Committee of the Materials Research Society. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Materials for Renewable and Sustainable Energy and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Nanoparticle Research. He is one of the Volume Organizers of MRS Bulletin for 2014.
Prof. Suresh.'s group at the National University of Singapore is interested in developing functional materials for various applications. Ongoing projects involve:
i) Synthesis of conjugated oligomers and polymers
ii) Functionalization of natural polymers (e.g. cellulose)
iii) Developing new adsorbent materials (e.g. polymers, nanocarbon, metal oxides, biomembranes) for water purification.
iv) Synthesis and characterization of novel nanomaterials
v) Safety and toxicity of metallic nanoparticles
vi) Investigation of biomimetic synthesis of hard tissues (e.g. eggshells, seashells)
vii) Materials for solar cells
His group has published more than 150 papers in various refereed international journals with a total citation of 3598 (Average citations per paper: 18.08, h-index: 31). In addition, about 24 students completed their PhD, 11 students graduated with MSc degrees and more than 100 students finished their final year projects from his group in NUS. One of his key strength is providing quality research experience and training to young talented students.


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E3, LOS ANGELES - May 17, 2001 - Capcom®, a leading worldwide developer
and publisher of console video games, today announced Maximo: Ghosts
to Glory, an all new 3-D action adventure game for the PlayStation®2
computer entertainment system. In this original creation from Capcom,
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to find his kingdom in shambles. Not only is the countryside filled
with hordes of the roaming undead thanks to his once trusted advisor
Achille, but the scoundrel has imprisoned four beautiful sorceresses
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butt and get back his girl. Maximo: Ghosts to Glory is planned to release
for Christmas. It has not yet been rated by the Entertainment Software
Rating Board.
Players in Maximo: Ghosts to Glory will enjoy:
Maximo: Ghosts to Glory's dynamically changing and beautifully constructed
3D environment all loaded with creativity and interactivity. The hero's
abilities and skills develop as the game advances. Over 40 power ups
andspecial abilities can be found throughout the game. Maximo can use
his shield to defend himself or throw it like a weapon. His shield can
also be powered up in many ways including everything from attracting
lightning to creating tornados. His sword can also be powered up, from
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transforming it into a flaming blade to slice through enemies. A unique
character progression system enables players to customize and upgrade
their character with new skills, abilities, and weapons based on player
preferences. As Maximo ventures out on his quest, his appearance changes
as the game progresses. At different times, Maximo may be outfitted
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The Unmaking of the President 1992
Thompson confidant Craig Vetter reports on Thompson himself from the front lines of the 1992 campaign trail—from the October 1992 issue.
This article was originally published in the October 1992 issue of Playboy magazine.
"Billy Crystal had his say. So did Phil Donahue. Even Regis Philbin found it hard to refrain from commenting when Governor Bill Clinton insisted that he had never inhaled the marijuana that touched his lips 25 years ago.
"So why haven't we heard from the man who carried a black bag filled with drugs on every campaign he ever covered, the man who invented and perfected gonzo journalism, the missing link between politics and the pharmaceutical industry?
"`It's just a disgrace to an entire generation,' said Hunter S. Thompson when asked about Clinton's decision not to inhale. Thompson, reached at home in Woody Creek, Colorado, was clearly astounded by Clinton's reserve. But he had to get off the phone in a hurry, he said, because local police were accusing him of firing a military rocket at a snowmobile."
I got Hunter's answering machine when I called. Hunter rarely answers his constantly ringing phones, though, if it's late enough–if vampire bats and werewolves are in the middle of their workday—he often sits in his kitchen beside the phone, in front of the big TV, over his old IBM electric typewriter, drinking, smoking, monitoring the calls as those on the line are assaulted by a recorded message that he changes often to reflect his mood.
As a dog returns to his vomit,'" said the tape in Thompson's unmistakable cigarette baritone, "so a fool returns to his folly.' That's from Proverbs 26… [then a shout, a signature outburst that blew the phone away from my ear]. Where's that fucking book ?"
"Eleven," answered a female voice somewhere in the background.
"Proverbs 26:11," said Hunter, dropping back into his mock clerical tone. Then a final outburst, "Goddamn it."… Beeeep.
I said my name and he picked up. "Terrible," he told me when I asked how he was. "Cops all over the place. Fucking sheriff won't answer my calls…they're closing in."
Something about a military rocket and a snowmobile? I asked him.
"No, fuck. It wasn't a rocket…these bastards. A meteorite landed in Woody Creek and they're blaming me."
That wasn't exactly true, but if it had been, if a meteorite were to slam into the turbulent valley of Woody Creek, no one would have blamed Hunter's neighbors for thinking of him before they thought of God. They had, after all, suffered many other nights when the sky was lit by flames, when the ground shook, when champagne flutes leapt off their shelves because of Hunter's fascination with pyrotechnics.
But not this time, he said. This was a misunderstanding, a pack of vicious lies, and he'd made the remark about Clinton in the chaos that followed.
"It was Easter Sunday. A friend and I were out driving and she fired a couple of those little screamers you use to scare away birds, and all of a sudden they were threatening to arrest me. I was hiring lawyers and investigators, and right in the middle of the whole goddamn nightmare, Pat Cadell called from New York to ask me about the Clinton thing. I didn't know he was drinking with a bunch of reporters. I had no idea that what I said was going to show up in every edition of The New York Times the next day."
"Well," I told him, "no matter what, it was great to have your commentary, short as it was, on this dismal campaign. A lot of us miss your wise political voice." Then I suggested that the two of us spend a few days together and have a long, rambling conversation about all the players in the presidential burlesque of 1992.
"Why not?" he said. "Sounds like fun, and, as you know, fun is all that matters to me. But I gotta go. I'm going to call the sheriff again, then I'm going to go out and stuff my stomach with crack until I don't know the difference between a snowball and a human head, and then I'm going shooting."
Hunter and I have known each other for 20 years, and we'd done this sort of thing before: me with the tape recorder, him talking, smoking, drinking, sharing his salves and powders, making me laugh, making me angry. In 1974 we spent seven months struggling out a Playboy Interview, on the road mostly, between Cozumel and Aspen, San Clemente and Chicago. We ended the summer in Washington, D.C., for what turned out to be the final siege of Richard Nixon's White House.
I landed in Aspen on the Wednesday after Easter. Bill Clinton and George Bush had won the New York primaries. But neither the Republicans nor the Democrats were celebrating. Voter turnout had been pitiful. Paul Tsongas, who had declared himself out of the race, garnered nearly 29 percent of the Democratic total, which made it look as if the voters were trying to say that the only good candidate was a former candidate. Then there was Ross Perot: the only-if-I'm-gonna-win candidate. The day I arrived in Colorado, the Lone Star gazillionaire—who hadn't even declared himself in or out of the race–finished ahead of both Bush and Clinton in a Texas poll.
Hunter and I and his new editorial assistant, Nicole, had dinner that first night at the Snowmass Lodge. The subject of politics didn't come up until we made our first trip to the lobby bathroom. We'd finished our business, I was washing my hands, Nicole was laughing and Hunter was in front of the big mirror putting on lipstick. I don't know why he's taken to wearing lipstick these days, and I don't ask such things. He has always accessorized himself—with strange hats, shades, cigarette holders, war clubs, rubber rats—as if he were some sort of clown from hell, and actually, lipstick sort of rounds out the look. I'm never sure how others are going to take it, however. So when Bob Maynard, president of the Aspen Ski Co. and owner of the lodge, walked through the bathroom door looking tan and rich and powerful, I braced myself for something awkward. I needn't have worried.
"Hi, Bob," said Hunter. "What's happening?" He introduced Nicole and me, but Maynard seemed not to notice.
"Hunter," he said, "I'm just back from Georgia. I bring you greetings from Jimmy Carter!"
"Hot damn," said Hunter. "Good old Jimmy—that bastard." He finished with the lipstick, then offered it to Maynard, who instead preferred to talk about the ex-President.
"He's a great guy," said Maynard from the urinal. "He said you were the first one to tell him that he ought to run for President."
"Jimmy's too kind," said Hunter. "He's also dumb. The bastard embarrassed me. He cost us the control that we had bled for in Watergate. The Republicans were doomed before he fucked up. We'd beaten them like dogs. We had been tried in battle and by God it was our time…and Jimmy blew it. The first job of any President is to be reelected. If he'd been reelected, we wouldn't have had twelve years of Reagan and Bush and the triumph of the rich. He made it possible for these right-wing yo-yos and their gangs to come out of nowhere and seize the country. On election day in 1980, that motherfucker conceded one or two hours before the polls closed on the West Coast. So the voters gave up, just didn't go out, which cost all kinds of Congressmen and local officials their jobs. The Democratic Party's been demoralized ever since."
Just before we said good night, Hunter gave me his notes from a phone conversation he'd had the night before with actor John Cusack. The two of them had become friends when 25-year-old Cusack directed a stage version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas at a Chicago theater. It was 3 a.m. when he called, and the young actor wanted to talk about the campaign with the man he thinks of as the ultimate political swami.
"Hunter," he said, "I need to know what's ahead in this campaign, because three months ago you told me that Pat Buchanan was running point for Bush and you were dead on."
"It was very shrewd," said Hunter. "These guys are good. They all have their jobs. Pat Buchanan came in as a stalking horse for Bush. His job was to knock David Duke out of the race, and he did it."
"So you think Bush is going to win?" asked Cusack.
"It looks that way right now," said Hunter. "But I don't know. Clinton may have a chance. He's a tough bugger. He's been severely flogged in public and it may be that he's come through the worst of it. But things are never what they seem in politics. It's a long way from April to November. There's hope."
"I don't know," said Cusack. "I think maybe the difference between my generation and your generation is that Reagan was elected when we were in high school, which means we went from Watergate to the sabotage of Carter to Irancontra, and the whole thing has left us with a deep-seated cynicism. It just seems we're doomed."
"You're always doomed when people don't participate, Johnny," said Hunter. "People have to get pissed off enough to vote. That's what happened at the end of the Fifties. I thought John Kennedy was kind of a wimp when he started running. When it dawned on me that here was a guy who could beat Nixon, it became a holy crusade and I signed on. And we beat the bastard, but only by a hundred thousand votes. Clinton might make it."
"Clinton's smart," said Cusack. "I guess that should give me some hope. He seems to have a plan and he might have a good heart. Trouble is, he's also a slick fucking hustler."
"So was Kennedy," said Hunter.
We met the next morning at Owl Farm. Hunter had stayed up all night and was perched on his fighting chair at the working center of his cabin-style house—the kitchen—a room that hasn't changed much in 20 years and has always felt to me like the bridge of a pirate scow. Telephones, tape decks, satellite TV, fax and video cams are banked around the countertop desk. Curtains and shades are drawn against the light. Cattle prods and Tasers hang near the stove. The refrigerator door is hung with a large black-and-white photo of one of the massive front-yard explosions that have rattled his neighbor's glassware—and their nerves—over the years.
This is legal, of course. Colorado ranchers are allowed to possess and use dynamite, and the rest of Hunter's arsenal—shotguns, rifles, assault rifles, pistols, even a .22 caliber Gatling gun—is protected under his NRA Charter as the Woody Creek Rod and Gun Club, a loose group of friends and visitors who show up for the pure recreational gaiety of putting the local hillsides around here to withering fire.
And lately, Hunter has found a way to turn his passion for things that go boom into something of a cottage industry.
"Have you seen these?" he asked. "My art." He handed me Polaroids of his portfolio, which included poster portraits of Nixon, Reagan, Goldwater, Marx and J. Edgar Hoover, each of which had been glued to a large plywood board, blasted with gunfire and bombs, carefully painted, then signed and sold. "As you know, I've been doing this for twenty years. It's about time I got paid for it. You'll notice…the marksmanship is important," he told me as I flipped through the photos.
"The theme here seems to be the deconstruction of political faces," I said. "Shoot 'em, mutilate 'em and paint 'em. What you do with words, you're also doing with bullets and pigment."
"I've been experimenting with different kinds of paint," he said. "I started with spray paint, which didn't have enough body. But I've sold everything I've ever done. The last one went for twenty-five thousand. I am the most successful beginning artist in the history of man."
"Nothing like notoriety," I said.
"Jesus, man," he said, "it's art. We ought to make some while you're here. Shoot somebody, use it as an illustration for the story. Maybe a picture of Reagan. Yes, marksmanship is the key. All kinds of blasts around him, but no fatal wounds…the ultimate professional."
"That's a little disturbing," I said. "A professional marksman inflicting fatal wounds on the President."
"Nonsense," he said. "He's not the President." Then he laughed and made a screwing motion with his finger, whirling it in circles against his skull.
"You're crazy, Hunter," I said. "Crazy as a loon."
"At least I get paid for it," he said. "You, on the other hand, are a sniveling, half-bright, underpaid rat in the jungle of capitalism. But you're right about one thing. This is the end. This is the final ten years of the century and the end of the world as we know it."
He chuckled again and made the same loopy motion with his finger against his head and pointed across the room at Nicole, who was strapped to a leather couch. Nicole still, somehow, transcribed our conversation on a Hogan 4000 Voicewriter.
"Don't worry about Reagan," said Hunter. "He's utterly bulletproof. They called him the Teflon President, but they didn't know the half of it. He's at least 88 percent bionic. He will live for a thousand years."
That afternoon we took Hunter's car out for a drive. It's a red 1972 Chevrolet Caprice Classic V8 convertible with a rebuilt 454-cubic-inch short-block highperformance engine that will run about 130 mph with no noise at all except for the tinny rumble of honky-tonk music on its original AM radio. There is a lot of machinery on the far-flung grounds of Owl Farm, but the big red car is the centerpiece. It was a gift from his friend Jim Mitchell, who personally tightened the coil springs to almost preterhuman tension so that the car will go from 0 to 80 in 9.2 seconds and from 45 to 90 in four seconds flat.
Hunter got his giant dead wolverine—a truly fierce piece of taxidermy—and stood it on the back seat of the car in a way that would show tooth and claw to those we passed. He then clipped a radar detector to his sun visor and we fishtailed off toward Aspen.
On the way, we talked about Bill Clinton again. When I asked him about his response to the governor's claim that he hadn't inhaled the marijuana he'd smoked, Hunter went into a long narrative about the night Cadell had ambushed him over the telephone. Something in his explanation sounded as if he regretted the Times quote.
"I'm not sorry for what I said," he told me. "Clinton was dumb. I understand the gantlet he's been running and I think he's done a tremendous job. I wasn't trying to destroy him. When he said he didn't inhale, it was the first verbal mistake I've heard him make. I thought he handled the Vietnam thing very well. He didn't deny his opposition to the war. But on the marijuana thing he left me no choice. He did disgrace a whole generation. And my integrity was on the line. I was on the national board of NORML. We fought to legalize marijuana. We've all smoked it. When they asked him about it, he should have told them to crawl back where they came from…. `What do you mean did I inhale?…I inhale everything…it is my business to inhale…I'd die if I didn't inhale.' Every intelligent person in this country who ever smoked marijuana would have laughed with him—instead of at him.
"Actually, I've been pushing Clinton all along, even though I've denounced him. He's the first candidate I've seen in a while who has a really wicked sense of humor. And he could beat Bush, he might just win, which is the point of politics. I have to admire the way Clinton sort of shot through the slings and arrows. It may be good that he got that stuff out of the way. He's pretty clean now, unlike George Bush. George has not yet answered for his role in Iran-Contra, but Caspar Weinberger will be his John Dean. Lawrence Walsh was right."
Over the days we spent together, Hunter often spoke fondly of Patrick Buchanan. Their friendship goes back more than 20 years and has been for me the most vivid proof of the old saw that politics makes strange bedfellows.
"Patrick's a friend," is the way Hunter explains it. "He invited me on his campaign plane, gave me total access. And I knew what he was doing. He has his agenda and I have mine and sometimes they coincide…like that night he put me in the car with Nixon."
That was 1968, in New Hampshire, on the night before Richard Nixon's pivotal victory in the primary there. Hunter was covering the campaign for Pageant magazine and had spent two weeks trying to get access to the candidate, with no luck. He had, however, used his eccentric charm to begin a friendship with Ray Price and Pat Buchanan, a couple of young Nixon speechwriters. That night, their boss wanted the company of somebody from the press corps who could talk football on the two-hour drive back to Manchester, where a Lear waited for him. But just football, Price and Buchanan warned Hunter. No political talk at all—and especially no liberal bullshit about Vietnam, tear gas and riots, or they would throw him out of the car in the middle of cold, dark, nowhere New Hampshire. Once these ground rules were agreed to, Price and Buchanan climbed into the front seat of the yellow Mercury, and Hunter sat in the back with the clever, seedy little man who was later to assume and disgrace the Presidency.
Hunter has always described that ride as relaxed and friendly, and he was impressed by Nixon's football savvy. And whatever Buchanan overheard from the front seat, it must have convinced him that Hunter was trustworthy and likable, a sparring partner worthy of the ring.
"Patrick is a deranged imperialistic fascist," Hunter told me. "His positions are monstrous. But I have to admire the way he's dealt with me over the years. He could have really hurt me. As it is, the Democrats have done me more harm than he has. But I like Patrick, he's a warrior."
Preparations for making a piece of target art took several days. We began in the garage among the antlers and mounted animal heads by finding two posters that had already been glued to sheets of plywood. The first was a smiling campaign portrait of George McGovern that had been shot, but only once, right between the eyes.
"A quick, clean, merciful shot for George, it looks like," I said.
"Yeah," said Hunter. "He's a good one."
Next to McGovern stood a poster photo of Bobby Kennedy in a leather jacket on a beach somewhere. It always makes me angry and sad and cynical to look at pictures of Bobby and his brother. It reminds me of a time when it seemed that a strong, compassionate Democratic Party was on a roll that was going to last for decades. If not for a few bullets. Hunter and I didn't say anything about it that afternoon in his garage, but we've talked about those heady days many times before. So it didn't surprise me that, although the poster of Bobby had been mounted and was ready for shooting, Hunter hadn't shot it.
On first search, nothing in the Owl Farm poster archives turned up a face that seemed quite right, so I headed into Aspen to see if I could find a Clinton campaign office that might have a likeness of the Arkansas governor that would provide canvas for a 12-gauge brush. But there was no Clinton campaign headquarters in town, and none for Bush, though we had already ruled him and Dan Quayle out of the exercise on the theory that shooting a picture of the sitting President would probably attract art critics who carry Secret Service badges.
Ironically, only noncandidate Ross Perot had a campaign office in Aspen. It was staffed by four smiling people who greeted me warmly and offered me coffee. They told me they were sorry, but there were no Perot posters yet. I didn't sign their petition, but I gave them a buck for a button and wore it back to Woody Creek.
"I don't know," said Hunter when he saw it. "He's the wild card. What do you think of him?"
"He has a certain Harry Truman give'em-hell kind of charm," I told him. "And he's something of an outsider."
"Balls," said Hunter. "He's no outsider. He's one of Reagan's cronies and Nixon's. In fact, it may be that Nixon's behind this whole thing. He can't be President himself, so he sent Perot to haunt us. Any friend of Nixon's is an enemy of mine." He smiled. "No, old Ross is a credentialed insider…part of the corporate branch of the government, the successful free-enterprisers who have been running this country, like Charles Keating and Michael Milken."
"He just beat Bush and Clinton in a Texas poll," I said.
"He's considered an honest man in Texas," said Hunter. "And he's right on some issues. He's pro-choice and he was against the slaughter in Iraq."
"He scares me," I said. "His remark about 'that danged Constitution'—"
"He's probably a Nazi," said Hunter. "If he's elected we could all wake up to find that the front doors have been taken off our houses. He seems to think that the Fourth Amendment is a loophole for dope fiends and sodomites. Then again, you have to ask yourself, How much worse could he be than Ronald Reagan and George Bush? When they got in, it was like: If you thought the Republicanism of Richard Nixon was the dark underbelly of the American dream, wait until you see this. What they've done makes Watergate look like a tap dance. Bush is such a truthless pigfucker, such a guilty bastard. He was guilty in Iran-contra, guilty in the looting of the Treasury. And the price has been high. There are no jobs. No houses. We've become slaves in the world's service market. And the only reason these rotten bastards got away with any of it is that they had no opposition. The Democrats just rolled over while this greedy bunch of lying swine wrecked the country."
Whenever Hunter got going on the Democrats, there was as much vitriol in his voice as when he talked about the Republicans. "There are two things on my agenda in this election," he told me as we gathered the shotguns, pistols, highpowered rifles and ammunition we were going to use to make art. "I want to defeat George Bush and I want to destroy the Democratic Party as we know it. The party pros—the city, state and regional coordinators, the horrible slugs who ran Mondale and Dukakis—have spent the past twelve years trading the White House for the statehouse and Congress. They think that's a fair and equal trade. It's not. They've forgotten about the Supreme Court, for one thing. But they still have their wretched little jobs and that's all they care about. They're powerful people, utterly corrupt, and they don't want to give up their perks, their footholds in the network of power. They know if they had a real candidate, they'd all be out of work. If Gary Hart had been nominated in 1984, there would have been a housecleaning from top to bottom in the party. Instead, what we have is a network of virtually unbearable incumbents who run the Democratic Party as if it were some kind of permanent minority. They've destroyed the party from the inside. They sold it out."
When we talked about the way voters, especially young voters, were staying away from the polls in record numbers: Hunter said it didn't surprise him.
"We've lost a whole generation of activists," he said, "because they've never known the fun of winning. Johnny Cusack's generation, the 20-to-40-year-olds, have never had any sense that they could have an effect the way we did. You have to win sometimes or it begins to seem like somebody else's game. Politics is the art of controlling your environment, which is why I've been involved, why I'm still involved. It's my personal freedom that's on the line. It's too important and it's too much fun. It was fun to run Richard Nixon out of the White House. Do you remember the joy I took standing at the end of that red carpet, being the last person to see that bastard get on the helicopter?"
I do remember, I told him, and it was fun, probably more political fun than we'll ever have again. But things are never what they seem in politics. We thought we were watching the end of the war that Watergate summer. Ronald Reagan, William Casey and Oliver North knew better. And the death of all our fun followed shortly.
But the spirit they killed seemed to be stirring that week after Easter. "Among the Perot forces," I suggested to him. "They're out on the street corners with their petitions. They're renting storefronts all over the country, they're charged up with that fuck-you sort of energy that just might make a successful end run around the party system, the conventions, the media. They're the ones having fun right now."
"You bet," he said. "They're whooping it up. They're party people. Perot headquarters will be a fun place to be on election night. But I wouldn't want to be there on April Fool's Day. He is like a ferret in heat. He is a monster. It's one thing to bypass the two-party system, and another to bypass the Constitution. I don't think he knows the difference."
By the time Deborah, Hunter's longtime secretary, leaned a mounted poster of Ronald Reagan against an aluminum beer keg, late afternoon shadows were creeping over the beautiful greensward that is the front yard and shooting range at Owl Farm. The poster was an enlarged black-and-white photo of the movie star and he was standing tough about 15 yards downrange from the picnic table that was carefully arranged with shotguns, pistols, a .223-caliber assault rifle, a .22 rifle, shells and bullets for all of them, a bottle of Scotch and a single red geranium in a terra-cotta pot.
It had taken all afternoon to prepare the shoot. Two video cameras were set up and music was chosen (the Cowboy Junkies). Hunter parked a Jeep Wagoneer, a John Deere tractor and his big red car on the lawn so that their headlights illuminated the target. Then he disappeared to choose his costume.
"There is no art until it's sold," he said as he made his entrance. Then he blew a duck call that hung around his neck, and the peacocks, huddled in the trees, screeched as if they'd been called into concert by Satan. He was wearing khakis and a plaid shirt, lipstick and eyeliner, a tightly curled blond wig and an earflap hat made of unborn wolf. Darkness had fallen and there was no moon yet. Then again, it always feels as if there's a full moon when you're with Hunter.
"Who you gonna vote for, Doc?" I asked him as he loaded the 12-gauge and sat on the grass a few yards from the smiling cowboy.
"I knew you'd get to that one," he said. "I've wrestled deeply with this thing. There is a lust for revenge on Reagan and Bush that courses through my blood. But I'm not sure just what politicai move will accomplish that right now. The Democrats look strong for 1996 with Quayle the likely Republican candidate by then, and it may be that none of them really wants to be elected this year. Not with the terrible economic shit-rain that's coming. The smart thing might be to just stand back and let the fuckers have it, let the roof collapse on them. Then Clinton or Cuomo or whatever Democrat can go into 1996 without the hideous baggage that's going to attach to whoever is elected this year."
Hunter rolled onto his back, raised his legs like a capsized turtle, then put the gunstock to shoulder and paused a few seconds. The plywood jumped when the shotgun blast hit it. Paint spattered.
A minute later, as we used a big flashlight to examine the holes in the image of the old cowboy, I asked him again.
"Who you gonna vote for, Hunter?"
"I'm going to have to ponder that," he said.
I received his answer two months later, in the middle of June. It came as a fax addressed to me. By the tone of the message, he had not only pondered the question, he had prayed over it, consulted his Bible and then composed his response as a kind of epistle. He headed it with one of his favorite quotes:
"Just how weird can you stand it, brother, before your love will crack?"
This is a hard one to call, Bubba—especially from two thousand miles away and eight thousand feet high and nineteen weeks before the election…. But what the hell, we are, after all, professionals, and we do our finest work, our highest and keenest thinking, under conditions of extreme pressure.
Ho, ho. So try this: Only a fool would vote this year. The smart people will hunker down like dazed rabbits—quivering and staring and shitting on one another while they hop back and forth in their cages. The smart will ignore politics this year. They will pretend to be dumb, like the bunny rabbit, and they will really be acting smart.
There are too many whores in politics these days, but the night of the whorehopper is coming. Many will be called, and nine out of ten will be chosen—to be herded down the long, slippery ramp and into the bottomless sheep-dip, where they will wallow and struggle helplessly, some of them drowning, until their bodies are disinfected by powerful acids, vapors and the fumes of terrible lice medicines that will fry their brains like bacon left too long in the microwave. Ronald Reagan was right, back in 1983, when he told a reporter that this generation may be the one that will have to face the end of the world.
Well, maybe so, Bubba, maybe so. But I'll believe it when I see it. Those bastards have been promising the apocalypse for as far back as I can remember, but they always weasel out of it—and, frankly, I've just about given up hope. Fuck them. They lie. It's worse than a roofing-and-siding racket.
No. We will not be that lucky. The end will not come quickly. First will come the shit-rain, then the sheepdip and after that, the terrible night of the whorehopper, which might last a thousand years.
"And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison."
That's Revelations 20:7, which is only the tip of the iceberg. The bad news comes in the last two verses of Chapter 20—14 and 15—where it says: "And death and hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire."
Yeah. How's that for a sneak preview of yr. golden years, Bubba? Cast into the Lake of Fire, with Satan trying to drag you under….
Horrible. It is a grim prospect for Jesus freaks, because they know the Bible says that Satan is a cross between a crocodile & a huge hyena. He has seven heads, six hundred teeth & he weighs a thousand pounds—a nasty thing to feel getting hold of yr. leg when you're trying to stay afloat in a Lake of Fire.
That is what a vote for Ross Perot will get you. And a vote for George Bush will get you cast into the great winepress of the wrath of God…which is more or less where we are now, if you believe the newspapers.
So that leaves Clinton, I guess. Yeah, good old Bill. At least he has a sense of humor, and he doesn't mind ducking behind a hedge now and then for a bit of suckee-suckee in the course of his afternoon jog.
The Bible says, "The tortoise shall overtake the hare, kill him and eat him."
So who are we to argue, Bubba? This ain't no normal election year. A man would have to be crazy not to hit the streets with his vote in his hand on November 3, if only to cast it where it can do the most damage-preferably to George Bush. Why not? It may be the last fun we'll have for a while. Death to the weird.
A few weeks later, another fax was dropped at my door.
Well, shucks…. What can I say? Perot just quit the goddamn race! That swine! That cheap little treacherous bastard.
Never mind that election-night party we were talking about…no. We will have no fun on election night this year; or at least not the kind we were looking for.
Shit. I was cranking up for some kind of king-hell atavistic endeavor like we knew in the good old days, when we howled and jabbered and bounced around the room all night long like human golf balls every time the numbers came in from weird places like Pensacola and Butte and Sacramento, and the balance would swing back and forth.
That might happen this time—but it won't come near the kind of craziness that was guaranteed to happen with a three-way race.
Forget the House of Representatives. That was pie in the sky. They were only fucking with us, Bubba, and now they are going to fuck with citizen Ross Perot, you bet. Remember Lyndon La Rouche? He took the bastards on and was never seen again. They arrested his followers and put him away for 15 years for fraud, stupidity and hubris.
Sorry. We almost had our hands on it—but they double-crossed us once again. Both Buchanan and Perot were working for George Bush, who will probably win by five or six points and then have us all locked up. Good luck, Bubba. It's every man for himself now. Welcome to the passing lane. Res Ipsa Loquitor.


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windows messenger 'fake' email
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become blue and that will make it free for you. If you dont believe me go on (www.msn.com) and see it yourself. Dont foward this message, copy paste it so people will actually read it.> Hey it is Andy and john the directors of MSN, sorry for the interruption but msn is closing down. this is because too many inconsiderate people are taking up all the name (eg making up lots of different accounts for just one person), we only have 578 names left. If you would like to close your account, DO NOT SEND THIS MESSAGE ON. If you would like to keep your account, then SEND THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST. This is no joke, we will be shutting down the servers. Send it on, thanks. WHO EVER DOES NOT SEND THIS MESSEAGE, YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE
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PASTE THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION Anyways once you've sent this message to at least 18 contacts, your msn dude will become blue. please copy and paste don't forward cos people won't take notice of it
i found it was fake in two ways,
1 ) the www.msn.com link leads you to this address http://www.msn.com:80/ - it looks the same to the unknowing, but the :80 makes it a totally different address
you can see here the domain name details of the real msn and this 'fake' one
2 )
real - http://whois.domaintools.com/msn.com
fake - http://whois.domaintools.com/msn80.com
please do not pass this message around to anyone, if you get it, delete it
- its someones idea of a joke - msn80.com is registered in beijing, a popular source for things like this
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#2 Mon 30 Apr 07 10:47pm
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Re: windows messenger 'fake' email
cheers for letting us know that m8,
thank u xx
#3 Mon 30 Apr 07 10:50pm
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Re: windows messenger 'fake' email
thanks,will pay attention!
#4 Mon 30 Apr 07 10:53pm
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Re: windows messenger 'fake' email
as you all know.. I am such a computer wizz...I might not even notice that I'd been sent such an email.. .. thanks for letting us know I will watch my 'mail box' and deleete it if I spot it.
#5 Mon 30 Apr 07 11:06pm
Re: windows messenger 'fake' email
OMG ive recieved this and sent it to most of you thought it was real
#6 Mon 30 Apr 07 11:13pm
Re: windows messenger 'fake' email
dont worry, its not dangerous, its just a bit of a pain
#7 Mon 30 Apr 07 11:20pm
Re: windows messenger 'fake' email
Thanks sent what you have said to all concerned
#8 Mon 30 Apr 07 11:22pm
Re: windows messenger 'fake' email
BTW, Salty, have a look on this what were doing at the moment : One line story by Mrs G.
#9 Mon 30 Apr 07 11:31pm
Re: windows messenger 'fake' email
looks very entertaining, a great idea, i think i will add something myself
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#10 Tue 01 May 07 12:00am
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Re: windows messenger 'fake' email
Hi, Salty!! Thanks for the heads up.
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I'm a travel snob. If I'm going to take time out of my busy schedule for a holiday, there'll be no backpacks, no smelly dorms and no "getting back to nature".
So when I was offered a trip to Fiji, hosted by five-star resort the Outrigger on the Lagoon, on the Coral Coast, I was excited.
I'd been to Fiji before, staying a long way from the Coral Coast at Denarau Island. For those who haven't been there, it's like Fiji's version of the Las Vegas strip. Denarau Island is packed with luxury resort after luxury resort.
I considered it my kind of destination.
But I'm now a changed woman. There's more to a holiday than just being in awe of luxury.
The Coral Coast (at the bottom left of Fiji) has the best of both worlds. It's a combination of the finer things in life coupled with the real Fiji (minus the plastic coating).
The Outrigger is Fiji's first five-star resort. But that doesn't mean it's old and run-down.
It's recently undergone a huge revamp, not only of the grounds and facilities but also management and staffing.
The team has more than doubled in the past year, from about 600 workers to about 1300 - taking the level of service to beyond impressive.
There are two styles of accommodation over the expansive 16ha property - including 207 flash and roomy hotel suites and 47 free-standing thatched bures.
One of the coolest things about the resort is the young man who is employed to stand at the end of the resort's driveway and greet everyone as they head up to the main entrance.
His loud and welcoming voice sings "Bula, bulaaaaaaaa!" I truly thought he was there just to welcome us, but it turned out that's what he does all day.
As we arrived, the excited staff swarmed around us like royalty. Do all guests get the same treatment? Turns out they do.
What a way to start a break.
The Coral Coast Fiji 7s
The purpose of our trip was to experience the Coral Coast Fiji 7s. The relatively new tournament is building each year, with teams coming from the surrounding islands, New Zealand and Australia. The goal is for the tournament to gain International Rugby Board status.
Fiji is ready for this and deserves the exposure, plus it gives one of the world's most successful teams a chance to shine. The tournament is truly electric. Although still on a relatively small scale, the atmosphere and excitement at the grounds is fitting for a 7s tournament.
The highlight of last year's tournament (for me at least) was having Jonah Lomu as a guest.
Sigatoka River Safari
I have travelled to many countries and have experienced many great adventures, but I can't remember enjoying anything more than this. This is where you truly meet the real Fiji. The warmth and hospitality of the locals will blow you away.
You board one of the jet boats and are taken on a trip of the river before arriving at one of the living villages, where you experience a day in the life of the Fijian people.
There's singing, dancing, an amazing lunch and, of course, a kava session. Leaving this amazing experience is only slightly easier when you know your witty jet-boat driver is there to pick you up and take you on a thrill-seeking ride, which wraps up the experience perfectly.
Sigatoka Sand Dunes
Who knew such a breathtaking sight existed in Fiji - desert-like mounds of sand right next to the beautiful coast? For those wanting a bit of exercise amid all the resort's cocktails, you can't go past the sand dunes.
They are rich in archaeological history and one of Fiji's earliest recorded prehistoric sites. Covering 650ha, the dunes are a great spot for a relaxing stroll or a more vigorous workout. Turns out, this is the spot where the Fijian rugby teams do their training.
I'd recommend a guided two-hour walk, which is what we did, to ensure you learn about your surroundings and not take a wrong turn.
Bebe Spa Sanctuary
I did say I was a travel snob.
Thus, no trip to a luxury resort is complete without a spa treatment, and the Outrigger's Bebe Spa Sanctuary is among the best in the world.
The feeling of being pampered begins as you leave your room - you are driven up the hill in a little cart to the highest point of the resort to see the breathtaking views.
As you lounge around in your robe, admiring the facilities, it's almost a shame to begin the treatment.
During my stay I experienced two treatments, a two-person massage and a body scrub and massage. Both were amazing.
What about the food?
I picked a bad week to watch what I ate. Although Fiji is renowned for its amazing fruits and vegetables, don't go holding back sampling the outstanding cuisine at the Outrigger on the Lagoon.
The resort boasts four main restaurants, all with different menus and price ranges. We were lucky enough to sample all of them. But it was Ivi Restaurant that stole the show, with its fine dining and service to match. It's no wonder this restaurant is the most awarded in Fiji.
One of the highlights for me was hearing the sounds of live musicians sprinkled amid the restaurants and bars. The resort employs a team of musicians who chop and change their line-up according to what is required, from a seven-piece dance band to a soloist on acoustic guitar.


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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - A man surrendered after Idaho Falls police surrounded an apartment and evacuated several nearby on the east side of town, Lt. Dennis Tremayne said.
According to police, at approximately 9 p.m., Timothy Murphy barricaded himself with a sawed-off shotgun inside his Chelsea Court apartment at 2235 12th St.when police attempted to serve him an Idaho Department of Correction Parole Commission warrant, Tremayne said.
Maintenance worker Jimmy Eckert saw part of the standoff as he responded to a maintenance call across the street from the Chelsea Court complex.
"What is going on over there?" he remembered asking himself. "But nobody knew anything."
Police said it started on February 15 when a woman who had a relationship with Murphy came home to her apartment in the 1400 block of 12th Street in Idaho Falls and found Murphy with a bunch of friends.
"She confronted him about it, that's when he hit her and then also threatened her with the gun," said police spokeswoman Joelyn Hansen.
After the alleged assault, the woman left to stay with a friend, but didn't immediately report the incident. IFPD said Murphy started sending the woman threatening text messages on Monday.
One read, "The only thing coming up missing is you." Another read, "You're playing with your life."
She reported Murphy to police, who determined he had an outstanding felony warrant issued by the Idaho Department of Corrections.
"They talked to the victim and from there they went looking for him," said Hansen. "They were told that he was at the Chelsea apartments."
Police found Murphy at the Chelsea Court Apartments around 8 p.m. Monday, holed up in a friend's apartment with a shotgun.
"It was definitely strange, said Eckert.
Police said Murphy wasn't threatening police with the shotgun, but he was resisting arrest.
During the 3 to 4 hour standoff he also began to threaten suicide until police talked him out of the apartment and confiscated his weapon.
According to Police, there was a woman and infant child in the apartment during a portion of the stand off. Police confirmed she is not the same woman who reported Murphy to police.
Police said the woman and her child were never held hostage.
Our station spoke to another woman who says the two are safe and staying with her.
Those inside the eight-apartment building where Murphy was held up were evacuated at 9:30 p.m. on Monday, including the woman and child, police said. Other buildings in the complex were not evacuated. Those evacuated have been allowed back into their apartments.
Police negotiated with Murphy over the phone and, according to police, at 12:26 a.m., Murphy surrendered to police on his own volition.
No one was injured in the standoff.
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Shares of wireless equipment vendor Aruba Networks (ARUN) today closed down $2.17, or almost 11%, at $17.89, and fell as low $16.63, despite the company yesterday reporting fiscal Q3 revenue that topped analysts' estimates and profit per share in line with consensus, and forecasting this quarter's results better as well.
Today, the focus has been on gross margin, and the decline in it, which has some worried the company will see a sustained deterioration in profit, in part because of the mix of equipment it is selling, in part because of competition from Cisco Systems (CSCO).
Even as estimates are generally rising, some price targets were cut today. One analyst who stood up for the company is Dougherty & Co.'s Catharine Trebnick, who reiterated a Buy rating, and a $26 price target, "We believe the stock sold off after the close due to weaker-than-expected gross margins" but that "Aruba's innovative product offerings will continue to drive market share gains. Management expects gross margins to rebound in FQ1'15."
Total gross margins were 70.5% (down 170 bps Q/Q) and below the guide range of 71-73%. Product gross margins came in at 69.4% down from 71.6% in the prior quarter. Management attributed the decline in gross margins to two factors: (1) Broad based demand for .11ac hit ahead of their product roadmap. We believe this is positive as this provides evidence of the Company's success in expanding their channel into the value market (K-12, state and local governments). To satisfy demand and take market share, the Company sold its premium AP 225 ahead of the scheduled FQ4'14 release of the AP 205, which is priced for the value market at $695. (2) Switching margins, typically in the range of 50-60%, negatively impacted total gross margins.
Trebnick raised her years estimates to $837 million and $1.08 per share from a prior $824 million and $1.03.
But UBS's Amitabh Passi was among those taking a more critical point of view, reiterating a Neutral rating, and cutting his price target a buck to $21, writing that he has a "lack of conviction around increase/sustainability of margins," especially given Cisco may have a hand in it:
The revenue beat was driven by a) 11ac strength, disproportionately in the value segment of the market and b) greater lower-margin (50-60% range) switching revenue. Those two factors led to lower GM (product GM was 69.4% vs. 71.6% in F3Q). We also believe Aruba may have been price-aggressive in the value segment to pre-empt efforts by Cisco, which introduced its price-optimized Aironet 2700 for the SMB segment in late March. Aruba is targeting a return to the 71-73% GM range, helped by the introduction of APs specifically targeted for the value segment (includes K-12, government etc.). ClearPass bookings grew high double digits y/y and geographic mix was relatively stable (US: 64%, EMEA: 19% and APAC at 14% of sales). On the positive side, Aruba is optimistic about MSFT Lync being a driver of additional revenue and is focusing on verticals like retail and hospitality.
Passi raised his year estimates to $720 million and 76 cents from a prior $704 million and 72 cents.
Raymond James's Tavis McCourt reiterated a Market Perform rating, writing that "EPS leverage remains fleeting as gross margins were pressured."
The stock deserves a premium, but there's a limit, he writes:
Aruba remains highly valued relative to most networking peers at 19x our calendar 2015E non-GAAP EPS vs. a 14x median for its peer group. Given the lack of growth amongst most of its peers, we believe Aruba will likely maintain a meaningfully premium multiple, but believe the current high-teens multiple is about appropriate given current financial trends.


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#1 Tue 03 Feb 09 11:48am
The Meatloaf Thread
My latest meatloaf recipe:
2 pounds Ground Chuck
1 Large Onion, chopped
5 Cloves Garlic
6 Shallots, chopped
Splosh of Red Wine
2 Large Free Range Eggs
1 - 6 ounce can Tomato Paste (reserve 1/3 of the can)
1 - 28 ounce can Italian Plum Tomatoes, whole, peeled, drained and broken into pieces with your hands (reserve some of the liquid)
Approx. 2 T. Dried Greek Oregano
Salt and Pepper
3 Slices Whole Grain Bread, soaked in milk, squeezed and crumbled
Olive Oil for sauteeing
Saute the onions, shallots, garlic and oregano in olive oil, add all but about 1/3 of the can of tomato paste, the plum tomatoes, cook a few minutes, add the wine, stir and reduce until this mixture is darker in color and thick. Spread this on your cutting board to cool. Beat the eggs lightly with salt and pepper in a large bowl, add the meat, bread and cooked tomato mixture. Form a loaf by placing your meat mixture in a bread tin coated in wax paper, chill in the refrigerator. Unmold your loaf onto a baking sheet. Stir a small amount of the liquid from the canned tomatoes into the reserved tomato paste, coat the meatloaf with this mixture. Bake at 350 F. or 180 C. for one hour or until the meatloaf is just cooked through. Cool for a few minutes before slicing.
#2 Tue 03 Feb 09 12:00pm
Re: The Meatloaf Thread
but whats "ground chuck"
i really want to do this for tonight but i don't have any red wine
#3 Tue 03 Feb 09 12:04pm
Re: The Meatloaf Thread
Splosh = whatever you will afford from the bottle you're drinking.
Ground chuck = Mince of 80% beef 20 % fat. As in 'chuck blade roast' which btw, makes a superb beouff bourg, not the mince, the whole cut.
Use white wine or leave the wine out.
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#4 Tue 03 Feb 09 12:06pm
Re: The Meatloaf Thread
Good thread MrsP.........
Honey Mustard Meatloaf
* 1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef or combination of beef and turkey
* 1/3 cup dry bread crumbs, plain or seasoned
* 2 eggs
* 1/2 cup chopped onion
* 1 teaspoon chopped dried leaf basil, or less if bread crumbs are seasoned
* 1/2 teaspoon seasoned or plain salt
* 1/4 teaspoon pepper
* 3 tablespoons Dijon style mustard
* 3 tablespoons honey
* 2 tablespoons finely chopped green onion
Preheat oven to 350�. Combine ground beef, bread crumbs, onions, basil, salt, and pepper. Stir in eggs, mixing gently but thoroughly. Shape into loaf. Place loaf in baking pan. Combine honey and mustard, brush half of the mixture on loaf. Bake at 350� for 30 minutes. Brush with remaining honey and mustard mixture. Bake for 30 to 45 minutes longer. Remove from oven and sprinkle chopped green onion. Serves 6 to 8.
#5 Tue 03 Feb 09 12:16pm
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Re: The Meatloaf Thread
chuck seems to be a name for cuts from the shoulder of beef or what we call blade roasts and steaks here in Canada.. I think it is particular to USA to call it chuck though..
Only a fool argues with a skunk, a mule or a cook. { cowboy saying}
#6 Tue 03 Feb 09 12:17pm
Re: The Meatloaf Thread
Turkey Meatloaf
2 pounds of Ground Turkey (dark and white meat) or substitute 1/2 pound with Ground Pork
1 Small Onion
1 Medium Carrot
2 Stalks Celery
5 Cloves Garlic
1/4 Cup Cilantro Leaves, chopped
1 - 2 Sprigs fresh Thyme Leaves, chopped
1 T. Soy Sauce
!. T. Woresterchire Sauce
1 Bunch Scalliions, sliced thinly
3 Slices bread, soaked in milk or water, squeezed, crumbled
2 Eggs
1/4 Cup Grated Parmesan
Option 1: Approx. 1/2 Cup Soft Tofu added to the meat mix
Option 2: Terriyaki Sauce used as a glaze (low sodium variety)
Chop the onion, carrot, celery and garlic finely in food processor. Saute briefly in olive oil, spread on a board or plate to cool. Mix this with the remaining ingredients. Form a free-form loaf, place on a baking sheet or if you prefer in an oiled bread pan and bake about one hour at 350F. or 180 C. until cooked through.
#7 Tue 03 Feb 09 12:19pm
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Re: The Meatloaf Thread
My mamma makes exactly the same meatloaf as MsPabs (the 1st one)!!
But she cooks it in a large saucepan instead, sort of stewed loaf, then slices it when it's cold and warms up the sauce and puts the slices back in. It's a great recipe for a budget because you can make a BIG batch and freeze, in fact my mum makes loads of it and then gives us it in tubs and most times she ends up giving a tub of it to guests.
She's had to teach my sisters in law to make it because my brothers go on and on about it and their kids love it too!!!!
And if you can't be bothered to cook it's easy, eat it cold in sarnies the next day
I remember watching "Happy Days" as a kid, and they would frown and whine if their mum made meatloaf, and I couldn't understand why, in our house we'd kill for the last slice!!
Last edited by DebDiMaggio (Tue 03 Feb 09 12:19pm)
#8 Tue 03 Feb 09 12:20pm
Re: The Meatloaf Thread
It's from the shoulder and neck, the chuck blade roast is very flavorful, but takes a slow braise to make it tender.
#9 Tue 03 Feb 09 12:31pm
Re: The Meatloaf Thread
Country Meat Loaf
* 2 tablespoons butter
* 4 to 8 ounces sliced mushrooms
* 1 cup chopped onion
* 1 cup thinly sliced celery
* 1 cup shredded carrots
* 2 tablespoons water
* 2 pounds lean ground beef
* 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
* 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
* 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
* 1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes
* 1/2 teaspoon tarragon or thyme
* 2 tablespoons soy sauce
In a skillet, combine butter, mushrooms, onion, celery, carrots, and water; heat to boiling. Reduce heat, cover, and simmer for 10 minutes, until vegetables are crisp-tender. Combine ground beef, flour, salt, seasoned salt, parsley, tarragon or thyme, and soy sauce in a large bowl; add vegetable mixture and gently mix meat loaf mixture together. On a greased pan, shape into a meat loaf. Bake at 350� for 1 hour.
Meat loaf recipe serves 6 to 8.
#10 Tue 03 Feb 09 12:37pm
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- Member since Sat 22 Dec 07
Re: The Meatloaf Thread
You took the words right out of my mouth, MsP.


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